Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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What do you need to be a rancher? Land covered in something that the livestock will eat, a well or some way to keep them in water, fences to keep them off the neighbors, a hat to put your feather in and quite importantly … cows. Those four-hooved, quad-stomached, moo-making, rascally bovines are kinda the core of a cattle operation. But since you can’t have the cows before you have a place to put them, and you usually have to pay for the place to put them with them, fin...
Graduation season is upon us. Graduation speakers, famous and non-famous alike, use phrases in their graduation speeches like “be yourself,” “go for your dreams,” “think big,” “step out of the ordinary” and “the world is within your reach.” All those phrases are true and valuable to a certain extent. Yet, I would contend that there is a spiritual aspect for graduates that is just as important, maybe more important. It is vital that young people understand that the foundation...
Well, here we go again. I’m talking about firing up the lawn machines, mowing, trimming, fertilizing, weed-spraying, weed-eating, weed-picking, and the whole nine yards of yard and lawn care. Actually, in my part of the country, we’ve been moving slowly back into mowing for at least a month. An April 29 snow which, I admit, I had hoped might slow the grass down a bit, didn’t much. Friends in lower altitudes/swamps or other areas that spend most of the year garbed in green...
CLOVIS — Lt. Col. Diane Sullivan of Cannon Air Force Base will be the guest speaker for the Pioneer Women’s Breakfast, set for 7 a.m. June 2 at the Clovis Civic Center as part of the annual Pioneer Days Celebration. Sullivan’s appearance is aligned with the event’s overall theme of “Cowgirls and Camo” to celebration the 10th year of Air Force Special Operations Command at the base. Also attending will be participants from Miss Rodeo America and other rodeo royalty. All pioneer woman or women who are descendants of them are...
PORTALES — The gift of sobriety is in seeing what one can do for others, and participants in the Portales Adult Drug Court Program were able to recognize the value of that gift Wednesday afternoon. May is National Drug Court Month, celebrating the impact made by the program, which seeks a criminal justice alternative for addicted offenders by treating substance abuse and involving participants in volunteer initiatives. Said volunteer work was on full display at the R...
CLOVIS — Nearly 500 students will receive their diploma tonight at the Clovis High School 2017 Wildcat Graduation, an evening celebrating hard work, accomplishment, and the start of a new chapter in life. “I just don’t want to eat the stairs,” said Jaime Smith, a CHS senior eyeballing the steps to the stage during a graduation rehearsal Thursday afternoon. Administrators anticipate a full house and ask attendees to arrive early for the 6 p.m. ceremony at the Curry County Events Center. Last year’s graduation brought i...
The following is a sampling of calls received by dispatchers for the Clovis police, Curry County sheriff and area fire stations: Wednesday • 6:17 a.m.: False imprisonment, 500 block of North Drive • 8:06 a.m., Residential burglary, 1300 block of North Davis Street • 8:22 a.m.: Failure to appear, 800 block of Mitchell Street • 9:56 a.m.: Criminal damage up to $1,000, 500 block of Merriwether Street • 3:02 p.m.: Larceny up to $500, 1400 block of Cameo Street • 4:40 p.m.: Larceny up to $500, 1100 block of West 7th Street • 5:...
Jail log Released Wednesday As of 7 a.m. Thursday • Ryan Chase Aguirri, 31, serve sentence at Department of Corrections • David Austin Jahnke-Garcia, 21, serve sentence at DOC • Clayton James Martinez, 20, other jail Booked Wednesday As of 7 a.m. Thursday • Tristan Lancaster, probation violation • Joseph Emmanuel Leyva, 21, possession of a controlled substance (felony), use or possession of drug paraphernalia • Ashley Irene Lopez, 33, bench warrant • Chandler Jordan Lucero Huchinson, 22, return for court — Compiled by the...
On this date ... 1982: Bob Spencer and Ted Waldhauser had been named co-parade marshals for the upcoming Pioneer Days. Sixty entries for the parade had already been received. 1962: Area residents were preparing to celebrate Armed Forces Day with an open house at Cannon Air Force Base. Local businesses helping promote the event included: • Ealy Furniture, at 209 Main in Clovis, was home to 14,000 square foot of furniture displays. • Mitchell's Conoco, at 1400 Thornton St., cla...
PORTALES — District Judge Donna Mowrer has denied a trio of dismissal motions in connection to Roosevelt County Sheriff Malin Parker and a 2016 drug sting. Attorneys for Armando Pena, Antonio Salguero III and Chance Plummer filed separate motions earlier this year to dismiss drug trafficking charges against their clients. Each one argued arrest affidavits should be invalidated due to an alleged false statement by Parker. The three men were arrested with five others in February 2016 as part of a drug sting operation ran by P...
CLOVIS - The men and women of Cannon Air Force Base are going 10 miles to mark 10 years. Final touches are being applied to Saturday's Ruck March, which begins 7 a.m. Saturday at the Curry County Courthouse and ends with a celebration about two-and-a-half hours later at Cannon's Unity Park. The event, which doubles as a charitable effort for the Food Bank of Eastern New Mexico, is a 10-mile march that will move along Seventh Street on the right lane and cover three miles...
PORTALES — Three Eastern New Mexico University students are traveling abroad for a Catholic pilgrimage. Maggie Gomez, a new Eastern graduate, her sister, Hannah Gomez, and friend, Monique Martinez, all members of the Thomas More Newman Center (TMNC) Catholic group, leave Saturday for a pilgrimage to Poland, France and Spain. The trio will travel to Warsaw, Poland to meet their group, led by Sarah Swafford and her husband Andy. The Swaffords are Catholic ministers and speakers who teach on the concept of “Emotional Vir...
Monday • Parks, Recreation and Beautification Committee — 5:30 p.m. at city hall, Clovis. Information: 575-769-7828 Tuesday • Clovis Municipal School Board — 5:30 p.m. in CMS board room. Information: 575-769-4300 Wednesday • Public Works Committee — 8:30 a.m. at city hall, Clovis. Information: 575-769-7828 Thursday • Eastern New Mexico Water Utility Authority — 1 p.m. in Elida. Information: 575-935-4264 This calendar is a daily listing of area public meetings. To place an item on the calendar, call the newsroom at 575...
Today • Clovis High School graduation — 6 p.m. at Curry County Events Center. Information: 575-769-4350 ext. 1006 • Blood drive — 1 p.m.-4:30 p.m. at Clovis-Carver Public Library. Information: 575-625-9743 Saturday • Airmen Ruck March — 7 a.m. start at Curry County Courthouse finishing at Cannon. They will compete individually and in teams. Canned goods in the ruck sack will be donated to local food banks. Information: 575-763-3435 • Blood drive — 10 a.m.-1:30 p.m. at Valley Furniture, Portales. Information: 575-625-9743 • Co...
