Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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The Curry County Commission, after discussing three possible sites to locate a proposed sports complex, came to a consensus without a vote Tuesday to go forward for now with the fairgrounds property near the Curry County Events Center as the site of choice. The two other sites under discussion at the meeting were Hillcrest Park and the former site of the Parkview Elementary School. Commissioner Seth Martin said it would be “reckless on our part” to consider a site that would require both purchasing the land and paying to con...
Shad Mayfield didn't reach his ultimate goal, but the Clovis tie-down roper reestablished himself as one of the nation's elite cowboys at this month's National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas, Nev. His bid for a second world championship in three years fell short. Still, he finished runner-up in the 10-day grind to four-time world champion Caleb Smidt, closing out the year with nearly $270,000 in earnings. "You're never going to be happy when you end up second, but (Smidt) had a...
Curry County Association of Educational Retirees Members and guests in attendance at the Dec. 6 meeting at K-Bob’s Restaurant were treated to a true gift of heavenly music for the season performed by the Clovis High School Chamber Choir under the direction of Sean Galloway. All agreed that it was the best way to start our Christmas celebration. For new business there was the installation of officers was led by Pam Wallace: Unit President, Eileen Massey; Vice President, Pat Archibeque; Treasurer, Andrea Bigelow; Secretary, S...
Curry Residents Senior Meals Association 901 W. 13th St. Clovis Monday: Hot dog on a bun, chili with beans, French fries, ice cream. Tuesday: Beef lasagna, mixed veggies, bread stick, pudding. Wednesday: Chicken thighs, macaroni and cheese, fried okra, garlic toast Jell-O. Thursday: 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Ham, hashbrown casserole, cinnamon roll, applesauce. No lunch. Friendship Senior Center 901 W. 13th St., Clovis 575-769-7908 Monday: 9 a.m. Indoor volleyball. Tuesday: 9 a.m. Dance 2 Fitness. 11 a.m. Constituent rep. 1:30 p.m....
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. “Live, Local, and Dead: A Vermont Radio Mystery” by Nikki Knight. In a fit of anger, radio DJ Jaye Jordan blows a snowman’s head off with a Revolutionary War-style musket. But the corpse that tumbles out is all too human. Jaye thought life would...
Editor's note: We continue our series of stories about local business owners and the unique merchandise and services they have for sale -- just in time for Christmas. Montana Thatcher was born in Clovis. She recently moved home after finishing college in Las Cruces at New Mexico State University. This year she struck out on her own as the proprietor of a new clothing boutique, Twisted Rayne's, located on the corner of 4th and Pile streets. Q: Where are you from? How long have...
I was slightly dreading my step back in time to my elementary school. They had just spent a big chunk of change to renovate it and I was afraid I might not recognize it. I was touring the school with our Leadership Portales class and I was relieved that the outside of the building, at least from the original part of the school, looked like the L.L. Brown Elementary that I had attended some 50 years ago. A new annex had been built to the north several years ago but the...
The Childhood Development Center (CDC) at Eastern New Mexico University (ENMU) has been re-accredited by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC). According an ENMU news release from Casey Fall-Guerra, CDC director, the CDC staff worked tirelessly throughout the spring and summer of 2022 to achieve their re-accredited five-year status. Fall-Guerra also said the facility’s new room dedicated to educating and caring for two-year-old children also received accreditation. Fall-Guerra said. “We are pro...
Eastern New Mexico University (ENMU) has been named the safest university in the state. According to a news release from John Houser of ENMU’s marketing and communications department, Niche.com, a college and university ranking and review site, has ranked ENMU as the safest university in New Mexico for 2023. This is the fifth consecutive year ENMU has been included in the site’s safest college campuses rankings. Patrice Caldwell, ENMU President said, “Our Public Safety Department, vigilant faculty and staff, and our well-...
The Eastern New Mexico Water Utility Authority Board approved six more easement agreements for the Finished Water 3B (FW3B) pipeline on Thursday. “The purpose of the ENMWUA project is to provide potable water to four city and county member agencies and Cannon Air Force Base for municipal, commercial, and industrial use,” as stated on the ENMWUA website. “The project will replace current groundwater supplies from the Ogallala (or High Plains) Aquifer with a renewable surface water supply (Ute Reservoir).” To that end the ENM...
Clovis Municipal Schools is offering advance, packaged meals for students for the Winter Break which begins Thursday. According to a news release from CMS administration the meals will be distributed Monday from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. at five campuses: Clovis High School, Clovis High School Freshman Academy, Arts Academy at Bella Vista, Zia Elementary and Yucca Middle School. The release says meals will be distributed at the outside door of each kitchen. The service is for students of Clovis Municipal Schools who are enrolled in...
Well, as Carol Burnett used to say, I’m so glad we had this time together. I’ve written about 1.6 million words as a columnist. This 600 or so will be the last. I’m retiring for a few reasons. One is that, while I’ve managed to squeeze out four novels between column deadlines, my dream was always to write books full time. I turned 65 in October, so if not now, when? Another reason is that a column, for me, at least, is an act of emotional investment -- and I’m emotional...
