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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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For those celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday at the Symbolic Walk & Rally, Ruthann Kelly has one suggestion: dress in layers. "Lots of layers," said Kelly, the emergency management director for the city of Clovis and Curry County. "Protect your fingers, protect your ears. Especially your fingers – that's where frostbite will start the quickest." The annual MLK celebration starts at 9 a.m. Monday at Clovis' Potter's Park with a walk down Seventh Street to Main S...
New Mexico’s legislative session kicks off a 30-day run Tuesday with a focus on budget issues. But local lawmakers expect the Second Amendment and crime rates will also be hot topics of conversation and possibly new legislation. Rep. Andrea Reeb, R-Clovis, said she expects age limits to purchase guns, waiting periods for gun buys and guns in polling places will be among issues addressed before the session ends on Feb. 15. “The primary focus is going to be, besides the budget, the Second Amendment and gun control,” Reeb said....
After a couple of tough road losses, it didn't take Eastern New Mexico University's men long to right the ship on Thursday night. Six-foot-9 sophomore post Jose Murillo scored 21 points on 9-of-9 shooting from the floor, including dunks on ENMU's first two possessions, and the Greyhounds ran away from Cameron 105-84 in Lone Star Conference basketball at Greyhound Arena. The Hounds (9-4, 5-2 LSC) dropped three-point decisions at Texas-Permian Basin and at No. 11 Angelo State...
MELROSE – Texico and Melrose advanced to the semifinal round on the boys side while Texico and Logan did the same on the girls' side Thursday in the EPAC basketball tournament. In boys tilts on Thursday: Texico 64, Grady 37 – The sixth-seeded Broncos kept the game competitive for the better part of three quarters, but the Wolverines stepped up their defensive pressure and pulled away after forcing 17 Grady turnovers in the second half. Four players scored in double digits for...
It was a little tougher than perhaps expected, but Clovis High's came up with enough plays at the end on Friday night to turn back their rivals from Portales. Senior forward J.J. Jones scored 16 points, including two key 3-pointers in the second half, as the Wildcats pulled away late for a 60-48 victory over PHS at the Ram Athletic Center. The 6-foot-4 Jones hit a buzzer-beating trey in the third quarter to extend the Cats' lead to 40-36. He hit another one midway through the...
ROSWELL – Clovis High’s girls picked up early pins from juniors Zulehiry Mendoza and Yocelyn Romero and went on to post a 36-24 District 4-5A wrestling victory over Roswell High on Thursday night. Mendoza defeated Lady Coyotes junior Star Boardman by second-period fall at 107 pounds, while Romero scored a pin in the first minute against sophomore Kyliah Stewart at 126. Forfeit winners for the Lady Wildcats were sophomores Sophie Collazo at 138 and sophomore Sunnay Ward at 145, junior Jaylyn Trujillo at 185 and freshman Gua...
Slowly but surely, Clovis High's girls are working their way toward District 4-5A competition and a shot at the postseason. Friday night, the Lady Wildcats boosted their record to 12-3 with a workmanlike 60-39 victory over Espanola Valley at Rock Staubus Gym. Five games remain before district play begins on Jan. 30 against Carlsbad at The Rock. CHS is in the beginning of a stretch of eight of 10 games at home. This week, Clovis hosts West Las Vegas on Tuesday, Organ Mountain...
MELROSE – Melrose’s boys and girls were set to face Logan on Saturday night in the championship games of the 66th annual Eastern Plains Athletic Conference tournament. In boys semifinals on Friday, the third-seeded Buffaloes defeated Fort Sumner 52-40 while the unbeaten (14-0) Longhorns, seeded No. 1, got past No. 4 Texico 72-64. For the girls, the top-seeded Lady Buffs slipped past Texico 32-27 and the Lady Longhorns, seeded third, upended No. 2 Fort Sumner 37-27. Melrose (11-1) opened a 20-11 lead at the quarter in the sec...
Roosevelt County commissioners on Tuesday voted 4-1 to have their second meeting each month start at 6 p.m. That’s so more community members can attend. Commissioner Ron Lee Criswell suggested the change. He said he had received many suggestions for a later start. “I know a lot of the public would like to come and voice their concerns to us about the county. Since we work for them, I think we need to see if we can be accommodating to them,” Criswell said. County commission meetings are generally held on the first and third...
The Curry County Events Center is moving to “the next level.” Commissioners on Thursday voted unanimously to add a digital big screen inside the arena after receiving a grant from the state. “It’s 14 by 20 feet. There will be cameras that will give us the ability to put content going on in the event center on the big screen,” Events Center General Manager K. C. Messick said. The $379,910 grant is a “Destination Forward” grant from the New Mexico Tourism Department. The system is being purchased from Gateway Studios and P...
This spring, the New Mexico Environment Department will offer residents living near Cannon Air Force Base and base personnel the opportunity to have their blood tested for specified per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAs) free of charge. According to a NMED news release, the department issued a request for proposals for a contractor to administer the PFAs blood testing program. The department plans to host two events in which up to 500 adult volunteers residing within four miles of Cannon will have a small amount of blood...
Known for her "queen-like" status in the house, this 5-year-old domestic short hair makes sure she is top priority in her Clovis home. Owner Eric Romero said despite Swiss' small stature she has the authority to put his husky and German shepherd in their place whenever they try to play. He said Swiss may be the queen bee to the pets, however she always makes time for her favorite companion for snuggles....
