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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, three of the most-popular websites and apps in the world, were knocked offline Monday in a major internet outage. The outage that affected the products, which are all owned and operated by Facebook, occurred around 10 a.m. MDT. Several other products that are owned and run by Facebook were also affected. On Facebook, a simple error message read “Sorry, something went wrong. We’re working on it and we’ll get it fixed as soon as we can.” According to The Verge, the issue appears to be a DNS (...
Wednesday • Clovis Community College Board of Trustees — 8 a.m., CCC, 417 Schepps Blvd., Room 512, Clovis. Information: http://www.clovis.edu/about/administration.aspx or 575-769-4001 Thursday • Clovis City Commission — 5:15 p.m., North Annex, Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main St., Clovis. Meeting may also be viewed on Suddenlink channel 10, at www.cityofclovis.org, or on Facebook at City of Clovis, NM (City Government). Questions phoned in to 575-763-9200 will be shared with the commission. Information: 575-769-7828...
On this date ... 1971: There were a bunch of babies at Roosevelt General Hospital - literally. Officials announced they'd broken an all-time record for babies born at the Portales hospital in a single month - 36 in September. Josephine Sittler, director of nurses, said she searched records “for many years” and felt confident “this is the greatest number of babies ever born at the hospital within a month's time,” she told the Portales News-Tribune. The previous record was 30 - set in July 1971. “We set a new record, then brok...
Today • ENMU Department of Theater and Digital Filmmaking presents “Blithe Spirit” by Noel Coward — 2 p.m., University Theater Center mainstage, ENMU, Portales. Tickets: $10 general admission; $7 senior citizens 60 and older; $7 active military; free to ENMU students with valid ID. Directed by Anne Beck. Information: 575-562-2711 Monday • Re-organizing Roosevelt County Crimestoppers — noon, meeting room adjoining the cafeteria, ENMU Campus Union Building, Portales. Lunch available for $4. Open to anyone who is interested....
A Clovis-based fundraising team learned last week it had been recognized nationally by the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research. Calvin DeWitt said his team, Fun Walks for Fox, was 11th in the nation in money raised. DeWitt’s team was slated to participate Saturday in the Fox Foundation Virtual Fall 5K/10K/Half Marathon. All of the money raised goes to funding research to find a cure for Parkinson’s. Fun Walks for Fox raised $4,670, DeWitt said. The team includes 44 participants. “We have a very diverse team. W...
CLOVIS — A Clovis man who has been convicted eight times for driving while intoxicated has had his latest conviction and its 12-year prison sentence reversed by the New Mexico Court of Appeals. In a “memo decision,” the appeals court overturned the March 12, 2019, verdict against Randall Pruit, 58, according to Brian Stover, chief deputy district attorney for the Ninth Judicial District Attorney’s office. Stover said the district attorney’s office has applied for a writ of certiori from the New Mexico Supreme Court that woul...
Booked The following were booked into local jails (Tuesday-Friday): Clovis • Alexander Carrillo, 29, criminal damage to the property of a household member, aggravated battery against a household member • Angela Guss, 42, battery against a household member, failure to pay fines, embezzlement • Patricia Messier, 34, criminal trespass • Pedro Ybarra, 29, parole violation • Antoinette Trejo, 29, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge • Justin Tipton, 41, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge, failure to appear on a felony ch...
CLOVIS — Curry County joined a growing list of counties petitioning for a grand jury to hear allegations of state constitutional violations by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham. Farril De Foor told The News Thursday the filing is the result of citizens who are “sick and tired of not being free Americans and we have had enough.” Curry, De Foor said, was the 23rd county to join the effort, with the filings done by local citizens in each county and funded by Roswell oil producer Larry “Lead” Marker. New Mexico does not have a recall...
A Clovis native is continuing to build his reputation as one of the best collegiate shooters in the country. James Burroughes, a junior at the United States Military Academy, claimed first for production and centerfire pistol in the Blue Mountain Steel competition held last weekend at the Black Rock Pistol Club in Newburgh, New York. It was the second of six planned competitions for Burroughes, a junior on the West Point pistol team. He finished third in both categories in his first tournament, and the is off this weekend...
Local COVID-19 infections over the last week were up slightly from the prior week, according to reports from the New Mexico Department of Health. Friday’s report from the DOH included 24 new Curry County cases and four Roosevelt cases as part of 791 reported statewide. The 11 statewide deaths included three local residents — two Curry County males and a Roosevelt County female. The males were in their 60s and 70s and were both hospitalized, while the female was in her 80s and had underlying conditions. Recorded earlier in...
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. “Big Red” by Jim Kjelgaard and Bob Kuhn has been donated in the memory of Mark Yannotti. Danny knows at a glance that Red, the big Irish setter, is the dog he has always dreamed of. But Red is a champion, and Danny is only a trapper's son who liv...
