Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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While the presidential election will hog the spotlight in 2020, local elections are first up, starting with signup day Jan. 7. Clovis Mayor David Lansford said he’s not yet decided whether to seek another four-year term. “It’s a decision that requires a lot of thought and, if in the affirmative, will require a lot of commitment for four years of service,” Lansford said. Lansford said he will make his final decision on Monday or Tuesday. In addition to the mayor’s race, four city commissioner spots and the municipal judge sea...
PORTALES — Officials investigating $8,250 missing from a Roosevelt County Sheriff’s Office evidence locker have no specific suspects. A New Mexico State Police investigation showed the money, first reported missing in January, could have been taken by any number of individuals. And it’s not even clear when the money was taken. The Roosevelt County Commission adopted a new “two-person rule” in its Dec. 17 meeting, noting that any money obtained by the sheriff’s office must be counted separately by two people every time money...
LITTLEFIELD — Two last-second tries came up short, and the Portales High boys basketball team found itself playing for third place on Saturday night in Littlefield’s Wildcat Classic. With the 55-53, double-overtime loss to Nazareth in Friday night’s semifinals, the Rams faced Lamesa (Texas) for third place on Saturday night, while the Swifts took on host Littlefield in the finale for the championship game. Littlefield rallied late to beat Lamesa in Friday’s late semifinal. Earlier Friday, the Rams notched a 66-42 win over Ta...
LITTLEFIELD — The Portales Lady Rams advanced to the finals of Littlefield’s Wildcat Classic with a pair of wins on Friday, defeating Crosbyton 61-36 in a quarterfinal matchup and slipping past Denver City 38-36 in the semifinals. The Lady Rams (7-2) were slated to face either Muleshoe or host Littlefield in Saturday night’s championship game. Against Crosbyton (9-6), PHS opened a 31-18 halftime lead and was never in danger. Sophomore guard Taris Rippee led three Lady Rams in double figures with 12 points, while sopho...
Volleyball season will begin Jan. 6 Registration ends Friday for men’s and women’s volleyball leagues. The women’s league will play Mondays and Tuesdays, while the men’s league will play Wednesdays beginning Jan. 6. Fees are $150 per women’s team and $100 per men’s team due Friday, plus a $25 fee per player due the first night of play. Checks can be made payable to Clovis Volleyball Association. All games will take place at Roy Walker Recreation Center. Registration fees can be paid to Tisha Brothers at 2000 Mitchell St...
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, 1p.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, 1 p.m. pinochle, 6 p.m. trivia. Wednesday: Closed Thursday: 8 a.m. breakfast, 8:45 a.m. pinochle 101, 1 p.m. bingo, 6 p.m. line dance. 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...
Monday • Stitch Addicts stitch group — 6:30-7:45 p.m., Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main St., Clovis. Information: 575-763-9687 Tuesday • New Year Thanksgiving Mass — Our Lady of Guadalupe, 108 N. Davis, Clovis. 11 p.m. Holy Hour; midnight (Jan. 1) Thanksgiving Mass; bilingual. Information: 575-763-4445 Wednesday • 18th annual Freeze Your Bippy ride — 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m., High Plains Harley-Davidson, 4400 Mabry Drive, Clovis. Meet at 11:30 a.m., and ride to the Portales VFW at noon for a potluck lunch; $7 per pers...
I love Westerns, both movie and television. They’re the ultimate in escapism if you ask me. I drive my wife crazy telling her the inaccuracies I see in movies and television, but I’m pretty forgiving where the Western is concerned. That doesn’t mean I haven’t noticed. First of all let’s talk about the most important part of a good Western — the gunplay. Yes, I do occasionally find myself counting how many shots came from that six-shooter without reloading. Maybe a really well...
Rhiannon Barela is a graduate student at Eastern New Mexico University in the College of Business. She has a bachelor's degree in psychology and plans to be a first-generation master's graduate in May. She plans to use her credentials to open a wellness clinic that focuses on mental health and well-being. Tell me a little bit about your job and the work you're doing. My initial job at Eastern is as a graduate assistant through my fellowship with the College of Business. I...
The great performer Bing Crosby reached the height of his stardom about 80 years ago, but every Christmas season he makes a triumphant return to American radio and malls and other public places. American tastes have drastically changed over the decades, yet our Christmas songbook has remained largely the same. With honorable exceptions — most notably Mariah Carey’s 1994 classic “All I Want for Christmas Is You” — the most-played and most-beloved Christmas songs date from the...
Donald Trump loves to buy himself expensive presents: golf courses, beauty pageants, U.S. senators. But there’s one gift he won’t be rushing to open this holiday season. A day of reckoning for women’s rights is coming that he set in motion with his election in 2016, delivered by some very strong women who aren’t intimidated by his bluster. If Trump was watching anything other than Fox News and the Golf Channel, he might catch a glimmer of understanding about what women — particularly women of color — are thinking ahead of th...
President Trump is getting coal in his stocking this year, but not for being naughty. Rather, as a sign of the “beautiful, clean” fuel that is a key part of our nation’s energy story that has produced a record-breaking economy alongside world-leading environmental progress. If you are thinking this sounds completely counter to all you’ve heard about coal, then you have no doubt fallen prey to coal-shaming tactics, which have been on the rise in recent years. The reality is that coal is safe, reliable, affordable and, thanks t...
Community members should be commended for wreaths project I very much enjoyed reading about the Wreaths Across America project in the Dec. 15 paper. Karen Alexander has worked countless hours over several years to make this happen for our community. Many others also helped make this happen, including members of our local ROTC and Civil Air Patrol. They should be commended for honoring all the veterans, and their families, who have been laid to rest in our local cemeteries. Ronald Dickson Clovis...
