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A New Mexico native and former Eastern New Mexico University player and coach has been hired as Clovis High School’s new head football coach. Andrew McCraw, 35, a native of Lovington, accepted the position effective July 1, according to a news release from Clovis schools. McCraw most recently was head coach at Belen High School last year where he led the team to a 7-4 record and a brief playoff run. McCraw was offensive line coach and academic coordinator at ENMU from 2017 t...
Booked The following were booked into local jails (Tuesday - Friday): Clovis * Johnathan Trujillo, 32, failure to comply with specific requirements, criminal damage to the property of a household member * Nancy Whinery, 59, aggravated driving while under the influence of intoxicating liquor or any drug, failure to comply with specific requirements – attempt * Eugene Higgins, 66, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge * Robert Najar, 41, failure to appear on a felony charge * Louren Lopez, 28, unlawful taking of a motor v...
Art Schaap remembers the day in 2018 when people from Cannon Air Force Base knocked on his front door and asked to test his water. The Clovis dairy farmer had seen airmen use firefighting foam during training exercises. But he soon learned that toxic chemicals from that foam had leaked off-base into the groundwater beneath his land. "That's when the nightmare began," he said. In the years since, Schaap found himself unable to sell the cows' contaminated milk or meat. He has...
On this date ... 1962: The Clovis News-Journal published its opinion-page philosophies: “We believe that all men are equally endowed by their Creator, and not by any government, with the gift of freedom, and that it is every man’s duty to God to preserve his own liberty and respect the liberty of others. Freedom is self-control, no more, no less. “To discharge this responsibility, free men, to the best of their ability, must understand and apply to daily living the great moral guides expressed in the Ten Commandments, the G...
I’m a bit of a history geek and the more local the history the better. I’ve been geeking out recently and as I write this column tonight on a little gift from my editor. He had asked me recently if I wanted any of the old newspapers in the old Portales News-Tribune morgue. The building was being sold and the contents that had been painstakingly saved for years and maintained carefully (at times by yours truly) were going to have to be moved to his office in Clovis. Thi...
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. “The Element of Love” by Mary Connealy. With their sharp engineering minds, Laura Stiles and her two sisters have been able to deal with their mother’s unfortunate choice in husband until they discovered his plans to marry each of them off to his l...
Curry Residents Senior Meals Association 901 W. 13th St. Clovis Monday: Beef enchiladas, pinto beans, chips and salsa, Sopapilla with honey. Tuesday: Crispy chicken sandwich lettuce, tomatoes, pickles and onions, tater tots, Jell-o. Wednesday: Beef chalupa, cheese, green chile and salad, pinto beans, salsa fruit cocktail. Thursday: Meat lasagna, Italian vegetables, garlic bread, cake. Friday: Pork tenderloin, mashed potatoes with brown gravy, Italian green beans, biscuit with butter, pudding. Friendship Senior Center 901 W....
PORTALES - Justin Manyweather and Jasmine Gannon have been named the Greatest Greyhounds for the 2021-22 athletic season, according to a news release from Eastern New Mexico University. Manyweather, a football player, is the 77th Male Greatest Greyhound; Gannon, a volleyball player, is the 42nd Female Greatest Greyhound. The Greatest Greyhound awards date to 1940-41 on the men's side and 1978-79 on the women's side. They represent student-athletes who display the highest...
Customers had more than five on it, as the state said cannabis businesses realized about $21.1 million in recreational sales in the month of May. Medical cannabis sales did $17.4 million — combining for a total sales month of about $38.5 million, according to data released by the state’s Cannabis Control Division on Thursday. The sales number for both recreational cannabis and medical cannabis were slightly lower than in April, when adult-use sales began and when the state realized nearly $40 million between the two. In Apr...
Like colleges and universities all over the nation, Clovis Community College and Eastern New Mexico University have been facing declining enrollments. Between Fall 2014 and Fall 2021, CCC saw full-time equivalent student enrollment drop by nearly 37%, from 3,744 students to 2,362 in 2021, a chart on the New Mexico Higher Education Department (HED) website shows. The largest drop occurred between 2019 and 2020, the year in which the COVID-19 pandemic peaked, when CCC’s student enrollment dropped by 763 students. CCC’s stu...
Four properties in Clovis city limits have been targeted for clean up and demolition of structures after unanimous votes by Clovis city commissioners at their regular meeting Thursday. City building safety director Daron Roach made a presentation to commissioners about the properties at 2025 Hammett, 118 Lydia, 820 Axtell and 1005 East Brady. The Axtell and Lydia homes had major damage from fires. With the commission vote the property owners of the cited real estate have 15...
As Democrats’ prospects in the 2022 mid-term elections dim, the party needs to revive itself with what was once a reliable constituency – Hispanic voters. A Wall Street Journal poll taken in December found Hispanic voters split 37 percent to 37 percent “if the election were held today.” The Journal poll also showed that Hispanic voters mirror the overall voter pool. When asked how Biden is handling his responsibilities, 42 percent approved of the president’s job performance, and 54 percent disapproved – in line with the 41 pe...
Clovis’ Draggin’ Main is an “all things related to cars” event, and it starts a week from today. Draggin’ Main’s co-founder and organizer Gene Porter had that description of what he went on to label as a “non-discriminatory motor event: Cars, bikes, trucks, tractors, cheap, expensive, unfinished, finished, vintage, classic, new, old.” Porter organized the original Draggin’ Main with Bryan Boone nine years ago. The event gets underway with Draggin’ Main’s “Tour of Classic Restaurants” Sunday, June 12 at the Rib Crib restauran...
