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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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CLOVIS — Parents seemed to think extra help to catch up after a year of virtual learning should be the top priority for spending $16.4 million in federal COVID-19 pandemic emergency funds the Clovis Municipal Schools district is expecting. Requests for extra tutoring and summer school classes to help kids catch up with learning they lost due to COVID-19 pandemic school closings have been dominant among the 70 parents who have responded to the district’s survey on how to spend the money. The district must apply for the mon...
Information on the fig industry and preparing homestyle menus will be the featured topics on “Creative Living” 9:30 p.m. Tuesday and noon Thursday (all times Mountain). Karla Stockli is the CEO for the California Fig Advisory Board, and she’s going to discuss the historic significance of the fig, talk about the fig industry and explain why fig consumption is on the rise. She’s from Fresno, California. Former Extension Home Economist, Connie Moyers will demonstrate “Homestyle i...
I have a bit of a love-hate relationship with tents. I loved them before they became a part of my work life. I hate ‘em as a part of the business plan. My earliest memories of tents were the simplest. A tarp hung over a pickup bed along the Pecos River to keep a light shower off us. Another time at the lake, a tarp simply pulled over us in our bedroll on the ground during another night out under the stars with the other set of grandparents. That one ended up being during a d...
Editor's note: As we begin to see COVID-19 in our rear-view mirrors, travelers are cautiously returning to the roads. This series offers destination options for eastern New Mexico-area residents looking to get away for a few days. The gift of discovery. Lifelong learning. Engaging the individual genius within yourself. All of these things are an opportunity provided by Amarillo's Don Harrington Discovery Center. The Don Harrington Discovery Center and Space Theatre is a...
PORTALES — Men’s Basketball Head Coach Brent Owen recently announced the addition of four more members to his signing class in preparation for the Greyhounds’ 2021-22 campaign. Owen will welcome three college transfers in Adam Hess, JaQuan Morris, and James Jordan, along with first-year student Kentrell Pullian. The four guards will add depth to the Green and Silver backcourt. Hess, Morris, Jordan, and Pullian join Junior Hodnett, who signed with the Greyhounds in the fall of 2020. “I am excited about the level of talent...
On this date ... 1951: Portales’ F.T. Burke wasn’t complaining, but needed “a better understanding” for coping with his city job responsibilities. That’s how The Portales Daily News described the situation. Burke had two jobs - police judge and justice of the peace. Due to circumstances beyond his control, Burke told city leaders he was on duty 24 hours per day. The biggest issue, Burke said, was that “people wake him at all times of night to tell him their troubles,” the Daily News reported. It seemed those fined for tra...
Booked The following were booked into local jails (Tuesday-Friday): Clovis • Alaze Duffy, 21, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge, failure to appear on a felony charge • Jorge Ordonez, 27, probation violation • Jamond McClendon, 37, possession of a controlled substance, conspiracy to commit armed robbery, unlawful taking of a motor vehicle, parole violation, probation violation, aggravated fleeing a law enforcement officer, armed robbery, failure to pay fines • Joshua Lucero, 28, probation violation, resisting, evading...
CLOVIS — The trial of a Fort Sumner woman facing first-degree murder charges in the death of her grandfather was delayed Thursday by Ninth Judicial District Court Judge Matthew Chandler. The trial of Candy Jo Webb of Fort Sumner, who is accused of slaying her grandfather last October, was scheduled to begin August 9, but Chandler granted a request of both the prosecutor and defense attorney to delay the trial. Tenth Judicial District Attorney Tim Rose asked for the delay because of a conflicting kidnapping and rape case sched...
When the New Mexico Legislature passed Senate Bill 94 earlier this year, allowing college athletes to profit from the use of their name, image or likeness, some lawmakers feared we were picking a fight with the mighty NCAA. If that were the case, the masters of collegiate sports just cried uncle. The NCAA has changed its rules, just as new laws here and in other states were taking effect. College athletes will now be able to hire agents, sign endorsement deals, make commercials, leverage their presence on social media and...
It was, let us say, an interesting weekend for democracy. Call it a tale of two cities. One is Dallas, where thousands of so-called “conservatives” — the word has less meaning by the day — gathered in support of Donald Trump and his ongoing efforts to delegitimize a free and fair election that he lost. The other is Havana where thousands of Cubans took to the streets to demand an end to a 62-year reign of communist repression. The occasion in Dallas was the Conserv...
When Thurgood Marshall was strategizing his legal attack on segregation in the public school system of Topeka, Kan., he asked psychologists Kenneth and Mamie Clark to repeat an experiment they had first conducted 20 years earlier in the 1930s. In what has come to be known as the “Doll Test,” the Clarks handed African-American children two sets of dolls, one white and one Black. They then asked the children a number of questions, including “which doll looks the most like you...
It’s not easy to run a hideous dictatorship and still have fans and defenders in fashionable quarters, but the Castro regime has managed it for decades. The mass, spontaneous protests that broke out all over the country early this month are yet another sign that the Cuban government lacks legitimacy. In Cuba, it is the government versus the people, and lo, all these years, Castro’s apologists have been with the government. They have romanticized Fidel Castro, the founder fat...
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Graceland is an amazing place, or so I hear. As the former home of legendary entertainer Elvis Presley, it’s a must-see destination for his millions of fans. Located on the outskirts of this amazing Southern city — where many of my relatives, including my brand new granddaughter, reside — some 650,000 people a year visit The King’s mansion. But I’ve never actually been there. I’ve been visiting family in Memphis for most of my life and yet I’ve never been to Graceland. Isn’t that the way “locals” are everywhe...
