Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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CLOVIS - Even with Administrator Mark Gallegos's year-long absence, the Curry County Detention Center has been making strides in its efforts to improve the local jail and has managed to curb some of its longest-standing issues. Gallegos returned to his position at the Detention Center in September after taking a year to serve his active duty time in the U.S. Navy. He recently led members of the county commission on their annual tour of the facility following Thursday's...
Gates Hershell and Tracy Gates will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary Thursday. The couple was married Dec. 26, 1969, in Albuquerque. Both are retired houseparents and school teachers for Cal Farley’s Boys Ranch. They have three children, seven grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. A celebration is planned for 11:30 a.m. Dec. 29 at First Baptist Church in San Jon, followed by an on-your-own meal at Russell's Travel Center in San Jon. Family and friends are invited....
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, 5 p.m. social night. Tuesday: Closed Wednesday: Closed Thursday: 8 a.m. breakfast, 8:45 a.m. pinochle 101, 1 p.m. bingo. Friday: 8 a.m.-4 p.m. exercise equipment, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. 8-ball pool, 8:30 a.m. exercise class, 10 a.m. needle gang, 1 p.m. pinochle, 7 p.m. End of the Year dance (Michael Thompson). Saturday: 4 p.m. game night. Community Senior Center 1100 Community Way,...
These books are available at the Clovis-Carver Public Library: “The Confession Club” by Elizabeth Berg: When a group of friends in Mason, Missouri, decide to start a monthly supper club, they get more than they bargained for. The plan for congenial evenings-talking, laughing, and sharing recipes, homemade food, and wine-abruptly changes course one night when one of the women reveals something startlingly intimate. The supper club then becomes the Confession Club, and the women gather weekly to share not only dinners, but emb...
Information on the Mediterranean diet, preparing non-alcoholic drinks and dyeing lace and other fabrics with ink will be the featured topics on “Creative Living” 9:30 p.m. Tuesday and noon Thursday (all times Mountain). Becky Johnson, Beckyhomecky’s LifeUNITS, will discuss why the Mediterranean diet promotes such a low incidence of heart disease and offers such a high life-expectancy rate. She will demonstrate several recipes from the Greek diet. She’s from Adrian, Texas....
Ever hid a pickle on your Christmas tree? Neither have I. It’s pretty strange that the guy whose family keeps the Christmas eve gift tradition alive wouldn’t know anything about this holiday tradition, but I don’t remember hearing about it, let alone know someone held with the tradition of the Christmas pickle. The tradition, if you will, calls for a pickle-shaped ornament to be hidden on the Christmas tree. The child who spies the pickle among the tree’s branches first r...
Booked The following were booked into local jails (Tuesday - Friday): Clovis ∞ ϑuanita Navares, 38, probation violation ∞ Victor Armijo, 48, driving while license suspended or revoked ∞ Gunner Wynn, 26, theft of identity, forgery, probation violation, out of state fugitive ∞ Shaun Acy, 31, failure to appear on a felony charge ∞ Juan Baltazar, 19, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge ∞ Clayton Chavez, 25, failure to appear on a felony charge, failure to appear at time and place stated in citation ∞ Vernon Burch, 53, fai...
CLOVIS — When the Eastern New Mexico Water Utility Authority moves forward in 2020, it will do so with a lighter load of municipalities. Just how that representation will change was discussed Thursday when the authority met for the final time in 2019 Thursday at the Sitterly Professional Center that houses the ENMWUA office. The authority board operates as it did when it was first created in 2011 by the state Legislature — as a seven-member board with three representatives from Clovis, two from Portales, one from Curry Cou...
MULESHOE — One Muleshoe man was killed and another injured in a Dec. 14 crash, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety. Joey Luebanos, 21, was killed after he was ejected from a vehicle driven by his brother, 25-year-old Isaac Luebanos. The two were returning from a party in Clovis, according to a DPS release. The vehicle left the roadway and rolled over near Mile Marker 240 on U.S. 70 about 5 a.m. Dec. 14. The elder Luebanos was taken to Muleshoe Area Medical Center before being transferred to University M...
The following marriage licenses were recently filed at the Curry County Clerk’s office: • Bobby Ray Lopez Jr., 21, and Miranda Marie Tapia, 18, both of Clovis • Edward Francis Higgins, 90, and Janna Lois Harvey, 65, both of Clovis • Omar Gustavo Portillo, 29, and Suhee Jo, 27, both of Clovis • Aaron Jacob Ganoy, 25, and Jessica Kamalei Bencomo, 25, both of Clovis • Jose Ricardo Diaz Martinez, 32, and Maryuri Lizeth Pineda Deras, 20, both of Clovis • Tanner Dean Paxson, 28, of Midland, Texas, and Jordan Rae Rychlik, 25,...
CLOVIS — A new magistrate court building is in the works for Curry County and if all goes well, construction should begin adjacent to the county courthouse within the next year. The Curry County Commission received a presentation on the proposed new magistrate court addition adjacent to the county courthouse and what the following steps will be for the project moving forward during its meeting Thursday morning. The Administration Office of the Courts would partner with the county for the project and the New Mexico Finance A...
The Supreme Court just ensured that the nation’s homelessness crisis will continue. The court declined to take up an appeal of a ruling by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, covering the western United States, that homeless encampments are a de facto constitutional right. The 9th Circuit has a long history of reading the law as if its judges are actors in an absurdist play; in the encampment case, stemming from a Boise, Idaho, ordinance, it truly lived up to its cracked s...
