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Most of eastern New Mexico was under a severe thunderstorm warning Monday, with more than a half-inch of rain possible. The National Weather Service reports showers and thunderstorms were likely for Curry, Quay and Roosevelt counties throughout Monday night. "Some of the storms could be severe. ... Chance of precipitation is 80%. ... New rainfall amounts between a half and three quarters of an inch possible," NWS reported on its website. The region has not had significant...
FORT SUMNER -- Aaron Roth remembers sitting at the front desk at the Bosque Redondo Memorial when a mother from the Navajo Nation walked in with her daughter. "This mother was carrying a giant rock," Roth said. "She dropped it on the countertop and said 'I've got to tell you my story.'" Roth, the Memorial's site manager since 2015, said the woman told him her great-great grandmother had been part of The Long Walk to Fort Sumner around 1864. "Before any of the people were taken...
Businesses are interested in being in Clovis, 38 of them have varying degrees of interest in opening a location in the city. Clovis city commissioners learned of retail and service business interest in the city at Thursday’s regular commission meeting. Chris Bontrager from the consultant firm Retail Strategies made a presentation to the commission about retail opportunities for the city. Retail Strategies was hired by the city over a year and a half ago to engage in retail recruitment for Clovis. Bontrager said Retail S...
The May 12 death of a Cannon Air Force Base airman is not being investigated as a criminal matter, Sheriff Wesley Waller said Friday. Emerald Dragon ASL Masofa Awoha-li Baskin-Young was found dead in his Melrose home. He was 24....
Curry Residents Senior Meals Association 901 W. 13th St. Clovis Monday: Chile relleno with Monterrey jack queso, pinto beans, Spanish rice, fruit cocktail. Tuesday: Meatloaf with brown gravy, mashed potatoes, green beans, roll with butter, pudding. Wednesday: Grilled chicken sandwich, lettuce, tomatoes, pickles, onions, French fries, cookie. Thursday: Taco salad, chips, beef, cheese, salad, cake. Friday: Chicken tenders with gravy, mashed potatoes, corn, roll with butter, peaches. Friendship Senior Center 901 W. 13th St.,...
Clovis Monday through Friday, breakfast and lunch: Manager’s choice. Portales Monday through Friday, breakfast and lunch: Cook’s choice. Melrose Monday: Breakfast: Bagels with cream cheese fruit. Lunch: Taquitos, Refried beans, fruit. Tuesday: Breakfast: Breakfast pizza, fruit. Lunch: Peanut butter and jelly sandwich, fruit. Wednesday: Breakfast and lunch: Kitchen’s choice. Thursday: Breakfast and lunch: Manager’s choice....
The books listed below are now available for checkout at the Clovis-Carver Public Library. The library is open to the public, but patrons can still visit the online catalog at cloviscarverpl.booksys.net/opac/ccpl or call 575-769-7840 to request a specific item for curbside pickup. “Little Bookshop of Murder” by Maggie Blackburn. Academic life at her Virginia university is a viper’s pit, so Summer Merriweather spends her summer in England, researching a scholarly paper that will finally get her published, impress the dean,...
As far as I’m concerned the best part of waking up is Folgers in my cup. I mostly like my coffee pretty plain. Black with sweetener in it works for me. As far as my wife’s cup is concerned, the sweeter and milkier the better. We went 20 years without making coffee in the morning. But the breakfast table became our refuge and rehab as she was recovering from health concerns. The drip coffee maker I only used when my parents stayed with us got pressed into service every mor...
Twenty years ago this month, Thomas Elliott Fite joined the Marines -- just 10 days after graduating from Clovis High. Following boot camp, combat training, and follow-up school, Fite was sent to Iraq for the initial invasion of U.S. forces, in March of 2003. Now, Fite finds himself in a much different position as a marketing manager for clients from New Mexico to California to Virginia. One of his jobs is brand manager for an "estate grown weedery," Estrella River Farms,...
Booked The following were booked into local jails (Tuesday - Friday): Clovis • Sarah Sodd, 36, failure to comply with specific requirements • Paul Osorio, 39, failure to appear on a felony charge, failure to pay fines • Milinda Gallegos, 20, probation violation • Lidia Gonzales, 24, probation violation • Adrian Zamora, 31, battery against a household member, kidnapping • Darrin James, 38, shoplifting • Jorge De La Vega, 43, criminal sexual contact of a minor in the third degree • Dustin Potter, 31, driving on suspended or re...
Clovis’ Gattis Middle School has a new principal: Lori Gammill. According to a news release from Clovis Municipal Schools, Gammill has accepted the position as principal and will assume the position July 1. Gammill has been with Clovis Municipal Schools since 2007 - teaching, coaching and being assistant principal at Gattis since 2021. Gammill earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematics from Eastern New Mexico University and her Master’s Degree in School Administration from Wayland Baptist University. The Gattis vacan...
When cancer showed up in Kyle Richardson’s life he pushed on and will be one of 464 Clovis High School seniors graduating at today’s ceremony at the Curry County events center. Richardson, 18, is the son of Shawn Richardson and Patricia and Zach May of Clovis. Except for the disruptions caused by Coronavirus, Richardson was having a 16-year-old’s year in school back in November 2020. That’s when he started feeling very fatigued, something not typical for the member of CHS’s cross country team. “Then I discovered a swelling...
