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***UPDATE: Suspect Marcus Lewis arrested Monday. See story here in online edition.*** An arrest warrant was issued Friday charging a juvenile in the July 9 shooting death of Victor Davila, 22, of Friona. Also Friday, Clovis police announced a warrant had been issued seeking the arrest of a 21-year-old man they believe shot Jesus Navarrete on Monday at the Clovis Apartments. Marcus Lewis is charged with aggravated battery, felon in possession of a firearm and shooting at or...
Monday *Clovis-Carver Library Board – 5:30 p.m., North Annex, Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main St., Clovis. Information: 575-769-7840 Tuesday *Curry County Commission meeting – 9 a.m., Commission Chambers, Curry County Administration Complex, 417 Gidding St., Clovis. Information: 575-763-6016 *Portales City Council - 6:30 p.m., Council Chambers, Memorial Building, 200 E. 7th St., Portales. Information: 575-356-6662 *Clovis Municipal Schools board — 5:30 p.m., Board Room, CMS administration building, 1009 Main St.,...
Gas prices are finally on their way down. At least for now. AAA New Mexico reports the statewide average was $4.26 for a gallon of regular unleaded fuel on Thursday – 18 cents less than a week ago, but still $1.17 more than a year ago. “Gas prices across the state fell as economic slowdown concerns, due to rising interest rates and inflation, outweigh crude oil supply worries as the war in Ukraine continues,” AAA stated in a news release. “The potential for declining crude oil demand, as it relates to possible reduced...
On this date ... 1967: Three thefts and two burglaries had been reported in Clovis over the weekend. Thieves snatched bicycles from 221 York and from 316 Merriwether, according to police reports. A new tire and rim was taken from 1016 E. Fifth St. Burglars broke into homes at 611 E. 10th St. and 1001 Hondo. Nothing was reported stolen from the 10th Street residence, but on Hondo the resident reported a lamp, bedding, sewing machine and a Bible were missing. Pages Past is compiled by David Stevens. Contact:...
Curry Residents Senior Meals Association 901 W. 13th St. Clovis Monday: Chicken salad, potato salad, cucumber salad, cracker, cookie. Tuesday: Beef Stroganoff over noodles, green beans, roll with butter, fruit cocktail. Wednesday: Meat lasagna, Italian vegetables, garlic bread, cake. Thursday: Beef enchiladas, pinto beans, chips and salsa, sopapilla with honey. Friday: Baked chicken, sliced tomatoes, broccoli and cheese, roll with butter, Jello. Friendship Senior Center 901 W. 13th St., Clovis 575-769-7908 Monday: 9 a.m....
Cowboy poetry isn’t every person’s cup of tea and I didn’t know I was a fan until I became acquainted with Baxter Black. Sadly, we lost the retired large animal vet and Western philosopher recently, and a bit too soon. My first exposure to Baxter Black was through his weekly columns in the Quay County Sun back in the 1980s. He hadn’t yet hit the big time in cowboy poetry or maybe he had and the literary form just hadn’t seen its day yet. Either way, his columns didn’t co...
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. “Cold Snap” by Marc Cameron. After an early spring thaw on the Alaskan coast, Anchorage police discover a gruesome new piece of evidence in their search for a serial killer: a dismembered human foot. In Kincaid Park, a man is arrested for att...
It is not many people who would start their own business to free themselves up for community service. One of these rare individuals is Kirsty Forrest, owner of the Dye Trying hair salon at 103 W. 4th St., in downtown Clovis, and the Blue Wave tanning salon at 1500 W. 21st St., Clovis Owning her own salon, she said, gives her the freedom for her community activities that won her a Big Heart award from the Clovis-Curry County Chamber of Commerce in 2019. Except for three years...
Booked The following were booked into local jails (Tuesday - Friday): Clovis • PJ Fitzwater, 31, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge • Justin Allen, 33, possession of a firearm or destructive device by a felony • Bianca Cano, 26, escape from a community custody release program, probation violation • Benito Chavez, 44, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge • Kristopher Morris, 26, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge • Rogelio Ezqueda, 37, conspiracy to commit fraud • Cesar Chacon-Rascon, 22, aggravated battery • And...
The president of the Rio Grande Foundation, a libertarian- and conservative-leaning think tank based in Albuquerque, delivered some sad news in statistics aboutNew Mexico’s economy but offered three steps that he said could start reversing New Mexico’s economic performance. Paul Gessing, the foundation president and an occasional columnist for The News on Thursday summarized for the Clovis Rotary Club New Mexico’s situation and the measures he thinks the state should take. He started by demonstrating with statistics just...
Twenty five years ago this month marked the end of the five-and-dime era: F.W. Woolworth's called it quits after more than a century. The once mighty retail pioneer announced on July 17, 1997, that its 400 remaining stores, a fraction of what it operated in its glory days, would close for good. In the pre-Dollar General era, Woolworth's dotted the nation and four continents with stores and famed lunch counters. Woolworth's opened its first 5-cent stores in Utica, N.Y., and...
I was 11 during the summer of 1973 when the Watergate hearings were televised. The memory is still clear in my mind, and it was a watershed moment for a young girl who thought her country was perfect. It clearly wasn’t. Now, almost 50 years later, I am even more cognizant of the flaws in our nation, even though I spend most of my waking hours helping other people become American citizens. The flaws pale in comparison to the problems people face in other countries, mass s...
