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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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On Wednesday, I had the profound honor of participating in a community walk around Hillcrest Park in Clovis in memory of Marcos Ramirez - a young man whose life was tragically cut short due to gun violence. At just 26 years old, Marcos fell victim to a senseless act perpetrated by four juveniles who police say attempted to rob him. His loss resonates not only within his family but also within our entire community, forever altering the lives of at least five families,...
Today *Community-wide Thanksgiving service – 6 p.m., First Baptist Church, 100 S. Ave. C, Portales. Sponsored by Roosevelt County Ministerial Alliance; open to all. Monday *Monday Movie: “A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving” (1973; G; 30 minutes) – 11 a.m., Ingram Room, Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main St., Clovis. Seating first come, first served until capacity is reached. Outside snacks welcome. Information: 575-769-7840 *Ribbon cutting – 3 p.m., newly-finished Roosevelt County Electric Cooperative courtyard and charg...
When will the Ulta store open at North Plains Mall? And what kind of store is that? “They haven’t announced,” Mall General Manager Leeann Glen said Tuesday. “Ulta requires they be the party that announces when they open,” Glen said, and that hasn’t happened. A neighbor to the Ulta Beauty store, Marshall’s, opened Thursday. Both stores are in what mall management has referred to as “the Dillard’s box,” the former location of Dillard’s in the mall. An online link to the Ulta Beauty website has the Clovis location’s address li...
The Clovis Municipal Schools Education Foundation has selected 26 winners involved with nine projects for 2024-25 foundation grants. The grants were announced at an Education Foundation ceremony Wednesday at the CMS administration building. The foundation's scholarship and grants committee met Oct. 29 to discuss 15 applications the foundations received. The finalists will be receiving $25,150 in awards. A grant of $3,000 was awarded to Mesa Elementary School's Tori Blair for...
La Casa Family Health Care Center and Molina Healthcare of New Mexico will host two separate events in Clovis and Portales offering free Thanksgiving meal bags along with $15 Walmart gift cards on a first-come, first-served basis. Also, La Casa will be holding a flu vaccination drive for attendees, while supplies last. Thanksgiving meal bags will contain a $15 Walmart gift card to buy a turkey or ham, cans of green beans, cream of mushroom soup, fried French onions, mashed potatoes, gravy and rolls. The Clovis giveaway will...
The newest member of the Clovis Municipal Schools Board of Education has ties to Cannon Air Force Base and the Clovis-Curry County Chamber of Commerce. Board members Cindy Osburn, Terry Martin, Shawn Hamilton and Paul Cordova selected Amy Egbert for the position by unanimous vote on Tuesday night. Egbert will be representing CMS District 1, filling a vacancy left by Sharon Epps who resigned in October, citing family health needs. “I’m honored to be a part of this and I’m looking forward to hearing from the community and h...
Gamblers who sit down at a casino blackjack table know the odds are slightly tilted against them, but expect the game to be fair. Gamblers who bet on horse races can’t have that same expectation. While other sports have been touched by gambling scandals (the Black Sox of 1919 and an NBA referee caught betting on games in 2007), in horse racing gambling scandals are endemic. It was announced this month that a horse trained by Phil D’Amato had tested positive for methamphetamine. Under the old rules, D’Amato would have been sus...
There is a great old movie, a black and white classic called “Advise and Consent.” I make sure to watch it at least once a year, not just because of the incredible cast that includes Charles Laughton, Henry Fonda, Gene Tierney, Walter Pidgeon and Franchot Tone, but because it is incredibly relevant six decades after it debuted in theaters. It’s about the tug and pull of politics in D.C. and a brutally honest examination of how the sausage is made. The title refers to the p...
Deportations only mean less money for Social Security I am writing to take issue with a specific comment attributed to Republican Party Chair Steve Pearce, printed in the Eastern New Mexico News on Nov. 13. In explaining why he believes Democrats’ concerns over losing Social Security is a “scam,” he states, “If Trump is able to secure the border and return people to their homeland, that will cut leakage out of Social Security.” In fact, the opposite is true. Many, if not most, undocumented workers are paid via a paycheck in t...
If you read or follow online blogs or podcasts you realize there are those who are aggregators of news from many sources, such as Real Clear Politics. Some provide in-depth examinations of complex issues, like the Duran. And some are original stories from onsite reporters. I consider interviewers like Tucker Carlson and Joe Rogan to fall into the “in-depth” category. I regularly peruse as many of these sites as I can absorb before I get MEGO (My Eyes Glaze Over). Also, I add n...
Should you try to make the world better or give up because it’s hard? Judging by how those trying to make things better are treated, most people want you to give up. When I say “better,” I mean safer for life, liberty, and property. Those who are too weak or confused to live in the real world, or who benefit from ruling you, would have a different definition. Most of them believe keeping you like a zoo animal is better for them, and they’ll work to make you imagine it’s be...
The 2024 election has set our country on a fresh course, one that embraces traditional American values: freedom, economic responsibility, and effective governance. For New Mexicans, these shifts on the national stage bring renewed hope for policies that support local communities, protect our resources, and prioritize sustainable growth. With new leaders in place, we have a real chance to address key issues that affect our state and secure a more prosperous future. Among the areas where national policies can have an immediate...
Editor’s note: Some content in this report is sexually explicit and may not be appropriate for some readers. A Clovis occupational therapist is facing additional charges alleging sex crimes against children. Jared Cordum, 29, was initially arrested in July and charged with one count of criminal sexual penetration of a child under 13, multiple counts of criminal solicitation to commit criminal sexual contact of a minor and practicing medicine without a license. He is now f...
