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Early voting for the June 2 primary has begun, with both the Curry and Roosevelt county clerk's offices reopened for that specific purpose. Other functions provided by the clerk's offices will still be handled on an appointment basis. With the COVID-19 pandemic continuing, many voters are expected to take the path of absentee ballots. The state is not mailing out absentee ballot applications, but instead mailers have been sent that tell voters how to apply for an absentee ball...
This is Teacher Appreciation Week. We asked our readers to tell us about the teachers that have made the greatest impacts on their lives. Here's a sampling: • Cristin Stewart - For me it was two ladies who were my teachers that inspired my writing - Linda Rippee and Louise Shoemaker. I also have to mention Kelly Alford, who really taught me how to be understanding and never let me back away from my goals. She is the reason I do what I do. Her guidance and love. • Jessica Eme...
PORTALES — Eastern New Mexico University has filled its men's basketball coaching vacancy, tabbing recent Southern Indiana assistant Brent Owen as the program's 14th head coach. The move was announced in a Tuesday afternoon release by the school. Owen joined the Screaming Eagles coaching staff the season after his playing career there concluded, and the program went 274-93 during his tenure as a player or a coach. He resigned his position at ISU in mid-April. "I could not b...
When the economy started to retract from the onslaught of the coronavirus, pundits compared it to the Great Recession of 2008. Now they’re drawing a line to the Great Depression, which started with a stock market crash in the fall of 1929 and lasted through the 1930s. It was a defining moment for an entire generation, much as today’s pandemic is defining the “lost” class of high school and college seniors and their contemporaries. History has yet to be written about the long-term impact this latest crisis will have on thei...
To open or not to open; that is the question. But it’s the wrong question. While there’s plenty of debate and disagreement over allowing businesses to re-open; when and how it should be done, the discussion misses the point completely. No one had the right to shut down businesses they didn’t own. You don’t have the right to tell someone they must shut their business and you can’t delegate a right you don’t have. Not to a governor or anyone else. This means the authority t...
Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has repeatedly said: “We’re all in this together.” Our first-term governor, enmeshed in the biggest crisis facing the state in a century, has sought to instill a collective spirit to fight the virus by encouraging, cajoling, ordering and even threatening all to stay home — save for essential errands and essential jobs. But when it comes to reopening New Mexico’s economy, the governor has decided she and a handpicked group can do it all by themselves — behind...
People wear masks when they mow the lawn, work on home projects, refinish furniture, when they paint. All in the name of safety. So, what’s the big deal about wearing a mask now? We have a two-person household unless you count the critters. When we, the two-footed critters, venture out for grocery or pharmacy runs or doctors’ visits, we wear masks. I am just this side of claustrophobic, so I have to talk to myself a bit each time I put it on. But I do it. I do it because my...
One size never fits all. If you’ve lived for 10 minutes or so, I probably don’t need to tell you that. But one of my brothers just sent in a text to the rest of his brothers a photo of a government form designed by some nameless bureaucrat or committee of bureaucrats or building burgeoning with bureaucrats (of the sort some folks would like to place in charge of the part of our nation’s healthcare the government doesn’t already control). Form 1040-V (“V” for “voucher”)...
Booked The following were booked into local jails (Friday-Tuesday): Clovis ∞ Darlene Munoz, 24, shoplifting ∞ Anthony Hernandez, 31, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge ∞ Mark Torres, 19, failure to appear on a felony charge ∞ Elias Ortiz, 20, interference with communications, battery against a household member, assault against a household member ∞ Adrian Trujillo, 29, driving while license suspended or revoked, failure to maintain traffic lane, aggravated driving while under the influence of intoxicating liquor or...
Before Air Jordans, we had Buster Browns Buster Brown had come to town, making the front page of the Roosevelt County Herald. It happened on May 3, 1910. He performed to a full house at Portales' Wonderland Theater, at the invitation of Miller & Luikart, the retail store that happened to sell Buster Brown children's shoes. It was no coincidence, of course. The little boy was in town to sell shoes as part of an advertising campaign. "There wasn't a shadow of a doubt that...
On this date ... 1970: An Amarillo man had called Clovis police to report he'd lost his wallet, along with the $383 in cash and checks it contained. Police had good news: Two Clovis teenagers had found it and brought it the cops, with all the money inside. Richard Little and Allen Swanson, both 14, were the heroes. One of the boys told the Clovis News-Journal that he'd "harbored thoughts about keeping the money," but concluded, "It wouldn't be fair to the person who lost it."...
PORTALES — A website dedicated to security has recognized Eastern New Mexico University as the safest college campus in the state. The study from YourLocalSecurity.com considers two- or four-year schools with at least 5,000 students by using data from the U.S. Department of Education’s Campus Safety and Security and the 2018 FBI Uniform Crime Report. The website created a crime score based on reports of violent crimes, property crimes, hate crimes and Violence Against Women Act offense per 10,000 people. The top school on...
MULESHOE — Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad is scheduled to begin maintenance work today on the railroad crossings located at West Ithaca Street and West Dallas/Fifth Street in Muleshoe. A Texas Department of Transportation news release stated the work is expected to continue through May 15 with the local streets closed to traffic. U.S. 84 drivers needing to access West Ithaca or West Dallas Streets will need to find an alternate route around the railroad crossing work area. Information: 806-748-4472...
