Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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SANTA FE -- As the state Taxation and Revenue Department prepares to start sending out the latest batch of tax rebates, thousands of New Mexicans are still waiting to receive last year’s checks. Some 16,000 rebate checks sent by mail bounced back as undeliverable, and an additional 18,000 have been sidelined by errors in 2021 tax returns. “We’re working really hard to get this money into the pockets of New Mexicans as quickly and as efficiently as we can because we know New Mexicans are struggling with inflation, high price...
While she was helping with the Roosevelt County Community Development Corporation's Hiring Event on Thursday, RCCDC Director Jodi Diaz took a little time to talk with the News about her job, which she has held for less than a year, as well as her career and her off-hours pursuits. Diaz is a Portales resident who lived in northern New Mexico during her middle and high school years, then returned to Portales to attend Eastern New Mexico University, where she earned bachelor's...
Today *High Plains Home and Garden Show – 11 a.m.-4 p.m., Clovis Civic Center, 801 Schepps Blvd., Clovis, and Curry County Events Center, 1900 E. Brady, Clovis. $5 ticket covers admission to both locations. Multiple exhibitors showcasing everything from kitchens and bathrooms, household cleaning and recreation, flooring, artisan food and crafts, lifestyle and homeware products and more. Information or to inquire about vendor opportunities: 575-935-5000 or [email protected] *The Tabernacle Experience – 11 a.m...
Monday *Clovis-Carver Library Board – 5:30 p.m., North Annex, Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main St., Clovis. Information: Margaret Hinchee at 575-769-7840 Tuesday *Curry County Commission – 9 a.m., Commission Chambers, Curry County Administration Complex, 417 Gidding St., Clovis. Information: 575-763-6016 *Annual meeting of members of the Roosevelt County Telephone Rural Telephone Cooperative, Inc. – 2 p.m., Jake Lopez Community Center, 705 E. Lime St., Portales. Information: 575-226-2255 *Clovis Municipal Schoo...
Booked The following were booked into local jail (Tuesday - Friday): Clovis • Isaac Castillo, 35, failure to pay fines • Quarry Wren, 43, assault against a household member, criminal damage to the property of a household member, larceny, false imprisonment, battery against a household member • Dustin Gallegos, 30, failure to pay fines • John Barton, 31, aggravated battery against a household member • Moses Martinez, 30, possession of a firearm or destructive device by a felon, false imprisonment, aggravated assault against a...
Eastern New Mexico University’s Portales campus plans to receive $62.8 million in instruction and general revenues and spend a little less than $56 million in instruction and general funds for the 2023-2024 fiscal year in the operating budget approved Friday by the ENMU Board of Regents. Tony Major, ENMU’s chief financial officer told the regents on Friday that revenues are projected to increase by nearly $4 million, or 6.8% from the current year’s $52.9 million in instruction and general funds, due to increased stude...
“The only clocks in a Major League stadium should tell us the time of day, and they should do so using hands, not digits.” That was my posting on our fantasy baseball message board a couple of years ago when Major League officials began toying with the idea of a pitch clock. Baseball has long provided refuge to curmudgeonly traditionalists like me who revere the sport’s history and fret over anything that would change the game that I learned to love as a child. Other Johnny-come-latelies like the NBA and NFL can tinker with...
Amen to Cornell University President Martha Pollack and Provost Michael Kotlikoff for rejecting a proposal introduced by the student senate to mandate trigger warnings into syllabi and course content. In a statement, Pollack and Kotlikoff said such a mandate “would infringe on our core commitment to academic freedom and freedom of inquiry, and are at odds with the goals of a Cornell education.” Over the past decade, trigger warnings have been a topic that has dominated aca...
Last year, I penned an editorial that argued the war in Ukraine consisted of three wars. These were the economic war, the actual battlefield actions and the propaganda war. The economic war consisted of a “shock and awe” sanctions campaign against Russian oil, that would cause the ruble to fall and force the Russian economy to collapse. After more than 10 additional layers of sanctions, the Russian economy is still functioning. In fact, the International Monetary Fund, no frie...
The state of New Mexico is unique in both its demographics and geographical features. Our vast land area, diverse topography, and sparse population have proven to be a significant barrier when it comes to broadband deployment and internet connectivity. This affects New Mexicans from the eastern prairie to the Rio Grande Valley. This challenge is particularly evident across low-income communities and on tribal lands. Billions of federal and state tax dollars have been spent on...
When the residents of an area allow crime and societal decay to go unchecked, there’s nothing politicians or police can do about it. Just look at what has happened to so many of the big cities around the country. It’s not about “too few police,” as if that were even a thing. It’s about the regular people who live there allowing bad things to happen and simply accepting it or expecting someone else to do something about it. Part of the problem is lifelong training to “let the...
On this date ... 1909: No document is known to exist that ties the naming of Clovis to the first Christian King of France. But a Clovis newspaper on this date made the claim in a poem, most likely written by Pony Post Editor Harry Armstrong. It ended like this: “Old Clovis has a namesake now — “A city in New Mexico, “A city of three thousand strong — “And founded scarce two years ago “One time two towns who rivaled her — “Melrose was one, and Texico — “Grew clamorous for railroad shops, “And worried all New Mexico. “Then C...
