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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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6 years ago Aug. 11, 1959: Clovis' Main Street was the site of Carnival Day. Click Here to Download...
LAS VEGAS, Nevada — No Ultimate Fighting Championship for Clovis’ Harvey Park. At least not yet. The 33-year-old Park — a Clovis sheriff’s deputy and Melrose High graduate who won the Legacy Fighting Alliance lightweight Mixed Martial Arts championship in April — fought Omar Morales Tuesday night in Las Vegas, Nevada, part of Dana White’s Contender Series on ESPN+. At stake was a UFC contract. The Venezuelan-born Morales remained undefeated (8-0) by recording a technical knockout of Park on punches at 1:06 of Round 2. Pa...
PORTALES - Philip Bildi looms large on the field for the Portales Rams. At last count Friday, 6-foot-3 and 253 pounds big. His college decision no longer looms, as the defensive end and lineman verbally committed to Texas Tech, then led the Rams through their final practice of the week Friday evening. Blidi, who ended the Ram practice by leading the chant of "1-2-3-family," had eight Division-I suitors in all - including Texas-El Paso, New Mexico, New Mexico State, Tulsa and...
CLOVIS — Friday afternoon’s Clovis football practice began under expanding blue skies and departing dark menacing clouds. Fitting, because the Wildcats’ first scrimmage was then just five days away, their first regular-season game a mere two weeks off. And like any team, the season’s approach can signal the coming of metaphoric clear skies along with some ominous ones. And like any team, Clovis hopes for more of the former than the latter. It was in literally clearing and sli...
PORTALES — Now well into the second week of August, there is still no new athletic director at Eastern New Mexico University. But, that is to be expected. The search is proceeding just about how university president Jeff Elwell thought it would in late June when Greg Waggoner resigned from the position, setting in motion the quest to find his replacement. Saturday afternoon, Elwell said the application process was complete, and that Eastern’s nine-person search committee ended up with a final pool of 38 coast-to-coast can...
PORTALES — Commissioners on Tuesday will consider a resolution to adopt Roosevelt County's 2021-2025 Infrastructure Capital Improvement Plan as well as one for the senior center. On the agenda for Tuesday's regular commission meeting are resolutions on the 2021-2025 ICIP and an ICIP for the Roosevelt County Senior Center, operated by La Casa de Buena Salud. Also on the agenda for the meeting, 9 a.m. in the county courthouse: • Report from road viewer committee on South Roosevelt Road 9 and consideration of road closure for...
• 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 Clovis High Athletics office is selling reserved seat season tickets for the upcoming Wildcat fo...
CLOVIS — In what was a relatively short Clovis City Commission meeting, commissioners said farewell to one of the city’s unsung heroes and said thanks to their police department and other first responders. Commissioners also handled a handful of building condemnations, which made up the lion’s share of discussion items in about 45 minutes of meeting time. All eight commissioners and Mayor Lansford attended, with all votes mentioned below 8-0. The city took a moment to recognized welding supervisor John Bowman for 23 years...
Turning away refugees an appalling choice I am responding to last Sunday’s letter calling into question whether or not Portales is a welcoming community for people who are in dire need. I am appalled to find out that this community turned refugees away. How could we turn our backs on men, women and children who are in such desperate need? I am so sickened by the political atmosphere of this Trump nightmare that I don’t follow the news. It literally made me ill to see so much hatred and cruelty being tolerated in our own cou...
New Mexicans are used to the pleasant choice of red or green, but the Green New Deal will have every home seeing red. It may sound like an exaggeration, but this is the truth: The Green New Deal is an impossible proposal that would lead to the most expensive burden in the history of our state. According to a new, first of its kind study compiled by Power The Future and the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the Green New Deal would cost every New Mexico household $71,910 in just the first year alone. The disastrous proposal...
According to the website Nerdwallet, New Mexico has the seventh-highest percentage of “unbanked” households among U.S. states. That means 11 percent of New Mexico families don’t have access to bank accounts. That same report estimated that New Mexico households lose between $40 and $104 million annually in fees and expenses due to being unbanked. Even for many New Mexicans who do have bank accounts, the geographical size and sparse nature of our population makes it difficult for many in our state to get to a bank in a timel...
At some point in the late 1960s, you could be forgiven for thinking that the FBI was in charge of the KKK. It infiltrated, manipulated and ran the group into the ground. The name of the operation: COINTELPRO-White Hate. With violent white hate again on the rise, we should take some inspiration — even if the methods can’t be replicated — from the FBI’s past grappling with racist extremists. If there were any doubt that the country has a white nationalist problem, the shockin...
A half dozen readers contacted the newspaper last week to express outrage at Wednesday’s editorial cartoon. Mostly they said it was racist. Several demanded an apology. One described it as “unacceptable hatred!” I didn’t see it that way. If you missed it, the cartoon published on Wednesday’s Voices page depicted a shark encountering a sign that read: “Warning! Go near shore at your own risk. Angry white males with easy access to guns.” I’ve been reading editorial cartoons long enough to know that some — like poems — can...
There’s of course more involved, but two of the most important qualities for a journalist to have go hand in hand. One is to be as inquisitive as possible about anything and everything. The other is to know a little bit about anything and everything. The former has led to some of my favorite stories. I once asked a college volleyball player how she got all the way across the country to play in New Mexico. Short answer: Her sister got sick. Long answer: She and her sister played on the same high school team in California, a...
Monday • Portales Municipal Schools board — 6 p.m., Board Room, L.C. Cozzens Administrative Offices, 501 S. Abilene, Portales. Information: 575-356-7000 • Clovis Astronomy Club — 7 p.m., Room 143 or 145 (look for signs), Clovis Community College, 417 Schepps Blvd., Clovis. Information: 757-846-7509 Tuesday • City of Clovis Water Policy Advisory Committee — 8:30 a.m., Clovis City Hall assembly room, 321 N. Connelly, Clovis. Information: 575-763-9654 • Roosevelt County Commission — 9 a.m., Commission Room, Roosevelt County Cour...
CLOVIS - Entering its 99th year, the 2019 Curry County Fair promises "Starry Nights and Midway Lights" for a week of carnival fun, daredevils, livestock contests and live music. The fair runs Tuesday-Saturday, with Monday designated for accepting entries to the exhibits and contests the rest of the week. New to this year's fair are the "Distinguished Daredevils," scheduled for multiple showcases during the evenings of Tuesday through Friday and on Saturday afternoon. Also new...
