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CLOVIS - A multi-million dollar area-wide pipeline project stretching back over half a century broke ground Tuesday on the first phase of its Interim Ground Water Project. With a price tag over $28.6 million, Finished Water 2 has been a major focus of the Eastern New Mexico Water Utility Authority since 2016, when it completed the Phase 1 project of a $14 million intake structure at the Ute Reservoir in Quay County. That facility was named for Darrel Bostwick, who had...
TUCUMCARI — Melrose’s girls basketball team still has goals ahead, but Saturday night the Lady Buffaloes reached a big one. By defeating Logan 64-47 in a District 6-1A tiebreaker game at neutral Tucumcari High School, the Lady Buffs won the regular-season district championship. Saturday’s game became necessary after both teams finished their regularly-scheduled district slate with 7-1 records and split their regular-season, non-tournament games 1-1. Each beat the other at home, with Melrose winning 48-45 on Jan. 24 and Logan...
DESSA, Texas — The Eastern New Mexico rodeo team picked up 2019 right where it left off in 2018, putting nine of its competitors in the final round of competition Saturday at the Odessa College Rodeo. The women’s team scored 50 points to finish in ninth place overall, while the men were 13th with 35 points in the first rodeo of the spring semester for both teams. The total short-go qualifiers — six women and three men — was the highest total for the Greyhounds so far this ye...
DENTON, Texas — Eastern New Mexico posted its first sweep of Texas Woman’s University in 17 years Sunday, as the Greyhounds posted four runs in the seventh to seal a 6-1 victory in Sunday’s series finale. Kimberly Herron improved to 4-3 on the year, and pitched two of the Greyhounds’ three complete game victories as the Greyhounds (7-7, 3-3) moved to .500 in Lone Star Conference play for the first time this season. The Greyhounds swept a doubleheader held Saturday, winning...
For our students who qualify for gifted education, there are a variety of events and resources available. Recent conversations with our district’s Gifted and Talented (GT) Liaison, Annette Walton, revealed the details of the overall program. According to the National Association for Gifted Children, “… gifted education varies widely across the United States.” One of their goals is to “support those who enhance the growth and development of GT students through education...
SANTA FE — A panel of district attorneys is scheduled to meet Friday to review the Oct. 8 officer-involved deadly shooting in Clovis. Officials said they are meeting to decide if criminal charges should be filed in connection with the case. The panel is comprised of District Attorneys Marco Serna, Francesca Martinez-Estevez and Tim Rose of the 1st, 6th, and 10th judicial districts, respectively. They are slated to meet in Santa Fe at the administrative office of the state’s District Attorney’s Association, said Rick Tedro...
PORTALES - Dozens of high school students were punching and hitting each other on the Eastern New Mexico University campus on Friday. But don't worry. It wasn't part of an underground fight club. The violence was pretend, part of the 64th annual high school drama festival, which drew a little over 400 students from all around the state to take part in the student-sponsored event that provides critiques, workshops, audition and scholarship opportunities for high school drama...
On this date ... 1959: Headlines from the Feb. 27, 1959, issue of the Clovis News-Journal, which sold for 5 cents. • Seven candidates were running for the “five-man” Dora School District board of directors. Candidates were Elton Parkinson, Dale Greathouse, Odell Smith, Top Preuit, K.C. Victor, Wayne Evans, and L.C. Gaines. • New York Yankees slugger Mickey Mantle ended his spring training holdout by signing a one-year contract for $80,000 — a $5,000 raise from 1958. The Yankees initially offered the switch-hitting outfielde...
CLOVIS - The trial continues this week for a man arrested last year in the 2017 shooting death of a man at the Clovis Apartments. Darryl Turner II, 31, is charged with second-degree murder for the Sept. 5, 2017, killing of David McDonald. A jury consisting of four women and 10 men was selected Monday morning and heard opening arguments that afternoon followed by testimony from three Clovis Police Department officers. "People were doing things they ought not to have been...
CLOVIS — Curry County’s newest district 1 commissioner will be a familiar face. Robert Sandoval was appointed by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham to fill the vacancy on Monday. Sandoval was a county commissioner for eight years, from 2006 to 2014, when he was term-limited from running again. He was also appointed to the Clovis City Commission in 2003 following the death of Robert Moreno and served until his retirement in 2016, winning three re-election bids. “The Governor believes Robert O. Sandoval had the best credentials out o...
Booked The following were booked into local jails Friday-Monday: Clovis • Irak Arce-Barreras, 34, failure to pay fines • Matthew Blanton, 52, probation violation • Ozieano Ortiz, 18, resisting, evading or obstructing an officer • Christopher Montoya, 27, probation violation • Jonathan Gutierrez, 32, failure to pay fines, probation violation • Sammy Deleon, 32, probation violation • Bryan Elam, 23, aggravated driving while under the influence, no insurance, stop or yield intersection • Christopher Schufelberger,...
SANTA FE — A bill that would make New Mexico the 11th state in the nation to legalize recreational marijuana use is headed to the full House for the first time in state history after passing its second committee hurdle Saturday. An alternative bill with bipartisan support is also advancing on the Senate side. Backers of both measures say it’s inevitable that New Mexico will eventually legalize recreational marijuana use, citing the trend of other states enacting such laws and polls that have shown broad public support for...
SANTA FE — Competing proposals to raise New Mexico’s statewide minimum wage for the first time in a decade are moving forward in the state Senate. And they’re becoming more alike as they move along, with the potential for still further negotiation. “Try to find some middle ground,” Sen. Gerald Ortiz y Pino, D-Albuquerque, urged the bills’ sponsors Saturday. Both measures passed the Senate Public Affairs Committee — of which Ortiz y Pino is chairman — and now head to another Senate committee, potentially their last stop befor...
