Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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CLOVIS — After nearly two hours of heated debate on Tuesday, the City Commission voted 6-2 to begin drafting a resolution to increase property taxes to fund the interim groundwater project portion of the Eastern New Mexico Rural Water System. The project would connect Clovis, Portales and Cannon Air Force Base with a water pipeline and is the second stage of the rural water system. The levy would raise local property taxes depending on the amount chosen for the debt service. Once the resolution is drafted, the commissioners w...
Information on making flatbread and working with different scales of patterns in interior decorating will be the featured topics on “Creative Living” 9:30 p.m. Tuesday and noon Thursday (all times Mountain). John Vollertsen, also known as Chef Johnny Vee, is going to demonstrate how to make a flatbread and explain good kneading skills and grilling tips. He is the owner of Las Cosas Cooking School in Santa Fe, and this is just one of many classes he teaches. Interior des...
To put it the way a like-minded friend did, I forking love “The Good Place,” an NBC comedy in its final season about the afterlife, and whether one reaches The Good Place or gets tortured in The Bad Place. Neighborhood architect Michael is planning a journey with the main characters, and asks what information they want to know before this risky endeavor. Resident dummy Jason asks, “Did the Jacksonville Jaguars win the Super Bowl last year?” Michael chuckles, then realizes Jason is serious. “Uh, no. Will they ever win the S...
CLOVIS - Konnor McNeil was dropped into Clovis High School last December, and it wasn't long before he found himself in the spring semester digging his way out of D's and F's. And that's what made him an ideal mentor for this year's group of CHS sophomores. McNeil is one of 120 various CHS juniors and seniors taking part in the Ignite for Schools mentoring program. Each mentor gets five sophomores to work with throughout the year. They were briefly introduced last spring when...
These books are available at the Clovis-Carver Public Library: “The Haunting of Hill House” by Shirley Jackson: Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House is considered one of the greatest haunted house stories ever written. Set around the dark history of the house built by Hugh Crain ninety years earlier and the deaths of Hugh, his two wives, his daughter, and anyone else that lived in the house, Dr. Montague, a renowned scholar of the occult, decides to conduct an experiment to determine whether or not the house truly is hau...
Baxter Curren Senior Center 908 Hickory St., Clovis Sunday: 2 p.m. gospel singing Monday: 8 a.m.-4 p.m. 8 ball pool, 8:30 a.m. exercise, 10 a.m. jewelry pals, 1 p.m. line dance, 1 p.m. canasta Tuesday: 8 a.m.-4 p.m. exercise equipment, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. 8-ball pool, 8 a.m. quilting, 11 a.m. line dance, 1 p.m. pinochle, 5:30 p.m. ladies night (easy fall cooking) Wednesday: 8 a.m.-4 p.m. exercise equipment, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. 8-ball pool, 8:30 a.m. exercise class, 9 a.m. sew days, 1 p.m. needle gang Thursday: 8 a.m. build your own burri...
Clovis elementary Monday: Breakfast, bagel and cream cheese, fruit, juice, milk; Lunch, corn dog, seasoned corn, mini carrots, ranch dressing, fresh apple, veggie bar, milk Tuesday: Breakfast, mini cinnis, fruit, juice, milk; Lunch, BBQ porky rib on bun, baked French fries, coleslaw, honey carrots, chilled fruit, veggie bar, milk Wednesday: Breakfast, churros, fruit, juice, milk; Lunch, Frito pie, garden salad with ranch dressing, applesauce, fresh fruit, veggie bar, milk Thursday: Breakfast, banana bread, fruit, juice,...
Well it finally happened, Zachary. No, nobody burned down my she shed. No, my Facebook account wasn’t hacked either. It was cloned, however. For years I’ve had to chuckle at friends as they have their accounts cloned. First you would get a Facebook “friend request” from someone you’re already friends with. Often it’s someone you’ve just seen posts from, so you know you’re still a friend. You check and, sure enough, they are already in your friends list. The next thing that...
