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CLOVIS - In what prosecutors called a "huge step" and perhaps the last in almost 16 months of adjudication for library shooter Nathaniel Jouett, a judge ordered this week that the juvenile gunman be sentenced as an adult. Jouett, who turns 18 in a few weeks, pleaded guilty in October to almost three dozen felony charges stemming from the Aug. 28, 2017, shooting at the Clovis-Carver Public Library that killed staff members Wanda Walters and Krissie Carter while injuring four...
PORTALES — Even without a minister, First Presbyterian Church in Portales is continuing its annual tradition of a midnight Christmas eve service. Beginning at 11 p.m. on Monday, Yvette Howl said the service will include a message about the season as well as singing Christmas carols and the lighting of the Christ candle. Howl is a commissioned ruling elder, one of seven members of the church’s congregation that stepped in to lead the church when its minister left about three years ago. Karen Kibbe, another of the chu...
PORTALES — This week’s early college football signing period is largely one for Division-I schools to get an early commit from the blue-chip prospects, so they can focus on getting the undecideds for the normal February signing date. But there are gains Eastern New Mexico hopes to make as a Division-II program starting Wednesday. The normal letter of intent signing day for football is Feb. 6, but a 2017 rule change let Division I schools have an early signing period in Dec...
PORTALES - Denise Burnett has overseen plenty of changes in over three decades serving the Portales Public Library. But there's plenty she expects will stay constant for the community institution. Some of those changes have included an expansion that more than doubled the library's size in 1997, and a Microsoft grant that brought four computers to the location and allowed PPL to be the first to offer internet service to the public. Burnett recalled learning how to use a mouse...
CLOVIS — Three Clovis seniors received Class 6A all-state football recognition this week, with Montez Wright receiving first-team designation from the New Mexico High School Coaches Association. Stephen Acosta and Jaylen Mason drew second-team honors on the squad, created by a vote of the classification’s head coaches. Other classifications are to be released later this week by the association. The team is created through a two-step process. First, each coach in the cla...
EDMOND, Oklahoma — The Eastern New Mexico women’s basketball team didn’t go into its Christmas break in holly-jolly fashion, enduring a heartbreaking 97-96 loss to Oklahoma Christian on the road Monday afternoon. It was the Greyhounds’ first loss to a Division II opponent this season. In a game as wild as the final score indicates, there were seven lead changes, with each team taking double-digit leads only to watch them evaporate. Oklahoma Christian led 96-94 late in the game...
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The Eastern New Mexico women's basketball team, idle during the week leading up to this week’s D2SIDA South Central Regional Poll, stayed in the fifth spot when the voting was released Monday morning. The weekly poll, sponsored by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) is voted upon by six sports information directors from the South Central region, three from the Lone Star/Heartland Conferences and three from the Rocky Mou...
CLOVIS - Now in its fourth year at Clovis Christian Schools, the 3-D printing program has expanded this year thanks to a new technology lab that includes newer equipment. The new printers and computers allow CCS students to design their own projects in just a few minutes and then a few hours later print out an exact 3-D replica made from oil-based plastics. While the students can also download pre-made designs online to print, instructor Mark Clayton said he enjoys seeing the...
For the cost of a quarter, I picked up a treasure at the most recent used book sale hosted by the Friends of the Portales Public Library: a slim paper-bound stapled volume, 81 photocopied pages long. It’s called “Portales and Roosevelt County NRTA Collection of Education Personalities.” NRTA stands for National Retired Teachers Association. The collection was assembled in honor of our country’s bicentennial in 1976, and contains information and accounts written by a handful...
ALBUQUERQUE — The New Mexico Racing Commission has scheduled a special meeting for Friday morning, but the commission is unlikely to award a sixth horse-racing license during the meeting. Three applicants in Clovis, one in Tucumcari and one in Lordsburg are vying for a license that would lead to a racetrack/casino. The commission sent out an email Tuesday morning about the meeting, set for 9 a.m. Friday in its boardroom at 4900 Alameda Blvd. in Albuquerque. The agenda for Friday’s meeting includes a closed executive ses...
CANNON AIR FORCE BASE - Airmen from Cannon donated children's toys to several nearby community centers on Monday. After pooling together the donated gifts, 27th Special Operations Force Support Squadron members gift-wrapped the toys and transported them to children's homes and schools in Clovis and Portales. "The goal is to give back to our local communities and continue building those bonds," said Sara Williams, 27th SOFSS school liaison officer. "Master Sgt. Reyes and...
BELEN — Clovis might have gone into Saturday’s meet at Belen a little shorthanded, but the people who did swim had a pretty good Saturday. Clovis coach Gordy Westerburg said most of the Wildcat swimmers finished first in their competition or just behind a teammate who did while picking up eight new state qualifying marks during the meet. Clovis brought just 14 swimmers — 11 girls, three boys — but still managed to finish third in the girls competition and sixth out of 10 team...
PORTALES — Wind energy came up twice in Tuesday's Roosevelt County Commission meeting — once for the past, and again for the future. In a new business item, commissioners approved the creation of the county's Windmill Museum Steering Committee, as requested by administrator Carol Acosta-Flores. Meanwhile the commission heard from David Essex with an update on the Xcel Energy Sagamore Wind Project . The plan is for some 240 turbines, with an estimated construction start date midway through next year and a construction tim...
