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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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CLOVIS - This is setting up to be a make or break year for Curry County's foray into the concert business. With the 10-year anniversary of the Curry County Events Center on the horizon, the Curry County Commission voted on Thursday to host a concert to celebrate the occasion, as well as spend an additional $52,500 on musical talent for this year's county fair. Commissioner Robert Thornton said the county should look to bring in bigger name acts this year than it has in the...
The state Legislature is expected to consider a bill during the upcoming 60-day session that would legalize recreational marijuana in New Mexico. But it won’t be due to the support from legislators on the eastern side of the state. Six local Republican lawmakers interviewed by The News on Friday — Rep. Randy Crowder of Clovis, Sen. Stuart Ingle of Portales, Sen. Pat Woods of Broadview, Rep.-elect Phelps Anderson of Roswell, Rep.-elect Jackey Chatfield of Mosquero and Rep.-elect Martin Zamora of Clovis — unanimously said...
Don Paschke walked both the Great Wall of China and the Greyhound Arena, he braved flooded cobblestone roads in Venice, he made "puddin bars" for his students - all of that incidental to half a century sharing a love of music with eastern New Mexico. When The News reached out last week for remembrances of the late Donald V. Paschke, his former colleagues and students did not miss a beat. Paschke, who passed last month at the age of 89, was remembered in the highest terms: an...
PORTALES — The Portales Municipal Schools Board of Education will move to a larger venue for Monday’s meeting, which will be held in the junior high school cafeteria. Superintendent Johnnie Cain said the change of location was made to account for the dozens of exemplary and highly effective teachers who will be on hand for recognition. Cain said the district had 75 teachers qualify as exemplary or highly effective. Also on the agenda for Monday’s meeting, scheduled for 6 p.m. in the junior high cafeteria: • The board will co...
LAS CRUCES — Mark Anthony Baca said he is “beaten, but not defeated” after the courts last year prohibited him from continuing to use the likeness of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in his anti-bullying campaign. U.S. District Judge Judith C. Herrera entered a permanent injunction against Baca and his non-profit “Guardian Anti-Bullying Campaign, Inc.” from “directly or indirectly infringing Viacom’s Ninja Turtles Trademarks or any mark that is confusingly similar thereto in any manner,” according to a final judgment submitte...
SANTA FE - The New Mexico Environment Department has provided a fact sheet about groundwater contamination surrounding Cannon Air Force Base, but the update provides little new information. The department issued a notice of violation to the base in late November for failing to take appropriate and timely corrective action to contain and remove or mitigate the damage caused by the release of PFAS and PFOA -substances used in firefighting training areas and other sites. "A...
CLOVIS — Charges filed last year in connection with a shooting that hospitalized a Clovis man have been dismissed pending further investigation. But officials last week said they “very likely could” be refiled. Ruben Lopez, 23, was charged Nov. 7 with seven felony counts following an Oct. 26 incident that sent Leroy Jaramillo to a Lubbock hospital with a gunshot wound to his neck and shoulder. Those charges were dismissed days later without prejudice, with District Attorney Andrea Reeb telling The News that inves...
CLOVIS — The wheels of justice can turn slowly. Two jury trials were continued last week due to medical events; a two-day trial scheduled to start Thursday was canceled after defendant Shannon Jackson’s counsel “was taken to the Emergency Room and is still there at the time of this filing,” according to a motion filed the day before. Jackson, 40, of Clovis, faces a first-degree felony trafficking controlled substances charge from 2014, among others. Judge Fred Van Soelen granted the continuance but new trial dates were no...
CLOVIS — A plea conference last week for the former jail guard charged with assisting the escape last summer of three inmates has been delayed. The case was pushed to later this month due to a scheduling issue with her defense attorney. Sarina Dodson, 28, of Clovis, had “decided to plea to the charges,” according to a notice of intent filed last month. Her plea conference Thursday was continued to Jan. 22 after her counsel, Francis J. Rio, stated in a motion that he would be unavailable due to a previously scheduled train...