Edwina Gower is most recognizable around the Eastern New Mexico University campus. Gower also known as "FLOE" (First Lady of Eastern) spends much of her time reading, digging through university history, and collecting giraffe statues. Gower began her giraffe collection after Christmas in 1984 when her husband Jeffrey Elwell first gifted her a giraffe statue. Tell us about yourself in a few sentences: When you're 58 years old, there's a whole lot of ways you can answer that....
Curry County General Election Ballot Nov. 5 Clovis School Board District 3 • Paul S. Cordova Jr. District 4 • Shawn L. Hamilton District 5 • Terry Martin Grady School Board Position 1 • Kathy D. Edwards Position 2 • James Carroll Schell Position 3 • Kodie D. Weese • Gerald W. Garland Melrose School Board Position 1 • Barry L. Allen Position 2 • Joseph W. Reed Position 3 • Cedar C. Rush Texico School Board Position 1 • Derek Kyle Cain • Jerred Orson Cooper • SandyMarie Pieratt Position 2 • Troy Lance Teague • Chad H. Davi...
Roosevelt County General Election Ballot Nov. 5 Portales School Board Position 1 • Rodney O. Savage Position 2 • Inez F. Rodrigeuz Position 5 • David R. Rankin Dora School Board Position 1 • Patrick D. Kircher Position 2 • Andrea L. King Position 3 • Tyrl A. Tipton Position 5 • Brandon M. Dewbre Elida School Board Position 1 • Chance Brendal Bradley Position 2 • Cody Ferguson Floyd School Board Position 3 • Marvin Leon Nall Position 4 • Ryan J. Bollema House School Board Position 3 • William M. Noland Position 4 • Wendy Gree...
With so much happening in the world, you probably don’t want to read about my own personal dark night of the soul. But at the risk of sounding narcissistic, I do think there is some value in examining why a person like me would feel compelled to leave the Republican Party. It was only four years ago that I proudly, defiantly and publicly abandoned the Democrats. I’d left them in spirit many years before, mostly because of their insistence on treating abortion rights as fundamental. Nevertheless, apathy kept me from cha...
As an Eastern New Mexico University regent, I am somewhat perplexed about the recent articles regarding the wine festival being approved by ENMU Chancellor/President Jeff Elwell. The concern that Elwell improperly waived a board policy is ill-founded. This matter was discussed at length during our last meeting on Sept. 27 (at which a representative of the Eastern New Mexico News was present) and since it had not been placed on the agenda (which any board member could have done) the board could not act upon it at that time....
Running a business is tough. It is often a seven day a week job. Business owners have to carry the financial risk of building a venture, as well as taking care of customers, finding and retaining employees, keeping up with ever-changing regulations and staying current with advancing technology. Increasingly, customers want to know it isn’t all just about the bottom line. They want to know businesses are taking care of the environment and employees. Companies that are certified B Corporations, like Taos Ski Valley Inc., are su...
President Trump says he wants to get our troops out of the “blood-stained sand” of the Middle East. Most sane Americans would agree with that goal and hope he’s successful. Unfortunately, the people in charge of our foreign policy are not sane, as they proved after Trump yanked a few dozen U.S. soldiers out of Northern Syria. Trump’s sensible decision to let the Turks, Syrians and Russians figure out how to police their own backyards without our help brought him strong...
The Ukraine story hasn’t been good for President Donald Trump, and there’s only one way out — to get impeached, and the sooner, the better. Trump obviously hates the idea of being impeached. He thinks it’s unfair, and is raging against the process with every political and legal argument his team can muster and every insult and countercharge he can make on Twitter. But he doesn’t have any choice in the matter. Impeachment is baked in the cake. There’s no way that Democrats,...
Dear Clovis city commissioners, Please don’t rob us. We get it. This is for a really good cause — funding the development of the interim groundwater portion of the Eastern New Mexico Rural Water System. We can’t live without water. And we’re running out of water. So you think government needs to save us. But no matter what anyone thinks about the merits of big government and its need to “help,” you don’t have to save us by telling us to stick ’em up — hiking property taxes somewhere between $15 million and $35 million witho...
