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The following are the prepared remarks from Mayor Mike Morris for the state of the city address delivered Wednesday from the Clovis-Carver Public Library: City of Clovis Mission Statement “It is the mission of Clovis city government to provide quality municipal services in the best, most effective and most economical manner; to operate in a spirit of cooperation and collaboration with all people and in every endeavor; to expect every employee of the City to perform to the highest of their capacity and to provide leadership a...
TEXICO — Senior David Davalos clubbed a pair of two-run homers in Texico’s nine-run third, and the Wolverines baseball team improved to 4-0 for the season with a 14-2 rout of Gateway Christian on Thursday at Texico. Leading 2-0, Texico’s third-inning eruption put the game completely out of reach. Davalos finished 2-for-2 with a walk and a hit-by pitch, while senior Gabe Bailey was 2-for-3 with a walk and two runs scored. The Warriors (2-2) broke through in the top of the fourth on a two-run single by junior Jeremiah Dickm...
ARTESIA — Score one for Artesia’s girls. In what could be a budding rivalry of sorts, the Lady Bulldogs met up with Clovis High in track for the third time this spring on Friday, the second time in Artesia. They had split earlier matchups, each winning at home, before Artesia took the team championship on Friday in its own invitational, finishing with 150 points to 101 for the runnerup Lady Wildcats in a seven-school competition. They’ll collide for a fourth time, on June 11 at Portales in the final meet of the regular season...
CLOVIS - Clovis High School has scheduled its graduation for 2 p.m. today at Leon Williams Stadium. Officials said 392 students are in the 2021 graduating class. This number is similar to the number of students who have graduated from Clovis in the recent past. Tickets will be required to attend the ceremony. Each senior received eight tickets for guests, two of which have gold lettering. The gold lettering will allow those two ticketholders into The Rock if there is...
Booked The following were booked into local jails (Tuesday-Friday): Clovis • Jose Rivera, 31, false imprisonment, concealing identity • Latasha Daniels, 38, conspiracy to commit fraud by worthless check, fraud by worthless check • Arthur Martinez, 37, probation violation • Gary Marez, 40, trafficking controlled substances • Carlos Venegas, 38, embezzlement of a motor vehicles, failure to pay fines • Lyle Case, 36, probation violation, tampering with evidence • Jared Montano, 25, driving under the influence of liquor • John...
Copper is the new "gold." Driven by its use in electric-vehicle batteries, wind turbines and other clean energy technologies, copper has doubled in price in the past year and the Bank of America says it could double again by 2025. Copper has become extremely valuable -- more than $10,000 a ton. But we have a serious problem on our hands, with potentially harmful effects on everything from EV production to the deployment of renewables. There isn't enough copper to go around, not with construction companies competing with auto...
Fifty years ago. Left-wing terrorists exploded a bomb at the U.S. Capitol. An Army officer was convicted in the massacre of civilians at My Lai. Vietnam chewed up another 2,414 American lives. And across the country, needles were lowered for the first time to the grooved surface of a certain spinning vinyl disc, and there came the murmur of a party -- "a groovy party, man," one of the guests pronounced it in the parlance of the time. A sinuous saxophone twined among the...
If you’re the sort of person who sees no difference between the Israeli military defending its citizens and Hamas terrorizing civilians, you might want to pass on this column. This column is for the sort of person who realizes that violence is horrible, that killing civilians is horrific, that politics is dirty and that the world is not designed for the peacemakers. This column is also for those who will disagree on how we get to a point where warring tribes can come to s...
Most of the country has seen video of the tragic death of Ma’Khia Bryant. She’s the 16-year-old girl from Columbus, Ohio, who was shot four times on April 20 by a police officer as she was about to stab another young woman with a kitchen knife. Many people blame the cop for Ma’Khia’s death. Many people blame Ma’Khia’s parents or Ma’Khia herself. But you know what really killed her? Foster care. That’s the failed system that turned her into a raging young woman with a knife in...
The charge of apartheid is the new blood libel. As Hamas rains rockets down on Israel, members of the Squad in Congress and other left-wing enemies are using the occasion to amplify their accusation that Israel is an “apartheid state.” This is a transparent attempt to delegitimize — and isolate and ultimately destroy — the Jewish state by associating it with a racist regime that the world united to squeeze out of existence. Rashida Tlaib, the Democratic congresswoman from Mi...
Government's mask mandates have mostly been lifted across New Mexico and Texas. Declining numbers of COVID-19 cases certainly support a return to individual freedom that should never have been taken away. Now it's time to fight for the rights of individuals — and the businesses they own — who choose to continue COVID-safe practices. Laura Leal decided last week her popular Tex-Mex restaurant in Clovis will still require customers wear face coverings when they enter the Leal's lobby. Right or wrong, she thinks it's the bes...
CLOVIS — The Arts Academy at Bella Vista has named Phillip Lemke its principal for the 2021-22 school year. Lemke, currently assistant principal at Gattis Middle School, will assume his new position July 19. He will replace Jennifer Longley, who will transfer within the district. According to a district release, Lemke started with the district I 1999 as a physical education teacher at Zia Elementary School before transferring to Gattis later that year. He has also taught at the Clovis High School Freshman Academy and Yucca M...
CLOVIS — The Clovis Regional Airport will hold a grand opening Thursday for its upcoming Transportation Security Administration terminal, according to a city release. The grand opening and ribbon cutting is scheduled for 3 p.m. at the airport, and will be streamed on the city’s Facebook page at facebook.com/cityofclovis. The airport is anticipated to begin TSA service June 1. Currently, passengers on Essential Air Service carrier Denver Air Connections must be transported to the entrance at Denver International Airport, and...
