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Aug. 4, 1939 80 years ago ... Now that was a shower. Click Here to Download...
Billboards promote Portales and Roosevelt County as the “Warm Heart of the Sunbelt.” This tagline is used to market our community to newcomers, businesses and students. Portales prides itself on being a friendly, Christian small town with strong family values. However, recent events call into question just how warm and welcoming our community really is. With asylum seekers, mostly children and families, unlawfully jailed within 300 miles, in overcrowded, unsanitary and traumatic conditions, the county commissioners in May...
PORTALES — A woman charged with arson for the July 27 structure fire in Portales is suspected of starting several other fires in the area, according to court records. An arrest warrant for Patricia Villanueva, 38, of Portales, was issued for charges of second-degree felony arson and criminal damage to property in connection with the fire on the 300 block of North Avenue I in Portales. The Roosevelt County Detention Center on Saturday listed a Patricia Villanueva in the facility last month, but an administrator told The N...
CLOVIS — The Curry County Commission will consider five ballot questions pertaining to alcohol sales in the county, membership in the Eastern New Mexico Water Utility Authority and an ordinance covering television and movie production in the county during its Tuesday morning meeting. The commission has already approved a ballot question of some type pertaining to alcohol sales in the county’s unincorporated areas, with the caveat it would consider question wording at a later meeting prior to the Aug. 27 deadline for bal...
The following marriage licenses were filed through Thursday at the Curry County Clerk’s Office: • Kaven Culay Creamer, 25, and Cyia Monique Symone Loving-Ransom, 23, both of Clovis • Audrey Tate McCabe, 37, and Whitney Amanda Newman, 36, both of Lubbock • Jimmy Ross Docherty, 45, and Sarah Elizabeth Mapes, 40, both of Clovis • Thomas Ryan Gerber, 43, and Chandra Dawne Brown, 47, both of Amarillo • Jimmie Joe Jester, 47, of McAlister, and Lora Kay Anderson, 51, of Clovis • Roman Viveros Gil, 23, and Ashlee Marie Prince, 30, b...
The school year is right around the corner and as is now tradition, it's time to brave the crowded stores to search for school supplies, new clothes and maybe a few flashy electronics to get ready for the new school year, all tax free thanks to New Mexico's statewide tax-free weekend. Some shoppers might have missed most of the shopping fervor on Friday and Saturday, but the deadline is midnight tonight to get in those last few tax-free deals. New Mexico holds an annual back-to-school tax-free weekend every year in early...
CLOVIS — Sometimes you can’t wait three years between opportunities. While acknowledging the community will only be able to help fund so many opportunities, Clovis school board members on Tuesday seemed amenable to making changes to the current policy for long trips. As she introduced the current policy and her suggested edits, Superintendent Renee Russ said, “I believe we’ve had a somewhat restrictive travel policy in place,” and had a pair of extracurricular advisors discuss its impacts. Under current policy, “no group...
PORTALES — The Portales City Council will have the opportunity to approve pay raises for the next elected municipal judge, city councilors and mayor during its Tuesday meeting. The ordinances to be considered 6:30 p.m. at the Memorial Building are the ones first introduced at the city’s July 9 meeting. Pay for the municipal judge, effective after the 2022 municipal election, would be $25,000 annually. The salary has been $20,000 since 2006. Councilors and the mayor have not seen a stipend increase since 1992. The sal...
There was a time when the left considered McCarthyism the worst of all political tactics. That was before it became useful to question Mitch McConnell’s loyalty to his country. The Senate majority leader’s offense is blocking Democratic-sponsored election security bills, which has occasioned the sort of charges that Democrats have spent the better half of the past 50 years ruling out of bounds. The Washington Post headlined a column, “Mitch McConnell is a Russian asset...
I have to chuckle every time I read a story about “carbon-free” wind turbines. These reports do a disservice to readers because they do not fully explain what makes these turbines run (hint: it is something we produce a lot of here in New Mexico) or that they are manufactured. These stories also do not explain how much of our power comes from wind (hint: it is not a huge amount) and, very often, they do not explain the strides we have made toward addressing global warming because of the general shift away from coal. Per...
“They say the recipe for Sprite is lemon and lime, but I tried to make it at home. There’s more to it than that. You want some more homemade Sprite? Not until you figure out what the (expletive) else is in it.” — Mitch Hedberg That’s pretty much how I feel when it comes to my favorite beverage, the cream soda. I’ll look up ingredients for it, but if I ever tried to make it you’d get a scene similar to the one described by the late Mr. Hedberg. According to what I could Google very quickly, cream soda has been around long b...
Yes, Nick Buoniconti was a famous football player. He was a member of the Miami Dolphins’ “Perfect Season” and Super Bowl championship teams. He was known for playing middle linebacker with a passion, tracking down quarterbacks like a heat-seeking missile. He was an integral part of the Dolphins’ glory years. But as Buoniconti’s legacy is reassessed following his death on Tuesday, it’s pretty much unanimous that it’s what he did after he left the field — and a horrific family tragedy — that truly meant the most to so many....
On this date ... 1974: A back yard at 217 Lincoln was the site of “probably the largest amount of fresh marijuana ever recovered in Clovis,” the Clovis News-Journal reported. Police found 814 plants, or 28 ounces of the illicit weed. A 22-year-old man was charged with possession. His bond was set at $3,000. Pages Past is compiled by David Stevens. Contact him at: [email protected]...
