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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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FOOTBALL Prep summaries Friday El Paso Ysleta 34, Clovis 33 Ysleta 13 7 7 7 — 34 Clovis 20 7 0 6 — 33 Scoring summary First quarter C — Angel Chavarria 1 run (Amaleki Cox kick), 6:00. Drive: 9 plays/69 yards/3:06 Y — Gavin Espino 77 kickoff return (Isaac Ortega kick), 5:49 C — R.J. Nora 44 pass from Milo Acosta (Cox kick), 3:56. Drive: 4 plays/67 yards/1:58 Y — Espino 61 pass from Damian Contreras (kick failed), 3:26. Drive: 2 plays/55 yards/:30 C — Nora 78 pass from Acosta (kick failed), 1:08. Drive: 2 plays/78 yards/:50 Sec...
CLOVIS — A 4-year-old boy who was airlifted to Lubbock on Tuesday night for a gunshot wound died early Wednesday morning. Curry County Sheriff Wesley Waller told The News his office was informed Barrett Story of Clovis died at 1:41 a.m. CDT. The Air Force told Waller’s office it had a peer group and family with the child’s father. Officials disclosed Tuesday that one of the boy’s parents was in the Air Force. About noon Tuesday, sheriff’s deputies and the Clovis Fire Department responded to 1051 N.M. 311 regarding a report...
CLOVIS - Two prosecutors, a former district attorney and an attorney for the Ninth Judicial District were recommended Wednesday to fill the district's vacant judge position. Jake Boazman, Brett Carter, Ben Cross and Brian Stover had their names forwarded to Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham following a day-long process that included 30-minute interviews with nine applicants and an hour-long deliberation session. The governor will have 30 days to fill the seat, which has been vacant...
CLOVIS — A former airman at Cannon Air Force Base was arrested Wednesday in connection with a May 29 crash at an apartment building that left its occupant dead. Gillian Sweeney, 74, was in her bedroom at the time of the crash on the 3400 block of Lore Street. Mathew Delaware, 22, of Cannon, was booked into the Curry County Adult Detention Center on Wednesday afternoon. He faces a charge of homicide by vehicle, a third-degree felony. Jason Sweeney, Gillian's son, said some portion of closure was delivered with the news Wednesd...
New Mexico Department of Health Secretary David Scrase said Wednesday during a COVID-19 update that New Mexico hospitals could reach a crisis in standards of care this week. According to the state’s Crisis Standards of Care Plan posted at the DOH’s website, “A pandemic or catastrophic emergency may strain medical and aligned resources and thereby require a shift in care from that which was previously focused on the individual patient to that which is focused on doing the most good for the greatest number.” The goal would b...
CLOVIS — The Clovis Public Works Committee on Wednesday approved the department’s recommendations for $700,000 in residential street paving for this year’s budget. Public Works Director Clint Bunch and Mayor Pro Tem Chris Bryant told The News the department identified the following streets in most need of repaving: • Lakeview from Fairway Terrace North to Colonial Parkway • Fifth Street, between Prince and Axtell • Beta Street between Seventh and Debra • Lore Street from Mañana Boulevard to Echols. Bunch also referenced a ...
The books listed below are now available for checkout at the Clovis-Carver Public Library. The library is open to the public, but patrons can still visit the online catalog at clovis.polarislibrary.com or call 575-769-7840 to request a specific item for curbside pickup. “Arctic Storm Rising” by Dale Brown. After a CIA covert mission goes badly awry, officer Nicholas Flynn is exiled to guard a remote radar post along Alaska's Arctic frontier. As winter storms pound Alaska and northern Canada, Russian aircraft begin pen...
Clovis schools Monday: Breakfast, sausage biscuit; lunch, chicken tenders, mashed potatoes, gravy, seasoned corn, chilled mixed fruit, whole wheat roll Tuesday: Manager’s choice Wednesday: N/A Thursday: N/A Friday: N/A Portales elementary Monday: Breakfast, ultimate breakfast round, fruit cups, juice, milk; Lunch, chicken quesadilla, refried beans, salad w/tomato, mixed fruit, milk Tuesday: Breakfast, morning roll, applesauce, juice, milk; Lunch, pizza, broccoli, carrots, peaches, milk Wednesday: N/A Thursday: N/A Friday: N...
Curry Resident Senior Meals Association 901 W. 13th St. 575-762-9405 Monday: BBQ riblet, tater tots, pickles, onion, Jell-O with fruit Tuesday: Sweet and sour pork, oriental vegetables, egg roll, fortune cookie, ice cream Wednesday: N/A Thursday: N/A Friday: N/A Friendship Senior Center 901 W. 13th St. 575-769-7908 Monday: 9 a.m. exercise class, 1:30 p.m. plastic canvas class Tuesday: 9 a.m. dance 2 fitness, 1:30 p.m. adults w/disabilities bingo, 6 p.m. virtual bingo Wednesday: 8:30 a.m. exercise, 9 a.m. sew days, 1 p.m...
Information on teaching children to sew and cooking meals for vegetarians will be the featured topics on “Creative Living” 9:30 p.m. Tuesday and noon Thursday (all times Mountain). arina Gardner is the Creative Director and Designer for Carina Gardner, Inc. and Carta Bella Paper Co. She’s going to show how to teach children to sew by using the Bella Stash Bag pattern she created. She’ll also show how to make the bag without a pattern. She covers all the basics of sewing...
A little more moisture than usual and things that scurry, wiggle, squirm and croak go crazy. I love the noise the toads make when they sing after a rain, but it can be a little unnerving when one lone bullfrog sets in to croaking nearby. Apparently, there are more actual bullfrogs inhabiting our area. I’m not sure where they hang out when there aren’t puddles everywhere. My sister commented on recently watching the car headlights shining on a large puddle and seeing the eyes a...
