Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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CLOVIS — Under the right light, 30 days can seem like a marathon — or a blink of the eye. Enter the New Mexico legislative session. The 30-day session included plenty of spending, including $1 million for the Eastern New Mexico Water Utility Authority, capital outlay worth $5.3 million throughout Curry County and $3.8 million throughout Roosevelt County and an additional $500,000 for road improvements in Roosevelt County. The News reached out to local legislators for their thoughts on the 30-day session that concluded Thu...
LOVINGTON — The Portales Lady Rams couldn’t quite finish out a perfect District 4-4A regular season. PHS suffered a slow first quarter on Friday night and dropped a 40-36 decision to Lovington, snapping its 11-game winning streak dating to the Portales Shootout in early January. Nonetheless, the Lady Rams (19-7, 5-1 district) were already assured the top seed in this week’s district tournament and will host Friday’s 6 p.m. championship contest at the Ram Athletic Center. Senior guards Rylee Mapes and MaLena Espinoza tallied...
CLOVIS - The only thing left to do now is vote. There was a palpable sense of relief once candidates in each Clovis city race left the dais of the Clovis-Carver Public Library's North Annex on Wednesday night. They left knowing the Big 101.5 forum was the last scheduled for the election season, with early voting continuing Monday through Saturday and Election Day March 3. Sixteen candidates attended the forum covering four different races - mayor, city commission districts 1...
Today • ENMU Department of Theater and Digital Filmmaking presents “The Tempest” by William Shakespeare — 2 p.m., Mainstage, Eastern New Mexico University Theater Center, Portales. Directed by Patrick McCreary. Tickets: $10 general admission; $7 senior citizens (60 and up) and activity duty military; ENMU students free with ID. Information: 575-562-2711 Monday • Women’s Initiative Network (WIN) luncheon — 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m., Clovis Civic Center, 801 Schepps Blvd., Clovis. Sponsored by United Way of Eastern New Mexico. Progr...
These books are available at the Clovis-Carver Public Library: “Highfire” by Eoin Colfer: In the days of yore, he flew the skies and scorched angry mobs — now he hides from swamp tour boats and rises only with the greatest reluctance from his La-Z-Boy recliner. For centuries, he struck fear in hearts far and wide as Wyvern, Lord Highfire of the Highfire Eyrie — now he goes by Vern. However ... he has survived, unlike the rest. He’s the last of his kind, the last dragon, his glory days are long gone. Or are they? “The Andr...
Clovis Elementary Monday: Breakfast — Sausage and cheese bagel. Lunch — Oven roasted drumstick, mashed potatoes, gravy, garden salad, ranch, chilled applesauce, fresh veggies. Tuesday: Breakfast — Mini cinni’s. Lunch — BBQ porky rib on a bun, baked french fries, cole slaw, chilled fruit, fresh veggies. Wednesday: Breakfast — Churros. Lunch — Mini cheese ravioli, garden salad, ranch, chilled pineapple, homemade roll, fresh veggies. Thursday: Breakfast — Egg sausage cheese biscuit. Lunch — Chicken tenders, mashed potatoes,...
Baxter Curren Senior Center 908 Hickory St., Clovis Monday: 8 a.m.-4 p.m. 8 ball pool, 8:30 a.m. exercise class, 10 a.m. jewelry pals, 1 p.m. canasta, 1 p.m. line dance, 5 p.m. social night. Tuesday: 8 a.m.-4 p.m. exercise equipment, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. 8-ball pool, 8 a.m. quilting, 11 a.m. line dance, 1 p.m. pinochle, 6 p.m. musical, movie day. Wednesday: 8 a.m.-4 p.m. exercise equipment, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. 8-ball pool, 9 a.m. sew days, 8:30 a.m. exercise class, 1 p.m. needle gang. Thursday: 7:30 a.m. blood pressure, 8 a.m. breakfast,...
