Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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By day, Michael Arredondo works as a draftsman at a civil engineering company. By night she is known as Myss Myka. Arredondo, who lives in Amarillo, has been doing drag for seven years. On Wednesday, she and four other drag performers came to Clovis to host Drag Queen Story Hour at the Youth Recreation Building, part of Clovis Pride Week. About 80 people attended the event, from babies to small children to teenagers, adult men and women. Dressed in a full-length...
Clovis Mayor Mike Morris on Friday called for the resignation of City Commissioner David Bryant, accusing Bryant of “misuse, if not theft, of public funds.” Bryant, in a two-sentence response via Facebook Messenger, said he is chalking up the mayor’s words as “retaliation” for a disagreement over the anti-abortion ordinance the city passed early this year. In emails to Bryant, obtained Friday by The News, Morris accused the commissioner of being “dishonest” about attendi... Full story
Clovis-based ENMR Telephone Cooperative is to receive close to $50 million to expand high-speed internet in eastern New Mexico. The news came from the offices of U.S. Sens. Martin Heinrich and Ben Ray Luján and Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández that the National Telecommunications and Information Administration awarded $49.8 million in infrastructure law funding to ENMR. “I am thrilled to see the bipartisan infrastructure law continue to invest in New Mexicans. Every person needs reliable Internet access – whether it’s to do home...
Fifty-three pieces of art created by 24 area residents are on display at the Runnels Gallery in the Golden Student Success Center at Eastern New Mexico University. Take it from me: It's worth a visit. Dubbed - fittingly - the Community Art Show, this free exhibit opened June 12 and is the first group exhibition at ENMU by local adults in at least 20 years, according to Bryan Hahn, manager of the gallery and curator of the ENMU Art Collection. "We've struggled over the years...
Two Clovis teenagers ending a relationship led to the shooting death Monday of one of the boys by a third juvenile, according to Clovis Police Department investigators. The victim, Timothy Newbrough, 18, was found dead on the couch of his home in the 300 block of Alamo Street on Clovis’ west side early Monday morning. Early Tuesday morning, police received a call from a 17-year-old boy claiming a 14-year-old boy confessed to the slaying. The 14-year-old was brought in for questioning and detained. He requested an attorney a...
Monday *Free movie: “Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey” (1993, G, 1 hour, 21 minutes) – 10 a.m., Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main St., Clovis. Information: 575-769-7840 *Let’s Play Together: “Rambunctious Relays” – 10:30 a.m., Portales Public Library, 218 S. Ave. B, Portales. Games and STREAM (Science, technology, reading, engineering, arts, math) for kindergarten through sixth grade. Information: 575-356-3940 *Stories and a Snack storytime – 2-3 p.m., Golden Student Success Center, ENMU, Portales. Open...
Monday *Roosevelt County Crimestoppers — Noon, ENMU Campus Union Building, Portales. Meal may not be available. Information: Darla Reed at [email protected] or 575-226-5237 Tuesday *Curry County Commission – 9 a.m., Commission Chambers, Curry County Administration Complex, 417 Gidding St., Clovis. Information: 575-763-6016 *Clovis Municipal Schools board — 5:30 p.m., Board Room, CMS administration building, 1009 Main St., Clovis. Information: 575-769-4300 *Portales City Council – 5:30 p.m., Council Chambers, Memoria...
A murder suspect whose case is set for trial Nov. 3 is housed in a maximum-security cell in the Roosevelt County Detention Center, according to RCDC records. Jorge Rico-Ruvira, 35, of Roswell, is accused of first-degree murder in the Jan. 7, 2020 slaying of Isela Mauricio-Sanchez, 27, in Roswell. He was transferred to the Roosevelt County Detention Center on May 12. Roosevelt County officials declined to state why Rico-Ruvira was sent to the Roosevelt County facility, and attempts to reach the Fifth Judicial District...
The Roosevelt County Commission voted on Friday to authorize the New Mexico Association of Counties to sue the New Mexico General Services Department to stop the department from billing Roosevelt and other New Mexico counties to make up a $119 million deficit in employee health insurance premiums. The commission on Friday also authorized County Manager Amber Hamilton to send a “letter of dispute” on the deficit premium billing to the general services department and to administrators of the federal Employee Retirement Inc...
The New Mexico Public Education Department highlighted eight schools across the state that have exceeded expectations for literacy education. One of the eight schools named for being a structured model literacy school was the Clovis Municipal Schools’ Arts Academy at Bella Vista. Each of the schools had to go through a competitive grant application, where the Model Schools were then thoroughly analyzed by the Public Education Department Literacy and Humanities Bureau in May. State administrators were able to appoint these s...
The Roosevelt County Commission expressed some concerns to a representative from the Human Services Department regarding easier access, privacy and technology at their regular meeting Tuesday morning. Karmela Martinez, the Income Support Division Director, was at the meeting to give a presentation on what the department does. However, she said early on that she was there to listen to what the people had to say and how they can make improvements for those in the area. After her presentation, Commissioner Dennis Lopez started...
On this date ... 1935: The Mothers’ Club of Portales was meeting at 8 each Thursday night at the high school. Vanessa Flemming was the club president. Members were working on a quilt cover they hoped to sell in the fall. “The weekly exchange of recipes has helped in these busy days of planning,” according to a society news column. 1950: Santa Fe Café at 108 S. Main in Clovis offered meals for 49 cents, according to a newspaper advertisement. The phone number was 9921. 1955:...
