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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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TEXICO - For a spectator, the best part about Tuesday morning's Texico football practice was being able to watch it from the shade. Even for the Texico players who were out in the blazing sun, it was all good. They were practicing to play the game they love, the game they've played most of their lives. Practices began Monday, meaning the regular season isn't too far behind - it's a little more than two weeks, actually, before the Wolverines visit Jal for the 2019 opener. New...
• 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 offic. Information: 575-769-4350, ext. 1023. • Eastern New Mexico University is now selling 2019-20 memberships for the Greyhound Club, with club me...
PORTALES — There were “no updates” this week related to the July 27 house party that left one dead and two injured outside Portales, according to Roosevelt County Sheriff Malin Parker. Court records reflected no charges as of Tuesday for Devin Guidry, who told police he fatally shot Derek Garcia in self-defense. Also, there were no charges filed against any of the other individuals on whom investigators had served search warrants in the hours following the incident. Garcia, 24, died on scene outside his residence on the 5...
With the hustle and bustle of the new school year starting up this week, what better way to thank those responsible for educating local youth than a hot meal and some casual conversation. The community at the Central Baptist Church will be showing its appreciation for the teachers and school staff members of all local schools on Friday at the Central Baptist Church building located at 2501 N. Norris with its annual teacher luncheon beginning at 11:30 a.m. Whether you’re a teacher, principle, bus driver or any other staff m...
CLOVIS — A trial scheduled this week for one of the local jail inmates charged with escaping the facility last summer was pushed to October due to an attorney’s schedule conflict. Ricky Sena, 25, was charged with seven felonies in connection with a short-lived escape effort with two other Curry County Detention Center inmates in June 2018. His charges include two counts of aggravated assault upon a peace officer, a third-degree felony, for allegedly firing at police in a standoff June 19, 2018. Sena was scheduled for two day...
CLOVIS — A new agreement between the city of Clovis and its police officers isn’t expected to draw much opposition, with a few changes in language and a 2.5 percent salary increase set for presentation to the Clovis City Commission on Thursday night. The contract agreement between the city and the Clovis Police Officers Association — officers collectively bargain, unlike other city employees — is on the consent agenda for the 5:15 p.m. meeting at the North Annex of the Clovis-Carver Public Library. That agenda is for routine...
Up until recently, it’s been pretty much a seamless takeover. Worn out by Susana Martinez’s can’t-do/won’t do policies as governor toward issues like clean energy, full marijuana legalization and public education, voters made their voices heard in New Mexico with the resounding election of Michelle Lujan Grisham last year. Since then she’s been pushing the state in a far more progressive direction — touting education reform as her top priority. Last month, however, Lujan Grisham took an unexpected turn when she fired her P...
CLOVIS — If it were up to her, Valerie Plame would probably still be doing some important mission for the Central Intelligence Agency and not traversing the edges of New Mexico. But you play the hand you’re dealt, Plame said, and she’s chosen a new mission of running for New Mexico’s 3rd Congressional District in 2020. Plame, who has lived in Santa Fe since 2007, is seeking her first elected office as one of eight Democratic candidates to succeed Ben Ray Lujan, who has announced his intent to run for the Senate seat to be v...
Once again we approach that saddest time of the year: when the majority of parents send their kids back to school; back into the local government concentration day-camps. If you’re someone who mistakes schooling for education you probably believe this is good. School is a socialist babysitting system funded by your neighbors. If you’re OK with forcing others to fund things you want, then go ahead and support the government schools. I can’t support socialism. Schooling is al...
A public comment tour asking New Mexicans of all political stripes their opinions on how to best address methane emissions from oil and gas operations sounds like a good thing. And it is good that Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s Cabinet members are showing they’re willing to listen — in Farmington and Albuquerque last week. and Carlsbad this week — because climate change and the energy industry are topics people care about. The stakes on this issue couldn’t be higher. The fate of the planet — our air, water and land — depe...
CLOVIS — An alleged child sex offender will face no prison time under the terms of a plea agreement scheduled to be finalized this month. A jury trial last week for Rubel Encinias, 45, of Clovis, was canceled after attorneys submitted a plea agreement and scheduled a conference for Aug. 22. By terms of that agreement, Encinias will plead no contest to one count of criminal sexual contact of a minor in the third degree and be sentenced to six years in the Department of Corrections, suspended in favor of supervised p...
SANTA FE — The New Mexico Department of Health on Tuesday confirmed Curry County’s fourth skunk to receive a positive rabies test this year. A fox was also reported positive for rabies in May for a total of five rabid animals in this county this year. There was no human exposure to the disease, and a dog that had an encounter with the skunk was up to date on rabies vaccinations, officials said. The dog received a booster shot, followed by home monitoring for 45 days. The DPH reminds residents and visitors to be aware of ani...
SANTA FE — Portales’ Stuart Ingle is one of a dozen key state figures invited to join Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham next week for a summit on domestic terrorism. According to a release from the governor’s office, the summit would be to “analyze and discuss proactive measures that will decrease the risk of domestic terrorist acts in the wake of the Aug. 3 mass shooting in El Paso ... which law enforcement authorities are investigating as a hate crime.” The summit will include a briefing by the FBI. Also invited are Attorney...
