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SANTA FE -- The state is planning a county-based approach for a return to in-person school, with data showing more than two-thirds of New Mexico counties meet the necessary gating criteria to go face-to-face after Labor Day. Curry and Roosevelt counties do not meet the current criteria, but state officials said during a Thursday press conference there is still opportunity in the next two weeks to make progress in the COVID-19 pandemic prior to Labor Day. Education Secretary Ryan Stewart said he’s been encouraged by lower p...
PORTALES - Roosevelt County lost more than a county clerk on Sunday. With Stephanie Hicks, county officials said, they lost a friend. Stephanie Hicks McMath, who had been in the office since November 2018, was found dead at her home Sunday night, about two weeks after her 52nd birthday. County Manager Amber Hamilton told The News that Hicks McMath was one of the best county clerks in the state, if not the best. "She was so focused on her job, and always so willing to learn,"...
CLOVIS -- New Mexico State Police on Wednesday announced they’ve arrested two people in connection with an Aug. 3 high-speed chase that included shots fired at an officer. Patricio Gilman, 21, was arrested Aug. 6 on charges that included aggravated assault with a deadly weapon on a peace officer. On August 18, NMSP arrested Joseph Leyva, 24, who also faces a charge aggravated assault with a deadly weapon on a peace officer. Both men were in the Curry County jail on Thursday. According to a news release from state police: A...
SANTA FE – Restaurants and coffee shops will be allowed to offer indoor dining service at 25 percent of their capacity, effective Saturday, according to a news release from Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham. The state’s emergency public health order expires Friday and new orders will be implemented, the release said. The governor has scheduled a news conference for 3 p.m. Thursday to discuss changes. In addition to relaxing indoor dining guidelines for food and drink establishments, the new order will allow houses of worship to...
CLOVIS - To tell the story of longtime Clovis educator G.C. Ross, an average person could exhaust themselves and still admit they didn't come close to including everything that was noteworthy. Ross, who died Friday at his home at 82 following a 15-month battle with pancreatic cancer, lived a life full of service and accomplishment with a lifestyle so active doctors treating his cancer swore he had to be younger. Ross was born on Valentine's Day of 1938 in Graham, Texas, and...
MULESHOE — First-year Muleshoe coach Jason Richards is hoping his team’s performance in a scrimmage last week is an indication of things to come. Richards noted the Mules forced six turnovers while coughing up none of their own during the practice game against Olton. Muleshoe is looking to turn things around after going a combined 1-19 over the past two campaigns. “With those kind of (turnover) numbers, you’re going to win a lot of games,” Richards said as he prepares his team for Friday’s season opener at Sundown. Ot...
PORTALES - Dalton Thatcher is putting the green back on, and he hopes he can have nearly as much success at his new college as he had at his nearby high school. The 2019 Texico High School graduate, following a year at Arizona Christian, is joining the Eastern New Mexico University baseball program for the 2021 season. The 5-foot-11, 185-pound Thatcher won four state championships with the Texico program and was a two-time 3A player of the year. "I wanted to help create a...
I’ve been thinking about ordering some hats. Caps, really. Baseball-style caps. Something like those famous red ones that are emblazoned “MAGA.” But those won’t work for me. Oh, we can discuss the message, but I don’t plan to. Not here. I’m just talking about the style. The fact is, I’m not a big hat person. I sometimes wish I was. Nothing looks better than a nice cowboy hat on a guy who was made for a nice cowboy hat. But I just can’t seem to pull that look off. I’ve recen...
The Clovis High School complex at 21st and Thornton streets opened 64 years ago this week. Some things you might not know about the history of Clovis High: Clovis’ first school, which contained all 12 grades, was built in 1907 on land donated by the Santa Fe Railway. It was located at Seventh and Axtell streets, about where the Clovis Area Transit System buses are housed today. That first school, which opened in October 1907, had 13 students. By February 1908, there were 100 pupils in Clovis’ two-room schoolhouse. By 190...
SANTA FE — Coronavirus cases have surfaced at dozens of school and education sites in New Mexico this month, even without the return of traditional in-person classes, according to state records. They’ve popped up across the state, from Albuquerque to Artesia, triggering the temporary closure of school buildings, contact tracing and deep cleaning. Records published by the state Environment Department — which helps oversee rapid-response testing of employers — show schools have reported about 50 positive tests among employees a...
Booked The following were booked into local jails (Friday-Tuesday): Clovis • Lachrisa Johnson, 45, aggravated assault, contributing to the delinquency of a minor • Joshua Dodge, 29, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge, possession of a controlled substance, failure to appear on a felony charge • Jose Gonzalez, 26, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge, concealing identity, resisting, evading or obstructing an officer • David Devenport, 48, failure to pay fines • Julia Estrada, 28, driving under the influence of liquor...
