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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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Meetings are subject to change due to coronavirus concerns Tuesday • Curry County Commission special meeting — 9 a.m., teleconference. Information: https://www.currycounty.org/open-government/meeting-portal or 575-763-6016 • Clovis Municipal Schools board — 5:30 p.m., Board Room, CMS administration building, 1009 Main St., Clovis. Information: 575-769-4300 • Roosevelt General Hospital Board of Trustees — 5:30 p.m., teleconference. For dial-in information, email Debbie Lambirth at [email protected] or call her at 575-356-...
SANTA FE — New Mexico’s public schools will open the year with online-only instruction, and will continue to do so until at least the Labor Day weekend. That was announced Thursday, during a press conference from Gov. Michelle Lujan-Grisham. The governor noted infection rates for COVID-19 haven’t gone down as state officials had initially hoped, despite good news on most gating criteria. The state set a single-day record Thursday with 343 confirmed cases, including seven in Curry County and six in Roosevelt County. As of Fr...
CLOVIS — How fast could you spend a million dollars? Think you could spend at least 85 percent of it in four years? The Eastern New Mexico Water Utility Authority has that long to spend that much, which was discussed at the ENMWUA’s monthly meeting, held Thursday afternoon at the Clovis-Carver Public Library’s North Annex. The money and the time frame in which to spend it came up during discussion of the grant agreement between the ENMWUA and the state of New Mexico Department of Environmental Capital Appropriation Proje...
PORTALES — After a national search for a new president at the Eastern New Mexico University-Ruidoso campus was conducted, it was determined the best candidate was just down the hallway. The ENMU regents on Friday appointed Ryan Trosper as the fifth president in the branch’s history. He replaces Ryan Carstens, who leaves after more than three years to pursue other opportunities. The special meeting was held telephonically, with Student Regent Joseph Gergel attending in person on the ENMU Portales campus. Following a sea...
CLOVIS — State police on Thursday were involved in a foot pursuit of a criminal suspect near the 200 block of North Ross Street. The incident happened just before 8 p.m. The suspect, Lonnie Clark, 30, of Alamogordo, escaped and remained at large on Friday. The officer saw Clark walking down the street and knew there was a warrant for his arrest, according to Officer Dusty Francisco. Francisco wrote in an email to The News: “The officer stopped and exited his patrol vehicle to confront Clark. The officer gave verbal com...
Curry Resident Senior Meals Association 901 W. 13th St., Clovis 575-762-9405 Note: All meals come with 2% milk and a tossed salad with dressing. Monday: Chicken strips w/loaded mashed potatoes, cream gravy, seasoned green beans, biscuit w/margarine, chocolate chip cookie Tuesday: Baked chicken w/gravy, cornbread dressing, blended veggies, dinner roll w/margarine, spiced apples Wednesday: Meatloaf, scalloped potatoes, brown gravy, veggies, dinner roll w/margarine, peach crisp Thursday: BBQ pork, potatoes wedges, blended...
The following books are available for checkout at the Clovis-Carver Public Library: “Hometown Architect” by Patrick F. Cannon has been donated in memory of Joanne Burns. This beautiful volume uses over ninety photographs to illustrate all twenty-seven Frank Lloyd Wright homes built in Oak Park and River Forest, Illinois, documenting one of the most influential periods of the architect's career. Descriptive captions and text detail the stories behind each commission, addressing Wright's relationships with his clients, the imp...
Information on the history of mixology and making double slider cards will be the featured topics on “Creative Living” 9:30 p.m. Tuesday and noon Thursday (all times Mountain). Natalie Bovis, owner of The Liquid Muse, will explain the history of mixology, and tell how it ties in to American history. Then she’ll demonstrate some of the current mixology trends. Bovis is from Santa Fe. Diane Tunnell is an Independent Demonstrator with Stampin’ Up!, and she’s going to demonstrate how to make a double slider card, focusing...
I’m not sure how we get there, but we all need to start getting along. I watch the news at night and it tears at my heart, violence in the streets, rhetoric and scare tactics off the scale. It seems that everything and everyone is divided into polar opposites. Left and right read into everything anyone says. They’re saying a lot with not a lot of substance, but if you want to get both sides you have to tune to more than one station. The chatter in the comments alongside the...
Recently there was an explosion of bilious joy on Twitter at the news that among the 4 million or so Paycheck Protection Program loans that the government handed out to keep people employed during the coronavirus shutdown of the economy, there was one that was accepted by the Ayn Rand Institute. “Today seems like a good day to remind you that Ayn Rand has provided the justification for unbridled selfishness and contempt for the common good,” wrote former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich, who served in the Clinton adm...
One of the few things that seem to unite all three levels of government these days — local, state and federal — is the astounding and blatant level of hypocrisy exhibited by their leaders. Starting from the bottom up is the “Honorable” James Kenney, the mayor of Philadelphia, who issued an edict that essentially and effectively canceled the Mummer’s parade, the Thanksgiving Day Parade and all other outdoor activities in the city until February. Of course, there is one big e...
Build Back Better. Build Back Better. Build Back Better. Try saying Joe Biden’s clunky campaign slogan three times fast without gagging — or laughing. Biden is obviously cognitively impaired, he’s morphed into a Bernie Sanders lefty and he’s been making wrong decisions about race and foreign policy for half a century in Washington. Yet his boosters and protectors in the liberal media would have us believe that if he’s elected president America’s serious problems will miracu...
