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PORTALES - Tony Hoops knows taking the athletic director position at Eastern New Mexico University would be a difficult job, in some ways different and some ways similar to the rebuilding job he took on at alma mater Bethel College five years ago. But he recalled the feeling when Bethel finished dead last in the 2016 Kansas College Athletic Conference Commissioner's Cup standings with 38.5 points, 101 behind first place Friends University. And that made this year, when Bethel...
PORTALES — After losing last season to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Eastern New Mexico University cross country program will return with a schedule that includes four competitive tune-ups for the Oct. 23 Lone Star Conference championships. "This is a pretty competitive schedule that I think will get us ready to compete for Lone Star Conference (LSC) titles and the NCAA Region Championship," ENMU coach Jeff Kavalunas said. "Most of the meets will have a number of strong Division I and Division II programs to run against and prep...
On this date ... 1951: Independence Day was being observed quietly in Clovis, and city and county peace officers were hoping safely and sanely, the Clovis News-Journal reported. No formal programs or celebrations were planned in the city. “Public activities in observance of the holiday here will be confined to the grand opening of the Youth Service Organization’s miniature golf course at Tenth and Main streets,” the newspaper reported. The Clovis Rotary Club had supervised construction of the course. Matches were sched...
Booked The following were booked into local jails (Tuesday-Friday): Clovis • Matthew Bailey, 27, criminal trespass • Cynthia Pena, 43, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge • Dylan Garcia, 20, probation violation • Ralph Flores, 53, unlawful taking of a motor vehicle • Sam Garcia, 40, criminal sexual penetration in the first degree, criminal sexual contact of a minor in the third degree • Liandro Castillo, 51, battery against a household member • Bobbi Poulsen, 42, battery against a household member • Gabriel Morin,...
SANTA FE — New Mexico courts will phase more proceedings to in-person from now through July 19, though various public health precautions will still be taken to mitigate the spread of COVID-19, following a New Mexico Supreme Court order. Except for jury trials, courts have conducted most proceedings since last year using audio-visual conferencing to eliminate the need for attorneys and litigants to enter a courthouse. "State courts safely remained open throughout the COVID-19 pandemic to ensure critical justice services were a...
SANTA FE — New Mexico state officials on Friday announced a support program that will provide New Mexicans currently receiving unemployment benefits supplemental payments for returning to the state’s workforce. The program, which starts this week, will provide up to $1,000 to unemployment claimants who secure a job and remain employed through Aug. 28. The nine-week program will be funded by federal stimulus dollars. “The state will continue doing what it can to help workers and businesses get back on their feet,” said Go...
The Friendship Senior Center opened its front door on Thursday for the first time since the onset of the pandemic in March of 2020, according to Barbara Riggan, director of the city of Clovis Senior Services. Although the state has reopened 100 percent, some safety guidelines will remain in place at the Friendship Senior Center, Riggan told the Clovis City Commission at its meeting on Thursday. Based on guidelines by the New Mexico State Aging & Long Term Services Department, if 85 percent or more of the staff are vaccinated,...
CLOVIS — The Curry County Road Department is seeking public input for development of its five-year plan. The plan prioritizes future projects and improvements to county roads, and is used during the county's application process for grants and state appropriations. Input can be emailed to Road Superintendent Walon Jones at [email protected] by 1 p.m. Tuesday. Information: 575-762-1501....
CLOVIS — Clovis Municipal Schools is seeking public input on an upcoming application for $16.4 million in federal relief funds related to COVID-19 impacts, and will hold a pair of local meetings to help guide how the district on how the money should be used in schools. A 5:30 p.m. July 13 forum and a 1 p.m. July 14 forum will both be held in person at the CMS board room at 1009 Main, and will also be live-streamed. Anybody wishing to speak at the forums must register at least 90 minutes prior to the forum at c...
New Mexicans over the age of 60 lost more than $7 million in online frauds and scams last year, according to a special report from the FBI’s Internet Crime Compliant Center (IC3). IC3 said 837 of the state's senior residents lost over $7 million in 2020. More than half of that amount was lost due to confidence fraud, or romance scams and Clovis’ Senior Services Director Barbara Riggan said in an interview with the Eastern New Mexico News that those are some of the more common ones she’s seen. She said seniors also tend to fa...
CLOVIS — In its third and final meeting, the Clovis Charter Review Committee put forth three changes that could be coming to a ballot near you. The advisory committee closed out its Tuesday evening meeting by approving three recommendations to the Clovis City Commission: • Eliminate a section limiting municipal officials to two elected terms. The section is unenforceable due to a New Mexico Supreme Court ruling calling term limits an improper election requirement for municipal offices. • Edit the charter to remove any refer...
“Evil may so shape events that Caesar will occupy a palace and Christ a cross, but that same Christ will rise up and split history into A.D. and B.C., so that even the life of Caesar must be dated by his name. Yes, ‘the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.’” That’s a quote from Martin Luther King Jr. It’s comforting to those who believe that, if you wait long enough, you will be vindicated. Those who seek immediate justice, however, reject the...
I wish Couy Griffin would do us all a favor the next time he goes on national television. Tell them you’re from Texas. Griffin was one of a handful of Jan. 6 insurrectionists featured June 20 on a two-hour CNN special about the riot that day at the U.S. Capitol. He was arrested by FBI agents on federal charges of knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority. Among the pearls of wisdom he dispensed were the belief that Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick and protester A...
