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The man accused of starting the Sept. 3 Walmart fire was arrested Wednesday in Lub- bock based on a 9-1-1 call from a person who recognized him on a Lubbock street, according to Lubbock police. Public Information Officer Amber Ed- wards said Jimmy Guillen, 59, was taken into custody at 1:25 p.m. (CDT) Wednesday at 34th Street and Quaker Avenue in Lubbock after a 9-1-1 caller said he thought he recog- nized Guillen walking on a Lubbock street. "We sent officers out, and they... Full story
With Clovis Area Transit System (CATS) why can’t we have a regularly scheduled bus service with bus stops and regular routes? What about getting service to the Clovis airport? “Clovis Area Transit System is a ‘demand response service,’ providing curb to curb or door to door service,” City Manager Justin Howalt wrote in an email responding to the question from The News. Howalt wrote CATS takes passengers anywhere within the city limits depending on availability. The service operates from 6:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through F...
Monday *City of Portales Planning and Zoning meeting – 5:30 p.m., Memorial Building, 200 E. 7th St., Portales. Information: 575-356-6662 Tuesday *Roosevelt County Commission - 9 a.m., Commission Room, Roosevelt County Courthouse, 109 W. First St., Portales. Information: 575-356-5307 *Curry County Democrats - 6:30 p.m., La Casa Senior Center, 1120 Cameo St., Clovis. Information: [email protected] Thursday *Clovis City Commission - 5:15 p.m., North Annex, Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main St., Clovis. I...
CLOVIS – Clovis High’s volleyball team dominated in the first and third sets on Tuesday night, and the Lady Wildcats cruised to a 25-10, 25-21, 25-10 victory over Lubbock Estacado at Rock Staubus Gym. It was the team’s first home win in their second match so far at The Rock. Senior outside hitters Kailyn Jefferson and Elizabeth Warwick collected 13 and 11 kills, respectively, for the Lady Cats (4-2), and Warwick added a pair of blocks. Senior libero Brienne Romero had 10 digs and three aces, junior defensive specialist Jori...
After posting a pair of wins on Thursday’s opening day in the Lone Star Conference Preview tournament at Greyhound Arena, Eastern New Mexico University’s volleyball team dropped a 25-22, 22-25, 25-19, 25-21 decision to St. Edward’s on Friday night. ENMU (6-5) was slated to complete play in the three-day, five-team round robin on Saturday night against Midwestern State. The Greyhounds then have a quick turnaround with a Monday contest against University of the Southwest at Hobbs before opening LSC action at Oklahoma Chris...
Clovis High junior Ava Crain sure didn't waste any time scoring on Thursday night. Crain had goals in the first minute of each half, and it was enough to allow the Lady Wildcats to slip past Roswell Goddard 2-1 at Leon Williams Stadium. Crain raced in behind the Lady Rockets' defense and beat Goddard sophomore goalkeeper Kailani Houghtby to stake the Lady Cats (7-2-1) to a 2-0 lead. She took feeds from senior defender Maricela Jimenez on the first goal and junior...
Through five weeks of the season, Portales High's football team has dominated on offense, defense and special teams. If you're wondering how far all of it might take them, though, don't ask the Rams. Senior Zane Mayberry scored three touchdowns – including two in the first 3 ½ minutes – as Portales rolled to a 41-0 victory over St. Pius on Friday night at Greyhound Stadium. And it wasn't even that close. Including Mayberry's 88-yard return of the opening kickoff, the...
A “baby box” at the Portales Fire Station received final approval Tuesday from the Portales City Council. The “baby box” is a safe incubation device in which a baby under 90 days old may be placed, rather than being abandoned. The device would also automatically notify first responders and adoption authorities that a baby has been placed there.baby box, will be protected from criminal child abandonment charges under the New Mexico Safe Haven for Infants Act. At a public hearing before the council approved the ordinance on Tue...
On this date ... 1952: A U.S. Air Force photo printed in the Clovis News-Journal showed some of the 40 Explorer Scouts from Portales and Clovis who had been outfitted with parachutes before boarding an Air Force C-47 plane at Cannon Air Force Base for a flight over eastern New Mexico a few days earlier. Oscar P. Cantwell, Plains District field executive for the Boy Scouts of America, supervised the outing. Troop leaders were Jack Eichenberger, Bud Cagle, and Art Hutchins of...
Found under a house in Portales covered in fleas and ticks, Charley has had a rough start in life, especially after he lost his leg due to a severe infection. Despite that, Charley has persisted to stay strong and recover from the worst of his condition. He is being fostered by Michelle Henderson in Clovis. Henderson said Charley is still too young for adoption just yet but once he's of age he will be open to find his forever home through South Plains SPCA....
From nursing baby racoons back to health to mending broken wings on small birds, Brittany Page has had a strong passion for animals since she was a child. Now, years later, Page directs that love in fostering kittens in her Portales’ home. With the animal population being very high in both Curry and Roosevelt County, Page urges the community to help local pet shelters by either volunteering or fostering. “We all live in this world, no one is better than one another. So we need to live better as a society to help our...
Curry County employees will be making more money after a 2% increase in pay was approved by the county commission Tuesday morning. County Manager Lance Pyle presented the pay raise resolution to the Curry County Commission Tuesday, which read in part that the commission “is committed to retaining its qualified employees and desires to offer competitive pay in order to draw and attract qualified employees as may be needed when vacancies occur.” The resolution also states that the pay raise accounts for inflation and other fac...
