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No serious injuries were reported Thursday when a Western Dairy Transport milk truck collided with a train near the intersection of U.S. 70 and South Roosevelt Road 3. Several train cars were derailed. Officials said the truck driver was treated and released from Roosevelt General Hospital. The accident happened about 4:45 p.m. near the Ready Roast Peanut plant outside Portales. New Mexico State Police Officer Robert Soule said the truck was crossing the tracks when it was...
CLOVIS — The school year is off to a fast and furious start — a little too fast and furious for residents near the new Highland Elementary campus. The president of the Sandia neighborhood watch group addressed Clovis’ public works committee Wednesday morning hoping for some type of relief. Valerie Landrith, speaking on behalf of the group that meets monthly, said traffic frequently goes through the 100 to 300 blocks of Sandia instead of making its way through the traffic light at Manana and Thornton. “We are the bypass,” Land...
PORTALES — Elida rancher Greg Smith on Wednesday pleaded not guilty to 18 felony charges and was approved for release on personal recognizance. Smith, 56, was indicted Aug. 8 on racketeering and multiple counts of fraud, embezzlement, issuing a worthless check and attempt to evade tax in connection with his time leading the Miss New Mexico Scholarship Organization from 2015 to 2018. An investigation in the past year from the attorney general’s office alleged Smith had overcharged and uncompensated pageant contestants whi...
CLOVIS — The Clovis Municipal Schools Board of Education will be asked to make revisions on board policies, including easing limitations on out-of-state school-sponsored trips, at its Tuesday evening meeting. The board previously discussed making revisions to the policy on the advice of new Superintendent Renee Russ, who felt the policy was restrictive. Under current policy, “no group sponsored by the School District and with a school employee on duty will take a trip of more than 600 miles, one way, more than once every thr...
The following books are available for checkout: Clovis-Carver Public Library “Gardentopia: Design Basics for Creating Beautiful Outdoor Spaces” by Jan Johnsen was recently donated in memory of Helen Drake. Garden lovers will be delighted with over 130 lushly illustrated landscape design and planting suggestions. Packed with loads of hands-on information, Gardentopia offers individual tips for enhancing any size landscape using “real world” solutions for the experienced gardener or landscaping novice. “The Spies of Shilling...
CLOVIS — Police last week named suspects in the armed robbery of an elderly woman who was waiting in her church’s parking lot for Sunday school to start. Arrest warrants were issued for Cherry Anaya, 43, and Jamie Vega, 36, both of Clovis, on felony charges of armed robbery, conspiracy to commit armed robbery, unlawful use or theft of an ATM or debit card and theft of identity, according to court records. Each woman is also charged with four counts of petty misdemeanor fraud. Clovis police on Monday had requested public assis...
Clovis Schools K-5 Monday: Breakfast, Bagel & cream cheese. Lunch, Corn dog, seasoned corn, mini carrots & ranch, fresh apple, veggie bar Tuesday: Breakfast, Mini cinnis. Lunch, BBQ porky rib on a bun, baked french fries, cole slaw - honey carrots, chilled fruit, veggie bar Wednesday: Breakfast, Churros. Lunch, Frito pie, garden salad & ranch, applesauce cup, fresh fruit, veggie bar Thursday: Breakfast, Banana bread. Lunch, Turkey & cheese deli sandwich, garden salad, mini carrots & ranch, chilled pineapple - veggie bar...
Baxter Curren Senior Center 908 Hickory St., Clovis Monday: 8:30 a.m. exercise class, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. 8-ball pool, 10 a.m. jewelry pals, 1 p.m. line dance, 1 p.m. canasta, 5 p.m. social night Tuesday: 8 a.m.-4 p.m. exercise equipment, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. 8-ball pool, 8 a.m. quilting, 1 p.m. pinochle, 6 p.m. musical Wednesday: 8 a.m.-4 p.m. exercise equipment, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. 8-ball pool, 8:30 a.m. exercise class, 9 a.m. sew days, 1 p.m. needle gang Thursday: 8 a.m. build your own burrito, $5, 8:45 a.m. pinochle 101, 1 p.m. bingo, 6...
Information on wardrobe planning, new uses for discarded furniture, and the “poison purse” will be the featured topics on “Creative Living” 9:30 p.m. Tuesday and noon Thursday (All times are Mountain). If you’ve ever said “But I don’t have anything to wear,” you’ll want to pay attention as Becky Johnson explains how our enemy is our wardrobe. She’s going to share some tactical tips for winning the wardrobe war. Johnson’s company is BeckyHomecky’s Life UNITS and she lives in...
It’s been a tough year on the patio farm. Every morning I’m up at sunrise and watering the plants on the patio. They’ve required a lot of water lately. As usual, I went way overboard this spring at the Kiwanis flower sale. It never looks like that many plants when I buy them, but once I get them home I always turn the garage and shed inside out looking for containers to plant them in. Most of the plants I put out were in containers. The two little flowerbeds I planted had i...
My name is Sabrina Ramos. I was born in San Antonio, Texas, but I was raised in a nearby town called Lytle. I grew up there with my twin sister, Sam, younger sister, Stefani, and my younger brother, Damian. I met my husband, Ricardo, in 2014. I thought he was pretty cool, and he smelled good. We decided to get married shortly after his enlistment in the Air Force in 2016. We were stationed in Clovis, where we have been adults ever since. Tell us about your pets: We have a...
Police officer owed personal apology Regarding last Sunday’s story about the police officer who received a pig drawing on his sandwich wrapper: Officer Timo Rosenthal and his partner for the day deserve an apology from everybody I can think of. I’ll try to list them all: myself and everybody that stood by while Marxists took over our school systems. We have allowed the ugliness of liberalism to consume the souls of our children. When I say children, I mean most people under the age of 70. Marxists / Communists / soc...
