Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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New Mexico ballot Races limited to those that include Curry and/or Roosevelt counties Federal races President and Vice President of the United States • Joseph R. Biden and Kamala D. Harris 497,904 • Donald J. Trump and Mike Pence 400,841 • Jo Jorgensen and Jeremy “Spike” Cohen 12,506 • Howie Hawkins and Angela Nicole Walker 4,385 • Sheila “Samm” Tittle and David Carl Sandige 1,794 • Gloria La Riva and Sunil Freeman 1,628 U.S. Senator • Ben R. Lujan 470,955 • Mark V. Ronchetti 417,343 • Bob Walsh 24,136 U.S. Representativ...
CLOVIS — Clovis High School is putting on a food drive through Nov. 20 to benefit the Salvation Army. A drop box will be located in front of the high school’s main building on Thornton Street daily between 8 a.m. and 3 p.m., with the exception of this Wednesday. “This pandemic has left many families in bad situations,” CHS football coach Cal Fullerton said, “and we want to do our part to help the Salvation Army provide food to these families.” All non-perishable food items, Fullerton said, would go to the local Salvation A...
SANTA FE — The dust that settled on Tuesday’s legislative elections told a tale of two New Mexicos. A blue wave that hit the state’s urban areas in 2018 did not recede on election night, as unofficial results showed Republicans losing three Senate seats in the Albuquerque area. After big Democratic gains in 2018 and more this year, only two Republican lawmakers from Albuquerque will be left standing come January — Sen. Mark Moores and Rep. Bill Rehm — out of roughly 30 seats in the metro area. However, Republicans picked up a...
The following marriage licenses were recently issued at the Curry County Clerk’s office: • Fred Edward Turner, 47, and Alice Zambrano, 58, both of Clovis • Christopher P. Hood, 39, of Clovis and Rosa Maria Hernandez, 33, both of Clovis • Sebastian John Torkowski, 20, of Breaux Bridge, Louisiana, and Emily Jordan Nap, 19, of Bennet, Nebraska • Bernardo Rodriguez, 43, of Morton, Texas, and Maria Sandra Robles, 41, of Clovis. • John Lewis Lilly III, 25, and Nicole Marie Robles, 32, both of Clovis • Jose Luis Aguirre, 29,...
Every four years at this time, I have the same thought: Isn’t there a better way to do this? Much of my frustration is tied to the fact that we don’t pick our nation’s leader in a national election. Instead, we have 50 local elections held on the same day, providing 50 opportunities for local officials to tinker with the process. For example, the governor of Texas ordered that there be just one ballot drop-off box for the 2.3 million residents of Houston. I didn’t really care in 2018 when the only polling site in Dodge C...
“Thank you for your service.” Every veteran learns his or her own way to respond to those reflexively stated words from our fellow citizens. The sentiment is heartfelt, but the speaker often has little understanding of for what they are thanking a veteran. The recipient might want to share something more meaningful, but an awkward exchange is likely. I don’t recall what I mumbled to people when I first joined the Marines in 2001, but by the time I was discharged in 2011, I learned to respond with an equally reflexive “you...
I have good news for all you compulsive mask wearers. The wait is over. Your guidance is here. The bureaucrats who run Nannyfornia have finally issued the rules for observing Thanksgiving. Assuming you’re willing to try and cheat death for a holiday that was created by dead white men. Even though this is the first edition of “Rules for a Safe Thanksgiving,” and will no doubt be refined and expanded in future years, the edict is remarkable for its comprehensive nature. Gov. Gavin Newsome’s Flu Manchu regime covers eight integr...
It’s crazy political times like these that I long for how quickly, simply and peacefully the 1980 presidential election ended. That was the year President Jimmy Carter called my father at 5 in the afternoon of Election Day — while he was in the shower — and congratulated him on winning the presidency. Votes were still being counted and probably half the country hadn’t voted yet, but by early evening Carter already knew he was being swept out of office by the Ronald Reagan...
Donald Trump may be leaving the White House, but he’s not exiting the room. The fiercest Never Trump critics hoped for — and wishfully predicted — a cleansing landslide that would wipe out every trace of Trump and his enablers from the GOP. That’s not happening. Trump’s poll- and pundit-defying surge toward the cusp of a second term vindicates Trump’s approach enough to give him and his potential successors continued traction, if not a dominant voice, in the party. Trum...
