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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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CLOVIS – The region's latest homicide was "all an accident," according to the man who confessed to killing 17-year-old Schammiel Kirven early Wednesday morning at the Clovis Apartments. Zyon Williams, 19, told police he was walking with two of his friends at the apartments. Williams had his grandmother's 9mm XD pistol in the waistband of his pants. He told officers he was playing with the pistol as he approached the building where the girl was standing and pointed it at her. T...
Reports of shots fired in Clovis have become a recurring theme on social media sites and news outlets. Clovis police say the criminal activity is not limited to one section of town, it's not driven by any single factor and it's not the worst it's ever been here. "Every shooting is different," Police Chief Roy Rice said as he sat at a table in his office last week with a reporter and two members of his administrative staff, Capts. Roman Romero and Robbie Telles. Wednesday morni...
Clovis mayor Mike Morris knows recent criminal activity in the city such as shots fired incidents, shooting deaths and more are "alarming" and have the community "concerned and upset." Morris addressed the problem in the opening minutes of Thursday's regular meeting of the Clovis City Commission. Morris said it was "very concerning" that teenagers seem to be involved in the incidents. Morris noted the most recent victim, the fourth in Clovis this year, was Schammiel Kirven,...
CLOVIS – The president of Clovis Community College was placed on paid administrative leave Wednesday by the college's board of trustees. Charles Nwankwo will remain on paid leave until an investigation is completed of alleged misconduct that led to letters and resolutions of "no confidence" against him in early May by several employee groups, according to Lora Harlan, board president. The board's decision followed an executive session at the end of the board's regular monthly...
Tuesday *Free preschool screening clinic — 9 a.m.-3 p.m., by appointment only, Fort Sumner Municipal Schools, 1001 Sumner Ave., Fort Sumner. Sponsored by Regional Education Cooperative #6 and open to children ages birth to 5 in the Fort Sumner school district. Information or to make appointment: Robin Drake at Fort Sumner Municipal Schools at 575-355-7766 *Quilters’ Tuesday – 5:30 p.m., Ingram Room, Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main, Clovis. Pre-registration required to assure adequate workspaces. Quilters must suppl...
Monday *Clovis Community College Board of Trustees special meeting – 8 a.m., CCC, 417 Schepps Blvd., Room 512, Clovis. Information: http://www.clovis.edu/about/administration.aspx or 575-769-4001 *Portales Municipal Schools board - 6 p.m., Board Room, L.C. Cozzens Administrative Offices, 501 S. Abilene, Portales. Information: 575-356-7000 Tuesday *Curry County Commission – 9 a.m., Commission Chambers, Curry County Administration Complex, 417 Gidding St., Clovis. Information: 575-763-6016 *Roosevelt County Commission - 9 a.m...
Iris Madrid has joined the Eastern New Mexico University athletic training staff ahead of the 2022 season as an assistant athletic trainer. Madrid will primarily be working with the Men’s Soccer, Women’s Basketball, and Baseball programs. Before coming to ENMU, Madrid served as an athletic training student for the NMSU Aggies baseball program during the 2022 season. Madrid assisted the athletic trainer in treatment, evaluation, and rehabilitation. In the fall of 2021 Madrid held a similar position at Organ Mountain High Sch...
Name of book: ARCH: Book I. Yes, it is a series. Book two is already written and will be released soon. Author: Michael N. Riley, a 1978 Clovis High School graduate. He has family members who are natives of Arch. Summary of the book: The main character's name is Eugene (Doc) Strafford. Doc enlisted in the Union Army and was assigned to the medical division where he assisted with amputations and bullet wounds. After the war, he bought a mercantile in a small town in New Mexico...
Friendship Senior Center 901 W. 13th St., Clovis 575-769-7908 Monday: 9 a.m. Exercise class, 1 p.m. Indoor volleyball. Tuesday: 9 a.m. Dance 2 Fitness, 1:30 p.m. Bingo, 6 p.m. Virtual Bingo. Wednesday: 9 a.m. Exercise class, 10:30 a.m. Advisory council meeting, 1 p.m. Movie: “Frozen.” Thursday: 9 a.m. Dance 2 Fitness, 1 p.m. Clovis Fire Department class: “Senior Fire Safety,” door prizes. Friday: 9 a.m. Exercise class, 10:30 a.m. board games, 11 a.m. Humana, 2 p.m. English tea. Baxter-Curren Activity Center 908 Hickory...
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. “Bless Your Heart, Rae Sutton” by Susannah B. Lewis. When Rae Sutton’s mama passes away and leaves her the house where she grew up, Rae can’t imagine how the little old place might restore her broken life. Mourning the recent loss of her marriag...
Cindy Clayton is an unwanted dog or cat's best friend. Since 2011, she has been the driving force behind Cindy's Hope for Precious Paws, an adoption agency for dogs and cats in need of foster or "forever" homes. She said she does not know how many dogs and cats have passed through the home-finding service she leads, but she thinks it's "in the thousands." As of Thursday, the Facebook page Cindy's Hope had recorded 9,200 likes. Last year, she said Cindy's Hope found homes for 4...
I can’t believe the summer has slipped away so fast. I looked down the other morning and realized I haven’t even had time to sweep last year’s leaves off the patio yet. Kids these days seem to go back to school entirely too early in the year. I’ll bet that’s a sentiment nearly every teacher shares right about now. On the other hand there are parents just counting down the days until they go back. Basic school supply lists haven’t changed too much from my day. They still want...
