Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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Tina Dziuk knows she has some big shoes to fill. She has taken on the job of executive director of Clovis Economic Development (CED) that became vacant with the untimely death of Chase Gentry, who was nearly revered by those who worked with him on matters of economic development. Gentry died on Aug 31, 2021, after serving as executive director of the Clovis Industrial Development Corporation since 2002. The CIDC changed its name to Clovis Economic Development in January. "I...
Roosevelt County Commissioner Rodney Savage said at Thursday’s county commission meeting that the city of Portales had accepted the county’s proposal to work toward a regional dispatch center. The city of Portales has been operating the center that serves both city and county residents for some time and in April asked the county to contribute financially to the cost of the operation. Commissioner Tina Dixon said that the “only thing” this proposal changes basically is it adds a governing board and she said she liked the ide...
The Portales City Council had a visit from Roosevelt County Commissioner Rodney Savage at its meeting on Tuesday. Savage told the city council that the county was offering an initial $175,000 as an incentive to get the county to transfer to a regional dispatch center. “(This is) quite a bit more than I personally thought you deserved,” Savage told the council members. The commissioner presented the county’s proposal in response to a request the city had made several months earlier asking the county to contribute finan...
A trail of bullet casings down Connelly Street suggests Victor Davila was being chased by someone shooting at him and that he may have been returning fire before his GMC truck rammed into a house after a bullet hit him in the head. Details of circumstances around the July 9 early morning shooting death of Friona’s Davila, 22, are recorded in arrest affidavits connected to the case that were made public last week. The court records help tell the story of what happened between Davila and the juvenile suspect arrested for the s...
Booked The following were booked into local jails (Tuesday - Friday): Clovis * Patricia Robinson, 35, residential burglary, criminal damage to property, breaking and entering, arson * Vincent Galvan, 34, probation violation * Darlene Munoz, 26, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge * Stacy Hill-Preston, 51, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge * Juan Facio-Salcedo, 34, probation violation * Jessica Barnett, 43, probation violation * James Faulkner, 22, probation violation * Christina Parsons, 48, probation violation,...
The Eastern New Mexico Water Utility Authority Board selected an alignment for the pipeline that will take the water from the Ute Reservoir and pipeline project to the community of Elida. Jim Honea, project manager for Jacobs Engineering made the presentation. He said the committee compared the cost and non-cost components of the lateral as it is called or pipe alignment. The committee concluded and the board approved the alignment north of Portales along Roosevelt Road #3 going west and south on Roosevelt Road U, ENMWUA...
Rich Hudson, president and CEO of Global One Media, Inc., a Las Vegas, Nev., based media company, said he recently bought Rooney Moon Broadcasting in Clovis and Portales because he “fell in love with what Steve Rooney and Duffy Moon had created.” Monday, Hudson said he is going to pay $1.1 million for the company, the sale of which has yet to be approved by the Federal Communications Commission. The approval should happen in early September, he said. Hudson said he was impressed with the company’s “market sound” and just...
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. “Meant to Be” by Emily Giffin. When Joe Kingsley, the free-spirited son of American royalty, and Cate Cooper, a famous model, have a chance encounter that leads to an instant and intense connection, they wonder if their relationship can survive the...
I guess if I had to come down with the COVID virus at least it is satisfying to know that President Biden got it a couple of weeks later. He told me if I got vaccinated I wouldn’t get it. There goes that theory. I don’t wish it on anyone else. I lost some really good friends to the illness and it’s no joke. I’m just thankful that it’s not the same virus that we had at the beginning because my darling immune-suppressed wife got the stuff at the same time I did. I am thankful...
Nearly two decades ago, K.C. Messick began a journey that took him from budding country singer to becoming the general manager of the Curry County Events Center, which also includes oversight of other Curry County Fairgrounds facilities. For 16 of the 19 years that have passed since the start of his musical career, Messick said he was living on the road, first as a touring musician then on a career in events marketing that took him through 47 of the 50 states (excluding...
McKINNEY, Texas — Longtime Eastern New Mexico University broadcaster Donald “Doc” Elder has been chosen for the Lone Star Conference’s 2022 Jake Trussell Award, honoring the top broadcaster of a conference sports program. The award was announced at the league’s football media day on Thursday. Elder is the first two-time winner of the award from a Portales-based medium. It has been given out by the LSC since 1971. Other award winners representing ENMU were Jim Boles (1993) and John Gentry (1988). “This award is all thanks...
McKINNEY, Texas — Eastern New Mexico University has been picked for eighth place in the 10-team Lone Star Conference in a preseason poll released on Thursday by the conference office. The poll reflects opinions of league head coaches and sports information personnel, as well as various media representatives throughout the region. The Greyhounds received 97 points in the balloting, finishing ahead of Western New Mexico (57 points) and Simon Fraser (32). Simon Fraser, Western Oregon and Central Washington joined the league a...
CLOVIS — Football practice is at hand for New Mexico high schools, and first-year Clovis High coach Andrew McCraw can hardly wait to get started. The Wildcats are slated to begin fall workouts on Monday. They will go from 6:30-8 a.m. and again from 4-6:30 p.m. this week, with the early sessions on Tuesday and Thursday mainly devoted to weightlifting. The team will don shoulder pads and helmets for the first time on Wednesday, and will be in full pads on Friday. “I’m excited,” said McCraw, hired after Cal Fullerton stepped...
