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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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Quay County, the village of Logan and more than a dozen landowners on Tuesday filed a lawsuit seeking to stop construction of the Ute Water Pipeline project. The Eastern New Mexico Water Utility Authority is building the 130-mile pipeline to bring water from Ute lake near Logan to Clovis, Portales, Texico and Elida. The lawsuit alleges the authority has only “a small portion” of the money it needs to complete the project and asks the 10th Judicial District Court to stop construction until it’s fully funded. ENMWUA offic...
Tuesday *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., Commission Room, Roosevelt County Courthouse, 109 W. First St., Portales. Information: 575-356-5307 *14th Annual Prairie Partners Meeting – 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Quay County Fair Barn, Tucumcari. Sponsored by El Llano Estacado Resource Conservation and Development Council. Registration $15 payable at the door (cash only) includes catered lunch with advan...
Curry Residents Senior Meals Association 1704 E 7th St. Clovis Monday: Chicken salad sandwich with lettuce & tomato, carrots, broccoli, mixed fruit. Tuesday: Chili cheese dog, three bean salad, Mediterranean blend, mixed fruit. Wednesday: Miss Olive’s chicken pasta parm, Island blend vegetables, light nonfat vanilla yogurt, four wheat crackers, grapes. Thursday: Ham and Swiss cheese sandwich with lettuce & tomato and tortilla, California blend vegetables, banana. Friday: Miss Olive’s Chicken creole, Italian blend veg...
On this date … 1915: The Clovis Woman’s Club appointed a sanitation committee to ensure the city’s livery stable was cleaned out twice a week. Club minutes also tell us, “Mrs. Anna Janes reported that the box supper will be December 8, proceeds of which will be used for the library fund. Be sure to bring your husband and remind him that his bids are to be very generous.” 1969: A black airman at Cannon Air Force was being court-martialed for refusing to cut his hair. Airman First Class August Doyle said he believed the order...
Clovis Menu unavailable Portales Monday: Breakfast: Cereal, cheese stick, apple crisp, juice. Lunch: Pizza, green beans, carrots, peaches. Tuesday: Breakfast: Ultimate breakfast round, fruit cups, juice. Lunch: Chicken quesadilla, refried beans, lettuce, tomato, applesauce. Wednesday: Breakfast: Graham cracker, sliced apples, juice. Lunch: Cheeseburger or hamburger, fries, lettuce & tomato, pears or cheeseburger or hamburger, fries, lettuce & tomato, pears. Thursday: Breakfast: Maple chicken pancake sandwich, banana, juice....
Anybody else out there fondly remember his grandmother’s pantry? I can close my eyes and still see and smell Grandma Ereth’s pantry. She had stuff in there that I didn’t normally get anywhere else. One unique thing was it was a walk-in pantry. Few people that I knew when I was little had one of those. Food at our house went in the kitchen cabinets. It wasn’t a big pantry. It was only a two-bedroom house that had been my great-grandparent’s home. My mother had grown up in a o...
The books listed below are now available for checkout at the Clovis-Carver Public Library. The library is open to the public, but patrons can still visit the online catalog at cloviscarverpl.booksys.net/opac/ccpl or call 575-769-7840 to request a specific item for curbside pickup. “Meddling with Mistletoe” by Liz Johnson. Whitney Garrett is preparing to enter culinary school in the spring, but first she has to sell enough homemade pies at the local Christmas markets to pay her tuition. When her oven breaks, Whitney asks Mar...
The Clovis Community Chorus Christmas Concert is set for 7 p.m. Tuesday at First Methodist Church, 14th and Sycamore streets. If you go, you might notice a guy playing the piano, the chorus' accompanist, James Golden. Those in attendance will experience "a variety of music across multiple genres and time periods," Golden said. "After the concert there will be a reception with drinks and goodies." Chorus Director Tami Martin "has done a great job in selecting the music for the...
ELIDA – Elida's basketball teams opened the season with resounding wins over Hondo on Tuesday night, the boys cruising 65-25 while the girls posted a 57-14 triumph. In the boys matchup, the Tigers opened a 16-5 lead at the quarter and never looked back. Senior Hayden Fraze tossed in 16 points and sophomore Hayden Wolf added 13 as all 12 Elida players reached the scorebook. For the Eagles, junior Ismael Ontiveros had eight points while senior Caleb Chavez and xxx Bryley M...
Tuesday *14th Annual Prairie Partners Meeting – 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Quay County Fair Barn, Tucumcari. Sponsored by El Llano Estacado Resource Conservation and Development Council. Registration $15 payable at the door (cash only) includes catered lunch with advance RSVP. Information: [email protected] *Books and Babies: “Winter Wonderland” — 10:30 a.m., Portales Public Library, 218 S. Ave. B, Portales. Open ages 0-3. Information: 575-356-3940 *Afterschool S.T.R.E.A.M. (Science, technology, reading, engineering, arts, m...
It certainly wasn't what Corey Pickett was looking for in his debut as the Clovis High boys basketball coach. Senior guard Latavious Morris scored 26 points and Atrisco Heritage took control from the start in a season-opening 72-46 victory over the Wildcats on Tuesday night at Rock Staubus Gymnasium. "They've got good players," Pickett said. "I think we had some first-game jitters, and our inexperience kind of got us." Morris tallied nine first-quarter points, including a...
While Portales High’s girls have a veteran leader in Wade Fraze, the boys enter the 2024-25 basketball season with a new coach in Ty Thatcher. Both teams kick off their campaigns this week. The Rams welcome Los Alamos to the RAC for a 5:30 p.m. tip on Monday, while the Lady Rams start play on Thursday in a tournament at New Home, Texas. Girls – Fraze begins his 12th season at the helm with a squad that returns four starters from last season’s 20-9 (4-2 District 4-4A) contingent. “Hopefully, that experience will help us this...
