Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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Monday *Portales Municipal Schools board - 6 p.m., Board Room, L.C. Cozzens Administrative Offices, 501 S. Abilene, Portales. Information: 575-356-7000 Tuesday *Roosevelt County Commission - 9 a.m., Commission Room, Roosevelt County Courthouse, 109 W. First St., Portales. Livestream available on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1bHckYttNQnmm6ymJhWaXQ and a recording of the meeting will be saved as a public video and linked from the county website, https://www.rooseveltcounty.com, following the public meeting....
BASKETBALL Prep summaries Tuesday District 4-5A Boys Carlsbad 46, Clovis 41 Carlsbad (20-4, 3-1) — Jacob Mireles 3, Evan Campos 9, Devin McKnight 16, Xavier Rueda 3, Damian Perez 7, Tylan Gonzales 8. Totals 18 3-6 46. Clovis (4-20, 1-3) — Brian Weiss 3, Luciano Webster 6, Manuel Gutierrez 3, Juan Hernandez 8, R.J. Nora 13, Andrew Hall 8. Totals 15 7-9 41. Carlsbad 4 18 7 17 — 46 Clovis 10 10 12 9 — 41 3-pointers — Carlsbad, Campos 3, McKnight 2, Mireles, Rueda. Clovis, Hernandez 2, Gutierrez, Weiss. Girls Carlsbad 28, Clovi...
LAWTON, Okla. — Thursday night was simply Heartbreak City for Eastern New Mexico University’s basketball teams. First, sophomore guard/forward Stephanie Peterson’s layup with two seconds left gave Lone Star Conference women’s co-leading Cameron a 73-72 victory over the Greyhounds. Then the Aggies pulled out a 66-65 win on the men’s side with two late free throws. ENMU sophomore guard Natalie Stice scored from close range with six seconds left to tie women’s tilt 71-71. After a timeout, Cameron rushed the ball downcourt f...
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. “As Dawn Breaks” by Kate Bereslin. Amid the Great War in England, munitions worker Rosalinda Graham is desperate to escape the marriage being forced on her. When the Chilwell factory explodes, Rose realizes the world believes she perished in the...
Information on creating a floral English garden, and how to use magazine pages to create purses, totebags and other items will be the featured topics on “Creative Living” at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday and at noon Thursday. Floral designer Carly Cylinder will show how to combine flowers and fruit in a basket to create an English garden. This makes an inexpensive, yet impressive arrangement that is great to use for many occasions. Her company is Flour LA and Flour LA Jr., and she liv...
Should Super Bowl Sunday be a national holiday? Lots of folks have long thought it might be a good idea. Some think it might be better if we did the game on Saturday. At the risk of being two-faced after ranting about our soft nation, I guess I might be OK with doing a national holiday out of a football game. At least we would all be celebrating together to a much larger degree than many of our holidays. It’s sad that most of our holidays are just a day off for many. I g...
Monday *Valentine’s Day *Last day of Friends of the Clovis-Carver Public Library romance novel paperbacks sale – 9 a.m.-8 p.m., Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main St., Clovis. Books are two for $1. Information: 575-769-7840 *Galentines Networking Lunch – noon, Clovis Civic Center, 801 Schepps Blvd., Clovis. Sponsored by United Way of New Mexico Women United; event to support the Clovis Civic Center "Smile Drive” collecting new oral hygiene products for children and adults to distribute throughout our communi...
Booked The following were booked into local jails (Tuesday - Friday): Clovis • Erick Terrones-Palacio, 30, failure to pay fines • Juan Garza, 40, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge • Marissa Silva, 29, probation violation • Charles Banister, 39, aggravated assault • Gerald Cuffie, 25, failure to register vehicle, no proof of insurance • Andrea Gallegos, 34, attempt to commit a felony, to wit: unlawful taking of a motor vehicle • Anthony Cordova, 55, failure to pay fines • Roseanna Ortega, 43, failure to appear on misde...
Kenneth Tucker was a jazz guitar player who recorded in Norman Petty's studio in the 1950s. He was a member of a local band called the Blue Notes that is listed among the many bands that recorded in the Norman Petty Studio, which recorded Buddy Holly and Roy Orbison during the birth of rock 'n' roll. A history of the music recorded at the studio documents the recording sessions, but does not show that vinyl records came out of the Blue Notes' recording sessions. It seems,...
Las Cruces native Stephanie Valencia writes with pride about the role she played in helping Sonia Sotomayor become the first Latina confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court. Valencia, who had worked on both the campaign and transition team for Barack Obama, was serving as his deputy director in the Office of Public Engagement when Supreme Court Justice David Souter announced his retirement in 2009. She urged Obama to select Sotomayor. When he did — a decision announced when Valencia was back here getting married — she helped lea...
I really hate the phrase “it’s a teachable moment.” People use it whenever they want to pretend that someone who messed up is going to regret her mistakes. This whole idea of redemption is wishful thinking, because very few people come out the other side of a major debacle with humility and self-awareness. I don’t forgive Whoopi Goldberg for being a privileged putz. I doubt she’s a true anti-Semite, although who knows. Jew-hating is a common activity among the woke preachers...
They stormed through police barricades, these “ordinary citizens engaged in legitimate political discourse.” They shattered windows and chanted death to the vice president, these “ordinary citizens engaged in legitimate political discourse.” They smeared their own feces on the wall, “ordinary citizens engaged in legitimate political discourse.” Over the last 13 months, we’ve heard Republicans offer all sorts of rationalizations for the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. We’v...
