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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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The following list of school delays/cancellations will be updated as we receive information: • Clovis Municipal Schools: Wednesday will be a remote learning day. • Portales Schools will not have in-person school Wednesday. All school buildings will be closed due to the weather. However, online classes will continue as usual. Students who were scheduled to be at school in-person should log-in with their teachers at the regular time. School cafeterias will be closed on Wednesday. • Eastern New Mexico University campus staff...
The National Weather Service has issued a blizzard warning through Wednesday night. Forecasters are predicting up to 2-5 inches of snow could fall across eastern New Mexico on Wednesday, with winds gusting to 45 mph at times. The National Weather Service predicts "Whiteout conditions will make travel very difficult to impossible with road closures possible. Strong winds and heavy snowfall may lead to drifts of 2 to 3 feet." NWS reports conditions for all of New Mexico are expected to clear by Thursday....
While it appears Mother Nature is going to have an impact early this week, it’s apparent this year’s early voters will easily outpace those from the 2016 presidential election in Curry and Roosevelt counties. Roosevelt County has already seen more early voters in 2020 than it had in all of 2016. Curry County will likely see the same, maybe as early as today. Monday was a light day for early voting in both counties with inclement weather concerns that were anticipated to continue over the next few days. In Roosevelt Cou...
Weather conditions may result in late delivery of Wednesday's edition of The Eastern New Mexico News. Subscribers who've not received their paper by 9 a.m. Wednesday may call our office at 575-763-3431 for an estimated time of arrival. A winter storm warning has been issued through 6 p.m. Wednesday and forecasters say the region could receive up to 6-9 inches of snow, resulting in hazardous travel conditions....
He didn't kill anybody. He didn't even steal any money. But they hung him anyway. They hung Black Jack Ketchum so hard his head came off. Any search for scary stories around eastern New Mexico always begins with the day the former Tucumcari ranch hand was executed outside the courthouse in Clayton on April 26, 1901. Oh, there's no question Thomas Ketchum intended to rob the Colorado and Southern Railway near Folsom in northeast New Mexico on Aug. 16, 1899. He had a gun, a...
LAS CRUCES — Allen Theatres announced this week that they will be going into “hibernation” until further notice, closing all 13 of its locations across New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado and laying off about 450 employees. The decision includes the North Plains Mall 7 in Clovis. Owner Russell Allen said the Telshor 12 drive-in theatre in Las Cruces closed to the public Oct. 25, and that concession sales at the Cineport 10, the chain’s other Las Cruces location, were discontinued last week. He said these latest decisio...
FARWELL — Panhandle is averaging almost 60 points a game this season. Farwell has allowed just 73 points for the entire campaign. Something has to give in Friday night’s 7 p.m. (CDT) Class 2A Division I District 1 matchup at Farwell, with the winner almost surely claiming the district championship. The difference may come down to defense. “They score a lot of points,” Steers coach Darren Kelley said, “but they give up a lot of points, too.” Farwell (7-1, 2-0 district) cruised to a 40-6 win last Friday against West Texas...
CLOVIS — Courtesy of the coronavirus pandemic, the calendar for New Mexico Activities Association sports was already pretty full with its scheduled start in January for everything except volleyball, cross country and some tennis. Last week, it became even fuller when the NMAA announced a revised slate which now also includes those activities. Of course, everything is still subject to more change. “I really have a bad feeling about it; I don’t know if we’re going to play,” Clovis High girls basketball coach Jeff Reed said...
Fair warning this is, given to protect your eyes and general psyche from sudden and perhaps overwhelming shock: If you open the door at our house that leads five steps down into the garage, you will find bodies everywhere. You will have literally stepped into a killing zone. So, there. You have been warned. A couple or three years ago, a dear friend gave me for Christmas one of the best gifts I have ever received: it’s an a-salt gun. I didn’t say “an assault rifle.” This parti...
CLOVIS — A 56-year-old woman died Sunday night following a motor vehicle crash in the 600 block of East Llano Estacado Boulevard in Clovis. Police said in a news release they responded to a report of a crash involving a pedestrian. “On arrival, Officers noted a deceased pedestrian in the roadway. The pedestrian was identified as Cindy Tenorio ... Two motor vehicles were involved in this crash, one traveling eastbound and one traveling westbound,” the news release stated. The Clovis Police Department Major Crash Team was a...
