Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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Stephen Hardin, named executive director of the Roosevelt County Chamber of Commerce in March, has handed in his resignation from the post effective Tuesday. He posted a letter to "my community" on Facebook. In it, Hardin thanked the community for "the opportunity to serve ... Unfortunately, due to employment logistics and financial concerns, I have found no other option than to resign." Karl Terry, who retired from the Chamber position prior to Hardin's hiring, said Thursday...
Monday *Labor Day Wednesday *Clovis Community College Board of Trustees – 8 a.m., CCC, 417 Schepps Blvd., Room 512, Clovis. Information: http://www.clovis.edu/about/administration.aspx or 575-769-4003 *El Llano Estacado Resource Conservation and Development Council – 10 a.m., Roosevelt County Soil and Water Conservation Office, 050 NM 467, Portales. Meeting will be followed by a tour of Enchantment Vineyards. Information: email to [email protected] Thursday *Friends of the Portales Public Library – noon, meeti...
Portales’ new city manager will be paid $105,000 annually with plans for three consecutive one-year terms, according to his employment agreement. Christopher Moyer, hired by the Portales City Council during an Aug. 3 meeting, will also receive a city-issued laptop, cell phone and personal use of a city vehicle, the contract shows. He will receive three weeks’ paid vacation annually plus one day of “sick leave” per month. The Eastern New Mexico News obtained a copy of the employment agreement through an Inspection of Public...
The Melrose Clinic, which has been offering one day a week medical services in Melrose since May 2023, is to be closed effective Oct. 1. The notice of closure came during the Curry County Commission's regular meeting Tuesday as Plains Regional Medical Center Chief Executive Bill Priest gave a presentation in the session. "Traffic volume is low. Volume is needed to sustain the facility. This is a problem nationwide. A community this size cannot sustain this," Priest said. Commi...
A multi-use trail from Bob Spencer Park to Hillcrest Park in Clovis could mean more opportunities for health and well-being. Proponents envision people running, walking with friends or riding their bikes. According to a 2014 study by the National Library of Medicine, “proximity to greenspace has been associated with lower levels of stress” and “reduced symptomology for depression and anxiety.” Trent Doolittle, who grew up in Clovis, works with Stantec, an engineering, architecture and environmental consulting organizat...
According to a news release from Assistant City Clerk Vicki Reyes, there are three vacancies on the Economic Incentive Board for citizen representative from Districts 1 and 3 and an industry representative (manufacturing, warehousing and transportation). The city is also accepting applications for one citizen representative and one student representative to serve on the Clovis-Carver Public Library Board. The city is also accepting applications for two representatives for the Planning & Zoning Commission. There is one...
TUCUMCARI – The Tucumcari police chief confirmed Wednesday a Snapchat video showing police officers with a significant amount of cash is the subject of a police investigation. One of the captions with the video stated: “This is what we do with the drug money we confiscate.” At one point the money is tossed into the air. But TPD Chief Patti Lopez said the cash wasn’t confiscated from an arrest. Instead, she said, it was money that one of the officers won while gambling at a casino. Lopez described the video as “office...
BOVINA -- Texas Rangers on Tuesday arrested Bovina Police Chief Joe Orozco, accusing him of three counts of tampering with government documents, according to KFDA-TV in Amarillo. Texas Department of Public Safety Sgt. Cindy Barkley said the Rangers had investigated the case, but they have now turned it over to the 287th District Attorney. The city of Bovina website lists Orozco as having been with the Bovina Police Department since 2017 and having 29 years of law enforcement experience....
Curry and Roosevelt counties welcomed heavy rainfall Thursday night with some individuals reporting 3 to 4 inches in their home rain gauges. The moisture also brought cooler temperatures expected to continue through the Labor Day holiday weekend. Officially, Portales received 2.4 inches of rain between 7 a.m. Thursday and 7 a.m. Friday, said Carter Greulich, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Albuquerque. Clovis received 1.58 inches of rain between 10 a.m. Thursday and 10 a.m. Friday, Greulich said. Brief...
Enrollment at Clovis Municipal Schools is down again, continuing a trend that began in 2012. CMS Deputy Superintendent of Academic Services and Leadership Carrie Nigreville shared the news with the school board Tuesday at its first regular meeting of the 2024-2025 academic year. During the 2011-2012 school year, CMS began the school year with 8,486 students enrolled. The beginning of this school year, 7,418 are enrolled, school records show. This time last year, 7,558 were...
Richard Gomez is concerned about the homeless problem in the Clovis area, and he wants to do something about it. Gomez, co-founder and executive director of Clovis' Lighthouse Mission, said he walked away from Thursday's Clovis City Commission meeting concerned about what he heard. Commissioners unanimously approved an anti-camping ordinance city officials said is aimed at community safety. Gomez said he believes the ordinance "is for good reasons but we need to find a...
Tommy Firestone, store manager at S&S Supermarket in the Hilltop Shopping Plaza in Clovis, is celebrating 50 years with the store this month. "I started to work for Piggly Wiggly, Aug. 8, 1974. I started as a 'sacker,' a bag boy," Firestone said Monday. The Piggly Wiggly was where S&S Supermarket is now. About two years into his job as a sacker, Firestone was reassigned to stocking merchandise. "That was my senior year of high school. I did that until 1980. I got married that...
Eastern New Mexico University was recognized nationally and statewide in the Niche.com 2025 Best College Rankings released this week, according to an ENMU news release. Nationally, ENMU is ranked in the top 15% of universities in eight different categories. In New Mexico, ENMU is ranked first or second in nine different categories. ENMU national rankings include: • Best Online College in America for 2025 • #15 of 670 Best Colleges with no Application Fee in America 2025 • #20 of 377 Best Hispanic Serving Institutions in Am...
