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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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SANTA FE — The state will relax some of its public health restrictions on Wednesday, but details of a county based COVID-19 risk system show reopening will be a slow process. The office of Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham announced its first phase of reopening following a two-week period that closed non-essential business and severely limited the capacity for businesses that were open. Beginning Wednesday, counties will enter one of three zones for COVID-19 risk levels. Green, yellow and red levels depend on whether a county h...
CLOVIS — About 80 Clovis businesses are expected to see pandemic-related relief expenses from the CARES Act small business continuity grants. The city has approved applications ranging from a few thousand dollars to $100,000. City officials said last week they have decided to cap awards at $100,000 and open a second round of applications so that more businesses might receive funding. A list of applicants acquired by The News shows 13 local businesses will not see their full requested reimbursement amounts with a r...
ROPESVILLE, Texas — Farwell’s boys started fast in each half and the Steers cruised to a 61-29 victory over Ropes on Tuesday night. Farwell (2-1) scored the game’s first six points and was never headed. Leading 30-9 at the intermission, the Steers opened the second half with a 13-0 blitz to put the game completely out of reach. Junior Leo Nunez led a balanced Farwell attack with 12 points. He was joined in double figures by senior Jonathan Mora with 11 and junior Dustin Sides with 10, while seniors Austin Hester and Slade...
PORTALES - Parker Smith was blessed with the athletic ability to be a collegiate softball player, and the decisiveness to know exactly what she wanted to do as a career. "I never wanted to be anything else," Smith said, "but a softball coach." So why wait? Smith is forgoing her senior season at Eastern New Mexico University to take over at Stephenville High School, just 45 minutes from her hometown of Early, Texas. She starts Monday at Stephenville as a physical education...
Newberry C.D. "Spud" and Laura Beth (Cook) Newberry of Clovis celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary Nov. 19 at their home. The two were married Nov. 19, 1955, at Missionary Baptist Church in Morton, Texas, in a two-ring ceremony. He is retired after 40 years with McDaniel's Floor Covering. She is retired after 25 years with the Clovis Municipal Schools food services. They have three children, seven grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren. They are the perfect example of...
Curry Resident Senior Meals Association 901 W. 13th St., Clovis 575-762-9405 All meals served with 2% milk Monday: Fried chicken, mashed potatoes w/cream gravy, green beans, dinner roll, spiced pears Tuesday: Beef soup with potatoes and onions, cornbread, spiced apples Wednesday: Chicken strips, broccoli and rice casserole, roll, pudding Thursday: Beef lasagna, blended vegetables, salad, garlic toast, fruit cocktail Friday: Steak fingers, mashed potatoes, blended vegetables, chocolate pudding with Oreos Friendship Senior...
The books listed below are now available for checkout at the Clovis-Carver Public Library. The library itself is closed to the public, but patrons can visit the online catalog at clovis.polarislibrary.com or call 575-769-7840 to request a specific item for curbside pickup. “44 Charles Street” by Danielle Steel (OverDrive ebook). The plumbing was prone to leaks, the furniture rescued from garage sales. And every square inch was being devotedly restored to its original splendor-even as a relationship fell to pieces. Now Fra...
Editor’s note: Meal service is to go due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Meal information is provided by school officials or websites. Contact individual schools for specific details. Clovis schools Monday: Breakfast, blueberry muffin; Lunch, spaghetti and meatballs, garden salad, ranch dressing, chilled fruit, whole wheat roll, fresh veggies Remaining menus n/a Portales schools Monday: Breakfast, ultimate breakfast round, fruit cups, juice, milk; Lunch, cheeseburger, fries, apple, milk Tuesday: Breakfast, muffin, applesauce, j...
Information on making various items by transforming patterned paper through folding, and doing stumpwork embroidery will be the featured topics on “Creative Living” 9:30 p.m. Tuesday and noon Thursday (all times Mountain). Susan Legits is an independent demonstrator for Stampin’ Up! She’s going to demonstrate making various containers, cards, gift card holders and party favors just by transforming patterned paper through folding. The best part is you don’t even have to measur...
Many years ago I was prompted to take notice of how I prayed. Too often my prayers were more of a list of requests than they were a time of thanking God. I got better, but I’m not perfect and sometimes I slip back into that old way of praying. It’s been a little harder than usual this year as we struggle through a pandemic. We’ve all really been caught up and consumed by the things we don’t have right now. From toilet paper to being able to eat out at our favorite restaur...
In the midst of a pandemic lockdown, local Christmas activities will be scarce this holiday season. And much like many other activities in 2020, the few holiday activities still taking place will look different this year. Both the Clovis and Portales communities have decided to carry through with their Christmas light parades, but with one slight difference — attendees will be the ones moving while the Christmas floats remain stationary. “We're trying to preserve the parade and Little Miss Merry Christmas, but we obv...
ALBUQUERQUE — The New Mexico State Bar will offer a free virtual workshop Dec. 9 for estate planning, probate services and institutional Medicaid. The webinar is presented by the Legal Resources for the Elderly Program, and will run 11 a.m.-noon. Registration is available at attendee.gotowebinar.com/ register/38806904167585 99949. A confirmation email will be sent following registration....
Booked The following were booked into local jails (Tuesday-Friday): Clovis • Brandon Storseth, 26, failure to comply with specific requirements • Stephanie Knight, 32, receiving/transferring stolen motor vehicles, concealing identity, resisting, evading or obstructing an officer • Samuel Segura, 26, out of state fugitive • Cassie Dickinson, 20, unlawful use of an ATM card - conspiracy, unauthorized use or theft of the card of another, theft of identity • Adriana Garcia, 33, probation violation • Lidia Gonzales, 22, failure...
