Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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PORTALES — Portales’ Income Support Division office of New Mexico’s Human Services Department is considering shutting its doors for good. No official plans have been made. However, the Roosevelt County Health Council has created a survey to feel out the potential impact a closure could have on the area. The survey asks about residence in Roosevelt County, usage of Income Support Divisions services, if you would use their services online, the importance of the Portales branch over the Clovis location, and additional demog...
CLOVIS — A point of dispensing, or POD, for the COVID-19 vaccine will open on Monday at the former Raintree Grocery Store. Roden Smith, in partnership with the city of Clovis emergency management, Clovis Family Healthcare, and other local public health entities, will host the vaccine clinic. Vaccines will be available to New Mexicans who are part of Phase 1B, as well as any remaining from Phase 1A. Included in Phase 1B are individuals 75 years and older, those who are 16 and older with underlying medical conditions that c...
RICHARDSON, Texas — Eastern New Mexico University did not compete in Lone Star Conference athletics in the fall semester, but they were honored for their work in the classroom all the same. A total of 131 student-athletes for the Green and Silver were named to the LSC Commissioner’s Honor Roll for the semester, according to a release from the LSC office. The honor roll requires student-athletes be on their team’s roster for the semester in question and hold a minimum grade point average of 3.3. A total of 2,254 stude...
WACO, Texas — An eastern New Mexico native was recognized Friday night for 40 years of excellence as a high school baseball coach, with induction into the Texas High School Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame. Causey native Rodney Gardner was inducted alongside Nolan Ryan and Slinton High School coach Gene Kasprzyk to mark the association’s 50th year. Gardner retired in 2015 from Andrews High School, where he had spent the last 14 years of his career. His coaching career began at Elida in 1975 after his playing career a...
BOVINA - Playing its first game of the season due to issues with coronavirus, the Boys Ranch boys basketball team looked like it might pull off a somewhat surprising win on Friday night. Senior guard Steve Callison's 3-pointer as time expired in the second quarter - Boys Ranch's fourth trey of the half - gave the Roughriders a nine-point advantage. They extended that to 11 early in the third segment before Bovina stormed back and pulled away late to a 49-40 District 3-2A...
Booked The following were booked into local jails (Tuesday - Friday): Clovis • Bocar Tall, 23, failure to pay fines • Patrick Terrazas, 24, possession of a firearm or destructive device by a felon • Raymund Holliday, 31, failure to pay fines • Miguel Anaya-Ramirez, 23, probation violation • Sergio Azdar, 36, unlawful taking of a motor vehicle • Angelica Lucero, 29, shoplifting • Jermias Diaz, 28, failure to appear at time and place stated in citation • James Martin, 27, probation violation, failure to pay fines • Kevin P...
SANTA FE — The state’s newest data in its “Red to Green” framework has 31 of 33 counties still in the red, but 15 counties showing overall improvements on daily COVID-19 cases and test positivity. Curry County had 61.4 daily cases and 15.11% test positivity. Roosevelt County was at 62.4 cases and 19.27% test positivity. The state in December created framework for counties with three different sets of public health orders depending on whether the county met benchmarks of eight daily cases per 100,000 residents and 5% test po...
Why should we be surprised that at a time when everything is supposed to be about race, from the skin color of certain newspaper editors forced to resign to whether we should capitalize the “B” in “Black,” the most disturbing and consequential attack on our civic body in decades ends up being all about the color of the protesters/terrorists? After the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol by desperate and angry Trump supporters, the conversation turned from “why did they do it?” to ...
Labels shouldn’t define us I am a generation X, white, male, hetero, red-headed, independent, veteran, college graduate, teacher, student, historian, father, brother, American of Polish / German descent. Those are my labels. But how many of them are actually necessary? We love to put labels on ourselves, to “identify” with a group. We think that doing this makes us a “part of something.” I would argue that each of these labels separates us from each other. The label “generation X” by itself separates me from over 80% of t...
Twitter permanently banned Donald Trump's account following his incitement of an insurrection at the United States Capitol. Conservative commentators and politicians immediately began raising concerns of Big Tech censorship, invoking the First Amendment and calling for the repeal of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. As many have noted, complete repeal of Section 230 would lead to more censorship because increased liability would make platforms overly cautious and quicker to pull questionable content. But does...
Donald Trump was the president of Twitter. What radio was to Franklin Delano Roosevelt and TV was to Ronald Reagan, communicating 280 characters at a time on a social media platform that is a watchword for hyperactive inanity was to President Trump. It is symbolically appropriate that the effective end of his power after the siege of the U.S. Capitol has coincided with the suspension of his Twitter account. He was impeached a second time on Wednesday, but the punishment that r...
President Donald Trump leaves office in less than a week. What we need in those days, and beyond, is not more drama. We don’t need more drama from the president. And we don’t need more drama from House Democrats and their leader. That’s all a second impeachment accomplishes — more drama centering around Trump. The House has the right to impeach, and has exercised it. But now a trial must take place in the Senate. It can obviously not be organized and conducted, with due process of law, by Wednesday. And no matter what ev...
CLOVIS — The Clovis/Curry County Chamber of Commerce is asking residents to help pick a slogan for its new Clovis community brand through Friday. The survey, available at surveymonkey.com/r/55RVJBN, asks voters to pick either: • Heartfelt Connections. Endless Horizons. • Connecting Hearts and Horizons. The chamber and the Clovis Industrial Development Corporation contracted with Santa Fe-based Once a Day Marketing, beginning in 2019, on the effort with a goal to create a theme of “welcoming people into the Clovis family...
