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One man is dead after police received a report of a burglary in progress Friday morning. Officials said a woman who lives in the 700 block of Dawn Loop in Clovis is the shooter. She was detained and questioned by police on Friday, but no charges were immediately filed. “We’re still awaiting autopsy results and deciding whether to take it to a grand jury,” Police Lt. Steven Wright said late Saturday morning. A police news release stated officers were dispatched about 10 a.m. Friday for a burglary in progress. "The calle... Full story
RICHARDSON, Texas – Defending Lone Star Conference football champion Angelo State has been tabbed to repeat its crown in a vote of league coaches and sports information directors, plus media members. The Rams (12-1 overall and 9-0 in the LSC in 2022) collected 241 points and 25 of 27 first-place ballots, according to the poll released by the conference office. Last season, ASU reached the NCAA Division II national quarterfinals before it was eliminated. Eastern New Mexico University, with Kelley Lee returning to the helm t...
Curry Residents Senior Meals Association 901 W. 13th St. Clovis Monday: Pork chop, baked potato, green beans, roll with butter, applesauce. Tuesday: Barbecued chicken legs, red-skin potato salad, fried okra, garlic toast, peach cobbler. Wednesday: Salisbury steak with gravy, mashed potatoes, peas and carrots, roll with butter, pears. Thursday: Beef enchilada, calabicitas, refried beans, chips & salsa. Friday: Chicken tenders with gravy, coleslaw, French fries, broccoli, roll with butter, fruit cocktail. Baxter-Curren...
The New Mexico Rural Library Initiative is seeking support from New Mexico residents in efforts to secure an additional $27 million in appropriations from the New Mexico Legislature in its 2024 session. The $27 million, the initiative stated in a news release, “would sustain these libraries in perpetuity.” According to the release, residents are asked to contact state legislators and Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham to voice support for the New Mexico Rural Library Initiative. The endowment that funds the initiative was cre...
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. “City of Fortune” by Victoria Thompson. Wealthy but uncouth Sebastian Nolan has invited his lawyer, Gideon Bates, and his lovely new wife, Elizabeth, to attend the famous Belmont Stakes. Nolan is anxious for Gideon and Elizabeth to help his dau...
Portales Thursday: Breakfast: Cereal, cheese stick, banana, juice. Lunch: Steakfingers, mashed potato, gravy, cucumbers, roll, pears or grilled ham & cheese sandwich, fries, cucumbers, pears. Friday: Breakfast: Cheese filled breadstick, dried fruit, juice. Lunch: Chicken sandwich, fries, broccoli, mixed fruit or meatball sub, fries, lettuce & tomato, applesauce. Melrose Monday breakfast: Breakfast pizza, fruit or cereal. Lunch: Cheeseburgers French fries, veggie, fruit. Tuesday breakfast: Biscuits and gravy, fruit or cereal....
Laura Sigala Mondragon was just fine with her civilian job at Cannon Air Force Base, but a friend kept urging Mondragon to take a job teaching. These days Mondragon teaches Spanish at Clovis High School. The News caught up with Mondragon a few days ago to learn of her life. Q: What's the story of you and Clovis, New Mexico? A: I moved here when I was 15. I was born and raised in Levelland, Texas. I don't even know why we moved to Clovis. But we have family here. I would've...
Another Portales landmark is falling by the wayside this week and strangely enough I’m not as disturbed by it as maybe I should be. Portales City Hall hasn’t been at First and Main all of my life, but it’s been there long enough that I don’t remember it being anywhere else. The low-profile red brick building was directly across the street from another one of those landmark buildings for me, the Portales News-Tribune office so I passed it on my bike every day as I took off on...
With her heterochromatic eyes and vibrant purple tail, the year-old snow shepherd husky mix named Ghost Bouchard has been providing diabetic and cardiac services for her family since she was 7 weeks old. Her handler, Mary-Beth Bouchard of Clovis, said Ghost is always enthusiastic to see her giraffe friends at the Hillcrest Park Zoo when they go on long walks. After a week's worth of work, the service dog is rewarded every Sunday with a pup cup from a local treat...
As eastern New Mexico continues to bask in warm summer days, it is important for pet owners to keep an eye out for their furry companions’ grooming routines as the temperatures near triple digits. Regular grooming not only ensures that your dog looks good, it also ensures they are comfortable and protected from the heat, according to Dr. David Hudson, owner of Sierra Pet Hotel & Spa, a pet boarding and grooming service in Clovis. “It’s good practice in thinking, ‘am I going to be comfortable out there in that heat? Because...
A Ninth Judicial District Court jury on Tuesday found former Roosevelt County Sheriff's Deputy Christopher McCasland not guilty of felony child abuse. The jury handed down the verdict on the second day of a two-day trial in Portales before Judge Drew Tatum. McCasland, 37, was charged on March 1, 2022, with child abuse not causing great bodily injury, a third-degree felony, in Roosevelt County Magistrate Court. New Mexico State Police Agent Justin Tiemann charged in an arrest...
An Albuquerque judge Friday rejected a lawsuit by Coronado Partners against the New Mexico Racing Commission to force it to issue a sixth and final license for a horse-racing track and casino in Tucumcari. District Judge Nancy Franchini issued an 18-page ruling in favor of the commission. Citing state law, Franchini ruled the New Mexico Legislature in 1978 authorized the racing commission to grant or reject licenses. “I’m very disappointed,” Logan attorney Warren Frost, one of Coronado’s principals, said in a phone interview...
