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CLOVIS -- Downtown business owner Robert Vilandry believes his clients deserve reserved parking spots in front of his business, but the city has told the merchant known as Bullet Bob that the spots in front of his store belong to the public. The issue started when Vilandry noticed the parking spots in front of his Main Street antique and collectables shop were never taken by his customers, but patrons of the new Bandolero Brewery. For the benefit of his customers, who skew...
PORTALES — Eastern New Mexico University has appointed Matthew Grawrock as its interim athletic director, according to a school release. Grawrock, who has served the last three years as the college's associate athletic director for compliance and internal operations, began his duties Wednesday following the departure of Matt Billings. The university will soon begin a nationwide search for a permanent AD. Grawrock came to ENMU from Southern Virginia University, where he worked in several roles since 2007. While at SVU, G...
The city of Clovis will have a state of the city address Wednesday afternoon, delivered by Mayor Mike Morris, according to a city release. The 2 p.m. address will take place at the North Annex of the Clovis-Carver Public Library, with limited seating available. The address will also be broadcast on the city's Facebook page at facebook.com/cityofclovis. The address will cover accomplishments and activities of the city in 2020, Morris' first year as mayor. Information: 575-769-7828....
SWIMMING Prep summary State meet Boys Saturday at Albuquerque Academy Team standings: 1. Los Alamos 397; 2. Eldorado 316; 3. La Cueva 270 1/2; 4. Albuquerque Academy 240; 5. Cibola 136; 6. Albuquerque High 114; 7. St. Pius 99; 8. Santa Fe High 85; 9. Hobbs 84; 10. (tie) Farmington and Sandia 82; 12. Rio Rancho Cleveland 66; 13. Rio Rancho 52 1/2; 14. Volcano Vista 48; 15. Clovis 45; 16. Santa Fe Prep 40; 17. St.Michael’s 34; 18. (tie) Cottonwood Classical and Las Cruces 31; 20. Taos 26; 21. Carlsbad 13; 22. Alamogordo 7; 2...
Booked The following were booked into local jails (Friday-Tuesday): Clovis • Eugene Higgins, 65, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge • Rose Gonzales, 44, driving while under the influence of intoxicating liquor or any drug • Keegan Kilborn, 31, failure to pay fines, driving on suspended or revoked license • Rex Williams, 67, criminal trespass • Chris Desantiago, 38, cruelty to animals • Sally Flath, 44, probation violation • Christopher Bagwell, 26, failure to appear on a felony charge • Idalia Garica-Sanchez,...
Xcel announces Alexa integration MINNEAPOLIS — Xcel Energy has announced Amazon Alexa integration for its customers. The change will allow customers to ask Alexa-enabled devices for current balanced, bill due dates and prior year energy use comparisons. Customers can ask their device, “Alexa, link my Xcel Energy account,” to begin the process. “We are excited to be collaborating with Amazon on this project to deliver the most user-friendly experience to our customers,” said Brett Carter, Xcel’s executive vice president a...
PORTALES — In the day and age of COVID-19 and Amazon, brick and mortar stores — especially local retail outlets — have struggled. And with that, many small towns have struggled as businesses close or move away. No one knows that like Jim Lucero, the executive director of the Roosevelt County Community Development Corporation (RCCDC). That’s why the non-profit organization has partnered with Retail Strategies, a company based out of Birmingham, Alabama. The company intends to help Portales with downtown revitalization and ret...
“In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.” Yep. I’m not sure where I first heard that statement, but I’ve always thought its truth packs a punch. I did a little “search engine” research and found it attributed to Paul Harvey or Will Harvey. Some versions say “remember” instead of “recall.” I don’t know Will Harvey, but I certainly remember Paul, and he said a great many things well worth recalling. I know. Lots of things look b...
Curry and Roosevelt counties both ended up in unwanted territory when COVID-19 infections were updated over the weekend by the New Mexico Department of Health. Curry County confirmed 23 new cases of COVID-19 Monday, while Roosevelt County confirmed 14 in the DOH’s Monday report of 543 total cases. The report consolidates daily reports from Saturday, Sunday and Monday. There were also three deaths reported, none in Curry or Roosevelt. Over the course of the three-day report, all 23 of Curry’s cases reside in the 88101 ZIP cod...
ALBUQUERQUE — Lacking the numbers to post a high team finish, Clovis High’s boys nevertheless continued to make progress in Saturday’s state swimming competition in Albuquerque. The Wildcats, with just four boys participating, finished 15th out of 23 teams which scored with 45 points. The Cats placed in three relays and two individual events. Los Alamos won the team championship with 397 points, while Eldorado was second at 316. The foursome of senior William Longhenry, sophomore Thomas Palla and freshmen Porter Kidd and D...
SANTA FE — Texico’s baseball team rallied for three runs in the top of the sixth and handed St. Michael’s a 4-2 setback on Saturday, improving to 3-0 for the season. Senior Josh Myers delivered the big blow of the inning, a two-run single which put the Wolverines (3-0) in front for good. Seniors David Davalos and Seth Griego shared pitching duties for Texico, with Davalos going the first four innings and Griego finishing up to collect the victory. The Wolverines broke through for a run in the top of the fourth, but the Horse...
PORTALES - Clovis High's softball team struggled mightily through its first three games this season. On Monday night, though, the Lady Wildcats threw a major haymaker right off the bat. Pitcher Jordan Angeles and fellow senior Bryana Gallagher smashed two-run homers in a seven-run first, and CHS picked up its first win of the campaign with a 16-2 rout of Portales at Wheeler Park. Eight players combined for the Lady Cats' 18 hits, and all had at least two. Meantime, Angeles and...