PORTALES — The city of Portales has sent out a notice advising residents of utility work on South Avenue I on Monday. The work on I from First Street to Second Street and from Second Street to South Avenue H will require a roadway closure. Motorists are asked to route trips around these areas and watch for equipment and workers in the area. Information: 575-356-6662, opt. 2....
SANTA FE — Starting Monday, the Ninth Judicial District that encompasses Curry and Roosevelt counties will be part of the first phase of a new e-filing system for civil cases in magistrate courts. Filings will occur through the judiciary’s online file and serve system, which is currently used at the Bernalillo County Metropolitan Court. “E-filing provides a more convenient way for attorneys to initiate civil lawsuits in a magistrate court and submit subsequent case-related documents,” Chief Justice Michael E. Vigil said in a...
PORTALES — The Roosevelt County Commission held a brief special meeting, where it approved a $5,000 EMS Fund Act application for the Arch Volunteer Fire Department. Three commissioners — Tina Dixon, Shane Lee and Rodney Savage — attended the three minute meeting, which also included the approval of the minutes of the commission’s regular meeting on Tuesday. The $5,000 request, which is due to the EMS Bureau this week, included: • $1,500 for ambulance repair and maintenance • $1,500 for general supply restocking and replace...
The dream of Martin Luther King Jr. lives on, even as the pandemic has forced local celebrations to be held in different formats. Clovis and Portales celebrations will be on screens big and small on Tuesday, with public health orders restricting marches and in-person ceremonies. The Clovis MLK Association will have its virtual celebration via Zoom at 10 a.m. The Zoom meeting ID is 912 3387 5930, with passcode 871367. The event will include featured speaker Ross Bettis, motivational speaker Andrew Dawson-Pollard and musical...
CLOVIS — A Portales man was killed in a Wednesday morning crash on N.M. 467, according to a release from the Curry County Sheriff’s Office. Travis Foster, 85, died at the scene of the crash at mile post 13. According to the CCSO release: • A 2018 Chevrolet Impala traveling west on N.M. 467 was driven by Sofie Ingram, 27, of Clovis. Foster was traveling in a 1999 Chevrolet Suburban traveling east. • The vehicles collided head-on, with a witness reporting the Suburban driven by Foster had crossed left of center several times p...
SANTA FE — The annual Medical general enrollment period has begun, and will continue through March 31, according to a release from the New Mexico Department of Aging and Long-term Services. Seniors over age 65 who have not enrolled in Medicare when first eligible can sign up during this period. If this year’s enrollment period is missed, enrollment will not be available again until Jan. 1, 2022. A Medicare Savings Program may help avoid penalties for late signups. Anybody who wishes to apply is advised to check with their loc...
Monday • Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day • A Virtual Celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. — 10 a.m., via Zoom. Sponsored by the Clovis MLK, Jr. Commission. Join the webinar at https://zoom.us/j/91233875930; pass code: 871367. Telephone: dial +1 (346) 248 7799; webinar ID: 912 3387 5930; passcode: 871367. Information: 575-777-4721 • “Distanced, but Not Separated”: An MLK, Jr. virtual celebration — 11 a.m. and 8 p.m., one-hour program broadcast on KENW-TV channels 3-1 and 3-2 Tuesday • Friends of Clovis-Carver Public Libr...
Meetings are subject to change due to coronavirus concerns Tuesday • Roosevelt General Hospital Board of Trustees — 5:30 p.m., teleconference. For dial-in information, email Debbie Lambirth at [email protected] or call her at 575-356-3412 • Portales City Council — 6:30 p.m., auditorium, Memorial Building, 200 E. Seventh St., Portales. Attendance is limited; Covid-19 social distancing and face covering restrictions will apply. Questions or comments from citizens may be submitted in writing to the city clerk or city manager...
LAS CRUCES — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued an alert on a pet food recall, with New Mexico among the states that received the products. According to the release, Midwestern Pet Foods, Inc., on Monday expanded a recall it first announced Dec. 30. The recall includes various products that contain corn and were made in the company’s Oklahoma manufacturing plant. The products in question may contain potentially fatal levels of aflatoxins. New Mexico Agriculture Secretary Jeff Witte encouraged consumers to check...
CLOVIS — Clovis Municipal Schools has informed voters by mail of its upcoming school bond election, which will be conducted by mail over the next four-plus weeks. The postcard was sent to all registered voters in the school district ahead of the Feb. 16 election, which is being conducted by the Curry County Clerk’s Office. Ballots will be mailed to voters starting Tuesday. The election covers the renewal of $10 million in general obligation bonds and a public school capital improvements act tax. Passage of both questions woul...
Following the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 and last week’s House of Representatives vote to impeach President Donald Trump, The News caught up with Donald “Doc” Elder, a history professor at Eastern New Mexico University, for his perspective on it all: Q: What elements of the last 10 days have precedent? A: It has been precedented in American history for election results to be challenged, most famously in 1876 when three states sent in two completely different sets of election results. It literally wasn...
The New Mexico Legislature finished its 2020 regular session just weeks before the COVID-19 pandemic took hold, and it’s affected everything since — including the necessity of two special sessions later on in the year. The pandemic is still having impacts as the House and Senate prepare for the 60-day session that begins Tuesday. The News reached out to all six area legislators, and was able to make contact with five to briefly discuss concerns and goals for the session, and what a largely virtual format will mean. Dis...
