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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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Crystal Aurora Mendoza, age 40 of Clovis, New Mexico passed away on November 25, 2023 outside of Plains, Texas. Funeral service will be held on Tuesday, December 12, 2023 at 10:00 AM at the 16th and Pile Church of Christ with Michael Harmon, Minister, officiating. Burial will follow in Mission Garden of Memories Cemetery. Immediately following the service, the family requests that everyone stay for the meal provided. Crystal was born in Portales, New Mexico to Valentine Sena...
Anna Lu Southard, 86, of Clovis, died November 28. Visitation will be from 5:00 – 7:00pm, Tuesday, December 12, 2023, at Steed Todd Chapel in Clovis, New Mexico. Services will be at 10:00am Wednesday, December 13, 2023, at W. 21st Church of Christ, Troy Oliver officiating, with grandsons Jordan Bean, Payton Bean, Jaxon Bean, Reagan Southard, Glen Southard, Justin Balkun and Marc Solis serving as pallbearers. She was born December 1, 1936, to Glen and Lillian Bost in L...
Wilma Fulgham, age 92, of Clovis, NM passed away on Tuesday, December 5, 2023. Visitation was held on Thursday, December 7, 2023, from 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm at Muffley Funeral Home, 1430 Thornton St., Clovis, NM. Funeral Service were held on Friday, December 8, 2023, at 1:00 pm at Central Baptist Church, 2501 N Norris St., Clovis, NM with Pastor Michael Kirby and Dan Pearce officiating. Burial was held at Mission Garden of Memories, 2900 W. 7th Street, Clovis, NM. Rick Anderson,...
A Clovis woman shot Sept. 20 died on Sunday in a medical facility in Albuquerque, Clovis police said. Melissa Silva told police that her ex-boyfriend, Chasidy Mathis, shot her through her bedroom window, court records show. Mathis has been at large since the shooting. District Attorney Quentin Ray said charges against Mathis will likely be upgraded from aggravated battery to murder, but authorities were awaiting an autopsy report before issuing new warrants. Silva told police...
Stephanie Chavez has been named director of Clovis' Hillcrest Park Zoo. Chavez, hired about seventh months ago as a curator for the Clovis zoo, previously worked for zoos in San Antonio, Texas, and El Paso. "When I was a young kid, this was a dream of mine," said Chavez, 29, who grew up in El Paso. "I didn't think it would ever happen, but now I'm super excited. This has been one of my dreams and aspirations." Chavez succeeds Damian Lechner, who took a position at an Arizona z...
Clovis High School was locked down briefly Wednesday afternoon when "a firearm was recovered from a student's backpack by school staff," according to Clovis Police Chief Deputy Trevor Thron. "The student took off running from the campus and is no longer on scene," Thron said in a text message to The News. "Officers are on scene and everyone is safe and okay." Police were still trying to locate the student late Wednesday afternoon. Thron said the gun is in officials' possession and the lockdown was lifted about 4 p.m. Thron sa...
DORA – Juniors Ashton Davis and Aaron Combs combined for 35 points on Saturday, helping Dora defeat Elida 58-44 in the boys' third-place game of the J.P. Stone Invitational. Davis scored 18 points and Combs had 17 for the Coyotes (2-1), who opened a 13-point halftime lead by outscoring the Tigers 13-3 in the second quarter. Elida (1-2) made a game of it, pulling to 35-30 by the end of the third stanza, before the Coyotes pulled away down the stretch. Logan claimed the tourname...
Booked The following were booked into local jails (Friday - Tuesday): Clovis • David Montano, 24, failure to appear on a felony charge • Vernon Newberry, 64, failure to pay fines • Monica Crisp, 39, failure to pay fines • Juan Rivera, 51, failure to appear on a felony charge • Elias Soto-Sarabia, 45, battery • Arturo Curiel-Loya, 28, driving while under the influence of intoxicating liquor or any drug • Sherri Gomez, 39, aggravated driving while under the influence of intoxicating liquor or any drug • Zachary Hurd, 28, resis...
When the world weighs on me, I pull out a tattered cookbook and thumb through the pages. Baking therapy. The old book has recipes from decades and people long past. There’s something soothing about those pages, and revisiting family stories. I don’t know that it’s a family history so much as a hodgepodge of memories. Past celebrations. Past holidays. Past conversations. I replay conversations with my dad over and over again. When things are especially trying, I picture him in...
Long-suffering readers of this column know that I care about and try to focus on the traditional foundational truths of Christianity, but one of my deep beliefs is that truth is truth wherever it is found, and all of it is God’s. When someone begins to talk about “my truth,” as if truth could be changed for any individual like choosing a differently colored shirt, I want to dissent. Gravity is a law that follows laws, and in this world, we all must deal with its truth — and al...
LAS VEGAS, Nev. – 'Tis the season for broncs and bulls, riding and roping. The Wrangler National Finals Rodeo is back. The 65th NFR is celebrating its 38th year in Vegas. It begins Thursday and lasts through Dec. 16 at the Thomas & Mack Center. Clovis native Shad Mayfield has qualified again in tie-down roping. He comes in with $206,603 in prize money for the year, second only to Riley Webb of Denton, Texas, who has earned $280,404. This is Mayfield's fifth consecutive s...
SANTA FE – The last time Michael Brockett talked with Mike Reeves, the topic was community. “We talked about the Christmas parade,” Brockett said. “He was super excited about our department being a part of it. He was always big on community. That was his thing. He was proud of the Sheriff’s Office and he was proud to lead us.” Reeves, the Curry County sheriff, was found dead in a Santa Fe hotel room Monday morning where he’d gone to attend law enforcement training. He...
