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CLOVIS — A political rally planned for Clovis on Saturday has garnered national attention, with local conservatives involved saying concerns from the left are overblown. A flyer for the rally, scheduled from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at 2420 Ashford, implores New Mexico voters to unite for a legal and peaceful protest and notes a special tribute is planned to New Mexico law enforcement and the New Mexico Civil Guard. Three local legislators — Sen. Pat Woods, R-Broadview, and Reps. Randy Crowder and Martin Zamora, both R-Clovis — a...
ESPANOLA — Clovis-area District Attorney Andrea Reeb will act as a special prosecutor in cases against the Rio Arriba sheriff and undersheriff in the First Judicial District. Sheriff James Lujan, 59, is facing charges of bribery of a witness and harboring or aiding a felon. Undersheriff Martin Trujillo, 53, is facing a charge of criminal solicitation to commit assisting in the assault upon a peace officer. The Northern New Mexico Independent reported Trujillo turned himself in on the charge Friday evening. According to c...
SANTA FE — State officials said last week that New Mexico is showing positive signs against the COVID-19 pandemic, but noted the next few weeks will be key in allowing schools to return to face-to-face instruction. Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Thursday announced no changes to the current public health orders, following a generally positive round of news on new infections. The state announced 177 new cases Thursday, including six in Curry County and two in Roosevelt County. On Friday, the state announced 175 new cases, w...
Curry Resident Senior Meals Association 901 W. 13th St., Clovis 575-762-9405 All meals served with 2% milk and tossed salad w/dressing Monday: Cheeseburger, lettuce, tomatoes, & onions, baked beans, potato salad, fruit salad Tuesday: Chicken alfredo over noodles, mixed vegetables, garlic toast, tapioca pudding, Wednesday: Chile relleno, Spanish rice, pinto beans, chips & salsa, fruit Thursday: Roast pork w/pork gravy, sweet potatoes, black-eye peas, cornbread w/margarine, applesauce Friday: Fried catfish or chicken strips, ro...
Editor’s note: New Mexico public schools are not offering in-person instruction until Sept. 8 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. All items are for to-go service only, with meal information from school websites. Clovis schools Monday: Breakfast, blueberry muffin, milk; Lunch, oven roasted drumstick, mashed potatoes and gravy, steamed broccoli, fresh orange, whole wheat roll, fresh vegetables, milk. Tuesday: Breakfast, banana bread, milk; Lunch, soft tacos, lettuce/tomato, Spanish rice, salsa, seasoned pinto beans, chillled mixed fr...
The following books are available for checkout at the Clovis-Carver Public Library: “One Fatal Flaw” by Anna Perry. When a desperate woman comes to Daniel Pitt seeking a lawyer for her boyfriend, Rob Adwell, Daniel is convinced of the young man's innocence. Adwell has been accused of murder and of setting a fire to conceal the body. Daniel is sure that science can absolve him-and Miriam Ford Croft is the best scientist he knows. However, Adwell's case seems to be linked to a larger plot for revenge, with victims acc...
Information on using a budget kit workbook, the DASH diet, and using dominoes to create some unusual crafts will be the featured topics on “Creative Living” 9:30 p.m. Tuesday and noon Thursday (all times Mountain). udget counselor, coach and author Judy Lawrence says that “modern overload” is making it difficult to manage spending. Pre-retirement is often a wake-up call for setting up a budget. Lawrence will explain her Budget Kit Workbook for the 21st century. She lives in Al...
I wonder what exactly it would take to become a YouTube sensation. The closest we have to that around here is Betty Williamson and she hasn’t posted anything on YouTube or TikTok as far as I know. She does have quite a following on Facebook, though, and she never has to do anything crazy on camera in a bikini. I don’t think she’s monetizing her following though, at least not like some of these online sensations. In this time of pandemic with all of us putting in a lot of sc...
Homeschooling is not a cookie-cutter, one-size-fits-all type of world, according to a handful of local homeschooling parents. "There are going to be times where you need to put the schoolbooks down and just sit and read a book together out loud,"said Gina Swafford Prather of Bovina, who previously headed a homeschool theater group in Clovis that put on productions including "Our Town," "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown," and "Peter Pan." "My daughter was 9 before she started...
CLOVIS — While they may not be having a graduation ceremony for a while, students are still getting their degrees finished at Clovis Community College. President Charles Nwankwo reported their successes during Wednesday's board of trustees virtual meeting. The college, Nwankwo said, has awarded 41 degrees, along with 10 certificates of completion and one certificate of achievement for the summer semester. Should they want to participate, Nwankwo said, those students can walk during the Dec. 11 commencement at the Curry County...
Like nearly all of us, Chelsea Starr may not have been around when women received the right to vote 100 years ago. But the associate professor of sociology at Eastern New Mexico University studies social movements and can compare it to modern-day examples. “The attacks on suffragists are eerily similar to modern attacks on feminists,” Starr said. “Voting was cast as ‘unfeminine’ and men were seen as being emasculated should women get the vote.” This year marks the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment which gave women...
Council step toward destroying liberty Please feel free to add my name or message to the list of protesters about the Governor’s Council for Racial Justice. Nothing personal directed toward this area’s appointee. I’m sure she is a decent person. However, her position and this council represent the ruin of a truly civil society. Be nice to her but let her know that her duties are not welcome. We do not need the scrutiny of a fatuous but dangerous government. This is what her position is. This is what the Marxists use to destr...
