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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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Two California residents died Tuesday afternoon following a motor-vehicle crash on U.S. 60/84 east of Melrose. According to a news release from Curry County Sheriff Wesley Waller: • At 3:43 p.m. Tuesday, deputies were dispatched to a head-on motor-vehicle crash. • The investigation, thus far, has determined that a 2006 Mazda sedan, driven by Wayne Woods, 36, of Melrose, was traveling west on US 60/84. Woods’ vehicle collided with an eastbound 2016 Nissan sedan driven by Danny SotoPartida, 47, of San Andreas, Calif...
Editor’s note: New Mexico public schools are not offering in-person instruction until Sept. 8 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. All items are for to-go service only, with meal information provided by school officials or websites. Contact individual schools for specific details. Clovis elementary Monday: Breakfast, yogurt & graham cracker, milk; Lunch, spaghetti & meatballs, garden salad, ranch dressing, chilled fresh fruit, whole wheat roll, fresh veggies, milk Tuesday: Breakfast, frudel, milk; Lunch, chicken nuggets, s...
Roman Heather Roman of Clovis was inducted into Angelo State University’s chapter of the Order of the Sword and Shield, according to a school release. The honor society is dedicated to homeland security, intelligence, emergency management and other protective security disciplines. To be eligible, undergraduate students must have at least a 3.25 GPA, and graduate students must have at least a 3.5 GPA. Students are inducted by invitation and require recommendation by at least two faculty members. A total of 19 students were i...
Title: The Flying Cutterbucks Author: Kathleen Rodgers was born and raised in Clovis. Summary: Trudy and two other women form a code of silence to protect themsleves against an abusive man. The election of a president who brags about groping women without their consent reveals old wounds and forces hard truths to be told. Trudy returns to the home of her mother in Pardon, New Mexico, and helps lay her father, who went missing in the Vietnam War, to rest. Information:...
Beta Phi Beta Phi of ESA had its monthly meeting Sept. 1 at the home of Collene Baldwin. Attendance included six jewel pin members and two guests. Officers installed for the 2020-21 year were President Jeannette Bass, Vice President Katy Lowrey, Recording Secretary Royce Lorenz, Corresponding Secretary Stella Chairez, Treasurer Collene Baldwin, Parliamentarian Laura Loflin and Educational Director and Chaplain Patsy Lorenz. Patsy Lorenz was awarded a fifth-degree Pallas Athen, and Royce Lorenz was awarded a first Pallas...
The following books are available for checkout at the Clovis-Carver Public Library: “Death by Dumpling” by Vivien Chien. The last place Lana Lee thought she would ever end up is back at her family's restaurant. But after a brutal break-up and a dramatic workplace walk-out, she figures that helping wait tables is her best option for putting her life back together. Lana's love life soon becomes yesterday's news once the restaurant's property manager, Mr. Feng, turns up dead_after a delivery of shrimp dumplings from Ho-Lee. Now...
Time is running out. I would tell you to get off the couch and act but in reality, you don’t even have to get off the couch to act. I’m talking about the impending train wreck that is the 2020 Census. With my position as executive director of the Roosevelt County Chamber I’ve been by default placed on Roosevelt County’s Complete Count Committee, the group charged with figuring out ways to motivate our fellow citizens to fill out the 2020 Census so that we are not undercounted...
Information on designing your ideal business, making boutonnieres, and using leftover fabrics to make a bread basket box will be the featured topics on “Creative Living” 9:30 p.m. Tuesday and noon Thursday (all times Mountain). Tonja Waring is an author and manifesting coach. She’s going to explain how to design your ideal business and how to develop your image and build your network. Her book is titled The Power of Manifesting.” She’s from Celina, Texas. Casey Schwartz is a f...
CLOVIS - Jeston Webskowski has already shown he can handle Class 6A football. By next fall, he'll be ready to take on the next challenge. The 6-foot-1, 205-pound Clovis High senior has verbally committed to play at Division II Eastern New Mexico University in Portales, although he cannot actually sign a D-II national letter of intent before February 3. Still, Webskowski said ENMU gives him a lot of what he's looking for at the college level, including a chance to play near hom...
Clovis High School graduate Stephen Acosta has made a name for himself among Friends University sports fans in Wichita, Kansas. Named to the all-USA New Mexico football team as a CHS senior, he was a two-sport standout last year as a Friends freshman. His football and powerlifting coaches expect more success this school year. The 6-foot, 255-pound Acosta started every game at right offensive tackle last year. "For me to be able to get that opportunity to start all the games wa...
MULESHOE - Fighting uphill the entire game, Muleshoe needed a break down the stretch to have a chance against rival Friona on Friday night. And the Mules certainly got one. Trailing by two scores with just over three minutes left, sophomore Irvin Torres hauled in a deflection of a deep pass by quarterback Zach Hasley and completed a 78-yard touchdown play. Then Muleshoe pulled within seven points on a 2-point conversion. Suddenly fired up, the defense forced only its second...
What were you doing the night of Saturday, March 19, 1977? Like 21.2 million other Americans, I was watching the final episode of “The Mary Tyler Moore Show.” Watching it and making a nerdy audio recording of it for posterity. Sure, I didn’t anticipate the cassette keepsake having such an eardrum-assaulting HUM on it, but at least I felt like I was a part of something historic. And maybe I should use the tape’s hum even today to drown myself out when I spontaneously start singing, “It’s a long way to Tipperary, it’s a long...