CLOVIS — Before commissioners voted to draft a new property tax resolution to pay for part of the Ute pipeline project on Tuesday, several Clovis and Curry County citizens weighed in on the matter. Blake Prather, who lives just outside the city limits, opened the discussion, stating he had experience on previous water projects and criticized how the current project is being handled. Prather emphasized the importance of securing a water supply before focusing on the infrastructure, saying the city may find itself with a p...
WASHINGTON — The Portales Municipal Airport was one of four airports in the state to receive Federal Aviation Administration grants for infrastructure improvements, according to a release from New Mexico’s congressional delegation. U.S. Senators Tom Udall (D-N.M.) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and U.S. Representatives Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), Deb Haaland (D-N.M.) and Xochitl Torres Small (D-N.M.) announced that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has awarded more than $7 million in grants to airports across New Mexi...
CLOVIS — A new airline may be providing flights from Clovis to Dallas early next year with Contour Airlines instead of Boutique Air Service as the alternate essential air service (ESA) provider for Clovis. During Tuesday’s meeting, the City Commission recommended Contour’s offer out of 11 options from five different companies. Contour will take over at the start of 2020 if the Federal Aviation Administration accepts the city’s recommendation as expected. Eight communities currently use Alternate EAS, with the FAA subsidi...
Monday • City of Clovis Parks, Recreation, and Beautification Committee — 4 p.m., Pappy Thornton Museum, Ned Houk Park, Clovis. Information: 575-763-9654 Tuesday • City of Clovis Census Committee — 1:30 p.m., Clovis City Hall assembly room, 321 N. Connelly. Information: 575-763-9654 • Roosevelt General Hospital Board of Trustees — 5:30 p.m., Fred Anthony Conference Room, RGH, 42121 US-70, Portales. Information: 575-359-1800 Friday • Eastern New Mexico University Regents — 9:30 a.m., Regents Room, ENMU Administration Building,...
The following marriage licenses were recently filed at the Curry County Clerk’s office: • Gerald Shane Thompson, 46, and Shannon Lynn Mayban-Thompson, 44, both of Portales • Andrew John Modini, 25, and Alexandra Dawn Lopez, 23, both of Clovis • Alicia Thy Tran, 25, and Ashlyn Rosalee Farrell, 22, both of Clovis • Manuel Pastor Ralios, 20, and Sandra Michelle Garcia, 45, both of Amherst, Texas The following divorces were recently filed at the Curry County court clerk’s office: • Lora K. Wilhoit and Randall S. Wilhoit • Mar...
On this date ... 1969: Cook’s Discount department store was preparing to open in Clovis’ Hilltop Plaza. A newspaper advertisement promised, “There’s a wonderful future for you at Cook’s, one of the fastest growing department store chains in the nation.” The ad also read, “We pay premium for experience, but will be happy to train bright, ambitious people who may not have retail experience.” Employees would receive “excellent pay, hospitalization, paid vacation and unlimited opportunity for advancement,” the company reporte...
PORTALES — The Roosevelt County War Memorial Committee is selling walkway pavers at the Roosevelt County War Memorial, located on the Roosevelt County Courthouse square, with installation prior to Veterans Day. Orders placed before 5 p.m. Friday, according to a release from the Roosevelt County Chamber of Commerce. Engraved pavers can be purchased in honor of someone who has served in the U.S. Armed Forces. The price for the 1.75-by-7.75-inch paver is $125 and includes up to five lines that can include things such as name, r...
After finding success at the state championships in April, FFA teams from Clovis and Portales high schools are bound for the 92nd National FFA Convention and Expo in Indianapolis this week. Portales will send juniors Abi Cameron, Alyssa McAlister and Emily Newberry and sophomore Rylie Courtney from its floriculture team, while Clovis sends junior Grant Palla, sophomores Cara McWilliams and Robert Gage Myers and freshman Thomas Palla from the dairy team. The Clovis team will compete in dairy cattle evaluation and management...
