Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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The state reported its two largest days of COVID-19 infections with four-digit days Thursday and Friday, including a record 1,082 cases Thursday. Another record was reached Friday, with 13 deaths reported from COVID-19 to bring the state total to 1,007. None of those deaths were recorded in Curry or Roosevelt counties, which accounted for 62 cases over Thursday and Friday. Through Friday, Curry County had seen an October accounting for almost half of its total cases since the pandemic began in March — 851 of a total 1,615. O...
Historically low temperatures hit Curry and Roosevelt Counties last week, with Clovis and Portales seeing numbers in the teens. Neither Clovis nor Portales saw record-breaking snowfalls as expected, but they did get halfway there. Clovis saw over 2.5 inches accumulating during the storm. The record is from October of 1936 when 5 inches blanketed the city. After receiving over 2 inches of snow last week, Portales' 4-inch snowfall record from 1936 remains intact. Other areas...
Federal races President/Vice President • Donald J. Trump/Michael R. Pence (Republican) • Joseph R. Biden/Kamala D. Harris (Democrat) • Jo Jorgensen/Jeremy “Spike” Cohen (Libertarian) • Howie Hawkins/Angelina Walker (Green) U.S. Senator • John Cornyn (Republican) • Mary “MJ” Hegar (Democrat) • Kerry Douglas McKennon (Libertarian) • David B. Collins (Green) U.S. Representative, District 19 • Jodey C. Arrington (Republican) • Tom Watson (Democrat) • Joe Burnes (Libertarian) State races Railroad Commissioner • James “Jim” Wr...
Federal races President and Vice President of the United States • Howie Hawkins and Angela Nicole Walker (Green) • Jo Jorgensen and Jeremy “Spike” Cohen (Libertarian) • Joseph R. Biden and Kamala D. Harris (Democratic) • Sheila “Samm” Tittle and David Carl Sandige (Constitution) • Donald J. Trump and Mike Pence (Republican) • Gloria La Riva and Sunil Freeman (Socialism and Liberation) U.S. Senator • Bob Walsh (Libertarian) • Mark V. Ronchetti (Republican) • Ben R. Lujan (Democratic) U.S. Representative District 2...
FARWELL - Momentum shifted big-time twice on Friday night - and quickly. In a battle for the Class 2A Division II District 2 title, Panhandle dominated early and built a 14-0 advantage. Then Farwell scored twice in a span of 10 seconds and rallied back to lead at halftime. But it was all Panthers after that. Panhandle put together a stunning 35-point third quarter, including three touchdowns by senior Jayse Edwards, and cruised to a 56-21 victory over the Steers. Panthers...
Editor’s note: In-person or to-go service varies based on a school’s mode of education as allowed by the Public Education Department on a county-by-county basis due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Meal information is provided by school officials or websites. Contact individual schools for specific details. Clovis schools Monday: Breakfast, mini pancakes; Lunch, chicken smackers, au gratin potatoes, silced cucumbers, ranch dressing, fresh cantaloupe, roll, fresh veggies Tuesday: Breakfast, breakfast pizza; Lunch, meatball sub, tat...
Curry Resident Senior Meals Association 901 W. 13th St., Clovis 575-762-9405 All meals served with 2% milk Monday: Spaghetti w/meat sauce, green beans, salad w/dressing, garlic toast, cottage cheese and fruit Tuesday: Chicken nuggets, mashed potatoes and gravy, peas and carrots, dinner roll, peaches Wednesday: Sausage and sauerkratu, black-eyed peas, cornbread, fruit cobbler Thursday: Shepard’s pie, salad, dinner roll, fruit cocktail Friday: Green chili chicken enchilada, pinto beans, chips and salsa, yogurt Community S...
