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Nathan Hecht spent his law career representing "the little guy." That's how Clovis attorney Mike Garrett always saw him at least. "Nathan cared for the little man. He completely reformed the law in Texas for the people in need," Garrett said last week, remembering the 1967 Clovis High graduate who retired last month after a decade as chief justice of the Texas' Supreme Court. He'd served on the state's Supreme Court since 1988. "He was a most conservative justice," Garrett...
Monday *Movie Madness: “Balto” (1995; G; 1 hour, 14 minutes) – 11 a.m., Ingram Room, Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main St., Clovis. Seating first come, first served until capacity is reached. Outside snacks welcome. Information: 575-769-7840 *Stitch Addicts stitch group – 6:30 p.m., Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main St., Clovis. Information: 575-763-9687 Tuesday *2025 Legislative Breakfast – 7 a.m., Business Enterprise Center boardroom, Clovis/Curry County Chamber of Commerce, 105 E. Grand Ave., Clovis. RSVP b...
Monday *City of Portales Planning and Zoning Committee – 5:30 p.m., Memorial Building, 200 E. Seventh St., Portales. Information: 575-356-6662 Tuesday *2025 Legislative Forum Breakfast – 7 a.m., Business Enterprise Center boardroom, Clovis/Curry County Chamber of Commerce, 105 E. Grand Ave., Clovis. RSVP by email to [email protected] *Roosevelt County Commission – 9 a.m., Commission Room, Roosevelt County Courthouse, 109 W. First St., Portales. Information: 575-356-5307 *Clovis Civil Aviation Board — 5:30 p.m., North A...
Booked The following were booked into local jails (Friday - Tuesday): Clovis • Reinier Estevez-Mayedo, 39, no drivers license, speeding, conspiracy to commit receiving or transferring stolen motor vehicles • Veronica Bedolla, 29, battery, criminal damage to property • Jessie Fuller, 37, probation violation • Ivan Lopez, 31, battery against a household member • Donna Sena, 58, probation violation • Clifford Franklin, 47, driving while license suspended or revoked, resisting, evading or obstructing an officer • Fabian Fabela...
Clovis City commissioners on Thursday unanimously approved a restaurant beer and wine license for a downtown Clovis eatery. The La Fiesta Mexican Restaurant on the northeast corner of the intersection of Fifth and Main streets downtown is the licensee. La Fiesta owner Jesus Vallejo Gonzales thanked commissioners for their approval. The unanimous vote was 7-0. Commissioner Juan Garza was not present for the session. In other business, commissioners presented awards to two city...
On this date … 1932: Eastern New Mexico was covered in about 6 inches of snow. “Old timers pronounced this as the heaviest snowfall in years,” the Portales Valley News reported. “The night bus was unable to run, and the bus mail failed to come in.” In other local news: • Mrs. W.M. Drinkard of the East Valley View Club had won a carpet sweeper and undisclosed cash prize in the Ball Jar canning contest. Drinkard won for canning vegetables. • A Portales man had been arrested for stealing five hens from Ed Spears. The suspect was...
Clovis' Ricky Fuentes picked 12 of 20 games correctly in the 12th round of the Pigskin Pick 'Em contest to win the season's title and $500 cash prize. For the year, Fuentes correctly picked 94 of the 130 pro and college football games on the contest game cards. Clovis' Tommy Platt, also 12-8 in the game's final round, finished second for the year with 91 correct picks. Zach Mockchew picked 13 of 20 games correctly in Week 12, earning him a $50 gift card from Juanito's Mexican...
I see there are “Lego Club” meetings at the Clovis-Carver Public Library. What goes on at these meetings? Simply put, Clovis-Carver Public Library Director Margaret Hinchee said those who attend “do Lego activities.” While the event is called “Lego Club” it’s not actually a club, according to Hinchee. “We spread out Legos on tables and they can build whatever they want,” Hinchee. Participants build “cars, robots, all kinds of things.” “We have the big Legos that they call Duplos and people can come in and be creative,” Hinch...
AUSTIN — Nathan Hecht — who grew up on his family’s grain farm in Clovis — has formally retired as the Texas Supreme Court’s chief justice and longest-serving member. “We never had any lawyers in the family. Certainly no judges,” Hecht said. “I never imagined in my wildest dreams that I would even practice law — let alone be on the court, let alone be on here as long as I have.” Though he won reelection in November 2020 to a six-year term, state constitutional limits will prevent Hecht, 75, from serving beyond December. Te...
SANTA FE — Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Wednesday announced she’s appointed former state Sen. Greg Nibert to the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission. Nibert, R-Roswell, will be asked to serve a six-year term. Nibert succeeds Commissioner James Ellison whose term concluded Dec. 31. “I am honored to be nominated to the Public Regulation Commission,” Nibert said in a news release issued by the governor’s office. “My duty as a commissioner will be to regulate our utilities according to the laws of the land, which inclu...
Editor’s note: Martha Kavanagh is head of corporate communications for Glanbia, the company that owns Southwest Cheese. She responded last week via email to questions from The News regarding Monday’s chemical spill that left 15 SW Cheese employees hospitalized. All 15 employees injured had been released from area hospitals by Thursday, hospital officials said. Q: What kind of process was being performed when the incident took place? Was it part of the cheese-making process? A sterilization procedure? What happens in the CIP...
