Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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FOOTBALL Prep summary Farwell 49, Sundown 0 Sundown 0 0 0 0 — 0 Farwell 0 21 7 21 — 49 Scoring summary Second quarter F — Corey Stancell 1 run (Joe Crume pass from Alec Actkinson), 7:49 F — Walker Williams 15 pass from Actkinson (Jackson Wilbourn kick), 6:39 F — Actkinson 13 run (pass failed), 2:29 Third quarter F — Stancell 11 run (Wilbourn kick), 8:38 Fourth quarter F — Adrian Nunez 24 pass from Actkinson (Wilbourn kick), 11:53 F — Stancell 11 run (Wilbourn kick), 9:17 F — Fabian Lozano 11 run (Wilbourn kick), 3:09 Recor...
Scholastic assessment scores for the state of New Mexico show Clovis schools near the average mark for student proficiency in multiple subjects while Portales schools show slightly above-average proficiencies. Clovis schools' weakest subject matter was math with a 23% proficiency rate while Portales schools' weakest area was early literacy. The test results for the 2021-22 school year were released at the beginning of the month by the Public Education Department. The scores measure the proficiency of students in English...
Clovis Community College Board of Trustees voting districts will mirror those for Clovis Municipal Schools, the college board decided on Wednesday by choosing a redistricting plan that mirrors the CMS districting. The board made its decision at a regular meeting after reviewing the plan as the most favored option in August. The plan chosen was one of five offered to the board in May and hearings on the options were held in June. Research and Polling, an Albuquerque firm, was chosen to develop the options. The board on...
Built in 1914 as a hospital, the landmark building at 800 Hinkle Street in Clovis has once again changed ownership. Originally built as the Santa Fe Hospital, the three story building was sold in 1949 to the Central Baptist Church, which owned it until 1993, when the Clovis Christian School bought the property. On Wednesday, two families – the Garcia families-bought the property to house their church, Iglesia Renacer, said Edgar Garcia, the buyer's agent, assistant pastor a...
Texico resident Pamela Desmond Wright has signed a new six book deal with Harlequin for two "Love Inspired Amish" romance series: Texas Amish Brides and Humble Blessings. "Love Inspired" is a series of books about Christian romance, Wright said. The idea to write Amish romance novels stems entirely from her imagination as she has never lived in an Amish community nor met anyone Amish, she said. After writing for some time, she "purchased a batch of Harlequin titles off eBay...
Booked The following were booked into local jails (Tuesday - Friday): Clovis • Roseanna Ortega, 43, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge • Jasmine Villarreal, 25, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge • Brad Ramos, 24, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge • Dillon Coate, 28, probation violation • Charity Kelly, 35, probation violation • Gilbert Valdiviezo, 18, resisting, evading or obstructing an officer • Ruby Nguyen, 33, out of state fugitive • Ethan Beltran, 26, indecent exposure, concealing identity • Jerr...
The Curry County Commission held a special session Wednesday, the main purpose was the annual routine action to issue instructions to County Assessor Candace London on tax rates received by the county Sept. 1. from Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham and state Finance and Administration Secretary Deborah Romero. The action item was approved unanimously by the commissioners. After the special session London said the imposition of the rates was very routine and the rates “were not anything that was unexpected.” “The only thing...
On this date… 1972: The Roosevelt County Fairgrounds was bustling with folks entering exhibits for the annual county fair. County home agent Sheryl Borden said a last-minute ruling to only allow pint-sized jars in the canning competition had caused a bit of an upset with local homemakers, but she reported that the entries of “fancy work, ceramics, and other crafts” had more than doubled from the previous year and had already overflowed the exhibit space. Jack Patton was at th...
Clovis Monday: Breakfast: Mini strawberry bagel. Lunch: Spaghetti and meatballs, garden salad, ranch dressing, chilled fresh fruit, whole wheat roll or (grades 6 to 12) spicy chicken sandwich or cheeseburger with fries. Tuesday: Breakfast: Mini panake bites Lunch: Hot dog on a bun, seasoned fries, veggie cup, ranch dressing, chilled pears or (grades 6 to 12) pizza or or corn dog or fries.. Wednesday: Breakfast: Breakfast bowl. Lunch: Steak fingers, mashed potatoes and gravy, seasoned green beans, chilled fresh fruit, whole...
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 cloviscarverpl.booksys.net/opac/ccpl or call 575-769-7840 to request a specific item for curbside pickup. “Bloomsbury Girls” by Natalie Jenner. Bloomsbury Books is an old-fashioned new and rare bookstore that has persisted and resisted change for a hundred years, run by men and guided by the general manager’s unbreakable fifty-one rules. But in 1950,...
Country life is hard, rough and tumble, then Youtube bans your channel. My latest binge-watch on Youtube was about a ranching family with like nine children from age 16 down to 2. The ranch house was something like 17 miles off the pavement and the ranch itself was bordered with or nearby the famed Area 51 where the government is supposedly hiding alien beings and testing alien aircraft and the like. At the turnoff to the ranch was a famed “black mailbox” where Area 51 fan...
For two years, Mindy Turner has been the program director and the family and consumer sciences agent at New Mexico State University's Agricultural Cooperative Extension office in Clovis, but her career with the extension service goes back 20 years. In fact, her first job after graduating from Texas Tech University with a bachelor's degree in Human Development and Family Studies was with an extension service in Texas. She never left extension service work even as she earned a...
