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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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CLOVIS - Bundle up, because December kicks off in Clovis with a day of seasonal programming near downtown that culminates in the annual "Christmas Lights" parade down the city's Main Street. Organizers are looking toward 75 or more float entries for this year's parade, which starts at 6 p.m. Saturday at 14th Street and continues southbound on Clovis' historic brick road toward 2nd Street. That should bring much of the action toward 7th and Main streets in time for a 6:15 p.m....
CLOVIS — Plateau Telecommunications, Inc. has agreed to purchase local information technology firm Saron Technology, according to a company release. Saron, first established in 2013, has provided IT services to business customers in and around the Clovis area. The purchase puts all of Saron’s assets under Plateau’s control, and all eight of its employees will join the telecommunications company established in 1949 as a rural telephone cooperative. Plateau has around 200 employees. “Plateau is always looking for ways to expa...
CLOVIS — A group of 23 teachers in the Clovis Municipal Schools district were recognized by the state as some of its most outstanding teachers, and qualified for salary supplements to be awarded in December, according to a release from the district. The teachers, who were not named, include four math and science teachers receiving $10,000 supplements and the remaining 19 receiving $5,000 supplements. The supplement required the teachers still be teaching in the state and be rated as exemplary under the state teacher e...
On this date ... 1968: Bob Stone, a pioneer businessman and church leader, died at his home in Clovis. Stone, 72, a veteran of World War I, had lived in Clovis since 1916. He operated Stone Grain and Elevator Co. from 1921 until 1943. He became director of the Clovis National Bank in 1928 and had been chairman of the board since 1957. He was also a deacon at Clovis' Central Baptist Church, on the New Mexico Baptist State Executive Board and on the board of the Baptist...
CLOVIS — Curry County is redesigning its website, and wants the site to feature photographs of the county submitted by citizens. Anybody interested in submitting their own original photographs taken in Curry County can do so via CDs, DVDs or thumb drives. All submissions must be digital, cannot feature businesses and should avoid close-up images of people or individuals. All submissions must include a signed release from the photographer authorizing the county to use the submissions on the website. The county will attempt t...
A mysterious invitation from Mesa Elementary principal, Julie Howell, recently arrived. Calling to enquire, the response was vague, just encouraged me to drop by at a certain time on a certain day. Like Alice in Wonderland, I thought, “Curiouser and curiouser.” Arriving at Mesa, the parking lot was overflowing and upon entering Mesa's large, multi-purpose room saw it was packed with adults and students. The air was electric; music was blaring with Mesa's students singing alo...
CLOVIS — Two men were arrested early Sunday after one allegedly pointed a gun at a Clovis bar employee and another nearly hit a police officer while driving from the scene. Terrance Martinez, 27, was charged with felony aggravated assault and misdemeanor negligent use of a deadly weapon after witnesses said he “had brandished a firearm and had it pointed at the chest of a Kelley’s security staff member,” before leaving the bar riding passenger in a pickup truck, according to a criminal complaint. The driver, Hayden Blanton...
SANTA FE — As expected, the House District 63 race is going into a recount. The Secretary of State’s Office currently has Clovis Republican Martin Zamora holding a 27-vote lead over incumbent Democrat George Dodge — 2,982-2,955. It’s one of three legislative races going into a recount, and it’s by far the closest. Democrat Abbas Akhil leads Jim Dines by 109 votes in their District 20 race, while Republican Gregg Williams Schmedes leads Jessica Velasquez by 138 votes in District 22. An automatic recount is triggered when the...
CLOVIS - Next stop: North Plains Mall, if you have even a passing interest in the pursuit of model trains or if you're simply looking to marvel at a miniature locomotive. Not to be confused with the local public transportation service with which it shares an acronym, the Clovis Area Train Society debuted on Friday an HO-scale modular layout across four 6-foot sections in an ovular track inside the room used previously to hold the local mall's food court. That's only about a...
Wednesday • Clovis Senior Center Design and Planning — 1:30 p.m., Clovis city hall, 321 Connelly. Information: 575-769-7908. Monday • Parks, Recreation and Beautification — 5:30 p.m., Clovis city hall, 321 Connelly. Information: 575-769-7870. Tuesday • Curry County Commission — 9 a.m., Commission Chambers, 417 Gidding St., Clovis. Information: 575-763-6016 • Portales City Council — 6:30 p.m., Memorial Building, 200 E. 7th St., Portales. Information: 575-356-6662 Wednesday • Clovis Community College Board of Trustees — 8 a.m....
Today • Tiny Tots — 10 a.m., Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main St., Clovis. Information: 575-769-7840 • Preschool storytime “Marvelous Manners” — 10:30 a.m., Portales Public Library, 218 S. Ave. B, Portales. Information: 575-356-3940 • Blood drive — 10 a.m.-2:30 p.m., Plains Regional Medical Center Hospital Cannon Room, 2100 N. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. Register online at www.bloodhero.com. Information: 877-258-4825 • Stitch Addicts stitch group — 1:30 p.m., Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main St., Clovis. I...
CLOVIS — Were Clovis High a smaller school, perhaps fans would see a running, gunning, razzle-dazzling team moving the ball quickly up and down the court this season. Being 5A — a notch smaller than last year, but still plenty big — means the Lady Wildcats will have to adapt to the schools that size, schools like Hobbs, Carlsbad and Roswell, who will likely force them to play a certain way. “We’re still trying to figure that out,” Clovis head coach Jeff Reed said Monday night...