The following books are available for checkout at the Clovis-Carver Public Library: “Rope Burn” by William W. Johnstone. Ace and Chance find themselves on the wrong side of the law inside the meanest, dirtiest prison in the Arizona territory. When a barroom brawl lands Ace and Chance Jensen in jail, it’s just the beginning of a nightmare that will never end. Their jailmates are army deserters. Even worse, their jailers assume Ace and Chance are deserters, too. Things go from bad to worse awfully fast. One prisoner tries...
Information on making inkblot butterflies and caring for orchids or other small plants will be the featured topics on “Creative Living” 9:30 p.m. Tuesday and noon Thursday (all times Mountain). Margaret Peot is an author, artist and painter, and she is going to show how to make inkblot butterflies that can be mounted in a shadowbox or in a frame for display. Peot lives in New York City. Ray Pawley is a retired zoologist, and he says that if your orchids or other plants hav...
This could quite possibly be the last column you ever see from me. Yes, stars were aligning and the nation was split to polar opposition as I penned this missive. The Dodgers had won their first World Series in over three decades and no one but four or five die-hard fans even knew it had been that long. They go into the books, as one of those die-hard fans sadly noted, with an asterisk by the entry. But hey they also have the distinction of winning a championship in the...
Booked The following were booked into local jails (Tuesday - Friday): Clovis • Louren Lopez, 26, kidnapping • Marvin Jouett, 61, child solicitation by electronic communication device • Leonard Zamora, 49, Non-Residential burglary • Christopher Garcia, 30, negligent use of a deadly weapon • Isaac Castillo, 33, aggravated fleeing a law enforcement officer, resisting, evading or obstructing an officer, criminal damage to property, overtaking a vehicle on the left, failure to yield • Jodi Kirkpatrick, 50, failure to appear on m...
On this date ... 1975: The Roosevelt County Fairgrounds was the site of 10 million pounds of grain that had overflowed from full elevators at Worley Mills. “Properly stacked, there is little risk of damage to the grain in the open,” the Portales News-Tribune reported. October had ended with .17 inches of moisture - “perfect for harvesting grain,” the paper reported. 1965: Postal authorities were investigating complaints that mail from a Clovis serviceman in Vietnam was being mutilated. The parents of Max Viasana, 23, said sev...
PORTALES — Three fresh faces were added to Portales’s Cultural Affairs Committee at the Oct. 20 City Council Meeting. New appointees are Jasmine Johnson, Krista Jones, and Darrelyn McCloud. McCloud, 28, is the owner of Snap Fitness in Portales, where he works as a wellness coach and a strength and conditioning coach. The former Eastern New Mexico University football player is originally from Albuquerque but moved to Portales in 2012 and has been there since. Johnson, 27, is the Marketing Director for La Casa Family Hea...
The final day of early voting was still wrapping up at press time for The News, but even a light Election Day turnout will mean one of the largest electorates in state history. Through Friday, 739,359 New Mexicans had cast ballots either in-person or by returning their absentee by mail ballots. That is already nearly 92% of the 2016 electorate in the Land of Enchantment, and nearly 89% of the state record of 833,365 set by New Mexicans in 2008. Curry County, through Friday, had 11,544 ballots cast — 8,448 in person and 3...
Did you realize that commercial radio got its start on Nov. 2, 1920, when legendary KDKA in Pittsburgh broadcast the results of the Harding-Cox presidential race? Almost overnight, radio transitioned from domination by ham operators to an actual business with schedules, programming and sponsors. Now the world has experienced an entire century peppered with FDR’s “Fireside Chats,” serialized “Captain Midnight” adventures, the original soap operas, traffic and weather reports, Top 40 countdowns, sportscasts (I still remember...
At the beginning of the Senate confirmation hearings on the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, Lindsay Graham observed that it was a great moment for young conservative women because they finally had someone they could look to as a role model on the highest court in the land. Graham was on to something. Conservative women have been called “not the right kind of women” for years in the mainstream media and among those who always talk about “em...
