Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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CLOVIS - During a pandemic which has left little certainty on anything, eastern New Mexico legislators provided two certainties to business leaders Thursday. First, the rocky financial road the state is experiencing only looks rockier in the next few years. Second, local legislators aren't the ones driving. Three of the area's legislators - Sen. Pat Woods and Reps. Randy Crowder and Martin Zamora - shared their thoughts on the five-day special session that concluded June 22....
Team Clovis-Portales (I have a thing for teams...), I'm writing to ask for your help. Since the end of World War II, the communities of Cannon Air Force Base (formerly Clovis Field), Clovis, and Portales have found common cause on the High Plains of eastern New Mexico. We've come to rely heavily on one another - through good times and bad. Now is one such time. I ask that you wear a mask when you go out and when you can't keep more than 6 feet away from people you don't live...
I would like to respond to the allegations of "systemic racism" and the need for police reform. I have been a police officer for over 25 years. I have worked for two agencies during that time. I can remember only two officers that I would call racist. Both were "minority" officers. Both expressed racism toward whites. I have participated in promotion boards with my own agencies as well as those for several other agencies. The promotion boards with other agencies often had...
SANTA FE — Immediately after Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham announced New Mexico would begin giving $100 fines to those who violate its face covering mandate for public settings, at least two things were clear: Enforcement of the more aggressive approach will be tricky and the governor’s decision had not slowed the spread of debate. While some business owners welcomed the governor’s announcement, others suggested it could hurt their sales. And at least one county sheriff said he does not plan on issuing citations or fines to th...
The following books are available for checkout at the Clovis-Carver Public Library: “NYPD Red” by James Patterson was donated in memory of Anthony Joplin. When a world-famous movie producer is poisoned on the first day of a Manhattan film festival called Hollywood on the Hudson, the members of special task force NYPD Red are the first ones called. Detective Zach Jordan and his new partner Kylie MacDonald are assigned to the case. The killer has every murder and escape planned down to the last detail and he's scripted an exp...
Information on wearing scarves and painting embroidery work with Jacquard Textile paints will be the featured topics on “Creative Living” 9:30 p.m. Tuesday and noon Thursday (all times Mountain). Author, wardrobe consultant, and designer Nancy Nix-Rice knows that some women have difficulties wearing scarves. She explains that scarves add polish to most outfits, they can be used to link unexpected color combos and can direct the focal point where you want it to be. She liv...
Most Americans know Lou Gehrig's tragic story. Fewer know how his widow, Eleanor, lovingly kept the baseball Hall of Famer's memory alive for decades after his untimely death. At a stunned, capacity Yankee Stadium on Lou Gehrig Appreciation Day in between a July 4 doubleheader, a gaunt Gehrig trudged slowly across the infield to the microphone where he accepted gifts and thanked his teammates. Gehrig, weak and struggling in the summer humidity, knew he had little time left to...
I’ve always thought that the holiday Americans celebrate on July 4 was and should be all about independence and liberty. As this holiday weekend draws to a close, hopefully now more than ever we appreciate those two gifts. One of those two words is right there in the name of the holiday, Independence Day, but somewhere we lost it. Very few refer to it by that name. It’s simply the Fourth of July. Judging from the non-stop evening war zone sound effects in my neighborhood som...
PORTALES — To accommodate an NCAA Division II mandate for schedule reduction, Eastern New Mexico University and New Mexico Highlands have canceled a Sept. 3 football game at Greyhound Stadium that would have opened the season for both teams. The schools announced the move Tuesday evening. The move gives the Greyhounds a 10-game regular season — the maximum allotted for Division II teams in response to the COVID-19 pandemic — that will now begin Sept. 12 at Adams State. The Cowboys will now open their season at home against Co...
With Major League Baseball’s scheduled return less than three weeks away, oddsmakers are giving the Los Angeles Dodgers the best chance to win the World Series. If the Dodgers live up to that expectation, a lot of thanks will be owed to Logan White, the scout who brought the Dodgers’ farm system from being ranked in MLB’s bottom third up to No. 1 with the signing of players that included Clayton Kershaw, Cody Bellinger and Corey Seager. White, a 1980 Portales High graduate and 2019 Legends of Scouting Hall of Fame induc...
Show love — wear masks From Scripture: • “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” — Mark 12:31 • “Love ... your neighbor as yourself.” — Luke 10:27 This is not a political statement. I have loved the people of Roosevelt County for many years. I love them so much I wear a mask when I go out. I only wish they loved me enough to do the same. Gene Bundy Portales...
I’ve been watching anarchy and lawlessness take control of our streets in major cities. I don’t imagine I’m alone, either. Viewers are exposed everywhere to scenes of mindless chaos. Meanwhile, on Opposition Media outlets, the carbon-intensive “peaceful protests” are met with universal approval. Occasionally an anchor or guest visiting from the world of reality will express some qualms regarding wanton destruction, but that mild observation is waved away with the equivalent of boys will be boys — assuming leftists ar...
On Twitter the other day someone did what a lot of people have been doing lately: Comparing levels of oppression. In this case, it was all about the Philadelphia Inquirer’s decision not to use the term “Washington Redskins” in future columns about the “Team Formerly Known as the Washington Redskins.” The problem is that when you start going down that rabbit hole of who has suffered more, you ignore the nuance of history. In fact, you engage in a whitewashing (excuse the unavoidable pun) of the horrors that have occurred...