PORTALES — One would think the silver lining in Portales missing the state volleyball tournament would be that it would give the Portales basketball team an extra week to prepare for the season. Not so fast, the New Mexico Activities Association said. Teams weren’t allowed to officially practice until Nov. 19, and coach Wade Fraze gave the players most of the Thanksgiving break off for needed rest. “All of my kids have been in season since August,” Fraze said. “I think the...
TEXICO — As the backboard was lighting up in red after Maryelle Dickerman’s buzzer-beating shot, it was on to the next season for Texico’s girls basketball team. Dickerman’s basket had won a 3A state championship for the Lady Wolverines, as they edged Tohatchi 48-47 at The Pit in Albuquerque last March 9. There was time to savor the crown, time to celebrate, time to soak it all in. But really, Dickerman’s shot brought an immediate end to the 2017-18 season for Texico, and the end to the high school careers of seven Texico se...
TEXICO — It doesn’t matter how many games you win if you don’t win the last. Man oh man, did Texico’s boys basketball team learn that the hard way last March at the Pit in Albuquerque. The Wolverines soared into that 3A state title game against Pecos with a 29-0 record, trying to go 30-for-30 while joining Bobby Knight’s 1976 Indiana Hoosiers in the ranks of undefeated basketball champions. The Wolves, though, emerged from that game 29-1. A fine record under different circumstances, but for Texico it represented a bitter end...
PORTALES — The Eastern New Mexico basketball programs have been on opposite ends of the spectrum in what has been a short pre-conference schedule. The women come in at 4-1 with a neutral-site blowout Saturday over New Mexico Highlands, while the men are 1-4 after suffering a road blowout Saturday at Washburn. But they’re both 0-0 in the all-important Lone Star Conference standings. That will change this weekend, as each team hosts Thursday and Saturday games to open the next t...
GRADY — For a second time in four months, Grady coach Rebecca Burns has seen a team she’s coaching adjusting to a new influx of players from San Jon due to a cooperative agreement. Burns, who also is Grady’s volleyball coach, said the adjustment has been easier with girls basketball. “I think we’re not having to break down the barrier as much,” she said about recent practices. “It’s been smoother than in volleyball.” House also was included in the cooperative agreement, but no athletes from there came out for the Grady pro...
A number of years ago now, I took some of our family 70 miles down the road looking for a little dose of culture. We went to hear the symphony, and, with them, the man who’s arguably the best classical guitarist in the world. Christopher Parkening’s performance that evening reminded me of one of my own. No kidding. The orchestra with which I performed was conducted by a Mrs. Stevens, who was not only the head of the Music Department at Amarillo’s San Jacinto Elementary, she w...
I have a love-hate relationship with the telephone, but it wasn’t always that way. Our first phone was part of a party line, a service we shared with seven other families. Each of us had a ring specific to our home, but there was, of course, nothing to prevent others from listening in to an ongoing conversation. (Alas, I was too young to properly take advantage of the rich eavesdropping opportunities available right in my own living room.) Our fellow party-line members i...
A marketing campaign considered by many the most successful in the history of advertising will celebrate a significant milestone next year, and in doing so bring some attention to this part of the state. A group of Forest Service employees and others involved in planning the 75th anniversary celebration of Smokey Bear — the iconic character that has, for generations, promoted wildfire prevention — were in Roswell recently looking to create partnerships in advance of the festivities and scout nearby locations for planned edu...
As I have stated a number of times, to be a good modern-day politician, you must be able to apply the theory of exaggeration. To do this, you must falsify your data and claim your moral superiority while declaring the moral worthlessness of your opponent. If someone has rational points that undermine your position, call them a name and change the subject. Being somewhat skilled at exaggeration, I felt the time has come for me to take my act on the road to test the waters for a presidential campaign. Trump has a news station u...
When deep trust is broken, it is gut wrenching, soul crushing, life altering. When the trust is broken by someone not only in a position of power over us, but someone who holds our deepest spiritual convictions, someone we believe has a special relationship to the Creator, it threatens our very bonds with God. How could it not? This is what happened when Catholic priests sexually abused young people over the course of decades. And so, it should not seem beyond reasonable belief that the children and teenagers who were violate...
Just when you thought sports parents couldn’t get worse, late last month in Santa Fe, obnoxious adults at — of all things — an elementary school basketball game took it to a new low. And that’s saying something. It’s apparently never too early to start showing kids how NOT to behave. The girls team from Acequia Madre was facing off against the team from Turquoise Trail Charter School. The brawl erupted as the game ended in an Acequia Madre victory. A deputy reported that one woman had a scrape on the left side of her chin tha...
“Old Clovis was a Frankish king, “Some fourteen hundred years ago; “He was a warrior fierce and bold, “And vanquished every bloomin’ foe.” — The Story of Clovis, 1909 We can’t celebrate his birthday since we’re not exactly sure when that was — sometime in the year 466 is our best guess. But we know he died 1,507 years ago this week, on Nov. 27, 511. So happy deathday, King Clovis. We recognize the first Christian king of France because he is almost certainly the namesake of Curry County’s largest city. Supposedly, a railroa...
I love the free market. The market, liberated from government rules, subject only to the choices of individuals. One of my choices is to not shop on major holidays. If I knew for certain the store let employees volunteer to work on the holiday it would be different. As it stands, no sales or discounts can entice me to shop on Thanksgiving or Christmas when I know the employees were probably coerced into working instead of spending the holiday with their families. I’m also n...
