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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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I have a black coffee maker in my kitchen, which is my first destination every morning. Allow me to clarify. Yes, it makes black coffee, but the coffee maker itself is black, which I mention because the dark color makes it a favored hiding spot of our pesky spring visitors, the miller moths. I don’t need to tell many of you that we’ve been host to a bumper crop of those vile critters this year. Even for a woman like me who keeps her rose-colored glasses on the nightstand so...
Roosevelt General Hospital will be making cutbacks to staff hours due to “financial strains,” according to a news release from RGH. The changes come after a result of “staff shortages and an increase of higher wages to recruit qualified employees, mandated wage increases, skyrocketing insurance premiums, inflation, enormous upsurge in cost of supplies” and multiple other issues, according to Jeanette Orrantia, the hospital’s director of marketing and public relations. “It has been difficult to recover after the pandemic, a...
A capacity crowd of friends, family and supporters cheered from the bleachers Saturday at Greyhound Arena as more than 650 capped and gowned students at Eastern New Mexico University crossed the stage to receive diplomas. Gay Su Pinnell, an ENMU alumna who has received many national awards for her work in literacy education, delivered the commencement address. In addition to her literacy education achievements, Pinnell has funded education grants for ENMU since 2017. She also...
Booked The following were booked into local jail (Tuesday - Friday): Clovis • Miguel Tomas-Itzep, 48, criminal solicitation to commit sexual exploitation of a child under 16 by prostitution, bribe of a witness • Jamie Tarango, 41, probation violation • Jose Flores-Cruz, 34, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge • Mindy Smith, 44, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge • Jose Sanchez, 55, driving while license suspended or revoked, no insurance, failure to register vehicle, failure to have operating tail lamps, failure t...
On this date ... 1951: It rained. Again. Previously parched eastern New Mexico received rain for the third consecutive day, more than 2.5 inches overall in some areas. “The three days of drought-breaking rain were greatly welcomed by jubilant farmers ... The rainy spell was hailed as a ‘million-dollar rain’ because it came at a time when crops were beginning to suffer and when spring planting was being delayed because of powder-dry soil,” the Clovis News-Journal reported. 1955: Sheridan McIntosh was sentenced to 60 days in th...
Sad and glad. At this moment, I am both. Last week I completed the editing and page creation for the final issue of The Christian Appeal devotion magazine. I’ve served as the managing editor for the little monthly magazine for almost 40 years. A very little math is the only kind of math I ever do, but I’m pretty sure that, when I sent the files to the printer for the June issue, it was Issue #472 for me. That’s quite a run, though it’s less than the 60 years this issue m...
CANYON – Eastern New Mexico University junior Timothy Frederick and freshman Alex Williams were unable to improve their standing for potential berths NCAA Division II national outdoor track championships berths in Friday’s Last Chance meet, hosted by West Texas A&M. Originally scheduled for Sunday, the event was moved up two days due to the threat of severe weather on Sunday in the Canyon area. Frederick ran a time of 47.15 seconds in the men’s 400, finishing sixth. He has a personal-best time of 47.05, which ranks him 21st n...
Young workers who are looking for business experience are being invited to participate in the 2023 Curry County Summer Internship program. The county is also seeking business partners for the program. According to a news release from the county administration, a grant has been awarded to the county for $269,572 specifically for the program. The program is described as offering a variety of professions from diverse employers throughout Curry County. The 8-week internships will begin on June 5 and end on July 28. “I e...
ALBUQUERQUE – Maybe the Melrose Buffaloes were just setting up District 3-1A rival Logan all along. It might have looked that way to the previously unbeaten and top-ranked Longhorns, who came into Saturday's Class 1A state championship baseball game with three district wins over the Buffs by a combined score of 50-7. "They were right where we wanted them," Melrose coach Jared Wilhoit joked. This was a different day, though, and Melrose (12-5), seeded third in the six-team tour...
ALBUQUERQUE – Clovis High's boys needed a big day from senior R.J. Nora on Saturday, and he certainly didn't disappoint. Nora was a busy man as he competed in five finals, winning both hurdles races, finishing second in triple jump and helping two relay teams to the awards podium as the Wildcats posted a fifth-place team finish with 34 points. He accounted for 22 points to share individual high-point honors for the meet with La Cueva freshman Tanner Montano. "I knew I had f...
ALBUQUERQUE – Portales High's girls were just trying to do the best they could in Friday and Saturday's Class 4A state track meet at the University of New Mexico track facility. It was hard to imagine they'd done enough to finish in the top three and win a team trophy. There they were, though, at the end of the day. The Lady Rams' 27 points was good enough to take third. PHS finished third in the 1,600 relay finale, with the team of juniors Audrey Paden, Abby Ontiveros and A...
