Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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Monday *City of Clovis Water Policy Advisory Committee – 8:30 a.m., North Annex, Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main St., Clovis. Information: 575-763-9654 *Friends of Oasis State Park board – 1:30 p.m., Oasis State Park, 1891 Base Line Road, Portales. Information: Kelsey Prince at 575-760-0229 *Joint workshop/public meeting Portales City Council and Roosevelt County Commission – 5:30 p.m., Council Chambers, Memorial Building, 200 E. 7th St., Portales. Discussion of public/emergency services. No action will be taken...
Monday through Wednesday *Jaye-Rock Athletics basketball camp featuring Danni Williams – Yucca Middle School, 1500 Sycamore St., Clovis. 9-11 a.m., 6-11 year-olds; 1-3 p.m., 12-17 year-olds. One participant $70; two participants $100. Information: call or text 575-268-9399 Monday through Friday *Code Breakers by Black Rocket – 9 a.m.-noon, Lab 108, University Computer Center, ENMU, Portales. Open to ages 11-14; cost $65; enrollment limited to 25. Students may be dropped off at 8:30 am and picked up at 12:30 p.m. Inf...
Earl Large II had been friends with James Robinson since they were boys, growing up in Clovis. Large knew Robinson by his nickname, “Bootsy.” “My first cousin is Bootsy’s first cousin and we hung out from our late teens to early 20s,” Large said Thursday night after learning Robinson, 50, died in a Lovington jail where he was being held on federal bank robbery charges. “Bootsy was a really good person. He really was,” Large said. “Bootsy got along with everyone.” Large said he had a love for Robinson, even though police say h...
The city of Clovis held a public meeting Wednesday to update residents on the status of the Ute Pipeline Project. Clovis Mayor Mike Morris made the presentation at the meeting. Prominent in the discussion, which included questions from the public, was detailed information on the water levels in the Ogallala Aquifer and the Ute Reservoir. These are the two sources that will provide water sustainability to the city of Clovis and other nearby communities in the future. The city is proposing increasing its mill levy by one to...
A physician’s assistant from Roswell has been arrested and charged with felony sexual penetration. Jon E. Perry, 52, is charged under a state law prohibiting medical professionals from engaging in sex with a patient during treatment or within a year after treatment ends, according to New Mexico State Police investigator Justin Tiemann. The case against Perry developed when a patient of his, a Roosevelt County woman whose initials are R.F., consulted a Clovis attorney about incidents that happened during and after her t...
The owner of seven horses on the south side of Clovis is offering a $2,500 reward for information leading to the identification and arrest of the person who set off a box of fireworks in the barn where the horses were in their stalls. Captian Roman Romero of the Clovis Police department described the video of the incident captured by a security camera as “a gut punch.” “I watched the video,” Romero said. “The horses are really friendly, following the suspect.” Then the perpetrator sets off the fireworks subjecting...
Clovis City Commissioners voted to condemn seven city properties setting them up for possible demolition in the near future. The action happened at Thursday's regular session of the commission as commissioners voted on abatement for 820 S. Prince St., 721 Edwards St., 4212 N. Prince St., 809 Cameo St., 817 Reid St., 1101 West St. and 2408 Cesar Chavez Dr. Commissioners voted to approve a lease of 25 years for Clovis Solar LLC of over 600 acres of city land near the city landfi...
On this date ... 1967: The Prince Street Lounge in Clovis was the place to enjoy live music by The Fireballs. The rockers were lined up for a three-night run at Clovis’ hot spot. The Fireballs had multiple Top 40 hits during the 1950s and 1960s, including “Bottle of Wine,” which came out in 1967. The group’s biggest hit was “Sugar Shack” recorded at Norman Petty Studios in Clovis in 1961. Formed in Raton in 1957, they selected their name after receiving a standing ovation while playing “Great Balls of Fire” at the Raton Hi...
Curry Residents Senior Meals Association 901 W. 13th St. Clovis Monday: Chile relleno, cheese sauces, pinto beans, Spanish rice, spiced apples. Tuesday: Baked ham, pineapple sauce, sweet potatoes, blended veggies, corn bread, fruit salad. Wednesday: Chicken salad, potato salad, cucumber salad, cracker, cookie. Thursday: Steak fingers, mashed potatoes, pepper gravy, California blend, roll with butter, pears. Friday: Pork tenderloin, mashed potatoes with brown gravy, Italian gren bean, biscuit with butter, pudding. Friendship...
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. In conjunction with the City of Clovis Floodplain Management Program, the library maintains a collection of materials on National Flood Insurance programs including maps of local floodplains, manuals for designing or retrofitting structures,...
Having lunch with a couple of guys that are older fogies than myself, I couldn’t win, So I just listened. The talk turned to hamburgers and how cheap we used to buy them growing up. When they got down to a quarter, I knew I couldn’t beat that myself. I can maybe remember a 35-cent burger growing up but mostly I would say they were 50 to 80 cents back then. In high school nearly every day at lunch I had the same thing -- jumbo cheeseburger, fries and cherry Coke at Pat’s Twin...
