Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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Most of eastern New Mexico was under the following weather alerts early Friday evening: * Severe thunderstorm warning until 7:15 p.m. Friday * Flash flood warning until 8:15 p.m. Friday * Tornado watch until 10 p.m. Friday and flood watch until 6 a.m. Saturday A second consecutive rainy night left numerous rural roads damaged, hazardous or closed around eastern New Mexico. "We are requesting all persons to pay close attention to road conditions and exercise caution while driving county roads," the Curry County Road Department...
Wednesday night’s supercell thunderstorm produced three tornadoes, dumped more than 3 inches of rain across eastern New Mexico and left hundreds of area residents with broken windows and trees and damaged rooftops and vehicles. Tornadoes were reported 4 miles south-southwest of Wheatland, 2-3 miles east-northeast of Grady and 11 miles northwest of Pleasant Hill, according to Jennifer Shoemake, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Albuquerque. No damage was r...
Tornado and flood warnings kept area residents with an eye to the skies on Wednesday night. A confirmed, large and "extremely dangerous" tornado was located by radar near Broadview at 7:09 p.m. Wednesday, according to the National Weather Service. A tornado warning issued for east-central Quay and northeastern Curry County expired at 8:15 p.m. Tornado sirens were blaring in Farwell around 9:15 p.m. (CDT) after Parmer County Sheriff's deputies spotted a tornado on the ground...
Jayme Kushman, one of the three women in Texico involved in child abuse charges last August has signed a plea, according to Misty Tillman, the Administrative Assistant to Ninth Judicial District Attorney Quentin Ray. Kushman, 37, and Jamie Sena, 29, were each charged first with 23 counts of child abuse. A third suspect, Lora Melancon, 41, was charged at a later date. The women were charged after authorities discovered children in their care in abusive conditions. This included conditions in which the children were found – s...
Monty Porter of Portales was sentenced to 18 months incarceration on Wednesday according to Ninth Judicial District Attorney Quentin Ray. According to a news release from Ray, Porter, 58, was found guilty in a jury trial on May 9, for battery on a household member, criminal damage to property and interference with communications, all misdemeanors. The release stated that on January 2, 2022, a deputy with the Roosevelt County Sheriff's Office responded to 327 S Roosevelt Road...
Portales City Council members on Tuesday unanimously approved a property tax increase, but by a smaller amount than originally proposed. Council members voted to hike taxes by 1.47 mills, up from the current 2.796 mills for residential property owners. A mill generates $1 for every $1,000 in taxable value. If property is assessed at $300,000, its taxable value is $100,000 and the property tax would be $100 per mill. The council in February voted tentatively to increase the mill rate by 4.425. On Tuesday, it decided to...
A severe thunderstorm warning is in effect in Curry County until 5 p.m. Tuesday. At 4:17 p.m., a severe thunderstorm was located over Broadview, 25 miles north of Clovis. That storm included 60-mph winds and half-dollar size hail, according to the National Weather Service. It was moving southeast at 25 mph. “Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage to roofs, siding and trees,” NWS reports....
The Clovis Area Transit System (CATS) recently promoted a fellow employee to director. Garry Johnson. Johnson, 58, worked as an office manager for CATS for four years. That changed on May 5, when he replaced Mary Lou Kemp, who retired. Kemp was in the director position for about 30 years, according to Johnson. “I look forward to it. I mean, I’ve been with the city. 16 years, this is my fourth position. So they’ve given me the opportunity to be able to move up,” Johnson said. CATS provides curb to curb service, Monday through...
On this date ... 1910: J.D. Osborn, Portales' new city marshal, was cracking down on violators of city ordinances. He was focusing on "speed of drivers of horses," and "hitching horses to awnings," the Roosevelt County Herald reported. 1937: Santa Fe Railway train carloads through Clovis for the previous week totaled 24,097. That was up from 20,195 from the previous year, Santa Fe officials said. A Santa Fe freight agent told the Clovis Evening News-Journal that 22 cars of...
