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CLOVIS — Clovis Community College, along with four other New Mexico colleges, announced a partnership Monday they anticipate will create a more efficient higher education experience. Joining CCC in the Enterprise Resource Planning project are Central New Mexico Community College, Northern New Mexico College, San Juan College, and Santa Fe Community College. The ERP project is a shared system of services for students and workforce. “About three years ago, as the leadership of these institutions talked about the biggest cha...
SANTA FE – New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Thursday afternoon announced she will order all flags to half-staff in the state, beginning Friday, in mourning for a uniformed member of the New Mexico State Police killed in the line of duty Thursday on Interstate 10. The statement from the governor's office did not identify the officer or give specific details about the incident, but the governor said she was "shocked, heartbroken and outraged" by the loss of the officer and that she was praying for a local officer w...
PORTALES - Nothing has been normal for the Eastern New Mexico University football program since the COVID-19 pandemic began last March. The last 10-plus months started with the Greyhound spring training season wiped out. Then the university decided it would sit out the 2020-21 Lone Star Conference season that got pushed into the spring. And that decision became a moot point when the LSC canceled spring football plans. Today brings a rare moment of normalcy, with coach Kelley L...
CLOVIS — The Clovis Municipal Schools district will expand its hybrid education model to middle and high school students on Feb. 16. Those grade levels were forced into remote learning by the COVID-19 pandemic about 11 months ago. Students will attend in three separate cohorts: • A, which attends school in person Mondays and Tuesdays and goes remote the rest of the week. • B, which goes remote Monday through Wednesday and attends in person Thursday and Friday. • C, which goes entirely remote. In advance of the Feb. 16 star...
I’ve been thinking a lot about honor lately. For the past little bit, I’ve been training for a marathon — 26.2 miles. (It’s OK to laugh; I do when I think about what I’m doing.) I don’t run. I tell people that if they see me running, they need to run faster. Richard Allen Trask was a Bataan Death March survivor. He and his family often participated in the yearly memorial marathon held at White Sands Missile Range. After hearing the story, I told him I was going to join his fa...
Software update. I love those, don’t you? Doesn’t it make you feel good to know that the folks who created your computer’s operating system are so completely on top of things that they’ve issued yet another update? You were hoping to quit for the day. You were in the process of punching your computer’s lights out. And then that screen screams at you: “Stop! Whatever you do, don’t turn this thing off or unplug it! Incredibly important updates will now be downloaded an...
In the summer of 2019, 50 New Mexico State Police officers were deployed to patrol certain neighborhoods in Albuquerque, making more than 700 arrests in two months. The “surge operation” was criticized early on after officers shot at suspects in vehicles in back-to-back incidents — a practice Albuquerque Police Department officers are prohibited from doing except in very specific circumstances. Leon Howard, the legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico, said that if a proposed police reform bill...
PORTALES — Two resolutions regarding Roosevelt County’s support and opposition for bills introduced in the current legislative session were discussed during its commission meeting on Tuesday. The commission voted unanimously to support House Bill 33 regarding the Livestock Board and Meat Inspection and to oppose House Bill 4 the New Mexico Civil Rights Act. On the agenda for the meeting the item submitted by Roosevelt County Manager Amber Hamilton read, “Urging the New Mexico Legislature to provide more resources for behav...
ALBUQUERQUE — New Mexico Activities Association board members during an emergency meeting Monday adopted an adjusted sports calendar where the condensed fall sports seasons of football, cross country and volleyball would begin on Feb. 22. Practices for those traditional fall sports also would officially begin Feb. 22. If those dates hold, it would be the first time prep sports would be played in New Mexico in more than 11 months because of disruptions due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Football season would be limited to five g...
SANTA FE — Two bills seeking to add New Mexico to the ranks of Western states that have legalized recreational cannabis for adult users were introduced in the state Senate on Monday. Additional proposals could be filed in the coming days. The proposals filed Monday offer different road maps for marijuana legalization, which backers say is likely to happen this year after last year’s election cycle led to shake-ups in the Legislature. One measure, Senate Bill 288, filed by Sen. Cliff Pirtle, R-Roswell, would require at lea...
Cowboys for Trump founder Couy Griffin will remain in federal prison without bail. U.S. Magistrate Judge Zia M. Faruqui on Monday denied a request for his release, citing past actions and statements as “troubling” and noting his participation in the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. “Why was the defendant there at that date and time? By his own words ‘to stop Chinese theft of the election.’ I’m not sure what that means,” Faruqui said. Faruqui said Griffin’s intent in returning to Washington, D.C., for the inauguration of...
SANTA FE — New Mexico has largely been a state divided by region when it comes to such issues as environmental regulations, pandemic-related school closures and gun rights laws. A proposal filed Monday by a Roswell Republican would take those divisions a step further by allowing counties to petition the Legislature to actually secede from the state — either to join a neighboring state or create a new state. The proposed constitutional amendment, filed by Sen. Cliff Pirtle, likely faces long odds at the Roundhouse but could tr...
On this date ... 1971: Regents at Eastern New Mexico University had voted 3-2 against the use of nude models in an upper division art class on the campus. ENMU President Charles W. Meister and Academic Dean Gail Shannon had "strongly recommended" approval of the practice. Regents Margie Beck and Donald Anderson supported the recommendation. "You can't draw the human figure clothed unless you first draw it in the nude, said Anderson, himself an artist in Roswell. He said he...