Today • Clovis Community College Board of Trustees — 8 a.m., CCC, 417 Schepps Blvd., Room 512, Clovis. Information: 575-769-4001 • Public meeting for input on the 2021-2025 Roosevelt County Infrastructure Capital Improvement Plan (ICIP) — 6 p.m., Commission Room, Roosevelt County Courthouse, 109 W. First St., Portales. County residents are encouraged to participate. Information: 575-356-5307 Thursday • Clovis City Commission — 5:15 p.m., North Annex, Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main St., Clovis. Information...
GRADY — A 75-year marriage could be considered a tremendous achievement by today’s standards. But for Jim and Margie Woods of Grady, they couldn’t imagine things any other way. This Friday the two New Mexico natives celebrate their 75th wedding anniversary after marrying in 1944. Their family will be holding an open house in their honor at Allen Hall in Grady from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. with cake and ice cream to celebrate. With Jim at 95 and Margie at 93, the couple don’t have many of their old friends left, but they hope so...
On this date ... 1969: Area Kiwanis Club members were preparing for the second Family Reunion Day. The purpose of the event was to “dramatize the family as the keystone of the nation’s strength and morality,” according to a report in the Clovis News-Journal. Kenneth Roper, president of Clovis’ Kiwanis Club, said participants were encouraged to “plan old-fashioned family get-togethers, dinners and picnics.” While the gatherings were not formally organized, Roper said the idea was to “get the family up to date on addresses, bi...
Avid coffee fiends rejoice. A new Starbucks drive-in java shop has just popped up on the north side of Clovis to help feed your insatiable thirst for the energizing brown liquid. The new standalone Starbucks location opened Monday on Prince Street, just north of Walmart. Staff visited a few local businesses the previous Friday to hand out free coffee. The new location has a drive through and interior dining area and plans to be open from 5 a.m. to 10 p.m., 365 days a year....
MELROSE — Jamie Widner hasn’t had much time to relax over the last month, despite retiring from his job as the Melrose superintendent on June 30. First he had his son’s wedding and then his daughter’s first child was born. Then, something quite unexpected happened. Widner walked into the New Mexico School Superintendent Association’s (NMSSA) award ceremony on July 25 to discover he’d won the superintendent of the year award. He was also being inducted into the New Mexico Coal...
BOVINA - Texas Rangers on Monday charged a man with murder for the death of a woman in Bovina. Erica Sanchez, 31, of Bovina, "was killed Monday morning in the city," according to a news release that night from the Texas Department of Public Safety. Michael Orozco, 39, of Muleshoe, "has been charged with murder and is currently in police custody," said the release from Sgt. Cindy Barkley of the DPS' Amarillo office. Sanchez is the mother of three children and moved into her...
Curry County voters will see three questions on the ballot in November regarding alcohol sales in the county’s unincorporated areas. County commissioners on Tuesday unanimously approved a recommendation from County Manager Lance Pyle, who submitted five potential ballot questions and suggested putting the first three to voters: A. Do the residents of Curry County wish to allow the sale, service and consumption of alcoholic beverages in the unincorporated areas of Curry County? B. Do the residents of Curry County wish to a...
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CLOVIS - Noting concerns that its pipeline effort would never directly serve all outlying residents of Curry County, commissioners on Tuesday narrowly approved a motion to change the county's "position" in the Eastern New Mexico Water Utility Authority. The county will remain a member of ENMWUA and continue paying dues for now, but it will meanwhile "market our interest" for its attendant forthcoming water rights from the in-progress Ute Pipeline. There was confusion among com...
CLOVIS — Football was back at Leon Williams Stadium Monday. There were no pads, there was no contact. The Hobbs players didn’t come jogging through their balloon tunnel out onto the stadium turf. But, Day 1 of Clovis High football practice was still a big thing. Monday was just 18 days before Hobbs does indeed come out onto the field ready to battle Clovis in the regular-season opener. That’s18 days, as in less than three weeks. As in two weeks from this Friday. As in, footb...
PORTALES — While it probably didn’t feel like a good idea when they were in teachers meeting later that morning, Portales coaches reported an overall positive feeling from the first day — or was it night? — of Ram football practice. The PHS practice field, less than two weeks away from hosting a 5 p.m. Aug. 16 scrimmage with Robertson, was the site of football season starting in Ram country at 12:01 a.m. “I think the energy was good, the kids were excited,” Portales co...
PORTALES — If you can breathe, walk, ride and buck, the Roosevelt County rodeo wants you. It’s mainly a youth rodeo that’s taking place at the Roosevelt County Mounted Patrol Arena in Portales this Saturday, but adults are more than welcome. “As long as they can ride, up to 99 (years old),” rodeo organizer JoAnna Provencio said. “We have different age groups.” It’s happening at 506 East Spruce Street in Portales, where the arena that was once abandoned has been resuscitated by a six-week rodeo Buckle Series and a separate...