Booked The following were booked into local jails (Friday-Tuesday): Clovis • Robert Russell, 35, out of state fugitive • Isaiah Johnson, 23, aggravated burglary, contributing to the delinquency of a minor, aggravated battery, criminal damage to property, failure to pay fines • Peter Gutierrez, 54, failure to pay fines, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge • Arnulfo Alvarado-Alvidrez, 37, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge • Brett Diaz, 47, aggravated battery upon a peace officer, shoplifting, possession of drug para...
On this date … 1980: Installation of an FM antenna atop the 360-foot tower of KENM radio in Portales was nearing completion. The station was expected to begin broadcast over FM airwaves by Nov. 15. “More people age 30 to 65 have FM receivers now, so it makes sense to install it here,” said KENM Manager Johnny Goff. “Our listeners will enjoy better reception now.” The FM transmitter and antenna cost $40,000, Goff said. Format for the FM band had not been decided. Goff said the new channel might play rock music to compete w...
Jean Fisher of Clovis has a mystery on her hands, and she's looking for our help. Fisher, who is 82, worked for 37 years as a nurse at the Retirement Ranch, but she's also a long-time quilter. That means (this will come as no surprise to other quilters) that she has accumulated a lot of cloth over the decades. She and her late husband, Gerry, loved to frequent auctions and estate sales, and were regulars at bidding wars all over eastern New Mexico and west Texas until Gerry's...
Some final notes as we pass this election through our systems. Two things I don’t quite get: Why are money and yard signs so important in an election? This year, the money has been rolling in. Biden has been out-raising Trump in amounts so great that I’ve heard the talking heads wonder how they can even spend it all. Meanwhile, having signed up for or landed on just about every candidate’s listserv, I think I’m safe in saying that no one puts out more email appeals for money than Donald Trump’s campaign. Our nation’s...
What do you expect to happen after Donald Trump’s election victory? I expect outrage, shock, and denial from the national mainstream media and others who pretended Joe Biden was a credible candidate. I expect more accusations of Russian interference in the election as an excuse to consider the result illegitimate. Until “None of the above — leave the office vacant” is on the ballot, no election looks legitimate to me. I expect violence from those who will use the electio...
The prescription opioid crisis that has taken well over 100,000 American lives and ruined hundreds of thousands more wasn’t just an accident of time or the byproduct of a dysfunctional society. It was in good part the deliberate result of unethical and occasionally illegal machinations by the pharmaceutical industry, particularly by Purdue Pharma, which paid kickbacks and willfully misled physicians and the public to boost sales of its addictive signature drug, OxyContin. The company has agreed to plead guilty to criminal c...
CLOVIS — Giving your name and number is pretty standard fare at most restaurants for take-out or delivery. Now it’s the new normal for in-person dining in New Mexico. Part of the state’s new health and safety guidelines given out last week include requiring dine-in restaurants to keep a contact book. This new measure is supposed make contact tracing easier should a staff member or diner test positive for COVID-19. The contact book is essentially a three-week log of all the dine-in customers who passed through a resta...
New Mexico on Monday set another record for its seven-day average of confirmed coronavirus cases, and officials at Albuquerque hospitals said they are already in the throes of a surge. “If we continue the current trend we have in our state for another month, we won’t have enough healthcare workers, we won’t have enough hospital beds,” said Dr. Jason Mitchell, the chief medical officer at Presbyterian Healthcare Services. “There isn’t enough staff anywhere that will be able to get us out of that.” State officials rep...
With Halloween coming up Saturday, I am reminded of my ghost story. It was 2015 and we were invited to do a paranormal investigation at the St. James Hotel in Cimarron. Me, my husband Steve and our friend Paula Garcia were so excited for this adventure. The investigation was led by the Albuquerque paranormal team of Mark and Debby Constantino, who we knew from doing investigations on Ghost Adventures. We arrived and were assigned to the Bat Masterson room, which was also known as one of the haunted rooms. After dinner the...
The National Weather Service called it "an epic and historic winter storm." After summer-like temperatures extended well into fall, eastern New Mexico experienced its first wintry event early this week with drizzle, freezing fog, ice and a thin dusting of snow. The blast, which included wind-chill factors in the single digits, began about midnight Sunday. Area residents woke up on Monday morning to ice on their windshields. Tuesday saw more of the same along with delayed and...
