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Martha De Lois (Woolever) Schueler, 90, of Allen, Texas was called to her eternal rest on Wednesday, December 20, 2023. A memorial service will be held at St. John Lutheran Church, Lariat, Texas at 10:30 am on Saturday, January 13. Burial will be held at 3:00 pm at Rhea Cemetery in the Rhea Community. Martha was born in Lubbock County near Idalou, Texas on October 12, 1933 to Edgar Orville and Grace Truman (Mitchell) Woolever. After graduating from Clovis High School, she...
Princeton - Thomas Dwayne "Shorty" Vardeman passed away at his home on December 25, 2023, at the age of 82. He is survived by his wife of more than 62 years, Karen (Slaten) Vardeman. Shorty was born in Portales, NM on August 25, 1941, to Clyde Blount and Anna Fred (Ragland) Vardeman. Shorty met Karen in high school in Portales, married in August 1961 and both graduated from Eastern New Mexico University. After graduation from ENMU, Shorty and Karen moved to the Dallas area...
Church service for Peggy Sudderth, age 87, of Farwell, Texas, is scheduled for 11:00 AM, Saturday, January 6, 2024 at First Baptist Church in Farwell with Rick Sullivan officiating. Burial will be in Sunset Terrace Memorial Cemetery in Farwell. Peggy died Tuesday, January 2, 2024 in Lubbock, Texas. She was born August 20, 1936 in Quanah, Texas to Virgil and Ava (O'Hare) Woodson. She married J.B. Sudderth in Oklahoma Lane, Texas on May 19, 1954. Peggy shone like a beacon to...
Bertha Madrid, our loving mother, was called home to be with her heavenly father on December 30, 2023. She passed peacefully at home with her family by her side. Rosary will be held on Thursday, January 4, 2024, at 6:00 pm at The Chapel, 1500 Thornton St., Clovis, NM with Ramona Reyes reciting. Mass of the resurrection will be on Friday, January 5, 2024, at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church, 108 Davis St., Clovis, NM, at 10:30 am with Father Eli Valadez officiating. Burial will...
Dallas - Kathy Brown Walker passed away peacefully in her sleep on December 20th, 2023. She was born August 6th, 1938 to Charles and Ellorine Brown in Mathis, Texas. Her life was a life well-lived. Growing up on a ranch in south Texas, she developed a deep love for family, good food made from scratch, and nature. She left the small town of Mathis in 1956 to attend SMU where she was a Pi Beta Phi and studied Interior Design. She met and married Lyle Walker, a popular upper...
Matthew Gibbs loved Cruella de Vil, Darth Vader, anything Disney, anything Star Wars, and Harry Potter. "He never met a stranger. He talked to everybody," said his father, David Gibbs. "He'd just made a down payment on his own apartment. He didn't have a car." Matthew, 24, was walking to his job at the Allsup's at 14th and Norris streets a little before 11 p.m. Friday night when he was hit by a vehicle, authorities believe. More than two hours later, a passing motorist saw...
Rain, snow and "patchy freezing fog" will result in delays Friday for multiple public entities. Clovis Municipal Schools teachers, staff and administrators are planning to arrive at work at 9:30 a.m. due to the inclement weather. Students remain on Winter Break and are not scheduled to return to class until Monday. Curry County offices will open one hour later than normal on Friday. Clovis Community College and Clovis Christian Schools plan 10 a.m. openings. Snow covered parts of the region on Thursday and freezing...
So 2023 is in the rearview, a little tattered and torn, thoughtfully packed away with all the bits and pieces tucked into their proper spaces. It’s hard to jump into the new year with old business cluttering the path. It’s also hard to reach for something new when our hands are filled with baggage from the past. Change is hard for most of us. Sometimes, it’s easier to keep holding on to something that no longer serves us than it is to find something new that fits. While weari...
Note: I’m sharing an old column this week. Some of it is a bit “dated,” but that figures in to an additional and important point at the end. Thanks for reading. As I write this week’s column, can I just admit from the outset that I’m not sure I should be writing this week’s column? At least, not on this topic. I could easily come off as grouchy and pessimistic, depressed and depressing. Better to keep my mouth shut. But I’ll give it a shot. Writing, that is. I’m not disci...
TEXICO – When Texico scored the game's first six points, the Fort Sumner Foxes never blinked. The defending Class 1A state champions rode strong performances freshmen Aaron Torres and Tra'von Bonds to a 79-54 victory over the Wolverines on Saturday. The 6-foot-4 Torres scored 23 points while Bonds added 19 to lead four players in double figures for the Foxes (9-1), ranked third this season in 1A behind unbeaten District 6-1A rivals Logan (10-0) and Melrose (9-0). "We had a c...
LUBBOCK – Farwell’s girls continued their trend of getting off to fast starts in the Lubbock Caprock Classic, breezing past Muenster 55-28 in Saturday’s championship game of the United Supermarkets bracket. The tournament had three boys and three girls brackets, and featured 119 teams. Junior Landri Richey, who scored 50 points in a pair of wins on Friday, again led the Lady Blue (18-3) with 16 points. Juniors Makylee Baldwin and Bella Jaime followed with nine points each as numerous players scored for Farwell. The Lady...
TEXICO – Defending Class 2A girls state champion Texico isn't far off where it was a year ago. At 3-7, that's not exactly the way you plan it. The question is whether the Lady Wolverines can mount another late-season run towards a championship. Playing without a couple of their key players due to family obligations, Texico gave Fort Sumner a decent battle on Saturday before the Vixens nailed down a 39-32 triumph. Last season, the Lady Wolverines were 6-12 in late January b...
