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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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Are you ready for liberty? How ready? Few people are sufficiently ready for liberty to be willing to let go of government. At least not totally. Even while complaining about the corruption, expense, and incompetence that infects government at every level, they look for excuses to keep it around. They believe it can be fixed. I shake my head in wonder. What could they be thinking? Do they fear a free society? A society without someone else to run their life and make their...
When you ask a political operative a question, the politico will pause and run that question through some sort of filter in his head prior to answering. If you reach that person by phone, he is apt to say, “I’m in a meeting right now, but I’ll get back to you later today.” They rarely answer on the spur of the moment because the answer can come back to bite them. How many times have you heard a friend or acquaintance say, “Just once I’d like to hear a politician answer a qu...
Bad Idea of the Week: Eliminating the presidentially appointed, nine-member Base Realignment and Closure Commission and relying instead on the Department of Defense and General Accounting Office to decide which U.S. military installations will be closed or shrunk. It comes courtesy of Sens. John McCain, R-Arizona, and Jack Reed, D-Rhode Island, party leads on the powerful Senate Armed Services Committee, who are suggesting moving forward with a new BRAC but eliminating the BRAC commission. While there’s no question the m...
SILVER CITY — Lone Star Conference play started Tuesday night at the conference’s most western point. That’s also where the first win of the LSC season went, with host Western New Mexico controlling matters in a 25-21, 25-19, 25-17 sweep of Eastern New Mexico University. Kalie Lyle had a match-high 13 kills, while Alanna Watt had 12 kills to go with three aces for the Mustangs, who got their first victory in nine matches this season. Cristal Carrizoza had 20 assists and 11 digs for the Mustangs (1-8, 1-0). For the Greyh...
PORTALES — The Clovis High Wildcats scored seven second-half goals to run away from the Portales Rams 9-4 in Tuesday's boys soccer showdown in Portales. The seven goals are a new school record for a single half for the Wildcats (6-4). "On a smaller field like this — we're used to huger fields — it took us awhile to spread (Portales) out, kind of adjust," Clovis coach Greg Trujillo said. "We tried to work those overlapping runs that kind of opened up their defense and expos...
On this date ... 1977: "The biggest horse auction in the nation" was finishing a two-day run at the Clovis Livestock Market. Auction representative Herschel Caviness estimated that the 800-1,000 horses passing through the sale ring would bring more than $400,000 from buyers who had traveled from multiple states to bid on registered quarter horses, thoroughbreds, Appaloosas, and paints, as well as a large number of grade horses. 1967: A young man and two male juveniles who had...
CLOVIS — Some people choose to remember the events of Sept. 11, 2001, with quiet reflection or prayer. Members of the Clovis Fire Department decided to take their remembrance a step — or rather 2,200 stairsteps — farther. Battalion Chief Joel Gershon, Lt. Chris Elam, and firefighters Tre Alvarado and Alex Encin were among the 343 active firefighters who took part in the 9/11 Memorial Stair Climb in Denver on Monday. The 110-story climb is meant to serve as a reminder of the s...
PORTALES — The young girl hospitalized after being left in a hot car in July has been released from Lubbock’s University Medical Center. Aubrianna Loya, who turned 3 while in the hospital, was released in August and appears to have come home this week. Daycare workers Sandi Taylor, 31, and Mary Taylor, 62, are accused of leaving Aubrianna and another child in a car for about 90 minutes July 25 in Portales. Maliyah Jones, 22 months, was pronounced dead on arrival at Roosevelt General Hospital that afternoon, when tem...
A pair of October volleyball matches, and one in September have been moved, according to school officials at Melrose and Grady. Melrose is moving its match at Floyd up a day due to conflicts with other events. The match, originally set for Oct. 3, will now be played Oct. 2. The Grady volleyball team was originally scheduled to face Springer on the road Oct. 7. That match will remain in Springer, but is now scheduled for 4 p.m. Oct. 3. Grady has also moved Saturday’s home match against Vaughn to Sept. 26 due to a scheduling c...