Curry County commissioners completed their annual tour and inspection of the Curry County Detention Center (CCDC) Tuesday. Joe Alaniz, an administrator for CCDC walked the commissioners through the jail and went over the process of getting someone booked in. Commissioners addressed different needs for the jail with Alaniz, and also discussed numbers and various updates. Commission chair Robert Thornton told the News, "Mr. Alaniz is doing a very good job in taking over and...
Because I am the Chairman of the ENMWUA, the entity that is constructing the Ute Pipeline, you may think you know exactly where I’m going here. But don’t tune out just yet. I want to share my heart with you. Concern for New Mexico’s water security is something that comes naturally to me. With this letter, I hope to convey that there’s something else that comes naturally to me as well. And that’s empathy with those that love and enjoy their beloved body of water and struggle with why someone would mess with it. My family an...
Bill Richardson was the most ambitious person I’ve ever met. Our first meeting was when I was a moderator for a 2002 gubernatorial debate against Republican John Sanchez and David Bacon of the Green Party. Richardson was so unconcerned with his opposition that he instead focused on Democrats in the state Legislature, warning them not to get in the way of his big tax cut. Richardson’s plan was to pass tax cuts for corporations and rich people, then advertise them on a billboard in Times Square with his face on it. Amb...
New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham recently gained national headlines for her public health order, which essentially banned carrying a gun in Bernalillo County, the state’s largest county by population. Her justification for this dramatic action was a recent shooting outside Isotopes Park, but residents of Bernalillo County and Albuquerque face and have faced these issues for years. Each time a criminal uses a gun to kill or steal it is frustrating and a sad event. Both t...
Out here in the Land of Enchantment, we have many trails. We have the Space Trail, which includes more than 50 archeological sites, museums, laboratories, observatories and more scattered around the state — but mostly concentrated in southern New Mexico. We’ve got petroglyphs showing pre-historic stargazers at work and modern-day observatories like the Very Large Array and its ability to look deep into space, both into and beyond our own Milky Way. Meanwhile, New Mexico’s Museum of Space History in Alamogordo provides us with...
Political crimes aren't like ordinary crimes. They are worse. They are also outside the "innocent until proven guilty" standard, which applies to most other crimes; crimes committed by people without political power. With an ordinary crime, you often have to figure out whether any crime was committed at all. Maybe it was an accident or a natural occurrence. Then, if it is discovered there was a crime, you have to try to find out who committed it. This isn't how political...
William J. Burns is the director of the Central Intelligence Agency. From 2005 to 2008 Burns was the ambassador to Russia. In February 2008, Burns sent a memo that that was distributed widely within the upper echelons of the George W. Bush administration. The memo concerned the NATO meeting that would determine whether to allow Ukraine and Georgia membership in NATO. Burns titled the memo, “Nyet Means Nyet,” and it read in part: “Foreign Minister Lavrov and other senior offic...
Have you ever Googled yourself? Mostly you don’t find yourself. David Stevens has over 35 years of experience in the mortgage banking industry. David Stevens is an American politician and a former Republican member of the Arizona House of Representatives. Highly skilled 168-pounder David Stevens scored a wild last-second KO of Sean Hemphill in January. None of those David Stevens are me. There’s a David Stevens on a wrestling roster, a David Stevens on a football roster, a l...
I suppose if we lived in a place where we regularly had gray, chilly, drizzly days, it would be possible to grow weary of it. But after a summer under the broiler with the temperature gauge turned to “blazing,” the cooler days we had last week were a balm to the soul. When that tenacious high-pressure dome finally released its grip on our world and slid off early in the week, and cool and blessedly damp air moved in on Tuesday, I pivoted right into fall mode. It seemed too...
Eastern New Mexico University's director of choral activities has won the 2024 New Mexico Music Educator of the Year from the New Mexico Music Educators Association (NMMEA). Jason Paulk, a professor of music and ENMU's choral activities director, was named the state's Music Educator of the Year on Sept. 6, ccording to a news release from ENMU. Paulk, who has been with ENMU since 2005, teaches beginning and advanced conducting and choral method courses. The professor also...
Editor's note: This is one in a continuing series of state-of-the-entity interviews with local officials. Quentin Ray is the district attorney for the ninth judicial district. This interview was conducted before Jimmy Guillen was arrested Wednesday afternoon in Lubbock. Q: How do you prioritize the cases that come across your desk? A: There is a sense of, we have to narrow it down and focus on what can we accomplish. So we try to do that with the more serious crimes. We...
Curry County and the City of Clovis held a joint luncheon Wednesday to collaborate on changes to benefit both the city and county. Some of the items on the agenda that county and city officials discussed on Wednesday include extending the service area for Clovis Area Transit System (CATS), building a sports complex/youth recreation center, and constructing a new regional behavioral health facility. Clovis Mayor Mike Morris said in his opening remarks that historically, the cit...
A suspect in three burglaries of jewelry display cases in Clovis has been arrested in Amarillo after he apparently took jewelry from a jewelry display case under similar circumstances in Amarillo. According to a Clovis Police news release: · Junayd Howard, 25, of Clovis, was arrested in Amarillo on Tuesday, and through a combined investigation by Amarillo Police and Clovis police, Howard has been linked to jewelry theft and burglary at the JC Penny store in the North Plains...
