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Editor’s note: This is the third in a series of stories looking at Clovis Municipal Schools plans for closure and repurposing. The series will continue over the next three weeks. Among the changes proposed by Clovis Municipal schools in their Facilities Master Plan is the moving of the CMS Freshman Academy to the campus of Clovis High School. Some local residents seem to support the proposal. Michelle Bjorklund had two of her three children recently attend the Freshman Academy. “I wish they would have done it sooner. My kid...
Portales City Council members voted 6-2 on Tuesday to terminate the contract of City Manager Sarah Austin. Council members went into executive session for about 30 minutes before voting. Veronica Cordova and Eldon Merrick opposed Austin's termination. The other six Council members voted for termination "without cause." Austin and Council members all declined comment. Austin was placed on paid administrative leave last week. She said she was not given a reason for the action. It wasn't immediately clear whether Austin will be...
Spring fever is in full bloom at Head Acres, evidenced by tissue boxes, allergy meds and decongestants. There are also dozens of little plantlets growing in cut-down toilet tissue holders, and peat cups scattered around the house. They all look alike to me, but my husband Wayne can tell me what’s in each little set. We’ve tried longer than not to get tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers of all kinds, and various other veggies to grow with fair to little success. The other day, Way...
Eastern New Mexico University's track squads hosted their first home meet since 2019 with the Greyhound Invite on Saturday at Greyhound Stadium. The meet was a triangular, also including Wayland Baptist and Hardin-Simmons, and no team scores were kept. Final results in some of the events were not available as of Tuesday morning due to glitches in the system. Still, coach Josh Hardin said the meet was an overall success. "It was amazing," he said after the meet. "To be able to...
Too much stuff. In our society, that seems to be the exact amount of stuff that most of us have. Not exactly a technical term, two words are nonetheless quite nicely descriptive: too much. Stuff storage. It’s big business and growing all of the time because, well, see Paragraph One. People who have as much stuff as we do, and are continually adding more to their mounds of stuff, eventually run out of places to put it. Perhaps we don’t want to disappoint archaeologists who will...
GRADY – It looked like a football linescore – Grady scored 14 in the first, three in the second, six in the third and seven in the fourth. The result was a 30-3 victory over winless Jal on Monday, keeping the Bronchos undefeated for the young season at 5-0. The game was called after 4 ½ innings because of the 10-run rule. Senior Zane Rush went 4-for-4 with eight RBIs – a grand slam, a three-run homer and an RBI single. He also drew a walk and scored five runs. Freshmen Andre Garcia and Hays Rush both finished 3-for-4 for Gr...
Routed in its first three meetings this season against Roswell Goddard, Clovis High's softball team managed to throw a bit of a scare into the Lady Rockets on Saturday. Down 7-1 in the fourth inning, the Lady Wildcats pulled to within a run in the sixth but couldn't complete the rally in an 8-6 setback at Lady Wildcat Field. Goddard (10-5) swept the four-game season series from CHS, but after outscoring the Lady Cats 54-1 in the first three tilts – including a 15-0, three-inni...
Eastern New Mexico University's spring football drills came to an end on Friday night with coach Kelley Lee and his staff getting a look at players in game situations in the program's annual Green and Silver intrasquad game at Greyhound Stadium. The Green squad defeated Silver 13-3. Lee said he and his staff were pleased with how the spring drills went. "It was really good," Lee said. "We were able to evaluate our kids. Our young kids got a lot better." Nearly 80 players took...
TYLER, Texas – If it hopes to reach the Lone Star Conference baseball tournament for a second consecutive year, Eastern New Mexico University’s baseball team will need to come out of its recent funk. And soon. The slumping Greyhounds struggled through the final three games of their Lone Star Conference series against Texas-Tyler over the weekend, dropping a doubleheader on Friday and the getaway game on Saturday as their losing streak reached seven games. Junior left-hander Kolby Parker (2-1) and senior right-hander Log...
ESPAÑOLA — Unassuming, dressed in sweatpants and wearing white running shoes, early, just past 7 a.m., and looking for that first cup of coffee from Artesia’s Kith and Kin, Nella Domenici, with hopes of knocking Sen. Martin Heinrich out of the U.S. Senate, pulled up a chair in the middle of an all-male group and listened. “She’s a great listener,” said one of the men. “Her father was the same way — approachable.” The group discussed construction work, lack of an available workforce, local projects, and most likely some poli...
Booked The following were booked into local jails (Friday - Tuesday): Clovis • Jacob Martinez, 31, escape or attempt to escape from jail, aggravated battery against a household member • Donald Lopez, 57, criminal trespass • Sergio Silguero, 18, aggravated assault, shooting at a dwelling or occupied building, conspiracy to commit aggravated assault • Josue Silva Hernandez, 18, aggravated assault, conspiracy to commit aggravated assault, shooting at a dwelling or occupied building • Heriberto Torres, 45, failure to appear on...
The Secretary of State’s office has lost a battle to keep New Mexico voter information from being published online by a national conservative organization after a judge on Friday ruled the information is public under federal law. The 329-page ruling by U.S. District Judge James Browning of Albuquerque found that Voter Reference Foundation LLC was entitled to information from New Mexico voter registration rolls and that the Secretary of State’s office, or SOS, violated a federal election transparency law in denying the fou...
