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PORTALES - After input from a packed courtroom of citizens urging their representatives to send a stronger message to Santa Fe, the Roosevelt County Commission on Tuesday morning tabled a "watered down" resolution opposing pending gun-control legislation. Commissioners scheduled a meeting Friday to consider declaring the county a "Second Amendment sanctuary." Commissioners moved their regular meeting location from the ground floor of the Roosevelt County courthouse to the...
RICHARDSON, Texas — Eastern New Mexico University’s basketball teams, both coming off of a 2-0 week, had their defensive efforts recognized by the Lone Star Conference. A pair of seniors — Chukuka Emili for the men and Treyanna Clay for the women — were named by the LSC as the defensive players of the week, according to a release from the league office. This is the first defensive award for each, and the second weekly award for each as well. Emili was the men’s offensive player of the week the previous week, while Clay was...
CLOVIS - Think you've seen the last of Clovis' girls basketball team at Rock Staubus Gymnasium? Think the Lady Wildcats will fall short of a state tournament appearance? Think again. At least according to Clovis head coach Jeff Reed. Friday night at the Rock, there was a ceremony honoring seniors Tajvionna Johnson, Antanishwa Molett and Kaydee Weaver on the occasion of their last home game. The Lady 'Cats went on to lose that game to Hobbs - MaxPreps' second-ranked 5A team in...
CLOVIS - Payless ShoeSource plans to close all of its 2,100 stores in the U.S. and Puerto Rico over the next few months, including Clovis' North Prince location. The Topeka, Kansas-based Payless started liquidation sales Sunday, and said all stores will be open until at least the end of March while the majority will be open until May. Staff at the Clovis Payless location at 3900 N. Prince St. said they were not allowed to talk to media, and referred inquiries to Payless...
For however much longer Eastern New Mexico's basketball season lasts - and both the men's and women's teams would like it to last throughout March - the Greyhounds will have to be road warriors. This past Saturday marked each team's final appearance at Greyhound Arena. They're on the road for every remaining regular-season game, then it's on to Frisco, Texas for the Lone Star Conference tournament. And then, who knows? This week begins a four-game road swing to close out the r...
ALBUQUERQUE — A new challenge to the New Mexico Racing Commission’s long-awaited award of a sixth racing license further clouds the likelihood of a decision soon. In a letter dated Feb. 7, Full House Resorts CEO and President Daniel Lee requested NMRC Chairman Ray Willis recuse himself from the process. Lee alleges a possible conflict of interest with one of the five groups vying for the license. “Given your lengthy and material relationships with the two key principals for the Clovis Racetrack and Casino proposal, Shaun...
On this date ... 1969: Eastern New Mexico University in Portales had scheduled openings for two museums — one focused on local archeological findings and one showcasing rare and valuable stones and minerals. ENMU President Charles Meister and university regents were slated to cut a ribbon, marking the opening of the Blackwater Draw Museum, located north of Portales on U.S. 70. That museum was built at a cost of $100,000 to display the history of some of the oldest humans ever to walk on the North American continent. Artifacts...
High winds apparently toppled a wind turbine Saturday near House in Quay County. No one was hurt during the mishap, but it caused a lot of chatter on social media. Shana Shoemaker Stowe of House shared an album of photos of the downed wind turbine on Facebook. As of Monday morning, it had been shared more than 2,900 times on the popular social-media network and prompted hundreds of comments. Bryan Garner, a media-relations representative for NextEra Energy Resources that runs...
CLOVIS - Colonial Park Golf Course may soon have new management in place. The Clovis City Commission will be asked at its Thursday meeting to approve entering negotiations with Austin-based Touchstone Golf for operation of the 18-hole course purchased by the city in 2011. The meeting is set for 5:15 p.m. at the North Annex of the Clovis-Carver Public Library. Touchstone was the top-ranked proposal by the request for proposal committee set up after Real Golf, which had managed...
CLOVIS -While there were seven action items on the agenda for Tuesday's Curry County Commission meeting, an item on Thursday's Eastern New Mexico Water Utility Authority agenda dominated much of the discussion at the three-hour meeting. ENMWUA Executive Director Orlando Ortega and Clovis Mayor David Lansford, chairman of the authority, detailed a $15,000 contract with King Industries to address the water contamination issues near Cannon Air Force Base. The issue will be...
TEXICO — It was another tough Saturday for the Texico boys basketball team, but this time a much better showing for the Wolverines. Down by 13 and missing a member of their rotation for most of the second half, the Wolves fought back to make it a game against Santa Rosa in Saturday’s regular-season home finale at Texico Sports Arena. Though the Wolverines ultimately lost 60-53, they had shown fight a week after losing to Pecos at home by 32. Santa Rosa head coach Frank Ortiz was impressed. “I think we played a really good...
Booked The following were booked into local jails Friday-Monday: Clovis • Jolene Gomez, 19, probation violation • Charity Hardin, 37, failure to pay fines • Kia Gallo, 25, criminal damage to property • Ryan Hernandez, 19, aggravated burglary (armed after entering), larceny (over $20,000), criminal damage to property, conspiracy to commit aggravated burglary • Shantal Baca, 30, embezzlement ($250 or less) • Anthony Abeyta, 43, probation violation • Wyatt Strand, 22, aggravated driving while under the influence • Carlo Jo Di...
ALBUQUERQUE — Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham and Attorney General Hector Balderas announced Monday that they will take President Donald Trump to court “over his inappropriate and overreaching” declaration of a national emergency. Officials in other states, including California, have also said they plan to sue in an effort to block the order. Trump on Friday declared a national emergency at the U.S.-Mexico border calling it “a major entry point for criminals, gang members, and illicit narcotics” and one that threatens “core nat...