Beto O’Rourke has taken the measure of America and found it wanting. “This country, though we would like to think otherwise,” he intoned last weekend, “was founded on racism, has persisted through racism and is racist today.” This is now a mainstream sentiment in the Democratic Party. Bernie Sanders said this year that the United States was “created” in large part “on racist principles.” The New York Times has begun the so-called 1619 Project, marking the 400th anniversary...
Higher education in New Mexico has been under extreme stress due to the combined effects of the declining enrollments (declining population), the budget constraints and the “political environment” in Santa Fe. The end of the recession, the boom in oil production and the 2018 election removed several of the major stressors; New Mexico still has too many institutions of higher learning for its projected population growth. We have three PhD granting universities; four four-year universities; eight two-year independent com...
Dove season opens in California and across the U.S. on Sept. 1. For as long as I can remember, all I had to do when dove season rolled around each year was oil my 1970s-vintage shotgun, buy a case or two of shells at the nearby Big Five sports store and drive toward the Arizona border with my hunting buddies for a few happy days of shooting. But thanks to a proposition approved by 63 percent of Californians in 2016 and the leftist Democrat lawmakers in Sacramento who’ve been wrecking the state for 40 years, dove season this y...
Danny Leroux isn’t a motivational speaker by any means. He’s a journalist who writes and talks about basketball a lot, and that’s why I read his stories and listen to his podcasts. He’s not your typical NBA writer, though. He’s more the quirky guy who pays just as much attention to your favorite team’s salary cap as he does to who’s starting games. I’ve always been interested in that stuff, which is why my gym time usually features the RealGM Radio and the Dunc’d On podcasts he co-hosts. Whenever he signs off, he goes with...
If standards of beauty were to be followed, our everyday realities would look something like a poetic cliché. Our cheeks would match the tinted roses that line a garden in springtime, our skin would be as clear of imperfections and as uniform as porcelain and our appearance would never be allowed to differ from the ideal. Below its shimmering surface, however, this version of perfection is painfully unrealistic and has many obscured examples of what it truly means to have a body. Regardless of what social media would have...
PORTALES — Expanding the local cemetery, improving roads and purchasing new city vehicles will be top priority projects in 2021 for the city of Portales. The Portales City Council on Tuesday approved the 2021 to 2025 Infrastructure Capital Improvement Plan during its regular meeting. The top two priorities for 2021 were once again to make wellfield improvements ($2,200,000) and upgrading the city’s fire protection and water circulation systems ($661,000). The expansion of the Portales cemetery ($199,598) was the nex...
CLOVIS — Starting today, many of Clovis’ 350-plus employees wlll earn a little more money for the jobs they do, as the City Commission approved a 2.5% pay increase during its meeting Thursday night. The move will cost the city $502,802 over the year, with the salary increases not affecting City Manager Justin Howalt or Clovis Police Department officers. Howalt negotiates his contract with the commission, while the CPD collectively bargains and had its own 2.5% increase approved Aug. 8. Howalt said some library clerks and sea...
On this date ... 1969: A 13-year-old Clovis girl had been credited with saving the life of a 2-year-old neighbor boy. Carolyn Joyce Barnett, who lived at 509 Circle Drive, found Jody McDonald locked in a refrigerator inside a nearby vacant house, the Clovis News-Journal reported. Carolyn told police she was in her back yard when she heard a muffled yell coming from the empty house at 510 Circle Drive. She entered and found the boy locked in the refrigerator. Officials said it appeared the child had wandered away from his own...
Daily ticket prices: Adults $6 Tuesday-Thursday, $8 Friday-Saturday, Children $4, Ages 4 and younger free, Seniors free on Thursday until 2 p.m. Season passes: Adults $25, Children (5-17) $15, Youth exhibitors $5. Monday (Entry Day) • 7 a.m.-5 p.m. — All Junior Livestock, except steers and breeding beef must be on fairgrounds • 7 a.m.-5 p.m. — Weigh all swine as they are unloaded • 7 a.m.-5 p.m. — Weigh/measure/classify all lambs, goats and heifers • 8 a.m.-5:30 p.m. — All indoor exhibits must be entered • 7 a.m.-7 p.m. — M...
Tuesday • Clovis Municipal Schools board — 5:30 p.m., Board Room, CMS administration building, 1009 Main St., Clovis. Information: 575-769-4300 • Roosevelt General Hospital Board of Trustees — 5:30 p.m., Fred Anthony Conference Room, RGH, 42121 US-70, Portales. Information: 575-359-1800 Sept. 3 • Curry County Commission — 9 a.m., Commission Chambers, Curry County Administration Complex, 417 Gidding St., Clovis. Information: 575-763-6016 • City of Clovis Civil Aviation Board — 5:30 p.m., Clovis Municipal Airport Terminal Confe...
PORTALES - A week later than usual, but no less anticipated, the Roosevelt County Fair kicks off this week with carnival rides, livestock shows, antique tractors, cowboy polo and more. "We're expecting it to be a little bit bigger this year," Fair Board President Wayne McAlister said. "We moved the date a week later than normal and we think it'll mean cooler weather and all the kids will be settled into their school routines by then." McAlister said there are a few...
CLOVIS - In what has become a common scene over the last few months, a back-and-forth brewed between private investors wanting to add an outdoor taproom on Main Street, and members of nearby churches who wished and prayed the city commission wouldn't allow it. The result was familiar, too, with the commission approving the necessary variance - save Commissioner Gary Elliott's dissenting vote. Following a half-hour discussion on the damage alcohol causes versus allowing...
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