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Stage 3 emergency water rationing goes into effect in the city of Portales Wednesday according to a news release from City Manager Sarah Austin. “A combination of extended drought, extreme heat and a decline in wellfield capacity has drastically reduced our ability to maintain adequate water reserves at the water tanks,” Austin wrote in the release. Austin wrote city personnel will be strictly enforcing Stage 3 emergency rationing. The following restrictions will remain in effect until the emergency is over: Outdoor lands...
COLORADO SPRINGS -- A 48-year-old woman from Clovis is the victim of a homicide in Colorado Springs, Colo., police say. Nancy Mascarenas was found dead a little after 3 a.m. Friday after police were notified of shots fired in the 1500 block of East Boulder Street, according to a Colorado Springs police news release. “While the Coroner’s Office will determine the cause and manner of death, it is being investigated as a homicide,” the news release read. “This is the 13th homicide in the City of Colorado Springs in 2023. A...
Jennifer Goble-Poyer, who starred at Eastern New Mexico University in women's basketball and volleyball, will be enshrined in the New Mexico Sports Hall of Fame later this summer. Goble-Poyer will become the first former ENMU student athlete inducted into the Hall, according to a news release from ENMU's John Houser. "This was a wonderful surprise," said Goble-Poyer. "It is truly humbling to be honored with so many great people involved in New Mexico sports." She joins...
Eastern New Mexico employers need more workers skilled in trade jobs. Those include HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning), electrical, truck-driving and other positions. That was the word Thursday when the Curry County Chamber of Commerce and Clovis Economic Development hosted a "Closing the Skills Gap" meeting. The groups gathered to discuss the skill requirements of the local labor force and what programs local colleges should consider adopting to meet the needs...
On this date ... 1950: A group of Portales businessmen began efforts to hold the first local option liquor election in the city since the repeal of the 18th amendment. Petitioners planned to ask for an election legalizing package stores in the city. It would take 25 years before selling alcohol became legal in Portales. 1951: More than 100 Rotarians, Rotary Anns and guests attended the annual Clovis Rotary Club’s annual ladies’ night banquet at the La Vista. Those in att...
Pregnancy is a wild thing. Seeing and feeling my body change every day is something I’ve had to adjust to. I’m currently at the 19-week mark, which means Baby Sena is the size of a mango. Oh, and it also means I’m one week away from finding out what the gender of this baby will be. One thing I’m really happy about lately is the fact that I haven’t been nauseous every single day in this second trimester. I never realized how exhausted I truly was there at the beginning. Now that my energy has been somewhat back to normal, I fe...
The state Department of Game and Fish has announced it will conduct checkpoints throughout the state this summer to collect biological data and to detect wildlife law violations. According to the department, the public may encounter minor delays. Game and Fish officers may be assisted by other law enforcement agencies, such as the U.S. Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, New Mexico State Police or county sheriff’s offices. All hunters and anglers are required to buy a new license before hunting and fishing. Guides a...
With the presidential primary campaigns gearing up, Republicans in eastern New Mexico are beginning to ponder their choices for candidates. But two of the leading Republicans for Curry County said no candidate has stood out yet. Marcus Smith, the dean of Student Services at Clovis Community College and the Curry County Republican Party chair said he does not have a favorite now. “I will be honest with you. I do not at this current time. I’m kind of seeing how it all shakes out. Because it’s a very loaded field,” he said. Smit...
A low-cost spay and neuter clinic is set to come to Clovis as the High Plains Humane Society has partnered up with Soul Dog Rescue, a non-profit animal rescue organization, to bring the mobile clinic to the community. Appointments are done by email on a first come, first serve basis with 80 slots available. Gaye Cooke, vice president of High Plains Humane Society said that their goal has always been to tackle overpopulation by reopening spay and neuter clinics. Cooke said that there is a high demand for veterinarian services...
Several Pride rainbow flags waved under the blue sky Saturday, as 300 activists and families traveled down Main Street for Clovis' Pride Parade. Participants sang and cheered about LGBTQ+ pride at the Eastern New Mexico Rising event. With big red hair and a frilly long-sleeve gown, the parade was led by a drag queen who led cheers. Crowds of people sat along the sidewalk, wearing varying pride flags and elaborate makeup as they waved and took pictures of the parade. Laura...
Barack Obama told a good joke the other day. He said he thought that the level of disinformation and misinformation online has gotten so dangerously high in the U.S. that we need to develop “digital fingerprints” so ordinary citizens can tell what’s truly true and know who’s not telling it. We? Did he mean “We the American people” or “We the politicians with all the power”? The ex-president of us all didn’t specify what government agency or allegedly nonpartisan publi...
It’s just a sad fact that for a decade or two, the deadline for this column to be sent to the not-even-close-to-100 newspapers that publish it is, Monday, each week, at noon. A sad corollary to the sad fact above is that I seem to be completely incapable of writing the column early (unless an editor makes a cogent plea for such). When I say that I tend toward procrastination, what I mean is that procrastination tends to permeate every cell in my body. I doubt I will ever k...
Some of us remember it as the greatest football game ever played. Danny Villanueva was a big part of it. The Dallas Cowboys led the Green Bay Packers, 17-14, in that NFL Championship game of Dec. 31, 1967, that's come to be known as the Ice Bowl. Gametime temperature was 15-below zero. The wind-chill factor was 48-below. One fan died of exposure to those elements. Players and fans suffered frostbite that plagued them the rest of their lives. Villanueva, the Cowboys veteran kic...
Black Americans are a community of people that have endured abominable levels of trials, abuse and tribulations. Our experience in this country includes rivers of blood, mountains of sweat and countless numbers of anguished tears. As a Black American, I am descended from a people for whom the history of slavery, lynching, segregation, black codes, poll taxes, oppressive sharecropping systems and Jim Crow laws are historical facts deeply etched in the fabric of history. My...
Editor's note: This is one in a continuing series of interviews with local officials. Johnnie Cain is the superintendent for Portales Municipal Schools. Q: The Legislature made up some new rules for public schools' classroom time that go into effect this school year. What's changing at Portales Municipal Schools? A: The biggest thing we're going to do for adding classroom time is we're going to go 30 minutes extra a day. So, you know, we'll go from 8 to 3:30, instead of 8:05 t...