Rep. Marian Matthews, D-Albuquerque, was asking the right question of Brian Blalock, secretary of New Mexico’s Children, Youth and Families Department. Referring to the death of 4-year-old James Dunklee Cruz of Albuquerque, allegedly beaten to death by a friend of his mother despite repeated referrals and warning signs to CYFD he shouldn’t be in his mother’s care, Matthews wanted to know: “How does that happen?” Blalock, predictably, said he couldn’t answer because to do so would be contrary to confidentiality laws to spe...
CLOVIS — The Clovis Industrial Development Corporation (CIDC) has received $12,500 for marketing activities targeting business recruitment from the New Mexico Economic Development Department (EDD), according to an EDD news release. The funds to the CIDC come from $260,000 that the EDD awarded to 15 economic development organizations statewide for fiscal 2022, which ends June 30, 2022, through EDD’s Local Economic Assistance and Development Support program. LEADS funding is “intended to create jobs through recruitment, retenti...
CLOVIS — A Clovis man on Wednesday was found guilty of driving under the influence of intoxicating liquor for the fifth time, according to a news release from District Attorney Andrea Reeb. Carlos Lopez, 37, was sentenced to 2 _ years in the Department of Corrections, followed by six months of supervised probation and one year of parole. He also will be required to have an ignition interlock installed on any motor vehicle that he operates for the remainder of his life, the release stated. The case stems from an incident on J...
CLOVIS — A former Curry County jail inmate has filed a civil lawsuit against the county alleging he was beaten by other inmates without intervention from jail personnel. Daniel Heil, 30, alleges in the lawsuit he was beaten into unconsciousness, hospitalized for two days and underwent surgery for facial fractures suffered in the attack. The incident occurred on Aug. 2, 2020, while Heil was being held on charges of kidnapping and aggravated battery, according to the lawsuit. A Clovis jury ultimately found Heil guilty of b...
CLOVIS — The city of Clovis Planning & Zoning Commission on Wednesday unanimously approved a replat of Wicks Heights Addition in Clovis. The applicant and owner is G4 New Generation, LLC. Chad Lydick of Lydick Engineers told the commissioners it will be “good for the city.” “They are going to put in some multifamily and it will be good for the whole area,” Lydick said. He said the only recommendation was that they put in an additional hydrant. “The streets and utilities are in,” he said....
CLOVIS — The cause of a fire that destroyed a Clovis mobile home on Tuesday is under investigation by the Clovis fire marshal, Deputy Fire Chief Byron Dixon said. The mobile home was located at No. 8 Sparrow Court in the Town Talk Mobile Home Park. Dixon said the mobile home was not occupied at the time of the fire, but a resident lived there. There were no injuries to firefighters, police or emergency medical personnel who assisted at the fire. Dixon said several calls reporting smoke in the area were phoned in at 6:47 p...
CLOVIS - Jeremiah Vigil and his dad Phillip Vigil were getting ready on Wednesday to make a 23-hour drive, starting Thursday, to Akron, Ohio, in time to get Jeremiah ready to compete for the national championship in the All-American Soap Box Derby. His soap box gravity racer was already en route to Ohio. A soap box derby car is assembled by young people and adults, with key parts ordered from the Soap Box Derby organization. Its power comes from gravity as it coasts downhill....
Today • Jurassic Empire Drive-Thru — 10 a.m.-8 p.m., Curry County Events Center, 1900 E. Brady Ave., Clovis. Family drive-thru event with 60 moving, breathing dinosaurs. Online tickets only; no tickets at the gate; vehicles will be limited. Weekend tickets $49 for vehicles with 1-7 passengers; $69 for vehicles with 8-14 passengers. Tickets and information: https://jurassicempire.com/clovis.html Monday through Friday • Vacation Bible School — 6-8:30 p.m., University Baptist Church, 1012 W. 15th St., Portales. “Concre...
Tuesday • Curry County Commission — 9 a.m., Commission Chambers, Curry County Administration Complex, 417 Gidding St., Clovis. Meeting may also be viewed at www.currycounty.org. Contact Lance Pyle at [email protected] prior to the meeting with comments or questions to be addressed in the meeting. Information: 575-763-6016 • Portales City Council — 6:30 p.m., Council Chambers, Memorial Building, 200 E. 7th St., Portales. Covid-19 social distancing and face covering encouraged. Questions, requests, or comments from citizen...
CLOVIS — A divided Clovis City Commission on Thursday narrowly approved participation in a land trust designed to assure the city has access to water purchased or reserved for purchase from landowners. The plan calls for the city to pay $150,000 a year into the land trust, which will, in turn, arrange with farmers and ranchers whose water the city would purchase, to make sure water is reserved for the city to secure using water rights or “encumbrances” that set aside the water for city use. The land trust results from an ag...
PORTALES - Former University of New Mexico basketball coach Paul Weir on Thursday was named athletic director at Eastern New Mexico University. "This great state of New Mexico has given me a personal and professional life one can only dream of. For the past 14 years, I have had the pleasure of serving at two incredible state institutions and I am humbled by being provided the opportunity at a third," Weir said in a news release. "To be able to segue into a key leadership...
PORTALES — Police in Portales are investigating a shooting in which a 17-year-old male was injured. Chief Chris Williams said the shooting was reported around midnight on Thursday and followed a complaint about a reckless driver in the area of Confer Park. The victim was transported to a Lubbock hospital. Ninth Judicial District Attorney Andrea Reeb said Friday she had learned the teen was released from the hospital after treatment. No arrest had been made as of Friday evening, Reeb said....
