Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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Tax-free weekend kicks off a three-day run Friday across New Mexico. It’s a welcome holiday for many New Mexicans, especially college-aged adults and parents with children heading back to school. The holiday, enacted in 2005, takes place the first weekend of August each year and allows people to purchase items including laptops, clothes and shoes without the addition of gross receipts tax. New Mexico is one of 18 states with a tax-free holiday, according to a 2023 New Mexico Tax Expenditure Report. And businesses don't have t...
A Clovis woman locked up since January in connection with an August 2023 shooting death was ordered to be released Monday on monitored house arrest. And the case against Alexandra Romero, 30, took a bizarre turn as court proceedings revealed she had a connection with former Clovis Police Officer Frank Careri who was charged Friday with drug trafficking. Romero last year was charged with involuntary manslaughter in the slaying of Javier Jimenez. That charge was upgraded to...
Booked The following were booked into local jails (Friday - Tuesday): Clovis • Casey Townsend, 47, criminal trespass • Cheryl Yazzie, 31, battery upon a peace officer, concealing identity • Tiffany Martinez, 28, probation violation • Stephen Dubay, 21, aggravated assault upon a peace officer, aggravated fleeing a law enforcement officer • Carlos Gaytan, 59, disorderly conduct • Ernest Lopez, 47, criminal trespass • Andrea Maxwell, 35, aggravated battery • Jennifer Camargo, 42, driving under the influence of liquor • Darrel...
Paperboy. Now, there’s a term you don’t hear mentioned much in general conversation these days. In my family, being a paperboy was a rite of passage, an introduction into the free enterprise system, and a valuable education. I understand that my older brothers once held a bit of a monopoly on that honorable career in a then-smaller Kerrville, Texas. Still, I was and am impressed. So, when I was growing up in Amarillo and became old enough to stick my head through a pap...
On this date ... 1960: Stroud’s Food Market at 523 S. Ave. C in Portales offered bacon for 49 cents per pound. Cans of peaches were 25 cents, Cokes were six for 29 cents, and 8-inch fruit pies were three for $1. 1960: Clovis dedicated its new Salvation Army building at Second and Axtell streets. Construction cost $24,500 and was funded with private donations locally and through the Salvation Army, the Clovis News-Journal reported. 1968: Dorothy Worrell of Clovis and Lou Hardy of Tulia had won their second straight B...
Greyhound Stadium and Greyhound Arena will soon have new names. Eastern New Mexico University officials on Monday announced the football stadium and basketball arena this fall will become the Steve Loy Family Foundation Stadium and Steve Loy Family Foundation Arena, respectively. Changes are part of a naming rights agreement between ENMU and the Loy Foundation in exchange for the Loy family’s $2.5 million donation for university athletes and athletic programs. ENMU in June called the donation the “single largest gift in uni...
Five years ago, Clovis' Ashleigh Cooper had never lifted weights regularly. Flash forward to July 20, and there was Cooper, body bronzed and chiseled, being told by a judge who helped crown her the 2024 West Texas Wellness Champ, that she's a body building "pro in the making." On Saturday, Cooper will compete in Phoenix with sights set on a path she hopes could lead to becoming an International Fitness and Body Building Federation pro. "Her comment saying that I'm a wellness...
We had two big speeches from Washington last Wednesday. Neither one was very encouraging for those of us who worry about our fragile democracy and the futures of our kids and grandkids. Bibi Netanyahu gave a great speech in the House of Representatives, defending Israel’s war in Gaza and trying to rally support from U.S. politicians – i.e., Republicans, mostly. Many Democrats stayed away from Bibi’s speech or cut out early, including Sen. Chuck Schumer. They were afraid to of...
After all the speculation about whom he would choose, Donald Trump selected JD Vance, the junior senator of Ohio, as his running mate in the presidential race. A former “public affairs” marine turned venture capitalist, Vance rose to fame in 2016 with the publication of “Hillbilly Elegy,” an engaging narrative that detailed his challenging and adversarial upbringing in poverty-stricken southwestern Ohio and his later experiences at Yale law school. The book became a national b...
Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle should have saved herself from being roasted for 4 hours and 40 minutes last week by justifiably angry members of the House Oversight Committee livid over the failures of the Secret Service to prevent the shooting of Donald Trump at a Pennsylvania rally. She should have resigned rather than sit there and make the situation worse. Instead, she quit later. Trump thankfully survived, but rallygoer Corey Comperatore died, as did a lot of the agency’s credibility and Cheatle’s rep...
Roosevelt County’s former county manager, Amber Hamilton, has been elected to the New Mexico County Reinsurance Inc. Board of Directors. Santa Fe County Manager Gregory Shaffer was also elected to the board. While Hamilton’s last day as county manager was Friday, and she will be working for Plains Regional Medical Center, she will still serve on the board. NMCRe works closely with select New Mexico counties staff on matters of finance, claims and risk management....
I thought about the Block Captain the other day, chuckling as I pushed my lawn mower past the harvester ant colony in my yard. The Block Captain has since “gone on to glory” since he reigned supreme over my old neighborhood on the north side of Clovis. I don’t know if every neighborhood has a Block Captain, someone who watches over the neighborhood to make sure everyone is acting right, and there are no shenanigans going on. The Block Captain could often be seen sitting with his bride in front of his duplex, having a smoke...
The Clovis Curry County Chamber of Commerce has announced Ashley Furniture as its newest “Retail Rockstar.” Area residents are invited to the award presentation set for 10 a.m. Thursday at Ashley Furniture, 2500 N. Prince St., Clovis. Ashley Furniture was nominated for the honor by the previous winner, Brown’s Shoe Fit Co....
A Clovis man last week was sentenced to two years in jail for damaging the Curry County Detention Center. Damon Martinez, 41, along with other inmates, “broke off a heavy-duty towel rack and used it to create a hole through the cinderblock” in a cell, according to a news release from District Attorney Quentin Ray. “The hole was the size of a basketball when it was discovered … The hole led to an air vent that went directly to the roof,” according to the news release. Damages were reported at $900 from the incident that occu...
Last Wednesday, Joann Luscombe, her aunt, Frances Simon, and her father, Buddy Prince, gathered at Muffley's Funeral Home in Clovis. They were there to proofread the obituary for their long lost relative, Sgt. Sam Prince -- a Clovis native whose remains were recently found after he died 82 years ago as a prisoner of war in the Philippines. The obituary for Sam Prince, a member of the 200th Coast Artillery Regiment, reads more like a history book than a personal story. That's...
National Night Out is coming to Clovis’ Greene Acres Park from 4:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday. Organizers see the event as one where people can “connect with your neighbors and join millions of others throughout the nation as they come together with their local police departments to promote police-community partnerships and neighborhood comradery.” Clovis Marketing and Events Coordinator Nicole Holcomb said Monday, “We currently have several agencies participating including: Clovis police, Clovis fire, state police, Curry C...
A woman and her son awaiting trial this fall for their alleged roles in a 2023 fatal dog attack in Tucumcari are back in jail. This time they’re accused of felony child abuse. Mary Montoya, 52, and her son Kristopher J. Morris, 28, both of Tucumcari, were arrested on warrants and charged on Thursday on one count each of intentional child abuse (no great bodily harm). The charge is a third-degree felony that could result in three years in prison and a $5,000 fine. Magistrate Judge Noreen Hendrickson ordered Montoya and Morris...
These days, when Tom Schoneman makes the roughly six-hour drive from his Texas home to Earl and Tom's – his spiraling cannabis retail shop in Clovis – he often finds himself "consumed" by stress. Low profits have forced him to recently let go of three full-time workers who used the income to support their families. He said he feels like he "failed them." "Physically, mentally, emotionally, from a point of anxiety, I've never been this under the gun and felt this kind of pre...
