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CLOVIS — Manuel Rodriguez was dying from multiple gunshot wounds when he told bystanders who were trying to help him, “Amanda’s boyfriend did this to me.” Amanda, police believe, was likely Amanda Arguijo, the one-time girlfriend of Ray Gomez. Family members of the victim helped police locate Arguijo and Gomez, and on May 15 Gomez was arrested on warrants unrelated to Rodriguez’s shooting. On Friday, still jailed on the unrelated warrants, Gomez, 49, was charged with firs... Full story
Remembrance ceremonies are planned for Monday, Memorial Day. Clovis' Elks Lodge #1244, VFW Post 3015 and the Joint Veterans Council are presenting a program at Lawn Haven Memorial Gardens Cemetery, 1601 Llano Estacado Blvd., in Clovis at 11 a.m. Monday. The event will feature a number of speakers including Clovis Mayor Mike Morris, Cannon Air Force Base Wing Commander Col. Terence Taylor, Congresswoman Teresa Ledger Fernandez's field representative Ben Salazar and Exalted...
Christmas has its poinsettia, Thanksgiving a cornucopia, St. Patrick’s Day its shamrock and Easter is known for lilies. Memorial Day has a simple but bright red poppy as its symbol. Nearly a decade ago I wrote a Memorial Day column that got more comments from people than anything I’d written for a while. With our nation currently not directly involved in a war for the first Memorial Day in more than two decades I felt like we needed a reminder of the real price of war. Our...
Kristian Price was born and raised in lower Alabama. As a freshman in high school, she moved with her parents to the Ruidoso area. After graduating from Capitan High School in 2015, she set her sights on a degree in business administration, focusing on hospitality management, which she earned from Eastern New Mexico University. When her now husband made the move from Ruidoso to Clovis in 2018, the couple decided to put down roots in the area. Today, Price works as the grant...
PORTALES – Eastern New Mexico University’s football season kicks off on a Thursday, features 11 games and includes matchups against both of New Mexico’s other Division 2 schools for the first time since 2002. The Portales university released the schedule last week. Officials said season tickets will be available “soon,” while single-game tickets will go on sale in August. “There are many kids on our roster from the state of New Mexico and we take a lot of pride in working to be the best D2 school in the state,” said ENMU coa...
Clovis High School hopes to have a new head football coach as soon as Thursday, Athletic Director Lonnie Baca said. Baca said school officials are scheduled to interview nine candidates for the job on Wednesday. A committee of four school administrators will meet after the interviews and Baca said they hope to offer the position later that evening or Thursday morning. The job became open earlier this month when Cal Fullerton resigned after five years as Wildcats’ head coach. Baca said he was surprised Fullerton quit; high s...
UVALDE, Texas - Children inside a Texas elementary school begged the police to enter their classroom and save them, frantically calling 911, as a team of 19 officers waited in the corridor for an hour because a commander believed the situation had shifted from active shooter to a barricaded subject, a state law enforcement officer said Friday. "Of course, it wasn't the right decision." Department of Public Safety Director Steven McCraw said at a news conference, choking back...
Monday *Memorial Day *American Legion Post 31 Memorial Day Service – 10:30 a.m., Portales Cemetery, 1600 E. Third St., Portales. VFW Post 9515 is offering a free meal open to all following the service at the post, 316 S. Main Ave., Portales. Information: 575-760-3341 *Memorial Day Tribute – 11 a.m., Lawn Haven Memorial Gardens, 1601 E. Llano Estacado, Clovis. Sponsored by the Joint Veterans Council and Clovis Portales Elks Lodge 1244. *Portales City Pool opens for summer – 1:45-5 p.m., City Pool, 210 E. Seventh St., Portales....
Monday *Memorial Day Tuesday *Roosevelt County Commission - 9 a.m., Commission Room, Roosevelt County Courthouse, 109 W. First St., Portales. Information: 575-356-5307 Wednesday *Clovis Community College Board of Trustees – 8 a.m., CCC, 417 Schepps Blvd., Room 512, Clovis. Information: http://www.clovis.edu/about/administration.aspx or 575-769-4001 Thursday *Clovis City Commission - 5:15 p.m., North Annex, Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main St., Clovis. Information: 575-769-7828 Saturday *Eastern New Mexico U...
Booked The following were booked into local jails (Tuesday - Friday): Clovis • Marisa Martinez, 25, making a false report, failure to give immediate notice of accidents, no insurance • Joeann McClendon, 43, shoplifting • Cheressa Neumann, 32, parole violation • Wesley Flores, 32, criminal trespass, probation violation • Cynthia Delgado, 36, probation violation • Ethan Mullins, 24, probation violation • Brittany Lopez, 30, aggravated battery against a household member, battery against a household member, failure to appear on...
Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham Monday signed an executive order directing the New Mexico Public Education Department to reduce what she termed “burdensome” reporting requirements by 25%, enabling school administrators to spend more time educating students and less time on paperwork. In a news release issued by the governor’s office, Lujan Grisham said, “Our kids should be the focus of everything we do at New Mexico schools, and teachers and administrators did not choose these professions to spend their days filling out pap...
The Clovis City Commission on Wednesday approved a preliminary budget for fiscal year 2023, which begins July 1 and ends June 30, 2023, that includes $62.1 million in revenues to all city funds and expenditures of $73.4 million, leaving a cash balance on June 30, 2023, of $45.6 million. The budget was the only item on the agenda for Wednesday’s special commission meeting. The budget is flat, compared to the fiscal 2022 budget, except for increases in utility, fuel and some insurance costs, Leigh Ann Melancon, the city’s finan...
