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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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CLOVIS -- Devon Seaborne usually falls asleep on his couch. Late on the evening of July 8, he was on Facetime talking with a friend who said, “Why are you on your couch? You have a bed.” It was a good suggestion. Had he fallen asleep on his couch, Seaborne would have been in the path of a Dodge truck that rammed his house a few hours later, plowing through his living room and destroying the wall between his living room and kitchen. In the driver’s seat of the truck was Victor Davila, 22, of Friona, who was soon removed by em...
Today *Let Freedom Ring pet adoption event – 10 a.m.-3 p.m., PetSmart, 601 Texas St., Clovis. Dogs, cats, puppies, and kittens available through Cindy’s Hope for Precious Paws; all are up-to-date on shots, spayed/neutered, microchipped. Information: [email protected] Monday through Friday *Summer by Design: Art Camp – 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Art and Anthropology building, ENMU, Portales. Open to grades 7-12. Instruction by university professors. Cost $150; includes instruction, art supplies, activities, lunch, and t...
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. “Mulberry Hollow” by Denise Hunter. Avery Robinson decided to be a physician after helplessly watching her mother lose a battle with a terrible disease. Now at risk of developing the same illness, Avery guards her heart from love. Contractor Wes...
Ours has become a senior citizen home with the realization of the mortality of our youngest pup. None of us are spring chickens but she’s the youngest, even figuring in dog years. If she’s about 8 that would make her 56, but she’s a very rotund 56 — more rotund than even her daddy who has her beat by about seven years. She’s had a cough off and on for a good while. We treated it once with antibiotic and it seemed to get a little better but it would come back, then get better f...
Even if Clovis area residents don't wake up to Terri Chavez's cheery voice on KTQM Radio's morning show, they know her from her involvement in events like Aug. 19's Battle of the Bands and the Boo in the Zoo trick-or treating event at the Hillcrest Park Zoo, and through her other job as food and beverage coordinator for the Curry County Events Center. Chavez has been a part of KTQM Radio for 12 years, but only recently has become the "lead voice" on KTQM's morning drive-time...
Yes, Texas and Oklahoma are still a part of Big 12 - even if the traditional hype has moved on. For the first time in seven seasons, Oklahoma is not the preseason favorite to win the conference. That distinction falls to defending champion Baylor for the first time in Big 12 history despite a significant turnover at the skill positions. Texas was fourth, a cautious approach to Year 2 under Steve Sarkisian. Even more eye-catching is the preseason all-Big 12 team. For all its...
LEXINGTON, Ky. — It was the late Art Modell who said of his fellow NFL owners, “We’re 32 Republicans who vote socialist.” The only thing that might save college football is socialism. We’re barely a week into the brave new world where USC and UCLA, a pair of schools in Los Angeles, California, are joining the Big Ten, a conference whose previous geographic footprint stretched from New Jersey only as far as Nebraska. The reason for this geographic craziness? Money, money and more money. With the Pac-12 having slipped i...
Clovis Christian Eagles boys golf team participated in the High School Golf National invitational in Pinehurst N.C. Monday through Wednesday. Clovis Christian Schools superintendent Shelly Norris said the team was eligible to be invited to the tournament at Pinehurst Resort, "Home of American Golf," because the team won the New Mexico 2021 golf tournament. "We finished 46 out of 55 teams," team coach Trent Mckay said. "We were the smallest team, student body wise." Mckay said...
PORTALES — Eastern New Mexico University’s Women’s Soccer team has announced their 2022 schedule. The upcoming slate of games has the Greyhounds with eight home contests, five non-conference meetings, and 12 Lone Star Conference encounters. For the second straight season, Eastern will battle Colorado State University-Pueblo for the August 25 season opener in Colorado. In the 2021 home opener, the Greyhounds handed the Thunderwolves a 2-0 loss. ENMU closes out the month of August with an August 28 match against Colorado Chris...
CLOVIS — Clovis High athletic director Lonnie Baca said on Wednesday that the school is looking to fill saveral coaching openings, including boys basketball, by the end of this week. CHS filled its football head coaching vacancy in June, naming Lovington native Andrew McCraw, a former player and assistant coach at Eastern new Mexico University, to replace Cal Fullerton, who resigned in May after five seasons as the Wildcats’ head coach. Baca said applications for the boys basketball job are still being accepted. CHS alum Jad...
Booked The following were booked into local jails (Tuesday - Friday): Clovis * Christopher Hanks, 43, violation of restraining order prohibiting domestic violence * Juan Sierra, 73, driving while license suspended or revoked * Darien Garcia, 21, failure to appear on a felony charge * Gabriel Benavidez, 20, probation violation * Frankie Owen, 39, resisting, evading or obstructing an officer * Miguel DeJesus, 38, open container, failure to maintain traffic lane, negligent use of a deadly weapon, aggravated driving while under t...
The New Mexico Higher Education Department announced Thursday that the three-year time period adult learners have to pass all subject matter tests has been removed, making hundreds more eligible for their High School Equivalency (HSE) credential, according to a release by the state. “As a result of the retroactive policy change, 75 New Mexicans who previously passed required GED exams beyond the three-year time frame will be awarded a secondary credential, with even higher numbers expected for students who passed HiSET t...