A new restaurant serving Mexican food has opened on South Prince Street. El Buen Sazon, owned and operated by Arturo and Alina Anchondo is at 3120 S. Prince St. south of Clovis. “Our specialties are tacos and hamburgers,” Alina said. The Anchondo’s menu lists a variety of meats for the tacos: Carne asada or grilled beef, pastor which is marinated pork, tripas or tripe, Alambre which is a mixture of meat with bell pepper, bacon and onion and Buche or stomach pork with chorizo. El Buen Sazon is open Wednesday through Satur...
A Portales business owner, Mik Plunkett who operates Lists 4 Less LLC, has picked up a national award from the Alignable network. According to an Alignable news release, Plunkett was selected as Portales’ 2024 Business Person Of The Year. Lists 4 Less is a direct marketing firm that has achieved success through the use of “high quality” mail lists, direct mail and proprietary integrated digital marketing programs, according to the news release. In the release, Alignable describes itself as “the largest online busine...
SDV Construction, the Albuquerque company that worked on the Curry County Courthouse addition and renovation in Clovis reports the company earned a national “Excellence in Construction® Pyramid Award” for the project. According to a SDV news release, the national award was presented at the Associated Builders and Contractors convention 2024 in Orlando on Mar. 14. “We’re honored to have the dedication, attention to detail, ethics and hard work of our team recognized by ABC,” SDV Construction President and CEO Paul Farless sa...
The Clovis-Curry County Chamber of Commerce’s newest “Retail Rockstar” is City Printing. Presentation of the honor was last Thursday at City Printing’s location at 117 W. Grand Ave. City Printing was nominated by the previous “Retail Rockstar” honoree, Fuller Supply Company....
Recently, Land Commissioner Stephanie Garcia Richard, after pushing the Legislature for a 25% tax hike on New Mexico oil and gas producers, made the decision to pull those “highly valuable” tracts of land and not lease them. That decision has raised concerns that her actions may violate her fiduciary responsibility to maximize revenues from the lands under her control. Garcia Richard told the Albuquerque Journal, “It’s worth it to temporarily forgo the dollars (from leasing...
The world as I know it has ended. I agree with Ron DeSantis on something. On March 25, the Florida governor and former mini-Trump wannabe signed into law a state ban for children ages 13 and younger from social media while also requiring 14- and 15-year-olds to get parental consent. Forget the fact that Florida’s new law will almost certainly be challenged in court, it’s still a step in the right direction. We’re facing a mental health crisis among our children, and social media has a lot to do with it. That and the COVID...
An anonymous reader sent a letter last week reprimanding the newspaper because it “refuses to publish” an important story. “There is a big cover up,” the letter read. Our reader is referencing a lawsuit settled in February by the state’s Children, Youth and Families Department. The lawsuit alleged improper handling of a 2020 case in which a Clovis child was placed in her father’s home after her mother died. The father, Juan Lerma, subsequently killed the child, Samantha Rubino, and left her body in a garbage can. Our newspap...
On this date ... 1932: A man accused of “city slicking” had been arrested in Hot Springs, Ark., after a Clovis cafe owner reported he’d been tricked out of $95. George Johnson of Clovis told police the stranger had approached him with a story claiming he had found $1,500 worth of gold dust in Alaska. The stranger wanted to send the gold to a mint in San Francisco where it could be converted into gold coin. But the man did not have the money to pay for shipping. Johnson told police he borrowed $95 and gave it to the stran...
U.S. Senators Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), along with U.S. Representative Teresa Leger Fernández (D-N.M.) Monday welcomed over $227,000 in federal funding from the Federal Aviation Administration to the Portales Municipal Airport for necessary upgrades and long-term development. The funding was made possible through the Infrastructure Law. Portales Community Services Director Kelly McClellan oversees airport operations. McClellan said Tuesday she will be working with Mayor Mike Miller in specifically i...
Once I had a job, a lazy soul’s dream, low stress too, I got paid to drive cars all day. I remembered it when a Facebook memory popped up from eight years ago, a photo of the car I got to drive, a Toyota FJ Cruiser. I don’t know if you’re familiar with this vehicle but it’s kind of an oversized Jeep in bright colors, looks like some kind of big ol’ toy. I drove it and discovered, eh, I didn’t like it so much. I’m glad I didn’t spend “big coin” on one and find I didn’t like it.. It was big and clunky, it was more vehicle than...
Eastern New Mexico Rising has announced its schedule of events for Pride 2024 in June. According to its website, Eastern New Mexico Rising is a non-partisan, progressive movement that empowers individuals and connects communities by advocating for equality, diversity, human rights and civil liberties. “We are excited to continue community building with you,” Co-Founder of ENMR Laura Wight said. Below is the schedule: • June 1 : Drag show at 8 p.m. at Red Door on Main, Clovis. Event is only open to people who are 21 years...
Most of us will step outside and look up when we know there's an eclipse. Jaslyn Gilbert and Kilian von Bibra are going beyond that – in this case, about 500 miles beyond. The Portales couple plans to make the seven-hour drive to San Antonio, Texas, so they can witness Monday's solar eclipse. That's expected to be an ideal location to experience the moon totally blocking out the sun, which only happens a few times in a lifetime. Millions of people are expected to travel to s...
Writing is a solitary profession, but in Betty Williamson’s eyes her Uncle Jack Williamson always knew how to bring a community together through his literature. “We all really love this community and Jack certainly did love living in Portales and love his long association with ENMU,” she said. Eastern New Mexico University hosts its 47th annual Jack Williamson Lectureship April 11-13. “ENMU has such a rich history with science fiction through Dr. Jack Williamson’s incredible life and legacy. ENMU is honored to be a part of t...
