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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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CLOVIS — Curry County will feature four contested primary races this summer following Tuesday’s filing date. Magistrate Judge Division 1 will feature a pair of contested races in the primary — Democrats are Nicole Roybal and Terry Martin, and Republicans are Keith Farkas and Janemarie Vander Dussen. Four candidates also filed for the Magistrate Judge Division 2 position the primary will be the only contested race as Donald Sawyer, Stephen Whittington, Sean Martinez and Sean Burns are all Republicans. The only other conte...
PORTALES - Four unearned runs marred Portales baseball in the Rams' season opener against Clovis on Tuesday afternoon. The Wildcats took advantage of Ram mistakes, and used strong pitching to take a 7-0 victory for their seventh win on the young season. "Very proud of Sebastian (Nunez) and Garrett (Langrell)," Clovis coach Richard Cruce said of his pitchers. "They came out and threw a lot of strikes. That's what we talk about doing is pounding the zone early and being able to...
CLOVIS - For the Clovis softball team, there will be other days. Better ones, the Lady Wildcats hope. But there's only one home opener, and that didn't go as well as the Lady 'Cats would've liked when they hosted Borger on Tuesday afternoon and fell 12-1 at Lady Wildcat Field. Things began well enough, with the game scoreless through two innings and Clovis starting pitcher Celeste Chavez working out of trouble in both. But then, Wildcat errors surfaced, the Borger bats started...
The New Mexico Senior Olympics is accepting registrations for Indian Game Day April 4-5 at Santa Fe Indian School. All Native American Elders are invited to attend. There will be two days of training and conditioning along with the competition. Available sports include archery, basketball (3-point/free throw/hot shot), field, hunchas, power walk, 5K road race, shuffleboard, soccer kick accuracy, softball distance throw and track. Registration is $15 and due Friday. A sack lunch will be provided. Information:...
CLOVIS — A truck plowed through a fence and spun around in the front lawn of a Clovis residence Monday night, sending two of its occupants to the hospital and prompting renewed concerns over hazardous driving conditions in the neighborhood. Clovis Fire Chief Mike Nolen said responders were dispatched around 8:45 p.m. that night to a report of a single-vehicle collision on the 2400 block of Axtell Street. “The vehicle had missed the turn and wound up in a pipe fence,” Nolen said, referring to a curve in the road near the i...
CLOVIS — Three days after a two-car crash left two dead, the Clovis Police Department has not reported any new developments in the investigation. Clovis Police Chief Doug Ford said in an email to The News the incident remains under investigation, and that the department was waiting on information from the Office of the Medical Investigator. No charges have been filed in the crash, which happened just after noon Saturday at the intersection of 21st and Sycamore streets. Tara Williams and Corey McKenna, both of Clovis, died i...
On this date ... 1988: The 900 residents of Truchas, New Mexico, had been invited by director Robert Redford to be guests at the first showing of the film, "The Milagro Beanfield War," which was set to premiere in Santa Fe a few days later. Many of the town's residents appeared as extras in the film and others worked on the set during the month Redford and his crew spent in Truchas in 1986 doing the film adaption of the John Nichols novel. Redford had first planned to film...
Once again, we are approaching the time of year when we celebrate Clovis High School graduates who have gone out into the world and excelled in their fields. Organized by the Clovis Municipal Schools Education Foundation, this special event has been held for a number of years at the Clovis Civic Center. The Education Foundation strongly believes it is not only an opportunity to celebrate noteworthy alumni, but also to showcase examples of excellence for our current students,...
The people have spoken: Chile looks good on a plate, dinner or license. New Mexico’s iconic peppers are featured prominently on a new state license plate that debuted this year, and the Automobile License Collectors Association was so impressed by it that it was given the distinction of America’s Best License Plate for 2017. In a statement on the ALCS website, Best Plate Award Coordinator Gus Oliver said New Mexico “won by a huge margin.” “About half of those voting chose this plate as one of their three picks,” he said. Ou...
Booked The following were booked into local jails Monday through Tuesday: Clovis • Michael Lujan, 23, unlawful carrying of a deadly weapon, possession of drug paraphernalia • Jessica Garcia, 33, failure to pay fines, failure to appear on a felony charge • Marco Montiel, 26, failure to pay fines • Geraldo McCain, 30, failure to appear on a felony charge • Andrew Colla, 27, possession of marijuana, dangerous drugs, possession of drug paraphernalia • Ethan McDaniel, 28, failure to appear at time and place stated in citation ...
PORTALES — Roosevelt County’s 2018 primary election will have three contested races, with only Republicans signing up to run for countywide positions. As of the 5 p.m. filing day deadline, the magistrate judge race had the most interest with four candidates: Christopher Mitchell, James Southard, Jimmy Parrish, and Michelle Bargas. Mitchell, who was waiting for the ballot draw just after 5 p.m., said he was inspired to run so he could “expand my service to a finite group of people to a much larger group of people in the area....
CLOVIS - In an attempt to fill the void brought on by spring break, Curry County Youth Services and the Three7Project, a local nonprofit, are once again teaming up for day camp 2018. Three7Project Executive Director Mitch Gray said the day camp, now in its sixth year, started as a way to give kids something to do during the week off from school. "Really it began because a lot of kids don't have much to do during spring break," Gray said. "Parents still have to work so a lot...
Today • Clovis Local Emergency Planning Committee Exercise, Design and Planning Committee — 2:30 p.m. at the Bert Cabiness City Government Center, 321 N. Connelly St. Information: 575-769-7828 • Elida Village Council — 6 p.m. at Elida City Hall, 704 Clark St., Elida. Information: 575-274-6465 Thursday • Clovis City Commission — 5:15 p.m. in the north annex of the Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main St., Clovis. Information: 575-769-7828 Tuesday • Curry County Commission — 9 a.m. at the Curry County Commission Cham...
Today • All Day Game Day — All day at Portales Public Library. Xbox One games and board games available all day. Information: 575-356-3940 • Spring Break Showtime — 10:30 a.m. at Portales Public Library. Movie: “Despicable Me 3.” Information: 575-356-3940 Thursday • Preschool Storytime — 10 a.m. at Clovis-Carver Public Library. Information: 575-769-7840 • StoryCorps Press Conference — 11:30 a.m. at the Eastern New Mexico University Administration Building. Attendees can tour the mobile recording unit, learn more about St...
There are three topics which come up frequently in libertarian writings: guns, drugs, and national borders. The reason is those three areas are where the people of America seem willing to let government do the most damage to rightful liberty, just to punish other people. All three are hot buttons for almost everyone, with people on each side screaming at those on the other. It’s why those three topics keep coming up, not because I’m a broken record (does anyone still get the...
Has the United States — which has generally been a champion of free trade since World War II — been the victim of unfair trading practices by other nations? Certainly. It’s neither new or particularly unusual for nations to subsidize industries to try to get footholds in world markets. By example, over the past 20 years, China has gone from being a marginal maker of steel and aluminum to producing roughly half the world’s output of both metals — undercutting companies in other nations that can’t subsidize sales. This practi...
