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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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Information on home remodeling and making unique paper flowers will be the featured topics on “Creative Living” on Tuesday at 9:30 p.m. and on Thursday at noon. (All times are Mountain.) Decorators and sisters Cassidy Self and Megan Hamilton will talk about how to start a home remodeling project and which room to start with. Then they will discuss choosing flooring, cabinets, countertops and backsplashes. They are from Portales. Atma Khalsa is going to show how to use cra...
I don’t want much out of my patio gardening this year. Just a tomato or two off my own vine will be fine. That’s probably the best I can hope for since that’s the only veggie I have planted. I fear the worst I can hope for is a larger water bill and no tomatoes. I’ve got one plant in a great big pot at the end of the patio and the other is in a spot I prepared next to the patio alongside the trellis. The one in the pot is a hybrid slicer tomato and the vine went crazy immedia...
We’ve made a few modifications here at The Eastern New Mexico News. Some of the changes may have already been noticed; others will take effect next Sunday. I’m here to pass along our rationale and — in some cases — hopefully soften the blow. We’d rather make changes and adjustments on our end rather than pass additional costs on to our readers by raising the cost of the paper or subscription rates. All of the moves are responses to some of the realities in the newspaper... Full story
CLOVIS — Bruce Pollard was in third or fourth grade when he first remembers Ida Jackson, one of his school's teachers. "She called everybody 'Baby,' or 'Sugar,'" he said. "It was always something positive with her. And if we'd do something wrong, she'd say, 'Now don't make your Mama want to whoop you.'" Luella Davis remembers that sweet disposition and Jackson's passion for educating. "Oh, she had a beautiful personality," Davis said. "She'd come to you and want to make s... Full story
Since Clovis and Portales sometimes fall short of July 4 fundraising goals, they could take a page from Levelland, Texas — a Portales-size town 30 miles southwest of Lubbock. In Levelland — ironically, the home of the Portales Peanut Company — Chance, my 14-year-old lethargic lab/wiener godson, lives a well-fed life despite being expelled from obedience school. At his behest, I inquired about city-sponsored fireworks. There were none, so we resigned ourselves to telev...
Aside from the prime-time hype and prolonged standing ovation, President Donald Trump’s nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court on Monday evening was a sober and dignified occasion worthy of our nation’s highest court and highest office — no small feat in our current political climate. Whether or not the 53-year-old Kavanaugh — a Yale Law School graduate, former clerk for retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy and federal judge who has written over 300 opinions during his 12 years on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals — i...
OKLAHOMA CITY — Pot advocates celebrated the culmination of a yearslong effort to ease restrictions on the use of cannabis last month when nearly 60 percent of Oklahoma voters approved medical marijuana. Oklahoma’s proponents had even included a two-month deadline for the implementation in their measure so as to avoid the years of delays they had seen elsewhere. But that has not stopped state health officials and the Republican governor from making drastic changes. Within weeks of the election, they signed off on tough new...
I'm a mom and a teacher and I think we should keep PARCC This month our state's Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers results were released and, with them, a flurry of public debate ensues again about whether or not we should move forward with the system we have in place, or — as both candidates running for governor have stated — scrap it for something different. As a mother and a teacher, I deeply believe we should stay the course. The value of sea... Full story
CLOVIS — The players on last year's Clovis American 13-14 Junior League softball team know well what it means to repeat as New Mexico state champions because they had hands directly in both. The first-year players know what it felt like on Saturday, as they helped bring home the second of back-to-back titles. Together, it was a talented, confident, well-coached group that barreled through this year's state tournament, capping it with Saturday's 16-1 victory over Copper, w...
CLOVIS — Told by some he’d be a nobody in life, Clovis boxer Rico Urquizo has certainly become a somebody. Urquizo, 36, owns his own business — Show Tyme Flooring and Roofing in Clovis — and has been a professional boxer since 2012. Now, the man that has always had dreams of making something of himself has a chance to realize a lifelong goal — bring a title back to Clovis. Urquizo will fight in Austin, Texas, on July 28 for the vacant NABF Junior Cruiserweight world title against Kazakhstan’s Ali Baloyev. “I know this is...