HOBBS – With many of their top performers not on hand, Clovis High's swim teams probably did well to earn fifth-place team finishes in Saturday's Reid Eagle Invite. Seniors Porter Kidd, David Reeb and Kriday Andiboina for the boys competed over the weekend in the Core Classic at Garland, Texas, just outside Dallas, while the Lady Wildcats had four key varsity swimmers – juniors Julia Spears and Brynn Longley, sophomore Claire Pella and freshman Molly Kidd – plus a couple of se...
Senior guard/forward Jahcoree Ealy is off to a hot start this season, and as a result Eastern New Mexico University's men have made an early statement in the Lone Star Conference. On Saturday, Ealy registered a personal-best 31 points, shooting 11-for-13 from the floor, and the Greyhounds posted their second triple-digit game of the weekend with a 101-82 blistering of St. Mary's at Greyhound Arena. On Monday, the Conway, Ark., product was named the LSC men's offensive player o...
AMARILLO – Clovis High’s wrestling team had two girls and one boy place in the top eight in the season-opening Randall Ruckus over the weekend. For the girls, sophomore Zulehiny Mendoza earned a seventh-place finish in the 114-pound weight division. She defeated Hereford sophomore Andreah Ozuna by first-period fall in the seventh-place matchup. Also, junior Yocelyn Romero was eighth for the Lady Wildcats in the 126-pound division. She dropped her final-round clash against freshman Savannah Nichols of Lubbock Coronado on a s...
As that old song says, what a difference a day makes. It did for Clovis High's boys, anyway. Coming off a season-opening, 15-point loss at Hereford on Friday night, the Wildcats rebounded with a strong third quarter to eventually subdue Rio Rancho 68-47 on Saturday at Rock Staubus Gym. Six-foot-7 senior center Marvin Cox was in the middle of it. With the Cats leading just 28-24 starting the second half, Cox hit three 3-pointers and scored 11 points as Clovis quickly pushed...
On this date … 1940: A 16-year-old boy was in Clovis’ jail waiting for railroad officials to question him about an incident that occurred in Dalhart, Texas. The boy told police he wanted to turn himself in to authorities because he was wanted for escaping parole in Kansas. That was not the case, but police inquiries led to the Dalhart connection. “I don’t know whether it was his conscience bothering him as much as his stomach,” Clovis Police Chief R.M. Witherspoon said. “He was a pretty hungry young man and couldn’t find anyt...
Business partners Amanda Ornelas and Jonathan Rodriguez are set to open their Tropical Twist Café in mid-December. “We’ll be offering acai bowls, smoothies, ginger shots, lemonades and teas,” Ornelas said. Ornelas described the acai bowl as a smoothie base but like ice cream sprinkled with granola and featuring chopped fruit on top. “We’ll have all kinds of smoothies: Strawberry banana, a daily green smoothie, chocolate peanut butter twist and other selections,” Ornelas said. She added the purpose of the ginger shot is to h...
TUCUMCARI — The Quay County Health Council again is offering training with Narcan, a medication that can reverse the effects of an opioid overdose. The council will offer the free training at 11 a.m. Saturday in the Tucumcari Main Street office of the Tucumcari Railroad Museum. Training will last about an hour and show how to identify an opioid overdose, the laws that protect citizens trying to save a life, how to use Narcan and follow-up care of an overdose victim. Free Narcan kits will be provided to each participant, a $...
The automatic recount of the Grady mayor’s race and City Council positions resulted in no changes, Curry County Clerk Annie Hogland said. The county’s Recount Election Board convened Monday to review the Nov. 7 election results. The Grady races were each decided by fewer than five votes, which requires an automatic recount, according to state statute. None of the numbers changed, Hogland said. In the Grady mayor’s race, James Carroll Schell defeated four other candidates. He received 13 votes, compared to 10 for Kodie D. We...
TUCUMCARI — The city of Tucumcari will receive $2 million from a state recreation fund that the city manager said will be used to improve its Little League fields and the Tucumcari Recreation Center. Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s office last month announced $40 million in grants from the Regional Recreation Centers and Quality of Life Grants fund. “Yes!” Tucumcari City Manager Paula Chacon said of news of the city’s grant award. “That’s great news.” Chacon said the money would be used to improve the city’s Little League fie...
Excuse me for skipping the great debate Thursday night between the governors of Florida and California. I had better things to do than watch a meaningless political debate between Red State hero Ron DeSantis and Blue State hero Gavin Newsom. Anyway, I’ve already suffered enough political pain in the last few months. I’ve watched what seemed like a dozen presidential primary debates – Republican Party exhibition games, really – starring a bunch of second- and third-s...
Donald Trump is telling us he’s a threat to democracy. We just have to listen. Earlier this month on his Truth Social website, Trump threatened to “expel” and “cast out” government workers who oppose his radical views, describing them as a “sick political class” that hates the country. The 2024 election, he wrote, “is our final battle.” Sound apocalyptic to you? The former president’s use of the words “cast out” elicited a chorus of praise from his most loyal constituency: whi...
While public confidence in journalism remains low, surveys in recent years by the Pew Research Center and Gallup, among others, suggest that local news is faring better in public opinion. Surveys show high rates of confidence in local reporting and community information, as well as for advertising sources. Interestingly, the confidence spans age groups: It’s not just the older generations that value their local newspapers, even as more and more people look for that information online. A 2019 survey by Pew also found that m...
Chonies. It’s one of my favorite words I learned here in The Great American Southwest. It’s a colloquialism for underwear. I mean, call underwear what everyone else everywhere else does and it’s pretty plain: Underwear, tighty whities, stuff like that. Chonies? That gives underwear character, that gives underwear soul. One may give chonies even more character, even more soul by using them theatrically. I need to explain this. A couple of times in my life I have walked out of my domicile wearing just my chonies, to get atten...
