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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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Booked The following were booked into local jails Tuesday: Clovis • Laeinani Barela, 28, probation violation • Sergio Chacon, 29, attempt to commit a felony (false imprisonment) • Victor Sierra, 38, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge • Frederico Ortiz, 67, probation violation • Dominic Lopez, 35, out of state fugitive • Adriana Garcia, 30, failure to appear on a felony charge • Fredrick Baca, 36, probation violation • Isicca Sena, 18, failure to appear at time and place stated in citation • Amy Sizemore, 37, pro...
Do you want to compete to win a music competition without all the hassle of learning how to sing or play an instrument? The United Way of Eastern New Mexico has the event for you. The lip sync battle is scheduled from 4-7 p.m. on March 4 at the Java Loft in Clovis, and will pit music lovers with a knack for creativity against one another to win prizes. Curious to see a real-life lip sync battle, but too shy to compete? Fear not, you can still attend and vote for your favorite “syncer” with “point pebbles,” available for pur...
When Leroy Thomas accepted the job as preacher for the Causey Church of Christ in August of 1970, he didn’t expect it to be a long-term post. “They said, ‘We’d like for you to come and preach for us until we find a real preacher,’” Thomas said. “Well, I guess they never found one.” Thomas and his wife, Gaynelle, are better known to many for their long association with The Print Shop, the business they began in Portales only a month before Leroy was called to preach in Cause...
Former U.S. business leader Lee Iacocca once noted, “In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have.” In other countries, with demonstrably successful educational systems, one of the common denominators is the high esteem with which their teachers are hel...
Midwestern State at Eastern New Mexico Men 7:30 p.m. On the air: KSEL 105.9 FM Records: Midwestern State 9-16, 5-10. Eastern New Mexico. 10-13, 5-9. Last time out: The Mustangs lost to West Texas A & M last Saturday, 87-58. The Greyhounds lost at Western New Mexico, 84-80, nine days ago. Last meeting: Midwestern won in overtime, 89-87, on Jan. 23. Notes: ENMU currently sits in sixth-place in the Lone Star Conference standings, as it'll try to qualify for the eight-team LSC...
PORTALES — Strictly business. Brothers Devin and Devante Pullum will square-off for the second (and likely final) time in their collegiate careers, when Eastern New Mexico hosts the Midwestern State men's basketball team tonight at 7:30. Devin, a freshman point guard for the Greyhounds, will go up against older brother Devante, a senior point guard for MSU. In their first meeting on Jan. 13, Devante scored 15 points to lead his Mustangs (now 9-16, 5-10 Lone Star Conference) t...
PORTALES — An increasing demand for online education and faculty that truly care about students has helped Eastern New Mexico University achieve its 21st consecutive spring enrollment record, according to President Jeff Elwell. ENMU's enrollment reached 5,450 in its 2018 spring semester, an increase of 118 from the previous spring, according to a press release by the university. Fall enrollment for ENMU in 2017 was also that semester's 21st consecutive record for e...
On this date ... 1973: State Rep. Cecil Cook of Portales was headed back to the New Mexico Roundhouse in Santa Fe using a wheelchair and sporting a cast after injuring his left knee in the annual Senate-House basketball game the previous month. Cook, 42, said he had played basketball and football in high school and college without ever sustaining an injury. The Portales Democrat had missed part of the session for surgery on the injured knee. “I do need to get back to work because I’m chairman of the House Agriculture Com...
CLOVIS — A fire Wednesday morning northeast of Clovis damaged a shed and house but left no injuries, officials said. Clovis Fire Battalion Chief Dale Hand said three units responded to the blaze that “started in a storage shed then moved into a residential structure” about a quarter-mile east of the intersection of Prince Street and Wilhite Road. The fire “got up into the attic area” of the house, Hand said, but responders extinguished the flames in about two hours and cleared the scene around 8:30 a.m. The owner of the pr...
CLOVIS — A new administrator for hospitals in Clovis and Tucumcari will be on the job by the end of the month, officials say. Richard “Dick” Smith is expected to start his new role as administrator for both Plains Regional Medical Center and Dr. Dan C. Trigg Memorial Hospital on Feb. 26, Interim Administrator Troy Clark said Wednesday. “Dick brings a wealth of hospital operation leadership and finance experience to this role,” Clark wrote in an email. “We are thrilled to have him lead our team’s strategic vision for th...
The following are Q&As with candidates for Grady’s contested mayoral race. The election is March 6. Kodie Weese and Wesley Shafer are seeking a four-year term. Shafer is the incumbent. Candidates were given the same questions, and asked to answer them on the spot. Wesley Shafer has been Grady’s mayor for 20 years, and served eight years on the city council prior. Why do you want to run? Well, I’ve had this job for 20 years, I’d like to have it for four more. We’ve got some projects going I’d like to see finished. What do you...
CLOVIS — Cookies, cupcakes and breakfast burritos greeted the Eastern Plains Council of Governments’ board of directors as they arrived for Wednesday’s meeting. The cause for celebration was EPCOG recently received word that the organization’s loan with the U.S. Department of Agriculture has been paid off. EPCOG had been paying $327 a month since 1998 for its building, located at 418 Main, before it found out last week the loan had been paid off and actually received a refund check for the majority of the previous payment...
CLOVIS — For the first time in three meetings, the Clovis City Commission will not hold a study session following its regular meeting to discuss the next steps on the city’s master water assurance plan. This time, the plan is on the meeting agenda, with actions requested on plan recommendations. Commissioner Ladona Clayton said there are three items she plans to discuss during the 5:15 p.m. commission meeting at the North Annex of the Clovis-Carver Public Library: • Establishing price points for effluent water from the city...
Local volunteer programs face the possibility of losing their funding based off the proposed budget for fiscal year 2019 President Trump sent to Congress on Monday. The budget proposal calls for the elimination of the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCNS), a federal agency that provides the funding for both the Curry and Roosevelt counties’ foster grandparent programs (FGP) and retired senior volunteer programs (RSVP) as well as Roosevelt County’s senior companion program. The proposed elimination has lef...
I’m voting no on GO Bond issue Regarding the March 6 Clovis municipal election on whether to issue $20 million in general obligation bonds, to be repaid with property taxes, for infrastructure and quality of life improvements: 1. Why do we call a “tax increase” a GO bond? 2. Why do all registered voters get to vote on what the property owners pay? That is complete discrimination. 3. Why should only property owners have to pay for infrastructure that everyone can use? 4. What is the problem with increasing gross recei...
Today • Clovis City Commission — 5:15 p.m. in the north annex of the Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main St., Clovis. Information: 575-763-9654 Monday • Grady Board of Education — 6 p.m. in the Grady Municipal School District board room, 100 Franklin St., Grady. Information: 575-357-2192 Tuesday • Roosevelt County Commission — 9 a.m. at the Roosevelt County Courthouse, 109 W. First St., Portales. Information: 575-356-5307 • Clovis Friends of the Library — 11:30 a.m. at Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main St., Cl...
Today • Preschool Storytime — 10 a.m. at Clovis-Carver Public Library. Information: 575-763-9687 • Teen Program — 4:30 p.m. at Portales Public Library. Movie: “The Mighty Ducks.” Information: 575-356-3940 • Preschool Storytime — 6 p.m. at Portales Public Library. Story: “Hugs and Kisses.” Information: 575-356-3940 • Page Turners Book Club — 6:30 p.m. at Clovis-Carver Public Library. Book: “All The Light We Cannot See.” Information: 575-763-9687 Friday • Friday Knit Night — 5 p.m. at The Happy Place, 119 S. Main St., Portale...