SANTA FE — Democrats in the state House are moving forward with a complex proposal to overhaul New Mexico’s tax system and raise about $323 million a year for government operations and road projects. The legislation, House Bill 6, would raise taxes on cigarettes and motor vehicle sales, reshape the personal income tax system so higher earners would pay more, and impose taxes on all online retailers that sell to New Mexico residents. The bill would also reduce some taxes — doubling a tax credit for “working familie...
The fine arts folks at Eastern New Mexico University have quite a weekend in store for us: an eerie play by a hometown playwright, a poignant musical about the Titanic, and an afternoon of music from the symphonic band and wind ensembles. Portales native Leonard Madrid’s play, “Las Aranas” (“The Spiders”) opens Thursday for a four-show run on the main stage in the University Theater Center. High school students at ENMU’s annual DramaFest got a sneak peek last week, and t...
It’s very nearly as weird-feeling as it is heart-rending — a day when you wake up and realize it’s just another ordinary day for most of the world around you, but your whole world has tilted in its orbit, shifted on its axis. For you, almost nothing feels the same, and even the things that do, don’t. Their very sameness in this new universe renders them incredibly strange. You brush your teeth just like you always have. Part your hair in the same place. Take your keys off the...
Billie Ruth Atchley was a waitress at the newly opened Trails Coffee Shop and Restaurant in 1957 when soon-to-be country music legend Johnny Cash came in and ordered a cup of coffee. The coffee cost a dime. The memory lasted a lifetime. "He left her a dollar tip, a silver dollar, which bought some groceries," said Raymond Atchley, Billie Ruth's son. "She was impressed," he said. Clovis newspaper archives show Cash was in town on May 30, 1957, for two performances with Bob...
Getting my hair cut has never been one of my favorite things. But lately it’s been worse than usual because the town I live in has a shortage of hair stylists and I have a shortage of hair. In order to get a haircut, I had to make an appointment weeks in advance. I was complaining about this to my husband, Peter. He said, (as he always does) “I’ll cut your hair!” “Right.” When the big day of the appointment arrived, I was asked to fill out a full page of questions about my hair styling goals (I had none) and my body shape....
Tom and Louise Snell operated the Bible Book Store at 101 W. Fifth St. in Clovis for about 15 years. Fifty years ago this week they were featured in the Clovis News-Journal’s “Business Review & Forecast” page, where “Every Business Has a Story To Tell.” The Snells’ story began with a welcome to area residents interested in looking over their many new books and Bibles, sermon outlines, commentaries, Bible dictionaries and children’s books. Bible Book Store also sold church supplies. The store’s newspaper ad offered a perso...
ST. VRAIN - Curry County ranchers Wyatt and LaShawna Young aren't trying to get your goat - their nanny gave birth to five kids last Thursday morning. For city dwellers among us, goats generally give birth to twins, though single and triplet births are also common. Five at a time is rare. Guinessworldrecords.com reports the record is six, though an Arizona woman claims her goat had seven kids earlier this month. The Youngs mostly run cattle on their spread west of Clovis....
Today • Tiny Tots — 10 a.m., Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main St., Clovis. Information: 575-769-7840 • Preschool storytime “On the Move” — 10:30 a.m., Portales Public Library, 218 S. Ave. B, Portales. Information: 575-356-3940 • Comedian Kevin Bozeman — 7 p.m., Ballroom, ENMU Campus Union Building, ENMU, Portales. Sponsored by ENMU Office of African-American Affairs. Free. Information: 575-562-2347 • Food drive — 8 a.m.-5 p.m., Wheatfields Senior Living Community, 4701 N. Prince, Clovis. Bring non-perishable food...
Move over marijuana. Your straight cousin is about to become the latest cash cow for agriculture in America. In case you missed it, the biggest news to come out of the 2018 Farm Bill is the federal legalization of hemp, a cannabis species that doesn’t get you high. The legislation, signed into law in December, sets up a structure for regulating commercial or “industrial” hemp in a way that will encourage its growth nationwide. Before this latest farm bill’s passage, more than 20 states had already legalized the product...
It was once a common theme in science fiction humor for a flying saucer to land in front of witnesses, with little green men coming out to say: “Take us to your leader.” If this happened to you, to whom would you take them? Do you have a leader, and if so, who? Most people seem to think of a politician in this case — perhaps a president — but who in their right mind wants to follow a politician? Why would they? It’s similar to the mistake of looking to politicians as role m...
The Supreme Court last week struck a blow against one of the most insidious practices of the American criminal justice system: the unfair confiscation of property from people convicted — or even merely suspected — of committing a crime. So-called civil asset forfeiture has been a cash cow for police departments even as it has disproportionately impoverished poor people and people of color. The court unanimously held that seizures by state governments of property used in the commission of a crime are covered by the Eighth Ame...
Monday • Portales Municipal Schools board — 6 p.m., Board Room, L.C. Cozzens Administrative Offices, 501 S. Abilene, Portales. Information: 575-356-7000 Tuesday • Curry County Commission — 9 a.m., Commission Chambers, Curry County Administration Complex, 417 Gidding St., Clovis. Information: 575-763-6016 • Roosevelt County Commission — 9 a.m., Commission Room, Roosevelt County Courthouse, 109 W. First St., Portales. Information: 575-356-5307 • Eastern New Mexico University Regents work session — 10 a.m., Cedar Room, Hil...
