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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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CLOVIS - Mayor David Lansford believes to get a $90 million water infrastructure project going, local members are going to have to "put skin in the game" and supply the first $20 million before the state and federal governments supply the rest. The Clovis City Commission largely agreed, approving a property tax to help fund that $20 million while including language that protects taxpayers if the state and federal partners don't provide some skin in kind. Following a two-hour...
CLOVIS - Steve Owen has lived nearly his entire life in Clovis, with one big exception. He was drafted in 1942 to serve in World War II, which took him from the boundaries of the state to foreign shores, serving in the South West Pacific Area. At 101, Owen is one of few remaining veterans from WWII, which ended 74 years ago. He served 3 1/2 years in the Army Air Corps as an aircraft mechanic. This year he was elected to be Saturday's marshal of the Clovis Veterans Day Parade,...
Baxter Curren Senior Center 908 Hickory St., Clovis Sunday: 2 p.m. gospel singing Monday: Closed for Veterans Day 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, 6 p.m. musical, 2 p.m.-4 p.m. needle gang, 6 p.m. musical Wednesday: 8 a.m.-4 p.m. exercise equipment, 8:45 p.m. board meeting, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. 8-ball pool, 8:30 a.m. exercise class, 9 a.m. sew days, 10 p.m. stamp viewing w/Jeff Greene, 11 p.m.-1 p.m. United Way Taco Pile On, 1 p.m. needle...
Clovis Elementary Monday: Breakfast — No school Tuesday: Breakfast — Mini donut. Lunch — turkey & cheese croissant, veggie dippers, ranch dressing, fresh apple, veggie bar. Wednesday: Breakfast — Orange muffin top. Lunch — Chicken tenders, mashed potatoes, gravy, seasoned green beans, chilled fruit, veggie bar. Thursday: Breakfast — Breakfast burritos. Lunch — Chili cheese fries, fresh broccoli, ranch dressing, fresh fruit, cookie, veggie bar. Friday: Breakfast — Apple fruit pocket. Lunch — Pepperoni pizza, garden salad & ra...
Information on making handmade cards, nutritional testing and decorating monthly calendar pages will be the featured topics on “Creative Living” 9:30 p.m. Tuesday and noon Thursday (all times Mountain). Susan Legits, independent demonstrator with Stampin’ Up, will demonstrate how to make ten cards in ten minutes using some basic stamping techniques and various craft supplies to transform the cards so that they are all different. She’s from Albuquerque. After discove...
It’s hard to believe there are only six left. Can that really be true? Is the Greatest Generation slipping away? When I read the information about this year’s American Legion Post 31’s Veterans Day service it seemed all wrong. Portales has to be home to more than six World War II veterans. That is apparently all that are left now. When you do the math though, you realize the very youngest WWII vet now is 91 it has to be true. The thought of just six left clanged around in my...
PORTALES — The 2019 Little Miss Merry Christmas candidates have been announced by the Ambassadors of the Roosevelt County Chamber of Commerce. This year’s field includes 12 girls from ages 5-10 vying for the title. As a part of Portales’ holiday tradition, the Little Miss Merry Christmas Contest raises funds to maintain the white Christmas lights that are on display throughout town and around the courthouse. The contest runs until 5 p.m. Dec. 4. An official pre-parade Coronation Ceremony will take place at the historic Yam T...
On this date ... 1969: The Clovis Junior Women’s Club had announced its annual home tour. Five Clovis homes were scheduled to be decorated for the holidays and open for public viewing. The homes were located at • 701 E. 21st • 1744 Baronne Court • 1617 Courtland Circle • 2824 Axtell • 1921 Enloe Drive. Tickets were $1 with proceeds benefiting the Curry County Retarded Children’s Association. Pages Past is compiled by David Stevens. Contact: [email protected]...