Are you a singer, a dancer, a musician, an undiscovered cowboy poet? Do you have that one magic trick that gets requested every Thanksgiving, or a card manipulation that always fools your audience? Are you a closet yodeler secretly yearning to go public? Do you make killer tortillas and have a great how-to demonstration? If so — or if you have virtually (and virtually is the key word here) any kind of talent — the folks at the Eastern New Mexico University Department of The...
If you’re wondering how the new Biden administration is going to impact New Mexico, you don’t need to look very far. Already, President Joe Biden has put the brakes on Donald Trump’s border wall, put Space Command’s location back on the table and put a stop to fossil fuel extraction on public lands. Let’s start with Trump’s wall, which Biden has stopped in its tracks. Aside from it being a colossal waste of money — an investment in electronic surveillance along the border is far safer and more practical, and far less expe...
Politics has a strange effect on people. I’m stunned at how many people can’t let go of Donald Trump. They cling to him like a life raft in an ocean of uncertainty. I’m not talking about Trump’s supporters, but about those who hate him passionately. Those who suffer from what is known as “Trump Derangement Syndrome.” Most Trump supporters have moved on. They accept the reality he’d be too old for the presidency in four years. He’d be 78 by then, and no one that age should...
Western Dairy Transport honored CABOOL, Mo. — Western Dairy Transport, the nation’s largest milk and dairy hauler, was recognized by the Truckload Carriers Association and CarriersEdge 2021 as a best fleet to drive for award winner. The company, with operations that include a Portales location, is the first dairy logistics carrier to be recognized by the program. “Being named a 2021 Fleet to Watch speaks as much to the dedication to quality within the dairy industry we haul for, as it does to our team,” said David Shelton...
There’s a gold rush going on in the financial markets. It features everyday underdogs getting their due and bigwig “bad guys” recoiling from their comeuppance. It’s accompanied by online flame wars and some of the dumbest displays of dominance in the animal kingdom. In short, it’s an American phenomenon. And it’s all fun and games until someone gets hurt. But it’s not new. And it’s not necessarily a problem. At the center of things has been GameStop, a 25-year-old company with a washed-up retailing strategy. It sells video...
New Mexico is asking a federal court to reverse a decision that combined its lawsuit against the Air Force over contamination at military bases with lawsuits filed in other districts. At issue is PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances), a class of toxins in the firefighting foam used for training exercises at Cannon and Holloman Air Force bases. The New Mexico Environment Department and the New Mexico state attorney general filed a petition for writ of mandamus in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit on Monday....
CLOVIS — What’s in a name? A lot, Clovis city administration hopes when it comes to its airport. The city is asking the Clovis City Commission to change the facility’s name, from Clovis Municipal Airport to Clovis Regional Airport. The matter will be discussed at the 5:15 p.m. Clovis City Commission meeting, which will be broadcast on Suddenlink Channel 10 and livestreamed on cityofclovis.org and the City of Clovis Facebook page. The fiscal impact to the name change would be minimal for the airport that has served the city...
SANTA FE — The New Mexico Department of Transportation Traffic’s Safety Division, along with Safer New Mexico Now, is hosting weekly virtual car seat checks. The Zoom sessions, available only by appointment, will occur 11 a.m.-1 p.m. every first and third Wednesday of the month and noon-2 p.m. every second Saturday. Participants must electronically sign a waiver of liability prior to their scheduled session. To participate in the virtual session, parents and caregivers must have a valid email address, access to the Internet o...
CLOVIS — Out of an abundance of caution Tuesday morning, a lockdown was initiated at Lockwood Elementary. According to a Clovis Municpal Schools release, the Level 1 lockdown was put into place following a report of gunshots heard near the campus. The lockdown was lifted shortly after when police visited the campus and the surrounding area and issued an all-clear. During a Level 1 lockdown exterior doors are locked and any current outdoor activities are moved inside, but otherwise instruction continues as n...
The infection trends on COVID-19 are continuing downward for Curry and Roosevelt counties, with just seven local cases reported Monday by the Department of Health. The DOH report included four Curry County cases and three Roosevelt County cases among the 487 statewide. Also, no locals were among the 12 statewide deaths announced in the Monday release. January saw a dramatic drop for Roosevelt County in total cases, with 260 in the month compared to 508 in December and 514 in November. However, January was a high month for...
PORTALES — Roosevelt General Hospital officials are administering about 100 COVID-19 Pfizer vaccinations per day, with 928 doses delivered so far. RGH Chief Executive Officer Kaye Green also told Roosevelt County commissioners on Tuesday that officials are “being liberal” with state guidelines to ensure no vaccines go to waste. Those who qualify for the vaccine are ages 75 and up and those 16 and up with underlying conditions, plus frontline essential workers. “We did start vaccinating teachers because we felt that they fe...
CLOVIS - Jewelry, Gail Tarson said, is almost always connected to some special event. On Tuesday, the owner of Clovis' Diamonds Evermore was honored for her 10-year connection with local small business development. The Clovis Community College branch of New Mexico's Small Business Development Center named Diamonds Evermore as its Star Client. Tarson has worked with SBDC since 2011 when she began the process of opening her store. Unlike past years in which awards recipients...
