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Editor's note: This is one in a continuing series of state-of-the-entity interviews with local officials. KC Messick is the general manager for the Curry County Events Center and Fairgrounds. Q: We're about a month out from the Curry County Fair, scheduled Aug. 15-19. How are you preparing? What can we look forward to? A: All the maintenance prep is underway. We're just getting the barns ready for the junior livestock show and just getting the marketing prepped so that we can...
On this date ... 1917: Ray Bauer was born in Portland, Ore. After graduating high school, the baseball slugger was drafted by the Cincinnati Reds and he soon found himself playing minor league ball in Clovis. He played eight seasons of professional baseball, interrupted by World War II, and then made Clovis home, marrying Dorothy Dale in 1951. He operated Clovis’ Bauer Auto Supply. Pioneer baseball fans still remember him as Ray “Power” Bauer. He hit 66 home runs in his professional career, including 19 in 1948. He died in 20...
Reserved seat tickets for the 2023 Wildcat Football season will go on sale Monday. Past reserved seat ticket holders will have until Aug. 4, to buy their tickets. After Aug. 4, the remaining tickets will go on sale to the public, according to a Clovis Municipal Schools news release. CMS is asking If you no longer want to buy your reserved seat tickets, please contact the CHS Athletic Office before the Aug. 4 deadline. The release reports reserved seat tickets are $60 per seat and $70 for each box seat. There is an additional...
Monday *City of Clovis Parks, Recreation, and Beautification Committee – 5:30 p.m., North Annex, Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main, Clovis. Information: 575-763-9654 Tuesday *Clovis Civil Aviation Board — 5:30 p.m., North Annex, Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main, Clovis. Information: Amanda Brungart at 575-763-9618 Wednesday *Clovis Local Emergency Planning Committee (LEPC) — 1 p.m., North Annex, Clovis-Carver Public Library. Information: 575-769-7828 *City of Clovis Finance Committee – 2 p.m., Clovis City Ha...
The books listed below are now available for checkout at the Clovis-Carver Public Library. The library is open to the public, but patrons can still visit the online catalog at cloviscarverpl.booksys.net/opac/ccpl or call 575-769-7840 to request a specific item for curbside pickup. “She Gets July” by Susan Page Davis. Rebecca Harding can hardly wait to get away from her city nursing job in Portland, Maine, for a few restful days at her lakeside cottage. The only problem is, the cottage is half owned by her former fiancé, arch...
Curry Residents Senior Meals Association 901 W. 13th St. Clovis Monday: Barbecued chicken legs, red skin potato salad, fried okra, garlic toast peach cobbler. Tuesday: Fish patty sandwich, scalloped potatoes, mixed veggies, oatmeal cookie. Wednesday: Beef lasagna, mixed veggies, bread stick, vanilla pudding. Thursday: Taco salad, chips and salsa, sopapilla, Friday: Hot dog on a bun, baked beans, sweet potato fries, cake with strawberries. Baxter-Curren Activity Center 908 Hickory, Clovis 575-762-3631 Monday: 8:30 a.m....
Even though I didn’t follow in the steps of my father it doesn’t mean I don’t appreciate the path he cut. Both my dad and my father-in-law collected and restored antique and classic cars. Wandering a car show or seeing classic cars shined up in a parade still gives me a strong connection to them. I fetched tools, I helped load cars, I drove parades for them when they needed another driver, but I never really caught the bug. They sought cars out and then worked on them until...
Kristine Bruffett is a Californian who moved to Clovis a few years ago. These days she is the mid-shift assistant manager at the IHOP restaurant in Clovis. The News caught up with Bruffet by phone Thursday while she was in Amarillo helping her dad go to an eye appointment. Q: So how are you at making pancakes? A: It's probably one of the better things I do. I like making pancakes. I call myself "The Pancake Queen." I've been complimented on my pancakes. They're nice and...
Booked The following were booked into local jail (Tuesday - Friday): Clovis • Suzanne Vargas, 44, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge • Kijyana Nash, 39, larceny • Leo Valero, 34, probation violation, failure to pay fines • Alex Casaus, 52, make a false report • Eric Gallagher, 30, theft of identity, fraudulent receipt of a credit card, fraudulent use of an illegally obtained credit card • Craig Hunter, 30, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge • Kia Gallo, 30, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge • Tevyn Driever, 26...
At their regular meeting Tuesday, the Curry County Commission voted to move forward with the demolition of two concession stands on the fairgrounds. Curry County Events Center (CCEC) and Fairgrounds General Manager, KC Messick, presented the reasoning for the demolition to the commission Tuesday morning. The two concession stands have not been used for the last few years because of them not being up to code. "It would be my recommendation to demo those two small buildings and...
The New Mexico Supreme Court ruled Thursday the public may cross a rancher’s private property on a road in Quay County under a “prescriptive easement” established by decades of uninterrupted travel on the roadway. According to a news release from the court’s administrative office, the unanimous opinion resolved a dispute over the right to use a six-mile-long road – known as Quay Road AI – to access land owned by the state and several other ranchers, including property leased for a solar energy farm near Tucumcari. The dispute...
The citizens of Portales are doing a good job at conserving water, but there is still more that needs to be done, John DeSha, the city's public utilities director, on Tuesday told the Portales City Council. The Stage 3 water emergency was declared on June 28, and the mandatory restrictions on water use that were enacted then still apply, DeSha told the council. The city wellfield's capacity has been reduced over the last several years due to the declining levels in the O...
