Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Mexico (BCBSNM) and Familia Dental will co-host a no cost community baby shower for new and expecting moms on from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Aug. 26 at the Java Loft Coffee Shop, 810 E. 21st St., Clovis, according to a BCBSNM news release. New Mexico Lions Operation KidSight will offer no-cost vision screenings inside the BCBSNM Care Van. Food Bank of Eastern New Mexico, Chicanos Por La Causa, Pregnancy Resource Center and many other community partners and providers will offer resources and...
Editor's note: This is one in a continuing series of interviews with local officials. John DeSha has been the public utility director for the city of Portales since 2011. Q: As of right now, what is the status on the water emergency in Portales? Has it gotten any better in the past week? Worse? A: The status on the wellfield really hasn't changed. We can't produce any more water than we did before. But we do have some encouraging information. The conservation efforts are...
The Roosevelt County Fair opens its gates from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday and 5 p.m to midnight Friday through Sunday at the Roosevelt County Fairgrounds, 705 E. Lime St. Portales. Admission prices: children ages five and under, free; $6 for ages 6 to 12; $8 for adults; $6 for seniors 65 and olde. Information and complete schedule can be found: https://rooseveltcountyfair.com/ Scheduled events include: Tuesday • 7 a.m - 4 p.m., Home art judging division which includes food preservation, woodworking, flower s...
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. “This Thy Brother” by Rod Miller. The new life they find in New Mexico is not what the Pate and Lewis families hoped for. Driven by disagreements with their father, eldest sons Richard and Melvin abandon the Pate family to join eastbound fre...
When I decided to write about the excitement of the local county fairs, I realized right away that wasn’t exactly a unique topic for me in August. Just for fun and because as you may know by now if you read very often, I am my own greatest fan, I took a look back at my column files. Sure enough, I haven’t missed many Augusts in the past 20 years without writing about the fair. There is the column where I just made lists of the sights, sounds and smells I had experienced at the...
There probably aren't many folks who remember the TV show "Sea Hunt" that ran from 1958 to 1961. Lloyd Bridges starred as an ex-Navy "frogman" who had adventures as a freelance scuba diver. Greg Senn remembers that television show. As a kid growing up in central Wisconsin the show gave him scuba diving dreams. Here in the future scuba diving is part of Senn's life, he is well known in the area as not just a professor of art but also a scuba instructor. The News talked via...
Bitten by a rattlesnake when she was 10 weeks old, Maisey Toombs the Australian Shepherd has never known when to quit despite her petite size. Now 7 years old and residing in Pep, with her owner Douglas Toombs, Maisey continues her fighting spirit through walks around the house. Chasing down various critters from rabbits to squirrels, Maisey keeps herself busy hunting for Toombs as she often gives him these furry critters to be released back into the wild....
At the peak of the fair season between Curry and Roosevelt counties, local residents get to experience the excitement of rides, live performances, food and, of course, the shows of various livestock. From oinking pigs to mooing cows, the steer and heifer superintendent at the Roosevelt County Fair, Mike Cone, said it is hard to have a fair without remembering the agricultural roots that make up our community. “We go back to some heritage and ultimately we all as a society have to eat. Because without agriculture, none of u...
PORTALES – It's a new era in Portales High soccer, with both squads going through coaching changes during the offseason. Dustin Harden will lead the PHS boys squad into the 2023 campaign, replacing Ruben Tellez, while David Sweet takes over for Bonnie Britton in the Lady Rams program. The PHS girls host the Clovis High junior varsity in their season opener at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, while the boys travel to Ruidoso for a 1 p.m. start on Saturday. Sweet said the Lady Rams (...
ELIDA – Senior Klayton Nixon scored three touchdowns and the Elida Tigers opened their 2023 campaign on Friday night with a 50-0 rout of Carrizozo. The game ended at halftime on the 50-point lead rule. Nixon scored on a pair of runs and on a pass from sophomore Hayden Rubio. Senior Clayton Griffith and junior Dylan Dobbins each added a pair of TDs for the Tigers, while senior Seth Jimenez caught a scoring pass from Rubio. Nixon added a 2-point conversion kick to account for t...
CLOVIS – Clovis High football coach Andrew McCraw said his team didn't make the plays it needed in Friday's season opener against Hobbs at Leon Williams Stadium. Eagles coach Ken Stevens pointed to something else after his team's 41-13 victory. "They had a lot of guys playing on both sides of the ball," he said of the Wildcats. "I think we wore them down." Hobbs, ranked fifth by MaxPreps in Class 6A coming into the season, got three touchdown passes and a scoring run from j...
CLOVIS – Reading too much into an alumni game can sometimes be like knowing what to take from an NFL preseason game, most of which are played with primarily backup players. Still, Clovis High boys soccer coach Greg Trujillo took some positives from the Wildcats' 4-1 win over their alumni last weekend. "The team looked really good," said Trujillo, entering his 16th year as the Cats' coach. "I thought defensively we'd be a mess, but we were pretty sound." Clovis started out 3...
Over the weekend, I was looking for free movies to watch. Fortunately, some of the best films — black and white classics — show up on the budget channels. One of my favorite B movies, the original “Invasion of the Body Snatchers,” was available on demand. So I popped the popcorn, made some tea and settled in. When I first saw this movie I must have been about 10. It scared the beejeezus out of me, and triggered a lifelong fear of whatever was growing under my bed. To this da...
