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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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Roosevelt County Commissioners voted at their regular meeting Tuesday to accept a New Mexico Food Security grant from the state for $137,797, which will pay for the construction of a building to serve as a permanent location for the Food Bank of Eastern New Mexico in Roosevelt County. The county agreed to act as the fiscal agent for the grant. Food Bank Executive Director Dianna Sprague said in a later interview that the building will be located at 1111 W. Fir St. in Portales. Sprague said the food bank currently operates...
This week's Curry County Fair will be featuring "a lot of new stuff," Curry County Events Center General Manager K.C. Messick said. Messick is the man behind "the new stuff" whose goal is to refresh the county fair. "It's time," Messick said. Messick said the fair's overall look will be different. "We're having a rodeo Friday at 7 p.m. and Saturday starting at 5 p.m.," Messick said. "So there's a little bit of ag with the livestock shows and sale, a little bit of the western a...
Curry County commissioners are supportive of a behavioral health center for the area as evidenced by receipt of a feasibility study for the center and unanimously committing to the project. The action was part of Tuesday's regular commission session where the behavioral health center came up in a presentation from the company that did the feasibility study and in a Cannon Air Force Base presentation for commissioners. Cannon Wing Commander Colonel Terence Taylor spoke of the status of Cannon and things that are needed for...
Wednesday *City of Clovis Economic Incentive Board – 7:30 a.m., North Annex, Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main, Clovis. Information: 575-763-9654 Thursday *Curry County Health Council – 12-1 p.m., in-person at Curry County Administration Complex, 417 Gidding St., Suite 100, Clovis, and via Zoom. Information and Zoom link: 575-763-6016 *Clovis City Commission - 5:15 p.m., North Annex, Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main St., Clovis. Information: 575-769-7828 Aug. 23 *Curry County Commission – 9 a.m., Commi...
Monday *Childfind – 8:30-11 a.m., and 1-3 p.m., Brown Early Childhood Center, 520 W. Fifth St., Portales. Open to families to address concerns about development in speech, vision, hearing, behavior, and understanding in children ages 0-4. Information or to schedule an appointment: Special Student Services at 575-359-3707 *Stitch Addicts stitch group – 6:30 p.m., Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main St., Clovis. Information: 575-763-9687 *Book discussion: “First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remem...
They didn’t make it rain much, but officials said cloud-seeding efforts over Roosevelt County in May and June were a good start to the program some hope to continue. Gary Walker, owner and pilot with the Wichita Falls, Texas-based Seeding Operations and Atmospheric Research (SOAR), was authorized to perform cloud seeding for the Roosevelt Soil and Water Conservation District. May and June this year were the driest in four years. But Mike Cone, board chairman of the conservation district, said there wasn’t much to work wit...
The aromas from the café's kitchen filled the room and I couldn't help but think the single page, typewritten menu did not do the whiffs justice. "Is the Green Chile Apple Pie made with pinyon nuts?" I asked, handing the white paper menu back to the waitress. "It is," she replied, interpreting my question and gesture for my order, which she wrote on her pad before tearing it off and handing it to the cook on the other side of the kitchen doorway. The roadside cafe and the...
On this date ... 1957: The Clovis Municipal Board of Education’s August meeting lasted until midnight. In addition to the routine every-month business, the Clovis News-Journal reported the board: • extended the lease of Johnnie’s Drive-In through Sept. 1, 1957. • awarded the bread bid for the cafeteria to Meads Bakery • awarded the milk bid to Campbell’s Dairy • approved insurance on the new Gattis Junior High School -- $214,500 on the building and $21,500 on its contents Pages Past is compiled by David Stevens. Cont...
Curry Residents Senior Meals Association 901 W. 13th St. Clovis Monday: Lasagna, scalloped potatoes, green beans, garlic bread, sugar cookie. Tuedday: Chicken fajitas, Sanish rice, pinto beans, pineapple. Wednesday: Square fish sandwich or chicken patty sandwich, French fries, sherbet. Thursday: Beef tacos, Spanish rice, pinto beans, cookie. Friday: Chicken fried steak, mashed potatoes with gravy, corn, roll with butter, spiced apples. Friendship Senior Center 901 W. 13th St., Clovis 575-769-7908 Monday: 9 a.m. Exercise class...
Clovis Monday: Breakfast: Muffin. Lunch: Chicken smackers, mashed potatoes, seasoned corn, fresh orange, homemade roll or (grades 6 to 12) Spicy Chicken or cheeseburger and fries. Tuesday: Breakfast: Frudel, Lunch: Tacos, salsa, lettuce and tomato, Spanish rice, pinto beans, applesauce, or (grades 6 to 12) corn dog or cheeseburger and fries. Wednesday: Breakfast: Cinnamon roll. Lunch: Meatball sub, baked French fries, sliced cucumber, ranch dressing, chilled fresh fruit, or (grades 6 to 12) deli or chili dog and fries....
As a red-blooded American male I have no problem recalling the vehicles I’ve owned in my lifetime. Most guys have no problem telling you everything about their first car; girls are a little fuzzy on make and model but most can recall the color and maybe the number of doors. I had no trouble recalling my 1968 Ford Fairlane 500 Fastback. But then, no, that wasn’t the first vehicle I drove. That could have been maybe steering granddad’s 1959 Chevrolet Apache stepside pickup or da...
In July, Christopher Baca turned his drive to serve up a level. He moved from a teaching position at Clovis Christian School to become the program specialist for the TRIO Educational Opportunity Center at Eastern New Mexico University. If TRIO were ever an acronym, it is unclear what it may have stood for, but federally funded TRIO programs assist low-income students, especially those who represent the first generation in their family to attend college. Baca is a Clovis...