PORTALES — The city of Portales will have a new garbage truck added to its fleet after the city council on Tuesday approved a purchase. The M2 106 garbage truck will cost $193,447 and comes with a side-dump body used for the disposal of solid waste and on-board cameras for backing up safely. The truck will replace one of the older trucks in the fleet, with the old truck to be moved into the backup fleet and one of the backups to be retired. The city currently has seven trucks in service. “These trucks typically have abo...
Pray for those involved in child’s case Regarding Bonetta Hutson’s letter last Sunday (“Juror: No justice for child”): I am truly grateful for her service as a juror and the passion she has to speak out about this case. And she is absolutely right, Noah Trujillo did not get the justice he deserved. In this case, in spite of my best effort as the prosecutor, the system failed, and I am heartbroken about it. I promise that I did not agree to this plea because it would have taken too much time to prove the case. Guilt may hav...
By Gerry Scott Silver City Daily Press As I read and watch the news, I see selfishness and deceit. It’s called partisanship, but it’s really hate and dishonesty. Even what I call my opinion is just a manipulation in a great game in which I’m not included. Something is very wrong. I am left with this one feeling — of anger. Like in the 1976 movie “Network,” I feel like opening my window and shouting, “I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore!” In every direction, there is someone or something to be ang...
On Dec. 5, on her way out of her weekly news conference, Nancy Pelosi was asked by James Rosen of Sinclair Broadcast Group whether she hated Trump. Rosen was referencing comments by Rep. Doug Collins of Georgia who’d earlier suggested that the Democrats were impeaching the president because they hate him. The speaker, who had been walking away from the podium, exploded. She pointed a finger at Rosen and said “I don’t hate anybody. I was raised in a Catholic house. We don’t hate anybody.” Then she added, “And as a Catholic, I...
Let the iron games begin. That’s what came to my mind when a familiar phone number showed up Monday afternoon. Blood drives were set for Tuesday and Friday, and the local coordinator was hoping I could be counted on for a donation. Donating blood always takes an hour or so out of my day. It always hurts just a little bit to get that needle in the arm and it’s always a little inconvenient to avoid strenuous activity. And I always feel little more awful each time I lie to phlebotomists that I’ll eat a healthy meal later that...
Did anyone else not watch the Democrat presidential debate on TV Thursday night? I thought so. After three months of watching Saint Nancy Pelosi and her House Democrats stage their solemn impeachment circus, I decided to skip the latest “historic” debate. I figure I had suffered enough. I desperately needed some laughs, so on Thursday I began what I hope will be a week of binging on Christmas movies like “Elf.” Only seven Democrats — a couple of socialists, a couple of zillio...
President Donald Trump has long maintained the FBI investigation of former Trump policy adviser Carter Page was a politically motivated witch hunt. Whether you agree or disagree, the numerous, serious and potentially systemic failures in the FBI investigation have got to shake your confidence in the system. Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz released his 400-plus page report on the investigation this month and testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee. He found the opening by the FBI of the...
On this date ... 1969: Highlights from local police briefs in the Clovis News-Journal: • Tom Huerta, who lived at 316 Merriwether, reported his bike had been stolen. It was red with a purple banana seat. Its value was $34. • Michael Grummel, a Cannon Air Force Base airman, reported someone stole 10 tape cartridges from his car while it was parked at a local drive-in. Value of the music was $70. • Mrs. Larry Smith, who lived at 2045 Gerry, reported 30 decorative light bulbs had been stolen from her home. It was the third...
Jan. 7 • Roosevelt County Commission — 9 a.m., Commission Room, Roosevelt County Courthouse, 109 W. First St., Portales. Information: 575-356-5307 • Portales City Council — 6:30 p.m., Memorial Building, 200 E. 7th St., Portales. Information: 575-356-6662 Jan. 8 • City of Clovis Planning and Zoning Commission — 3 p.m., Clovis City Hall assembly room, 321 N. Connelly, Clovis. Information: 575-769-7828 Jan. 9 • Clovis City Commission — 5:15 p.m., North Annex, Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main St., Clovis. Informa...
PORTALES — Roosevelt General Hospital is well into the planning phase of its Emergency Department expansion project, which will add new emergency facilities at the hospital to serve the people of Portales and the surrounding area, while also paving the way for future expansions. The RGH Board of Trustees received an update on the project, as well as a presentation of its 2019 audit during its regular meeting Tuesday. Scott Johnson of FBT Architects walked the board through the most recent iteration of the new department's s...
CLOVIS - When presented with the itinerary for the Upward Bound trip to Savannah, Georgia, in March, Clovis School Board member Shawn Hamilton provided the only question of the trip. "Can I go?" Hamilton joked during Tuesday's meeting, which saw the four board members attending unanimously approve the March 23-27 trip. Upward Bound targets students who will potentially be first-generation college students. Upward Bound Director Kellyann Weber said the trip should provide...
Sam Thompson calls herself a private person by nature, and being a subject of interviews and documentaries is something she dreads. What she dreads more, however, is the thought her mother's killer may never be found. That's why she's one of many who took part in a Netflix documentary exploring the tale of Henry Lee Lucas, who falsely admitted to the killing of Jean Abla and hundreds of others. "It's been a never-ending source of frustration and heartache," Thompson said....
CLOVIS - Residents of Clovis identified a need in 2018, and Andrew Logan wants to fill it in 2020. With one of its last acts of 2019, the Clovis City Commission gave Logan the go-ahead. By a 6-1 vote, commissioners approved a small brewer's liquor license for Logan's Bandolero Brewery to run a restaurant and brewery at 421 N. Main St. The brewery first came into the commission's sights in February, when Bandolero was one of two potential breweries seeking variances to open up...