Curry Residents Senior Meals Association 901 W. 13th St. Clovis Monday: Beef and bean chalupa, cheese, green chile, salad, Spanish rice, fruit cocktail. Tuesday: Chicken fajitas, Spanish rice, pinto beans, ice cream. Wednesday: Meat lasagna, Italian vegetables, garlic bread, cake. Thursday: Barbecued pork sandwich, pasta salad, baked beans, cookie. 3 p.m. Board meeting. Friday: Pinto beans with ham, fried potatoes, corn bread, pudding. Friendship Senior Center 901 W. 13th St., Clovis 575-769-7908 Monday: 9 a.m. Exercise class...
A Clovis Police Department report gives a look inside a drive-by shooting incident that took place Labor Day evening on the city’s west side. The shooting happened around 8:35 p.m. Monday in the 900 block of Mora Street and shortly several Clovis police officers were on the scene. Officer Jesus Sarabia walked up to a group of people standing near a red pickup truck. Sarabia asked if everyone was okay and he was told they were, according to his report. Sarabia said the victim in the incident, a juvenile, was visibly shaken up...
Some Clovis and Portales residents knew Mary Ruth (White) Burns as a historian. Some knew her as a teacher who could teach young students in fluent Spanish as well as English. Her two sons – one a retired engineer, the other, a businessman – knew her as a "very dynamic" woman "interested in everything," including science and animals. Burns, who was best known as Ruth White Burns, died on Aug. 29 at 93 years of age. She spent most of the 1950s and 1960s raising her sons and...
LONDON - Queen Elizabeth II, whose reign took Britain from the age of steam to the era of the smartphone, and who oversaw the largely peaceful breakup of an empire that once spanned the globe, has died. She was 96. She died peacefully at her estate in Balmoral, Scotland, on Thursday afternoon, according to a statement from Buckingham Palace. Ascending the throne in 1952, Elizabeth led the U.K. through a time of political upheaval. She began her reign as head of an empire,...
My parents started a college fund for me when I was still in my mother’s womb. When I was a little kid, anytime I got money in a birthday or Christmas card, some would go into the college fund. When I graduated from high school, I still didn’t know what I wanted to be. But I had no doubt as to how I would spend the next four years. My dad was like so many others of that era who served in World War II then went to college on the GI Bill. The prevailing thinking at that time was, the best way to get off the farm or out of the...
MAGA Republicans think Joe Biden is being mean to them. You read that right. Followers of Donald Trump, a man who denigrates his rivals as SOBs, sickos, dummies, losers, wackos and scum, a man who has accused Biden of corruption and cognitive decline, say they are affronted at the way Biden has treated them. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy even demanded an apology after Biden said MAGA Republicans embrace “semi-fascism.” Then came a fiery speech from Independence Hall in...
I’ve been called a lot of things in my life, some of them endearing, most of them not. When Barack Obama referred to conservatives like me as people who cling to our guns and religion, I was offended. Later, when Hillary Clinton called conservatives who weren’t going to vote for her a “basket of deplorables,” it looked as if another Democrat was employing crude, awkward rhetoric to gin up her base. It had the opposite effect, which helped put another guy in office who wasn’t...
John Fetterman has been in elected politics for nearly 20 years, and last spring was on the cusp of taking the Democratic nomination in a very winnable Pennsylvania senate race, the political opportunity of a lifetime. Then, he suffered a stroke. He won the nomination anyway -- while in the hospital and on the same day he had a roughly three-hour operation to implant a defibrillator. For Fetterman to have experienced a life-threatening, debilitating health event as he closed...
There’s a scene in the movie “I, Robot” where a robot-hating police officer, played by Will Smith, is questioning the manufacturer of a robot suspected of murdering a human. The conversation gets testy, and the robot maker, played by Bruce Greenwood, looks Smith in the eye and says, “I suppose your father lost his job to a robot. I don’t know, maybe you would have simply banned the internet to keep the libraries open.” Art imitating life? To a degree, yes. Automation, artificial intelligence and robots are costing people thei...
The United States left Vietnam in April 1975. We lost more than 58,000 Americans in that war. Most Viet vets are getting a little long in the tooth now, with the youngest ones in their 70s. That war is another story for another day. Today marks the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, commonly known as 9/11. These attacks consisted of four coordinated suicide terrorist attacks carried out by the militant Islamic extremist network al-Qaeda against the United States, and...
Elida Schools and Margie Plummer, manager of the Roosevelt and Curry County farmer’s markets and business manager for Floyd Municipal Schools, will receive top awards this month in a statewide Golden Chile Awards Program. The awards are recognition for connecting students to locally grown food through meals and educational activities. The awards program recognizes farmers, school districts, senior centers and preschools in a four-tiered recognition program – Seed, Sprout, Blossom and Golden Chile -- designed to acknowledge al...
Pat Grah cried most of Thursday. She loved the queen. "I'm devastated," Grah said Friday from her store, Penny Lane, on Clovis' Main Street. "I cried all yesterday. I'm stunned and shaken. It doesn't seem real." Grah, from Sunderland on the northeast coast of England about 50 or 60 miles from Scotland, has been in the U.S. since 1973, in Clovis since 1984. She remained visibly upset Friday when asked about the passing of Queen Elizabeth II, who died Thursday at age 96....
A Sept. 11 observance is set for 4 p.m. Sunday in Clovis. Curry County Manager Lance Pyle mentioned the event as the Curry County Commission special session was wrapping up Wednesday. Pyle said the Clovis observance is part of a nationwide effort to commemorate the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. “Curry County Youth Services is partnering with Global Youth Justice Inc. to host 1 of 75 official public memorials across the country,” Pyle said. Pyle said this is the second annual “9/11 Day Flag of Honor Across America Memor...
