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In September, the news and social media were dominated by the confirmation hearings for Judge Brett Kavanaugh, nominated for a seat on the Supreme Court by the president — and by sexual assault allegations made against him by Christine Blasey Ford and others. I won’t recap those allegations here, other than to note that some of them are about things that happened decades ago. In our nation’s hyper-partisan political “debate,” those allegations have become the latest iteration of women speaking out about sexual assault,...
Dr. Jenifer Landa, while speaking at a medical conference, told the following story: As a shy fifth-grader, she reluctantly tried out for a school play. After tryouts, a list of who was accepted was posted on a wall. She expected to be rejected, but to her surprise, she was picked to play the lead character, Winnie the Pooh. Landon asked, “Did you ever have a time in your life where you found a hidden talent or passion you didn’t know you had?” She hoped we would feel what she felt that day in the fifth grade. I have felt...
We’ve basically published this editorial before, most recently prior to the General Election in 2016, so please excuse the repetition, but we think it is important: We don’t endorse political candidates. That’s primarily because we seldom see any who reflect our core values of limited government. Those seeking office on Nov. 6 are mostly well-intentioned people. Their hearts are in the right place, but their goals are seldom to make government smaller and individual responsibilities greater. We like asking candidates, “What i...
Football is probably our best sport. From Brian Urlacher to Hank Baskett — and Jerry Nuzum in your granddad’s day — New Mexico has turned out multiple gridiron stars who’ve been celebrated across the land. Just last week, former Clovis High School star Rishard Matthews signed to play wide receiver for the New York Jets. At least 41 New Mexico natives have gone on to play professional football, according to profootballreference.com, which knows everything worth knowing about football. But we can play baseball, too. OK, you...
I can’t say as I’ve ever seen a ghost or had a paranormal experience. But I have managed to start or stir a few ghost stories in my time. My wife and I have stayed at many of the historic hotels and ghost towns of the Southwest that are supposed to be haunted. I’ve been ready and willing to speak with a specter. I want to believe, really I do. Even just a glimpse would have been encouraging to the effort. But nothing has ever appeared. Growing up we re-told the tale of Dead Ma...
CLOVIS — Though the Air Force has completed its testing of wells in the "impact" zone of a water contamination from Cannon AFB, residents in the area are still awaiting tests from the state's Department of Health to the same effect. And plenty others still have questions, which military and state officials are answering bit by bit in the weeks following announcement of a chemical contamination stemming from past firefighting activities at the base. The News attempts below to a... Full story
CLOVIS — It was a largely straightforward, even convivial public discussion among local political office aspirants during Tuesday night's radio forum in Clovis. Then came the closing statements, when the magistrate judge candidates said their families were being attacked. Both Jane Marie Vander Dussen and Nicole Roybal, the respective Republican and Democratic candidates for Division 1's magistrate judge seat, told The News they felt lines were crossed into dirty politics j...
CLOVIS — Arron Chavez was a premature baby, a small child and a young man of little more than 5 feet in height, said his father, "but he had a big heart." Clayton Chavez spoke Thursday evening before a crowd of about three dozen at the site where his son was shot dead by police less than three weeks earlier. Police said they initially pursued him in a stolen motor vehicle, then killed him after he left the car and began swinging a blade at an officer. Arron Chavez' friends, fa...
Political incivility is too rapidly devolving in America into harassment and violence. The news of explosive devices being mailed to President Barack Obama and the home of Bill and Hillary Clinton is the latest in a string of incidents that reveals an ugliness in our political culture that is leading us ever closer to tragic and destructive consequences. We wrote in June of our dismay over the breakdown of civility in today’s political culture. The seemingly expanding incidents of violence and its lesser cousin, harassment, o...
CLOVIS — The Clovis Municipal Schools Board of Education unanimously approved changes to six board policies and three board regulations during Tuesday’s meeting. In part, the changes establish protocol for alerting parents of kindergarten through third-grade students if their child does not meet mid-year literacy benchmarks. Assistant Superintendent of Human Resources Kerry Parker previously said the edited policies were meant to align the district with changes to state law. In other business at Tuesday’s meeting (all votes...
CLOVIS - Take a little trip, take a little trip and see the lowrider exhibit at Clovis Community College before it cruises away. Through Thursday, the college hosts "Lowriders, Hoppers & Hot Rods: Car Culture of Northern New Mexico," which opened in 2016 at the New Mexico History Museum and "seeks to elevate that culture beyond its common stigmas and stereotypes to celebrate skilled craftsmanship and commitment to family and community." It's the first exhibit from NMHM at...
The following marriage licenses were filed through Thursday at the Curry County Clerk’s Office: • Harrison Frank Lee, 29, and Earlene Janet Kindley, 34, both of Clovis • Charles Brooks Russell, 21, and Jude Lee Buckner, 19, both of Clovis • Michael Eric Jaramillo, 29, and Rosaura Farela Romero, 44, both of Muleshoe • Pantaleon Escobar, 27, and Saida Patricia Guidero, 59, both of Clovis • Deddrick Daeon Haskins, 39, and Holly Renea Guzman, both of Sioux Falls, South Dakota • Jason De Waine Helaer, 41, and Amanda Renea Mitchel...
Voting locations Curry County Early/absentee in person • Curry County Administrative Complex, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. weekdays and 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Nov. 3 • North Plains Mall, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday Election day (voters may use any location regardless of their precinct) • Colonial Golf Course clubhouse • Youth Recreation Building • Pleasant Hill Fire Department • Melrose City Hall • Roy Walker Recreation Center • Farmer’s Electric Cooperative • Texico Community Center • Grady Senior Citizens Center Roosevelt County Earl...