Welcome to the publisher’s journal. The hardest part about starting this twice-weekly feature wasn’t deciding what to put in it, but what to call it. I thought about calling it a blog, but the target audience is not the world online. I thought about calling it a log, like the captain’s log that James T. Kirk kept on Star Trek. But again, I’m not wanting to talk to the universe – just the people who read this newspaper. I thought about calling it a diary. But I’m not sharing my inner-most thoughts and secrets. You’re goin...
Top places in the state choir competition were won by Clovis High School’s choir. The Clovis High School Chamber Choir took home first place and Women’s Select Choir took home third place at the NMAA State Choir competition in Rio Rancho April 13 through 15.. According to a news release from Clovis Municipal Schools, Women Select competed in the A-5A treble category in an 11-school field while the Chamber choir competed in the 5A Mixed Choir category in a field of 10 choirs. Women’s Select won third place in the state, narro...
A new principal has been named to Clovis’ Cameo Elementary School. Shelly Smith, a longtime educator with Clovis Municipal Schools, has been selected for and accepted the position of Cameo Elementary Principal according to a news release from Clovis Municipal Schools public relations department. Hired in 2006 as a teacher at Parkview Elementary, Smith has spent her career of 17 years with Clovis Schools. In 2007 she moved to a teaching position at the Arts Academy at Bella Vista, where she remained, teaching fourth and f...
Clovis is about to get serious with those who violate city codes. The news came at Thursday's Clovis City Commission meeting. Building Safety Director Daron Roach, who oversees code enforcement, told city commissioners almost 5,000 citations were issued last year to city residents over code violations. That number was more than four times the citations issued in 2021. And so vigorous enforcement is needed, Roach said. Roach said the city will be enforcing the violations...
What is the 60/84 project and when will it start? The 60/84 project is one that Clovis City Manager Justin Howalt believes has been needed for quite some time now. “The roadway and the corridor have been deteriorating for a long time,” he said. Running from Prince Street and to the west, all the way down to approximately Grand, Howalt said the 60/84 project will be “full reconstruction of the roadway.” This includes utility replacements, storm drainage improvements, signalization, and lighting improvements. New concret...
After months of going back and forth between the Roosevelt County Commission and the Portales City Council, a decision was made regarding the Portales Communications Center. The council approved a revised agreement at their last meeting on April 11. Originally, the commission offered $125,000 worth of funding for FY23 (July 1, 2022-June 30, 2023) for dispatch services. However, the city council previously requested $175,000. It was ultimately decided to keep the funding at...
The first Wings Over Cannon air show since 2018 was set to take place Saturday, and the News caught up with organizers at their rehearsal day Friday morning. Col. Brent Greer is the vice wing commander of the 27th Special Operations Wing, and he said he has overseen the planning and now execution of the air show. The planning for the show goes way back, according to Greer. "At least nine months since I've been here, we started planning the safety aspects of this air show," he...
Editor's note: This is one in a series of profiles focused on local newsmakers. Since Laura Wight was a young woman, she has been an activist. Starting in high school, Wight began filling her free time volunteering for social advocacy groups and carried that work with her into college. "I just became really sort of troubled by a lot of the issues that we have in the United States with poverty, injustice, you know, racial inequality," she said. Now 46 and a mother of four, the...
IDABEL, Okla. — State and federal officials and Oklahoma’s NAACP denounced some county officials accused of discussing how to kill a local reporter and bemoaning how modern justice doesn’t allow hanging Black people. The McCurtain Gazette-News reported last week that McCurtain County Sheriff Kevin Clardy, investigator Alicia Manning, Jail Administrator Larry Hendrix, and District 2 Commissioner Mark Jennings were recorded in a conversation they had after a March 6 commissioners’ meeting. The Gazette reported some officia...
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday ruled for the Biden administration to preserve legal access in most of the nation to an abortion pill that is part of the most common method of ending early pregnancies. In an unsigned order, the justices blocked rulings by a Texas judge and the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals that could have sharply restricted use of the pills or taken them off the market entirely. There were two dissents, from Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel A. Alito Jr. More than 5 million women in the U.S. have u...
LOS ANGELES — With the news that New Mexico prosecutors have dropped criminal charges against Alec Baldwin in the accidental shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of the film “Rust,” the actor took a big step toward putting the tragedy and the ensuing ordeal behind him. Looking to get both the project and his career back on track, Baldwin has resumed production on the Western, which restarted filming Thursday in Montana. With his career and image still battered, though, the way forward for the actor is hardl...
Last week's massive settlement of a defamation lawsuit against Fox News is the latest effort to seek accountability for those who spread false tales of election fraud. But it's not the last. Two Fulton County, Ga., election workers whose lives were upended by false voting fraud accusations have filed defamation lawsuits against other media companies and individuals who spread the claims. And a Gwinnett County, Ga., man falsely accused of voting fraud has sued the producers of...
SANTA FE -- Anti-abortion ordinances adopted by elected officials in two cities and two counties in a conservative region of southeastern New Mexico violate the state constitution’s Bill of Rights, making them invalid, Attorney General Raúl Torrez wrote in a legal brief. “The ordinances’ singling out abortion for licensure and other regulation, in contrast to other medical procedures, violates the Equal Rights Amendment’s protection against pregnancy-based discrimination,” Torrez wrote, according to a draft of the brief, file...