A Clovis man was killed early Thursday morning in a two-vehicle crash east of Fort Sumner. David Lucio, 50, died at the scene, according to the New Mexico State Police. According to an NMSP release: • The department was called to mile post 334 of U.S. 60 about 3:45 a.m. for reports of a head-on collision. • For unknown reasons, a 2005 Kia driven by Lucio crossed the center line into the oncoming traffic of an eastbound lane and struck a 2015 Mack Commercial Motor Vehicle. • Lucio was ejected from his vehicle and suffe...
CLOVIS — The Clovis Community College Board of Trustees wants to make sure when Charles Nwankwo arrives as president, they have a house that’s perfect for him and his family. But they also don’t want to pay $186,770. That’s why, via a 4-1 vote, trustees tabled the request for fixes to the residence at 1621 E. 21st St. to see if staff could work with vendor Griego and Sons on a less expensive bid. The work, funded through CCC’s Building, Renewal and Replacement funds, included four proposed components: • Interior painting ($...
CLOVIS — The Curry County Office of Substance Abuse Prevention reported Thursday it had received 80 pounds of expired, unused and unwanted prescription drugs during its Oct. 26 Take Back Day. The takeback day was held nationwide, with Curry County participating at a pair of area pharmacies serving as collection sites. Statewide, there were 93 collection sides that took back 6,863 pounds of medications. Nationwide, 6,174 collection sites took in 882,919 pounds. The next Take Back day is April 25, 2020. Information: Tanya H...
Clovis The following marriage licenses were recently filed at the Curry County court clerk’s office: • Bobby Belane Williams, 64, and Zina Stonelake, 64, both of Clovis • Zachary Tyler Kerce, 20, of Clovis, and Daycie Danae Dozhier, 19, of Albuquerque • Patrick Carl Bennett, 22, and Ashly Leann Hunsucker, 21, both of Clovis • Logan Michael Brown, 33, and Michelle Diana Grace Wilkerson, 32, both of Clovis • Michael Kevin Berrio, 24, and Tosca Ayana Fasting, 22, both of Clovis • Troy Dawn Randolph Jr., 60, and Xiaohuan Ma,...
Booked The following were booked into local jails (Wednesday - Friday): Clovis • Tracy Silguero, 29, failure to appear at time and place stated in citation • Brandon Brophy, 35, driving while license suspended or revoked • Vernon Burch, 52, probation violation • Jose Villalta, 20, failure to pay fines, probation violation • Jose Maldonado-Rosas, 63, criminal sexual penetration in the first degree • Jacob Ratigan, 23, failure to appear on a felony charge • Jeremy LeClear, 41, resisting, evading or obstructing an officer, false...
President Donald Trump’s response to the massacre in Sonora, Mexico, of three women and six children at the hands of suspected drug cartel thugs was all too typical. He took to Twitter — and offered to send U.S. troops across the border to set things right. “If Mexico needs or requests help in cleaning out these monsters,” Trump tweeted, “the United States stands ready, willing & able to get involved and do the job quickly and effectively. The great new President of Mexico has made this a big issue, but the cartels have beco...
If there’s one thing that elite opinion tends to agree about on the left and the right, it’s that nationalism is a very bad thing. If anything, this view has become even more entrenched as nationalism has demonstrated its potency in recent years, from the election of Donald Trump to Britain’s vote to leave the European Union. When President Trump first openly embraced the term “nationalist” at a 2018 campaign rally, commentators reacted in horror. Patriotism is about lov...
Joe Biden is going to win the Democratic nomination for president. I wouldn’t run to your bookie with this information. My track record is spotty, at best. But I’ll be shocked if I’m wrong and I’ll have plenty of company, including many Democrats. I don’t believe Biden is going to win because he’s putting together a great campaign or because he has the best ideas. In fact, if I were advising the former vice president, I would tell him to take some time off. Don’t do anything or say anything. Just kind of disappear for a while...
If you’re a young child trapped in our infamous foster care system, your future is bleak. It’s likely that you’ll bounce around to more than a dozen foster homes until you “age out” at 18 and are allowed to live on your own. Then, within two years, there’s a six in 10 chance you’ll be living on the street, in jail or involved in sex trafficking. Being adopted by a loving family is the miracle any foster child hopes and prays for. But chances of that happening are tragicall...
