Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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CLOVIS -- Units from four fire departments Tuesday afternoon were assisting the Clovis Fire Department in fighting a blaze contained in ductwork near the top of the Gavilon grain elevator at 1327 U.S. 60-84. Curry County Sheriff's deputies were rerouting traffic off of U.S. 60-84 both east and west of the fire scene. It wasn't clear how the fire began, but it still had life late Tuesday afternoon. Clovis Fire Chief Mike Nolen said spray from a water cannon atop a ladder truck...
Clovis Municipal Schools will not conduct in-person instruction on Thursday due to ongoing staff shortages coupled with forecasts of pending inclement weather, CMS officials announced Tuesday. “While staffing shortages across the district continue to improve, thanks to an outpouring of support from the community, the decision was made to shift to asynchronous learning because of the added challenges created when shortages are combined with potential severe weather,” a school news release read. Instruction will be con... Full story
U.S. Sen. Ben Ray Luján, D-N.M., suffered a stroke last week and is hospitalized in Albuquerque, according to a news release from his chief of staff. “Early Thursday morning, Senator Luján began experiencing dizziness and fatigue,” Chief of Staff Carlos Sanchez wrote in the release issued Tuesday. “He checked himself into Christus St. Vincent Regional Hospital in Santa Fe. He was then transferred to UNM Hospital in Albuquerque for further evaluation. Senator Luján was found to have suffered a stroke in the cerebell...
The National Weather Service is predicting 2-3 inches of snow across eastern New Mexico starting Wednesday morning. Clovis’ Emergency Management Director Dan Heerding warns snow might not be the worst part of this storm. “The big thing or big concern I (have) is the extreme cold on Thursday morning, Thursday during the day and overnight Thursday to Friday …” he said. Temperatures will hover near zero, forecasters say, and with 20-30-mph winds blowing the snow around, Heerding predicts it could feel like 14-below zero early Fr... Full story
The books listed below are now available for checkout at the Clovis-Carver Public Library. The library is open to the public, but patrons can still visit the online catalog at cloviscarverpl.booksys.net/opac/ccpl or call 575-769-7840 to request a specific item for curbside pickup. “A Man of Honor” by Barbara Taylor Bradford. Opening five years before the start of A Woman of Substance, A Man of Honor begins with 13-year-old Blackie O’Neill facing an uncertain future in rural County Kerry. Orphaned and alone, he has just burie...
Information on Roman Shade safety standards and the importance of moderation and temperance versus dieting will be the featured topics on “Creative Living” at 9:30 p.m. Tuesday and at noon on Thurdsay. Terrell Sundermann will give a brief overview of the latest Roman Shade safety standards, and then show how to convert an existing Roman shade to make it safety-compliant. Her business is Terrell Sundermann Designs in Castle Rock, Colo. Spiritual master, Louix Dor Dempriey is...
Watching video of my two great-nephews on a sled ride across their pasture in Oklahoma following last week’s snowstorm brought back memories. In case you haven’t noticed, we don’t get a lot of snow in this part of the country. Even when we do there’s no hill for sledding anyway. In the country, kids find a way, however. My dad always told of sledding behind a pickup or tractor on top of a big old car hood turned upside down. I suppose that would work and you could probabl...