Rosemary Metcalf said she never had a barn cat while growing up in England. Now that she has a ranch in Clovis, she said she can't imagine them out of her life. Barn cats aren't just "tools" to protect the property; they are family, she said. "I don't consider any animal a tool. They are a living, breathing creature. They serve a purpose with rodent control, but at the end of the day they need to be cared for," said Metcalf, whose Windrush Alpaca Ranch is home to six barn cats...
Random thoughts on the political year ahead: • Will Taylor Swift be the Oprah Winfrey of this year’s election? You might remember what Oprah did for Barack Obama back in 2007, giving a pop culture endorsement of great consequence in his winning bid for the White House. Maybe Taylor will do the same for Joe Biden this year. She did throw her support behind Biden four years ago, but then old Joe publicly confused her with Britney Spears. He’d better hope she’s not too sensitive about that. As far as I can tell, very few vot...
Like the salaries paid by the Los Angeles Dodgers for Japanese imports, the revenue numbers for the state are getting to be so big that it’s hard to wrap your head around them. The latest estimate projects the state will collect just under $12 billion in fiscal year 2024, which runs through June. That’s up by $2.3 billion from the past fiscal year and by $3.9 billion from two years ago. All of which means that legislators will have just under $3.6 billion in so-called “new money” this year, beyond the $9.7 billion include...
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, in his poem “Locksley Hall,” penned the line, “In spring a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.” But then Tennyson was a poet, and he never heard of baseball or presidential politics. I’ll leave the baseball intimation to the sports page and use some of my time to talk about politics. Although the vast majority of voters will not begin to pay attention to presidential politics until after Labor Day, the 15% of the public who consider th...
I’ve been watching with some interest the backlash to Harvard University President Claudine Gay’s resignation. If you were to believe the media reports, at least the ones from The Associated Press and other legacy institutions, Gay was railroaded into a premature departure by bigoted white men who were threatened by her superior intellect and accomplishments because, as we all know, that is the only reason a Black woman would be forced to resign. Gay was not forced to res...
Respecting others’ liberty will go a long way toward freeing you. If you truly understand liberty, you’ll know why. There’s no reason to enslave yourself with the desire to control the rightful behavior of others. By encouraging you to respect other people’s liberty, I offer you the chance to increase your own, which eventually increases my liberty. It’s like a snowball rolling downhill. So is the opposite effect of looking to restrict -- to violate -- the liberty of others...
In a recent meeting about upcoming stories, the Pasatiempo editorial staff discussed ways to put Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the spotlight. Only a handful of New Mexico communities hold events tied to the holiday. Perhaps that’s not a surprise in a state whose population was 2.7% Black in 2023, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. One could argue that the late civil rights leader should be celebrated regardless, but I’ve lived in enough states to understand that locally cherished celebrations often reflect the dem...
Road construction is scheduled Tuesday and Wednesday on Curry Road 15, according to a Curry County news release. Construction by Orcar Renda Contracting will close east- and west-bound lanes on CR15 from State Road 311 to Curry Road R both days. Detours will be in place for traffic control, the release stated....
Clovis Mayor Mike Morris plans to deliver the annual State of the City address at 4 p.m. Thursday. He’ll make his remarks from the North Annex of the Clovis-Carver Public Library. “The State of the City address serves as a platform for Mayor Mike Morris to engage with the business community, partners, and residents of Clovis. During this event, Mayor Morris will share key insights into the city’s ongoing efforts, highlight significant projects and initiatives, discuss current city priorities, showcase collaborative partn...
What can a person do about a neighbor that has a dog that frequently barks and howls? This is very annoying especially when I am in my own yard. Larry Jacquez, Clovis animal control supervisor, said there’s a city ordinance (#6.08.070) for barking dogs that reads: “It is unlawful for any person to keep, harbor or own any dog which (engages in) loud, frequent or habitual barking causing annoyance to the neighborhood.” “Give us a call. That way, if anyone has any questions about it we go right to our city ordinance,” Jacquez s...
In the late teens or early 1920s, when my dad was still a kid, his family’s home burned to the ground. That home wasn’t much more than a shack, but it held everything he, his parents, and his siblings owned. Homesteaders’ makeshift dwellings dotted our area fairly thickly at the time, so a number of folks came to their support. The one my dad remembered best showed up with five dollars. “A lot of people are going to tell you that they’re sorry this happened,” my dad remembe...
The Dodge Charger involved in a Christmas Day fatal at 21st and Mitchell streets was traveling 86 mph at the time of impact, court records show. Billie Brazell, 83, of Clovis, died as a result of injuries suffered in the crash. Ezekiel Tarango, 24, of Clovis, was charged Tuesday with homicide by vehicle and reckless driving. Police late last week were also looking for a four-door silver pickup that may have been racing with the Charger, records show. Witnesses said the pickup left the scene. The wreck occurred about 2:15...
Authorities have issued an arrest warrant for a second suspect in the July 9 slaying of a local roofer. Cordney Cooper, 32, is accused of first-degree murder in connection with the shooting death and robbery of Anibal Salguero, 31. The arrest warrant was issued Tuesday, court records show, but Cooper remained at large going into the weekend. A witness to the shooting told police on Jan. 5 that she knew the second suspect as Cordney and then identified him from a photo, court records show. It wasn’t clear why the witness, D...
