Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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Municipal election ballots 7 a.m.-7 p.m. March 3 City of Clovis Mayor • Raymond Mondragon • Michael A. Morris • Stephen B. North • R.L. Rube Render • Sandra Taylor Sawyer City Commission District 1 • George Talmadge Jones • Kenneth R. Lindsey • Leo Lovett • Marcus Alan Smith • James Matthew Whittington • Rhonda Payne Bargman • Eric A. Collings City Commission District 2 • Lauren D. Rowley • Jamaal R. Williams City Commission District 3 • David W. Bryant • Helen Casaus City Commission District 4 • Rodney Mike Lusk* • Chris Bry...
A pair of area athletes could sign today with Division-I football programs, and several others are looking at Division-II and junior college teams. The signing period for all college football programs begins today for the 2020-21 school year. Athletes are not bound to any program until they sign a letter-of-intent, and any commitments made in advance are verbal only. Bryce Cabledue of Clovis is one of three expected signees for the Wildcats, and he has verbally committed to Kansas. Portales senior Philip Blidi has verbally co...
That cold snap that started Tuesday should continue into tonight, and eastern New Mexico residents can expect cold nights for the foreseeable future. Tuesday saw several inches of snowfall across the area and temperatures were expected to dip to a low of 11 degrees this morning. Multiple public entities closed early Tuesday and some delayed openings this morning because of the weather. Minor accidents were reported around the region and whiteout conditions were reported...
PORTALES — The city of Portales closed its Convenience Center from noon to 1 p.m. Tuesday due to staffing issues and plans to close from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday for training. The center is located at 1230 N. Avon Ave., and is intended for residents to dispose of large and small trash items. City residents can use the center free of charge if they bring in a recent city bill indicating garbage service. Commercial businesses, county residents or anybody else who doesn’t pay for garbage service is subject to fees based on...
TEXICO — Saturday was Feb. 1, when high school basketball games get all the more important. In other words — kinda-sorta crunch time. And it was not a good start to the month for Texico’s boys basketball team, which got crunched by Santa Rosa 67-48 at Texico High School on Saturday night. Already trailing by 13 late in the first quarter and still down by 11 at the start of the second, Texico was never able to climb back into it, never able to shave the deficit to single digit...
PORTALES — Eastern New Mexico University’s women moved up one notch to seventh in this week’s NCAA Division II South Central Region rankings. ENMU (15-5, 9-5 Lone Star Conference) stretched its winning streak to four games with dominating wins at Greyhound Arena over Texas-Permian Basin 66-43 on Thursday and Western New Mexico 83-53 on Saturday. The Greyhounds are off to the third-best 20-game start in program history. Their spot in the rankings, though, will be challenged this week with road games against Angelo State (12-6...
I never really agreed with the whole “marriage is 50-50” thing. Thinking about it, I probably thought it meant that a marriage is an equal partnership, hence the 50-50. But something just didn’t sit right. Marriage is a partnership; but, I think when I hear 50-50, I think effort. When you make a statement and someone else agrees with that statement, their response back is often “100 percent!” If we give 100 percent to making a statement, wouldn’t we give 100 percent to...
A good many folks believe that if you do everything right, you might live to be well over 100. Two glaring presuppositions shine forth from this belief. One is that you actually might want to live to be “well over 100.” Not me, thanks. The other most obvious problem is actually two falsehoods for the price of one — that it’s possible to “do everything right,” and that you will. Under “doing everything right,” well, there’s a lot to check off. Most folks will tell you to spend...
Newcomers to Clovis might misinterpret the name of L. Casillas Boulevard near the Lighthouse Mission as Las Casillas — as in The Casillas. That’s not far off. Librado Casillas was the Casillas who helped build Guadalupe parish, a mission of Sacred Heart Church in 1943. That complex, now lost to time, was just around the corner from today’s Lighthouse, which also ministers to searching souls. Librado Casillas was also the Casillas who opened a grocery store next to the railroad tracks in west Clovis in 1945. That store — also...
PORTALES — A Portales woman was sentenced Monday to 18 years in prison on charges of kidnapping, burglary and aggravated battery. Esperanza Tarango, 24, was found guilty in December by a Roosevelt County jury. She will be required to serve at least 85% of the term. According to court records, a man at Roosevelt General Hospital told county sheriff’s deputies he was taken to a remote location in the country by two males and a female. The man said his wrists were bound and he was beaten with a hatchet-type instrument, bur...
A year after the accident that almost took Brittany Kanmore's life and landed her on many local prayer lists, I caught up with this resilient young woman over coffee to hear about how she's doing now. There is plenty of good news to share. This ambitious 21-year-old is in her final semester of classes at Clovis Community College, working part time in Clovis, and preparing to open a business of her own in Portales come the end of May. "Everything happens for a reason," she...
Today • Preschool storytime “It Wasn’t Me” — 10:30 a.m., Portales Public Library, 218 S. Ave. B, Portales. Information: 575-356-3940 • Free haircuts — Noon-4:30 p.m., Matt 25 Hope Center, 1200 Thornton, Suite A, Clovis. Information: 575-763-4400 • Rural Bookmobile East — 1:45-3 p.m., Elida City Hall, 704 Clark St., Elida. Information: 575-461-1824 Thursday • Preschool storytime “It Wasn’t Me” — 6 p.m., Portales Public Library, 218 S. Ave. B, Portales. Information: 575-356-3940 • Clovis-Carver Public Library Page Turners B...
