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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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An old building that once housed a favorite Clovis store has been demolished to make way for a new Dollar General, according to city Building Safety Department Director Pete Wilt. For years, 900 W. Seventh St. was the location of Alexander's Fruit Market. "Alexander's was a bustling place," Ben Salazar said. Salazar, congressional field representative for the area, grew up in Clovis. He was a regular customer at Alexander's. "It was about four blocks from where I grew up to...
On this date ... 1941: Roosevelt County, promoting itself as the “biggest producer of dairy products in New Mexico,” declared June as National Dairy Month. 1945: M and L Cafe, at 106 Southwest Liberty in Portales, prepared to open under the management of Mrs. George Janes and Mrs. Lockey Janes. The cafe formerly owned by D. Reed had been remodeled and redecorated and would offer diners a choice of counter or booth seating. 1961: Clovis police said they’d broken up a juvenile bicycle theft ring, recovering 23 bikes and takin...
The introduction of 75 teen interns to the working world Monday was quite real-world – an hour and a quarter of paperwork. They're all part of Curry County's High School Summer Internship Program. Each earned $15, at a $12-per-hour pay rate, for sitting through a session devoted to filling out forms and a little advice about showing up on time, dressed for the job and ready to devote employer time doing the employer's work. Forms dealt with matters like permission to use i...
Eastern New Mexico University will seek funding totaling $6.4 million in research and public service funds from the New Mexico Higher Education and the New Mexico Legislature for the fiscal year 2025. ENMU regents approved the request at Saturday’s board meeting. The bulk of the proposed request consists of nearly $3.9 million that regents intend to seek to fund student athletics. The board voted to ask for a 15% raise above the $3.4 million funding provided from HED and legislative sources in the current year for student a...
Father’s Day is sneaking up on me. Since my dad died, there is a hint of sadness tied in with the gratitude I feel remembering my dad. This year, it’s compounded by the passing of my father-in-law George Head, who died a day before the fifth anniversary of my own dad’s passing. And about a month and a half before that, my brother-in-law George died after a long battle with Alzheimer’s. This past weekend, generations of family gathered in Kingman, Ariz., to celebrate the liv...
I bowed to peer pressure recently. Ironically, the pressure came from the very offspring I’d always sternly counseled to avoid peer pressure. Yes, and I’d also taught them to resist blaming other people for their own actions. None of this, “He made me mad, so I decked him.” Nope. You let the kid punch your buttons and you — yes, son, you! — chose to deck him. You made the choice. Now, own it, and deal with the consequences. Whether or not you’re taking the jerk down a notch...
Curry County will be seeking a disaster declaration from the state as a result of the damage from the precipitation laden super cell that hit the county May 24. Director of Clovis/Curry County Emergency Management Dan Heerding appeared before county commissioners Monday at their regular session. He outlined the damage in the county from three "tornadic events," large amounts of rain, hail and high wind. With approval from commissioners, Heerding would apply to the state as...
Bossman here at the paper asked me if I’d write a Wednesday column every other week. “Nothing controversial,” he said. Me? Controversial? I gave up on controversy when I could plainly see we all ain’t gonna dwell in a utopia where everyone rides a bicycle or tricycle to get where they’re going, where we all get along with each other and there’s vegetable gardens and chickens in every backyard. Me. Controversial. Perish the thought. “You can write your stories and your tales about your buddy ‘Catfish,’” Bossman said. Ah, t...
Tina Turner, who died last month, was a pioneer and an artist who personified the word innovative. Like her contemporary, Little Richard, Tina Turner brought an uncompromised strand of Black Southern music, the sound of the Chitlin’ Circuit itself, into the lives of teenagers and adults around the globe. She garnered appeal across racial boundaries at a time when the nation was highly segregated, and she helped pave the way for future female artists including Gloria Gaynor, B...
Context. Perspective. Background. It’s not news to anyone that the major media consistently fail to provide any of those things when covering the burning political issues of the moment. Take, for example, the compromise the House of Representatives and the White House just made to settle the federal budget and debt-ceiling crisis. We know from the media that it will lift the debt ceiling for two years, make some minor spending cuts and avert a financial apocalypse that suppose...
The helicopter service that flies medical patients from eastern New Mexico to other regional medical centers now has another base of operations in addition to Clovis. AeroCare announced that its newest air medical base located in Roosevelt County is now in service. Located at Roosevelt General Hospital in Portales, the base provides air medical transport services to and from Roosevelt County and the surrounding regions. “Currently AeroCare will operate out of a building provided by our hospital partners at RGH, but our p...
He has been an outspoken and persistent critic of the COVID-19 vaccine. Mainstream media have described his views on the issue as misleading and dangerous. Instagram kicked him off its platform, accusing him of spreading misinformation about the vaccine. He once suggested vaccines and mask requirements were something Nazis would have implemented during the pandemic. He’s been known to associate with Donald Trump allies Roger Stone and Steve Bannon. And he’s an outspoken critic of President Joe Biden. “I just disagree funda...
Clovis’ annual Draggin’ Main gathering kicks off an eight-day run on Saturday. Hair bands and a “hot rods launch party” are the highlights Saturday at the Curry County Events Center, according to Zane Brothers, who helped organize the event. Activities begin at noon and continue until 10 p.m., followed by a week’s worth of activities that culminate June 17 with the annual cruise up and down Clovis’ Main Street. Co-founder Gene Porter described Draggin’ Main as an “all things related to cars” event. “It’s a non-discr...
A Portales man on Saturday was arrested for attempted murder following a series of threatening text messages sent to his former girlfriend, records show. Joseph Ervin, 33, on Tuesday was being held without bond in the Curry County Adult Detention Center. Portales police on Friday received a call from Ervin’s mother that her son was “out of control and traveling to New Mexico with a gun,” records show. Cidney Robinson, Ervin’s former girlfriend, then received text messages on Saturday morning from Ervin that included a pictu...
Heavy rains in the past week have halted the road work on Seventh Street in Clovis. But City Manager Justin Howalt hopes the delays won't significantly extend the project. "The contractor has asked for some weather days, which obviously because of the recent rain events they weren't able to perform any work on those days," Howalt said Monday. "Whether or not the overall project schedule has been impacted is undetermined simply because they may be able to make up those days...
Fun fact: Spider monkeys can live to be 40 years old. So says Clovis' Jessica Boisseau, who is spearheading an event aimed at making the next 20 years for Hillcrest Park Zoo's long-armed simians comfortable with a bigger enclosure. "There are four of them and they've been here for about 20 years," Boisseau said. "Wine in the Wild" is the name of the event set for Saturday at Hillcrest Park Zoo. "Our inaugural event was last December when we held 'Celebrate Sooner,'" Boisseau...