While the next president of the United States remained unknown early Friday, there is clearly one big loser: the pollsters, most of whom were touting the high likelihood of a Joe Biden blowout. So how did they get it so wrong, again, even after the soul searching and methodological recalibrating that followed 2016? The first answer is that public opinion researchers haven’t learned from their past mistakes. First, pollsters almost surely underestimated what is called a “nonresponse bias,” which is a fancy term for sayin...
PORTALES — A man shot by law enforcement during a low-speed chase in 2018 was sentenced Thursday to a year of house arrest, followed by two years of supervised probation. James McFarlin, 50, of Lake Havasu, was sentenced per a no-contest plea to fourth-degree felony charges of unlawful taking of a motor vehicle and aggravated fleeing a law enforcement officer. According to a release from the district attorney’s office: n Roosevelt County sheriff’s deputies were called Jan. 15, 2018, and discovered McFarlin stole a tractor and...
CLOVIS — A Clovis native is set to return to the city to work as its new human resources director, according to a city release. Cindy Wentworth, who is set to begin Monday, has 17 years of experience in human resources and most recently served at the Martin County Hospital District. She replaces Andre Moquin, who had served in the position since July 2019. The release did not address Moquin’s departure. Wentworth returns to Clovis with her husband and daughter, and said in a city release she enjoys all aspects of human res...
ROSWELL — The New Mexico Department of Transportation is restriping roadways this month across Curry and eight other counties in the department’s District 2, according to a DOT release. The $1 million in work will require short-term lane closures in unspecified state-maintained roadways throughout the targeted counties. Work may be canceled, postponed or prolonged due to inclement weather. Drivers are asked to be on the lookout for such work and to be patient while the operations are in progress....
PORTALES — The city of Portales’ public works department is informing residents of Monday work on 18th Street. The work by J&H Services, Inc., will go from New Mexico Drive to Avenue O. No parking will be allowed on the road during that time. Motorists are advised to seek alternate routes, drive slowly and look for signage and workers while traveling near the project area. Information: 575-356-6662, Option 5....
Today through possible additional days • Local COVID-19 testing events — 3-7 p.m. in Clovis and Portales. Curry County test site: Clovis Community College Gymnasium, 417 Schepps Blvd., Clovis. Roosevelt County test site: “home side” of parking lot, ENMU Stadium, 1751 W. University Drive, Portales. Drive-thru clinics with self-administered tests supervised by medical personnel from the New Mexico Department of Health and Human Services and the National Guard. Confirm event dates and register online at https:/...
Meetings are subject to change due to coronavirus concerns Monday • Roosevelt County Commission — 9 a.m., via Zoom. To listen to the meeting online or by phone, go to https://www.anymeeting.com/243-288-249 (optional dial-in number: +17162731030, PIN: 243-288-249#) and register for the webinar. A recording of the meeting will be posted to www.rooseveltcounty.com following the conclusion of the meeting. Information: 575-356-5307 • Portales Municipal Schools board — 6 p.m., virtual meeting. Join: https://meet.google.com/fcf-hmuo...
PORTALES — Six local businesses and non-profits have been awarded nearly $60,000 in the first disbursement of CARES Act continuity grants through the Roosevelt County Small Business Grant Program. The county began with $239,625 in available grant monies, and will continue to award up to $10,000 to entities depending on fund availability and business/nonprofit eligibility. The recipients were Best Western Plus, Holiday Inn Express, Super 8, Sands Motel, Dawg Houz Packaging and the Food Bank of Eastern New Mexico. All awards w...
With no need for a recount this time, Martin Zamora is again the District 63 representative in the New Mexico House of Representatives. The Clovis farmer and rancher won his second two-year term to the spot, taking the race over Santa Rosa doctor Randal Brown by a 59% margin — 4,682 votes to 3,286. “I want to thank the people of the district for supporting us,” Zamora said, “and I look forward to working for the state of New Mexico to try to make things better in the state and to do the work that is upcoming in the next se...