They called it “massive resistance.” That, some of you may recall, was what Virginia dubbed its campaign of defiance of Brown v. Board of Education, the 1954 Supreme Court ruling that outlawed school segregation. The Virginia crusade was just part of a drive by conservatives all over the South to blunt the effect of that decision. It’s a noxious bit of history that, paradoxically, may carry a seed of hope for advocates of reproductive rights in the wake of the Supreme Court...
Concerned about money spent on shooting range project This letter is in reference to your newspaper article from Sept. 29 concerning City Manager Justin Howalt showing the progress of the Clovis Shooting Ranges at Ned Houk Park. His expected opening date of the $3.7 million shooting complex was supposed to be in the next month or so and definitely before the end of 2021. This shooting facility was advertised and constructed to be a “state of the art” complex for eastern New Mexico and surrounding areas. It was promoted to...
Donald Trump is out there speaking and drawing fired-up crowds in places like Illinois. It’s obvious that he’s still the most popular figure and dominant force in the Republican Party. But I’m worried that despite his lasting popularity among most Republicans, he’s a liability to the GOP’s chances to retake the White House in 2024. The good news for Republicans is that this fall, thanks to Joe Biden, it looks like nothing is going to prevent a Red wave from flushing Democrats...
Without a doubt, the climate-obsessed green movement is the most stupidly self-destructive force in the world today, leaving a trail of irrationality and folly wherever it goes. Consider its recent record of destroying the country of Sri Lanka, making Western Europe needlessly vulnerable to Vladimir Putin’s energy blackmail and stoking higher energy prices in the U.S. that have contributed to the fastest decline in real wages in 40 years. The greens are rapidly making up g...
The terms mass delusion or mass hysteria, when used by the general public, usually refer to a condition where a large group of people believe something that is not true. Two of the more notable cases of this disorder in the U.S. are the Salem witchcraft trials in 1692 and the McMartin preschool sexual abuse cases in the 1980s. Sadly, we may be witnessing another case of this phenomenon today in Europe. When Russia began its Special Military Operation in Ukraine during...
It happens all the time in Clovis’ high-crime neighborhoods. Shots are fired. Property is damaged. Sometimes people get hurt. Police don’t always find out right away. And when they do, sometimes “nobody saw a thing.” Police earlier this month issued a news release chastising residents of the Clovis Apartments for waiting 40 minutes before reporting almost two dozen gunshots. The police have a point, of course. They can’t be everywhere crime occurs when it’s happening. They can’t catch bad guys without help from good guys. Bu...
The city of Portales has asked Roosevelt County to contribute financial support towards the cost of operating its dispatch center, the Portales Police Communications Center. The city and county have been discussing that request but have yet to come to an agreement. “The call center is responsible for all E-911 and non-emergency dispatch calls,” said Sarah Austin, Portales city manager. “This includes all emergency medical calls, fire calls, lockouts, home alarms, law enforcement calls, animal control, civil disputes, (and)...
A former probation and parole officer in the Clovis office of the Probation and Parole Division of the New Mexico Corrections Department has filed a lawsuit in Ninth Judicial District Court challenging conditions that she alleges unfairly caused her to resign her position in December. The suit filed by Kenda Ferguson, a former probation and parole officer, names as defendants the corrections department, her manager and supervisor in the Probation and Parole Division, Clovis city police officers and city government officials....
Clovis Community College has been awarded a $50,000 grant to pay for mental health services for students from the New Mexico Higher Education Department. The Clovis Community College grant is part of Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s $1 million Mental and Behavioral Health Grant Initiative across the state “to expand existing services, add new resources, conduct staff training, and engage in outreach campaigns encouraging students to seek help,” as stated in a press release. Marcus Smith, CCC’s director of counseling, advisin...
School personnel shortages of teachers, coaches, custodians and other positions are being experienced by school systems in varying degrees across the country, the state and include Clovis and Portales school systems. A glance at the “Jobs” page on the website of Albuquerque Public Schools, the state’s largest school system, shows over 670 openings Friday. Clovis Municipal Schools deputy superintendent of employee services Joe Strickland said the condition the school system is in now in terms of openings is “actually looking p...
CLOVIS – Mayor Mike Morris at Thursday’s City Commission meeting urged area residents to use the tools available to them to report crime in the city, noting what he said is an uptick in criminal activity. Morris said the new phone app “Tip411” is an option along with texting 847411, calling Crimestoppers and leaving an anonymous tip (575-763-7000), or simply calling the police. His comments came on the heels of police recently forming a task force to investigate multiple shootings that have occurred this month. Police recentl...
CLOVIS -- A Clovis woman has started a petition drive asking for improvements at Hillcrest Park Zoo. Among other things, she wants the larger animals at Hillcrest taken to wildlife conservation facilities, leaving more space for remaining zoo animals. Jessica Boisseau is a yoga instructor, aerial acrobatic dancer and in training to be a "functional medical dietician." She located to Clovis last spring with her spouse, who is active duty Air Force. "There are unethical living...
Clovis property taxes will be rising come November. On Thursday, City Commissioners formally adopted the plan they started in motion last month. Commissioners rededicated a 1/4% gross receipts tax in place since 1981 away from specifically funding police and fire department operations. Those police and fire funds will now come from the city’s general fund. The move allows the city to use the 1/4% GRT tax toward funding the Ute Water Project – a $15 million debt to be paid back over 30 years. Thursday’s vote was 7-1 as it wa...