In this summer of Republican discontent, a handful of GOP House members have identified what’s ailing the party: Liz Cheney. The two-term Wyoming congresswoman, chair of the House GOP Conference and daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney was called out at a conference meeting for myriad alleged sins, including insufficient loyalty to President Donald Trump. This episode is much more telling about Cheney’s internal GOP critics than Cheney. She rightly refuses to pla...
Five decades after Congress passed the Land and Water Conservation Fund “to safeguard our natural areas, water resources and cultural heritage, and to provide recreation opportunities to all Americans,” it is going to fully fund the program. And it couldn’t come at a more opportune time. The Great American Outdoors Act combines the Land and Water Conservation Fund Permanent Funding Act and the Restore Our Parks Act. Just as the New Deal put people back to work improving our nation’s infrastructure during the Great Depression,...
On this date ... 1970: Portales burglars received a “wet welcome and little else,” when they tried to break into Ozzie’s Drive In. When Marie Damon went to open the eatery, she found a torn window screen and flooded floor. Police theorized someone attempted to break in by crawling through a rear window. The would-be burglars were successful, but crawled through the window onto a sink, which gave way to the weight. A busted water pipe began to “spew water in a stream toward the ceiling,” the Portales News-Tribune reported....
LOVINGTON — Three Lea County employees with the county’s detention center and juvenile housing unit, along with three juveniles, have tested positive for COVID-19, according to a county release. The county employees have been quarantined at home, and none of the three have been hospitalized. Of the juveniles, two are quarantined at the detention center and one is being quarantined at home and was scheduled for release anyway. Curry County closed its juvenile detention center more than two months ago, and Lea County is one...
CLOVIS — A Curry County jail inmate has tested positive for COVID-19, according to a county news release. “The detainee was brought into the facility by the Clovis Police Department and has been quarantined since being booked into the facility,” the release said. “The detainee was tested on (Saturday) and the result was received (Friday).” Curry County Manager Lance Pyle said the unnamed inmate remains quarantined and isolated in the jail. The release said no other inmates or jail staff have tested positive for the virus. Si...
PORTALES — Following a positive employee test for COVID-19, the New Mexico Human Services Department has temporarily closed the Roosevelt County Income Support Division Office. Customers are asked to use the ISD’s online portal at yes.state.nm.us, or visit the Curry County ISD office at 3316 N. Main from 10 a.m. to noon daily. The offices have implemented limited lobby hours and curbside services, with a limit of five individuals allowed inside the lobby. Visitors are asked to stay in their car for office visits. Acc...
CLOVIS — The trial for a Roosevelt County man accused of defrauding the Miss New Mexico pageant has been moved to April in Clovis. The trial for Greg Smith, 57, of Elida, was previously scheduled to begin Wednesday. The defense and prosecution were in court Tuesday afternoon, with defense filing a motion to dismiss a racketeering charge, one of 18 charges levied against Smith. The other charges are two counts of fraud, two counts of tax evasion, conspiracy to commit falsifying election documents, five counts of issuing a w...
CLOVIS — National Night Out will have to wait, according to the Clovis Police Department. The department announced Wednesday it would not hold its community event in August as normally scheduled due to the COVID-19 pandemic and an anticipation restrictions on mass gatherings will not be relaxed enough to make the event possible. The release notes CPD is disappointed in the postponement, and hopes to offer the event sometime in October if conditions allow. Information: Officer Roy Rice, 575-763-9444....
CLOVIS — With a note of thanks to the community, the Clovis Police Department announced it has arrested a man in connection with a dangerous high-speed chase two weeks prior. A CPD release Tuesday reported Blake Turl, 19, was identified as the driver in a July 7 chase that began near Eighth and Sycamore and was canceled near 21st and Echols out of public safety concerns. According to a criminal complaint filed Tuesday in Curry County Magistrate Court, the driver of a blue Dodge Stratus later identified as Turl fired a h...
CLOVIS - The first phase of improvements to U.S. 60/84 is just about wrapped up, but the lion's share of work is still yet to be done. The New Mexico Department of Transportation anticipates the first stretch of the project, which covers the road from Wheaton Street to Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, to be complete by the end of the month. Manon Arnett, NMDOT public information officer, said the $2 million pavement preservation project included a waterline crossing,...
Tuesday • “Wellness in the Time of a Pandemic” — 9-10 a.m., ENMU Reads Facebook page. Video presentation by Dr. Kristen Kuhlmann, department head of the ENMU nursing program. Information: http://www.facebook.com/ENMUReads/ • Blood drive “Battle of the Badges” — 12:30-5:30 p.m., Ingram Room, Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main, Clovis. Annual competition between the police and fire departments to see who can get encourage the most donations. Register online at www.bloodhero.com. Advance appointments strongly recomm...
CLOVIS — With 10 days left in the 2019-20 fiscal year, the Clovis City Commission met for 10 minutes to approve the 2020-21 final budget. The special meeting Tuesday at the North Annex of the Clovis-Carver Public Library didn’t last long, following an update on the $58.8 million in expenditures anticipated for the upcoming year. City Finance Director LeighAnn Melancon noted the city had an ending general fund cash balance of around $6.8 million with a non-designated cash reserve of about $2.3 million, and credited the wor...
Curry County has recorded its second death related to COVID-19, while Bailey County reported it had three deaths last week connected to the virus. Friday also marked the 43rd consecutive day Curry County has recorded at least one positive test for COVID-19 among residents. A man in his 60s was the county’s latest COVID-19 victim, according to New Mexico’s Department of Health. “We can confirm that a patient at PRMC died ... on Tuesday,” said Amanda Schoenberg, a spokeswoman for Clovis’ Plains Regional Medical Center. N...