Ballot counters in Nevada, Georgia, Pennsylvania and Arizona worked into the weekend, as national media outlets held off calls to project winners until Saturday saw former Vice President Joe Biden become presumptive President Elect Joe Biden. It doesn’t even feel like the same country in eastern New Mexico, as Curry and Roosevelt counties reported mostly smooth elections Tuesday despite record or near-record turnouts Curry County reported 15,128 ballots cast, breaking the 2012 record of 13,681. Roosevelt County Interim C...
After nail-biting days of vote counting across battleground states, multiple media outlets reported Saturday that Joe Biden managed to pull together a winning electoral coalition to end Donald Trump's presidency. Biden issued a statement that said he is “honored and humbled” to be the nation's 46th president following an election that saw a record number of Americans vote. Vice President-elect Kamala Harris tweeted that the victory was “about the soul of America and our willingness to fight for it.” But Democrats were unable...
FORT SUMNER - A Fort Sumner woman wanted on allegations she killed her grandfather was captured Thursday in Jacksonville, Florida, according to the New Mexico State Police. Candy Jo Webb, 27, was taken into custody without incident by US Marshals and is in a Florida detention facility awaiting extradition to New Mexico. Webb faces charges of first-degree murder and tampering with evidence in the death of her grandfather, A.J. Harden, whose body was found in an abandoned tool...
Roosevelt County unofficial results Federal races President and Vice President of the United States • Donald J. Trump and Mike Pence 4,634 • Joseph R. Biden and Kamala D. Harris 1,802 • Jo Jorgensen and Jeremy “Spike” Cohen 138 • Howie Hawkins and Angela Nicole Walker 15 • Sheila “Samm” Tittle and David Carl Sandige 12 • Gloria La Riva and Sunil Freeman 7 U.S. Senator • Mark V. Ronchetti 4,505 • Ben R. Lujan 1,774 • Bob Walsh 252 U.S. Representative, District 2 • Yvette Herrell 2,234 • Xochitl Torres Small 683 • Steve Jone...
Curry County unofficial results Federal races President and Vice President of the United States • Donald J. Trump and Mike Pence 10,428 • Joseph R. Biden and Kamala D. Harris 4,300 • Jo Jorgensen and Jeremy “Spike” Cohen 244 • Howie Hawkins and Angela Nicole Walker 53 • Gloria La Riva and Sunil Freeman 29 • Sheila “Samm” Tittle and David Carl Sandige 23 U.S. Senator • Mark V. Ronchetti 10,078 • Ben R. Lujan 4,256 • Bob Walsh 560 U.S. Representative, District 3 • Alexis M. Johnson 10,407 • Teresa Leger Fernandez 4,293 State r...
Parmer County unofficial results President/Vice President Donald Trump/Michael Pence, 2,133 Joe Biden/Kamala Harris, 488 Jo Jorgensen/Jeremy "Spike" Cohen, 23 Howie Hawkins/Angela Walker, 4 U.S. Senator John Cornyn, 2,130 Mary "MJ" Hegar, 454 Kerry McKennon, 28 David B. Collins, 13 Ricardo Turullouls-Bonilla, 1 U.S. Representative, District 19 Jodey C. Arrington, 2,138 Tom Watson, 433 Joe Burnes, 45 Railroad Commissioner James “Jim” Wright, 2,102 Chrysta Castaneda, 458 Matt Sterett, 39 Katua “Kat” Gruene, 13 Chief Justice...
Bailey County unofficial results President/Vice President Donald Trump/Michael Pence, 1,430 Joe Biden/Kamala Harris, 407 Jo Jorgensen/Jeremy "Spike" Cohen, 14 Howie Hawkins/Angela Walker, 2 Brian Carroll/Amar Patel, 1 U.S. Senator John Cornyn, 1,396 Mary "MJ" Hegar, 382 Kerry McKennon, 28 David B. Collins, 11 U.S. Representative, District 19 Jodey C. Arrington, 1,446 Tom Watson, 332 Joe Burnes, 43 Railroad commissioner James "Jim" Wright, 1,374 Chrysta Castanida, 371 Matt Sterett, 43 Katua "Kat" Gruene, 10 Chief Justice,...