After he’s repeatedly survived the unsurvivable, we are supposed to believe that President Donald Trump might quit the presidential race before it truly begins because of a spate of negative polling. This is the latest chatter among (unnamed) Republicans, according to a widely circulated Fox News report and cable news talking heads. Trump is a volatile figure and things could get weird if he’s far behind in the final weeks. But the idea that he is going to fall on his swo...
Josefita Griego wonders if we could have saved Bob Casey. What if a community search party had been organized at 10:30 that Wednesday night when the 83-year-old man was first reported missing? What if more people had known, sooner, that we all needed to be looking? We may never know, of course. And there’s nothing we can do about it now. But Griego hopes lessons learned in Casey’s death can help prevent a future tragedy. Griego is best known for her community activism, primarily through her “Take Back Your Community” Faceboo...
On this date ... 1955: Five Clovis men were killed when two freight trains collided near Vaughn. The Portales Daily Tribune reported the trains collided head-on “and the ensuing holocaust cremated five crew members and injured three.” One of the trains failed to switch onto a siding, which would have allowed the other to pass, the paper reported. A fire caused by acetate that spewed over the wreckage burned for seven hours. Both train engineers, one train’s fireman and two brakemen were killed in the collision. The three...
Booked The following were booked into local jails (Tuesday - Friday): Clovis • Lisa Gutierrez-Ruiz, 40, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge ∞ Matthew McClellan, 41, probation violation ∞ Ricardo Alvarado, 23, criminal damage to the property of a household member ∞ James Faulkner, 20, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge ∞ Cathrine Baughman, 19, failure to pay fines ∞ Joel Cordova, 40, probation violation ∞ Ruby Rodriguez, 38, concealing identity, parole violation ∞ Cesar Chacon-Rascon, 20, theft of identity, forge...
CLOVIS — The Clovis Municipal Schools 2020-21 school year, with classes beginning Aug. 17 and ending May 27, will go on as planned. At least that’s the plan. The lack of a change was made official at a Wednesday evening CMS Board of Education meeting, where a revised calendar died on the floor because board members declined to make a motion. The proposed new calendar, which would have moved the school year to Aug. 10-June 4, followed a New Mexico Department of Education suggestion to add 10 extended learning days. That was in...
Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham announced Wednesday that the state’s mask-wearing mandate would be enforced and that travelers entering the state — either by plane or car — must self-quarantine 14 days. Businesses must now require mask-wearing in their establishments, and violators face up to a $100 fine. The new order sparked multiple follow-up questions. The Albuquerque Journal contacted the Department of Health with several of those questions, and below are the answers: Q: The state Department of Health says masks must be worn...
CLOVIS — The Curry County Commission will report on its recent tour of the renovated county adult detention center when it meets in regular session Tuesday. The 9 a.m. meeting at the Curry County Administrative Complex will be streamed at currycounty.org and the county Facebook page. Comments or questions can be directed to County Manager Lance Pyle at: [email protected] During the June 24 tour, commissioners were generally receptive to the $12.8 million renovation that mainly included a 48-bed housing unit, two r...
Clovis’ City Hall plans to reopen Monday and Roosevelt County’s detention center is free of COVID-19, according to news releases. City Hall in Clovis closed its doors to the public last week after an employee experienced symptoms of the virus. But that employee tested negative, the building was disenfected and officials plan to resume normal hours with public access at 8 a.m. Monday, according to a city news release. Roosevelt County Manager Amber Hamilton said in a news release that the Portales jail has completed three rou...
Tuesday • Portales Public Library Virtual Summer Reading Program — Alchemy and Art: “Paper Mosaics” — 10:30 a.m., Portales Public Library Facebook page. Crafts/experiments for second-sixth graders. Materials available in advance for curbside pickup while supplies last. Information: 575-356-3940 • Blood drive — 11 a.m.-3:30 p.m., The Courthouse Café, 109 S. Main Ave., Portales. Register online at www.bloodhero.com. Advance appointments strongly recommended; all donors must arrive wearing masks. Free COVID-19 antibody testi...
Meetings are subject to change due to coronavirus concerns Tuesday • Curry County Commission — 9 a.m., zoom meeting. Information: https://www.currycounty.org/open-government/meeting-portal or 575-763-6016 • Portales City Council — 6:30 p.m., Memorial Building, 200 E. 7th St., Portales. Information: 575-356-6662 Wednesday • City of Clovis Planning and Zoning Commission — 3 p.m., North Annex, Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main St., Clovis. Information: 575-769-7828 July 13 • Portales Municipal Schools board — Noon-...
CLOVIS — New Clovis Mayor Mike Morris had weeks ago told residents he planned to wear face coverings as positive reinforcement when they were recommended to help prevent the spread of COVID-19. Now with the masks required in public, Morris took a stronger stance and called the masks the best thing an individual could do for the various sects that make up Clovis. Morris’ comments came at the Thursday Clovis City Commission meeting, held one day after the state announced it had moved past encouragement and onto enforcement with...
Generally speaking, it shouldn't be surprising when fireworks stands and tents are busy on July 3. You would just as much expect a supermarket to be jumping the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, a toy store buzzing on Christmas Eve. But, Friday was no ordinary July 3. This is the first COVID summer, and with it the first COVID Fourth of July, the first COVID Fourth of July Eve. Plenty of eastern New Mexicans have had their wages or jobs cut, their businesses shut down or at...