Portales City Manager Sarah Austin in an interview Wednesday said the city plans to raise its water rates in all categories and explained why. “With the water situation not improving, it is in the best interest of the city to implement rate structures and penalties that assist with the water situation as well as implementing stricter water restrictions,” Austin said. She said the city plans an across-the-board rate increase sometime this year. “The water rates have not been raised in over ten years,” Austin said. “We ant...
Clovis’ Animal Shelter had an “Empty the Shelter” event in July that has been extended through August. Due to a grant from Best Friends and The High Plains Humane Society 63 dogs and 26 cats were adopted at no charge, all adoption fees were waived last month, according to Clovis police department captain Roman Romero. The waiving of fees will continue through the end of August. In an average month approximately 24 dogs and 7 cats are adopted from Clovis’ animal shelter. Adoption fees at the animal shelter are $50 for dogs an...
Andrea Reeb, who headed the Clovis-area District Attorney’s Office for eight years, has been named a special prosecutor in the investigation into last year’s fatal shooting on the Rust movie set south of Santa Fe. Reeb, who retired from the 9th Judicial District earlier this year after about 25 years as a prosecutor, was added to the team to expedite the review process, District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altweis said in a statement. Authorities say a prop revolver wielded by Hollywood star and Rust producer Alec Baldwin dis...
The Curry County Sheriff’s Office wants to alert citizens to a phone scam taking place in the area. The sheriff’s office has received “multiple calls from citizens who have received scam phone calls from individuals who are claiming to be a Curry County Sheriff’s deputy,” as stated in a press release. “The callers are impersonating deputies, while utilizing different names and phone numbers, and instructing the individual to pay fines or restitution for services with a gift card in lieu of being arrested.” “The Curry Co...
Roosevelt County and City of Portales Emergency Management wants the public to know they will be performing their bi-annual testing of the Hyper-Reach mass notification system in the last week of August. This local emergency and weather notification system alerts citizens to fires, severe weather, public health, evacuation notices, lost/missing persons, for example, the press release states. “When seconds count, you need immediate and accurate information. Have the information to save your life, your family’s life and you...
“Will you still need me; will you still feed me; when I’m 64?” I was 8 years old when the Beatles released that song in 1967, and it seemed quite probable to me then that I would need help feeding myself by the time I hit 64. If I hit 64. The average life expectancy for men at that time was 66.8 years, and I had good reason to believe I would come in under the average. My dad had a massive heart attack when he was just 50 years old. It probably would have killed him had it happened 10 years earlier. Doctors at the Unive...
Back in the day, his FBI file dubbed him “an arrogant Negro.” But then, people often mistook principle for arrogance whenever African Americans insisted on justice. Sometimes, they still do. As recently as 2017, after all, much of white America vilified NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick for kneeling during the national anthem in protest of police violence against African Americans. Donald Trump cursed him. Wayne Newton ordered him to “get the hell out” of the country. But Bil...
Lots of perplexed Americans are asking the question, “How did we get here?” They ask how is it that a rich, powerful and generally happy country that was chugging along so smoothly in the 21st century has almost overnight become an economic, social and ideological train wreck. It’s a fair question – and the answer has little to do with the pandemic and the collateral damage we’ve done to ourselves with lockdowns and the war on COVID. Today, the country is divided into doze...
“Hiroshima Day” is a day for mixed feelings. It is a day to remember what many would prefer to forget. It commemorates a day of honor and horror, a day that ended World War II and gave birth to the nuclear age, a day that offered the world new hope for scientific progress — and new reasons to feel very afraid. On Aug. 6, 1945, a clear sky over the Japanese city of Hiroshima was disturbed by a solitary American B-29 bomber. Its belly doors snapped open and dropped the world’s first nuclear weapon to be deployed in war. Three d...
Congress has never cared much about truth-in-labeling, but even by its standards, “The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022” is laughably absurd. The deal reached by West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin and Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is getting puffed up by the media as a presidency-revitalizing achievement for President Joe Biden, when in reality it is the detritus of his stymied legislative agenda hastily thrown together in an incoherent muddle, under a deceptive name. A signature o...
One would have to believe that the president of the U.S. receives the best medical treatment possible, or at least care that is slightly better than that available to the unwashed masses. That being said, the president has come down with COVID-19 twice in the last few weeks. He tested positive on July 21, tested negative on July 26-27 and tested positive again on July 30-31. After the first positive tests, Biden was treated with the anti-viral drug, Paxlovid. Medical experts...
CLOVIS - A New Mexico State Police vehicle driven by an officer who thought an active-shooter drill Wednesday at Clovis Community College was a real event collided with another car in Clovis and overturned, according to a state police news release. The officer received minor injuries in the crash. A 45-year-old woman and an 11-year-old girl riding in the other vehicle, a Nissan Rogue, were taken to Plains Regional Medical Center with injuries not considered life-threatening,...
Personnel from Clovis’ Building Safety Department will be patrolling the city looking for violators of city ordinances regarding weeds, debris and rubbish. According to a press release from the city manager’s office eliminating weeds and debris is not only good for the aesthetics of the city but it eliminates harbors for rodents, cuts illegal dumping and littering, eliminates fire hazards and deters crime by increasing visibility and access. The Building Safety Department has four officers and a supervisor. Each officer is...