Clovis Mayor Mike Morris will be passing out “Keys to the City” at Thursday’s regular meeting of the Clovis City Commission according to the meeting’s agenda. The keys will be going to Cannon Air Force Base’s Special Operations Wing Commander Colonel Terence G. Taylor and Wing Command Chief Master Sergeant Kristina Montgomery. Another item on the meeting agenda is a design presentation for the proposed new airport terminal by Clovis Regional Airport Director Amanda Brungart. The commission meeting will begin at 5:15 p.m....
AOC and her Green New Deal buddies in the Biden government are not just winning their crusade against fossil fuels. They’re also wrecking the country – appliance by appliance. Our washing machines, refrigerators and microwaves have already been made less efficient and more expensive because of new federal standards pushed by fanatical environmentalists who think like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Not long ago, government regulators were caught planning to outlaw gas kitchen sto...
Their high school principal believes in them. “The Class of 2023 will push the status quo in all that they do. Their potential will be fully realized when they look back and can appreciate the changes they have made,” Clovis High School Principal David Fredericks said of the class that will graduate Saturday at the Curry County Events Center. Fredericks said 424 graduates are set to be in the ceremony that begins at 2 p.m. Saturday. “This includes 68 graduates from the Early College High School (ECHS) and 13 seniors from...
We lost a legend last week. Bill Kelly, one of our region’s best offensive-minded college football coaches of all time, died Saturday. The Amarillo Globe-News reported Kelly, 75, died in Amarillo after an extended bout with pneumonia. The North Carolina native will be most remembered by many for his three seasons coaching at then-West Texas State University, from 1985 to 1987. His Buffs went 18-13-1 before Kelly stunned many in the sports world by switching careers at age 40. He spent his last four decades as a criminal d...
Ute Pipeline not a long-term solution I have analyzed the effects that the Ute Lake pipeline would have had on the water available in Ute Lake using the actual historical daily United States Geological Survey data from the year 2007 to 2023. I am a Texas certified public accountant with many, many years of data analysis experience. The ENMWUA proposes to draw 16,415-acre feet through the pipeline each year. Using the 16,415-acre feet a year is equivalent to 44.97-acre feet per day. I simply calculated what each day’s lake rea...
The Roosevelt County courthouse parking lot is going to be closed off for resealing and repainting Saturday and Sunday. Roosevelt County Manager Amber Hamilton reports in a news release the County Commission budgeted to reseal and repaint the parking lot this fiscal year. The contractor notified the county this work is scheduled to begin on Saturday and should be done Sunday, weather permitting, Hamilton wrote. Customers for businesses around the square will need to plan accordingly as the County has notified those entities...
Students from third grade to seniors in high school are invited to participate in Eastern New Mexico University’s (ENMU) inclusive art camp, “Summer by Design.” The camp will run June 12 through June 15 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day at the ENMU Art and Anthropology Building (AAB) in Portales. According to a news release from ENMU and Clovis Municipal Schools, Participating elementary and middle school students receive instruction from advanced university art students and public school art educators. The participating high...
The federal government on March 27 listed the lesser prairie chicken as an endangered species. More than seven weeks later, area farmers and agriculture officials still aren’t sure exactly what that means. “Nobody gives me a square answer on this,” Roosevelt County Ag Agent Patrick Kircher said last week. Kircher said he’s been trying to learn what the listing means to landowners and producers because he’d like to teach a seminar on the matter. “I haven’t gotten very far on it. What I want is to find someone who can speak...
About 150 graduates are expected to receive diplomas Saturday at Portales High School’s graduation ceremony. Portales High’s commencement exercise is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. Saturday at Greyhound Arena on the Eastern New Mexico University campus and continue until about noon. Nathan Dodge, who has been principal at Portales High since May 1, said he could not give a definite number because a few seniors still have not completed graduation requirements but could before the graduation ceremony....
Charles "Bryan" Vannatta knew he wanted to be a law enforcement officer like his father and grandfather since he was a little boy, growing up in Texico. "He would get the keys to his dad's squad car and get on the radio. He knew all the call signals," Curry County Sheriff Mike Reeves said. Vannatta realized his boyhood dream and ultimately served alongside his father as a Curry County sheriff's deputy. But two years ago, he contracted COVID-19. The disease ended his life on...
A Portales man was sentenced Monday to 66 years in prison after he was convicted of sexual exploitation of a child, according to a news release from District Attorney Quentin Ray. Anthony West, 53, was found guilty by a Roosevelt County jury on March 29 of nine counts of causing or permitting a child to engage in sexual exploitation. Court records show that on April 23, 2020, officers with the New Mexico State Police were contacted about a possible child pornography case, acco...