Booked The following were booked into local jails (Friday - Tuesday): Clovis • Antonio Maes, 41, aggravated battery • Ksundra Ingram, 31, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge • Brittany Barrows, 33, burglary of a vehicle • Martika Pettit, 49, criminal trespass, resisting, evading or obstructing an officer • Eduardo Blanco, 28, probation violation • Jana Fisher, 51, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge • Dylan Thorn, 18, contributing to the delinquency of a minor, driving under the influence of liquor, speeding, ope...
The Clovis-Curry County Chamber of Commerce has named Strickland’s Floral & Gifts as its newest Retail Rockstar. The public is invited to the award presentation at 8:30 a.m. Thursday at Strickland’s location, Sixth and Main streets. Strickland’s, a member of the West Texas - New Mexico Florist Association, was nominated for the award by MediSpa & Body Shop, the previous winner of the award....
Workers have been busy at the Leal’s Mexican Restaurant location on Mabry Drive. “We are finishing up on the remodel,” said restaurant owner Laura Leal. “We hope to possibly be open in about six weeks,” Leal said Monday. “We’re getting all of our equipment in, getting the metal painted, putting on stucco, fixing up the patio.” Leal added the crew is “completing a few things on the inside.” The popular eatery, which has a second location on Prince Street, closed its Mabry Drive location in 2020 after water pipes froze and bur...
On this date ... 1918: Workers were just about finished paving the north end of Clovis’ Main Street, between Fourth and Eighth streets, with bricks that remain today. A Plainview company did the work after a winning bid of $32,846.20, the Clovis News-Journal reported. 1936: A convicted Clovis rapist’s home was destroyed in a fire while he awaited transport to the state penitentiary. Curly Reynolds had lived at 204 Edwards St. in a small adobe house. Neighbors alerted firefighters to the blaze. Reynolds had pleaded guilty to s...
A public records request to the Eastern New Mexico Water Utility Authority revealed an engineering firm’s study that stated treating Ute lake’s water for a pipeline to the Clovis region would be much more complex and costly than was once anticipated. That prompted the Quay County Commission to vote unanimously Monday to instruct County Manager Daniel Zamora to write a letter on its behalf to the authority’s chairman, Clovis Mayor Mike Morris, urging it to cease construction on the nearly 100-mile pipeline. Village of Logan...
FFA members from Portales and Elida came away with the top bids in Friday night's Junior Livestock Auction at the Roosevelt County Fair. Joy Levacy, secretary of the Junior Livestock Auction, said top sale honor went to Trypp Hamilton of Portales High School FFA with his steer bringing in $12,000. Levacy reported second place went to Blayne Bricker of Elida Schools FFA with $10,000 for his market steer. Coming in third was Kyleigh Stephenson, also of Elida Schools FFA, with...
Tate Turnbough, the Roosevelt County delegate for the Democratic National Convention, said the United Center in Chicago was shaking – literally – when Vice President Kamala Harris gave her acceptance speech as the party's presidential candidate on Thursday. "It was unreal," Turnbough said. Turnbough said he's among Democrats across the nation – and in eastern New Mexico – experiencing a renewed enthusiasm since Joe Biden announced he would not seek a second term and Harris...
Tommy Fellows, a self-proclaimed online child predator catcher who operates Colorado Ped Patrol, approached Clovis resident Timothy Conrad Harper at Harper’s Fourth Street home on Aug. 17. Over the past couple of weeks, Fellows said Harper had been led to believe he was conversing with Molly – a 13-year-old girl – and expressed interest in taking her virginity. Court records show he intended to meet with her last weekend. Harper knows now that Molly never existed. Someone else was online posing as a child. Court recor...
Thursday’s water authority meeting got off to a contentious start when a village of Logan administrator alleged members were damaging Logan’s economy in favor of others. “I’m simply going to leave you with one small request,” Logan village administrator Rodney Paris told the Eastern New Mexico Water Utility Authority: “Don’t do any construction (in Logan) until you figure out how much it’s going to take, and you have full funding to build your treatment plant before you start tearing up everything there, damaging our ec...
Air Force veteran Christopher Moyer started his job as Portales’ city manager on Monday. The Portales City Council swore him in Tuesday during its regular meeting. “I’m glad to be here,” he told Council members. “I’m glad to be serving in the city of Portales and the residents. I look forward to working with everybody.” Earlier Tuesday, Moyer told The News in an interview that he came to the area as a master sergeant with the U.S. Air Force in 2020. He was stationed at Cannon Air Force Base. After his retirement fr...
This seems like it’s been a hot August here on the High Plains. Is this any hotter than normal? How many days have we hit 100? Is there any cooler weather and/or rain in sight? “People are definitely not imagining things,” said Andrew Mangham, a hydrologist with the National Weather Service in Albuquerque. “This is a hot August.” Through Tuesday, Mangham said Clovis had seen three days in August with triple-digit high temperatures. “The average maximum temperature for Clovis so far (in August) is 95.7 degrees,” he said. “The...
Despite about a dozen protestors outside, Clovis city commissioners at their regular meeting Thursday voted to adopt an ordinance forbidding camping on city property, including parks. The ordinance is seen by some as a public safety measure and by others as an affront to the homeless. The proposal first appeared in July, in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court greenlighting a similar ordinance in Grants Pass, Ore. A first violation of the new ordinance will be met with a...
