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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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The ride swooshed from side-to-side like a seconds pendulum on a grandfather clock. And with each daunting swing, more momentum and fear were built. And it all reached a crescendo when the riders were suspended in air upside down for a few seconds – or lifetimes – before completing a loop that invited and denied death in one fell swoop. "I'm a thrill seeker so I wouldn't call it scary, but it's fun for sure," said Jax Piepkorn after surviving the ride. Known as the Kam...
Night had settled in. Country music bounced through the speakers. Individual conversations at picnic tables combined to one neatly organized cacophony. And a variety of smells from food trucks and stands provided patrons at the Curry County Fair that familiar coziness: Ribbon fries smothered in nacho cheese; turkey legs the size of footballs, funnel cakes with an avalanche of powdered sugar and sugary, rainbow-colored slushies to wash it all down. And then there's kettle...
As the last glimmers of sunlight shot across the Clovis night sky on Tuesday, Richard Willadsen leaned against a wall adorned with massive stuffed animals on the midway at the Curry County Fair. Behind Willadsen were rows of glass bottles. Some Coors. Some Miller Lites. All begging to be shattered by a baseball thrown by someone willing to cough up a couple bucks. But after 45 years working at stands like this one, Willadsen's voice has turned gravelly, in a nearly imperceptib...
Booked The following were booked into local jails (Friday - Tuesday): Clovis • Brittany Barrows, 33, failure to pay fines • D’Rel Jones, 25, probation violation • Guillermo Campos, 36, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge • Judas Lopez, 27, resisting, evading or obstructing an officer • Eric Mims, 60, possession of a controlled substance • Jim Arias, 31, criminal trespass • Theodore Robinson, 30, criminal trespass, possession of a controlled substance • Casey Townsend, 47, criminal trespass • Zachary Ward, 23, driving w...
On this date ... 1941: A Wichita Falls teenager was charged with killing two traveling companions and placing their bodies on the train tracks four miles south of Clovis. Officials at first believed J.V. Harden and Arthur William Hall had fallen from the tracks and been run over by the train. Charles Alexander then told authorities that the dead men had been traveling with him and Jess Fuller, but went ahead without them when Alexander and Fuller decided to rest for the night. Alexander, 15, theorized the dead men had...
Clovis Community College is set to launch its Commercial Drivers License Program this month. Registration for the class extends through Aug. 23. The first class is set for Aug. 26. The college is partnering with Vehicle Safety Programs, L.L.C., based in Portales, which will provide the driving instruction. The program contains three components: Theory taught at the college; instruction at the range on how to operate the vehicle; and a road test on the highway. Elizabeth...
Editor's note: This is one in a continuing series of interviews with local officials and community leaders. Lucio Marin is helping coordinate a celebration of the Lincoln Jackson school's 100th birthday later this month. Q: Tell us about Celebration and Closure: A Century of Excellence. A: To commemorate this momentous occasion, we have planned a celebration to take place at iAcademy (the current name for Lincoln Jackson) on Aug. 31 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Please come out and...
Pawprints of Portales Rescue is a foster home-based nonprofit that operates through a network of volunteers. Volunteers care for the animals until they are adopted. Asked how many volunteers they have, Pawprints Director Bobbi VanDyke said: "We don't have enough volunteers-10 or 11." Last week, Petsense by Tractor Supply and the Tractor Supply Company Foundation donated $5,000 to Pawprints of Portales. "This donation is part of Petsense by Tractor Supply's ongoing commitment...
Wednesday *Curry County Fair: Military Appreciation Night – Curry County Fairgrounds, 1900 E. Brady Ave., Clovis. Admission: Adults (13-59) $7 daily, $18 weekly; seniors (60 and up) $6 daily, $15 weekly; kids (ages 5-12) $3 daily, $8 weekly; military $5 daily, $12 weekly; children 4 and under are free. 8:30 a.m. – booster dairy show; 9 a.m. – dairy cattle show; 4 p.m. - ag building exhibits, home arts exhibits, commercial barn exhibits open; 4 p.m. – free hamburger meal for all active duty and retired military served in fron...
Today through Friday *67th Annual New Mexico Municipal League Annual Conference – Clovis Civic Center, 801 Schepps Blvd., Clovis. Information: 505-982-5573 Today *Eastern Plains Council of Governments – 10 a.m., EPCOG office, 418 N. Main St., Clovis. Information: 575-762-7714 *Friends of Clovis-Carver Public Library meeting – 11:30 a.m., Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main St., Clovis. Information: 575-763-9687 *City of Clovis Planning and Zoning Commission – 3 p.m., North Annex, Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N....
A former Clovis police officer charged with drug trafficking and as an accessory to residential burglary turned himself in to authorities on Friday. Frank Careri, 34, under criminal investigation since February 2023, was charged July 26. Since he was out of state at the time, prosecutors gave him until Friday to turn himself in. Court records show Careri was booked into the Curry County Detention Center and released on a personal recognizance bond. Careri waived his... Full story
A Portales woman last week was charged with arson after police allege she started a fire that destroyed the house where she was living and three vehicles. Leticia Tarango, 23, told police she started the fire on Wednesday because a brown shirt reminded her of “painful memories,” court records show. “(S)he decided to tear the shirt up and then set it on fire,” according to an affidavit for arrest filed in Portales’ magistrate court. The woman said she attempted to put out the fire with a glass of water after flames spread to...