Bradley H. Barton is a Clovis resident new to the area. But while he's only lived in Clovis since last year, he's no stranger to small-town living. Barton grew up in Alton, Utah, and spent much of his childhood working on his family's cattle ranches in southern Utah and northern Arizona. He attended Southern Utah University in Cedar City, Utah. After graduating, Barton spent several years traveling the world and lived in Saudi Arabia for two years. Upon his return to the...
There are no federal or statewide races to be determined in the Nov. 2 general election, but by no means will there be an empty ballot. Seven area school board races will be contested, with two four-person races, following Tuesday’s filing day at the Curry and Roosevelt clerk’s offices. Three of the members of the currently suspended Floyd School Board are running for their positions, with only one running unopposed. Vicki Banister is running unopposed for Position 1, while Jeff Essary will run against Kenneth Reid for Pos...
By Milan Simonich The Santa Fe New Mexican Jeff Essary and the other four school board members in the small village of Floyd are suspended by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s administration. The board rebelled against state public health orders intended to blunt the spread of COVID-19. The last two weeks Essary has spent as a patient in Roosevelt General Hospital in Portales. He is being treated for COVID-19 and a related case of pneumonia. Essary said in a Thursday interview, he feared for his life, even as he continues to c...
He said many profound things that day. He said America had given African Americans “a bad check.” He said he had come to remind the nation of “the fierce urgency of now.” He said we might hew “out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope.” He said, “I have a dream.” But as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s spiritual heirs prepared to commemorate his great oration and the 1963 March on Washington on their 58th anniversary Saturday, a case can be made that the words most appropriat...
This month, the United States joined a long list of nations that have tried and failed to rule Afghanistan. The Soviet Union came immediately before us. Their adventures in Afghanistan left them vulnerable to the collapse of the Soviet empire that was to follow. The British, Sikhs, Persians, Mongols and Greeks all suffered the same fate, dating back to Alexander the Great and Genghis Khan. The fact that our 20-year effort in Afghanistan was no more successful than all the great empires before us should not be surprising....
Last summer, I spent a few days standing in front of the Columbus statue at Marconi Plaza in South Philly. I wasn’t alone. A lot of good folk were there around me, laughing and singing and eating Wawa hoagies. We were there to show solidarity with the Italian American community of the city, since most of us were card-carrying members. We wanted to show our support and create a human line of defense against a mayor and the woke jokes in his administration who wanted to erase o...
Poor Ron Klain. It’s not a good sign when a White House chief of staff to a Democratic president wants to re-tweet favorable news coverage and all he can find is the least credible and most slavishly loyal commentators on the internet. The Afghanistan fiasco has created that most disorienting and discomfiting experience for a progressive administration -- a serious bout of critical media coverage immune to White House spin and determined to tell the unvarnished story of an o...
We all have a little Jeff Essary in us — stubborn, determined, independent, maybe irresponsible sometimes, but focused on what we believe matters and willing to fight for freedom when we think it's under fire. Even those of us who don't know the man — we only know the Facebook legend — were relieved late last week to see he's feeling better after a frightening struggle with COVID-19. Essary is vice president of the Floyd school board that made national headlines for refusing to implement COVID-safe practices mandated by Ne...
Those who know me well will tell you that I have defended to a fault, the leadership of the United States military. I have always maintained that, “You can’t be really stupid, and become a general or an admiral.” Further, I always believed that senior military leadership was smarter than me, better educated than me and had access to better information than me. After Aug. 15, I find myself doubting all these assumptions. Forty odd years ago on Dec. 24, 1979, the Soviet Army...
A trio of local road projects are receiving more than $7.2 million from a statewide pool of about $167.8 million from the New Mexico Department of Transportation. A total of around 115 projects were tabbed for approval with the DOT’s Transportation Project Funds, according to a list sent to The News by Rep. Randy Crowder, R-Clovis. The projects require a 5% match from the entities. • Clovis will receive $5.9 million for the third phase of its Seventh Street renovations. City Manager Justin Howalt said the third phase wil...
CLOVIS — The city of Clovis is seeking survey responses to help determine future renovations for the Goodwin Lake Walking Trails Park. The survey is available online at forms.gle/9Rvnw6GF1uBqbTi46 The survey will be open for responses from Clovis residents and surrounding community members until 5 p.m. Sept. 15. Information: 575-769-7828....
Curry and Roosevelt counties continue to see an increase in COVID-19 cases and Friday marked the most new cases in a day since Jan. 1 in Curry County. The state’s Department of Health reported Curry County had 55 new virus cases on Friday, bumping the number of new cases in August to 695. The county saw only 549 new cases from March through July, records show. Roosevelt County also is seeing significant increases in the virus. It has reported 272 new cases this month, compared to just 244 from March through July. “We are see...
CLOVIS — The museum serving as the legacy of former Clovis city employee Ardale “Pappy” Thornton may see new life under the umbrella of Curry County. County officials floated an idea about moving the contents of the museum at Ned Houk Park to a future county extension office at the Curry County Fairgrounds, and the reception was positive to the point officials with the city, county and High Plains Historical Foundation agreed to research how it could come to fruition. “I guess we’ve just formed a committee,” Assistant C...
PORTALES — The Portales City Council gave final approval Tuesday to an ordinance outlining cannabis establishments in city limits, following a discussion of how the city's mixed development makes a one-size-fits-all approach difficult. Discussion prior to the 7-0 vote covered about 45 minutes, half during a public hearing and half during council discussions on various amendments. City Attorney Stephen Doerr said the city could determine operation hours and distance requirements, and that's about it. “The bill itself is 172...
