Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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CLOVIS — Tuesday night’s board meeting welcomed Renee Russ as new superintendent for Clovis Municipal Schools. By the end of it, Russ had her leadership team in place. Russ said the district had two cabinet openings due to the departure of Kerry Parker (human resources) for a job back east and the retirement of Carrie Bunce (deputy superintendent of operations). With that, and the current field of administrators available, Russ created a leadership team and a cabinet of deputy superintendents. Russ said Parker had a tremendou...
CLOVIS - Wednesday evening, Ronnie Jones danced with his mother Patsy beside his father Cletis' glistening red 1950 GMC outside Clovis' Twin Cronnie Drive-In. A few minutes later, Ronnie's son Kade pulled his silver 2014 Genesis Coupe beside his grandfather's truck to bring home the contrast and the continuity across the generations. The Jones' are keeping up with each other. Cletis enjoyed draggin' main back in its mid-century heyday, and his grandson, who starts college...
PORTALES — A state police investigation into cash missing from the Roosevelt County Sheriff Office is still in progress, officials confirmed Friday. New Mexico State Police Officer Mark Soriano confirmed with The News that the investigations bureau’s work on the issue is “ongoing.” Sheriff Malin Parker in January requested NMSP assistance on an internal investigation into a report of cash missing from the county’s evidence room. Upon first being notified of the missing money, Parker “immediately called for his evidence te...
CLOVIS — The city of Clovis has a new human resource director. Andre Moquin will begin his new position July 8. He succeeds Nancye Clements, who is retiring, according to a city news release. Moquin has more than 20 years of experience in human resources, and most recently served as the HR director for the city of Las Cruces....
CLOVIS — A low-cost spay/neuter clinic will be offered July 27-28. The clinic will be held at North Plains Mall, with 50 appointments each day. Services offered include spay/neuter ($50), rabies vaccine ($10), DA2PP vaccine ($15) and microchipping ($15). The clinic is intended for low-income pet owners, with proof of income or government aid required. Registration is available online at thegooddogrescue.org/spayneuter-clinic. Information: [email protected]...
CLOVIS — Police on Friday were investigating the theft that afternoon of a city vehicle from Hillcrest Park. Assistant City Manager Claire Burroughes told The News she does “not recall this ever happening before” in her 20 years with Clovis. “It’s such an unusual thing to happen,” she said. “We are doing everything we can to locate and recover the vehicle.” The vehicle stolen was a 1995 Ford Ranger single-cab pickup used by the city’s Parks and Recreation Department. Burroughes said the truck was taken from the east side of t...
CLOVIS — Brent Aguilar, the embattled veteran Clovis police officer, “has left the department at his own accord to pursue other career opportunities,” Police Chief Doug Ford said on Saturday. Ford declined to provide additional information, referring questions to Aguilar. Aguilar could not be reached for comment. “He’s had enough media go through him in the past two years,” said Dan Aguilar, chief investigator for the 9th Judicial District Attorney and Brent Aguilar’s father. Dan Aguilar declined additional comment in a...
PORTALES — The former police officer and his co-defendant in a 2016 lawsuit against the city of Clovis and its police department have a couple of weeks now to find new counsel, following approval Wednesday of the withdrawal of their previous attorney. In a brief hearing, Judge Donna Mowrer approved a motion to withdraw filed June 7 by Tye Harmon, who previously represented Stephen Borders and Samantha Jara. A lawsuit filed on behalf of Michael Green alleged assault, battery, wrongful detention and false imprisonment, among o...
CLOVIS — Commissioners on Thursday approved a notice of intent to consider an ordinance regulating television and film production in Curry County, welcoming public input on the matter in their forthcoming Aug. 6 meeting. Per the ordinance, proposed regulations would not apply to news productions, personal or charitable films or county-produced government access films, among others. It is focused on the sort of professional productions seen in past years in eastern New Mexico and across the state, not intended to discourage t...
We live in an independent, patriotic community and the best evidence is our annual Portales Fireworks Show. The show is funded by businesses, families and individuals that are proud enough to step up and make it happen every year. This year’s show has a couple of changes. We’ve dropped the music choreography in order to lengthen the show. We’ve also moved it back to a 9:30 p.m. start time to ensure a darker sky. A commercial fireworks display is important to our commu...
I can easily lose an hour or five binge-watching old episodes of “The Office,” and it’s safe to say I have at least five friendships where the majority of our conversations somehow reference the Steve Carell comedy. Some of those friends are among the thousands who are beside themselves to hear NBC Universal is pulling the series from Netflix in 2021 to be part of its own streaming service. To everybody mad, I offer you this advice for that fateful day: Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened. The fate of ...
The Supreme Court last week made a decision whose minority opinions matter more to the future of federal, state and local government than the majority opinion that prevailed. That’s because one of the justices who upheld the majority signaled he would be willing to hear challenges to a principle that could render most of the government regulations written since 1935 unconstitutional. Under that principle, called “non-delegation,” Congress is supposed to be prohibited from passing laws, then transferring the power to the e...
About one in four women will experience psychological, physical or sexual violence in her lifetime, often by an intimate partner and often witnessed by children. Transgender and people who identify as nonbinary also experience extremely high rates of violence. One federal law has helped reduce the rates of violence, but its future stands in question. Since it was first authorized by a bipartisan Congress in 1994, the Violence Against Women Act has provided $7 billion to fund everything from rape crisis centers to law enforcem...