CLOVIS — Returning favorites are on the schedule for next weekend's 27th Annual Clovis/Curry County Ethnic Fair, along with new additions and a special blessing from the Dineh Tah Navajo Dancers. Look for cultural performances and the long-running companion car show, now in its 23rd year. If you're more hands on, there will be arts and crafts booths, a 5K fun run/walk in the morning, a talent show and free admission to the zoo and splash pad at Hillcrest Park, where much of t...
CLOVIS — The stories of 10 different women who entered the workforce during World War II were shared at the Clovis-Carver Public Library on Saturday during a program celebrating Rosie the Riveter. Ann Beyke portrayed nine different women in her performance of Rosie the Riveter: Working for Victory on the Home Front. Audience member Mercedes Agogino talked about her experience working at a ship yard by Portland, Oregon, around 1942 after graduating from high school. "The f...
When word got out this spring that Debby Cannon was going to hang up her apron after more than 40 years as the head cook for the Elida school system, a few of her friends contacted me and suggested she’d be a good subject for a column. I agreed. It was talking Cannon into it that was the challenge. If you ask her about all those years and all those students and all those breakfasts and all those lunches — up to 120 most days — she’ll say she was just doing her job. Elida s...
CLOVIS — Almost six months after a bomb scare that evacuated the Curry County Courthouse, police last week arrested a Clovis man accused of calling in the bogus threat and planting a suspicious package in order to delay a woman’s sentencing that morning. Jeremy Cook, 36, was arrested Thursday and charged with “making a bomb scare,” a fourth-degree felony. Over the course of several weeks subsequent to the two-part Jan. 26 incident, investigators narrowed in on Cook through forensic analysis of cell phone and social media a... Full story
Baxter Curren Senior Center 908 Hickory St., Clovis Monday: 8:30 a.m. exercise class, 10 a.m. jewelry pals, noon pinochle, 1 p.m. line dance, 5 p.m. social night Tuesday: 8 a.m. quilting, 9 a.m. pinochle class, noon pinochle 101, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. exercise equipment, 1 p.m. crafters, 6 p.m. trivia mania Wednesday: 8 a.m.-4 p.m. exercise equipment, 8:30 a.m. exercise class, 10 a.m. sew days, 10 a.m. sew days, 1 p.m. Needle Gang Thursday: 8 a.m. blood pressure, 8 a.m. eggs, gravy and biscuits $4, 9 a.m. pinochle 101, 1 p.m. bingo,...
CLOVIS — Recent Clovis High School graduate Jack Palla was awarded a $1,000 Animal Health International, Inc. scholarship, according to a press release from the National FFA Organization. Palla was among 1,829 students nationwide who received over $2.5 million in scholarships from the National FFA Foundation this year. Palla plans to pursue a degree at Oklahoma State University, the release said....
Monday • Full STEAM Ahead — 10:30 a.m. at Portales Public Library. Program: Life on the High Plains. Information: 575-356-3940 • Movie Monday — 1 p.m. at Clovis-Carver Public Library. Movie: “SING” Information: 575-769-7840 • Family Movie Night — 6 p.m. at Clovis-Carver Public Library. Movie: “Mama Mia.” Information: 575-769-7840 Tuesday • Summer Job Fair — 10 a.m.-3 p.m. at Workforce Connections, 111 N. Main St., Clovis. Information: 575-762-4571 • Classic Creations — 10:30 a.m. at Portales Public Library. Subject: Wa...
Tuesday • Curry County Commission — 9 a.m. in commission chambers at county administrative building. Information: 575-763-6016 Wednesday • Clovis/Curry Chamber Board — 11:30 a.m. at the Chamber. Information: 575-769-7828 • Local Emergency Planning Committee — 1 p.m. at City Hall, Clovis. Information: 575-769-7828 • Finance Committee — 2 p.m. at City Hall, Clovis. Information: 575-769-7828 Thursday • ENM Water Utility Authority — 1 p.m. at Texico Fire Station, 120 N. Turner Ave. Information: 575-935-4262 • Clovis City Commi...
On this date ... 1953: Two Portales boys had gone public with their search for reliable transportation. Unable to afford horses, Tommy Felber and Kenneth Harris, both 12, had gone to the Portales newspaper seeking to get the word out: They wanted to buy a donkey or burro. The boys told newspaper Editor Gordon Greaves they could pay up to $6 for such a beast. "Greaves noted with some nostalgia that he remembers the day when you could buy a donkey for 50 cents," The Associated...