I owe a lot to Gary Mahoney. He was the campus conservative back in the middle ’70s, when I was a student at the University of Southern California and we went at it hammer and tongs a few times on the opinion pages of the Daily Trojan. I no longer recall the details of our disagreements. What I do remember is realizing that he was good and that I had to up my game — tighten my reasoning, sharpen my logic — if I hoped to stay in the ring with him. He made me better in the s...
Adding critical race theory, others, does teach us to think Regarding David Stevens’ editorial last Sunday: “Our public schools need to teach kids how to think, not what they should think:” Critical Race Theory is simply a theory. Most of us who have attended college are aware we are taught theories in our discipline. We agree with some and disregard others to create our own belief or theory. Adding CRT to multiple other theories does teach us to think. It expands our horizon. Do I believe it should be the only theory inclu...
Did I hear the president of the United States say Americans need to get F-15s and nukes if we really want to keep the government in line? I did hear it. Joe Biden apparently was trying to make fun of us “gun nuts” who say Americans need the protections of the Second Amendment to own firearms in case we have to prevent the government from taking away our liberties. It was garbled and choppy, because Biden went off the Teleprompter, but he said: “Those who say the blood of Pa...
It’s been a hard time for the American Revolution. It’s been smeared by The New York Times 1619 project as a fight to preserve slavery. Juneteenth, a worthy event in its own right, is considered by some as a candidate to replace July 4, marking a supposedly more palatable and less flawed Independence Day. Statues of leaders of the Revolution have been vandalized and torn down. This is wrongheaded, ungrateful and destructive. Ours is the greatest revolution the world has eve...
Social media platforms the past several weeks have been flooded with anecdotal reports of violence throughout Clovis. And yet arrests are not reflecting any uptick in crime. And city police have not issued a crime-related news release or public service announcement in more than a month. District Attorney Andrea Reeb reports these are not necessarily conflicting observations. “At the District Attorney’s Office, we have definitely seen an increase in violent crime in the last few months,” she wrote in an email responding to que...
Entering the Independence Day weekend, the New Mexico Department of Health confirmed 86 new cases of COVID-19, with no Curry County cases and one Roosevelt County case. The state also reported one death, a Dona Ana County female in her 90s. New Mexico reports 194,687 people have recovered from COVID-19, from a total 205,715 confirmed cases. On Friday, the state reported 67 people were in the hospital because of the virus; 105 were hospitalized with COVID-19 on June 1. In other COVID-19 developments: • Curry County has r...
Today • Independence Day • Clovis Fireworks — postponed to July 10 • Portales Fireworks — 9 p.m., Portales Softball Complex. Donations to help fund the fireworks may be mailed to Fireworks Fund, 100 S. Ave. A, Portales, NM 88130, or made via credit card at www.portales.com, or by calling the Roosevelt County Chamber of Commerce at 575-356-8541 Tuesday • Sidewalk Chalk Tuesday — 10 a.m., Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main St., Clovis. Decorate the library sidewalks and play games. Information: 575-769-7840...
Tuesday • Roosevelt County Commission — 9 a.m., Jake Lopez Building, Roosevelt County Fairgrounds, 705 E. Lime, Portales. Livestream available on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1bHckYttNQnmm6ymJhWaXQ and a recording of the meeting will be saved as a public video and linked from the county website, https://www.rooseveltcounty.com, following the public meeting. Information: 575-356-5307 • Clovis Civil Aviation Board — 5:30 p.m., North Annex, Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main, Clovis. Meeting may be viewed...
Jim Chandler of Portales was in a tractor planting high-protein hay grazer Friday afternoon as he talked about the steady rain that has been falling on eastern New Mexico farmland since the last days of June. "This is absolutely the kind of rain we need," he said. The hay grazer crops he has been planting over the past couple of weeks are already showing green, he said, which is encouraging. He planted hay grazer this year instead of corn because that's what his dairy-farmer...
CLOVIS — Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Monday signed into law legislation legalizing adult-use cannabis in New Mexico. At the local level, the city of Clovis and its Planning & Zoning Commission met Wednesday in a study session to begin fashioning a city ordinance outlining days and hours of operation, zoning and density of dispensaries around the city and other issues. City Attorney Jared Morris said the state bill is about one and a half pages, meaning much of the regulation is left to local jurisdictions. Morris said h...
If there's a silver lining to be found in a delay of Smoke on the Water to Saturday, it's that eastern New Mexico essentially gets to treat the next seven days as Independence Week. After a year off due to the pandemic, Portales will celebrate Independence Day tonight with a 9:30 p.m. fireworks show at the City Softball Complex on Industrial Drive. Roosevelt County Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Karl Terry said the show should be about 15 minutes, and he advises...
CLOVIS — In what certainly felt like a no-brainer based on the weather outside, Curry County commissioners decided against extending a ban on specific fireworks ahead of the July 4 weekend. The commission, citing drought conditions, in its June 1 meeting enacted the fireworks ban, with the knowledge they’d discuss the matter again at the Tuesday meeting. By the time commissioners arrived to the meeting, they were greeted with rain in three of the last four days and predictions of more rain throughout the week. County Fir...