What a great holiday season it is. Know why? Congress is on vacation, which means all the rest of us get a break from politics. We’re in the middle of what amounts to a national Christmas ceasefire in our never-ending, 24/7 political civil war. Political bombshells, childish name-calling, stupid tweet battles, partisan posturing, congressional hearings, Democrat primary debates, FBI leaks, trade wars, Brexit, Jeffrey Epstein’s “suicide” … all are almost totally absent fr...
As this is the last time I’m tasked to write a column for the year, it’s time to go into the familiar territory of the question we ask ourselves after every Christmas. What do we resolve to do better in the upcoming year. I have questions for myself as I’m sure you do. Will this be the year I keep said resolution? Should this resolution be 10 times as important, since we’re starting a new decade as well? A lot of resolutions go into the trash heap quickly, because it’s a lot easier to say you’ll do something on Dec. 26 tha...
U.S. Attorney General William Barr wants Facebook to give law enforcement “back door” access to its messaging services. Facebook officials have made it clear they have no intention of doing so. That’s the way it should be. Protecting user privacy must remain paramount. Barr sent a letter in October urging Facebook to postpone plans to implement end-to-end encryption of its Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp messaging services. Barr and his counterparts in the United Kingdom and Australia asked Facebook to create a way for l...
Booked The following were booked into local jails (Tuesday-Friday): Clovis ∞ Brandon Chavez, 41, receiving stolen property, receiving/transferring stolen motor vehicles ∞ John Viscaino, 45, probation violation ∞ Lisa Morillo, 55, aggravated battery against a household member ∞ Marisa Martinez, 23, failure to pay fines, failure to appear at time and place stated in citation ∞ Fernando Hernandez, 50, battery against a household member, resisting, evading or obstructing an officer ∞ Darnell James, 46, failure to pay fines ∞ Ale...
Galvan Elizabeth Frances Galvan of Muleshoe has been named to the Dean's List for the 2019 fall semester at Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas. To be eligible for the ASU Dean's List, full-time undergraduate students must maintain at least a 3.25 grade point average (GPA) on a 4.0 scale. Galvan is a pre-nursing major....
Monday • Curry County Commission special meeting — 2:30 p.m., Commission Chambers, Curry County Administration Complex, 417 Gidding St., Clovis. Information: Tanya Henderson at 575-763-6016 • Clovis City Commission special meeting — 5:15 p.m., North Annex, Clovis-Carver Public Library. Information: 575-769-7828 Jan. 7 • Roosevelt County Commission — 9 a.m., Commission Room, Roosevelt County Courthouse, 109 W. First St., Portales. Information: 575-356-5307 • Clovis Lodger’s Tax Advisory Board — 5:30 p.m., Clovis City Hall...
CLOVIS — The final Clovis City Commission meeting of 2019 could be its shortest. The 5:15 p.m. Monday meeting at the North Annex of the Clovis-Carver Public Library has one item on the agenda — a request to bind property and liability with Travelers Insurance for the upcoming year. The premium with Travelers is $1.231 million, and the total cost is $1.317 million with insurance broker fees and gross receipts taxes. The price represents a 16% increase over the 2019 premium. The city currently has insurance through One Bea...
On this date ... 1974: New Mexico State Police statistics showed violent crime was rising rapidly across the state. Reports of murder, rape, aggravated assault and robbery went up 81 percent from 1969 to 1973. One of the major crimes occurred every 18 minutes in 1969; that frequency shortened to one every 10 minutes in 1973. Wrote Clovis News-Journal Managing Editor Bill Southard: “For those people who think New Mexico isn’t a progressive state, we have evidence to the contrary.” The crime index, he wrote, “indicates that we...
CLOVIS — The Curry County Commission will spend its last meeting of the year looking at a change order on Curry County Adult Detention Center construction in regard to additional cameras. The meeting is scheduled for 2:30 p.m. Monday at the Curry County Administrative Complex. According to representatives from HB Construction at the commission’s Dec. 19 meeting, there were 59 cameras shown in the renovation plans that would need to be changed from an analog to a digital system. As construction commenced, it was dis...
It didn’t feel like spring, but eastern New Mexico experienced day-long showers and even a tornado warning on Friday. The National Weather Service did not confirm an actual tornado, but it did issue a tornado warning for the Ranchvale area northwest of Clovis late Friday afternoon. Storms also produced spring-like rains across the region, with Farwell recording 1.41 inches of rain during multiple cloudbursts. Clovis saw almost three-quarters of an inch of rain downtown, pushing its year-long moisture total above 22 inches. O...
CLOVIS - Frank Urioste visited Clovis' Mission Garden of Memories on Friday to pay respects. What he saw there was anything but respectful. Vandals had damaged nearly a dozen headstones. "We bury our loved ones and we want them to be left alone," Urioste said, "and this happens." He'd gone with his wife to put flowers on her father's grave. Everything was fine with his father-in-law's gravesite, but half a dozen others nearby were in disarray. Urioste posted a video of his dis...
The end of the year is only a few days away, which means tax season is right around the corner. There are still a few things you can do to optimize your 2019 tax return before the year is out and plenty to keep in mind when you go on to file next year. You could make a contribution to a charitable organization, make an extra interest payment on a loan or contribute or withdraw money from an individual retirement account fund as last-minute options to get your tax return right where you want it, assuming you plan to itemize de...
