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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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SANTA FE — While the capital outlay and “junior” spending bills are far from set in stone, the current proposals contain considerable funds set to flow through eastern New Mexico. Each legislator was alloted at least $400,000 in the two junior bills, House Bill 548 and Senate Bill 536, a method of funding the state hasn’t seen since 2007. Rep. Randy Crowder, R-Clovis, who is a member of the House Appropriations and Finance Committee, said the junior bills were brought back this year due to excess funds from the oil and gas...
RIO RANCHO — Ramona Fossum scored 17 points, and Mescalero Apache upset top-seeded Texico 47-46 Tuesday in the state 2A quarterfinals at the Santa Ana Star Center. Fallon Velasquez added 14 and the go-ahead free throws for the Chiefs (23-7), who move on to a 6:30 p.m. Thursday semifinal against either Pecos or Lordsburg. Texico, which outscored Mescalero 21-11 in a furious fourth-quarter comeback, ends its season at 23-5. “They really didn’t do anything to us that should have caused us trouble,” Texico coach Richard Luscomb...
HOBBS — It wasn’t deja vu for the Clovis boys basketball team. A week after Clovis had beaten Hobbs on the road to win the District 4-5A tournament championship, the ninth-seeded Wildcats were defeated 78-67 by the eighth-seeded Eagles in Saturday night’s State 5A first-round game at Hobbs High School. Jalen Young scored 14 to lead five Eagles in double figures as Hobbs outlasted the ’Cats, whose season ended at 20-9. The teams had split their first four games of the season, most recently Clovis winning the 4-5A tournam...
CLOVIS - A Clovis man found guilty last year of his eighth intoxicated driving offense was sentenced Tuesday to the maximum of 12 years in the Department of Corrections. Randall Pruit, 55, apologized to the court and asked repeatedly for mercy from Judge Fred Van Soelen. He said he's "not the same guy" he was in years past, referring to the judge's enumeration of seven previous DWI convictions between 1990 and 2009. "You've seen me around town, sir, I've gone to shake your...
CLOVIS — The Clovis school district was one of several public entities targeted in a payroll phishing scam according to a press release from the state auditor’s office, but school officials said the scammers did not take any money. A press release last week from the office of State Auditor Brian Colon said Clovis Municipal Schools, along with the Public Education Department, Santa Fe Public Schools, New Mexico Military Institute, Bernalillo County and Central New Mexico Community College reported to the state auditor that the...
CLOVIS — First he drew the curtains, then he drew the gun. That’s when Sandra Reyna knew the masked man who walked into her salon Friday afternoon was there for money, not a hair appointment. “I thought somebody was joking with me at first,” she told The News. “I said, ‘Come on, get out.’” Reyna has run the business adjoining her home in northwest Clovis four days a week for about 10 years and never had any issues. That’s until last week anyway, when she was seeing to a client and a young man entered and locked the door b...
Booked The following were booked into local jails Friday-Monday: Clovis • Joshua Martinez, 41, probation violation, possession of marijuana or synthetic, driving while license suspended or revoked, failure to pay fines • Randall Cain, 26, driving under the influence, no insurance • Monica Garcia, 36, failure to pay fines, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge • Dean Anderson, 29, shoplifting, receiving/transferring stolen motor vehicles, robbery, burglary of a vehicle • Joshua Hutson, 38, parole violation • Ty Tatum, 22,...
CLOVIS — Be ready, eastern New Mexico. The wind is coming. The city of Clovis issued an advisory Tuesday of what it calls a “highly complex and potentially historic storm system that will impact New Mexico for the next 36-48 hours.” The expected conditions include fast-moving thunderstorms capable of hail up to baseball-sized, damaging wind and a small chance of tornadoes in east central and southeast New Mexico. Gusts of up to 75 mph are expected across much of central and eastern New Mexico on Wednesday. Elsewhere aroun...
SANTA FE — A meeting of district attorneys to review Clovis’ officer-involved deadly force incident from October was once again postponed, this time from March 7 to Thursday. 10th Judicial District Attorney Rick Tedrow told The News on Tuesday that last week’s meeting was pushed because one of the prosecutors of the three assigned to review the case was delayed by a trial. This is the second time this month the meeting has been rescheduled. After reviewing state police’s case of the October 2018 incident, the panel is expe...
PITTSBURG, Kan. — Eastern New Mexico junior Ivar Moinat finished seventh in Division II Saturday, running the championship heat of the 800-meter at 1:51.25. Moinat’s race, which compiled two points for the men’s track team, concluded the Greyhound track season. The outdoor season begins March 23 with the ENMU Greyhound Open. Thomas Straines of Colorado State Pueblo, also a junior, led wire-to-wire in the event and finished at 1:48.64. On Friday, Moinat took third place in what turned out to be the fast heat. His time of 1:...
CLOVIS — A Clovis man was sentenced Monday to 16 years in prison through a plea agreement involving three cases originating almost exactly a year earlier. Brandon Wagner, 33, pleaded no contest to two counts of aggravated assault on a healthcare worker, a third-degree felony. According to court records, Wagner returned days late from a court-approved furlough in late March of 2018 and during intake was seen swallowing an item of contraband that he’d concealed in his person. He was taken to a hospital bed in the Intensive Car...
TEXICO - Saturday was a night of firsts and lasts for Texico's boys basketball team. The fourth-seeded Wolverines took their first step up the state-tournament ladder by defeating 13th-seeded Menaul 63-50, but did so in their last home game of the season. From here on out, any time Texico still has a game to play it will be in the Albuquerque area. "It'll be nice to get up there and play in a different environment," Wolverines head coach Ty Thatcher said. "It's an exciting...