When James and Stephanie Johnston moved from Wichita Falls, Texas, to Portales in December of 2022, they saw the "Welcome to Portales" billboard announcing our community as "home of 17,000 friendly people (and three or four old grouches)." There's only one problem, the Johnstons said. They insist they've yet to meet a single one of those old grouches. Rather, James Johnston said, "Everyone, to a person, has been so welcoming." This gregarious husband/wife duo made the move to...
Since it’s so hot outside, maybe you’ll appreciate the chilling nature of a recent National Oceanic and Atmosphere Administration report, which says there were 18 major climate and weather disasters last year alone. Each one cost at least $1 billion in recovery costs, while altogether they cost us $165 billion. The U.S. is in its eighth straight year of 10 or more such extreme weather disasters. This year we’ve already had 12, and that’s not even counting the oppressive heat that’s been bearing down on most of the Northern He...
Here we go again. The first Republican presidential primary debate is less than a month away and the GOP is hell-bent on making the same mistake it made in 2015. For its first primary debate back then Republicans had a herd of medium-caliber presidential wannabes that was so large the party had to split them into two tiers based on their polling numbers. Fox News hosted two crowded debates back-to-back on one night that were more useless than usual. In the main event, 24 milli...
The Sixth Amendment guarantees the right to a “speedy and public trial.” The Speedy Trial Act of 1974 passed by Congress interprets that to mean an indictment within 30 days of arrest and a trial within 70 days of the indictment. But that only applies to federal courts. In New Mexico, a backlog in the district courts has meant far too many defendants have been denied their Sixth Amendment right. The problem has been greatest in Albuquerque, leading the Legislature to pass the Bernalillo Criminal Justice and Review Act in 201...
I am responding on behalf of the Ogallala Land & Water Conservancy (“Conservancy”) to the recent letters to the editor regarding the Ute Pipeline Project. It is imperative to pursue every viable source of water for the future of this community. The city of Clovis Master Water Assurance Plan (2017) created a Water Portfolio through an “all of the above” approach to water security. Four out of five action plans focus on key water sources: effluent reuse water, groundwater, surface water, and recharge water. The fifth plan wa...
Madison-Avenue types will tell you it is better to look good than to feel good. In politics that dictum is expressed as, “the optics are everything.” This iron rule for publicity flaks is what causes press secretaries to claim that although using cluster ammunition may be a war crime if someone else uses them, we only use the kind of cluster bombs that are safe. Recently, when a baggie of cocaine was found in the White House, the U.S. Secret Service was the designated age...
Do you ever get a tune stuck in your head; playing on a loop in your mind whether you want it to or not? Hopefully, it’s something you enjoy. For me, the sound of “liberty” is always playing in the background. Besides being something I love, it drowns out the competing songs of “safety,” “victimhood,” and “nationalism.” Those who hear those alternate songs can’t usually hear “liberty.” At best, they’ll hear the cheap substitute, “freedom”* (*void where prohibited). I try to r...
The Clovis Police Department is investigating a "suspicious" fire that destroyed a playground at Greene Acres Park Wednesday afternoon. The fire occurred 3:09 p.m. Wednesday, when the playground located near 2001 Michell St. in Greene Acres Park "went up in flames," according to the press release from the city of Clovis. The Clovis Fire Department personnel responded and were able to quickly put out the flames. According to the release, the blaze destroyed 90% of the new...
Eastern New Mexico University has earned the 2023-2024 Military Friendly® School Gold designation for a second consecutive year, ENMU announced in a news release. Institutions earning the Military Friendly School designation were evaluated using public data sources and responses from a proprietary survey. More than 1,800 schools participated in the 2023-2024 survey. A total of 530 schools earned award-level Gold, Silver, and Bronze designations, and 250 were selected for “Gold” award status for their leading practices, outcom...
Who is supposed to take care of the weeds and grasses growing in the gap between the concrete curbing and street asphalt in Clovis? "That's the street-adjacent property owner's responsibility," Pete Wilt said. Wilt is head of Clovis' Building Safety Department, the department in charge of code enforcement in the city. "Adjacent property owners are responsible for cutting grasses and weeds to the halfway point on city streets and alleys," Wilt said. Earlier this year, in...
Financial challenges continue at Roosevelt General Hospital, along with the other rural hospitals across the state. RGH leaders and board members held a briefing Tuesday to provide an update on the state of the hospital and what the future holds. The briefing came after the financial challenges were made apparent by the fact that RGH recently had to cut back on staff hours and even dismiss some employees. RGH Chief Executive Officer Kaye Green said in May the cutbacks...
Editor's note: This is one in a continuing series of state-of-the-entity interviews with local officials. Erinn Burch has been the executive director of United Way of Eastern New Mexico since 2002. Q: Inflation is an issue across all boards. For this organization, has inflation cut into any of your donations? A: We did have a smaller response to our diaper drives this year than we have in the past ... I think that there's a lot of things at play. Inflation and costs of...
The Air Force remains committed to Cannon Air Force Base and "the future is bright," Clovis Mayor Mike Morris said Friday. Morris and other local officials held a press conference at the Clovis-Carver Public Library to address community concerns after officials announced last week that 350 Cannon personnel and seven MC-130J aircraft will be relocating to Arizona in 2027. "It can make our hearts skip a beat," Morris said, anytime there are reports of a reduction in force at...
