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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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If the city of Clovis and Curry County contract for participation in a land and water trust on different terms, disagreements could render the agreement null and void, County Attorney Stephen Doerr told the county commission on Tuesday. The land and water trust, created by a contract between the Curry County Soil and Water Conservation District and the city, the county and Cannon Air Force Base is designed to assure that water purchased or reserved for the city, county and Cannon is kept available to the purchasers. County co...
CLOVIS — The 2021 Curry County Fair will be somewhat “unorthodox this year as far as what people expect to see,” said K.C. Messick, the general manager of the Curry County Events Center and Fairgrounds. The fair will be held August 10th through 14th at the fairgrounds. Included in what's new this year is the GoldStars Tribute Wall, a traveling show in tribute to the fallen soldiers from the Gulf War, Messick said. The wall will be at the fair the 12th, 13th and 14th. “We're hoping to (get) a lot of people from the Cannon Air...
Booked The following were booked into local jails (Tuesday-Friday): Clovis • Brandie Cordova, 37, aggravated assault • Corey Gilmore, 32, kidnapping, conspiracy to commit kidnapping, armed robbery, aggravated battery • Terry McCracken, 49, residential burglary • Carl Armstrong, 59, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge • Joan Ramirez, 21, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge • Amanda Hernandez, 35, unlawful use or theft of an ATM or debit card, conspiracy to commit fraudulent use of an illegally obtained credit card...
Information on getting out of debt, making children’s costumes, and the importance of family dinners will be the featured topics on “Creative Living” on Tuesday, July 27th at 9:30 p.m. and on Thursday, July 29th at 12:00 noon. (All times are Mountain.) According to the US Census Bureau, approximately 69% of households in the U.S. hold some form of debt. Gary Barnes, entrepreneur, speaker and business coach, will talk about taking a proactive approach to paying off debt now i...
Curry Resident Senior Meals Association 901 W. 13th St., Clovis 575-762-9405 All meals served with 2% milk and tossed salad w/dressing Monday: Sloppy Joe on bun, potato wedges, mixed veggies, fruit salad Tuesday: Baked ham w/pineapple slice, vegetables, cornbread w/margarine, pudding Wednesday: Beef/potato burrito, pinto beans, salad w/dressing, chips and salsa, cake with peaches Thursday: Tuna salad sandwich, carrot raisin salad, chips, ice cream Friday: Fried catfish, roast potatoes, mixed vegetables, cornbread...
Time slowly creeps by, but at times it comes rushing back to meet you. I don’t know where to begin estimating the number of people I’ve supervised as a manager in 30-odd years. I’ve managed to have some long runs in a couple of industries that run through people like crazy, so that number is pretty crazy. Recently I had two former employees contact me to ask if they could list me as a reference. Neither registered immediately with just the name. One had been nearly 15 years...
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. Adventures of the West, scenic views, and off-the-grid wilderness experiences can all be explored by railroad. The Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad is a railroad experience jointly owned by the states of New Mexico and Colorado. It traverses 64...
PORTALES - Eastern New Mexico University's new athletic director seeks to be a unifier first, then work on making ENMU "more competitive" in the Lone Star Conference, he said at a press conference Thursday. Paul Weir's first task, he said, is to get all of ENMU "on the same page" about the role of athletics at the university, including "students, staff, faculty and administration." He said he will find "areas of commonality" between the athletic department and athletes and...
PORTALES - In an early sign that high school football will be back this fall, about 600 students from high schools as far away as Silver City amassed Saturday at Eastern New Mexico University's Greyhound Stadium for a day of "7-on-7" practice drills and a little preseason competition. ENMU's head football coach Tye Hiatt said the focus of Saturday's activities was "the passing game." There were blocking and agility drills for the players on the line, too. In the morning,...
SANTA FE — The Department of Finance and Administration (DFA) on Friday announced in a news release that $63 million of the American Rescue Plan Act Funding (ARPA) had been distributed to eligible local entities. The amount is the first half of distributions to local governments in the state. The second half will be distributed in a year, according to a DFA document. According to federal guidance, funds may be used to provide assistance to households, cover the cost of pay for work performed during the public health emergency...
CLOVIS — The Curry County Events Center in Clovis reopened the last weekend in June after closing for 14 months due to the COVID-19 restrictions. “We’re looking at adding some more community-driven type of events,” said K.C. Messick, the new general manager of Curry County Events Center and Fairgrounds. “People are ready to get out and see stuff so we’re going to make it available for them,” he said. The center is a county-owned, equestrian-based facility, which contains 98,000-square feet, Messick said. It is a 112- acre p...
We live in ignorant times. By now, surely this is obvious beyond argument to anyone who’s been paying attention. From the Capitol insurrectionist who thought he was storming the White House to Sen. Tim Scott’s claim that “woke supremacy is as bad as white supremacy” to whatever thing Tucker Carlson last said, ignorance is ascendant. Yet, even by that dubious standard, what happened recently in Tennessee bears note. According to a story by Brett Kelman of the Tennessean newspap...
There are no free lunches. If you don’t work, you don’t eat. Everybody has to pitch in and carry their weight. These aphorisms from my youth, passed on by my parents and others from their generation who survived the Great Depression during their childhood, pop into my mind each time I hear about a new government plan to give people free money. Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang proposed a plan in which all citizens of working age, regardless of their income, would get $1,000 checks each month from the federal gov...