On this date ... 1970: Cooks Discount Department Store in Clovis was open daily at West 21st and Mitchell streets. The week’s specials included: • Vegetable or flower seeds, 6 cents per package • Oil filters, 96 cents • Slumber bags for girls, $7.92 • General Electric AM clock radio, $10.86 • Valentines, 19 cents for a package of 25. Pages Past is compiled by David Stevens. Contact: [email protected] For more regional history, see the website: pagespast.net...
Booked The following were booked into local jails (Friday-Tuesday): Clovis ∞ Veronica Holland, 33, failure to appear on a felony charge ∞ Jessie Suniga, 50, failure to appear on a felony charge, probation violation ∞ Mykael Telles, 27, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge, possession of a controlled substance ∞ Kelvin Gooden, 44, possession of a controlled substance, possession of drug paraphernalia, failure to appear on a felony charge, probation violation ∞ Andrew Wilson, 34, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge ∞ Dyl...
I’m mostly busy running my own newspaper these days, but I still have a weekly news service on the side. More than six years ago, I named it the Community News Exchange (CNEx) and have been running it ever since. These days, I mostly leave it in the capable hands of Linda Quintana to download and typeset, edit, arrange and transmit content to subscriber newspapers around the state. We distribute hard and soft news, features, photos and opinion pieces — and every now and then Linda takes off and I’m left to do the weeke...
New Mexico politicians are hopping on the “red flag law” bandwagon; scheming to commit wrong in the name of imagined “safety.” Red-flag legislation is all the rage, politically. I don’t call them laws because they aren’t laws. Laws can’t violate natural human rights; this legislation does. Imposing or enforcing legislation that violates life, liberty, or property in any way makes you the wrongdoer. It doesn’t change matters to write words giving yourself permission to v...
A popular trope in the news these days is the idea of polarization: conservative and liberal; rural and urban; rich and poor. Writers and opinion leaders tell us that our communities have been irrevocably divided over politics, community and income. To a degree this is true. There are, however, strong external forces shaping our divide besides money and politics. I’m talking about special interest groups. Elected officials rely on money, outreach, and endorsements to be successful. All three of these elements can be pushed a...
The other day I traveled to Africa and talked to a teacher and his students in Kenya. Actually, this wonderful experience was thanks to a phenomenal fourth-grade teacher at Mesa Elementary, Silvia Miranda, who facilitated the experience. The “trip” was in her classroom, via her computer, projecting real-time, larger than life, the experience on her classroom whiteboard. It all began with a book that Miranda read to her students, called “The Water Princess,” by Susan Verde,...
CLOVIS — Police are investigating an early-Sunday incident in which three men were shot. A police news release states officers responded to a “shots fired” call at 3:20 a.m. Sunday in the 1500 block of Westchester Avenue in Clovis. All three victims were taken to Plains Regional Medical Center; two were then transferred to a Lubbock hospital, the release said. Two victims are 21; the third is 19. Conditions of those shot were not released. Police Special Operations Unit and the Major Crimes Unit were activated. Clovis Polic...
CLOVIS — The Clovis Community College Board of Trustees is set to meet for the first time in 2020 and the first time in its spring semester Feb. 12. The 8 a.m. meeting at CCC Room 512 was previously scheduled for this morning, but was moved back a week due to inclement weather. It will include updates on capital projects and the current state legislative session. Other items on the agenda include: • Consideration of the college’s audit report of the 2018-19 fiscal year from Amarillo-based Jamarillo Accounting Group. Accor...
Today • Clovis Community College Board of Trustees — 8 a.m., CCC, 417 Schepps Blvd., Room 512, Clovis. Information: 575-769-4001 Thursday • Curry County Commission — 9 a.m., Commission Chambers, Curry County Administration Complex, 417 Gidding St., Clovis. Information: Tanya Henderson at 575-763-6016 Monday • Portales Municipal Schools board — 6 p.m., Board Room, L.C. Cozzens Administrative Offices, 501 S. Abilene, Portales. Information: 575-356-7000 • Clovis Astronomy Club — 7 p.m., Room 143 or 145 (look for signs), Clovis...
Plateau offering scholarships CLOVIS — Plateau’s Education Foundation is offering college scholarships to graduating high school seniors and current college students. Scholarships available for graduating seniors include the $8,000 Evelyn Patterson Memorial Scholarship, the $8,000 Robert M. Harris Memorial Scholarship, the $3,000 Banner Scholarship, the $1,500 Tonie Martinez Memorial Scholarship and the $1,500 Committed to Excellence Scholarship. Tom M. Phelps Scholarships worth $2,000 are available for college juniors and se...
Once every 10 years, the U.S. conducts its countrywide Census, gathering data that will be used to make major decisions over the next decade. That includes deciding where over $800 billion in federal funding will end up. The city of Clovis and Curry County have decided to hold a celebration Saturday in honor of the Census, and hopefully answer any pressing questions the population might have about how it works. “This is our Census awareness event. We want to put on a celebration so that when everyone gets their Census they h...
CLOVIS — With the sale of alcohol approved in Curry County, county officials are looking to introduce a new tax on sellers to help cover expected service costs. The Curry County Board of Commissioners will consider imposing a new $250 a year liquor tax for sellers outside Clovis. The discussion is set to take place during the commission’s regular meeting on Thursday. Curry County residents voted last year to allow the sale of alcohol in the unincorporated areas of the county and the new tax has been introduced to cover additi...
CLOVIS — Valentine’s Day stands out as a day for couples to celebrate their love. The Ninth Judicial Court District in Curry and Roosevelt counties has decided to go the extra mile to make it a little more special for some couples. The local courts will be offering free wedding services on Valentine’s Day for the second annual Cupid Court event on Feb. 14. The Roosevelt County Courthouse will be open from 9 a.m. to noon for the event, while the Curry County Courthouse will open from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. All that’s require...