CLOVIS — Thursday’s National Day of Prayer won’t be traditional during the COVID-19 pandemic. Instead, organizers in Clovis have planned three events, in addition to encouraging prayer from home. The events: • Walk and pray at Hillcrest Park — sun up to sun down. Eight stops will be marked along a two-mile trail, with participants encouraged to pray for government, military, media, business, education, church, family and health. • Children’s drive and pray at Hillcrest — sun up to sun down. Families are encouraged to b...
PORTALES — A Portales man is accused of making false reports to police in connection with three different incidents — a bomb scare, a stabbing and a shooting, reports show. Placido Duran, 60, was being held without bond in the Roosevelt County jail. According to an affidavit for arrest warrant: • Duran is alleged to have called police Friday to say he “heard two male subjects talking about a bomb” and setting it off in the ACE hardware parking lot in Portales. Officers investigating the call found no evidence of a bomb. • A...
PORTALES — Eastern New Mexico University regents will review graduation lists for all three of its campuses, and receive updates on a virtual graduation for the Portales campus during its Friday meeting. The 1 p.m. meeting will be virtual due to public health orders on mass gatherings during the COVID-19 pandemic. Anybody wishing to attend the virtual meeting can email [email protected] or call 575-562-2091. Commencement ceremonies were originally scheduled for Saturday, but regents voted to postpone services given u...
SANTA FE — New Mexico has more than 32,000 drivers whose licenses either expired since March 11 or will expire by May 15. The New Mexico Motor Vehicle Department has prepared 90-day temporary licenses for those drivers during the COVID-19 pandemic, and many will start receiving them by email this week. “The COVID-19 pandemic is causing New Mexicans to experience immense financial and logistical challenges,” Cabinet Secretary Stephanie Schardin Clarke said in a state release. “MVD wants to lessen the burden by making it quic...
CLOVIS — Curry County commissioners expressed appreciation for a newfound clean water partnership in response to PFAS groundwater contamination near Cannon Air Force Base, but indicated Tuesday morning they weren’t sure it was wise or even legal for the county to join. Commissioners spent much of their Tuesday meeting listening to a presentation by John Kern of the Clean Water Partnership — Cannon. Kern said the CWP is not affiliated with the base, but wants to “provide the leadership that helps develop a solid remedia...
CLOVIS — There is no guarantee of when Clovis’ various advisory boards will be meeting again given restrictions on mass gatherings. But commissioners will decide on Thursday who belongs to which boards when they do meet again. The 5:15 p.m. commission meeting at the North Annex of the Clovis-Carver Public Library will be virtual due to public health orders regarding mass gatherings during the COVID-19 pandemic. The city will broadcast the meeting on Suddenlink Channel 10, online at cityofclovis.org and fac...
June 2 primary ballots Federal U.S. President Republican • Donald J. Trump Democratic • Elizabeth Warren • Tulsi Gabbard • Joseph R. Biden • Deval Patrick • Bernie Sanders • Andrew Yang Libertarian • Lincoln Chafee • Arvin Vohra • Jacob Hornberger • Adam Kokesh • John Monds • Jo Jorgensen • Sam Robb • Daniel Behrman • James Ogle U.S. Senator Republican • Elisa Maria Martinez • Mark V. Ronchetti • Gavin S. Clarkson Democratic • Ben Ray Lujan Libertarian • Bob Walsh U.S. Representative District 2 Republican • Claire Chase • Yv...
PORTALES — A week after it was closed following “several employees” testing positive for COVID-19, a Borden peanut shelling facility has reopened. The facility reopened Monday, according to a release from parent company Severn Peanut Company. “We had some employees test positive, and with all the recent news involving outbreaks at meat processing facilities, we thought it best to close down and address the issue proactively,” Severn President Dallas Barnes said. “We worked closely with both state and local officials w...
PORTALES — With COVID-19 disrupting normal life as much as it has, people might need a reminder that elections are continuing through the crisis. Though the New Mexico primary elections are June 2, early voting began Tuesday morning and was a topic of discussion at Tuesday’s regular Roosevelt County Commission meeting, the second in a row held remotely. “Early voting started today (Tuesday) at 8 o’clock (a.m.),” said Stephanie Hicks of the Roosevelt County clerk’s office. “It’ll run ... through Saturday, May the 30th, in ou...
SANTA FE — A skunk that attacked a person in De Baca County last week has tested positive for rabies, the Department of Health reported. “This is the second skunk that tested positive for rabies in that county ... (T)he first one had an interaction with a dog earlier in April,” DOH reported in a news release. Both the individual attacked by the latest skunk and the dog that was exposed in the first case received “appropriate rabies post-exposure vaccination,” the release said. New Mexico has confirmed four rabid animals t...
I’m on the hunt for a grizzly bear. No, I don’t want a head to mount on my wall, or a rug to cover the floor in front of my fireplace. I want the real thing, alive and hungry, and here’s why. I’ve learned recently that grizzly bears love to eat moths — by the tens of thousands, they say — and have I ever got a banquet waiting. If you don’t live in the country, you may not even be aware that our annual springtime visitors — the miller moths — have arrived. They are having a...
TEXICO — Sports have been among the events most missed while New Mexico is under stay-at-home orders due to COVID-19. But there may be some hope on the horizon. Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s most recent order runs until May 15, and after that the first phase of re-opening could occur, like Texas began last Friday. Clovis Softball Association and Zia Little League are looking to get out there and start playing, perhaps in early June. Clovis American Little League, however, decided in late April to cancel its season ent...