• Clovis Municipal Schools is selling a family pass for the 2019-20 athletic year. The $130 pass will be valid for two parents and three schoolchildren for admission to any home game for any team in the Clovis district from middle school to high school, with the exception of Clovis High School football games and playoff games in any sport. Passes are available at the CHS athletic office. Information: 575-769-4350, ext. 1023. • The Eastern New Mexico University soccer programs will host a youth soccer camp Tuesday through Thur...
PORTALES — City councilors on Friday agreed unanimously to declare a dangerous building at the site of a weekend fire. The 7-0 votes on three separate issues with the matter came during a special meeting at the Memorial Building, with Mayor Ron Jackson and all city councilors except Oscar Robinson attending. The resolution to declare the dangerous property at 201 N. Ave. I, owned by Brady Brunson, allowed the commission to decide the framework for just how the property issues could be alleviated following the July 30 fire t...
A second smaller-member community may withdraw from the Eastern New Mexico Water Utility Authority. Grady Mayor Wesley Shafer said in Tuesday’s ENMWUA board meeting that the village council would consider the departure at its Aug. 12 meeting. This follows the recent word from Melrose Mayor Barry Green that its own village council had “voted to begin the steps of withdrawing” last month. Shafer told The News on Friday the consideration was partly based on Melrose’s withdrawal and also from an assessment of where ENMWUA...
Whenever the final seconds tick away on a football team's season, the players have all winter, all summer, all spring, to wait before they get another crack at it. Sure, there are offseason workouts, slices of football, team bonding and all that. But when fall practices officially start, the countdown to actual football is on. In Clovis' case, it's the countdown to facing Hobbs. Monday, that countdown begins, as teams from throughout the area get out on the practice field,...
Agriculture is a big part of the Northeastern New Mexico way of life. But it can be hard to keep up with the latest developments, whether that be the new laws and restrictions regarding hemp farming or how to best use guar as an alternative crop. To help keep growers and the public informed, the New Mexico State University Agricultural Science Center in Clovis will be hosting its annual Field Day on Aug. 8. The ag center is located 13 miles north of Clovis on Highway 288. “We bring together researchers, farmers and growers t...
Here are highlights from Tuesday’s business before the Clovis Municipal Schools Board of Education: • It approved an Animal Sciences Level 3 course, which would basically provide an option to Clovis High seniors who have already taken the first two animal science courses. The current Level 2 course, Baldock said, allows the students to receive two course credits from Eastern New Mexico University. Baldock said no such arrangement is lined up with the Level 3 course, but she would pursue any opportunities that exist. • It ap...
CLOVIS — About seven years ago, Staci Manley came to eastern New Mexico with goals of getting a degree in elementary education. But her passion for art was unsatisfied, and she eventually changed her major and parlayed her education into an at-home graphic design business. After living in Clovis for a few years and noticing there was no opportunity to be in an art show, she decided to start one. A few months later, Hillcrest Park is set to host the inaugural Under Over Art Festival. The free event will run from 3 p.m. to 7...
PORTALES - If it's not broken, don't try to fix it. That's the plan for Portales High football, as it's getting off to the earliest start possible for the football season. While most of New Mexico prep football players will be getting a good night of rest for their morning two-a-days, the Rams will be getting their annual headstart with a 12:01 a.m. practice at the school's indoor facility. The early start is done out of popularity, and sometimes necessity. "The kids like...
Tuesday • Curry County Commission — 9 a.m., Commission Chambers, Curry County Administration Complex, 417 Gidding St., Clovis. Information: 575-763-6016 • City of Clovis Civil Aviation Board — 5:30 p.m., Clovis Municipal Airport Terminal Conference Room, 459 CR 11.5, Texico. Information: 575-769-7890 • Portales City Council — 6:30 p.m., Memorial Building, 200 E. 7th St., Portales. Information: 575-356-6662 Wednesday • Clovis Community College Board of Trustees — 8 a.m., CCC, 417 Schepps Blvd., Room 512, Clovis. Informa...
The Clovis Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center is celebrating one of the area's next centenarians. The center honored Edna Thomas, 99, on Wednesday, about two months ahead of her 100th birthday. Dr. Synden Borders said we have a 1 in 144,000 chance of living to age 100. The odds are about the same for living 99 years, 10 months. Edna Shope was born Oct. 1, 1919, in Norton, south of Tucumcari, to Burt and Victoria Shope. She grew up on the Shope homestead near Grady, and was...
Patients and health-plan members of Presbyterian Healthcare Services should be on alert. A May 9 data breach announced on Thursday could affect roughly 183,000 of Presbyterian’s customers. Presbyterian officials in a news release stated they do not believe information from the breach has been used as of yet and that they notified federal authorities after the breach was discovered on June 6. Presbyterian operates nine hospitals, including Plains Regional Medical Center in Clovis and Trigg Memorial Hospital in Tucumcari, w...
ALBUQUERQUE — At least there’s no more “false hope.” The New Mexico Racing Commission took care of that Thursday in announcing a proposed sixth racino license would not be awarded. “The commission felt compelled to not leave false hope out there in the open, to do something that seems more definitive,” Izzy Trejo told The News on Thursday afternoon. NMRC’s official statement was that it “has decided not to issue a sixth racing license” and “has left open the possibility of issuing it in the future, but not before signific...