CLOVIS - The owner of a local dairy on Tuesday addressed the Curry County Commission about issues his business is facing as a result of water contamination near Cannon Air Force Base. Art Schaap, owner of Highland Dairy, said seven of his 13 wells have been affected by the PFOS/PFOA contamination discovered near the base. Perfluorooctane Sulfonate (PFOS) and Perfluorooctanoiac Acid (PFOA) were present in a firefighting foam widely used by the military since the 1970s and subse...
Booked The following were booked into local jails Friday-Monday: Clovis • Tres Grissom, 32, assault upon a peace officer, resisting, evading or obstructing an officer • Angelo Rodriguez, 24, parole violation, probation violation • Miguel Anaya-Ramirez, 21, failure to appear on a felony charge • Jeremiah Maes, 18, residential burglary • Irak Arce-Barreras, 34, failure to comply with specific requirements • Cain Lee, 24, probation violation • Brandon Garcia, 19, probation violation • Marvin Walker, 54, failure to pay fines ...
Today • Christmas on the Amazon chili supper — 6:30 p.m., Portales Church of God, 1427 E Amazon St., Portales. Free. Information: 575-791-9251 Thursday • Christmas on the Amazon family fun night — 6:30 p.m., Portales Church of God, 1427 E Amazon St., Portales. Information: 575-791-9251 Friday • Light & Wonder family Christmas service — 6 p.m.-7 p.m., Faith Christian Family Church, 3401 N. Norris St., Clovis. Information: 575-762-7751 • Christmas Cantata “Mary, Did You Know?” — 6 p.m., Living Word Church of God, 2101 East 2...
On this date ... 1973: Louie Augustinos, longtime owner of Clovis' Coney Island Cafe, died from complications following a stroke. Augustinos was born in Greece in 1894 and came to America in 1929. He operated Clovis' Coney Island from 1932 until his stroke on Oct. 18, 1973, newspaper archives show. "In the front window of his cafe, Louie displayed his grill and rolling rack to cook hot dogs for everyone passing on the sidewalk to see and smell," historian Don McAlavy wrote....
The New York Times ran an “op-ed” piece, an opinion not that of the newspaper, this week by an economist named Eduardo Porter. It’s about the declining state of rural America and what to do about it. The answer: Not much you can do, at least in the opinion of the writer and others he quoted. If tech jobs are the future, they seemed to think there is not much rural America can do. Their thinking says tech jobs tend to cluster around areas where tech workers are already plentiful. They aren’t in many rural areas, includi...
The most legally fraught part of the Russia probe now revolves around payments to an American porn star. As of yet, instead of a dastardly scheme to participate with the Russians in the hacking of Democratic emails to subvert the election, prosecutors have uncovered a scheme to try to keep from the voters — as if they weren’t aware — that Trump is a womanizer. The advantage of the story of the hush payments to Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal is that they actually happe...
“Don’t you have bigger fish to fry?” That was the typical, not exactly enlightened, response after People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals shook up the Twitterverse with our list of animal-friendly phrases to use in place of common anti-animal idioms. For example, instead of “kill two birds with one stone,” why not try “feed two birds with one scone?” And for “don’t let the cat out of the bag,” how about “don’t spill the beans?” Although PETA has long argued for an end to anti-animal language, this issue made headlines...
The 60-day legislative session in Santa Fe is still a few weeks away, but lawmakers are already crafting laws New Mexico residents will need to keep an eye on. Among the proposed bills is a massive “omnibus” crime package being crafted by Democratic state Rep. Antonio “Moe” Maestas and Republican Sen. Sander Rue. Their proposal would touch on a host of crime initiatives. The bills are still in development and, as with all legislation, the devil will be in the details. And it bears noting that although pieces passed both ch...
In terms of pure economics, our biggest national holiday is, of course, Christmas. I read somewhere that Halloween comes in as a strong second, but I’d be surprised if it’s anywhere close to the money we Americans spend for the yuletide. Perhaps that makes me a little out of the ordinary, because I don’t remember much about the Christmas presents I’ve acquired in years past. Instead, I recall the experiences, and I’ll bet that’s true for a lot of you, too. When I was growing up as a preacher’s kid, Christmas caroling was...
I’m in favor of solar energy. I’m not in favor of city commissions spending money on it, or on anything else. The news that the Clovis city commissioners want to spend your money for land on which solar energy could be “developed” sounds like more government-as-usual to me. Once the money is spent, who is to guarantee the land would be used as promised, or that there would ever be a payoff? Spend other people’s money now, benefit later ... maybe, if everything works out exact...
Thursday • City of Clovis Economic Incentive Board — 7:30 a.m., Assembly Room, Clovis City Hall, 321 Connelly St., Clovis. Information: 575-763-9654 • Eastern New Mexico Water Utility Authority — 1 p.m., ENMWUA Offices, Sitterly Professional Center, 801 Pile Street, Clovis. Information: 575-935-4262 Dec. 28 • Community Development Block Grant public hearing — 5:30 p.m., City Hall, 100 W. First St., Portales. Information: 575-356-6662, ext. 1025 To place an item on the meetings calendar, call the newsroom at 575-763-699...
Today • Tiny tots — 10 a.m., Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main St., Clovis. Information: 575-769-7840 • Preschool storytime “Merry Christmas” — 10:30 a.m., Portales Public Library, 218 S. Ave. B, Portales. Information: 575-356-3940 • Stitch Addicts stitch group — 1:30 p.m., Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main St., Clovis. Information: 575-763-9687 • Blood drive — 3:30-7:30 p.m., Central Baptist Church meeting room, 2501 N. Norris, Clovis. Register online at http://www.bloodhero.com. Information: 877-25...