PORTALES - Mayor Ron Jackson on Tuesday night read a proclamation declaring Jan. 21 as Martin Luther King Jr. Day in Portales. He called on citizens "to join us in our efforts to follow in Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream towards equality for all." Councilor Oscar Robinson encouraged people to attend several upcoming events in the city held in honor of the slain civil rights leader. Robinson said Jeff Elwell, president of Eastern New Mexico University, will host a breakfast for...
PORTALES - If it seemed a little dark Thursday night in Roosevelt County, that's because most of its local stars were together in the Yam Theatre for the Chamber of Commerce's "Portales Goes Hollywood"-themed banquet. The annual program took on a movie theme this year with cinematic trivia at each table, film posters adorning the walls and life-size character cutouts greeting guests at the doors. Special emphasis was placed on those features filmed in Portales or New Mexico....
It’s been over a year since I started writing this column. Tom McDonald, the publisher and editor of The New Mexico News Exchange (and my brother), went from agreeing to let me write a few to letting me write a weekly column. Now I am told I have four newspapers publishing me on a regular basis. I figure there’s another 10 or 20 papers running my column that I haven’t been told about. The editor (Tom) writes the headlines for the articles, butchers my words with his editing and often writes snide comments hidden in the “tag...
For years, Jeanne Calment has reigned as the oldest documented person to have lived. She supposedly died in 1997 at age 122. But now Russian mathematician Nikolay Zak has exhumed that claim and startled researchers with a challenge: He argues that Calment was actually Yvonne Calment, Jeanne’s daughter, The Washington Post reports. Zak says Yvonne took her mother’s identity to elude inheritance taxes in the 1930s. If so, Yvonne Calment would have been 99 in 1997 — not 122. In a paper published on a research-sharing porta...
President Donald Trump is playing with the idea of declaring a national emergency to build a border fence despite congressional opposition. This would make Trump the second president in a row willing to cut Congress out of the legislative process if it doesn’t agree to his priorities on immigration, and is a very bad idea. It would functionally be an end run around Congress’ power of the purse; create yet another precedent for “pen and phone” governance, which is not how our...
I should probably assert my Fifth Amendment privilege at this point. But I need a column, so here goes. A little more than nine years ago, I bought a new car. It had around 40 miles on it, thanks to prior test drives, but it was mine for a few years servitude to 4 percent interest. Those years of servitude are long gone, and the car I now own just passed 107,000 miles. Every November I’ve had that car, the New Mexico Department of Revenue and Taxation reminds me I’m not forward thinking. I’m given the option to renew my ve...
Forty years ago, military veterans made up roughly three-quarters of Congress. By 2017, the proportion had dwindled to fewer than one in five. The number of veterans on Capitol Hill will dip slightly again next year, because of retirements — but the elections of 2018 were nonetheless a turning point of sorts. At least 170 veterans received major-party nominations for national office and at least 75 won office. (The figures are estimates: There’s no official tally.) Of these, at least 18 are new to Congress — the most in ne...
My name is Shelly Norris. I moved to Clovis from the Ft. Walton Beach/Destin, Florida area along with my twin brother Michael and my family when I was 17. I was raised as an Air Force brat, lived all over the world and attended approximately 17 different schools from nursery school through graduate school. I married my Clovis High School sweetheart, Layne Norris. I am a super proud mother of two incredible sons, Austin and Spencer Norris. I also claim approximately 3,000...
Monday • Portales Municipal Schools board — 6 p.m., Board Room, L.C. Cozzens Administrative Offices, 501 S. Abilene, Portales. Information: 575-356-7000 Tuesday • City of Clovis Lodgers’ Tax Advisory Board — 5:15 p.m., Clovis City Hall assembly room, 321 N. Connelly, Clovis. Information: 575-763-9654 • Renewal of CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) in Curry and Roosevelt counties information meeting — 5:30 p.m., United Way of Eastern New Mexico Portales office, 108 S. Ave. F, Portales. Information: 575-769-2103 or 2-1-1...
