Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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CLOVIS — To cap or not to cap. The Clovis City Commission pondered such amid a discussion-only update on its first round of CARES Act small business continuity grants Thursday night. The city received $4.26 million from the state to reimburse local businesses for COVID-19 related expenses like employee payroll, rent and renovations to operate commerce under COVID-safe practices. The Clovis-Curry County Chamber of Commerce, operating under a $60,000 contract with the city, is handling the application and review process b...
Curry Resident Senior Meals Association 901 W. 13th St., Clovis 575-762-9405 All meals served with 2% milk Monday: Chicken strips, roasted potatoes, cream gravy, blended vegetables, bread stick, fruit cocktail Tuesday: Meatloaf, mashed potatoes, brown gravy, green beans, carrots, mushrooms, dinner roll, peaches Wednesday (9 a.m.-11 a.m. serving time): Sausage links, scrambled eggs, potato cubes w/peppers and onions, biscuit and gravy, banana Thursday: Closed, holiday Friday: Closed, holiday Friendship Senior Center 901 W. 13t...
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 and Portales schools are both off the entire week Melrose schools Monday: Breakfast, ham breakfast bars, fruit; Lunch, Thanksgiving dinner, fruit Tuesday: Breakfast, pancakes, fruit; Lunch, Thanksgiving dinner, fruit Wed...
Information on making the economy of clutter work for you, making lightweight leather jewelry, and working with chalk paste will be the featured topics on “Creative Living” 9:30 p.m. Tuesday and noon Thursday (all times Mountain). Kathryn Porter is a book author and has coined a phrase she calls Clutternomics -- or making the economy of clutter work for you. She'll explain how to de-clutter our homes and lives so we can have more room and more time for the things that are tru...
With age I’ve realized that no matter how good a bed you have, you just can’t stay in it for 8-12 hours like you could as a young man. If you wake up at 1 a.m. then again at 4:30, you need to face facts that you’re not going to be able to sleep after 4:30, you’ll just lay there and hurt and turn the coming day over in your head. I had one of those mornings last week, but as I woke up the second time I realized that morning was the peak of the Leonids meteor shower. I slipped...
Muleshoe High School graduate Willard Norman is living proof - it's never too late to make your dream job happen. Born in Dimmitt in 1957, Norman was the middle child of 11. He grew up in Muleshoe on a farm where his father worked. "Living on a farm was great. It was good country livin,'" Norman said of his upbringing. After high school, he was offered a rodeo scholarship for his bull-riding but declined, intending on becoming a Texas state trooper. But those plans soon...
Jahmi’us Ramsey has reached one of his long-term goals. The former Texas Tech guard was afforded a rare opportunity, hearing his name called and being selected in the second round with the 43rd pick by the Sacramento Kings in the NBA Draft on Wednesday. “NBA draft tonight. 3rd consecutive year for our program in the Green Room. @newanimprovedJR proud of you and love you. Never Lose Your Chip. I’ve got your back. #4to1,” Texas Tech men’s basketball coach Chris Beard wrote Wednesday afternoon on Twitter before the draft. Ramsey...
The Farwell and Muleshoe’s boys got their 2020-21 basketball seasons off to solid starts on Tuesday with home victories. Farwell dominated start to finish in thumping Hale Center 65-24 while the Mules put together a strong second half to dispose of Morton 50-40. The Steers led by 11 at the quarter and steadily pulled away from the Owls, who were also playing their season opener. Grayson Waldrop led Farwell with 19 points, followed by Slade Perkins with 11, while Hale Center’s top scorer was Drew Smith with eight. Mul...
FARWELL - Rarely, if ever, has Farwell senior guard Presley Agee gone into halftime of a game with just two points. Muleshoe girls coach Kim Chaffin said she had a feeling things might change when play resumed, and they did. Agee poured in 22 of her 24 points in the final two stanzas, and the Lady Blue held off a furious Muleshoe comeback for a 57-51 victory on Friday night. "I told my team at the half, 'She's about to go off,'" Chaffin said. "It's hard to shut down a kid...
CANYON — Just when Bovina appeared to be getting back into Thursday night’s Class 2A Division II area playoff game, Vega had the answer. A 32-yard field goal by junior Angel Lara cut the Mustangs’ deficit to 11 points with 24 seconds to go in the half, but Vega senior Riley Tiemann returned the ensuing kickoff 82 yards for a score and the Longhorns advanced with a 35-10 victory at Kimbrough Stadium. Bovina coach Coby Emery thought his team would be well-positioned after Lara’ 3-pointer made it 21-10, with the Mustang...
ELIDA — Following a lengthy back-and-forth over the parameters, Eastern New Mexico Water Utility Authority members agreed Thursday to commit up to $58,000 on Colorado attorney Peter Nichols for help facilitating a town hall and land trust to aid in an anticipated federal program to protect groundwater. The News participated in the meeting via telephone due to COVID-19 restrictions. Authority Chair David Lansford said through the Readiness and Environmental Protection Initiative, the area could receive up to $30 million in f...
It is now obvious that Joe Biden’s presidential “victory” has entered the fabled realm of “settled science.” And in record time. What took global warming a decade to achieve, Biden accomplished in less than a week. The gloves are now officially off. Anyone who questions Biden’s “victory” will be canceled. And the Kancel Kommissars have greatly expanded their reach. It’s not just the big fish. It’s any fish. Kommissars landed me Wednesday morning and blocked my little Twitter account. (@ReluctantUser2 if you’re interested.)...
