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PORTALES — A man facing a homicide trial next year was found dead in his cell at the Roosevelt County Detention Center on Friday afternoon. County officials said they believe Manuel Silva committed suicide. Silva, 23, was found unresponsive in his cell, according to Roosevelt County Manager Amber Hamilton. Emergency services and the Roosevelt County Sheriff’s Office were immediately dispatched to the scene, she said. “Our thoughts and prayers are with Mr. Silva’s family and friends during this time of loss” Hamilton...
CLOVIS — Curry County is on the cusp of letting its voters decide if it wants the county to remain dry or to have alcohol sales. A resolution is up for debate during Monday’s special county commission meeting. The 1:30 p.m. meeting includes Resolution 2019-59, which would call for an election from registered county voters to “adopt the local option provisions of the Liquor Control Act to allow for the sale, service and public consumption of alcoholic beverages within Curry County.” County Clerk Annie Hogland said if the res...
CLOVIS - On one of the quickest days in Clovis Soap Box Derby history, John Bamforth was the quickest. Bamforth, a late replacement who had never operated a soap box car before this week, defied the odds and bested the field Saturday to earn the derby's automatic berth into the Great American Soap Box Derby, scheduled for July 20 in Akron, Ohio. Event organizer Larry Erwin said Saturday went about as well as anybody could imagine with good weather and a great slate of...
Information on sewing in circles, the power of peanuts, and turning quilt blocks into wall art will be the featured topics on “Creative Living” 9:30 p.m. Tuesday and noon Thursday (all times Mountain). Imagine cutting a hole in a block of fabric and then sewing a circle of another fabric into the empty space. Designer, author and teacher, Becky Goldsmith will demonstrate how to pin and sew a set-in circle, and she says this technique is as easy to sew as any other curved sea...
The city of Roswell has a new trademark. You guessed it, the new logo cashes in on its ties to all things alien. The mark is a dayglo green letter “R” with a spaceship casting a beam down into the character above the name “Roswell” in an alien-looking font. It’s pretty good and I can certainly see why Roswell needs to go to the trouble of applying for a genuine trademark. When I heard the news it made me remember a booklet I’d filed away for column material and this seems to b...
My name is Shawna Boydstun. My dad was in the Air Force and I have lived all over the world in places such as: Guam, Arizona, Italy, Japan and Germany. I have been in New Mexico since 2005 - right after I graduated from high school in Misawa, Japan. My husband is Ryan and we were married in 2007. We have two boys, Jace and Trenton. I have worked as a training and curriculum specialist at Chavez Child Development Center for 10 years. Ryan is a mechanic and a "hot rod" guy. We d...
CLOVIS - On Jan. 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, which stated "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states, "are, and henceforward shall be free." However - and as Juneteenth speaker Veda Ervin said, "There's always a however." - as the Civil War neared its third year of conflict, proclaiming something and enforcing it were two different things. "Some people didn't see things that way," Ervin said. "Somebody shot the...
PORTALES - In regards to his name, Clayton native Ezra Bagwell is the fourth of his kind. He was named after his father, who was named after his father, who was named after the first Ezra in the family tree. "It was the fourth Ezra, so we wanted to keep the tradition," Bagwell said. "But everybody (at home) knows me by Colby." Regarding Greyhound athletics and academics, he's the first of his kind. The Lone Star Conference announced Thursday the recent Eastern New Mexico...
CLOVIS — Issuing court summons to four offending parents, 9th Judicial District Attorney Andrea Reeb announced Thursday the latest push in a campaign to forestall crime by cracking down on truancy. Four parents will be summoned to magistrate court on petty misdemeanor charges of “Failure to Enforce Compulsory School Attendance from the 2018-2019 school years,” according to Reeb’s news release. A first-time conviction carries no jail time, but subsequent offenses are “punishable by six months in jail and/or a $500 fine.” St...
I traveled recently to central Illinois to speak at a memorial service at Eureka College, my dad’s alma mater, on the 15th anniversary of his death. As I flew halfway across the country and talked to many of the good people in the heart of America, it struck me how testy or peeved off everyone is about politics. It seems like everyone’s got a chip on their shoulder. You can’t just sit down at a table or a bar and have a simple conversation with a friend or a stranger because you’re afraid of what might happen if you say the...
CLOVIS — Most residents of Clovis, assuming they go on with their daily routine, are not going to notice the city is hosting the annual New Mexico Association of Counties Conference this week. It might, however, be a different story if they wanted to book a hotel room, or visit a local restaurant for lunch, or drive anywhere around the Clovis Civic Center or Clovis Community College. It’s those parts of the city that will feel the biggest impact, with more than 700 signed up for the conference running Tuesday through Fri...
The more the climate debate changes, the more it stays the same. Polls show that the public is worried about climate change, but that doesn’t mean it is any more ready to bear any burden or pay any price to combat it. If President Donald Trump claws his way to victory again in Pennsylvania and the Upper Midwest, his path will likely go through abortion and climate change, two issues on which the Democrats are most confident in their righteousness and willing to embrace r...
TIJERAS — Last month, my husband and I drove from New Mexico to Louisiana. We left our house in a freak snowstorm — crazy weather for mid-May — and drove through every kind of weather known to humankind over the next few days. On a weather app, we could see real-time radar. So we changed our course slightly to time our travel to follow behind the bulk of the storms. Although we didn’t have perfect weather, we missed the tornadoes and large hailstorms as we visited Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana. A few days ago, I...