Information on what neuroscience tells us about fear and creativity, and selecting the perfect pair of jeans will be the featured topics on “Creative Living” 9:30 p.m. Tuesday and noon Thursday (all times Mountain). Writing coach and author Annalisa Parent will explain what neuroscience tells us about fear and creativity. She uses a term called “emotional hijacking” and she’ll tell what causes it, what effect it has on people and explain how to prevent it in order to stay i...
I spent six hours last week with the first president of our great nation. Or at least the History Channel’s retelling of George Washington’s story. Most of us grew up in a classroom with a portrait of George Washington on one side of the blackboard and Abraham Lincoln on the other side. We celebrated Lincoln’s birthday on Feb. 12 and Washington’s birthday on Feb. 22. Today we just jam the two together under the name Presidents Day for the purposes of a federal holiday...
CLOVIS - Most municipal election candidates seem focused on encouraging economic growth and many are determined to learn from the city's past mistakes. Candidates on Tuesday crowded into a small room at the KTQM studio for two hours, answering questions submitted by listeners in a free-for-all open forum. Mayoral candidates are Raymond Mondragon, Michael A. Morris, Stephen B. North, R.L. Rube Render and Sandra Taylor-Sawyer. District 1 City Commission candidates are George...
CLOVIS — A somewhat familiar bunch of faces is coming back into town for the summer’s Draggin’ Main Music Festival. Music fans will, however, see a drop from three concerts to two when the festival runs June 13-20. The details were discussed during the Clovis/Curry County Chamber of Commerce’s board meeting on Wednesday. Board President Greg Southard said Penrose, Colorado-based Gravel is on to do the opening act for .38 Special in the June 19 headliner concert. Southard announced during the January chamber banquet that .3...
Mike Bloomberg is cool, correct and effective, and all the more worrisome for it. If November were to come down to a Trump-Bloomberg race — despite the former New York City mayor’s woeful debating skills — Americans would get the choice of swapping one president with an a-constitutional view of the office, for another. The two New York City billionaires are studies in contrast, except no one would think to feature either one of them in an episode of “Schoolhouse Rock....
The accusations of pedophilia in the Catholic church have never faded from the public eye. And while there are moments when other cataclysmic events push the tragedies a little further back from our immediate view, the fact that children were abused by prelates is never far from our consciousness. As a Catholic, I am particularly devastated by the black mark against my church. There are many Catholics who have abandoned the pews with an anger that approximates the searing white flame of a votive candle. There are others who n...
Pete Buttigieg, one of the surviving Democratic presidential candidates, goes from up to down to sideways in his pursuit of the elusive 2020 nomination. The former South Bend mayor was up in Iowa and New Hampshire but is struggling in South Carolina and Nevada. When candidates are trying to separate themselves from the pack, they’ll throw out ideas — often half-baked — to see what might stick. During a stop in Merrimack, New Hampshire, Buttigieg provided a great example of concept-testing — in this case, a bad immigration pro...
I never thought I’d feel sorry for a billionaire — a $60 billion billionaire. But watching Mike Bloomberg getting beat up in the Democrat debate in Vegas on Wednesday night was almost tragic. It was like watching an old boxer who gets clocked early in Round 1 and then wobbles around the ring in a daze for the rest of the fight while he’s pounded unmercifully. Mike never recovered from the opening series of left hooks and below-the belt punches delivered by Bernie, Liz, Pete,...
While the recently passed “red-flag” gun bill is an obvious violation of Second Amendment rights, its greatest danger is in its flagrant disregard for due process. The phrase “right to due process” embodies society’s basic notion of legal fairness, fair procedures. It prohibits government from taking a person’s “life, liberty or property” without fair processes and procedures of the law. The U.S. Constitution protects — or is supposed to protect — individuals from abusive treatment by their government. It protects the individ...
On this date ... 1975: The worst snow storm in five years had swept across the High Plains, “marooning motorists, sparking traffic pileups and generally making life miserable for eastern New Mexico and West Texas residents,” the Clovis News-Journal reported. Temperatures were in the low 20s and winds whipped to 25 mph, producing wind-chill factors of 15 below zero, the newspaper reported. Snow drifts were reported at 4 and 5 feet around the region. The storm drove cattle into bunches against fences, which could not con...