There have been many unpleasant paid jobs throughout history, from executioner to leech collector to nitpicker. Now, to this litany of gruesome and onerous work, must be added being employed by Spotify in the 21st century. The CEO of the streaming company, besieged by a highly motivated cancellation mob out for podcaster Joe Rogan’s scalp, apologized to his employees in a statement for “the way The Joe Rogan Experience controversy continues to impact each of you.” Accor...
Six bucks a month. With state revenues projected to exceed $9 billion, a paltry $6 a month, about the price of a pound of premium bacon. That’s how much a family would save under the latest “tax cut” package limping along with a week left in the Legislature’s 30-day session. The tax cut backed by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham would reduce the state’s GRT base rate by 0.25 percentage points — from 5.125% to 4.875% — and only if state revenue levels remain high. But as state Rep. Jason Harper notes, this GRT cut would amount...
C.W. McCall once intoned, “I’s thumbin’ through the want ads in the Shelby County Tribune when this classified advertisement caught my eye.” This happens to me a lot with newspapers. Not only with ads, but also with the short stories that layout specialists use to fill blank space around other, bigger items. It’s one of the joys of reading the papers. What caught my eye a few days ago was a story that said President Biden had joined Pope Francis and a leading Sunni imam in c...
On this date ... 1962: Downtown business owners in Clovis were working on a new parking proposal and discussing group promotions. The parking proposal would narrow sidewalks, bring about a return of diagonal parking, allow center parking and turn side streets into one-way avenues. Jack Holt, a downtown clothier, submitted an engineer’s drawing “as a possible solution to the much-talked of problem of parking in the business district,” the Clovis News-Journal reported. The parking plan, which would be presented to the City...
Carissa McGee was 16 when she stabbed her mother and sister in a high-profile attack in 2006. She served about nine years of a 21-year adult prison sentence. The former high school basketball star said she worked to better herself while she was behind bars for one reason — “I had a light at end of the tunnel to improve my choice,” she told state lawmakers Thursday. “I had a parole date.” McGee, who is now an advocate for prisoners and members of the LGBTQ community, provided some of the most compelling testimony in favor a c...
Clovis student musicians came away from solo competition with six outstanding soloist awards, three from the Clovis High School Freshman Academy and three from CHS, according to a Clovis Municipal Schools press release. They competed Feb. 5 in the Southeastern New Mexico Music Educators Association’s Instrumental Solo and Ensemble Festival held on the campus of Portales High School. While 29 soloists from the Freshman Academy came away with “superior” ratings, the three outstanding soloists were Quinn Culiver, French horn;...
A Clovis dairy farming couple was one of four national winners of 2021's National Outstanding Young Farmers awards, sponsored by the Outstanding Farmers of America (OFA), a fraternal organization. The OFA announced its 2022 and 2021 winners last week in a news release. The Clovis winners, Jeroen and Traci van der Ploeg, operate a dairy farm near Clovis that also grows beef cattle, corn and wheat. According to the OFA, Outstanding Young Farmer awards are based on progress in...
CLOVIS -- City Manager Justin Howalt is scheduled to stay at the helm of the city of Clovis’ day-to-day operations for another three years, the City Commission on Thursday decided with a unanimous vote. The commission’s approval gave Howalt a second three-year extension on his contract that will expire in 2025. Howalt has been the city manager since 2017. He received his first three-year extension in 2018. The contract approved Thursday sets Howalt’s annual salary at $157,756.56, subject to annual review and adjustment. Howal...
CLOVIS -- A Clovis man has been charged with aggravated assault on school employees and carrying a deadly weapon on school premises, both fourth-degree felonies, after witnesses said he shouted at school officials and placed his hand on a gun in a car parked at the school. Clovis police on Tuesday issued an arrest warrant for Joshua Moralez, 19, of Clovis, through Curry County Magistrate Court. He remained at large on Friday. Clovis High School counselor Mindy Sena and an assistant principal, Mike Rutledge,of Clovis High...
A Clovis magistrate courtroom became a laboratory for a new eviction diversion program this month, ushering in a major change to state housing policy that aims to bring the rental market closer to normal while also staving off a wave of evictions amid a lingering pandemic. What happens in Clovis doesn't stay there. Sometime in March, the Eviction Prevention and Diversion Program will be expanded from the Ninth Judicial District to all of New Mexico, allowing for the first...
CLOVIS — Curry County commissioners on Tuesday balked at plans that call for five elevators in an expanded Curry County Courthouse, but approved basic schematic drawings for a new area to house magistrate court facilities. The elevators would be designed to increase security when jail inmates are transferred from the Curry County Detention Center to courtrooms for court procedures, and to assure that judges and court staff are kept safe as they travel in and out of the courthouse. The county’s public services director Ben Rob...
Eastern New Mexico University Chancellor Patrice Caldwell is watching and waiting this week to see if the New Mexico Legislature’s budget bill, House Bill 2, will rectify a history of inequities in New Mexico college funding that have disadvantaged ENMU, compared with other New Mexico four-year colleges. While ENMU’s enrollment grew from 4,114 in 2006 to 6,014 in 2016, she said, funding through the New Mexico Higher Education Department did not keep pace. “The state did not have the funding,” she said. But even with more ed...
A man wanted in connection with a 2021 Clovis homicide has been arrested in Oklahoma City. Clovis police stated in a news release that David Valdez, wanted for the Oct. 10 shooting death of Ivan Luevano, was arrested Wednesday on the Clovis murder warrant after being “suspected of criminal activity in a small Oklahoma town.” Records show Luevano, 28, was shot four times in his bedroom at 125 El Camino in Clovis. First responders transported him to Plains Regional Medical Center where he died. A Crime Stoppers tip led police t...
