Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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The Curry County Fair is open from 4 p.m. to midnight today through Friday, and from 10 a.m. to midnight on Saturday at the Curry County fairgrounds, 1900 E. Brady Ave., Clovis. Admission: age 4 and under free; $3 for ages 5-12; $7 ages 13-59; $6 ages 60 and up; $5 military. Information and complete schedule: https://www.curryeventscenter.com/fair or 575-935-7000. Today 4 p.m. -10 p.m., Antiques show case, old house, ag building exhibits, home arts exhibits, commercial barn exhibits open. 4 p.m., Military appreciation meal...
The city of Portales last week “reduced the flow” of water it sells to its co-op customers, leading to a flurry of complaints and concerns. Portales City Manager Sarah Austin said the city made the decision Thursday to reduce the flow to one of the co-op’s three meters by about 200,000 gallons per day beginning Friday. Austin said she talked to city workers who live in the co-op area – about a five-mile radius outside Portales city limits – and all said the reduction had little impact on their routine household activitie...
On this date ... 1945: The victory over Japan as announced by President Truman was celebrated by a group of 15 young people who met at Portales’ West Side Baptist Church. The program consisted of prayers, songs and a testimony. 1946: The third annual water carnival had been scheduled at Hillcrest pool in Clovis. The carnival consisted of 37 swimming and diving competitions in four divisions. A beauty contest wrapped up the evening with 13 girls competing for a $25 prize. The swimming and diving events also offered prizes, i...
The most important things in this life are the small things. To be blind to those is the worst sort of blindness. If you’d come to our house on a recent Saturday in the midst of a very hot August, you would have noticed something large in the back yard. Rising high above the back fence, easily seen from the street in front, was a “blow up” water slide. The thing was huge, taller than our house. And it was loud. The blower fan was making its presence known, but louder still...
Ben – not his real name -- was fresh out of rehab when he hired me to come work for him at a radio station in Arizona. I know Ben was fresh out of rehab when I came to work for him because he told me when he interviewed me. “I’m fresh out of rehab,” he said. I don’t remember why he was in rehab. Booze? Gambling? Sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll? By Ben’s own admission, he had returned with a new way to look at problems. “With western European mercantile-based society, if something goes wrong we look for someone to blame and when...
PORTALES – With a relatively experienced squad on hand, it might seem reasonable for Portales High football coach Jaime Ramirez to think the Rams are headed for a stellar season. They might be, at that, but you won't get Ramirez to say as much, even with a handful of third-year starters. "I don't want to count our chickens before they hatch," said Ramirez, entering his 12th season with the program. "We coach the boys to work hard and be humble." PHS opens its 2023 campaign a...
CLOVIS Schedule August 18 – Hobbs, 7 p.m.; 24 – at Canyon, 6 p.m. September 1 – Canyon Randall, 7 p.m.; 8 – Carlsbad, 7 p.m.; 16 – at Eldorado, 1 p.m.; 22 – at Roswell High, 7 p.m.; 29 – Albuquerque High, 7 p.m.-x. October 6 – at Santa Fe High, 7 p.m.-x; 20 – at Santa Fe Capital, 7 p.m.-x; 27 – Los Lunas, 7 p.m.-x. All times Mountain. x- Denotes District 4-5A games. Roster No. Name Yr. 0 Josh Mondragon Sr. 1 Andrae Pullen So. 3 Kyrese Phillips Jr. 4 Jett Stone Sr. 5 Javi Jimenez Fr. 7 Seven Chapman Jr. 9 Kohen Matus Sr. 10...
CLOVIS – Clovis High’s football team is playing the same schedule as last season, with sites reversed. And while the Wildcats know it’s tough sledding, especially prior to District 5-6A play, they hope they’re good enough to reverse the results. CHS (3-7, 3-1 district in 2022) hosts rival Hobbs at 7 p.m. Friday in its opener at Leon Williams Stadium, trying to end a two-year drought against a team it previously dominated over the past couple of decades. The Eagles thumped Clovis 46-7 last season. Last season, the Cats we...
