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Clovis attorney and state Rep. Andrea Reeb on Tuesday said she’s stepping down as a special prosecutor in the criminal case tied to the 2021 fatal shooting on the set of the movie “Rust.” Last month, defense attorneys for actor Alec Baldwin said Reeb’s role as a lawmaker was in conflict with her position as a special prosecutor and sought to have her removed from the case. At the time, a spokeswoman for Reeb and district attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies said prosecutors’ focus would always “remain on ensuring that justice is ser...
CLOVIS – Roswell Goddard scored early and often on Tuesday night and the Lady Rockets swept a non-district softball doubleheader from Clovis High 21-5 and 28-17. The losses dropped the Lady Cats to 1-6 for the season. "It just takes a while," first-year CHS coach Johnny Saiz said. "Both games were competitive. We couldn't keep up with the way they were hitting." In Game 1, the Lady Rockets (2-3) opened a 15-3 lead with an 11-run second. The game ended in four innings on the 1...
PORTALES – After a gut-wrenching loss in Thursday's series opener at Greyhound Field, Eastern New Mexico University's baseball team couldn't afford any more shenanigans in Friday's Lone Star Conference doubleheader against last-place Cameron. ENMU eked out a 3-2 win in the first of two seven-inning contests on Friday, then finally broke loose a bit late in Game 2 en route to a 10-4 victory over the Aggies. The Greyhounds (10-13, 8-13 LSC) went into Saturday's finale seeking a...
SAN ANGELO, Texas – After nearly blowing a bases-loaded, none-out chance in the top of the third, Eastern New Mexico University’s softball team did some big-time clutch hitting with two out and put another long losing streak to bed. Leading 2-1 at the time, the Greyhounds got an infield RBI single from junior shortstop Victoria Contreras, a two-run double from senior center fielder Azalea Martinez and a two-run single from senior second baseman Jokaira Paredes to open a six-run lead en route to a 9-5 Lone Star Conference vic...
On this date ... 1950: B&J Drug Co., at 104 NW Colorado in Portales, was preparing for its half-century sale. Advertised deals included electric hair dryers for $4.49, Pangburn’s chocolates for $1 and phonograph records for 39 cents. 1955: E. Sweet, who operated the state-recognized Billy the Kid Museum on Highway 60, estimated 10 parties per day were stopping to remember the West’s most infamous outlaw. Sweet was disappointed the Kid’s gravesite south of town was covered in weeds and brush. “It’s a shame they’ve let it go l...
Starting Wednesday, Seventh Street will be closed between Ross and North Main Streets for five months. K. Barnett and Sons, the construction company that has been working on the Seventh Street Reconstruction from Prince Street to Maple Street, is in “Phase C.” Project Engineer Daniel Lyons said, “We’re putting in a new storm drain system for the city.” However, the work doesn’t end there. Lyons said they are also working on new pavement, sidewalks, and curbs. For reference, Lyons said that the entire project, when it’s c...
Eastern New Mexico University (ENMU) announced Thursday that Director of Bands, Dustin Seifert, was recently inducted into the American Bandmasters Association (ABA). This being something Seifert described as the highest professional honor in his field. According to a press release from the university, Seifert said receiving this honor “is the culmination of a year-long process involving nomination and sponsorship by current members, the submission of performance recordings, and a review of his musical works.” Seifert has...
Booked The following were booked into local jail (Tuesday - Friday): Clovis • Crystal Perrine, 43, failure to appear on a felony charge • Travis Finch, 31, aggravated indecent exposure, indecent exposure • Freddie Romero, 50, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge • Kristopher Morris, 27, failure to pay fines • Lisa Hall, 36, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge • Juan Mendoza, 39, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge • Jacquelyn Ramirez, 36, aggravated driving while under the influence of intoxicating liquor or any...
In their regular meeting Tuesday, the Portales City Council discussed a grant that would provide a stipend for officers in the Portales Police Department. This would help keep officers in Portales longer and combat staffing shortages. City Manager Sarah Austin presented a resolution that would accept the grant fund total of $525,000. She said Portales Police Chief Christopher Williams and other police chiefs in the state were able to get this funding from Santa Fe for their departments for the retention and recruitment of...
The National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL) says, “Remember, tornadoes can happen at any time of the year.” While the NSSL in Norman, Oklahoma, a division of The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), says on their website tornado season in New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma and Texas is from May until early June, the tornado that hit Clovis that killed two people, injured 33 and caused $16.5 million in property damage happened March 23, 2007. The National Weather Service (NWS), another division of NOAA, also has...
CLOVIS – Patrick Lucero has been promoted to the position of manager for community and economic development in Xcel Energy’s Clovis district. According to a news release from Xcel area spokesman Wes Reeves, Lucero is succeeding David Essex who is retiring in April after more than 37 years of service. Lucero is presently manager for substation operations and maintenance in Clovis. He joined the company 11 years ago as a working foreman in the substation department. “Patrick has spent more than a decade serving our custo...
Cannon Air Force Base near Clovis is home to MQ-9 drone aircraft like the one that crashed into the Black Sea after an encounter with Russian aircraft on Tuesday. But neither Cannon aircraft nor personnel were involved in the incident, according to a Cannon subject-matter expert on MQ-9s. The drone that was downed was not stationed at Cannon and was not piloted from Cannon, according to Lt. Col. Christopher Cornish. Cornish wrote in an email that the MQ-9A Reaper is one of...