There are communities across the U.S. that have been forced to navigate the pandemic and 2020’s other challenges without local media in place to assist them by providing timely, trustworthy information. As the virus began to spread, creating public health concerns and economic devastation, these areas were already what are referred to as “news deserts” — places no longer served by local newspapers. That process — expansion across America of these “deserts” — has only accelerated as the pandemic has heaped layer upon laye...
Column misses point, misleads Regarding Michael Reagan's column (“No way America full of racists”) last Sunday: How many times have you said or heard a close friend say “Old Joe is a good fellow and some of this kind are good friends of mine.” My question is how many times have you had “Old Joe” over to your home to break bread with your family? How many times have you drank out of the same bottle as “Old Joe?” By now you are probably thinking skin tone. Prejudice is not a function of skin tone; it is a function of ign...
Before I decided to tackle this topic, I had a moment’s hesitation. Is the fact that Nancy Pelosi decided to get her hair done really an issue of national importance? And of course, I concluded that it is. Pelosi had every right to get her hair done recently, even though she was violating the regulations she herself championed to restrict the spread of the coronavirus. As the first and only female Speaker of the House of Representatives (so far), Pelosi is one of the most visi...
Am I in hell, or just L.A.? The other day it was 121 degrees here. There’s so much smoke in the air from all the wildfires the sun looks like the moon. Everything’s closed because of the coronavirus pandemic. People can’t go to work. School kids are struggling to learn on Zoom. Parents are going nuts. Some are hiring teachers, wannabe teachers or former teachers to come in and tutor their kids. And now the Los Angeles County Health Department has tried to wreck Hallo...
The latest hammer of a book to fall on President Donald Trump is Bob Woodward’s soon-to-be-released “Rage,” and it’s his own words that are the issue. According to the book, the president told the veteran Washington Post journalist in March that he publicly minimized the danger of the coronavirus: “I wanted to always play it down. I still like playing it down, because I don’t want to create a panic.” This was after Trump explained to Woodward about a month earlier that...
After months of scary numbers with no end in sight, recent weeks have suggested the worst of COVID-19 might be behind us. It’s not time to gather in one large group, burn all our masks and shout hallelujah to the heavens. But it’s probably time to congratulate ourselves for getting a handle on the pandemic by adopting the covid-safe practices recommended by health experts. Even Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Thursday said New Mexico’s trend is “incredibly good news” and that she may soon relax more restrictions in her publi...
Though nothing has made its way through Congress, there is talk about a second stimulus check for Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic. Glenda Horner Taylor of Clovis is still wondering when the first stimulus check is coming, and reached out to The News in hopes to spread awareness about people who qualify for the economic relief payment but still haven’t seen it. The Internal Revenue Service, as of late June, had sent out more than 159 million economic relief payments for individuals, including those who filed tax r...
CLOVIS — A former principal with Clovis Municipal Schools entered a no-contest plea to driving while intoxicated in connection with a November traffic stop, according to court records. According to a plea agreement filed in July in De Baca County Magistrate Court, Karri Hatley, 52, of Clovis, entered a no-contest plea to a misdemeanor charge of driving while intoxicated (.08). She received a one-year probation term and various instructions that included 24 hours of community service and ignition interlocks for any vehicle dri...
CLOVIS — City commissioners spent about 10 minutes Thursday asking administration about the details of $4.26 million in CARES Act grants awarded last week by the state. They came away with about as much information after the 8-0 vote to accept the federal dollars as they did before it, largely because that information will be disseminated in a state training that begins on Wednesday. “A lot of your questions are our questions as well,” City Manager Justin Howalt said. “We can’t give you a concrete answer until we’ve had...
MELROSE - One of Melrose's longest-standing buildings is no more. The Melrose train depot was demolished on Wednesday. The building, constructed in 1907, was owned by the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway Company, which informed the village last year of its intent to clear the structure. "It was a year or two ago that they let us know they would be doing that, and we discussed it in several council meetings," Village Clerk Khira Whitehead said. "They told the village that...
SANTA FE — State officials provided good news regarding COVID-19 infection rates Thursday, but did not present any public health order changes. Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said the virus is challenging and unfair, and that while congratulations are in order there’s still more work to do. “I really do appreciate that New Mexicans are making huge differences every single time,” Lujan Grisham said, “to a new normal and getting things reopened to the greatest degree possible until there’s a vaccine.” The state reported on T...
CLOVIS - The Clovis Police Department is looking for a man it suspects was involved with a kidnapping and shooting. An arrest warrant was issued for Carlos Sanchez-Trillo, 31, following an investigation that began after a 20-year-old male approached an employee Friday morning at the city landfill. The victim, James Faulkner, had an apparent gunshot wound to his chest. He was taken to Plains Regional Medical Center and later transferred to University Medical Center in Lubbock....
CLOVIS -- A Clovis man facing multiple allegations of assaults upon peace officers was moved Wednesday to the care of the Department of Corrections. Adrian Loya, 27, was moved by the Curry County Sheriff's Department to the Central New Mexico Correctional Facility in Los Lunas following a Wednesday morning order approved by District Judge Drew Tatum. Mark Gallegos, administrator for the Curry County Adult Detention Center, declined to discuss the order until Wednesday out of...