Half the country has no idea why the front page of Thursday’s New York Post was so hilarious. That’s because, thanks to the liberal media, half the country still has no idea who Hunter Biden is, or why he is in trouble for raking in millions for his extended family from foreign businessmen by selling access to his father Joe’s “brand” and political influence. The Post – which is famous for its funny front pages and lively conservative journalism – brilliantly summed up the...
More than 50 years ago – on Aug. 16, 1970 – the Fort Sumner State Monument was dedicated. Its focus was on the U.S. Army fort, which, according to media coverage at the time: “is best known as the residence-in-exile of thousands of Navajo Indians subdued in 1864 by Col. Kit Carson and brought to Fort Sumner after the march from their western New Mexico-eastern Arizona homeland.” While military leaders “had envisioned the post as a place where the Indians could learn the white man’s way of life and prosper in their new civiliz...
The evolution of Black Lives Matter, the election of Donald Trump, and a growing fear of immigrants have led to deep levels of resentment and hostility among a sizable segment of white Americans. Many Americans of European descent misguidedly see the nation they grew up in as infested with hordes of non-white people, threatening to resign the country as a potpourri of foreign languages, multiple religions and mass confusion. Not all white Americans harbor such deplorable...
The Food Bank of Eastern New Mexico is the recipient of one of 36 grants Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Mexico (BCBSNM)awarded recently. BCBSNM awarded more than $750,000 to the statewide nonprofits through its Blue Impact grant program. “Social and economic factors have a profound impact on achieving and maintaining good health,” Janice Torrez said. Torrez is BCBSNM president. “We’re working with organizations across the state to provide New Mexicans with greater access to the essential resources and support they need to...
Curry County’s information technology director Todd Ulses has been appointed to serve on the state Department of Information Technology’s Cybersecurity Advisory Committee. According to a Curry County news release, the Cybersecurity Advisory Committee is charged with assisting in the development of a statewide cybersecurity plan, guidelines for cybersecurity best practices, and recommendations on responding to cybersecurity threats or attacks. The committee also has authority over hiring, supervising, disciplining, and com...
The Aug. 5 Pattern Energy Back-to-School Event was declared a success by The Clovis-Curry County Chamber of Commerce and Clovis Economic Development. The sixth annual event featured a backpack giveaway with 2500 backpacks given out to students and families. Clovis’ House of Fadez gave 185 haircuts on site and presented 50 haircut vouchers to students to use in the future. Bicycles and laptops were donated by Wal-Mart and McDonald’s. The event also featured performances by the Clovis Aerial & Circus Arts, the Plateau Gam...
A Phoenix native now living in Clovis has opened a shop named Trampalina Fashion in Clovis. “It’s for the girl who likes to bounce from one outfit to another,“ owner Tonia Lockett said. Lockett described Trampalina Fashion as a store of clothes, costumes, accessories, jewelry, handbags, head pieces (which she designs) and Kentucky Derby hats. The shop, at the corner of North Prince and Texas streets in front of Walmart, opened at the beginning of August. “The shop is supposed to have a ‘boutique-y’ vibe,” Lockett said....
A large retailer is on track to open at the North Plains Mall this fall. Big R, the Pueblo, Colo. based farm and ranch retailer, plans a “soft opening” Oct. 21 according to North Plains Mall General Manager Leeann Glen. “There will be a Big R grand opening Nov. 4,” Glen said. Big R Chief Operating Officer Adam Carroll told The News via email earlier this year, “The store will occupy 42,000 square feet plus a 25,000 square foot outside display yard. The store will have 22 to 25 employees to start.” Glen shared other North...
With the fall semester near, the New Mexico Higher Education Department has launched a statewide college recruitment campaign that pushes New Mexicans to explore their college and career options. According to an HED press release, the campaign “Reach Higher New Mexico” is an online forum in which prospective students can explore local colleges and universities, along with state scholarship programs, and begin their college applications with just a click of one button. Eastern New Mexico University President James Joh...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the first non-prescription daily oral contraceptive tablet was a “win” for reproductive health care, according to Dr. Claire Herrick, clinical lead physician at Presbyterian Regional Medical Center. The tablet, known as Opill, was approved for nonprescription use by the FDA on July 13. Herrick said decreasing the hurdles of patient access to birth control is a positive step for the public to plan or avoid pregnancy. “Unintended pregnancy has lots of consequences. For (a woma...
