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Clovis Police Chief Doug Ford is one of four finalists for the police chief job in Burnet, Texas. Burnet City Manager David Vaughn said Friday that Ford and three others have interviews scheduled next week to oversee the department that employs 21 officers. Ford has been Clovis’ police chief since March of 2016. He’s worked for Clovis PD for 22 years. He said he has family in the Burnet area and decided to apply for the job when it came open. "I still enjoy serving and protecting our community," Ford wrote in an email to the...
CLOVIS - There will be a Draggin' Main celebration this year, but what kind of event will it be? Concerts and nostalgia are usually the main entrées. But this is a most unusual year because of COVID-19, so the concerts are out. Organizers will try to squeeze in as much nostalgia as they can, with as much socializing as a still largely socially distant culture will allow. The Main Street Cruise is on, starting at 5 p.m. Saturday. That's it as far as anything official. "We're...
CLOVIS — Clovis Municipal Schools has released additional details on the Clovis High School graduation ceremony, scheduled for 8 p.m. Friday online and at three drive-up locations. The graduation will be shown on large screens at three locations: • Faith Christian Family Church • Curry County Events Center • Red Arrow The site at FCFC will be exclusive to the graduating seniors, although family members may also be in the vehicle. The two other sites are reserved for family and friends who have received a ticket. Tickets...
CLOVIS — The Clovis City Commission is expected to give final approval to an ordinance to refinance a pair of bonds over the next 22 years to take advantage of interest rates. The 5:15 p.m. meeting at the North Annex of the Clovis-Carver Public Library will be broadcast on Suddenlink Channel 10, cityofclovis.org and the city Facebook page. Questions can be called in to 575-763-9200. Public attendance will be allowed, but numbers will be limited. Ordinance 2133-2020 authorizes a $9 million loan agreement with the New Mexico Fi...
A Clovis man died Tuesday following a single-vehicle accident in Curry County. According to a news release from Sheriff Wesley Waller: • At 2:17 p.m. Tuesday, deputies were dispatched to a motor-vehicle crash on Curry Road G, between Curry Roads 7 and 8. • A 2007 Honda passenger vehicle, driven by Juan Medrano-Nieto, 32, of Clovis, was traveling south on Curry Road G. • Between Curry Road 7 and Curry Road 8, the vehicle crossed left of center and entered the northbound soft shoulder. The driver then overcorrected, causi...
GRIER — The man who died on June 2 in a truck-pickup collision on U.S. 60/84 near Grier has been identified as James C. Rogers, 59, of Clovis. A news release Tuesday from Curry County Sheriff Wesley Waller said Rogers had been positively identified through the Office of the Medical Investigator. The accident was reported at 9:20 a.m., about 11 miles west of Clovis. According to a news release from the sheriff at the time: "The investigation has determined that a 2020 Volvo semi-tractor and trailer, driven by Harjap Singh (...
Remembering that mustard car My niece Tammy and I were doing our regular dragging main on a beautiful April Sunday evening back in 1989. Who couldn't spot this little yellow mustard-looking sports car? I took a glance at the handsome driver wearing these cool-looking Ray-Ban sunglasses. It was love at first sight. We honked and waved at each other. I was so full of butterflies. After a couple cruises he disappeared and I didn't see him again. I was sad. Where did this little y...
Editor's note: The News asked readers to submit stories and photos from their dragging Main experiences, with winners receiving $100 prizes. Jason Gonzales won the photo contest with his front-page picture in this edition. Here is the winning essay: I was born a premie at 7 months. I weighed 2 pounds, 5 ounces and went down to 1 pound, 8 ounces. At a young age, my parents noticed I would fall a lot and I was diagnosed with cerebral palsy. I had surgery when I was 4, and after...
PORTALES — A pair of junior college transfers are the first signings of the Brent Owen era at Eastern New Mexico University. The school announced Tuesday the additions of Cornell Greenwood and Jared Perry. Greenwood is from Yuba College in Marysville, California, and Perry from Butler Community College in El Dorado, Kansas. “With this first recruiting class we are looking much deeper than just basketball talent,” Owen said in a school release. “We want to recruit high-character guys who have toughness, work ethic and who are...
In the midst of this roller coaster year and its blur of events and emotions, we’re speeding toward Father’s Day. As I find myself thinking of my father, my thoughts quickly turn in immense gratitude to my Father for giving me such an incredible gift, my earthly father. If anyone asked me for the name of the best man I have ever known, I’d not have to pause a nanosecond before replying, “G.B. Shelburne Jr.” My dad. I’ve said that many times, not because I feel haughty abo...
PORTALES — Times they are a-changin’ for the Eastern New Mexico University women’s basketball program, as head coach Josh Prock announced changes to his staff following the departure of associate head coach Durmon Jennings. Jennings is moving on to become an assistant coach at the University of North Texas — an NCAA Division I program in Denton, Texas — following three seasons as the associate coach at Eastern. The Greyhounds accumulated an overall record of 57-32 and were selected for the NCAA Division II National Tournamen...
This ditty has been making the rounds lately on wall plaques, t-shirts, and social media posts: “Best childhood memory: Falling asleep on the couch and waking up in bed. I miss teleporting. It never happens to me anymore.” At my house, we didn’t “teleport” often from the couch — we were nudged to wakefulness and sent on our way. But on occasion, we did succeed in hitching a sleepy ride — about 30 yards or so — from the back of the family car, across the yard, and inside to our...