As a rancher, former employee at Navajo Refining and an individual with a degree in agricultural engineering from New Mexico State University, I come at questions about energy development from a multitude of angles. Every single angle leads me to believe that state and federal lawmakers must cut red tape so we can expand natural gas production and delivery. As someone who has worked the land, I know American farmers and ranchers could not survive without a reliable and affordable energy supply. The American Farm Bureau...
News flash: There’s a crisis at the border. This was discovered again over the past week when immigration attorneys talked to reporters about appalling conditions at a Border Patrol facility detaining migrant minors in Clint, Texas. According to the lawyers, many of the kids had to sleep on the concrete floor, failed to get proper adult supervision and didn’t routinely take showers or brush their teeth. The details were hard to read. Assuming the account was accurate, one won...
Why? It’s a question often asked in the wake of unimaginable tragedy. We usually hear this when a horrific loss of life occurs to which there is no understanding. On June 21, two unique women in Albuquerque were killed. The alleged culprit was someone they knew, and loved as a part of their family. The tragedy for some of us is that the murders hit too closely to us who knew these women — social worker Laura Hanish and her 19-year-old daughter Shanta. I met Laura Hanish when she began helping a troubled young man that I kno...
CLOVIS — Despite his time as a social studies teacher, Stephen Reynolds admitted he didn’t know much more about Custer’s Last Stand than the average person. When the opportunity was presented to learn about the Battle of the Little Bighorn and the Great Sioux War, it was an opportunity he and his lesson plan couldn’t pass up. Reynolds recently returned from a week at Montana State University-Billings through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Reynolds spent 10 years teaching social studies at Choices Alte...
On this date ... 1974: Clovis-Portales District Attorney Fred Hensley had announced he would eliminate plea bargains when seeking punishment for “drug pushers.” Hensley said his office would seek penitentiary time for anyone convicted of selling drugs, eliminating the option of probation. Hensley said the number of trials would increase, at greater expense to taxpayers, but it is “the only alternative to combat the tremendous increase in drug pushing.” Portales News-Tribune Editor Gordon Greaves was critical of the decisio...
Monday • Curry County Commission special meeting — 11 a.m., Commission Chambers, Curry County Administration Complex, 417 Gidding St., Clovis. Information: 575-763-6016 Tuesday • City of Clovis Lodgers’ Tax Advisory Board — 5:30 p.m., Clovis City Hall assembly room, 321 N. Connelly, Clovis. Information: 575-763-9654 • City of Clovis Parks, Recreation, and Beautification Committee — 5:30 p.m., North Annex, Clovis-Carver Library, 701 N. Main, Clovis. Information: 575-763-9654 • Clovis Wing-Shooting Complex & Archery Range O...
Monday • Clovis Summer Reading Program Movie Monday: “Christopher Robin” — 1 p.m., Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main St., Clovis. Information: 575-769-7840 • Clovis Adult Summer Reading Program family movie night: “Galaxy Quest” (PG) — 6-8 p.m., Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main St., Clovis. Popcorn provided; dinners welcome. Bring your favorite blanket or beanbag chair. Information: 575-763-9687 Tuesday • Allen Theaters free Tuesday movie: “The Grinch” — 9 a.m., 11:20 a.m., 1:40 p.m., North Plains Cinema 7,...
The following books are available at: Clovis-Carver Public Library “Death Comes to Bath” by Catherine Lloyd travels to the English town of Bath, where Major Sir Robert Kurland and Lady Lucy Kurland discover that the spa town is not beneficial to everyone’s health. Robert befriends an elderly and pugnacious businessman, Sir William Benson, ennobled by the Crown for his service to industry. Their acquaintance is short-lived, however, when the man is found drowned in the baths. Robert and Lucy then vow to find his killer, and m...
Baxter Curren Senior Center 908 Hickory St., Clovis Monday: 8:30 a.m. exercise class, 10 a.m. jewelry pals, 1 p.m. canasta, 5 p.m. social night Tuesday: 8 a.m.-4 p.m. exercise equipment, 8 a.m. quilting, 1 p.m. pinochle, 6 p.m. trivia mania Wednesday: 8 a.m.-4 p.m. exercise equipment, 8:30 a.m. exercise class, 9a.m. sew days, 1 p.m. needle gang Thursday: Closed for holiday Friday: 8 a.m.-4 p.m. exercise equipment, 8:30 a.m. exercise class, 10 a.m. needle gang, 1 p.m. pinochle, 7 p.m. dance (Curry County Outlaws) Saturday: 4...
Information on eliminating clutter in the home, and making homemade soap will be the featured topics on “Creative Living” 9:30 p.m. Tuesday and noon Thursday (all times Mountain). Interior decorator, Lee Brown will discuss five simple steps to eliminate clutter in the home. With her ideas, anyone can cure the “clutterbug” and create a well curated, personal, functional space for yourself and others. Brown is the director of WillowCollege. She lives in Christ Church, New Zealan...
In my old age it seems I’ve officially turned into a real weenie. A cold swimming pool on a hot summer day used to be inviting. These days it just makes the joints stiff. With the Natatorium closed for the summer, our AquaFitness group was forced to migrate to new waters somewhere just short of the Arctic Ocean. Actually it was just the outdoor City Pool where I eagerly spent days in the summers of my youth. Global warming has not affected these waters yet. I thought the i...
My name is Lois Snyder. My husband and I, we were lifelong supporters of the fair. I started entering projects in the fair when I was 9 years old. My mother, Frances Blackburn, was the 4-H leader, and 4-H was a big part of our lives. But you can't join 4-H until you're 10, so she helped me sew a doll wardrobe. I entered it and got my first blue ribbon. From then on, I've never missed a year entering things at the fair. I love the fair, and always go every night to visit. I was...