On this date … 1931: About two dozen Grady school children were recovering from injuries suffered the day before in a school bus accident that left one teenage girl dead. Cletis Culpepper, 16, a Grady High sophomore, was killed. Several children suffered broken arms and legs, officials said. Bus driver E.C. Ashby said he was driving about 35 mph in the center of the rural road when the wheels of the bus “locked,” sending the bus rolling into a ditch 3 miles east of Grady. The top of the bus was “torn off and hurled several...
Clovis hoops great Bubba Jennings is getting back into the college coaching game, after accepting an offer this month to coach the men’s basketball and golf programs at Arlington Baptist University. Jennings, the No. 1 career scorer in Wildcat history, heads to the Patriots following three years coaching at Peaster High School in Weatherford, Texas. This will be Jennings’ first time serving as a college head coach. He had two separate stints at alma mater Texas Tech, including a season as a graduate assistant following his...
Every year about this time, young people begin their transition from high school into college, or the military, or the working world. The road ahead is rife with opportunities and dangers, and now they begin to find their way through it all. It’s different this year for the high school graduating classes of 2021. The pandemic stifled most of their senior years, but for most New Mexican grads it opened up toward the end. The New Mexico Activities Association crammed sports seasons into the last several weeks of the school year...
I saw a recipe for cicada cookies this week that took me back in time. While I have zero desire to incorporate these large, loud, and crunchy (I’ll come back to that) insects into any aspect of my diet, they are part of one of the most vivid memories of my life. It was purely by accident that I happened to be living in the Washington, D.C., area in 1987, during one of the mega-emergences of the 17-year cicadas that make their home in the Midwest and eastern United States. T...
If you’re going to tolerate politicians, and a political government for them to operate in, what should they be allowed to do? Not much. Their ability to control anyone should end at government employees. The rest of us shouldn’t be touched by their policies and rules. How would this work? Government can allow its employees to do this or that, or prohibit them from doing these other things — but anyone not employed by government isn’t government’s business. If you believe t...
On Jan. 7, Facebook suspended President Donald Trump, striking a significant blow to his ability to communicate with the public. Banning him permanently from the platform would be a mistake. An independent review board of activists, lawyers and journalists known as the Facebook Oversight Board has been considering the question of whether Trump’s de facto ban was justified and whether he should be permanently excluded or allowed back on the platform. The oversight board has ruled the original suspension was legitimate, but a...
PORTALES — Dozens of automobiles were under water in Portales on Saturday after more than 2 inches of rain fell in about an hour. Tow-truck driver Ryan Ainsworth said he was involved in pulling 46 vehicles to safety, including one that contained a mother and two children floating down a city drainage canal. The family was not injured, thanks in part to fate, Ainsworth said. The drainage canal's safety gates are typically closed, Ainsworth said, but for reasons unknown they were open when the flood waters swept through. ...
Early childhood education has been around for quite some time now, becoming a category all its own. Increasingly, general education has changed over the years, as have expectations, requiring students to learn more at an earlier age to be successful. The Clovis Municipal Schools has focused on expanding the offerings for these little ones. Over the last couple of years our pre-K program (4-year-olds) has continued to expand with now pre-K classes at each of our 12 elementary...
CLOVIS - Tuesday's joint city-county luncheon, the first in more than a year due to COVID-19 gathering restrictions, was intentionally informal with most conversations simply a matter of passing microphones around the meeting room at the Clovis Civic Center. "Today, I don't want anything from you, and I hope you don't want anything from me," Clovis Mayor Mike Morris said in the luncheon of about two dozen representatives of the city and Curry County. "This is about...
CLOVIS — On Tuesday, County Manager Lance Pyle, gave a presentation to update the commission on the finalized preliminary budget during the County Commission’s regular meeting. Pyle said the operating budget for fiscal year 2022 is projected to be $45,308,519, up $7,236,554 from last year’s $38,071,965. Pyle said a large majority of this increase is due to the American Recovery Funds. The general fund revenues for fiscal year 2021 was $18,839,899, and is projected to be $19,314,747 for 2022, an increase of $474,848, Pyle...
An argument preceded a gunshot Friday that left a Portales woman dead, court records show. Shona Williams, who friends and family identified as Quintasha Harris’ girlfriend, was arrested Monday for an open count of murder and tampering with evidence in connection with Harris’ death. Williams, 34, on Tuesday remained in the Roosevelt County Detention Center on a pretrial detention hold. According to an affidavit filed in Roosevelt County Magistrate Court, the Portales Police Department received a call at 5:33 p.m. Friday rep... Full story
After months with little more than sprinkles, most of the region has welcomed significant rainfall the past few days — and more may be on the way. Portales and Roosevelt County had the greatest blessings/curses, especially mid-afternoon on Saturday when a slow-moving storm dumped more than 2 inches on everything in site. Some rural areas reported more than 4 inches of rain, a lot of it coming in less than an hour, flooding streets and washing cars away. Marble-size hail d... Full story
A Muleshoe teenager was killed and two other teens injured Sunday night in a single-vehicle crash on Curry Road 14. Rustin Baldwin, 17, of Muleshoe, was driving a 1998 Dodge pickup traveling east when it crashed into a pipe fence, according to a news release from Curry County Sheriff Wesley Waller. Baldwin died at the scene. Two passengers, Garrett Henderson and Kolter Henderson, both 17 of Farwell, were transported to Plains Regional Medical Center with injuries suffered in the crash. Garrett Henderson was subsequently... Full story