Booked The following were booked into local jails Tuesday-Thursday: Clovis • Michael Bradley, 60, possession of a controlled substance, probation violation • Jonathan Mireles, 26, failure to pay fines • Ronald Valverde, 28, failure to appear • Ginette Patton, 56, embezzlement (over $500) • Michael Aragon, 27, failure to appear • Marivel Gonzales, 23, failure to pay fines • Andrea Fluellen, 35, failure to appear, no seat belts, falsely obtaining services ($250 orless) • David McDaniel, 26, possession of a controlled subs...
Amidst pay increases for officers across the state, some police agencies are more worried than others about their officers leaving for more money in other cities. In Clovis, staff mobility may be as much of a concern for the city’s police chief as is the department’s lower pay rates compared to those in Albuquerque or Los Alamos. In Portales, where the pay is yet lower, the issue is more about simple dollars and cents. “The pay issue in our state is a very hot and competitive topic for all law enforcement agencies,” Clovis...
CANNON AIR FORCE BASE — It’s not unusual for Cannon Air Force Base squadrons to do physical training on Fridays. What is unusual is when dozens of undead try to attack them along the way. But that was the case during Friday morning’s zombie run. It featured over 350 airmen going for a run just over 5 kilometers while trying to escape the grasps of about 45 Clovis High School Junior ROTC students and other volunteers dressed as zombies. “A lot of squadrons have come out to do t...
CLOVIS — At a relatively short Clovis Public Works meeting Wednesday, committee members got basic updates on city and school projects, plus a hint that there may be an additional train line coming through Clovis. City Manager Justin Howalt notified members during a 20-minute meeting that BNSF was planning to add a third track to its north side, going from Clovis to Farwell. Howalt said he had concerns on traffic, particularly at the Norris Street crossing. The crossing is seeing much more activity with the Prince Street Overp...
PORTALES — She had never voted in her life prior to 2016, and on Friday morning Ginger Grider went to the Roosevelt County Courthouse and marked another milestone. This time she’s on the ballot, for a position she fully does not expect to win. It’s been less than two months since Grider became the Libertarian Party’s candidate for New Mexico secretary of state — the latest development in a transformation the past few years from a lifelong conservative Republican to a medical cannabis advocate and local chair of the first thi...
On this date ... 1968: Marine 2nd Lt. Omer L. Gibson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur O. Gibson of Portales, had made his first solo flight in a jet aircraft, according to the "Area Men in Service" column in the Clovis-News Journal. "He made the flight in a T-2A 'Buckeye' jet trainer while undergoing basic jet flight instruction with Training Squadron Seven at the Naval Air Station," in Meridian, Mississippi, the paper reported. Basic jet training consisted of 90 hours of flight...
The following are available for checkout at: Clovis-Carver Public Library “Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America” by Beth Macy endeavors to answer a grieving mother’s question: why her only son died. This harrowing story of greed and need begins with a single dealer in a small Virginia town who sets about turning high school football stars into heroin addicts. From the introduction of OxyContin in 1996, Macy parses how America embraced a medical culture where overtreatment with paink...
Baxter Curren Senior Center 908 Hickory St., Clovis Monday: 8:30 a.m. exercise class, 8:30 a.m. power walking, 10 a.m. jewelry pals, 1 p.m. line dance Tuesday: 8 a.m.-4 p.m. exercise equipment, 8 a.m. quilting, 9 a.m. pinochle class, 10 a.m. beginning line dance, 1 p.m. pinochle, 3 p.m. fun night Wednesday: 8 a.m.-4 p.m. exercise equipment, 8:30 a.m. exercise class, 8:30 a.m. power walking, 10 a.m. sew days, 1 p.m. needle gang Thursday: 8 a.m. eggs, gravy and biscuits $4, 8:45 a.m. pinochle 101, 8:45 a.m. board meeting, 1...
Clovis Elementary Monday: Breakfast — Skillet frittata. Lunch — Chicken nuggets, ranch mashed potatoes, steamed veggies, chilled mixed fruit, whole wheat roll. Tuesday: Breakfast — Mini cinni’s. Lunch — Porky ribn on a bun, baked fries, seasoned green beans, fresh fruit. Wednesday: Breakfast — Breakfast bread. Lunch — Roasted drumstick, garden salad w/ranch, seasoned corn, chilled pears. Thursday: Breakfast — Waffles. Lunch — Meaty mac and cheese, steamed broccoli, chilled peaches, whole wheat roll. Friday: Breakfast — Bean...
Information on working with plastic foam and making wrapped bouquets will be the featured topics on “Creative Living” at 9:30 p.m. on Tuesday and at noon on Thursday. Deborah Pace will show how to use plastic foam to create ZIAs (Zentangle Inspired Art.) She’ll demonstrate using black ink on white paper, metallic ink on black paper and using a combination of black on white and white on black paper as well as the opposite color of inks. She is from Riverside, California. Floral designer Carly Cylinder will show how to not o...
My name is Arturo Ontiveros. I am 1 of 11 children born to Abel and Soledad Ontiveros, the second to the youngest. I am married to Veronica (Gonzales) Ontiveros and we have two awesome boys, Adrian, 15-years-old, and Andru, 12-years-old, that keep us plenty busy. I am a homegrown Portales-ite and have lived here since 1980. I graduated from Portales High School in 1994 and then attended Eastern New Mexico University where I received my bachelor's degree in 2001 and my master's...
Chandler has proved fair judge I wrote you a letter in 2015 when Matt Chandler was appointed as our newest district court judge. I was opposed to Susana Martinez appointing someone who had such a one-sided career, mainly as a prosecutor, and very little experience as a defense lawyer. I am an honorable person, and when someone makes a mistake, I believe the honorable thing to do is to own up, apologize if necessary, and move on. I made a mistake by misjudging Matt Chandler. I have noticed that Judge Chandler has been...