Mandy and Tom, my former sister-in-law and brother-in-law, recently came to visit. Except I don’t call them that because, when I divorced, Mandy announced: “Since you can’t be my sister-in-law anymore, you’ll have to be my sister!” That’s the kind of person Mandy is. Mandy hasn’t changed much in the 30-plus years I’ve known her. But four years ago, Tom had a major stroke. It was touch-and-go for a while and, when he did survive, the prognosis wasn’t good. The doctors didn’t know if he would ever walk or talk again. This was e...
Many people know the classic signs of a heart attack — terrible pain in the center of the chest that radiates out to the arms or jaw. But what you may not know is that for women, symptoms can be very different. February is American Heart Month, a great time to remind the Clovis community about heart disease and when to seek help. Heart disease includes several conditions. The most common, coronary artery disease, can cause heart attacks. Heart disease may seem more common among men, but it is actually the leading cause of d...
Turkish author Mehmet Murat ildan maybe said it best: "A good photograph never belongs to the past; every time you look at it, it is with you, it is alive and it is in the present moment." There is a room in the old Portales News-Tribune office filled with photos like that. Treasures from the room we've long called the "morgue" were found again in recent weeks as we consider what to do with thousands of the old photos in addition to thousands of old newspapers, newspaper clipp...
SANTA FE — A bill that would allow the use of medical cannabis at schools zoomed off the Senate floor Monday afternoon. Senate Bill 204, co-sponsored by Sens. Candace Gould, R-Albuquerque, and Jacob Candelaria, D-Albuquerque, and Rep. Gail Armstrong, R-Socorro, would allow children who are qualified patients to use the medicine in school settings and permit school personnel to administer it. With little discussion, 35 senators voted to pass and two did not. Gould told Senators the bill addresses the problem of students choosi...
SANTA FE — Buoyed by an oil drilling boom, New Mexico spending levels would hit an all-time high under a $7 billion budget plan approved Monday by a key House committee. The spending plan passed the House Appropriations and Finance Committee on a party-line 12-6 vote, with majority Democrats voting in favor and Republicans in opposition. The budget bill, which will likely be voted on by the full House later this week, would ramp up overall state spending by $684 million — or 10.8 percent — over current levels, with the state...
Today • Tiny Tots — 10 a.m., Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main St., Clovis. Information: 575-769-7840 • Preschool storytime “Hedgehog Huddle” — 10:30 a.m., Portales Public Library, 218 S. Ave. B, Portales. Information: 575-356-3940 • Stitch Addicts stitch group — 1:30-3 p.m., Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main St., Clovis. Information: 575-763-9687 • Young adult programming: “Game On: Xbox one free play and board games” — 4:30 p.m., Portales Public Library, 218 S. Ave. B, Portales. Open to ages 9-18. Informati...
Thursday • Curry County Health Council — 12-1 p.m., Commission Room, Curry County Administration Complex, 417 Gidding St., Clovis. Information: 575-763-6009 • Eastern New Mexico Water Utility Authority — 1 p.m., ENMWUA Offices, Sitterly Professional Center, 801 Pile Street, Clovis. Information: 575-935-4262 • DWI Task Force — 4 p.m., Commission Chambers, Curry County Administration Complex, 417 Gidding St., Clovis. Information: 575-763-6016 • Clovis city commission — 5:15 p.m., North Annex, Clovis-Carver Public Library,...
In Luke 5 we find the story of the calling of the first apostles. To get a little space from the crowd, Jesus has turned Simon Peter’s fishing boat into a pulpit, pushed out from the shore, teaching the people from the boat. When Jesus finishes speaking, he looks over at Simon and, I think, with a twinkle in his eye, he says, “OK, Simon, you’ve indulged me as I’ve turned your boat into a lectern. Whaddaya say we make it a boat again? Put out into the deep water and let down yo...
I’ll never understand how the output of the government’s court system passes for “justice.” If you ever find justice in a courtroom it will be a fluke; an accident. Justice doesn’t require government, or even laws. Those only obstruct justice. Justice is the attempt to return a victim to their pre-violation condition. Justice is made unnecessary by self-defense, which nips crime in the bud. Justice is mainly restitution, if self-defense fails. The state is never the victim, a...
Sound the alarm! We’ve got a national emergency on our hands! Well, it’s really more of a constitutional emergency, as President Trump has opened the door for all future emergency declarations to be defined by politics, not real threats to our health and safety. He has conjured up a national security crisis at our southern border and, in doing so, has opened a new world of absurd possibilities. Allow me to illustrate … Let’s start with hair. The way Americans have decided to comb, cut, style and color their hair these days is...
It’s become a perennial expectation that a senator or representative feels the need to tweak the lottery scholarship formula. They can’t stand to leave it alone. This year the honor has gone to Sen. Jacob Candelaria, D-Bernalillo. His Senate Bill 283 is titled as limiting the operational expenses and, if passed, it would do that. This is assuming no one comes along next year and changes the law again. History dictates, that is likely. However, it also removes the 30 percent of minimum revenue that would go toward sch...
I have three words for this weekend: chili, brisket, music. Chili and brisket are the main courses at two food-based fundraisers (my favorite kind) on tap for our area. The Kiwanis Club of Portales has been dishing up its “heart-healthy” chili for more than half a century. Volunteers will be tying on aprons in the kitchen in Portales’ First United Methodist Church, 200 S. Ave. C, Friday afternoon making the late George Calton’s recipe for the 55th time. Stop by the church...