The Communications Act of 1934 states that everyone in the United States should have access to rapid, efficient nationwide communications services, no matter where they live. A decades-long national effort was launched to bring telephone service to the most rural parts of the country. A Universal Services Fund was created, adding a new fee to our monthly bills to finance projects that wouldn’t otherwise have enough customers to be profitable. New government boards, like New Mexico’s Public Regulation Commission, were cre...
Before I realized it was the FBI, not the Secret Service, that killed an alleged wannabe assassin, I got to thinking about an old movie, “In the Line of Fire,” and fished it out of my DVD collection to watch again. It’s about a Secret Service agent played by Clint Eastwood and a would-be assassin played by John Malkovich — and it’s still well worth watching. Let me say on the front end that I consider Eastwood one of the greatest moviemakers of our time, although he didn’t “make” this one. He starred in it, yes, but Wolfga...
I recently watched a three-hour Joe Rogan podcast where he interviewed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. about his views on COVID, why he wanted to run for president and a variety of other topics. One of the interesting points that RFK raised was how political campaigning has changed over the years. Kennedy made the point that Franklin D. Roosevelt brought radio into the arena with his “Fireside Chats.” Kennedy’s uncle John F. Kennedy carried television fully into the political wars...
You’ve probably heard the story by now. A small-town Kansas newspaper on Aug. 11 was raided by police who seized the paper’s computers and other electronic equipment. Newspaper officials claim the raid occurred because they had been looking into the background of the local police chief and other leaders in the county of about 12,000 people. Police claimed they had information that the newspaper was gathering information illegally and invading individuals’ privacy. Ironically,...
If you depend on government -- or anyone else -- to save you from danger, you’re risking your life unnecessarily. The tragic wildfires on the Hawaiian island of Maui are awful beyond words. I hate when horrible things happen to people who are just going about their lives. Unfortunately, the fires were probably far more deadly than they would have otherwise been because too many people have been conditioned to be dependent on someone else to tell them when they are in danger a...
How much does it cost to get into the Clovis zoo? And what if a teacher wants to bring a class of students? Is that free? Does the zoo offer programs for schools and, if so, how might I arrange a visit? Admission to the Hillcrest Park Zoo is $6 for adults. Zoo Director Damian Lechner said adults are those who are 12-years-old and up. “It’s $3 for those 3-years-old to under 12 and free for kids under 3,” Lechner said. Lechner said when it comes to classes coming to the zoo there is a group rate of $2 per person. “You have to...
The Curry County Fair wrapped up this weekend, and the Roosevelt County fairgrounds will soon be all a-bustle with its annual celebration of many of the things that make our counties special. That was all the nudge I needed to head to the archives and take a peek at the Roosevelt County Fair that was on the horizon 100 years ago this month. The Portales Valley News from Aug. 30, 1923, announced the upcoming event with a full-page ad helpfully locating Portales as “three h...
The Curry County Commission will meet at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday instead of 9 a.m. Tuesday, the commission announced Friday in a news release. The meeting will be held in the Commission Chambers located at 417 Gidding Street in Clovis. The meeting was postponed because it conflicted with a meeting at Cannon Air Force Base with U.S. senators Martin Heinrich and Ben Ray Lujan, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force Ravi Chaudhary, and Lt Gen Tony Bauernfeind, Commander, Air Force Special Operations Command. The purpose of this meeting...
The Clovis/Curry County Chamber of Commerce unanimously voted on Thursday in favor of rerouting traffic between Farwell, Texas, and Texico, rather than building an overpass over railroad tracks, to alleviate traffic delays due to passing trains at the state line. The chamber’s vote was based on the “markedly negative economic impact for businesses and residents” that line Wheeler Street in Texico if an overpass were built above the railroad tracks, according to a news release from the chamber. Construction of an overp...
Two sections of Curry County roads will be closed, one on Monday and the other on Wednesday and Thursday, according to a Curry County Road Department news release. Curry County Road 11 will be closed from Wheaton Street, Melrose, to Curry Road N on Monday for overlay work, and Curry Road AI from Curry Road 12 to Curry Road 14 will be closed for chip seal work on Wednesday and Thursday, according to the news release. Drivers are asked to find alternative routes while construction continues for both projects, the news release...
Friday's Curry County Fair Junior Livestock Sale has a chance to be a record-breaker. Organizers said 96 4-H and FFA youth sold their animals for just over $417,600 before add-ons. Add-ons are donations made after the sale. Add-ons are accepted until Sept. 18. Mindy Turner is the Family and Consumer Sciences agent with New Mexico State University's Curry County extension office. She said Friday night that after add-ons are compiled, this year's total could surpass last year's...
A 14-year-old boy was recently charged with criminal damage to the Portales Islamic Center, District Attorney Quentin Ray said last week. The boy told authorities he participated in only a small portion of the vandalism done to the building. Mosque Director Ahmed Benssouda has said the mosque was vandalized five separate times in June but that no more damage has occurred since the end of June. Benssouda said police have told him more than one youth was involved in the destruction, but others have not yet been detained. He sai...