AMARILLO – Clovis High’s girls finished with a season low in scoring. But one day after their top two players combined for just 11 points in a lopsided win over Santa Fe High, they were back on the attack at Amarillo Caprock. Senior guard Zarai Lewis scored 16 points and senior post Kailyn Jefferson added 15, and the Lady Wildcats held on late for a 40-37 victory over the Lady Longhorns. In a nip-and-tuck battle, senior forward Mackenzie Roche made 1-of-2 free throws with under 30 seconds left to give CHS (10-2) a 38-37 lead....
New Mexico is one of only a few states that doesn’t outlaw necrophilia outright. State Rep. Stefani Lord wants to change that. The Sandia Park Republican said she started drafting a bill after learning during a crimes against children seminar that New Mexico hasn’t criminalized the sexual desecration of human remains, which made it difficult to prosecute what she called a horrific case. “Somebody in law enforcement brought up a case where someone was raped after they were murdered, and they could not charge [the suspect] with...
New Mexico is one of more than a dozen states weighing legal challenges to Donald Trump’s eligibility for office because of his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. Two states have made historic decisions to remove Trump from their primary ballots after state officials found his actions violated the anti-insurrection clause in the 14th Amendment. In New Mexico, attorneys are waiting for a ruling from a federal judge following a Nov. 28 hearing in U.S. District Court of New Mexico. John Anthony Castro, a l...
Latchkey kids. Slackers. Caffeine lovers. Grunge. That’s how a lot of people have referred to Generation X, the 46 million Americans, like myself, who were born between 1965 and 1980. We were a generation that has been perennially pegged as cynical, self-indulgent, aimless, contrarian, and often peripheral when it comes to life and other everyday matters. But if we’re being honest, there are a lot of good reasons why many of us are cynical and disillusioned with life. Tur...
Having a happy New Year this year won’t be easy in California. The state is a fiscal, social and economic train wreck that just keeps on wrecking. As we roll into 2024, we’ve learned we’re looking at a projected budget deficit of $68 billion. The Los Angeles Times explained the cause of California’s huge shortfall last week in its usual biased way – without pinning blame on the Democrats in Sacramento whose policies are responsible for it. The deficit is not just because t...
Here’s a great New Year’s resolution: get a pet. As we wrap up a very inflationary 2023, pet shelters across the country are at maximum capacity and they don’t have room to house the pets people are turning in. ABC News reports that animals entering shelters began to climb in 2021. During the COVID pandemic, you see, many people adopted pets, but as they began to go back to the workplace, some decided they no longer wanted to care for a pet, so they turned them back in. The past year was significantly worse for pets becau...
Booked The following were booked into local jails (Friday - Tuesday): Clovis • Marc Martinez, 26, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge • Jerron Fallis, 30, breaking and entering • Rex Guss, 21, failure to pay fines • David Fallis, 30, driving while license suspended or revoked • Martin Bejarano-Bailon, 29, probation violation • Jeckqulynn McDaniel, 33, out of state fugitive • Jolana Griego, 58, probation violation • William Wilhite, 43, failure to comply with specific requirements • Saul Bejarano, 24, probation violati...
On this date ... 1946: A California man was killed near Cryder, about 11 miles west of Melrose, when his 1940 Buick collided with a truck. Officials said John Lee Hunt was identified only by his papers on him that included a draft classification card. Three hitchhikers riding with Hunt were slightly injured and treated at the hospital in Fort Sumner. Two men in the truck were not injured. 1951: Montgomery Ward, located at 307 Main in Clovis, was hosting its annual January...
It’s a new year and, in general terms, we’re still here. Every now and then people get preoccupied with Doomsday, the end of the world. It didn’t happen in 2000 with Y2K, it didn’t happen in 2011 when some church dude said it would and it didn’t happen in 2012 with the end of the Mayan Calendar. I don’t know why folks seem to be preoccupied with the end of the world. I remember another time when some people thought the world as we know it would come to an end. It was 1997 when some “New Age” folks predicted our world would...
A new convenience store is being built in northwest Clovis on the southwest corner of 21st St. and Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. “It’s going to be called Rory’s Convenience Store,” Larry Kolek said. Kolek is owner of Allstate Mechanical, a Clovis-based building contractor. Kolek said the building is for the Jain family. The family owns two gas station/convenience stores in Clovis, one on Prince Street and one on Llano Estacado Boulevard. “This is the first Rory’s. The Jains are looking at possibly building more Rory’s in e...
Xcel Energy employees, contractors and retirees, supported by the company’s foundation, provided over $11 million and tens of thousands of volunteer hours in 2023 to communities in the Xcel service region. According to an Xcel news release, employees donated an estimated 40,000 hours in personal time to charitable organizations. The Xcel Foundation expanded its giving impact this year by investing $4.4 million in grant funding to 409 non-profit organizations across its eight-state service area including New Mexico and T...
With 2023 coming to an end, city of Clovis Marketing, Communications & Grant Coordinator Megan Darrow said some of the city’s success this year is reestablishing programs and renovating current roadworks. She said in June, the city was awarded a $500,000 grant, which was provided by the Save America’s Treasures grant program, to restore Clovis’ historic Lyceum Theater. The city also celebrated success with its Summer Youth Program, said Darrow. Funding for the program was provided by the New Mexico Outdoor Equity Fund and t...
Editor's note: This is one in a continuing series of interviews with local officials. LeighAnn Melancon is the city of Clovis' finance director and city clerk. She answered questions about the upcoming city of Clovis election. Q: Clovis is one of the few communities in New Mexico that did not elect city representatives in November. Explain why Clovis is different. A: In 2019 during the regular New Mexico legislative session, House Bill 407, which is known as the election laws...