CLOVIS – The City of Clovis and the Hillcrest Park Zoo have announced Carpet Tech as the winner of the "Name the Baby Camel Contest." The contest was for individuals and businesses to bid for the naming rights of the Hillcrest Park Zoo's newest addition, a baby male Bactrian camel. The bidding period ended July 6. Carpet Tech placed the highest bid of $750 to name the camel, "Alexander Camelton." In a news release, assistant city clerk Kelsey Knight wrote the City of Clovis t...
Our story so far... The Extreme Court just gutted reproductive rights, shredded a New York law that helped keep guns out of public spaces for more than a century, and crippled the Environmental Protection Agency in the face of a global climate crisis. Georgia may soon send to the Senate former football star Herschel Walker, last seen claiming the Green New Deal would make America’s “good air decide to float over to China’s bad air.” Amazingly, he would not be the dumbest Repub...
It’s so predictable, maybe we should start calling it “Gun Control Day.” Like the movie “Groundhog Day,” it happens again and again after a mass shooting, like the one at a July 4 parade near Chicago that killed seven people and wounded two dozen. The professional anti-gun mob – i.e., liberal Democrats and the major media outlets – immediately spring into action and exploit the tragedy as much as they can. As they did this time, they automatically blame guns, renew their c...
During the Bicentennial year of 1976, I was a 15-year-old history geek. To be alive for the 200th birthday of our nation, particularly in Philadelphia, where it all began, was intoxicating. My mother got into the act by dressing her five kids as Revolutionary characters: I was Betsey Ross, my three younger brothers were a motley Spirit of ’76 and my 5-year-old sister was trapped in a large papier-mache version of the Liberty Bell. As memory serves, the bell part of the c...
If you thought Donald Trump represented a unique danger to the American system of government, you obviously haven’t been paying attention to the growing menace from Tallahassee. Some of the same commentators whose hair has been on fire about Trump are now warning that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is “more of a threat” and “far more dangerous.” This is an extraordinary level of hysteria over a competent, popular Sunbelt governor who has never schemed to reverse the outcome of an e...
The Food and Drug Administration approved the first oral contraceptive in 1960. Open-source data indicates that development of “the pill” began in the early 1950s and clinical tests were initiated in 1954. By my math, that’s more than 60 years ago. Since that time, millions of women have availed themselves of this form of contraception. One could reasonably assume that with this much raw data available, it would be possible to arrive at a conclusion as to the safety and effic...
Where was support from Right to Life these past 50 years? An interview came on the news recently, featuring several faith groups announcing all of the help they now wish to provide for women after the Supreme Court’s overturn of Roe v. Wade. The interviewees, representing the Right to Life Movement, were promising to support women by providing affordable healthcare during their pregnancies, healthcare for their babies after birth, counseling during and after pregnancy, and affordable housing in safe neighborhoods for the wome...
The City of Clovis is taking applications from city residents who want to serve on the Clovis’ Civil Aviation Board. The board makes recommendations to the Clovis City Commission regarding expansions, improvements, facilities and policies governing the operation of the airport. For more information, or to request an application form, interested people should contact the city manager’s office at [email protected] or call 575-763-9654. The deadline to apply is July 29....
Tuesday • Portales City Council - 6:30 p.m., Council Chambers, Memorial Building, 200 E. 7th St., Portales. Information: 575-356-6662 Wednesday • City of Clovis Finance Committee – 2 p.m., Clovis City Hall small conference room, 321 N. Connelly, Clovis. Information: 575-763-9654 Thursday • Curry County Health Council – 12-1 p.m., in-person at Curry County Administration Complex, 417 Gidding St., Suite 100, Clovis, and via Zoom. Information and Zoom link: 575-763-6016 • City of Clovis economic development plan presentatio...
PORTALES -- A Portales man on Thursday was sentenced to prison after being found guilty of criminal sexual penetration in 2018. A jury found Erasmo Vega, 54, guilty in the trial. Judge Donna Mowrer sentenced Vega to three years in the Department of Corrections, followed by lifetime parole and lifetime sex offender registration, according to a news release from District Attorney Brian Stover. The assault happened Dec. 15, 2018, when law enforcement met with the victim who reported Vega, an acquaintance, came to her home to...
The coronavirus is still around, but it’s different. So says Plains Regional Medical Center Chief Executive Jorge Cruz. Cruz said last week the new, prevalent COVID is the BA5 variant. “It’s more contagious,” he said. “It’s easier to transmit but has much milder symptoms.” Cruz said PRMC has been averaging two to three hospitalized COVID patients daily, but on Thursday that number jumped to six. Cruz said there has been a jump in cases statewide. The best way to avoid COVID has not changed. “Practice the COVID-safe prac...
The Roosevelt County Commission voted 3-2 in favor of increasing the salaries of elected officials by 10 percent at its meeting Tuesday. The salaries resolution states: “no salary increase shall take effect until the first day of the term of an elected county official who takes office on or after January 1, 2023, nor shall they go into effect until the first day of the term for any elected official who takes office on or after January 1, 2025.” Commissioners Rodney Savage, Dennis Lopez and Tina Dixon voted in favor of the...
Road improvements are coming to main arterial highways in and around Clovis. New Mexico Department of Transportation District 2 engineer Francisco Sanchez said a $2.5 million resurfacing project will begin, possibly as early as the first week of September, on State Road 245 known in Clovis as Llano Estacado Boulevard. Work is scheduled from its junction with State Road 311 near Ranchvale eastward to the end of its state designation in the vicinity of the Clovis city limits. “We’re resurfacing the whole road,” Sanchez said. “T...