It may be the most beloved tree in Portales. It's certainly the most photographed. The majestic ginkgo tree that graces the front lawn of the administration building at Eastern New Mexico University's Portales campus has had a banner autumn. Beautiful in any season, every few years this tree pulls out all the stops and turns its corner of campus into a glowing canvas of gold. This was one of those years. It seems almost wrong to talk about it in past tense, but last weekend's...
Between state and federal programs aiming to get all New Mexicans reliable, high-speed internet access, there are still about 95,000 households left out of the mix. State broadband officials are looking for legislatively allocated dollars to fill the gap. And how would they use the money to fill the gap? Satellite technology. Nearly 100,000 households aren't eligible for federal broadband programs, a gap that state-provided vouchers and subsidies for satellite high-speed internet services could help address, said Drew...
The New Mexico Senate Republican caucus has selected a former state representative as its new chief of staff. Dennis Roch, who served in the House from 2009 to 2018, was selected after an “exhaustive process,” the caucus announced Wednesday. “Dennis clearly has extensive knowledge of the Legislature and the legislative process,” Senate Minority Leader Bill Sharer, R-Farmington, said in a statement. “He also possesses contacts and connections across the state ensuring we fulfill our mission to represent all New Mexicans....
Eastern New Mexico University last week announced the inaugural induction of art educators into its Art Educators Hall of Honors. “This honor celebrates the extraordinary dedication, leadership, and impact of art educators who have significantly contributed to art education,” the university stated in a news release. The ENMU Art Educators Hall of Honors will induct two to three honorees every three years, starting with the inaugural class this fall. Kathy Craig of Fort Sumner schools and Jeanette Main of Roswell schools mak...
The Clovis Police Department last week announced a new program aimed at reducing retail theft. The task force, consisting of retailers, law enforcement, regional and state lawmakers, is called the New Mexico Organized Retail Crime Association. “NMORCA is cooperating with local businesses and shares information on retail theft and any organizations involved in retail theft,” according to a police news release. “The goal is to prevent these incidents, reduce losses, and prevent unnecessary price increases for merch...
ALBUQUERQUE -- The Board of Directors of the New Mexico Foundation for Open Government has named Christine Barber its new executive director. She will begin her new role Monday, according to a FOG news release. Her past employment includes work as executive director of two non-profit organizations focused on providing services to marginalized individuals and work as a journalist at the Gallup Independent, the Santa Fe New Mexican and the Albuquerque Journal, the release...
I probably hadn’t seen Frank Capra’s “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” before launching my crusade 50 years ago, but the idea “lost causes are the only causes that are worth fighting for” would’ve certainly resonated with me. On Nov. 10, 1974, I opened the Sunday comics section of the Nashville “Tennessean” and discovered that “Dick Tracy” had been unceremoniously canceled mid-story. I was blindsided. The jut-jawed detective had “always” (well, since 1937, anyway) been part of the “Tennessean” Sunday funnies. Call me an obsessed...
On this date … 1952: Cannon Air Force Base personnel were preparing to celebrate Thanksgiving with a traditional turkey and dressing feast served in both airmen dining halls and the officers open mess. A Thanksgiving eve dance was also on the calendar, as well as Jewish, Protestant, and Catholic services. Many airmen also had invitations to dine with local families in lieu of spending the holiday on base. 1956: A pair of Clovis teens had confessed to robbing the juke box at Juarez Café. One boy told Chief of Police Nelson Wor...
Monday *Roosevelt County Crimestoppers — Noon, ENMU Campus Union Building, Portales. Information: Darla Reed at [email protected] or 575-226-5237 Tuesday *Roosevelt General Hospital Board of Trustees – 5:30 p.m., board room, Business Office Building, RGH, 42121 US-70, Portales. Information: 575-359-1800 Thursday *Thanksgiving Day Dec. 3 *City of Portales Public Works Committee meeting – 9 a.m., Memorial Building, 200 E. Seventh St., Portales. Information: 575-356-6662 *Roosevelt County Commission – 9 a.m., Commiss...
New Mexico lawmakers have long talked about changing the way the state handles capital outlay as projects that have been awarded funding fail to materialize and huge sums of money that could be used for other purposes sit in the bank. With balances of unspent capital outlay now approaching $6 billion, lawmakers pledged last week to finally take action. The amount includes the roughly $932 million budgeted for that purpose in the current fiscal year. "It's gotten out of hand," said Sen. George Muñoz, a Gallup Democrat who chai...
SANTA FE — New Mexico's crime problem might also be, in large part, a crime-solving problem. A legislative report released Wednesday found that while the state's violent crime rate has persisted well above the national average in recent years, the rate of clearing such crimes has steadily dropped over the last decade. Specifically, the clearance rate for solving violent crimes has gone from about 1 in 4 cases a decade ago to about 1 in 7 cases currently, according to the Legislative Finance Committee report. That could be d...
The city of Clovis plans to crack down on panhandlers with the introduction Thursday of new city codes targeting the activity. City Attorney Jared Morris described the legal climate for such a move is good in light of Las Cruces adopting similar ordinances in September. "There has been recent case law as to how far cities may go," Morris told commissioners. Morris said the codes make clear the action is in relation to public safety. Targeted is aggressive solicitation,...