PORTALES - For the Eastern New Mexico women's basketball team, Sunday night's viewing party at Greyhound Arena had to feel like waiting for Christmas Day, as region after region found out its Division II national tournament fate while the Green and Silver fans waited. Finally, the South Central Region showed up on the screen, and a small cheer emanated when the Greyhounds learned they'd made the 64-team field for the second time in three years. The Greyhounds (19-10) received...
They called him Willie Glen, Bill, W.G., or sometimes just Agent. Based on his four decades of service, Roosevelt County Agriculture Extension Agent Willie Glen Vinzant was called on a lot. • In late September 1937, he had good news to report to the media: broomcorn, tomatoes, sweet potatoes and peanuts were all looking better than they usually did around here that time of year. • In 1946, Vinzant announced good news for farmers and ranchers with critter problems. A district agent for New Mexico’s Predatory and Rodent Contr...
I am a mess around dogs lately. My dog, Milo, died last year. My husband, Peter, and I decided that, given the travel we do, getting a new dog was not a sensible thing to do. (Although I’m not sure what being sensible has to do with dogs.) So, I am without a pet and — while it is sensible — it is also a little lonely. But nearly every day on my walk I encounter a dog and, while I feel a little sorry for the dog’s owner, it’s not my fault: I need my dog fix. I recently read an advice column (you don’t want to know how many ad...
Gerrymandering unfair to rural counties There are 33 counties in New Mexico. But just a few populous counties are forcing their radical leftist views on gun control, taxes, Christianity, and abortion on the rural, more conservative areas. In 2011, $8 million was spent to create 70 new legislative districts in the state. Ignoring their own guidelines, lawmakers created 25 districts in just the Albuquerque metro area. This left rural districts, two as large as 180 miles, with one GOP rep each. Historically, this is called...
On this date ... 1979: Clovis newspaper ads on this date included: • Chicken fry steak dinner for $2.59 from Sirloin Stockade, located at 218 E. Mabry Drive. That was the Wednesday special. • Jim’s Texaco at First and Prince was offering an oil change, oil filter and wash job for $16.95. Jim’s was formerly known as Bart’s Texaco. • The full meal special deal — two pieces of chicken, potatoes and gravy, corn on the cob, a roll and cherry pie — was $1.88 at Kentucky Fried Chicken. The restaurant was at 2113 N. Main. • Diamond...
“Come,” invites the Psalmist of old, “let us sing for joy to the Lord; let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation. Let us come before him with thanksgiving and extol him with music and song.” (95:1-2). C.S. Lewis writes, “I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation.” Some years ago my wife and I were in New Orleans where she was attending a training conference....
Trump. Climate change. Liberals. Conservatives. Socialists. Capitalists. Bet you don’t think any of these charged-up words are funny, but maybe you should. Recently I heard a segment on NPR’s Morning Edition connecting anger and humor, part of a series called, “The Other Side of Anger.” I found it familiar to my upbringing and how I’ve been conditioned to cope with the stresses of life. “All comedy starts with anger,” the NPR piece quotes Jerry Seinfeld saying, before delving into how stand-up comedy turns anger into la...
It’s interesting to me how many people want their own rights respected, while also wanting other people’s rights to be violated. People who want their rights as gun owners respected often advocate a massive government welfare program, carried out through taxation and land theft, in order to build a border wall, which violates the right of association and the right of people to move about freely. They also demand a police state where you can be stopped and checked for your pap...
The biannual shifting of the clocks took place Sunday morning, and you may be a little discombobulated. The transition to daylight saving time each March means losing the extra hour of night we enjoyed when the clocks shifted back four months earlier, and it can take a while for sleep schedules to adjust. If the twice-a-year clock-resetting leaves you grumpy, you’re not alone; there’s a growing global movement to end this pointless and, frankly, weird 20th century tradition that has persisted despite having no real practical...
“Digital Learning Day 2019” — information at digitallearningday.org — was Feb. 28. Digital learning is basically incorporating technology into the learning process to enhance learning and instruction. It includes a wide range of technology, from software to devices to strategies. While a number of our school sites participated in DLD, Clovis High School centralized some of its digital activities in the CHS Library. Librarian Jenny Jeffery set up stations with some “makers...
Today • Tiny Tots — 10 a.m., Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main St., Clovis. Information: 575-769-7840 • Teens and Tweens spring break programming: “Stop Motion Storytelling: Make Your Own Movie!” — 2 p.m., Portales Public Library, 218 S. Ave. B, Portales. Open to ages 9-18. Information: 575-356-3940 Thursday • Preschool storytime — 10 a.m., Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main St., Clovis. Information: 575-769-7840 • Teens and Tweens spring break programming: “Movie Madness: A Wrinkle in Time” — 2 p.m., Portales...
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 • Clovis Municipal Schools board — 5:30 p.m., Board Room, Central Office, Clovis Municipal School District, 1009 Main St., Clovis. Information: 575-769-4300 • Portales City Council — 6:30 p.m., Memorial Building, 200 E. 7th St., Portal...
CLOVIS — The United Way of Eastern New Mexico is seeking nominations for its Patricia Bazar Community Volunteer of the Year Award, accoding to a press release from the United Way. The award was created to honor individuals who broadly volunteer across the community following Bazar’s death in 2017, who volunteered for the Clovis Ministerial Alliance, El Desayuno Kiwanis, Clovis Chamber of Commerce ambassadors, The Lighthouse Mission and the Clovis Music Festival. The winner will be honored at the United Way of Eastern New Mex...