Tina Dziuk, chairwoman of the Roosevelt County Republicans, said the Republican National Convention is off to an energized start. She is attending the RNC in Charlotte, North Carolina, as a national delegate and was in attendance during the roll call to re-nominate President Trump. “The roll call was great! Everyone was enthusiastic and energized to nominate President Trump and Vice President Mike Pence for their second term,” she said in a telephone interview on Monday. “Seeing the president and vice president was an unexpec...
Only one New Mexico county has made it through the pandemic without a single reported case of COVID-19. While this could be due to De Baca County’s demographics — approximately 2,300 square miles of land with 1,800 residents, and the one major municipality of Fort Sumner — there are other local theories. “There’s not very many people here so we’ve got a lot of natural distancing,” De Baca County Commission Chairman Scot Stinnett said. “We do have a lot of traffic through here since we have two major highways that join here,...
When Joe Biden began to lay out, in his Democratic remote convention acceptance speech, the “four historic crises” America is now facing, my first thought was that “Donald Trump” would be one of the four. But he wasn’t. Instead, Biden named the pandemic, the economic crisis, our great national reckoning on racism, and climate change. Trump, I suppose, is just a side show. If you missed Biden’s speech, it was either fake or great, depending on your partisan preferences. I thought it was an excellent speech, substantive and wel...
Quick, name something you really and truly believe even though you know it’s wrong. You can’t, can you? If you knew your belief was wrong, you’d change it. It’s the same for every person on Earth, no matter how different their beliefs are from yours. No matter how certain you are that they are wrong, they are just as certain your different beliefs are wrong. If they believed they were wrong they’d change their minds — even if they wouldn’t admit in public they did so. No one b...
There’s good reason why New Mexico Educational Retirement Board policies don’t give staff the authority to pick and choose stocks from market-determined index funds. Index mutual funds are generally considered ideal core portfolio holdings for retirement accounts. They provide broad market exposure, allowing investors to buy all of the S&P 500 companies at the low cost an index fund offers, rather than picking out individual stocks. They’ve been safe investments over the long term for the 60,000 active members and 50,00...
MELROSE — The State Department of Transportation is partnering with BNSF Railways for repair work today at the N.M. 267 crossing in Melrose. The work, which will require the crossing be closed to traffic, will go from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Motorists are asked to seek alternate routes and watch for workers and signage. Information: nmroads.com...
Fall forum reservations open FARMINGTON — The New Mexico Economic Development Corp. is accepting registrations for the 2020 outdoor economic fall forum, scheduled for Oct. 1-2 in Farmington. Over the course of two days, the Outdoor Recreation Division and Outdoor New Mexico will bring various state leaders, including Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham and Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., for discussions about funding mechanisms available to invest in outdoor recreation infrastructure. Marketing professionals will explore ways to a...
SANTA FE — A New Mexico Supreme Court case concerning state authority to close restaurant and businesses during a public health emergency will be streamed this afternoon. Oral arguments in Lujan Grisham v. Romero will begin at 1:30 p.m. and be available on the YouTube channel for KNME-TV at youtube.com/watch?v=cHLxhsA8Gs4 . The civil case is a petition for writ of superintending control, which means the case was fast-tracked to the Supreme Court because it was deemed to have statewide impacts and the case would reach the c...
On this date ... 1935: Portales residents had access to the first daily newspaper in the city's history. The Portales Daily News featured a front-page cartoon by Ray Jolly depicting a diaper-wearing newspaper carrier yelling “Extra!” It was printed five days per week and a subscription cost 10 cents per week. The paper had no wire service, but soon featured two regular comic strips — “Out Our Way” and “Alley Oop.” J.G. Greaves was the paper's editor and business manager. Pages Past is compiled by David Stevens. Contact: dste...
Almost 64 years ago, LaWanda Smith and her husband, Bobby, were a young couple living in Hobbs where they attended Rock Chapel Baptist Church. As Christmas approached, LaWanda remembers the church made an appeal to its members to consider taking in a child for the holidays from the New Mexico Baptist Childrens' Home in Portales. "We talked about it," LaWanda said, "and we wanted to." After a visit with administrator Dorothy Hubbard, the Smiths arrived in Portales just before...
CLOVIS — The New Mexico Department of Health will offer a Saturday drive-up COVID-19 testing at the Clovis Public Health Office. The testing will be 7:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. at the office, located at 1216 Cameo St. Anybody wishing to test is required to pre-register online at cvtestreg.nmhealth.org . People recommended for testing include: • Symptomatic people displaying the COVID-19 symptoms of fever, cough, shortness of breath, chills, repeated shaking with chills, muscle pain, headache, sore throat, congestion or runny nos...
PORTALES - It's hard to miss on the highway from Portales to Clovis. Eighteen chairs, set up together atop a small hill near the Roosevelt-Curry county line. Where are those chairs supposed to be? Who's supposed to be in those chairs? The artist, Alyssa Idsinga of Portales, said the display she and sisters April Rutter and Abigail Pritchett put up Friday is a reflection on the frustrations of the COVID-19 pandemic and impacts that include virtual school and restrictions for...