Monday *2024 Curry County Fair entry day – 8 a.m.-6 p.m., Curry County Fairgrounds, 1900 E. Brady Ave., Clovis. Information: https://www.curryeventscenter.com/fair or 575-935-7000 *Childfind – 8:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m. and 1-3 p.m., Brown Early Childhood Center, 520 W. Fifth St., Portales. Developmental screenings open to ages 0-4 for speech, vision, hearing, behavior. Information or to schedule an appointment: Special Student Services at 575-359-3707 *Representative Teresa Leger Fernandez (NM-03) walk-in office hours – 1-3 p.m.,...
Monday *Clovis Astronomy Club – 7 p.m., Room 221, Clovis Community College, 417 Schepps Blvd., Clovis. Use west parking lot entrance. Information: 757-846-7509 *City of Portales Planning and Zoning Committee meeting – 5:30 p.m., Memorial Building, 200 E. 7th St., Portales. Information: 575-356-6662 *Portales Municipal Schools board - 6 p.m., Board Room, L.C. Cozzens Administrative Offices, 501 S. Abilene, Portales. Information: 575-356-7000 Tuesday through Friday *67th Annual New Mexico Municipal League Annual Conference – C...
Free blood testing for PFAS contamination will be administered in September and October in a program spearheaded by the New Mexico Environment Department and the New Mexico Department of Health. Preliminary details were revealed by state representatives at Thursday's monthly meeting of the Curry County Health Council. Kate Cardenas of the Environment Department and Heidi Krapfl of the Department of Heath called the blood testing an inter-agency project for people in an area...
A man was hit by a vehicle Friday morning in the parking lot at Clovis’ McDonald’s on Prince Street. “A vehicle hit a pedestrian and the person became trapped under the vehicle,” Clovis Police Lt. Trevor Thron confirmed. “(The) victim did suffer some moderate injuries, but not life-threatening from what I was told....
Staff for U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., will hold in-person mobile office hours in Texico on Tuesday. The office hours will be from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. and take place at the Texico Senior Center, 211 N. Griffin St. “Staff will be on hand to assist residents who have questions regarding Social Security benefits, Medicare, immigration, veterans benefits, student loans, and other federal programs,” the release from Heinrich’s office states. “Constituents who are not able to attend Mobile Office Hours can visit the Hel...
Power was out late Tuesday night around the Clovis airport following a traffic accident. Curry County Sheriff Michael Brockett said juveniles “ran a stop sign and hit a power pole.” The incident interrupted power in the area from about 10 p.m. Tuesday until about 1 a.m. Wednesday. The sheriff said only one vehicle was involved and no injuries were reported....
Saturday will be move-in day for Eastern New Mexico University students living on campus. The university's administration has also planned several activities that will take place during the annual welcome weekend, or Dawg Days, to welcome students back to campus, according to an ENMU news release. "Dawg Days are here again. I love this time of year when students move in, and the campus truly comes to life," ENMU Chancellor James Johnston said. Johnston said he's "looking...
The New Mexico Department of Finance and Administration has awarded $24.9 million in grants to pay for 190 additional firefighter and EMT positions across the state, according to a DFA news release. The $24.9 million in awards will help offset the cost of new firefighter and EMT salaries for three years, the release states. “Firefighters are on the front lines protecting our communities from potentially devastating blazes everyday,” said Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham in the release. “As fires––and especially wildfires...
The Curry County Fair opens its gates to the public Tuesday through Saturday this week. Here’s the schedule of events: Monday • Fair entry day – 8 a.m.-6 p.m., Curry County Fairgrounds, 1900 E. Brady Ave., Clovis. Information: www.curryeventscenter.com/fair Tuesday • Food Bank Night – Admission: Adults (13-59) $7 daily, $18 weekly; seniors (60 and up) $6 daily, $15 weekly; kids (ages 5-12) $3 daily, $8 weekly; military $5 daily, $12 weekly; children 4 and under are free. • 9 a.m. – county-bred swine show; 9:30 a.m. – rabbit...
What is going on at the southwest corner of Purdue and Thornton streets in Clovis? It looks like a new structure is going up. Nick Griego & Sons has a building permit to create storefronts at that location, said city officials and Nick Griego Jr. “There was a hamburger joint there when I was young, then an Asian store,” said Griego, vice president of the construction company. Griego said the new construction at Purdue and Thornton will have eight storefronts facing Purdue. “Each one has 800 square feet. Two of them will...
The diagnosis fell on Clovis native Lexi Cross like an anvil out of the sky. "You have Type 2 diabetes," her endocrinologist told her last summer at a doctor's office in Roswell. First came "shock." Then confronting her own mortality at 40 years old, followed by an alarming thought of not being there for her four kids, particularly her child with epilepsy. At the time, Cross had said she knew her health habits weren't the greatest. Exercise was contained to weekend softb...
It wasn't just that Laura Araiza's lacking health habits left her "feeling tired of feeling tired." Rather, this lethargy festered into her not being the parent she wanted to be for her four kids. She couldn't play with them. She was "sad all the time." And was prone to snapping. "They weren't getting a good side of me," said Araiza, a native of Clovis and stay-at-home mom. It all came to a head on a family vacation last summer. While at a water park in Dallas, Araiz...
Portales City Council members, in a “special council meeting” last Saturday unanimously voted to make a “conditional offer” for Christopher Moyer to be the city’s next manager. Council members voted 8-0 for the city human resources department to begin background checks on Moyer, who was one of 37 applicants for the job. The position became open after the Council fired Sarah Austin “without cause” in April. A recording of Saturday’s special meeting was posted on the city’s YouTube channel. Interim City Manager T.J. Cathey said... Full story