The books listed below are now available for checkout at the Clovis-Carver Public Library. The library is open to the public, but patrons can still visit the online catalog at cloviscarverpl.booksys.net/opac/ccpl or call 575-769-7840 to request a specific item for curbside pickup. “The Woman Who Wore a Badge” by C.K. Crigger. January Billings is starting over after bringing her husband’s murderer to justice, when a stranger shows up at her ranch door. The sheriff, weaseling out of his duties, has sent him to enlist her help...
Curry Residents Senior Meals Association 901 W. 13th St. Clovis Monday: Steak fingers and gravey, baked potato, blended veggies, fruit cocktail. Tuesday: Tamales with red chile, Spanish rice, refried beans, applesauce. Wednesday: Chicken strips, mashed potatoes, corn, Jell-O. Thursday: Green chile cheeseburger, potato wedges, ice cream. Friday: Barbecued riblets, mac and cheese, peas and carrots, Mandarin oranges. Baxter-Curren Activity Center 908 Hickory, Clovis 575-762-3631 Monday: 8:30 a.m. Exercise, 10 a.m. Line dance,...
I have this framed print of Geronimo hanging on my office wall at home and as I stared into those piercing dark eyes I saw him a little differently than I have since I hung the piece on the wall. I wrote about acquiring him in the fall of 2018 and I told of his exploits in that column, but I didn’t tell the whole story because perhaps I hadn’t aged enough to understand it fully. The portrait shows him posed with a rifle supposedly on the San Carlos Reservation in Arizona bef...
After 30 years of providing uniforms for nurses and other medical employees of Curry and Roosevelt hospitals, clinics and doctors' offices, Mickey Erwin plans to close Mickey's Uniforms and More for good on Friday. It was a hard decision, she said, a move she and Tiffany Romero, her long time employee, had been talking about for a couple of years, even before COVID-19 struck, instantly accelerating the medical profession into high gear. Now, however, the decision is final,...
Sometimes I wonder if I control my technology or if technology now controls me. I say this while sitting in my house with no internet. A defective router, or something, will have to wait until Monday, when I can get it fixed or replaced. That leaves me a weekend without my “smart” TV, an incessant flow of emails and an offline computer that only works off its “desktop.” Sure, I’ve still got a working smart phone, which for many is all they need — but not me, since I’m not into the apps that turn such devices into a mini-me. I...
Facebook has a feature called Memories, which culls from old posts and allows you to see what was of interest on any given date over the years that you’ve been on the platform. It’s an interesting window into your activities, your priorities and your relationships from the recent, or distant, past. Recently, the overwhelming majority of my posts from mid-June 2020 had to do with a controversy involving the removal of a statue of Christopher Columbus in South Phi...
I love democracy … the purer the better. And so, I’ve always been a big fan of the referendum process, which allows citizens to circumvent the representative system and take their issue directly to the voters. The angriest I’ve ever been with the Las Cruces City Council was in 2014 when they relied on slimy legal tricks to stop a successful effort to use the referendum process to raise the minimum wage. I had mixed feelings about the wage, but my feelings about the City Council’s maneuvering were anything but mixed. Now, a...
We have the potential of involving the United States in a boots-on-ground conflict in Ukraine with the possible result leading to WWIII and Armageddon. There are three scenarios in which this could happen, but one is so crazy that I tend to discount it out of hand and will cover it now. Michael Rubin, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, has suggested providing Ukraine with tactical nukes. In an article dated June 9, Rubin details a situation in which Russian...
It frustrates me that we so often allow the worst people among us to dictate how we live our lives. We arrange society according to their whims and behavior. I’m not only speaking of traditional politicians but of freelance bad guys like those who caused the Draggin’ Main “Saturday Night Cruise” event to shut down early. Recently, a shooting incident between motorcycle gang criminals in Red River caused officials there to end their Memorial Day weekend motorcycle rally e...
Last week’s electronic mailbag offered widely different views of Pride Month and how eastern New Mexico is celebrating. This note comes from Debra Martin of Portales: “Support of the military and, more specifically, Cannon (Air Force Base), is a boast made often and loudly by the residents of Clovis and Portales. The most recent data estimates 6.1% of the military members identify as LGBTQ. In addition 7.2% of the U.S. population identify as LGBTQ, which statistically inf...
How long has Stuart Ingle of Portales been our state senator? How old is he? When does his current term expire? What does he do for a living? Stuart Ingle was at his home in Portales on Friday when he answered those questions. “I’m staying inside for a little while, but then I have a lunch here in a little bit. It’s hot out there,” Ingle said. Ingle said he’s been in office for 39 years. “I was elected in the fall of 1984, sworn in in January 1985. I was tickled to death to win,” Ingle said. Ingle remembers campaigning....
Efforts to usurp recently passed state laws regarding health care and aspects of voting continue. That’s despite a ruling by a state judge that New Mexico Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver may block referendums on the laws. The laws in question -- House Bills 4, 7 and 207 along with Senate Bills 13, 180 and 397 -- are the subject of a push by a group named “Better Together New Mexico” that seeks to put the measures before state voters. All six of the measures became law last week. Among other issues, the Better Toget...
Two juveniles have been arrested after allegedly unleashing a hail of gunfire at a Clovis home at 2501 N. Axtell St. Wednesday afternoon. The names of the suspects have not been released because of their juvenile status. Clovis Police Dispatch Center got a call at about 2:30 p.m. Wednesday about shots fired in the area of 2501 N. Axtell St. That call was “almost immediately” followed by a second call, reporting a gunshot victim at this same residence, this according to a news release from CPD Capt. Robbie Telles. CPD off...