CLOVIS — Clovis Municipal Board of Education members received positive news on a collaboration still in its infancy, the Clovis Early College High School program, during its Tuesday meeting. Melissa Winn, a CHS counselor who oversees the program, reported the program more than doubled in its second year, with 146 students enrolled compared to 65 in 2019-20. The population is 93 female and 53 male, which runs close to CCC’s demographics of 70% female. The program includes 56 students, or 38% of participants, who are first-gene...
In a normal universe, the baseless and appalling QAnon conspiracy theory would be the plot to the worst action thriller you’ve ever seen. If you don’t know by now, QAnon adherents subscribe to the utterly bonkers proposition that President Donald Trump is heroically fighting against a diffuse and secretive cabal of devil worshipers and child molesters scattered across the most elite levels of government, business, and the media. To take it to its “Sharknado-iest” extremes, the theory also posits that a violent reckoni...
It doesn’t matter who wins on Tuesday, America is in for big trouble. If it’s Joe Biden, the Democrat Party’s street gangs will celebrate by rioting in the streets. If Donald Trump wins re-election, Biden’s supporters will be so enraged they’ll riot, loot and burn everything they can — and the liberal media will say they had every right to express their anger. I live in Los Angeles, which government law-and-order experts say is not likely to riot and burn because of this wee...
Joe Biden wants to take one of the great American success stories of the past several decades and drive it into the ground. He would turn his back on the stupendous wealth represented by proven reserves of oil and gas in this country. Rather than focusing on producing cheap, abundant energy — a key ingredient to human progress through all of human history — he’d embark on the fool’s errand of trying to adjust the world’s thermostat 80 years from now. After a 50-year effort to...
In 30 years, eight of 10 cars sold globally will likely be electric. That’s a prediction from IHS Markit energy expert Dan Yergin and one that appears to dovetail a progressive political vision of a world free of oil companies. But what that prediction really means, assuming it comes true, is that the U.S. will need oil and gas for many decades to come. The question is, how much oil and gas? Two trends will help answer that question. One, how quickly will people ditch their gasoline cars and diesel trucks? And two, how m...
CLOVIS — Clovis MainStreet was one of six organizations taking part in virtual “cash mob” promotions, according to a New Mexico Economic Development Department release. The “cash mob” events are virtual events on Facebook Live where participants bid on items, arrange payment and socialize over a two-hour period. The events promote local businesses, the release said, while allowing shoppers to buy local goods from home. The Clovis district was credited for holding three such events entitled “Save Our Stores” during the su...
Meetings are subject to change due to coronavirus concerns Tuesday • General election Wednesday • Clovis Community College Board of Trustees — 8 a.m., virtual format. Information: 575-769-4001 • Clovis Civil Aviation Board — 5:30 p.m., North Annex, Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main, Clovis. Information: 575-769-7890 Thursday • Clovis City Commission — 5:15 p.m., North Annex, Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main St., Clovis. Information: 575-769-7828 • Portales City Council — 6:30 p.m., auditorium, Memor...
Today • “Musica Buena!: Celebrating Music in New Mexico” — 7 p.m., Clovis-Carver Public Library Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/ClovisCarverPublicLibrary). Virtual concert feature Las Flores del Valle in celebration of Dia de los Muertos. Information: 575-769-7840 Tuesday • 2020 General Election — 7 a.m.-7 p.m. Curry County polling places: Colonial Golf Course, 1300 Colonial Parkway, Clovis; Youth Recreation Building, 1504 E. Seventh St., Clovis; Roy Walker Community Center, 316 W. Second St., Clovis; Farmers Ele...
CLOVIS — Bobby Sandoval has repeatedly dedicated his end-of-meeting commissioner reports to asking Curry County citizens to wear masks and practice social distancing to combat the COVID-19 pandemic wave that has hit the county. Fellow commissioners decided his message should stay there, and eliminated from Thursday’s special meeting agenda a resolution penned by Sandoval encouraging mask wearing in public. The 3-2 vote essentially had the same effect as defeating the resolution had it remained on the agenda. Commissioner Set...