The annual Wheatland School reunion is Saturday. Anybody who ever attended the native-stone school on SR 469 in Quay County is welcome to attend. Organizer Kathern Herber went to the Wheatland School, starting in 1944 in “pre-primer, what would be called kindergarten today, until she was in the 8th grade, in 1952. “That’s when my folks moved to Texline, Texas,” Herber said. Herber’s father, Joe Szaloy, was hired to haul stone for the native stone building with his mule team and wagon. “There was the schoolhouse, the gym, a...
An Air Force Change of Command ceremony is set for 9 a.m. today at Cannon Air Force Base. Cannon Wing Commander Col. Terence Taylor is relinquishing command to Col. Jeremy S. Bergin according to a news release from Cannon's public affairs office. Taylor is heading to his new command of the 380th Expeditionary Wing based out of Al Dhafra, United Arab Emirates. Bergin comes from the 14th Flying Training Wing, Columbus Air Force Base in Columbus, Mississippi where he served as...
Who put Jesus on the cross? That’s a question one of my favorite Bible professors liked to ask when he wanted to make his students’ brains bleed. And it’s a question with a hook in it. So, what do you think? If you answered, the religious authorities who were in power, you’d be right. The most overtly religious folks of Jesus’ day. Folks who fancied themselves the most “spiritual” of all people killed the Son of God. Now, by the way, if you think I’m leaning toward any kind of...
The 2023 New Mexico legislative session was generally disappointing for New Mexicans who wish to see much-needed K-12 education reform. However, it was not a total loss. In fact, one bill did pass that could help thousands of New Mexico families pay for educational options that work best for them. Without a single “no” vote during the 2023 session, HB 342 will soon be the “law of the land.” The bipartisan bill was sponsored in the House by Republican Minority Leader Ryan Lane...
Eastern New Mexico University’s (ENMU) Athletics Department is offering skills camps for area youth in football, basketball, baseball, volleyball and women’s soccer this summer, according to a news release from John Houser, assistant vice president of ENMU’s marketing and communications department. “In our efforts to be a resource and community partner, ENMU is proud to offer a range of camps and activities for our area youth. We hope parents will take advantage of the programs,” ENMU President James Johnston said. Camps tha...
My unsolicited advice for this year’s graduates is simple: Move slow and fix things. In 2014, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg coined the phrase “move fast and break things” to describe the mentality of our new 20-year-old tech-sector corporate leaders who believed all human knowledge gained over the centuries had been made obsolete by quantum computing. “The idea is that if you never break anything, you’re probably not moving fast enough,” Zuckerberg explained. He expounded on the idea during a college lecture. “A lot of t...
It was a monsoon weather pattern that brought rain to Curry and Roosevelt counties Sunday. “Monsoonal weather isn’t characteristic of this time of year. It certainly has helped moisture-wise and the increase in moisture and humidity has helped with preventing wildfire starts,” Annette Mokry said. Mokry is a meteorologist with the National Weather Service’s (NWS) Albuquerque office. According to the NWS station at Clovis Regional Airport the Clovis area picked up 1/100th of an inch of rain Sunday afternoon at about 1 p.m. Su...
She married her high school sweetheart and best friend on June 23, 1948. Hundreds of people came to her wedding. Most of them had to buy a ticket. The event attracted a fair amount of media coverage. “More than1,900 baseball fans jammed Bell Park Wednesday night to see the Clovis Pioneers win their sixth straight game … and to witness the marriage of Pioneer center fielder Wilcy Moore to Miss Mary Arnold of Muleshoe,” the Clovis News-Journal reported. “The wedding ceremon...
Two events, new to Clovis, are scheduled for Saturday and Sunday. The Second annual Beautiful Ashes Revival will be at Greene Acres Park in Clovis. The organizer, Jacqueline Ford, describes herself as a mother of four, minister and evangelist. The origin of the event is tied to a personal tragedy Ford experienced. "I had a friend who took her life. So I was praying to the Lord and I heard Him say, 'Be my hands and feet.' I prayed about it and The Lord put in my heart Isaiah, C...
