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Portales police evacuated a section of downtown Friday afternoon in response to a bomb threat. The incident happened around 2 p.m. Friday as officers formed a perimeter around the threatened area in the vicinity of South Avenue C and West Third Street. Officers went to homes and businesses to advise people to evacuate according to a press release from the Portales Police Department. Police located a suspect in the incident and advised people it was okay to return to homes and businesses around 4 p.m....
PORTALES -- The city of Portales has set punitive water rates for commercial and industrial users who consume above a base allocation in an effort to conserve the city’s water resources. The change came to light at the July 26 meeting when the council addressed a request by a cannabis producer to get a manufacturing/industrial resource service permit to operate a business in Portales. The applicant requested an average of 15,000 gallons a month as his usage. According to the new city water rate structure for new commercial a...
New Mexicans statewide may be able to save as much as 9% on many purchases this weekend during the annual back-to-school gross receipts tax holiday. According to a news release from the state department of taxation and revenue, businesses can deduct the sales of a wide variety of merchandise made between 12:01 a.m. on Friday and midnight on Sunday. During the weekend, the state suspends collection of gross receipts tax on sales of qualifying items. Many merchants also absorb the tax on a number of non-qualifying items. The...
On this date … 1957: Levine’s department store on Clovis’ Main Street was holding a Super Value Dollar Day sale. Specials included: -- Cotton dresses $3 -- 180 thread count bed sheets $1.99 -- Feather pillows 88 cents -- Ladies wool and cashmere fall coats $19 -- Two dozen diapers $1.77 -- Men’s straw hats $1.59 -- 4-foot by 6-foot rugs $4 Pages Past is compiled by David Stevens. Contact: [email protected]...
If you know me, you know that I like to sing. I’ll sing when nobody’s listening. I’ll sing when 12 people are listening. I’ll sing when 612 are listening. Give me half a chance, and I will sing. I’ve sung all of my life. It was not unusual for our family to sing together at home. (I know. Too often, families today can hardly imagine ever being at home. And singing at home? “Are you kidding? Did you grow up on Mars?”) We really did. Not the Mars part. The singing part. I also...
I’ve been thinking about my dad more so than usual. Probably because it’s August, his birth month. August has always been a time of celebration because of my dad’s birthday. I’d start practi-baking the beginning of the month for the grand shindig on the 31st. Even though it’s been a little over four years since he’s been gone, that practice hasn’t stopped. I always make my Grandma Sarah’s spice cake during this time of year. This recipe is about a hundred years old. It belonge...
CLOVIS – A Clovis man who fought with police officers and led them on a chase in which a police dog was seriously injured has been sentenced to five years in prison after a guilty plea made under a plea agreement. Ninth Judicial District Judge Drew Tatum sentenced Efrain Moreno, 26, of Clovis, to three years in prison a charge of aggravated assault on a police officer, 18 months on a felony count of fleeing law enforcement, and six months in prison for injuring the police dog, sentencing documents show. Tatum handed down the...
Booked The following were booked into local jails (Friday - Tuesday): Clovis * Jon Jones, 40, parole violation * Michael Sena, 18, aggravated battery * Heather Apodaca, 22, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge * Christopher Hanks, 43, violation of restraining order prohibiting domestic violence * Anita Rubio, 38, aggravated driving while under the influence of intoxicating liquor or any drug, resisting, evading or obstructing an officer, open container, following too closely * Armando Lucero, 37, aggravated driving while...
Downsizing for an old-school media junkie involves lots of newspapers and magazines, the hardcopy kind, where the first draft of history was laid out for all the world to consume through linear reading. I’ve got an intimidating number of newspapers laying around my house; almost as many as I’ve got laying around my newspaper office. So I opted for an easier path, though still daunting, by jumping into the boxes of magazines I’ve kept in storage all these years. I suppose I was waiting for the day when historians, or at least...
People see me say I don’t want government doing something and often jump to the conclusion I don’t want that thing done at all. Sometimes they are right, as in the case of legislation enforcement. More often they are wrong, as in the case of environmental protection, security, or justice. Government is more likely to make a mess of it. I love the natural environment, which is why I oppose letting government control it or set rules concerning it. I’ve seen what happens when...
Celtics legend Bill Russell, on the Mount Rushmore of Boston sports with a whopping 11 titles as a player and two championships as the first Black head coach in North American pro sports, died on Sunday. He was 88. His Twitter account on Sunday read: “Bill Russell, the most prolific winner in American sports history, passed away peacefully today at age 88, with his wife, Jeannine, by his side.” His iconic accolades include a record 11 NBA championships and five MVP awards. In addition to all his winning on the court, Rus...
Alexis Martinez Johnson, Republican candidate for U.S. Representative for New Mexico’s Third Congressional District, will make a campaign swing through Clovis and Portales on Thursday and Friday, according to campaign information. On Thursday, Johnson will make stops in Portales at: • 7 a.m. at the Do Drop Inn, 123 S. Main St. • 11:30 a.m. at Juanito’s restaurant, 813 Ave. C. • 5:30 p.m. at El Rancho restaurant, 813 Ave. C. On Friday, Johnson has scheduled two stops in Clovis: • 8 a.m. at Mamacita’s restaurant, 1501 N. Pince...
David A. Marquez, a long-time Clovis Municipal Schools staff member and U.S. Navy veteran, has been selected as the district’s Custodial Manager. Marquez has served the district as a technology specialist for more than 10 years. Before he was in the Technology Department, Marquez was an educational assistant assigned to school computer labs starting in 2008, when he was hired by the district. Marquez joined the U.S. Navy in 1981, serving until his retirement in 2004. Marquez returned to his hometown of Clovis upon r...
Clovis Police Department’s Special Weapons and Tactics Unit (SWAT) was called to an incident in the 500 block of Hull Street Saturday. The incident ended with no injuries after about four hours. The SWAT team breached the door of 502 N. Hull and confronted occupant Jesse Gomez, 46, according to a news release from Clovis police. Gomez was arrested on charges of kidnapping, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, armed robbery, felon in possession of a firearm, unlawful taking of a motor vehicle, conspiracy to commit armed r...
PORTALES – A Portales man convicted of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, a machete, was sentenced on July 27 to more than four years in prison, most of which was enhancements under habitual offender statutes due to two prior felony convictions. Ninth Judicial District Judge Donna Mowrer sentenced Christopher West, 33, of Portales, to four years, two months and 11 days in prison. Normally, the sentencing document stated, West’s sentence for aggravated assault, a fourth-degree felony, would have been only one year, six...
Portales City Council voted 4-3 against a motion July 26 to approve an intergovernmental agreement with the village of Elida to allow its off-duty police officers to patrol traffic in Elida for 12 hours a week. At its July 5 meeting, the council had instructed City Manager Sarah Austin to draw up an agreement for possible approval to bring before council at the next meeting, which she did. However, at the start of the discussion at the July 26 meeting, council member Daniel Boan said he contacted the state police and several...
In a world that often seems to focus on the loudest voice or the most outrageous claim, it has been immensely heartwarming this week to see the outpouring of love for the passing of a Portales man who was remembered with words like these: Kind. Gentle. Humble. Someone who found the good in everyone he met. Thankfully, Bill Wood, who died July 27 at the age of 85, met a lot of us along the way. Even if you weren’t fortunate enough to know him, odds are you’ve seen him at a pian...
