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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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PORTALES — For the moment, at least, Eastern New Mexico University regents received a bit of good news for the 2021-22 school year and voted unanimously Friday to keep tuition and fee rates unchanged for the upcoming school year. Vice President of Business Affairs Scott Smart had told regents in their Nov. 13 meeting he anticipated bringing a request to raise tuition and fees by 5% in the face of declining enrollment and state funding. But in Friday's virtual meeting, Smart said a recent Legislative Finance Council meeting i...
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 Manager’s choice through December. Meals may be picked up at any participating CMS site, and any child 18 or under can pick up a meal regardless of enrollment status in the district. Thursday will be a Christmas meal, including ham or turkey and au gratin potatoes. Portales schools Monday: Breakfast, Benefit bar, fruit cups, juice, mil...
Curry Resident Senior Meals Association 901 W. 13th St., Clovis 575-762-9405 All meals served with 2% milk and tossed salad w/dressing Monday: cheeseburger, baked beans,, potato chips, oatmeal cookie Tuesday: Chicken pot pie, over biscuit, salad, fruit salad Wednesday: Red chile beef, enchiladas, pinto beans, green chile corn, cottage cheese & fruit Thursday: BBQ riblet,, mac & cheese, peas, roll & pears Friday: Christmas meal, baked ham, baked sweet potato, green beans, roll, Jell-O salad, pumpkin pie Friendship Senior...
The books listed below are now available for checkout at the Clovis-Carver Public Library. The library has reopened to the public, but patrons can continue to visit the online catalog at clovis.polarislibrary.com or call 575-769-7840 to request a specific item for curbside pickup. “The Vietnam Veterans Memorial at Angel Fire” was donated in memory of G.C. Ross. Author Steven Trout delivers an insightful and clear-eyed view of the first national Vietnam veterans memorial and the family that constructed it in remembrance of...
Information on making cuff bracelets from a variety of materials, working with clayboard and “spicing up” an indoor garden with a small species of lizard will be the featured topics on “Creative Living” 9:30 p.m. Tuesday and noon Thursday (all times Mountain). Marisa Pawelko is a licensed designer for Sizzix, and she’s going to show how to create easy and fun custom cuff bracelets using shape cutters from her collection. She’ll also show a wide variety of materials i...
Ever wonder where your favorite Christmas movies or television scenes were filmed? Were the iconic “hometown” settings real towns or just based on the idyllic settings of the mind’s eye? Some had a kernel of realism mixed with film magic but many were Hollywood smoke and mirrors from the get-go. Cue the snow machines. The Bing Crosby classic “Holiday Inn” that featured his hit song “White Christmas,” was filmed in Sonoma County, Calif. Not much chance of a postcard snow...
CLOVIS - Airam Amaya's day at the General Medical COVID-19 Unit at the Clovis hospital usually starts with reading reports on patients and checking their vitals, emotional mind frame, and medications. The nurse's days start the same, but with every bed in the unit usually filled, Amaya said the past month has entailed extra shifts for all of the nurses in her unit and days with little to no moments to pause other than a brief lunch break. "This past month has hit us pretty har...
ARLINGTON, Texas - Entering the final night of the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo, Clovis native Shad Mayfield held onto a tenuous earnings lead for the world tie-down roping title. Mayfield, with $198,399.13 in season earnings, still led the world standings entering the Saturday finale at Globe Life Field. But Hunter Herrin of Apache, Oklahoma and Westyn Hughes of Caldwell, Texas, had certainly given chase. Herrin entered Saturday at $168,164.68 and Hughes $146,967.68, and...
MULESHOE - It's been a rough start to the season for the Littlefield girls basketball team. Fourth-year coach Teddy Duncan said her squad has had seven games erased from their schedule, mostly due to covid concerns. The Lady Wildcats entered Friday's Class 3A District 3 opener against Muleshoe at 0-4, and trailed by nine with just under 4 1/2 minutes left. But they rallied for 12 consecutive points, and junior guard Emily Champion salted the contest away with three free throws...
Booked The following were booked into local jails (Tuesday-Friday): Clovis • Don Meier, 69, criminal trespass • Makenzie Diaz, 38, out of state fugitive, failure to pay fines • Travis Fulkerson, 39, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge • Cassie Dickinson, 20, probation violation, resisting, evading or obstructing an officer • Paul Aragon, 51, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge • Manuel Duran, 47, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge • Jose Escoto, 48, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge • Calvetti Johnso...
CLOVIS - Clovis High senior Emma Sherwood has been selected to participate in the American Quarter Horse Association's Ranching Heritage Young Horse Development Program, according to an AQHA release. As part of the program, Sherwood received a 2020 buckskin filly American Quarter Horse donated by the AQHA Ranching Heritage Breeder Nixon Quarter Horses in Nara Visa. "I've been around horses since I was a little girl, it's something that I have been very blessed with and I bond...
CLOVIS — Float entries for this year’s Clovis and Portales Christmas parades were down by nearly two-thirds each, but public attendance was observed to be high in the pandemic-friendly conditions. “We were incredibly surprised with the enormous turnout,” Clovis MainStreet Director Lisa Pellegrino-Spear told The News. “Over the recent years we have seen a substantial growth of the Christmas parade but we never anticipated that this year we would see such an incredible turnout.” Road Department staff and the Clovis Police Depa...