Monday • Produce to People — 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Memorial Building, 200 E. 7th St., Portales. Free in-season fruits and vegetables; no proof of income necessary; bring your own bags. Information: 575-763-6130 • FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid) Night — 6 p.m., Clovis High School library, 1900 N. Thornton St., Clovis. Assistance to students and parents filling FAFSA applications prior to attending college next year. Information: Adrian White 575-769-2811, ext. 4046, or 575-791-8179. • Stitch Addicts stitch gr...
The following are available for checkout at: Clovis-Carver Public Library In conjunction with the City of Clovis Floodplain Management Program, the library maintains a collection of materials on National Flood Insurance Programs including manuals for designing or retrofitting structures, handbooks on residential repair, guidelines for erosion control and similar topics. Librarians can assist users in locating these materials. “Saving Mona Lisa” by Gerri Chanel reveals the efforts to protect the world's most famous painting du...
Curry County Association of Educational Retirees CCAER met Tuesday at K-Bob’s Steakhouse. Our program featured our area legislators, who were each introduced by their respective adopt-a-legislators (AAL) as follows: Sen. Pat Woods, R-Broadview, introduced by Andrea Bigelow; Sen. Stuart Ingle, R-Portales, introduced by Pam Wallace; Rep. Randy Crowder, R-Clovis, introduced by George Boal and Martin Zamora, R-Clovis, introduced by Dianne Davis (not an AAL). Each legislator spoke in turn, letting CCAER members know what was c...
Baxter Curren Senior Center 908 Hickory St., Clovis Monday: 8:30 a.m. exercise class, 10 a.m. jewelry pals, 1 p.m. line dance, 1 p.m. canasta, 5 p.m. business meeting, 5:30 p.m. potluck, 6 p.m. game night Tuesday: No beginning line dance, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. exercise equipment, 8 a.m. quilting, 9 a.m. pinochle class, 1 p.m. pinochle, 6 p.m. musical Wednesday: 8 a.m.-4 p.m. exercise equipment, 8:30 a.m. exercise class, 10 a.m. sew days, 1 p.m. needle gang Thursday: 8 a.m. eggs, gravy and biscuits $4, 8:45 a.m. pinochle 101, 1 p.m....
Clovis Elementary Monday: Breakfast — Breakfast pizza. Lunch — Chicken tenders, mashed potatoes, gravy, mini carrots w/ranch, chilled fruit. Tuesday: Breakfast — Cinnamon roll. Lunch — Hamburger on a bun, baked fries, veggie cup w/ranch, sidekicks. Wednesday: Breakfast — French toast. Lunch — Soft taco, w/salsa, seasoned pinto beans, seasoned corn. Thursday: Breakfast — Yogurt and graham cracker. Lunch — Pig in a blanket, garden salad w/ranch, seasoned green beans, chilled fruit, cookie. Friday: Breakfast — Breakfast frudel....
I took careful aim and shot the off-duty cop square in the chest and all hell broke loose. Soon, I learned not to bring a Nerf gun to a family feud. OK, so the police officer was really my niece (who is a real peace officer) and she too was armed with a three-shot Nerf gun pistol. My family is famous for holiday antics. If it’s not an elaborate gag gift it’s a game. This time my sister and I teamed up to make it both a gift and a game. She called me with the start of the ide...
Information on creating and decorating with color and proactive aging will be the featured topics on “Creative Living” at 9:30 p.m. on Tuesday and at noon on Thursday. Interior designers and business owners Katie Schroder and Erika Rundiks will talk about how to create and decorate with color since this is a very important element in any room. You can be bold or just show touches of color to add character or individuality to a space, and they’ll show how. They are from Denve...