Attorneys seeking to overturn the will of voters who approved a constitutional amendment in 2020 reforming the state Public Regulation Commission had to make two conflicting arguments. The first was that voters weren’t bright enough to read the amendment and understand that it would result in PRC members being appointed and not elected. The second was that voters are the only ones bright enough to be entrusted with the task of selecting utility regulators. The New Mexico Supreme Court disagreed, and dismissed a lawsuit r...
It sure didn’t take long for right-wing media figures to criticize the release of WNBA star Brittney Griner. Griner was released on Dec. 8 by the Russian government as part of a negotiated prisoner exchange for Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, nicknamed “the merchant of death.” Since the deal was made by the Biden administration, the Right predictably launched a perverse and sinister attack, politically weaponizing her release by employing racist and homophobic langu...
I turned 61 last week. I don’t plan on joining the celestial choir any time soon, but birthdays make me think of the opposite end of the life cycle. Every birthday morning, I have a somewhat ghoulish tradition of writing a mental obituary, composing my own epitaph since I don’t trust others to pen it for me. We all should prepare our own “homegoings,” as my friends in the African American community call it, because there’s been a troubling trend toward speaking ill of the de...
The radical green agenda represents a testament to the power of wishful thinking over reality. Nowhere is that more true than in California, where bureaucrats have ordered that the sale of new gasoline-powered vehicles be outlawed in just 12 years. “California is once again leading the way by establishing common-sense standards that will transition to sales of all zero-polluting cars and light-duty trucks in the state,” Kathy Harris of Natural Resources Defense Council said in August after state regulators issued their mag...
I thought John McCain was a terrible politician, and a worse presidential candidate. He never met a war that he didn’t back and his campaign was a disaster. The only bright spot I remember about it was Sarah Palin, and he threw her over the side when he thought she became a distraction and an inconvenience. Kind of a harsh requiem, huh? On the other hand, John McCain was a bona fide U.S. American hero. His father and his grandfather were both admirals in the U.S. Navy. That d...
The Roosevelt County Board of Ethics will hold their annual meeting Tuesday at 1 p.m. at the Roosevelt County Courthouse in the Commission Room. Roosevelt County Manager Amber Hamilton said the Ethics Board was established by the county’s Ethics Ordinance. The board investigates complaints against county employees and elected officials in Roosevelt County. In a news release Hamilton wrote “the county encourages members of the public to view the meeting live on YouTube.” The YouTube location is https://www....
Cannon Air Force Base has partnered with the cities of Clovis and Portales to create sub-committees focused on improving quality of life for Airmen and their families. According to a news report from the Cannon Public Affairs office, the base’s Air and Space Force civic leader, David Robinson, said, “Our job as a committee is to support Cannon Air Force Base, its Airmen and their families.” Robinson says with the committee’s support in the areas of education, spousal license portability, childcare, medical availability, and a...
Legal recreational cannabis sales have brought millions of dollars of new revenue to Clovis and Portales, and almost $532,000 in business revenue to Texico, according to statistics on the state's Cannabis Control Division website. Since legal recreational cannabis sales began in April, records show nearly $5.7 million in recreational cannabis retail sales were completed from April to November in Clovis, more than $1.1 million were completed in Portales over that period and...
Rather that driving around looking for Christmas Lights a Clovis resident has created an online map and a list where folks who want to see Christmas light displays can find them. “I made a page where people who have lights up can send in their addresses,” Jeff Lynn said. “They submit that and then we put it on a map and publish their address.” Lynn said he updates the map nightly. “I thought I’d do it for a ‘give back to the community thing’ so everybody can have a Merry Christmas,” Lynn said. “I started in 2020 during the...
Clovis police made two arrests Wednesday in a drive-by shooting that happened Tuesday afternoon in a residential section of town. At 1:46 p.m. Tuesday, a male and female reported their vehicle had been shot multiple times while they were sitting inside it. The two said this happened while they were parked in front of their home in the 500 block of West 17th Street. Police said 17 spent casings were collected from the roadway. Detectives found multiple bullet strikes on the exterior of it. Neither occupant reported any...
An anti-abortion ordinance tabled by Clovis City Commission Nov. 3 continued to be a topic of public comment at Thursday’s commission meeting. Mayor Mike Morris brought the matter up during the “Reports of Boards, Officers and Committees” portion of the meeting. “I’m working to effect legislation,” Morris said of working on the abortion issue at the state level.. Morris described the tabling of the proposed ordinance as “keeping it alive.” He said he is in “daily communication” with lawmakers about “our ideas” referring to t...
This was the year Eastern New Mexico University’s president and chancellor announced she was leaving so the search for and selection of her replacement occupied much of 2022. Patrice Caldwell, who had been appointed ENMU’s president and chancellor in 2020, in February informed the university’s Board of Regents she would be leaving the post to retire July 1. Caldwell later announced she would stay at the post until her replacement was found. Caldwell has been with the university for 42 years. It would be the end of Novem...
Clovis police have identified one of two juvenile suspects in three convenience store theft incidents and an assault Dec. 8. According to a news release from Clovis Police Captain Robbie Telles, Daryl Motley, 13, of Clovis has an active warrant for his arrest in reference to the convenience store incidents for armed robbery, conspiracy to commit armed robbery, minor in possession of alcohol, battery, and shoplifting. Telles reports detectives have been in contact with Motley’s mother, but she said she doesn’t know of her son...