SANTA FE — The New Mexico Department of Health announced a pair of new public health emergency orders in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The orders, effective Friday through Jan. 4, limit non-essential surgeries and activated “crisis care” standards by outlining credentialing processes for COVID-19 health care providers. Under the order, executed by Acting Health Secretary Billy Jimenez, all hospital acute care facilities in the state may not provide non-essential surgical procedures. Non-essential surgeries are defin...
SANTA FE — State officials provided an update on COVID-19 vaccinations and promising numbers on reduced spread of the virus, but encouraged continued adherence to public health orders and common-sense COVID-safe protocols. During a virtual update Thursday afternoon by the governor’s office, the state reported 1,791 new cases of COVID-19, including 24 in Curry County and eight in Roosevelt County. The state also reported 23 new deaths, including a male in his 70s from Curry County and a male in his 80s from Roosevelt Cou...
CLOVIS — Jack Muse of Clovis believes one man’s trash is another man’s treasure, and 14 months ago sought a business license to turn that belief into a material repurposing business on a lot he owns on the 2800 block of Prince Street. City officials, after a query into the property and its zoning laws, instead sent a cease and desist letter in January and proffered an agreement for Muse to sell the materials with a deadline that the COVID-19 pandemic has repeatedly shifted. The city’s planning and zoning commission ratified t...
Sen. John Arthur Smith told me several years ago that he was sold on the potential for Spaceport America after hearing space industry executives gush about the possibility to conduct secretive testing and research in the remote New Mexico desert. In the hypercompetitive private space industry, secrecy is a selling point for recruiters looking to lure more new businesses to the spaceport. But for those concerned about government transparency and accountability, that same secrecy is a sticking point. In 2017, officials at...
I have been pretty honest and clear about my refusal to sing Kumbaya with the other side on policy. But I’m not willing to demonize people with whom I disagree in areas where politics and policy, ideology and integrity are irrelevant. Case in point: Phil Murphy. The Democratic governor of New Jersey was out last month dining with family, when two irate constituents began to heckle him with foul but familiar epithets. I will leave to your fertile imaginations the sort of t...
I thought I was going to escape the madness of the L.A. Lockdown. I thought if I rented a small weekend getaway house in a rural part of the state two hours north, my family and I could eat outdoors at a restaurant again, or at least leave our basement without a note from our tyrannical governor. But I thought wrong. I didn’t count on Gavin Newsom’s latest lockdown edict. Two weeks ago life in empty and beautiful Santa Ynez Valley — where my father had his ranch and I’ve...
Just when it seemed some of the most disheartening trends in the U.S. economy were finally beginning to reverse, COVID-19 arrived to entrench them. The pandemic has been a neutron bomb targeted at the prospects of lower income working people. They had finally begun to benefit from the recovery from the Great Recession when the virus ravaged sectors of the economy that disproportionately employ them. The Washington Post has called the resulting economic damage “the most u...
Chuck Yeager died last week, at 97. It’s amazing that a great movie has never been made of his life. His was a life that, if anything, was larger than its own lore and legend. Maybe no movie, or actor, could do such a life justice. He went from a squirrel-hunting, outdoor-loving, wild West Virginia boy to the greatest test pilot of all time — arguably the greatest aviator of all time. The only two who could contest him for the title are Charles Lindbergh and Neil Armstrong. He flew 150 different military aircraft and log...
Monday • School supply donations project begins — sponsored by the ENMU Phi Kappa Phi honor society. Donations of highlighters, small whiteboards that fit in backpacks, mechanical pencils, wide ruled paper, spiral notebooks and dry erase markers being accepted through Jan. 7 to be distributed to Portales High School students in need. Donations may be dropped at the Do Drop In, 123 S. Main Ave., Portales, or Sweetwaters at Landall’s, 421 S. Ave. C, Portales, or mailed to Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, 1500 S. Ave. K, Station...
Meetings are subject to change due to coronavirus concerns Monday • Portales Municipal Schools board — 6 p.m., virtual meeting. Join: https://meet.google.com/fcf-hmuo-ojd +1 314-433-5615 PIN: 281422811#. Information: 575-356-7000 Tuesday • Curry County Commission — 9 a.m., via Zoom. Information: https://www.currycounty.org/open-government/meeting-portal or 575-763-6016 • Roosevelt County Commission — 9 a.m., Jake Lopez Building, Roosevelt County Fairgrounds, 705 E. Lime, Portales. No public access. Livestream available o...
CLOVIS — A pedestrian who died in an October accident was struck by a pair of vehicles, according to a crash report of the incident released last week. Cindy Tenorio, 56, died at the scene of the Oct. 25 crash on East Llano Estacado Boulevard. The News received the crash report Friday following a public records request. The report cleared for release redacted the names of both drivers and a witness to the event, and there was no indication of citations. According to the report: • The driver for Vehicle 1 said he was tra...
CLOVIS - Two years ago, Craig Tatum decided he wanted to make Clovis a little cooler. Last week, the non-profit leader's efforts earned national recognition. Tatum received the President's Volunteer Service Award for his work with Operation Cool Down, which helps families in need during extreme weather. "Regardless of what people think about (President) Trump, I think it's an honor just coming from the White House itself," Tatum said. "Me being small as I am, born and raised i...
A Cannon Air Force Base staff sergeant was honored in a socially distanced ceremony Thursday for his acts of bravery more than three years ago in Afghanistan. Alaxey Germanovich, special tactics combat controller for the 26th Special Tactics Squadron, was awarded the Air Force Cross at Cannon. The award is the second-highest military award for valor in combat, behind the Medal of Honor. The official ceremony took place in an aircraft hangar at Cannon, home of the 27th Special...