I’ve been in favor of the death penalty since I first knew what it was. I suppose it has something to do with my sense of justice: if you take a life, which is really the only time the death penalty is imposed, you owe a life. That also conflicts somewhat with my Catholic upbringing that teaches all life is precious, but humans have our convenient blind spots, and mine was capital punishment. For most of my life, I’ve been fairly steadfast in my belief that killers des...
So much for the good guy with a gun. That, you will recall, was Wayne LaPierre’s preferred solution to America’s epidemic of firearms violence. “The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun,” he said, “is a good guy with a gun.” The chief executive officer of the National Rifle Association said this on Dec. 21, 2012 -- one week after the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School that left dead six adults and 20 children ages 6 and 7. Americans were grieving and demanding a...
The president of the United States is a blowhard -- again. If the country thought it was getting a buttoned-up, by-the-books communicator after four wildly undisciplined years of Donald Trump, it knew nothing about Joseph R. Biden’s long career as Washington’s standout long-winded, seat-of-the-pants, poorly informed, and misleading talker. Biden blew up two presidential campaigns with his verbal idiocy, and no one thought during his decades as a senator that he was just the...
The news media have the responsibility to present current events as accurately as they can, using reliable sources and verifying these sources. Failure to present an accurate account or a skewed account of events is not only unethical, it is dangerous. People at all levels including political and military leaders regularly use data from media to determine actions that can have dire effects on their lives. An “unnamed source who was not authorized to comment,” is not a rel...
Tuesday is Election Day throughout New Mexico. Decisions we make today will impact public policy for the next two to four years. Our newspaper for nearly a century has used this space to champion smaller government. Today seems a good day to make that argument again. Most of our local candidates are running under the umbrella of the Republican Party. Most Republicans claim to support smaller government. Unfortunately, not all of their stated polices reflect the concept. It’s been interesting to hear local Republicans argue a...
Tuesday *NM primary election – 7 a.m.-7 p.m. Curry County polling places: Colonial Golf Course, 1300 Colonial Parkway, Clovis; Youth Recreation Building, 1504 E. Seventh St., Clovis; Roy Walker Community Center, 316 W. Second St., Clovis; Farmers Electric Cooperative, 3701 N. Thornton St., Clovis; Curry County Road Department (Road Barn), 1006 CR 6, Clovis; Pleasant Hill Fire Department, 304 SR 77, Texico; Grady Senior Citizens Center, 104 W. Main, Grady; Melrose City Hall, 105 E. Avenue B, Melrose; Texico Community B...
Today through Wednesday *Vacation Bible School – 6-8:30 p.m. (Central time), First Baptist Church of Farwell, 404 Ave. E, Farwell, TX. Open completed Pre-K through fifth grade. Information or to register: http://www.fbcfarwell.org/vbs-2022-registration or 806-481-3202 Monday through Friday *Vacation Bible School – 5-8 p.m., Highland Baptist Church, 2201 N. Main St., Clovis. Open to ages 4 through sixth grade. Online registration available at https://www.highlandclovis.com/vbs.html. Information: Meagan Kelly or Geralyn Boydstu...
Blue Cross Blue Shield will continue to be the provider of health insurance to Clovis Community College employees for the next five years, the community college’s board decided Wednesday . The college will pay more than $2.5 million for employee health care benefits that include a health savings account, a high-deductible option, Medicare supplemental insurance for retirees, life insurance and dental benefits, Steve Brooks, the college’s purchasing agent, told the board. A staff committee evaluated the Blue Cross Blue Shi...
Tuesday is Primary Election Day in New Mexico. Voters will be going to the polls to decide who will be representing their party on the ballot in the General Election scheduled Nov. 8. County clerks in Curry and Roosevelt counties listed polling places and other details about Tuesday’s polling. In Curry County, Clerk Annie Hogland said voters must be registered with a major political party (Democratic, Libertarian, or Republican) to be eligible to cast a ballot in Tuesday’s Primary Election. Voters can verify their inf...
PORTALES -- A Portales woman is due in court Wednesday to face charges of child abuse, neglect, and animal cruelty in a case that District Attorney Brian Stover terms “extreme.” Sharman Eminger, 53, faces a third-degree felony charge of abuse of a child, a misdemeanor charge of abandonment of a child, and nine charges of cruelty to animals. A woman who said she was Eminger declined to respond to questions on Thursday. She is being represented by Portales attorney Sandra Gallagher who did not return phone calls seeking com...
After the May 24 shooting in Uvalde, Texas, where 19 children and two teachers were killed, school officials nationwide have been reviewing their own campus security. School administrators in Clovis and Portales have been looking at their campuses too. In Clovis, Superintendent Renee Russ said Clovis Municipal Schools partners closely with local, regional and state law enforcement agencies when it comes to campus security. Russ stated via email the district has memorandums of understanding and follows federal incident command...
Former Clovis Mayor David Lansford wants to be on the Nov. 8 ballot in the race for the District 64 seat in the state Legislature. The seat has been held by Republican Randal Crowder since 2015. Crowder is not seeking re-election. A recently realigned District 64 includes Clovis and Portales. Former area District Attorney Andrea Reeb is unchallenged for the Republican slot on the ballot in Tuesday’s voting “I’m running for the state representative district 64 seat,” Lansford said. “I’m not running against Reeb.” “Tha...