The Curry County summer internship program is getting ready to begin with one problem: There aren’t enough businesses to accommodate the number of interns who have signed up. Curry County manager Lance Pyle reports there are over 70 interns ready to go to work. The program essentially provides free labor for participating businesses as intern wages are paid by Curry County. Source of the cash for the program is a grant that is providing $213,771 for Curry County youth interested in exposure to a variety of professions from d...
As things stand now, there may not be any presidential debates in 2024. And I’m not sure that would be a huge loss. The Republican National Committee has announced it will no longer participate in debates managed by the Commission on Presidential Debates, which has been in charge since 1988. RNC officials say they will find “newer, better debate platforms,” but anything they propose will have to be agreed to by the Democrats. With so much division and distrust between the parties, I won’t be surprised if the election cycle p...
On this date ... 1942: The “suddenly announced glider training school for Clovis” was preparing to receive the first of 67 planes to be used in training, the Clovis News-Journal reported. About 200 personnel, including fliers, Army officers, doctors, nurses and an ambulance unit were expected to be in Clovis by the weekend. “Hurried plans were under way today for the immediate leasing of three if not more tracts of prairie land near this city as auxiliary landing spots of the planes,” the newspaper reported. “Housing of the m...
ATLANTA — A new movie spreading suspicions of voter fraud, “2000 Mules,” shows surveillance video of Georgia voters dropping off multiple ballots. Conservative filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza says that’s a crime, suggesting that a network of unnamed “mules” rigged the presidential election for Democrat Joe Biden and against Republican Donald Trump. Based on these unproven allegations, the documentary-style movie jumps to the conclusion that the election was stolen. The 1 1/2-hour film leaves voters uninformed about precautions t...
The right to peaceable assembly is enshrined in the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” Assembly along with petition for redress are two of the five freedoms most often forgotten when citizens are...
Come and let us pity white people. They are the real victims here. That, in essence, is the battle cry that’s powered much of American politics for the last 30 years, the last 15 in particular. It has echoed from the halls of government to the set of Fox “News” to the far-flung strands of the worldwide web. Poor white people. They are being overrun by caravans when not murdered by illegals or terrorized by Muslims or tyrannized by masks or oppressed by vaccinations or cance...
This letter is coming from a person with 35 years of rural hospital administration experience. I attended the City Commission meeting on May 5 and was disappointed that nobody seems to be asking the right questions regarding this loss of a critical medical practice that has been involved in the care of thousands of women in the region for the past 35 years. The main question is, how did we get to this point? Presbyterian Healthcare could have assisted Women’s Medical Center in recruiting additional physicians to the p...
Editor’s note: Plains Regional Medical Center was invited by The News to review and respond to Vince DiFranco’s guest column for same-day publication. Plains Regional Medical Center has served the Clovis community as part of Presbyterian Healthcare Services for 47 years. In that time, our hospital team has worked in close partnership with Women’s Medical Center and other local women’s health care providers to deliver many babies and care for many women in our community. We are committed to continuing that tradition of care...
Just about every teacher, parent and student who endured the sad and dragged-out mess of online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic understands it was a disservice to young people. It hurt them academically and emotionally, and whatever was gained from a public health standpoint wasn’t fairly balanced against all that was lost. That evidence, plain as it is, remains anecdotal and personal. But a crucial study this month from the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University gives us a scientific sense of who w...
SANTA FE — New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham announced Wednesday that $200 million is on its way to over 550,000 New Mexico taxpayers. In a news release Lujan Grisham wrote taxpayers who receive funds through direct deposit are scheduled to receive at least $250 as the week ended. Paper checks for another 200,000 taxpayers will begin going out in the following days and will continue over the next few weeks. Lujan Grisham said throughout the summer, the state will be putting nearly half a billion dollars back into the poc...
Curry County Detention Administrator Mark Gallegos has submitted his resignation. In a news release from county manager Lance Pyle writes Gallegos’ resignation comes after six years with the county. Pyle reports Gallegos has been hired by the Core Civic-owned Cibola County Correctional Center that houses Federal marshal, ICE, and county detainees. Pyle has appointed assistant detention administrator Joe Alaniz as interim detention administrator effective June 1. Pyle praised Gallegos’ leadership, vision and drive and it “wi...
The Roosevelt County Chamber of Commerce has announced it has been forced to cancel the 2022 Fourth of July Portales Fireworks Show. Karl Terry, executive director of the chamber, wrote in a news release J&M Displays, the vendor that has produced and fired the show for more than a decade, in March announced it would be unable to produce the Portales show on July 4. Terry said the chamber, which contracts, coordinates and fund-raises for the event each year, searched to find another vendor or option without success. “The s...
Clovis Mayor Mike Morris believes the city has much to be optimistic about, despite some lingering issues. In his State of the City address Thursday, Morris credited Clovis MainStreet with adding new business and occupation of formerly vacant buildings downtown. The city is also on its way to increasing building permits from 126 in 2021. With the year less than half over, he said, the city already has recorded 90 building permits. He also said new restaurants have come to town...