A few days after the election, when things were still a bit murky, I made an offhand remark to some friends about what kind of hat I should crochet for the march that would be taking place the day after Joe Biden’s anticipated inauguration. Of course, we won’t be needing any hats. There will be no throngs of women parading down the avenues of big cities like Washington, D.C., New York and Philadelphia with needlework replicas of genitalia on their heads. That is so 2016, that...
New Mexicans need to stand up for rights As a fourth-generation New Mexican, I'm writing to insist that our governor return her salary for the next two weeks to the state coffers or give it to the charity of her choice. Her decision to shut the state down again is deplorable and a move that has put the good people of New Mexico in a financial and emotional downspin. In the meantime, she sits in the governor's mansion not experiencing any financial pain, again, while her citizens lose their livelihoods. If you agree with me,...
Recently, Santa Fe, Rio Rancho and Clovis school districts joined Albuquerque and Las Cruces schools in abandoning any in-person learning. Instead, for the foreseeable future all learning in some of New Mexico’s larger school districts will be done online. The odds seem very good that this situation will continue into 2021 and possibly through the end of the school year. Oddly, while Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham constantly tells us that her anti-COVID efforts are based “on the...
Californians have suffered greatly in our crazy war against the China virus. Our economy is a wreck. Restaurants are dying off by the hundreds. Schools are half closed. Disneyland is a ghost town. And now things have gotten worse. Because cases of new positive infections and hospitalizations have jumped lately, Gov. Gavin Newsom has pulled the “emergency brake” on reopening the state’s economy, imposed a new limited “stay-at-home order” through Dec. 21 and issued a bunch of...
No one expected Donald Trump to handle a defeat in the 2020 election well. It was predictable he’d deny that he really lost and allege the vote was rigged, that he’d tweet wild and misleading things, and that he’d lash out in absurd and sophomoric ways. All that was inevitable. What’s been more disturbing is how far he and his allies have been willing to push it, not content only to delegitimize the election, but actively seeking to invalidate it. This was the vista opened by...
For months we’ve argued over whether it’s a “hoax” or “just like the flu.” Solutions range from “shelter in place” to “herd immunity.” Some of the talking heads said, “It’s going to be over after the election anyway,” so we argued about whether we should trust the media. And we’re still arguing, even after last weekend, when COVID-19 walked off the TV screen and stomped down our Main Street, slobbering and biting and knocking stuff over. That’s when three dozen people were hospitalized at Clovis’ Plains Regional Medic...
CLOVIS — Yo Mama’s is offering a free Thanksgiving Day meal, according to a release. The food truck, located southeast of the intersection of 21st and Thornton streets, will offer a meal of turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, green beans, stuffing, roll and pumpkin pie from 11 a.m. until it runs out. The business asks community members to wear face coverings and observe 6-foot social distancing to help it stay within state guidelines. The Lighthouse Mission in Clovis will be making and delivering meals for Thanksgiving, and wil...
SANTA FE — Sen. Greg Baca will replace longtime New Mexico Senate GOP floor leader Stuart Ingle in the latest shakeup for a chamber that will have new faces in several key posts come January. Senate Republicans voted during a closed caucus meeting this week to elect Baca, R-Belen, as the new Senate minority leader. Ingle said the body doesn’t disclose vote totals, but noted the vote to elect Baca was close. Ingle, a Portales farmer, has represented the Senate’s 27th district since 1985 and was first elected Senate GOP leader...
PORTALES — A Union County man housed at the Roosevelt County Detention Center hung himself on Nov. 11, according to an in-custody report from detention center staff. Officials have declined comment on the death of Eric Padilla, 37. The News acquired the report via a public records request. According to the report: • Padilla was found in his cell unresponsive at 12:24 a.m. Nov. 11. • An officer doing rounds observed Padilla hanging from his bunk with a pair of socks tied around his neck. The officer entered the cell, cut t...
CLOVIS — The city of Clovis has taken the first step in expanding taxpayer-funded economic development to retail businesses. However, many steps remain following an 8-0 resolution approval at the City Commission’s Thursday virtual meeting. Mayor Mike Morris said in his first days as mayor with the COVID-19 pandemic just beginning, he asked city administration what could be done for local retailers affected by state-mandated closures to mitigate virus spread. He discovered Local Economic Development Act money — taxpayer funds...
CLOVIS — Clovis Municipal Schools and Melrose Schools have chosen to return to remote learning, citing rising COVID-19 cases in the community and a desire to retain some control over a return to hybrid learning models. Both districts essentially ended virtual learning this week, with Melrose beginning remote learning on Monday and Clovis starting Nov. 30 after taking this week off for the holiday season. The districts were first cleared for a phase-in to in-person learning in September, when Curry County met the state’s gat...
CLOVIS — Like many other businesses, gyms are temporarily closed because of the shelter in place orders that began Monday. As the holidays near and calorie-dense meals with lots of leftovers loom on the horizon, community members may be concerned about their hard-earned physiques. Others who use gyms as a way to maintain their mental health may be worried that seasonal depression could hit harder this year without those extra endorphins they get from working out. Health experts tell us that during these times it is important...
SANTA FE — Gov. Michelle Lujan-Grisham announced last week that the state’s special session to discuss relief funds for residents would take place Tuesday. She said the state will make a plan to disburse $300 million from the CARES Act to unemployment, housing assistance, and small business grants. To show the rapid spread, and the reasoning behind the recent reset, Lujan-Grisham explained that it took 98 days for the state to originally see 10,000 cases, but it only took seven days more recently for the state to jump fro...