The Clovis Municipal Schools board of education unanimously passed a $152.7-million budget for fiscal year 2022-23 Tuesday at their regular monthly meeting. Two board members, Paul Cordova and Terry Martin, were absent from the session. Board members Sean Hamilton, Sharon Epps and Cindy Osburn were present, the three of them making a quorum for any action that was taken at the meeting. Deputy superintendent of finance Shawna Stone made a presentation of the proposed budget, one that covers a 170-day student calendar for...
A Clovis Community College faculty member is directing the beginning of a community garden on campus. Gregory Rapp, division chair for languages and history, said produce from the garden will go to the campus food pantry. Rapp pointed out community gardens are a “pretty big thing now” with inflation, food pressures and the cost of food. “Some people consider our area a ‘food desert’ because they really miss fresh produce, they can’t seem to find what they want in our area,” Rapp said. Rapp said the community garden will p...
House Bill 51, sponsored in 2019 by Rep. Joanne Ferrary of Las Cruces, was the most consequential bill not to pass the New Mexico Legislature in the past two decades. It would have removed a law then still on the books from 1969 that made it a fourth-degree felony for doctors to perform an abortion; and a second-degree felony if the mother died as a result of the procedure. After passing on a 40-29 vote in the House, the bill was defeated 24-18 in the Senate. Eight Democrats, including some of the Senate’s most senior and h...
“Whose blood will spill, whose heart will break? Who’ll be the last to die for a mistake?” — Bruce Springsteen, “Last To Die” And once again: Why? It’s the question we always find ourselves asking in moments like this, the understanding we always seek as bodies lay strewn and the air is rent by shrieks of mourning. But for all that, the answer is no mystery. As is so often the case with America’s miseries, if you seek the origin story, if you follow the twisted roots b...
Like Wyatt Earp after the gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Donald Trump and his allies mounted up for a vendetta ride in Georgia. Unlike Earp and his posse, though, Trump didn’t get his man or any of his confederates, and Gov. Brian Kemp and Co. didn’t even have to leave the territory. Kemp and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger had provoked Trump’s ire by refusing to indulge his delusions about the 2020 election or engage in any legally dubious maneuvers to chang...
Monday is the day each year when we pause to remember the men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom. But how much do you know about the Memorial Day holiday itself? Find out: 1. Memorial Day began as a way of honoring soldiers who died in what conflict? A. The Revolutionary War B. The War of 1812 C. The Civil War D. World War I 2. The holiday was originally known by what name? A. Remembrance Day B. Decoration Day C. Valor Day D. Armistice Day 3. What flower is traditionally worn to honor fallen military pe...
The shortage of baby formula in stores across the U.S. has been in the news recently, and trying to get to the “root cause” of the problem has caused me some puzzlement. My local newspaper informed me that “millions of babies in the U.S. rely on formula, which is the only source of nutrition recommended for infants who aren’t exclusively breastfed.” After blaming the onset of the problem on supply chain shortages caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, I learned that in February...
Politicians on the Left say we need stricter gun laws. “Hell yes, we’re going to take your AR-15, your AK-47,” Beto O’Rourke said in announcing his plans if he’s elected Texas governor later this year. Politicians on the Right want to arm teachers and fill our schools with armed guards. “Gun control is not the answer,” Republican Party of New Mexico Chairman Steve Pearce said after Tuesday’s shooting at a Uvalde, Texas, elementary school in which 19 children and two teachers were shot to death by a teenager. What we know fo...
The good news in the city of Portales's preliminary budget for fiscal 2023 is that gross receipts tax revenue is expected to be $1.6 million higher, not counting cannabis business proceeds, and the city is expecting more than $1.4 million more in federal American Rescue Act funds. Marilyn Rapp, the city's finance director, relayed good and bad news as she walked the city council through the city's preliminary budget before the council unanimously approved it. The preliminary...
When Clovis’ Farmer’s Market opens in a little over a month it will be in the parking lot of the city’s North Plains Mall, a new location. Margie Plummer, market manager for the Clovis and Portales farmer’s markets says a portion of the area where the market used to be held, in the parking lot of Goodwin Lake Trail Park, was sold by the city and new construction will begin there soon. “We were welcome to stay,” Plummer said, “But our fear was construction would begin and interfere with the market.” Plummer said she understand...
Two attorneys from an Albuquerque law firm will conduct an investigation into allegations filed by three Clovis Community College employee groups against CCC President Charles Nwankwo. The investigation is in connection with the employee groups’ resolutions claiming “no confidence” in Nwankwo. The CCC Board of Trustees on Wednesday approved a “letter of engagement” with Cuddy and McCarthy, the law firm whose attorneys will “interview the relevant employees and records, as necessary, and produce a report with findings of...
Clovis' new zoo director believes he'll be bringing new things to the city's Hillcrest Park Zoo that will put it "shoulder to shoulder" with large metropolitan zoos. "Keep your eye out," Damian Lechner said. "We're going to have new animals coming, new programs, a new logo, a new website." Lechner, 45, has been on duty for two weeks but has a lifetime of interaction with wildlife. Growing up in Pittsburgh, Lechner said he always had a fascination for animals. He always had ani...
MELROSE – The school in Melrose was locked down for about 90 minutes Wednesday morning after a student threatened gun violence, officials said. “(A) young man told his friend that he was going to shoot up the school,” District Attorney Brian Stover said. Stover said the student who allegedly made the threat was located immediately and the threat was eliminated. “He did not have a weapon,” Stover said. Curry County Sheriff Wesley Waller said the male student, an eighth-grader, told a classmate “that he had a loaded firearm in... Full story