Wild horses hold a special place in the mythos of the American West, with images of free-roaming herds of mustangs grazing on vast public rangelands. But for some communities in New Mexico, the reality tragically differs. Dehydrated and emaciated horses wander into towns such as Placitas, just north of Albuquerque, looking for food and water, often straying onto home gardens or private ranches. Their rangelands have been cleared out because of overgrazing and severe drought....
We’ll get to the Nazi flags in a moment. First, however, let us turn to Merriam-Webster for clarification of a point I recently made in a column that left a few of you vexed. It came in a passage that noted the right wing’s attempted takeover of state voting apparatuses and contended that because of it, 2024 could be the last meaningful election we ever have. “Fascism is on our doorstep,” I wrote. It seemed a self-evident truth, but it didn’t sit well with some on the right...
State Rep. Rebecca Dow of Truth or Consequences, who finished second in a five-person race for governor in the Republican primary election in June, has agreed to pay a $500 civil penalty to settle a bitter dispute with the State Ethics Commission, according to the Albuquerque Journal. The dispute stems from a complaint filed by Dow’s Democratic opponent in the 2020 election, and highlights the challenges faced by both our unpaid legislators and our relatively new Ethics Commission to police a system where conflicts of i...
New Mexico is always ranked among the “poor” states in the United States. But, as anyone who lives here or has taken stock of New Mexico’s abundant natural and cultural resources can tell you, we have no business being “poor.” Sadly, much of our poverty is self-inflicted. It is the obvious result of bad public policy. While there are all manner of bad tax and regulatory policies that often wind up being “in the weeds,” one of New Mexico’s fundamental problems is the result of...
Baseball is a game of numbers, and one of the most iconic of them, 61, is now in play. New York Yankees outfielder Aaron Judge remains on pace to match or eclipse the single-season home-run mark set by Roger Maris in 1961. Technically, a trio of sluggers obliterated the Maris record in the late 1990s and early 2000s. But their gaudy totals are a testament to performance-enhancing drugs and baseball’s willingness to look the other way rather than genuine achievement. The l...
From the environmental community, there is good news and bad news. But mostly bad news. The good news is that the world's tiger population is 40% higher than in 2015. The bad news is that monarch butterflies, so beautiful that identifying them as "insects" somehow seems an injustice, may soon face extinction. Even the good news isn't all good. Tigers have vanished entirely from Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos but are on the rise in Nepal, China and possibly India. Estimates peg...
Lately, I’ve been thinking more and more about some of the disciplines I was required to learn in my misspent youth that have application in the world today. One of these issues is leadership. Leadership is defined in many different ways, with characteristics and traits listed and discussed in great detail. As I ponder the current situation recorded by our scribes and anchor persons, the 11th Principle of Leadership comes to mind: “Seek responsibility and take res...
A Clovis man suspected in two June bank robberies hanged himself July 4 in his Lea County jail cell. That’s according to Lovington Police Department investigators. James Robinson, 50, was a federal prisoner of the U. S. Marshals Service being held in the state correctional facility at Lovington. Details regarding Robinson’s death were released last week in response to an Inspection of Public Records Act request filed by The News. The report said Robinson was the lone occupant of cell #127 in the detention center. A correction...
Jesus Navarrette identified the man who shot him early the morning of July 18 as Marcus Lewis, 21, of Clovis, court records show. Lewis is also accused of shooting Navarrette in December 2020. The details of the most recent shooting are in the arrest affidavit for Lewis, now being held in the Curry County Adult Detention Center. Clovis police Det. Elijio Honorato interviewed Navarrette as the 24-year-old was recovering from his wound in the intensive care unit at University Medical Center in Lubbock. Honorato verified with...
Clovis city commissioners voted unanimously Thursday to approve the city’s budget for fiscal year 2023, a budget of over $82.7 million in revenue with expenditures of just over $95.5 million. After the meeting Clovis city finance director Leighann Melancon said the gap between expenditures and revenues will be filled by just over $26.1 million dollars in state and federal grants. “The majority of the grants will be coming from the state,” Melancon said. “Money for the senior center, the Norris and Seventh street project...
Longtime Clovis Mayor David Lansford and longtime Clovis-Portales District Attorney Andrea Reeb are seeking the New Mexico House District 64 seat open with Randal Crowder’s retirement. Lansford is running as an Independent, Reeb as a Republican. This is the first in a series of Q&As with both. Candidates were asked to limit answers to 150 words. Absentee and early in-person voting for the general election is set to begin Oct. 11. Election Day is Nov. 8. David Lansford Q: The Curry County Republican Party on July 17 p...
CLOVIS - A Fort Sumner woman accused of killing her grandfather and hiding his remains in a toolbox in August 2020 pleaded guilty to second-degree murder Wednesday before Judge Benjamin Cross in a Clovis courtroom. Candy Jo Webb, 28, also pleaded guilty on Wednesday to charges of tampering with evidence and fraud. Cross accepted the plea agreement and called for a sentencing hearing in 30 days. Cross said the second-degree murder sentence could be as long 21 years in prison,...