The U.S. Office of Special Counsel last week recommended President Trump fire an aide for “persistent, notorious and deliberate Hatch Act violations.” Trump said no, he would not fire Kellyanne Conway, his former campaign manager, for that. Most casual political observers probably assumed this was partisan politics as usual. That would be incorrect, just as it would be incorrect to assume the 1939 Hatch Act — authored by Democratic Sen. Carl Hatch of Clovis — had little opposition from Democratic President Franklin Delano...
Joe Biden says and does a lot of smart things. It’s part of the reason he got himself elected to the Senate, and it’s part of the reason Barack Obama decided, “This guy’s going to be my running mate.” Joe Biden says a lot of other things too, and one reminded me exactly why he’s never been a serious contender for the Oval Office. Monday night was one of those times. During a fundraiser, Biden talked about how he would work with Republicans once he was president. “With Trump gone, you’re going to begin to see things change,” B...
CLOVIS — Installation of a reuse water main will require the closure of roads at the intersection of 21st and Thornton streets for three weeks, according to a release from the city of Clovis. Work will begin Monday on the water main installation, and will require the closure of Thornton between 20th and 21st streets. Additionally, access to 17th, 18th and 19th streets from Thornton will be limited to residents of those neighborhoods. A detour lane will be established at Purdue Street with Cameo Street as the relief route b...
PORTALES — The board of regents for Eastern New Mexico University hopes to select a site for the president’s new residence during a special meeting Tuesday afternoon in Portales. A state appropriation of $650,000 will be used for the construction of “a president’s residence and public event venue” for the university, Regent Lance Pyle wrote in a message to The News. A committee of six is still in the process of reviewing, evaluating and ranking six requests for proposals and their decision on that is not expected until ear...
For the second time in three weeks, a fox has tested positive for rabies in the Texico-Farwell area. Farwell Police Chief Larry Kelsay said a fox “attacked the shovels of some workers” in southwest Farwell early last week. “We euthanized the fox and (tests) came back positive for rabies,” Kelsay said on Thursday. Last month, a pair of fox attacks were reported in Texico. “We had a fox attack a dog,” Texico Police Chief Doug Bowman said. “The owner put the fox down. We secured the fox, had it sent off to the state lab (th...
On this date ... 1969: A former Eastern New Mexico University student had been featured in “Personalities on Parade,” a chatty section on Army personnel in the June issue of “Army Digest.” 1st Lt. Gloria Maestas graduated from ENMU in 1968. She was serving in the Women’s Army Corps at Fort McClellan, Alabama. The Clovis News-Journal reported Maestas was the first person to participate in a guest lecture program at the Fort McClellan elementary school. Maestas said she used rocks and minerals to teach a science class to...
Tuesday • Curry County Commission — 9 a.m., Commission Chambers, Curry County Administration Complex, 417 Gidding St., Clovis. Information: 575-763-6016 • Friends of Clovis-Carver Public Library — 11:30 a.m., Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main St., Clovis. Information: 575-769-7840 • Eastern New Mexico Board of Regents special called telephonic meeting — 2 p.m., ENMU Administration Building, Regents Room. Information: 575-562-2133. • Portales City Council — 6:30 p.m., Memorial Building, 200 E. 7th St., Portales. Inform...
PORTALES - You could go to just about any grocery store and buy a nice, juicy pork chop, a bag of chips, a beverage and enough vegetables to make a nice coleslaw and easily make a $15 budget. But will your pork chop be tender enough to peel off the bone, and have an unmistakable mesquite flavor? Will it help send kids to camp, lower a college student's debt, put books in the Portales Public Library, pick up trash on the highway, or help Meals on Wheels? For the first time in n...
MULESHOE - Maria Ruvalcabo said "it sounded like an explosion." When a cattle truck collided with a Muleshoe school bus on Tuesday, Ruvalcabo said the impact made a large cloud of dust. When it settled, she saw a distraught bus driver and a little boy crying outside for his mother. "The kids were real scared," said Ruvalcabo, who lives at the northeast corner of the intersection where the accident happened at Texas 214 and Bailey County Road 1028. A report will be available...
CLOVIS — You could call it a “Landers’ Dozen”— first, five children from a mixed family when Sanford Landers married his wife Cynthia in 1982, followed by a total of eight more the couple adopted in the years following. “We thought that was a good number,” Landers told The News on Thursday in a phone interview from Coyote Creek State Park in Mora County, where he was camping with his wife and two grandchildren. “My birth date is on the 13th (of December), and I was born in ’39 (a multiple of 13).” Landers was born in the ups...
PORTALES - It was a hot one but the crowds in Portales found plenty to keep it cool Saturday with candy, cars, country music and plenty more during the city's 35th annual Heritage Days celebration. "It seems to be getting a little better each year," Don Massey said of the increasing turnout in Saturday's car show, which featured 65 entries in the shaded south end of City Park. The same could be said of the programming overall. The parade, touted as the celebration's feature...
• Clovis High’s football program will hold its “Beast From the East” camp for grades 1-8 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday at Leon Williams Stadium. Registration, which is available prior to the Tuesday session, is $50 per camper and $35 for each additional sibling. The camp is $40 for children of military members or Clovis school district employees. Information: 575-769-4350, ext. 1023 or ext. 1400; or 575-693-1714. • The New Mexico Department of Game and Fish will begin online sales June 26 of hunting licenses...