The declaration landed with a thud. The 110-year-old Irving, Texas-based institution we know as the Boy Scouts of America declared bankruptcy last week in what is a messy fight over sexual abuse claims going back decades. The details here are complex and even arcane. As The Wall Street Journal has reported, there are some 275 pending lawsuits over sexual abuse and another 1,400 more claims waiting in the wings. Most of these — an estimated 90% — are eligible to come forward because several states have revised the statute of...
Monday • City of Clovis Parks, Recreation, and Beautification Committee — 5:30 p.m., Clovis City Hall assembly room, 321 N. Connelly, Clovis. Information: 575-763-9654 Tuesday • Roosevelt County Commission (rescheduled from Feb. 18) — 9 a.m., Commission Room, Roosevelt County Courthouse, 109 W. First St., Portales. Information: 575-356-5307 • Clovis Municipal Schools board — 5:30 p.m., Board Room, CMS administration building, 1009 Main St., Clovis. Information: 575-769-4300 • Roosevelt General Hospital Board of Trustees — 5:...
CLOVIS — The Clovis Municipal Schools Board of Education will make its final decision on the 2020-21 calendar when it meets Tuesday night in regular session. The 5:30 p.m. meeting at the CMS administrative building will cover various items on policy revision and department reports. Agenda items include: • A review of the district’s 2018-19 audit from Jaramillo Accounting Group. • Travel requests from the Clovis High wind symphony and ROTC programs. • A suggested revision to organize school board officer slates to coincide...
The following marriage licenses were recently filed at the Curry County Clerk’s office: • Stephen Tyler Sarracino, 32, and Lee Anne Bryan, 48, both of Clovis • Joshua Michael Campos, 30, and Sierra Nicole Viscaino, 26, both of Clovis • Kristy Marie Katrina-Taylor, 29, and Alicia Marie Logan, 28, both of Clovis • Michael Ray Pratt, 20, and Chasity Jean Calbert, 20, both of Portales • Miguel Angel Altamirano Valenzuela, 22, and Desiree Renee Duarte, 27, both of Clovis • Christopher Michael Maxwell, 34, and Appolonia Ang...
PORTALES — Roosevelt County Sheriff Malin Parker will once again go before the Roosevelt County Commission on Tuesday with a resolution to oppose the Extreme Risk Protection Order Act — the red-flag gun bill. Parker attempted to bring the resolution before the commission last week, but three of the five commissioners did not attend. Without a quorum, the two attending commissioners said they were unable to hear the resolution. The controversial red-flag measure was passed by the House on Feb. 14 by a 39-31 vote. Its next stop...
CLOVIS - Ira Pottard was well known in Clovis as one of the oldest remaining buffalo soldiers. His family knew him better as "Pops," a father and grandfather who loved playing dominoes and making music with his keyboard and guitar. Pottard, 97, died last Sunday at his Retirement Ranch home. Pottard was born in Greenville, Texas to Sinclair Pottard and Almeta Williams. He was drafted into the U.S. Army at age 19, serving from 1942 to 1949 as a member of the 9th Cavalry...
CLOVIS — The Curry County Commission will gather Wednesday morning for a special meeting to receive a presentation on the Fiscal Year 19 Financial Audit. Afterward, commissioners will look to approve a resolution to meet statutory requirements for the audit. The commission will also take action on a $54,798 budget adjustment and take action to auction off the scoreboard currently installed at the Curry County Events Center. Other notable agenda items listed for the 10 a.m. meeting at the commission chambers include: • The...
PORTALES — A grand jury on Friday ruled a man acted in self-defense at a July house party in Roosevelt County and declined to indict him for a fatal shooting. According to a news release from District Attorney Andrea Reeb: Roosevelt County sheriff’s deputies on July 27 were called to reports of a large fight ending in a shooting. They arrived to find Derek Garcia, 24, had died from a gunshot wound to the chest. Devin Guidry, then 23, voluntarily spoke with the sheriff’s office and indicated he acted in self-defense after...