The Roosevelt County Commission expressed concern Tuesday morning about rumors that the county commission is not paying the city of Portales for services. Commissioner Tina Dixon brought up the rumors during Tuesday’s regular commission meeting as commissions came to a decision to approve providing the city a notice of detention billing requirements. Dixon did not identify who is making these claims, but insisted they need to be put to a stop. “There are comments being made that the county is not paying their bills to the...
Time for change in Portales leadership Once again the city of Portales has seen fit to use the panic/emergency style of governing it has fallen into. We witnessed this last year when they came out and declared the need to raise our utility rates by an astonishing amount to get us in line with what we “should” be paying. The result of that scare tactic was a smaller increase in rates. Everyone grumbled but felt we dodged a bullet. Seeing the outcome of this tactic, they came out this year and said we need to increase pro...
Hannah Arendt, who observed the trial of Holocaust architect Adolf Eichmann many decades ago in Israel, coined the phrase “the banality of evil” to describe crimes that were anything but banal. She was actually referring to what kind of person was capable of committing these horrific acts, not the acts themselves. Sadly, while evil clearly exists, it is not so easy to figure out who is likely to be its architect. Eichmann, as Arendt wrote, could be considered an evil per...
Depending on what news outlet you follow, there are either 16 of 17 organizations or agencies that gather intelligence of the United States. These organizations are broken down into two broad categories: the National Intelligence Program and the Military Intelligence Program. The 2022 Fiscal Year budget appropriation for these two programs was about $90 billion. For that kind of money, you would think the government is provided with intel that is timely, accurate and verified...
You’ve probably been told you should try to make a difference in the world. This is stated, especially to the young, as if it were undeniably true. Who pauses to clarify that it’s vital to make the right difference? Before you try to make a difference you need to think about whether the difference you want to make would be helpful. Every mass-murdering head of state has unquestionably made a difference. Millions dead, and millions more enslaved to an authoritarian gov...
Sometimes it takes a pair of fresh eyes to see things hiding in our own backyards. Or maybe two pairs of fresh eyes. Allow me to introduce you to Sajan KC and Anisha Sapkota. It's possible you've already seen this young husband and wife in our area, cameras in hand, on the hunt for some of our smallest and most beautiful neighbors: butterflies. If you don't think of eastern New Mexico as a particularly good place for spotting butterflies, KC and Sapkota can tell you...
Clovis City Commissioner David Bryant has responded to allegations he failed to attend a taxpayer-funded seminar in Santa Fe last month. “(Y)es,” he wrote in a Facebook message to reporter Grant McGee at 4:53 a.m. Saturday, “I attended, as another commissioner pointed out, and yes I’ve attended every session of the program over my attendance at two separate offerings.” Bryant did not immediately respond to questions about his statement as of 8:15 a.m. Saturday. We put our Sunday newspapers together on Friday nights so they ca...
What’s going to be opening at the former Hamilton Truck Center on North Prince? What is the new business on the north side of the Clovis Walmart? What’s going on at the old apartments on the south side of 21st Street just east of Thornton Street? Pete Wilt is the man who knows what is going on in terms of new construction in Clovis; he is the city’s Building Safety Department director. “There’s nothing happening at 2521 North Prince, we shut them down the other day because they had no permits,” Wilt said. Wilt said contra...
A major road project in Clovis that is scheduled to last two years is starting up later this month. The project will involve two miles of U.S. 60-84, from just east of Martin Luther King Boulevard eastward to Mile Marker 389. The New Mexico Department of Transportation (NMDOT) project will consist of pavement construction, sidewalk/curb & gutter installation, installation of drainage structures, installation of new traffic signals and installation of new roadway lights, NMDOT District 2 Public Information Officer Candace...
Clovis police on Friday were still searching for a fourth suspect they believe was involved in a July 9 homicide in the 900 block of West Ninth Street. On Monday afternoon, police took three people into custody that were believed to be connected to the killing and armed robbery of 31-year-old Anibal Salguero. Authorities charged Alex Zapata, 25, with murder. He was being held in the Curry County Adult Detention Center without bond. Along with Zapata, two others -- Jainene...
Ned Houk Park is already a recreational destination point for some in the Clovis area. Multiple activities take place there, from fishing to dirt biking to frisbee golf. Now, the city of Clovis is asking for input on other ways the 3,000-acre park north of the city can be utilized. The city has a survey on its website asking residents what they mainly use the park for now and what they want to see added – possibly a splash park, more horse trails, or ziplining. The last day f...
A domestic violence court case and what the suspect described as "receiving threats" led to a father shooting his 7-year-old daughter on Tuesday afternoon, police said. Police learned about 2 p.m. Tuesday that a small white SUV was being shot at by a male wearing all black near 12th and Calhoun streets. Another call to police reported that the mother of the victim, Destiny Smiley, was taking the child to a nearby hospital after she'd been shot in the head. Kyilany Smiley was... Full story
Two of three defendants charged with child abuse at a Texico home have now received prison sentences after entering guilty pleas. Sgt. Gerardo Hernandez, criminal investigator with the New Mexico State Police, detailed in an arrest affidavit last July that children in the home had been beaten, starved and chained to beds. Jaime Sena, 30, on June 7 received a sentence of six years in prison on four counts of child abuse without great bodily harm, court records show. Jayme Kushman, 38, on Thursday received a 15-year sentence...