CLOVIS — The Clovis/Curry County Chamber of Commerce and the Clovis Industrial Development Corporation are offering a virtual seminar Tuesday on hiring and keeping remote workers. The 9 a.m. webinar is offered at no charge to local businesses, regardless of chamber membership, with registration at the chamber's website at clovisnm.org. The webinar, in partnership with Andrea Corpening of Elite Business Performance, will cover how businesses can determine jobs and tasks that can be handled remotely, the pros and cons of e...
CLOVIS — A Clovis woman was arrested Thursday on charges of extreme cruelty to an animal, according to court records. Talexy McElroy, 22, was released from the Curry County Adult Detention Center Friday on a $2,000 bond, and is due in Curry County Magistrate Court Thursday for a preliminary examination. She also faces misdemeanor charges of battery upon a peace officer and resisting, evading or obstructing an officer. According to a criminal complaint filed Friday in the magistrate court: A veterinarian contacted police T...
MULESHOE — A former Bailey County sheriff’s deputy was among three arrested Friday on felony drug charges, three weeks after they were detained at the U.S.-Mexico border. Bailey County Sheriff Richard Wills told various media outlets Jorge Torres was on leave from the office for about a week, and was fired from his position on Monday. Torres, Marina Trevino and Blanca Salas were all arrested by the Texas Rangers Friday and charged with felony possession of a controlled substance between 3 and 400 grams. Trevino is Tor...
All but one New Mexico county is currently in the most relaxed designation for COVID-19 public health orders. But state officials warn there’s still work to be done. “The pandemic is not over,” Human Services Secretary David Scrase said during a Wednesday webinar. “The pandemic is not over. The pandemic is not over.” On June 2, the state will release its next round of county “Red to Green” gating criteria. Every two weeks, the state grades counties on metrics of daily cases of 10 or fewer per 100,000 residents, test positivi...
CLOVIS — Spencer Pipkin of the Curry County Soil and Water Conservation District updated the Clovis City Commission on an ongoing process to potentially build a land trust for water issues Thursday night. The district, Pipkin said, is one of 43 conservation districts within the state. It is part of a steering committee to ensure good stewardship of Readiness Environmental Protection Initiative funding from the Department of Defense and the Conservation Fund. The REPI process has already resulted in $14 million in local fundin...
Meetings are subject to change due to coronavirus concerns. Tuesday • Roosevelt County Commission — 9 a.m., Jake Lopez Building, Roosevelt County Fairgrounds, 705 E. Lime, Portales. Public access limited to those on the agenda. Livestream available on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1bHckYttNQnmm6ymJhWaXQ and a recording of the meeting will be saved as a public video and linked from the county website, https://www.rooseveltcounty.com, following the public meeting. Information: 575-356-5307 • Clovis Municipal Schoo...
Today • Clovis High School graduation — 2 p.m., Leon Williams Stadium, 1900 N. Thornton St., Clovis. Information: 575-769-4350 • Elida High School graduation — 4:30 p.m., Elida Town Park, Elida, NM. Information: 575-274-6211 Tuesday • Hiring Remote Workers Webinar — 9 a.m., via Zoom. Panel discussion on hiring with Dr. Sandra Taylor-Sawyer (Small Business Development Center), Cindy Bryan (Carr, Riggs & Ingram), Sara Wiest (Plateau), and Andrea Corpening. To register or for information, visit https://busine...
On this date ... 1951: Hoagy Carmichael, who composed “Stardust” and other popular jazz songs, had been tasked with selecting beauty queens at Eastern New Mexico University. “The big brown eyes of Dolores Genta of Raton won the nod … that made her beauty queen of the 1951 Silver Pack student yearbook,” the Clovis News-Journal reported. Runners-up were Madeline Bandy of Raton, Della Ruth Frear of Clovis, Byrna Dean Hicks of Portales, and Margie Robinson of Lovington. Carmichael made the announcement himself “on a special rec...
CLOVIS — In a six-person race, a plurality of Clovis voters selected Mike Morris on March 3, 2020, to be their next mayor. By the time Morris was sworn in to become the third person to hold the elected office, the city and the world were just beginning the COVID-19 pandemic. Morris addressed the city’s work during the pandemic, and many other subjects, during a state of the city address Wednesday at the Clovis-Carver Public Library. The full text of Morris’ approximate 45-minute address is available at easte...
CLOVIS - Downtown business owner Robert Vilandry believes his customers deserve reserved parking spots in front of his business. City of Clovis officials have 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 collectibles shop were seldom taken by his customers, but by patrons of the new Bandolero Brewery. For the benefit of his...
CLOVIS — Officials said arrest warrants have been served on three juveniles, and another warrant has been issued for an 18-year-old, in connection with a May 14 shooting that injured one and left another dead from a subsequent car accident. As of Saturday morning, the only warrant for an adult charged in the case is for Xavier Lucero, 18, who has not been arrested. Lucero faces seven felony charges, including first-degree murder, shooting at or from a motor vehicle, and aggravated assault. Five warrants have been issued in t...
BASEBALL Prep summary Friday Clovis 12, Lovington 3 Lovington 120 000 0 — 3 4 1 Clovis 102 630 x —12 13 0 Diego Brito, Gilbert Sanchez (4), Yahir Salinas (6) and Victor Tejada; Josh Martin, Norbert Archibeque (2), Will Jordan (6) and Donovan Usery, Joseph Albert (7). W — Archibeque. L — Brito. Top hitters — Lovington: Brito 1-2, RBI, run, BB, SB; Tejada 1-4, RBI. Clovis: Johnny Jimenez 3-4, 4 RBIs; Archibeque 4-4, 3-run 2B, 4 RBIs; Justin Lawson 1-3, 2B, RBI, 3 runs, 2 BBs; Martin 1-3, RBI 3B, HBP; Anthony Garcia 1-1, 3 ru...