Cannon Air Force Base’s 27th Special Operations Medical Group will host the 13th annual Medic Rodeo, a premier military medical services competition according to a news release from Cannon, this week starting Monday and running through Friday. Activities will take place at Cannon and the Melrose bombing range. The report says the Medic Rodeo is part of the Air Force Medical Services Medic-X initiative to validate training and verify readiness among military medical professionals. Participants from 16 Air Force and Space F...
PORTALES – The nationwide search for the next president/chancellor for Eastern New Mexico University continues with focus groups planned for university stakeholders at the Portales, Ruidoso, and Roswell campuses Aug. 29 through 31. According to a news release from the university community members are invited to offer feedback regarding the president/chancellor position at these forums: In Portales Aug. 29 at 5:00 p.m. and at noon Aug. 31, both sessions, at the Roosevelt County Chamber of Commerce conference room. The news r...
Eastern New Mexico University’s Dawg Days celebration began Saturday and continues through Monday. According to a news release by ENMU’s Todd Fuqua, Dawg Days is a way faculty and staff welcome students back to campus for fall classes that begin Tuesday. “Like everyone at Eastern, I consider Dawg Days my favorite event of the year,” ENMU president Patrice Caldwell said. Caldwell considers Dawg Days more than an orientation to the campus. Caldwell said it’s when new students join the Greyhound family and meet the faculty,...
“Dare we hope?” That was the rather plaintive response of a man on Twitter when news broke that Kansas voters had rejected an attempt to remove the right to abortion from their state constitution. We are talking about a fire-engine-red state. It went for Donald Trump in 2016 and repeated the error in 2020. In fact, Kansas has supported only one Democratic presidential candidate -- Lyndon Johnson -- in over 80 years. Yet, that same Kansas just voted to preserve abortion rig...
Our nation’s efforts to secure the release of WNBA star Brittney Griner from Russian prison demonstrate how conflicted we are on the enforcement of cannabis laws. It was announced recently that the United States has agreed to release Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, better known as “the merchant of death,” in exchange for Griner and retired U.S. Marine Paul Whelan, who has been in Russian prison since 2020, serving a 16-year sentence on trumped-up espionage charges. Russia has rejected that offer, demanding that we add Vadim...
I’m a lucky American. Thanks to my wife Colleen’s job as a travel agent, in the last two weeks I’ve been to Europe and back. I was able to tag along with Colleen, as I often do, when she took a group of tourists to France’s Bordeaux wine country. While I was gone things looked like they were starting to improve a little at home. The Biden administration was still doing its best to cripple the economy, bankrupt the federal government and destroy our energy industry with th...
I saw this meme on the ’net the other day: “The rule of law, like Santa Claus, is a myth. It is only real when people believe in it.” For several years now, it has become fashionable for electronic news media to describe some event they are covering as a “bombshell.” Last Monday, the news being discussed turned out to be exactly that. The FBI raided the Mar-a-Logo home of former President Donald Trump. Whatever you may think about this event, it is certainly unprecede...
Every dog has his day, and apparently so does every miserably inadequate president. Joe Biden, who has been out-of-touch, tone-deaf and disturbingly incompetent from the outset of his presidency, suddenly has the “Big Mojo,” or at least the “Moderate-Sized This-Isn’t-Quite-the Legislative-Debacle-We-Expected Mojo.” The climate and health care spending deal forged by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and longtime Democratic holdout Joe Manchin has revived talk in the media...
Texas gubernatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke, a Democrat, made national headlines last week for cursing at a heckler. Video of the exchange racked up more than 5 million views on Twitter within 24 hours. It was one of those mic-dropping moments that brought some Democrats out of their chairs, fists pumping. (Who doesn’t love a well-timed F bomb?) And it further enraged some Republicans, who are certain O’Rourke intends to do everything in his power to remove AR-15 and AK-47 rifles from the hands of law-abiding citizens if he i...
The first words that come to people when you mention Amelia "Amy" Armenta are usually "kind," then "cheerful" and "helpful." Armenta, who died on July 8 at age 86, was an artist, a teacher and a person who was willing to help in any way necessary, according to those who knew her. Even those who said they did not know her well knew these basics about her. "Her legacy is going to be wonderful," said Lee Ellen Phipps, who participated in craft classes that Armenta taught. "She wa...
PORTALES -- The Portales City Council voted Tuesday to postpone consideration of a proposal to increase the water, sewer and garbage rates across the board for all residential, commercial and industrial users. The proposed rate would increase the cost of residential water inside the city borders for the first 2,000 gallons by 30 percent every year for a period of the next five years, as stated in the city proposed rate schedule chart. Council member Michael James Lucero led off the lengthy discussion saying he was “kind of i...
What seems to be a new standard nationwide in school safety will be enforced in Clovis Municipal Schools with the new school year. “Classroom doors closed and locked when students are present,” said Loran Hill, CMS’ senior director of operations. And one entry point will remain the rule for many schools, including locally. “For several years we’ve had a policy in place of only one point of entry at each school,” Hill said. Hill said all 18 CMS sites have a secure vestibule as an entryway. “In no Clovis school may you walk pas...
Longtime Clovis Mayor David Lansford and longtime Clovis-Portales District Attorney Andrea Reeb are seeking the New Mexico House District 64 seat open with Randal Crowder’s retirement. Lansford is running as an Independent, Reeb as a Republican. This is the second in a series of Q&As with both. Candidates were asked to limit answers to 150 words. Absentee and early in-person voting for the general election is set to begin Oct. 11. Election Day is Nov. 8. Andrea Reeb Q: I realize these are complex issues, but in 150 words o...
