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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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CLOVIS — The Curry County Adult Detention Center project will move forward after a contract with HB Construction Inc. was unanimously approved at Tuesday's Curry County Commission meeting. The project, which includes the construction of a new salleyport, medical unit and additional housing, will cost about $11.6 million, down from the original bid of $12.2 million after the commission approved 13 cost-saving measures at its April 3 meeting. Curry County Manager Lance Pyle s...
TEXICO — The rock band Kansas famously sang "Dust in the Wind," which would've been a good theme song for Tuesday's Portales-Texico baseball game. There was certainly plenty of dust and wind throughout. But amid the gusts and the bending trees there was a pretty good area matchup, a battle between the 4A Rams and 3A Wolverines at Texico Field. A pretty good area matchup, that is, until the Wolves broke things open in the bottom of the fifth and earned a run-rule 12-2 v...
PORTALES — Be a little better today than you were yesterday. The Portales High tennis teams took that to heart Tuesday, with their second battle in just four days with district-rival New Mexico Military Institute. On the home courts of the Bill Wahlman Tennis Center, both the girls and boys squads were just a little bit better than they were before, with the girls claiming a 9-0 win and the boys falling 8-1. When the two faced off in a district round-robin Saturday in R...
ELIDA — The Elida Tigers received national recognition Tuesday from USA Today High School Sports, with Jaden Isler named New Mexico's girls basketball coach of the year. Isler, 28, was credited for leading the Tigers to their eighth-consecutive small-school title. Isler has been the coach for the last four. He became coach in the middle of the 2014-15 season after his father and former Tigers coach J.D. Isler died in a car accident. Isler found out he received the award early... Full story
PORTALES — A season-high four-game winning streak, all in 4A-District 4 action, has the Rams softball team heading in the right direction, as the season begins to wind down. Portales won its doubleheader against Ruidoso on Tuesday, 12-2 and 16-0, respectively, to jump out to a 4-0 record in league play. The Rams (7-9, 4-0) were deadlocked with the Warriors (2-13, 0-4) at 2-2, entering the bottom of the fifth inning of Game 1, before breaking it open with 10 runs between the f...
CLOVIS — Due to academic testing, Clovis Municipal Schools has pushed back the start times for both its baseball and softball doubleheaders Friday against Sandia. Both of the home doubleheaders are now scheduled for 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. The baseball team (19-3), ranked No. 2 in Class 6A, is riding a 10-game winning streak with a 6-0 mark in District 2-6A. The Matadors (12-7, 3-3) will try to keep sole possession of third place behind the Wildcats and No. 1 La Cueva (19-2, 6...
Is Syria worth dying over? No. It would be a tragedy for you to die — or to kill — over Syria, North Korea, Russia, or any other country the U.S. government is trying to goad into war. Americans don’t need another war in some country that can never be a credible threat to Americans at home. That just a new money pit, because apparently your money isn’t being shoveled into the other U.S. government money pits fast enough to satisfy the military hardware pushers. I understand so... Full story
Pop culture has turned former President Richard Nixon’s “enemies list” into the butt of jokes 45 years after the famously ruthless and paranoid president created it, in part, to monitor journalists. A new Trump administration effort to compile a database of journalists and “media influencers” is not the least bit funny and represents a clear threat to First Amendment rights. Congress should intervene to stop the Department of Homeland Security’s efforts to monitor 290,000 global news outlets. The department has advertised...
On this date ... 1978: Forty Curry County women spent a day honing their mechanic skills and fine-tuning their sharpshooting in courses offered by the Curry County Extension Office. The women began the day with Powder Puff Mechanics, a quick overview of auto maintenance that included changing a fan belt, checking oil and antifreeze, and learning to use jumper cables to boost a dead battery. Then it was off to the shooting range for a self-defense class taught by the Clovis Pol...
In the fight against sexual violence, Leigh Ana Eugene’s voice rings loud and clear, according to a national organization. The director of Arise Sexual Assault Services in Portales was nominated for the National Sexual Violence Resource Center’s 2018 Visionary Voice Awards. That honors individuals who display “outstanding work toward ending sexual violence,” according to the group’s news release. Eugene has worked extensively to reach rural communities that have previously been under-served in the area of sexual violence...
PORTALES — After receiving concerns from residents, conducting traffic studies and debating extensively, the Roosevelt County Commission decided on Tuesday to remove stop signs from an intersection. Road Superintendent Ricky Lovato requested that stop signs on Roosevelt Road 7 at the intersection of Roosevelt Road S be removed after receiving complaints from county residents that drivers were not stopping anyway. "We believe that the people on S, if we remove the stop s...
Booked The following were booked into local jails Monday: Clovis • Jiaymeta Moore, 30, battery, criminal damage to property, disorderly conduct • Steve Perry, 24, shoplifting • Dulce Nicolas, 33, possession of marijuana • Amy Sizemore, 37, possession of a controlled substance • Jack Robinson, 42, driving while license suspended or revoked • Autumn Allen, 25, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge • Jonathan Gandart, 40, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge Portales • Korbin Baldridge, 18, probation violation, aggr...
CLOVIS — About 1,700 Xcel Energy customers in east Clovis are expected to experience a short power outage at 10:30 tonight, according to an Xcel news release. Customers should anticipate being without power for up to 10 minutes, the release said. Crews have planned a maintenance procedure on a line affected by an outage last week, the release said. Customers in the affected areas are roughly from Greene Acres Lake to Humphrey Road, between 14th Street and Garrett Drive, the release said....
PORTALES — A civil lawsuit aimed at Curry County and its board of commissioners is set for trial next week in Clovis. Weston Peasnall, a former officer of the county’s Adult Detention Center, seeks more than $60,000 in damages for violation of the Whistleblower Protection Act. He alleges he was retaliated against for attempting to correct a report regarding the strip search of a detainee, said his attorney Eric Dixon. In July 2014, Peasnall “was a witness to unjustified use of force” involving a tazer gun during a search...
FARWELL — Voters in Farwell are going to the polls to consider $9.4 million worth of improvements to school district facilities. The election is scheduled May 5. The ballot will include two separate bond questions: • Proposition A, which would provide $6.15 million for construction and renovation to the high school, junior high, elementary school, roof replacements and a heating/air conditioning replacement and other projects; • Proposition B, which would provide $3.23 million to construct a new vocational ag building and o...
Today • Emergency Preparedness Disability Awareness Workshop — 8 a.m. at the Bert Cabiness City Government Center, 321 N. Connelly St., Clovis. Information: 575-769-7828 • Clovis Finance Committee — 2 p.m. at the Bert Cabiness City Government Center, 321 N. Connelly St., Clovis. Information: 575-769-7828 Thursday • Roosevelt County Budget Workshop — 9 a.m. at the Roosevelt County Courthouse, 109 W. First St., Portales. Information: 575-356-5307 • Curry County Health Council — Noon to 1 p.m. at the Curry County Administ...
Today • Richard Schwartz Faculty Saxophone Recital — 7 p.m. at the ENMU Music Building. Free admission. Information: 575-562-2377 Thursday • Preschool Storytime — 10 a.m. at Clovis-Carver Public Library. Information: 575-763-9687 • United Blood Services Blood Drive — 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Eastern New Mexico University Campus Union Building. Information: 575-625-9743 • Page Turners Book Club — 6:30 p.m. at Clovis-Carver Public Library. Book: “The Nightingale.” Information: 575-763-9687 • ENMU Spring Choral Concert...