The Clovis hospital’s first baby of 2025 is a boy, born at 8:53 a.m. Thursday. Brandon Rashard Holmes Jr. was born to Marla Arrington and Brandon Rashard Holmes Sr. of Clovis. He was 20.5 inches long and weighed 7 pounds, 9.5 ounces. “He’s the smallest baby I’ve had. We were expecting him Dec. 24 and when he didn’t arrive we thought he’d be at least 9 pounds,” Arrington said. Arrington, from Columbus, Ga., is an E4 with the U. S. Air Force, stationed at Cannon Air Force Bas...
State police are investigating a shooting that took place about 5 a.m. Wednesday at a residence on Buffalo Road outside Clovis. “A 51-year-old male did sustain gunshot wounds while inside his residence,” a New Mexico State Police spokesperson told The News. “He was transported to a hospital in Texas with what appear to be non-life-threatening injuries. No arrests have been made and this incident is still being investigated....
Some area residents will remember 2024 as the year a Clovis native won the Pro Rodeo Cowboys Association's All-Around World Championship. Others may note it was the year Clovis city officials attempted to address issues with panhandling and homelessness. Or the year fire destroyed the Portales Hampton Farms peanut processing plant. The year, like all years, was marked with triumph and transitions. But many will remember 2024 for violence more senseless than most: the afternoon...
In 2006, Jimmy Carter published a controversial and best-selling book on Palestine with the word "apartheid" in the title. Then he went on a whirlwind book tour, captured on film by Jonathan Demme, to promote it. Carter spoke, signed books and calmly rebutted criticism and attacks with his trademark Sunday-school demeanor. Allies, including Nancy Pelosi, then on the verge of becoming speaker of the House, were annoyed. Enemies were livid. As for Carter, he was 82 years old...
A chemical spill produced toxic gas Monday morning, sending 15 Southwest Cheese employees to area hospitals. Two patients were reported in critical condition at Plains Regional Medical Center in Clovis. "Early investigation indicates that the cause of the incident was a chemical overflow, which occurred due to mechanical failure ... producing vapors which impacted a number of employees who were working close by," SW Cheese stated in a news release. A Plains Regional Medical...
A 7 Brew drive-thru coffee shop is coming to Clovis. Pete Wilt, director of the city of Clovis’ Building Safety Department, said preliminary work has been submitted to his department in advance of the building permit process for the business at 2609 N. Prince St., lot 2A. The location is between Los Victor’s and Red Lobster restaurants. 7 Brew has locations in Albuquerque, Lubbock, Amarillo and Odessa, Texas....
The discount retail chain Big Lots has reached a deal that will keep hundreds of its stores and distribution centers open. That’s according to multiple news reports. The Associated Press reported on its website: “Big Lots said Friday it will be sold to Gordon Brothers Retail Partners, a firm that specializes in distressed companies. Gordon Brothers will then transfer Big Lots’ stores, distribution centers and other assets to other retailers.” The fate of the Clovis Big Lots store was unknown early this week. A Big Lots em...
RUIDOSO - Looking down at Ruidoso, the Alpine Village is marred by thousands of charred trees. But the view also presents signs of life, grass a foot in length in some places sprouting from the ground. It's a welcomed sight for the people of Ruidoso, who this summer experienced the South Fork and Salt fires - burning more than 25,500 acres and more than 1,500 structures, leaving two dead. Floods also followed, about a dozen, in the days and weeks after. In the aftermath of...
Thursday *Clovis City Commission - 5:15 p.m., North Annex, Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main St., Clovis. Information: 575-769-7828 Jan. 6 *City of Portales Planning and Zoning Committee – 5:30 p.m., Memorial Building, 200 E. Seventh St., Portales. Information: 575-356-6662 Jan. 7 *2025 Legislative Breakfast – 7 a.m., Business Enterprise Center boardroom, Clovis/Curry County Chamber of Commerce, 105 E. Grand Ave., Clovis. RSVP by email to [email protected] *Roosevelt County Commission – 9 a.m., Commission Room,...
TUCUMCARI -- A Tucumcari man was jailed on attempted murder charges Monday. Police say Anthony Ray Kent, 56, shot at a man at least 15 times and wounded him in front of the Quay County Family Health Center. Kent was charged with attempted first-degree murder, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and shooting at or from a motor vehicle (no great bodily harm). Kent on Tuesday was being held at the Quay County Detention Center without bond. Online court documents show Kent shot at the victim, James Hutchison, at least 15...
On this date … 1903: Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway workers began construction on the Belen Cutoff – 268 miles of track that connected Texico and the Texas-New Mexico border to the AT&SF’s main line near Belen, south of Albuquerque. The new route, avoiding the mountains of northern New Mexico, led to the creation of Clovis in 1907. 1931: About 100 men, most armed with shotguns, gathered outside the Clovis News-Journal office on Main Street. Then, “bent upon bloodshed,” they sped out of the city, the newspaper...
A humanitarian. Community oriented. A gift from God. That's how area residents remember Jimmy Carter, the 39th U.S. president who died Sunday at age 100. Democratic Party of Curry County Chair Jamaal Williams remembers Carter's post-presidency work. "The Habitat for Humanity, his work and dedication. I think as an ex-president he was one of the few I've seen to use his power to help regular Americans," Williams said. "He was actually out there doing it himself with his hands."...
Editor's note: This is one in a continuing series of interviews with local officials and community leaders. Lance Pyle is Curry County manager. Q: County commissioners have expressed concerns about Oak View Group 360, the management group for the Curry County Events Center and Fairgrounds. What have you learned from the audit of OVG360 approved in November? Do you anticipate the county looking into other options for managing the Events Center anytime soon? A: The audit is...