On this date ... 1975: The clouds over the High Plains promised more moisture than they delivered, but wind took folks' minds off the breach of promise, the Clovis News-Journal reported. The blustery weather provided just .12 of an inch of rain in Clovis, boosting the year's total to 13.84. More noteworthy: winds gusting to 40 mph, which caused brief power outages in Clovis and Texico and destroyed a tin bar near Muleshoe. 1960: Southwestern Kansas, hitting 59 percent of its...
In the suburbs of Philadelphia, Montgomery County’s Board of Health issued an order by unanimous vote this month to shut down all in-person learning at school for two weeks. The reason for the shutdown is the reason every local, regional, and national official has used over the past eight or so months: COVID, corona, Wuhan, call it whatever you want. The pandemic is making decisions for us. Except, not everyone is accepting these decisions with the docility that these governme...
It may be the sort of birthday where someone shouts, “50 candles blazing on the cake? Are you crazy? Why don’t we just fill a pinata with cow methane while we’re at it???” I’m speaking of the 50th anniversary of the Environmental Protection Agency. President Richard Nixon proposed the independent executive agency on July 9, 1970, and it began operation on Dec. 2, 1970. The EPA didn’t arrive on the American scene a moment too soon. Bob Hope and Red Skelton were running out of smog jokes, and newcomer Flip Wilson’s Ge...
I could not have been more wrong about how the election would affect the Great Pandemic Panic. I assumed that if Biden won, or the left could claim he won, the WuFlu would be consigned to the hazmat container of history. Why lockdown the country, bankrupt businesses and put school children under house arrest if the results can’t be blamed on Trump? What I failed to anticipate was how much leftist governors and their pet bureaucrats would enjoy newfound powers under what Candace Owens calls “diet fascism.” They like order...
LAS CRUCES — I was originally not going to include Libertarian candidate Bob Walsh in the U.S. Senate election interviews we conducted recently on community radio, but my co-host, Peter Goodman, argued that if Walsh was on the ballot he needed to be invited. I’m glad he did, as Walsh provided my favorite moment of all the campaign interviews this year. I asked him about the government’s role in healthcare, and put it in the most basic terms I could think of. “I have no money. I have no insurance. I get in a car crash....
We live in a time of heedless iconoclasm, and so one of the country’s oldest traditions is under assault. Thanksgiving is increasingly portrayed as, at best, based on falsehoods and, at worst, a whitewash of genocide against Native Americans. The New York Times ran a piece the other day titled, “The Thanksgiving Myth Gets a Deeper Look This Year,” bristling with hostility toward the day of gratitude and noting that “the holiday arrives in the midst of a national struggl...
Just when you thought government couldn’t possibly inflict any more grief on a small business owner … welcome to the city of Clovis. City officials announced last week they would be capping CARES Act grants at $100,000. They will also be reopening applications to those who didn’t apply the first time for the $4.2 million available for businesses crushed by the coronavirus pandemic and government-forced shutdowns. Some saw the action as changing the rules in the middle of the game. There was no mention of a cap, and no guara...
SANTA FE — A COVID-19 relief bill was passed by New Mexico Legislature during a special session on Tuesday. The bill will provide over $300 million to various sectors of New Mexicos economy that are struggling during the second shut-down of the pandemic. Funds used by the bill come from $309 million remaining from the federal CARES Act and $10 million in state dollars. The largest portion of the funds will go to 161,000 unemployed New Mexicans who will soon receive a one-time payment of $1,200. Other designated spending inclu...
Monday • Noontime Music Faculty Recital Series — Noon, ENMU Reads Facebook page. Video recital featuring repertoire composed for clarinet, trumpet, and piano. Recital will include the world premiere of “Day Trips,” an eight-movement work by Dr. B.J. Brooks, ENMU alumnus and current professor of music at West Texas A & M University. Presented by the ENMU Department of Music. Information: http://www.facebook.com/ENMUReads/ Wednesday • Deadline to donate items for the Cannon Air Force Base Annual Holiday Goodie Drop — Collect...
Meetings are subject to change due to coronavirus concerns Tuesday • Roosevelt County Commission — 1:30 p.m., Jake Lopez Building, Roosevelt County Fairgrounds, 705 E. Lime, Portales. No public access. Livestream available on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1bHckYttNQnmm6ymJhWaXQ and a recording of the meeting will be saved as a public video and linked from the county website, https://www.rooseveltcounty.com, following the public meeting. Information: 575-356-5307 • Portales City Council — 6:30 p.m., auditorium, Mem...
CLOVIS — The Curry County Christmas tree is set to go up Monday morning, according to a representative of the High Plains Historical Foundation that helps decorate the tree and provide its decorations. Work will begin 9 a.m. Monday, said Patsy Delk of the foundation. The tree will be located on the Curry County Centennial Garden, located just south of the Curry County Courthouse on the 700 block of Main Street. Delk said the tree requires about 225 ornaments, which are largely comprised of a three-year rotation of d...
CLOVIS — Marie Gomez has been with the Lighthouse Mission for 35 years, most recently as its receptionist. But Executive Director and son Richard Gomez said the void she leaves in her retirement this month goes far beyond any job title. “She was just an all-around person,” said Richard Gomez, a co-founder of the organization. “Greeting the people, answering the phones, she was the mother, the grandmother, the friend, the candy lady. Just everything to everybody that walked in.” As mother to the co-founders, Marie Gomez was...