What is being built at 2300 Mabry Drive just east of the Sleep Inn hotel in Clovis? That’s going to be the new home for Clovis’ Hyundai dealership, said Shawn Hamilton, spokesman for the Hamilton Auto Group. “The building that we’re in was built in the late 1960s,” Hamilton said of the Hyundai site east of the planned new location. “If you walk through the place it’s pretty wore out.” Hamilton said the Hyundai Motor Company has been “on us” to build a new facility. “They’ve been going for a similar look for their dealerships...
CCC already has qualified person for president position If I read the paper correctly, Robin Jones has been executive vice president for some time, and interim president at Clovis Community College since Aug 8. Why do we need to seek other people for the president’s job when we already have a qualified person to fill this position? She has lived in the community for many years, has worked at the community college for many years, and seems to have the experience to be the president. It always bothers me when a person succeeds...
Presumably, Donald Trump will never produce the dark secrets promised about Ron DeSantis’ past. But his team thinks it already has one -- the Florida governor once was a Reagan Republican. “There’s a pre-Trump Ron and there’s a post-Trump Ron,” someone in the Trump camp told Axios. “He used to be a Reagan Republican. That’s where he comes from. He’s now awkwardly trying to square his views up with the populist nationalist feeling of that party.” In his CPAC speech doubling d...
The late Cardinal Joseph Bernardin embraced a philosophy that perfectly captures the official Catholic position on human value: the “consistent ethic of life,” more commonly known as the “seamless garment.” Bernardin’s philosophy came to mind recently, after six Pennsylvania representatives proposed a bill that would allow the terminally ill to “choose” what they term “death with dignity.” The legislators – all Democrats but one – noted that advancements in modern medicine ha...
It was 2016 and my brother Don called from Tennessee. It was primary election day there and he wanted to talk about it. He started with praise for a renegade candidate running on the Republican ticket, the billionaire businessman Donald Trump. He said he kind of liked his tactless approach to the issues of the day. I went off on him. “He’s a liar and a cheat,” I summarily declared before itemizing all the reasons I felt Trump would make a terrible president. But my brother cut me off. “Hey, I didn’t say I voted for him,” he s...
How concerned are you when it looks like the banking system is teetering on the verge of collapse? Do looming nationwide economic disasters worry you? Banks are encouraged, perhaps even required, to follow government’s poor financial policies. Sometimes this is going to come back to bite them and hurt their customers. It’s smart to have alternatives. It’s fine to keep using government’s money -- the equivalent of Monopoly “money,” if you know what money is -- as long as it...
Approximately two months ago, the Seymour Hersh article, “How America Took Out the Nord Stream Pipeline” appeared on Substack. No major newspaper chose to publish this extensive, detailed look at one of the most shocking acts of terrorism since the destruction of the Twin Towers. More recently, articles have appeared in the “New York Times,” “The Washington Post” and “The Times” (used to be “The Times of London,”) from a variety of authors alleging that a different set of ac...
Farmers know a thing or two about stewardship. If they don’t take care of their land, eventually it will cost them their livelihoods. Unlike farmers, who work to steadily build a better future, Vikings would plunder villages, taking all they could carry away before moving on to their next target. President Joe Biden’s budgets take the latter approach, going after more and more of the American people’s hard-earned treasure every year. Last year, his budget sought an additional $2.5 trillion in taxes beyond the $55.8 trill...
Curry County Commissioners voted Tuesday to pass a resolution opposing the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s (FWS) final rule to list the Lesser Prairie Chicken (LPC) as an endangered species. The commission wrote in their resolution, “Curry County has limited areas designated by past current maps and has not received proposed maps of the nesting and or proposed nesting or habitat areas for the LPC in Curry County.” The resolution stated that listing the bird as an endangered species “will create a wide range of adverse...
A 15-year-old boy has been charged with involuntary manslaughter in connection with last weekend’s shooting death of another teen in Roosevelt County. Court records show the unnamed suspect said he was cleaning his gun the night of March 10 when it fired inside a residence on South Roosevelt Road 3. The victim’s grandmother said she heard the gunshot and found her grandson, Nehemiah Montano, in the den of the home “holding his stomach,” records show. Nehemiah was transported to Roosevelt General Hospital by his grandfa...
It's hard to think of many folks who have had a longer active association with Eastern New Mexico University than Buck Wilson of Portales. From the time he arrived on campus as a sophomore transfer student from the University of New Mexico in 1957 (and except for a few years away for military service and completing a dental degree), Wilson's life has been intertwined with Eastern's. "His nearly 70 years of 'bleeding green' has permanently enshrined Buck Wilson in our Hall of...
Technology will soon be helping police crack down on speeders in Portales. And violators can expect to see citations arriving in the mail before the year is out. Police Chief Chris Williams said the city will be installing about 10 radar-video cameras around town sometime this fall. The camera can read time and distance and will take a picture of the signage as well as the violator vehicle and license plate, Williams said. Speeders caught in the act can expect to receive a letter in the mail about a week after the violation....
SANTA FE – Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Thursday morning signed into law House Bill 7, the Reproductive and Gender-Affirming Health Care Act. The action may nullify ordinances passed by the Clovis City Commission and Roosevelt County Commission designed to discourage abortion in those communities. The law prohibits public bodies from denying, restricting, or discriminating against an individual's right to use or refuse reproductive health care or health care related to g...