I was down the shore, enjoying the sea, the sun and the sweeping panorama of people without masks. Honestly, that was even more beautiful than the sunset over the Atlantic. One of those sunsets was observed from an outside patio at a fantastic pizzeria just outside of Atlantic City. My Sicilian Square with “Momma’s” sauce was so good, I had to tell “Momma’s” son how much I loved it. He replied, with an almost wistful expression in his eyes: “Thank you, I only wish I had Mo...
No one is trying to topple the Alamo quite yet, but a new revisionist book on the foundational event of Texas history partakes of the iconoclastic spirit of our time. The book, titled “Forget the Alamo,” is a harsh call for Texans, and Americans, to get over a battle deeply etched in our popular memory. According to the authors, the Texans (then the Texians) were foolish to try to defend the indefensible. Some of the defenders tried to make a run for it. Santa Anna, the Mex...
My son Cameron is 43. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and two little girls, ages 3 and 5. His wife works full-time as a home loan processor and he has one of the toughest jobs in the world — stay-at-home dad. That means for the last 15 months Cameron has been the parent who’s had to deal the most with the unpredictable craziness of California’s oppressive and unpredictable war on COVID-19. He was the one who went to his daughter’s swimming lesson and had to watch t...
When Paul Weir was named head basketball coach at New Mexico State University in 2016, he quoted Theodore Roosevelt: “Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground.” When he accepted the head basketball coaching job at the University of New Mexico one year later, he addressed fans by quoting the Greek philosopher Atticus: “Every doubter is a dreamer with a broken heart,” he said. And when he first met with fans and the media last week after accepting the athletic director’s job at Eastern New Mexico Universit...
Monday • Clovis City Commission special meeting — 4 p.m., North Annex, Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main St., Clovis. Meeting may also be viewed on Suddenlink channel 10, at www.cityofclovis.org, or on Facebook at City of Clovis, NM (City Government). Questions phoned in to 575-763-9200 will be shared with the commission. Information: 575-769-7828 • Clovis-Carver Library Board — 5:30 p.m., North Annex, Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main St., Clovis. Meeting may also be viewed on Suddenlink channel 10, at www....
Today • Cindy’s Hope for Precious Paws adoption event — 10 a.m.-3 p.m., PetSmart, 601 Texas St., Clovis. Cats, dogs, kittens, puppies — all fully vetted and available for adoption. Food trucks, face painting, door prizes, raffles. Information: [email protected] • Operation Phoenix Outdoors (OPO) Outdoor Show — 11 a.m.-4 p.m., Clovis Civic Center, 801 Schepps Blvd., Clovis. Free and open to the public. Outdoor stuff, hunting, fishing, taxidermists, woodworking, knives, ammunition, outfitters, and more. Infor...
CLOVIS — The Clovis-Carver Public Library has named winners of two $2,000 scholarships in memory of victims of a fatal shooting at the library in 2017. Mikaela Snider is the 2021 recipient of the Wanda Walters Memorial Scholarship, funded by donations. Snider plans to attend Texas Tech University and will study biology, Library Director Margaret Hinchee said in a news release. Danielle Griego is this year’s recipient of the Krissie Carter Memorial Scholarship. She plans to attend Eastern New Mexico University and study com...
PORTALES — As the city grapples with New Mexico’s legalization of recreational marijuana use, the city council on Thursday gave a first acknowledgement of a proposed ordinance that would regulate the smoking of tobacco and marijuana in the city. The council decided to schedule a public workshop on the ordinance for its Aug. 3 meeting, and a public hearing and final decision on the proposed ordinance at its Aug. 17 session. A notice of the proposed ordinance was expected to be published today in The News, City Clerk Joan Mar...
Curry and Roosevelt counties, like many others across the state and the nation, are reporting increased numbers of COVID-19 cases in recent weeks. Through Friday, Curry County had reported 81 new cases in July, three more than it recorded in all of June. Sixty-eight new cases had been reported since July 9. In Roosevelt County, 29 new cases had been reported in July through Friday. Roosevelt recorded 19 new cases in June. Amarillo and Lubbock health officials last week also reported an increase in COVID-19 cases as well as...
WASHINGTON — The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday passed the Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) Action Act that included an amendment on water used for agricultural purposes introduced by Rep. Teresa Leger Fernandez (D-NM). Speaking to the House, Fernandez said Highland Dairy, which is in her district, learned in 2018 that PFAS “from the nearby (Cannon Air Force Base) leaked into the shared aquifer that watered the grass which fed the cows. The PFAS contamination poisoned the cows and the dairy could not...
CLOVIS — A Clovis man who led police on a 30-minute car chase through the city in January has been convicted and sentenced to 9 1/2 years in the Department of Corrections. Michael Padilla, 38, was convicted Monday by a Clovis jury of aggravated fleeing a law enforcement officer, resisting, evading or obstructing an officer, reckless driving and other traffic offenses, according to a news release from District Attorney Andrea Reeb. The chase began the afternoon of Jan. 25 a...
CANNON AIR FORCE BASE – The 27th Special Operations Wing has received its first AC-130J Ghostrider gunship, according to a Cannon news release. The Ghostrider is the successor to the AC-130W Stinger II. It arrived on Monday. According to the news release: "The arrival of Cannon's first AC-130J represents a significant expansion of AC-130 capacity as Air Force Special Operations Command structures for the great power competition through global operations. This delivery c...