Where can I get free flu and coronavirus vaccines? If they’re not free, how much are they? What may be “free” shots to insured individuals are not “free” to the uninsured. “(Flu and covid shots) are typically covered 100% by insurance providers,” Amanda Schoenberg said. She is director of Communications and Content Strategy for Presbyterian Healthcare Services, operator of Clovis’ Plains Regional Medical Center Pharmacy. In an email, Schoenberg wrote PRMC Chief Executive Bill Priest “confirmed that the PRMC Retail Pharmacy i...
Fire destroyed most of his roof, but Richard Mares is still in business. The longtime car repair shop at 14th and Thornton in Clovis – Richard's Auto Service -- caught fire early Wednesday morning, but Mares said the roof took the brunt of the damage. The building is without power, but he's still able to do some work inside and the rest he's continuing at home. "I'm not giving up," he said Friday morning. "Just like Trump: Fight, fight, fight." Clovis Fire Department Deputy C...
Clovis City commissioners on Tuesday funded staffing for a new food program at the city’s Hillcrest Senior Life Center. The action is in the wake of the New Mexico Agency on Aging’s termination of the existing contract with the Curry Resident Senior Meals Association for meal services in October. With the city taking over the Hillcrest Senior Life Center’s meal program, effective Monday, the first action commissioners took was the funding and authorizing hiring of part-time drivers for home delivery meals from the Hillc...
The office of the State Auditor in Santa Fe is spreading the word federal money is available to some New Mexico counties. The money came to the state in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak of 2020 as “state and local fiscal recovery funds,” according to a news release from the auditor’s office. New Mexico received $701.7 million in SLFRF federal commitment. Of that sum, $530 million was obligated around the state. The auditor’s report shows $171 million remains to be committed. “With the deadline to obligate these funds by...
I must admit the blessings I feel gratitude for are embarrassingly mundane this season of Thanksgiving. I mean, I am thankful for weekends, babies, walks in the rain, comfy sofas, random acts of kindness, the fact that I pay so little attention at work, I am permanently exempted from having to sign a non-disclosure agreement… I am thankful that the descendants of Abraham have been blessed to be as numerous as the stars in the sky and the grains of sand on the seashore, although they do fall short of the number of a...
Public safety will be on the agenda in the upcoming 60-day legislative session, but Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s attempts to arm twist lawmakers on the issue last year won’t serve her well as she enters the lame-duck portion of her eight years in office. Lujan Grisham is the second consecutive Democratic governor who likely envisioned resigning early for a much loftier position in the federal government. Bill Richardson had been tabbed for commerce secretary in the Obama administration, which would have made him the fir...
You know the old song lyrics “Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am?” I’ve been hearing that on a loop in my inner ear over the past two weeks since Donald Trump pulled off what some have called a surprise landslide but which, after the votes were counted, seems to be more of an anti-Kamala “boy are they blue” wave. In other words, I doubt that America has embraced Trump because he’s received a lower popular vote percentage than almost every prior winne...
Otto von Bismarck, known as the “Iron Chancellor,” is arguably Germany’s greatest statesman and was responsible for transforming a collection of small German states into the German Empire. Bismarck was its first chancellor and served in that position from 1862-1890. He once said, “God has a special providence for fools, drunkards and the United States of America.” If Bismarck could watch the evening news today, he’d be saying, “I told you so.” On Thanksgiving, families all ov...
Once again, I’ve been told, by someone who is very serious, that every human interaction is inherently political. Few approaches to life are more tragic than this one. If you believe every interaction between people involves a political element, you’re doing it wrong. Politics is cheating. It’s what you resort to when you can’t persuade others to cooperate. It’s the method of the mugger, not the person offering products or services. It’s the use of force, coercion, a...
Donald Trump won 46% of the Latino vote, according to some exit polls highlighting the complexity and nuance of this demographic, which pundits too often mischaracterize as monolithic, or worse, an aggrieved minority. Against most expectations, a significant portion of moderate to conservative Latinos turned out for Trump, delivering critical margins in states such as Arizona and Nevada and exposed cracks in the Midwest’s blue wall. What gives? Progressive critics claim racism, misogyny, self-hate and even trauma rooted in 5...
As I was working on my side hustle last week (the events calendar for this newspaper), I couldn’t help but notice now many wonderful music events are on the near horizon. It got me to thinking about our old friend Wayne Crume, who provided a bulk of the live music our family listened to for some memorable years. Wayne was born in Kenna and grew up in eastern New Mexico, but lived away from here from the early 1950s to about 1980 when he and his wife, Carol, came back home t...
Clovis Municipal Schools Superintendent Renee Russ has told lawmakers she has "grave concern" regarding practical implications of changes the state Legislature made in 2023 to the New Mexico Human Rights Act. Russ said she emailed her concerns last month to all state legislators, asking they "revisit this matter and amend the New Mexico Human Rights Act in a way that allows schools to protect all students while restoring unity and trust within our communities." House Bill 207...
Editor’s note: This is the second in an ongoing series of questions/answers related to the Ute Water Pipeline, a project intended to provide a sustainable municipal and industrial water supply for several eastern New Mexico communities and Cannon Air Force Base. The water will come from Ute lake reservoir in Quay County. Editor David Stevens is submitting the questions to Mike Morris and Orlando Ortega, chairman and director, respectively, of the Eastern New Mexico Water Utility Authority. Readers may suggest questions by e...