I've been pretty lucky in the name department. With the exception of that brief period when I hated the fact that “Christine” became a symbol for women who couldn't keep their hair out of their faces and whispered before Congress about an alleged assault no one else could remember, I've never been ashamed to, as Beyonce sang, say my name. That's why I feel so bad for women named Karen. It's a lovely name, and I have some equally lovely female friends who share it. There is...
QAnon is getting its first congresswoman. Marjorie Taylor Greene won a runoff in a Republican primary Tuesday, all but assuring her victory in November in a heavily GOP district. She is thus set to become the highest officeholder in the land who takes seriously the lunatic theories of QAnon, the anonymous internet poster who says, among other ludicrous and poisonous things, that there’s a global network of pedophiles about to be exposed and undone by President Donald Trump. G...
I was jealous of my wife a couple of years ago. Our son’s sophomore English class read Ray Bradbury’s cautionary novel “Fahrenheit 451” and she found the time to read along. My writing deadlines and regimen of prioritizing news and nonfiction books blocked me from making it a family affair. But Saturday marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Bradbury (who passed away in 2012), so I’ve been doing the best I can to prepare to pay tribute to the author whose haunting short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” remains one o...
It’s the opening of fire season in California. But the biggest threat to the people of the state right now is Gov. Gavin Newsom and his shifting rules about closing businesses and schools to fight the coronavirus. Until last week, things were starting to look up out here, pandemic-wise. Los Angeles County, where I live, has been the worst hit county in the state, by far, with 5,112 of its 10,813 COVID-19 deaths. As in every other state between here and Boston, the already v...
We’ve seen some eye-opening comments aimed at our presidential candidates, especially in the past few weeks. A few seconds on Facebook reveals: “I don’t think someone that had sex with a porn star days after his fifth child was born to his third wife should call anyone nasty.” And … “No true born-again Christian can support the Democrat Party and claim to live by the Word of God.” Now comes information that will really drop some jaws: A recent poll by the Cato Institute tells us 62% of Americans say the political cli...
On this date ... 1980: Students were preparing to start classes at Eastern New Mexico University's Clovis branch. Ted Jacobs was teaching a mid-management program, which he said had recently received “computerized cash registers.” Jacobs said the classes tried to stay ahead of technology with the latest equipment. Classes were scheduled to begin on Aug. 25. Pages Past is compiled by David Stevens. Contact: [email protected]...
For Portales' Jim Warnica, the end of World War II was another day on the job. “I don't think I ever saw much celebrating. You just kind of accepted what was going on and went about your business,” said Warnica, who was 19 when Japan announced it would surrender 75 years ago, on Aug. 15, 1945. Warnica, now 94, said he was stationed on a ship in the western Pacific during WWII. When the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on Japan, Warnica was in the Philippines with his unit getting some rest. “We had just come back from Okina...
CLOVIS — A Clovis man on Thursday admitted his role in a brutal attack last September at the former Dirty Curry Creations, and pleaded to associated charges. Angelo Lopez, 19, was booked into the Curry County Adult Detention Center following a plea agreement hearing in district court. Under the agreement, Lopez pleaded to counts of aggravated burglary, attempted armed robbery and aggravated battery and agreed to name two other participants in the attack. Lopez was sentenced to 15 years and required to pay restitution to S...
Wednesday • “ENMU College Daze Rodeo 2019 Finals” — 2-5 p.m., ENMU Reads Facebook page. Video recap of the Sept. 21 performance of the largest college rodeo in the southwest. Information: http://www.facebook.com/ENMUReads/ Thursday • Free preschool screening clinic — 9-11:30 a.m., San Jon Municipal Schools, Seventh Street, San Jon. Sponsored by Regional Education Cooperative #6 and open to children ages birth to 5 in the San Jon school district. Information or to make appointment: Stacy Kent at San Jon Schools at 575-576-2466...
Meetings are subject to change due to coronavirus concerns Tuesday • Curry County Commission — 9 a.m., via Zoom. Information: https://www.currycounty.org/open-government/meeting-portal or 575-763-6016 • City of Clovis Revenue Review Committee — 5:15 p.m., North Annex, Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main, Clovis. Information: 575-763-9654 • Portales City Council — 6:30 p.m., auditorium, Memorial Building, 200 E. Seventh St., Portales. Covid-19 social distancing and face covering restrictions will apply. Information...
PORTALES — Eastern New Mexico University's board of regents on Wednesday met for just over an hour in a special meeting called to update policy and show support for a bond in the upcoming general election. Both agenda items passed 4-0, with Student Regent Joseph Gergel not attending the telephonic meeting. The resolution encourages New Mexicans, particularly in Roosevelt, Chaves and Lincoln counties, to vote in the Nov. 3 election and that it supports Bond C. An approval of the recurring bond in the November election would p...
CLOVIS - The next few weeks are going to be tough on the staff and teachers at Clovis High School. And every other school in the Clovis system that opens virtually on Monday. And pretty much every school in the state. But CHS teachers head into Monday realizing for every issue they have, students and their families will be hard-pressed to make the adjustment to opening a school year online as the COVID-19 pandemic continues. Melinda Isaacs, a sophomore English teacher, told...
CLOVIS — For reasons that began with the cancellation of the Curry County Fair, a livestock sale that took place Friday night was not the annual Curry County Junior Livestock Sale. By any name, though, the Friday night sale set what would be considered a record with a haul of $400,000 at Traci’s Greenhouse. The 2019 and 2018 Curry County Junior Livestock sales each generated about $300,000. Clay Franklin, the youth livestock sale committee president, credited the community for its overall support in abnormal cir...