Booked The following were booked into local jails Monday Clovis • Edis Enriquez, 28, driving while license suspended or revoked • Chasidy Mathis, 31, probation violation • Sasha Randall, 26, criminal trespass • Oscar Arthur, 47, possession of a controlled substance • Kristopher Morgan, 41, possession of a controlled substance • Eduardo Vargas, 22, larceny (over $250 but not more than $500) • Dejacka Stapleton, 43 Portales • Michael Hatch, 27, battery • Carolina Martinez, 37, bench warrant • Gustavo Moreno, 44, bench w...
CLOVIS — The Curry County Commission on Tuesday approved a 3 percent property tax rate increase for 2017. Assessor Candace Morrison said the increase was negligible, especially compared to rate increases of 7 to 8 percent in previous years. The 3.026 percent increase amounts to “three dollars per thousand dollars of taxable valuation,” Morrison said, and reflects fluctuations among school districts, residential and non-residential categories across Clovis, Texico, Melrose and Grady. Morrison attributed the rate incre...
PORTALES — The Portales Municipal Schools Board of Education heard at its Monday night meeting plans to shift New Mexico’s legislative priorities. Larry Smith and Bill Calton, members of the Roosevelt County Republican Party, told the board they had been working with local legislators to draft a resolution that would establish a state school board that would hire the state superintendent of public instruction. Smith said the idea for the resolution began during the 2014 gubernatorial election, in which Gov. Susana Mar...
PORTALES — It was a close margin, but Eastern New Mexico University has continued its 21-year streak of record fall enrollment. According to a release Tuesday from the school, the 2017 fall enrollment is 6,027 — 4,599 undergraduate and 1,428 graduate students — for the highest numbers in the school’s 82-year history. “I was glad to see that we continued our 20-plus year trend of growing our enrollment,” first-year ENMU president J.S. Elwell said in the release. “This year’s record of 6,027 represents a modest increase of 13...
CLOVIS — Vince DiFranco is no longer administrator at Plains Regional Medical Center and Dr. Dan C. Trigg Memorial Hospital, according to a statement released Tuesday by Presbyterian Healthcare Services officials. Amanda Schoenberg, senior corporate communications specialist, said in the release: • DiFranco has left the organization as of Aug. 31, and a search is under way for qualified candidates to replace him. • Troy Clark, vice president of regional operations for Presbyterian Healthcare Services, will serve be inter...
DORA — A group of Dora citizens is accelerating its efforts to ask the Dora Consolidated Schools Board of Education to resign. In a board meeting Monday night, the group presented a list of citizens that had signed an informal petition asking the board to resign. The action stemmed from the findings of a July report by the state auditor, which identified over $100,000 in potentially mismanaged school funds between June 2013 and the end of 2016. “I think the community kind of decided to present it better, asking for the resign...
Today • Planning and Zoning Commission — 3 p.m. at City Hall, Clovis. Information: 575-769-7828 Thursday • ENMU Board of Regents — 9:30 a.m. at Portales Regents Room. Information: 575-356-1011 Tuesday • Clovis Master Water Assurance Plan District 1 meeting — 6 p.m. at Kingswood Methodist Church gym, 2600 North Main Street. Information: 575-769-7828 • Portales City Council — 6:30 p.m. in council chambers at the Memorial Building. Information: 575-356-6662 ext. 1012 • Roosevelt County Commission — 9 a.m. in commission room at...
Today • Preschool story-time — 6 p.m. at Portales Public Library. Theme: Fair Fun. Information: 575-356-3940 Thursday • BINGO! The Winning Musical — 7 p.m. at Clovis Civic Center presented by The Brickstreet Players. Tickets: $15. Information: 575-693-5962 • Preschool story-time — 10:30 a.m. at Portales Public Library. Theme: Fair Fun. Information: 575-356-3940 • Leader training — 2 p.m. at Curry County Extension office, 818 N. Main Street, Clovis. Lesson: Guidelines to over the counter drugs. Open to public. Information: 57...