As protests sparked by the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer continue across the country, police procedures and budgets everywhere are coming in for a reexamination. Our advice in this debate is focus on a few facts. We need the police even as we also need to address underlying issues in how communities are policed and how and why progress leaves some communities behind. So beyond the rhetoric, proposed reforms shouldn’t center on disbanding police departments, but what they can focus on is reducing c...
The world’s a bit crazy. Not as bad here as in other places, but we see the effects of those crazy paces even here. Pandemics, riots, gangs of trespassers setting up their own governments ... what’s next? A volcano spewing out zombies? Whatever happens next, you can rest assured that respecting liberty will still work. It always does. It would even work against the volcano zombie invasion. No matter how crazy the world gets, you don’t have to be crazy with it. Aren’t you gla...
A lot of people are comparing 2020 to 1968 these days, and for good reason. This year is at least as tumultuous as ’68, and we’re only halfway through it. Generationally, 1968 was beset with Baby Boomers who opposed the Vietnam War and sympathized with the Black Power movement of that time. Now, in 2020 we’ve got Generation Z and Millennials expressing their outrage over America’s failing institutions, with a growing intolerance for that which keeps African-Americans and other minorities down. It’s ironic that the boomers and...
Today we have Facebook. But there was a time when upstanding citizens settled their differences face-to-face. That’s what happened 70 years ago this month when a pair of Quay County law officers engaged in a spirited disagreement that media outlets described as a “fracas.” The trouble, according to The Associated Press, began on June 18, 1950, when Clovis District Attorney Richard Rowley signed off on search warrants for a pair of Tucumcari establishments. There was evidence that illegal gambling may have been taking place at...
CLOVIS — The United Way of Eastern New Mexico is accepting donations for a diaper drive through June, according to a release from the organization. The diapers will be shared with the Lighthouse Mission, the Matt 25 Hope Center and the Pregnancy Resource Center in Clovis; and with St. Vincent De Paul and First United Methodist Church in Portales. The organization has a goal of 35,000 diapers. Donations can be dropped off at the Matt 25 Center or C&S in Portales. Financial donations can be sent to PO Box 806, Clovis, NM 8...
CLOVIS — A district judge ruled Monday for a default judgment in favor of two siblings who were injured in a shooting nearly three years ago at the Clovis-Carver Public Library. The judgment came after the primary defendant did not appear for court procedures. Fifth Judicial District Judge Jane Shuler Gray issued the judgment for siblings Alexis and Noah Molina, who filed a civil suit last year against William Jouett for medical treatment compensation in connection with the Aug. 28, 2017, shooting that claimed the lives of li...
A Roosevelt County woman has died from complications related to COVID-19, state health officials announced Monday afternoon. And the virus numbers are spiking in several area counties, records show. Roosevelt General Hospital CEO Kaye Green on Monday said the Portales woman who died was in her 60s and had underlying health conditions. She had been hospitalized in Lubbock the past several weeks, Green said in a video posted to Facebook. She’s just the second COVID-19-related fatality from eastern New Mexico. A Quay County m...
Local legislators don’t expect much of a battle when a special legislative session starts Thursday to deal with coronavirus-related budget woes. The next few years, however, could be — in the words of “Die Hard” protagonist John McClane — “Double Jeopardy!, where the scores can really change.” State Sen. Pat Woods, R-Broadview, said he doesn’t expect much acrimony from lawmakers when they meet Thursday at the Roundhouse in Santa Fe to tackle an estimated $2.4 billion loss of revenue over two years caused by plunging oil an...
CLOVIS — Curry County has received an $8,500 New Mexico Clean and Beautiful grant from the state tourism department, according to a county release. The grant program is intended to help partners keep the state a clean and beautiful place to live. The county plans to use the NMCB funds to plant trees at the Ranchvale Fire Department and fund various litter cleaning efforts throughout the county. “These projects will enhance our facilities and impact Curry County residents and our community,” Curry County Manager Lance Pyle...
On this date ... 1980: Cannon Air Force Base was celebrating the grand opening of its new commissary. “The new store provides the most modern supermarket equipment in use today,” the Clovis News-Journal reported. Cash register receipts were designed to “give customers a complete breakdown of their transaction, including identification of the person who bagged their groceries,” the newspaper reported. The display floor covered 18,000 square feet and the facility overall was twice the size of the previous commissary, officia...
Dance clinic scheduled Middle school dance clinics and tryouts for teams at Clovis Municipal Schools will be held in late June and early July, according to a release from the district. The Clovis High School Lego gym will host both a clinic and tryout. Entrance to the gym will be from the alley bordering the CHS campus. Due to limited capacity, clinic and tryout times will be scheduled by phone calls. Each dancer must have a physical, but physicals from the 2019-20 school year will be accepted. Gattis and Yucca middle schools...
Booked The following were booked into local jails (Friday - Tuesday): Clovis ∞ Miguel Anaya-Ramirez, 22, failure to appear on a felony charge ∞ Roberto Ortega, 56, failure to appear on a felony charge ∞ Jeffrey English, 34, aggravated driving while under the influence of intoxicating liquor or any drug, failure to maintain traffic lane ∞ Matthew Brigham, 40, aggravated driving while under the influence of intoxicating liquor or any drug, failure to maintain traffic lane ∞ Nicholas Morris, 30, no proof of insurance, driving o...
ALBUQUERQUE — One man was shot in Old Town as a protest over the “La Jornada” sculpture in front of the Albuquerque Museum erupted into violence Monday evening. The shooting occurred during a clash following a peaceful protest to remove the controversial sculpture, a monument that features conquistador Juan de Oñate. The FBI is assisting in the investigation, according to an APD spokesman. U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich, meanwhile, called on the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate the shooting. Albuquerque police said t...