I wouldn’t consider myself a pottery collector. I’ll more likely be in an actual barn than a Pottery Barn, and I’m never in barns. But when I do get pottery, it tends to make a mark. When my friend Adrian screwed up in art class, he gave me the flawed baseball-sized pot that resulted from it. I spent the rest of the school day saying within earshot of teachers, “You should check out the pot Adrian gave me; it’s in my locker.” That pot is still in my possession to this day, and it usually stores pocket change or the screws...
Local eneral election results Results unofficial prior to Tuesday canvassing School and college boards Curry County Clovis School Board District 3 • Paul S. Cordova Jr. - 182 District 4 • Shawn L. Hamilton - 563 District 5 • Terry Martin - 199 Clovis Community College Board of Trustees District 1 • Laura Agnelia Leal - 533 District 3 • Lora L. Harlan - 186 District 4 • Carolyn B. Spence - 353 • Raymond Mondragon - 312 Roosevelt County Portales School Board Position 1 • Rodney O. Savage - 178 Position 2 • Inez F. Rodriguez...
Of course you can fight City Hall. Clovis residents proved last week you can even win, sometimes. OK, let’s call it a moral victory. City commissioners, no doubt alarmed at the community outrage over another tax increase, came up with a plan that’s not quite so painful as the original. They still approved the tax hike to fund the development of the interim groundwater portion of the Eastern New Mexico Rural Water System. But only if the state and federal governments put their “skin in the game” too, meaning they produce...
Monday • Veterans Day • Portales Municipal Schools board — 6 p.m., Board Room, L.C. Cozzens Administrative Offices, 501 S. Abilene, Portales. Information: 575-356-7000 • Clovis Astronomy Club — 7 p.m., Room 143 or 145 (look for signs), Clovis Community College, 417 Schepps Blvd., Clovis. Information: 757-846-7509 Tuesday • City of Clovis Water Policy Advisory Committee — 8:30 a.m., Clovis City Hall assembly room, 321 N. Connelly, Clovis. Information: 575-763-9654 • Curry County Commission special meeting — 9 a.m., Commissio...
PORTALES — The Portales Municipal Schools Board of Education will celebrate a silver rating from its Portales High School floriculture team when it meets Monday evening. The 6 p.m. board meeting at the PMS administration building will celebrate the team, along with receipt of a student council report during its student organization reports. The board will also consider adopting a laundry list of policy revisions, ranging from programs for pregnant and parenting students to release time for religious instruction and truancy i...
Both the Curry County Commission and the Roosevelt County Commission will meet at 9 a.m. Tuesday, with the primary purpose of the meeting a canvassing of votes from the Tuesday general election. The Curry agenda, however, does have a few more items. Roosevelt commissioners meet at the Roosevelt County Courthouse and Curry commissioners at the Curry County Administrative Complex. Other items on the Curry agenda include: • Creation of a fund to hold $72,000 representing the county’s 5% share of the Local Government Tra...
Realtor Carolyn Spence is looking to bring a unique business sense and the perspective of conservative values to the Clovis Community College Board of Trustees after winning a seat during Tuesday’s election. Spence defeated incumbent Raymond Mondragon in the race for Clovis Community College Position 4 and will begin her tenure on the board of trustees starting next year. The race was a highlight for the election that also saw voters approve alcohol in the unincorporated areas of Curry and Roosevelt counties. Spence said s...
CLOVIS — A 26-year-old Clovis man is in custody, charged with an open count of murder following a Thursday night shooting at a home on North Lea Street. Johnny Rae Vigil is accused of killing Jahmall Burge with a handgun owned by Burge. The incident happened about 6:45 p.m. Thursday. Vigil was arrested about 7 a.m. Friday at a residence on West 10th Street in Clovis, police said. Police on Thursday night issued a statement reporting Vigil was a “person of interest” in connection with the case. A criminal complaint filed...