Music, photography and service have been Tres Morgan's driving passions for as long as he can remember. People in Clovis know Morgan as a professional photographer by trade, but they also know his powerful singing voice as a leader of praise music at the Legacy Church in Clovis and for several rock bands in town. Morgan has served on committees that organized music for Draggin' Main and the Clovis Music Festival in recent years. This year, he served on the Clovis Music...
PORTALES — Martin Pazanin has joined the Eastern New Mexico Women’s Basketball staff ahead of the 2022-23 season according to Meghan De los Reyes, Women’s Basketball head coach. “Martin brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to our program,” De los Reyes said. “He has coached for over thirteen years at various levels and he has contributed to each team’s success.” Pazanin comes to Portales after serving as the Director of Basketball Operations for Loyola Marymount University Women’s Basketball program in Los Angeles, C...
So what does all this tell us about justice? “All this” meaning the fact that Ghislaine Maxwell got 20 years and R. Kelly got 30. It was, make no mistake, an indisputably good thing to see those punishments handed down. And it’s hard to blame anyone who found in it a reason to rejoice. It’s also difficult to join them. Understand: you will find no remorse here over the likelihood that the 55-year-old former R&B hit maker and the 60-year-old former socialite will grow old in...
I doubt if there is any law on the books that is more flagrantly and routinely violated every year by otherwise law-abiding residents of our state than city restrictions on fireworks. Under the “Safe and Sane” fireworks law, the only things that can legally be set off in my city of Las Cruces are ground and hand-held sparkling and smoking devices, cylindrical fountains, flitter sparklers, illuminating torches, smoke devices and wheels. That leaves out bottle rockets, cherry bombs, black cats … pretty much anything that bangs...
It’s been a fabulous few weeks for conservatives, Republicans and millions of ordinary Americans. I cheered all of the Supreme Court’s recent blockbusters – for moral, political and personal reasons. I’m 100 percent pro-life. I believe adults should be free to own and carry guns. I believe there should be more prayer in schools, not less. And I don’t want unelected federal bureaucrats writing laws about the environment or anything else that Congress should be writing. But the...
For Joe Biden, the buck stops with small independent business owners trying to make ends meet. Over the holiday weekend, the president slammed gas stations for the purported sin of not passing along declining oil prices to motorists. Biden took to Twitter to urge “the companies running gas stations and setting prices at the pump” to heed his message: “Bring down the price you are charging at the pump to reflect the cost you’re paying for the product.” Yes, sir, whatever...
To hear President Joe Biden tell it, high gasoline prices aren’t his fault. Those looking for someone to blame should direct their anger instead at what he describes as “the companies running gas stations.” In a much-ridiculed tweet, the nation’s commander in chief ordered those unnamed companies to cut the price of gasoline at the pump “to reflect the cost you’re paying for the product. And do it now.” This was not the first time Biden tried to blame others for gasoline prices that hit record highs last month and threaten...
I thought I had a pretty fair understanding of how door locks worked until I read the reports involving the shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. According to news reports, the shooter entered the school through a door with a lock that could only be locked from the outside, and then got into a classroom through a door that had a “busted lock.” The busted lock is really immaterial, since the classroom door also had a lock that could not be locked from the ins...
Booked The following were booked into local jails (Tuesday - Friday): Clovis * Darlene Munoz, 26, battery * Terrill Smolar, 29, battery * Chauncy Marez, 33, probation violation * Christopher Mills, 48, larceny * Lisa Gutierrez-Ruiz, 42, criminal trespass, possession of a controlled substance, possession of drug paraphernalia * Andrew Olivarez, 30, disorderly conduct, concealing identity, resisting, evading or obstructing an officer * Mia Lopez, 52, aggravated battery * Nakkeo Ketphanh, 49, driving on suspended or revoked...
Terry Moberly is remembered as putting the needs of others and the communities he served before his own and for having fun doing it. He led his family in the operation of Moberly Moving and Storage from 1976, when Moberly and his wife Mary Jo bought the company from Moberly's father, until his death on June 21. Family and those Moberly worked with in community affairs agreed Moberly was warm and friendly person who could get things done. "It was the joy of his life to be...
FORT WORTH - Whole Woman's Health is shuttering its four clinics in Texas and working to move to New Mexico to offer abortion services. The abortion provider has clinics in Fort Worth, McKinney, Austin and McAllen, but after Roe v. Wade was overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court last month, abortion services are mostly unavailable in the state. Whole Woman's Health has launched a GoFundMe to raise money to move to New Mexico, where abortion laws are less restrictive, according...
CLOVIS - Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham visited Clovis Friday to officially announce state funds coming for the Ute Water Pipeline, more building space for Clovis Community College's nursing program and the city's new Hillcrest Senior Center. The governor also spoke at a swearing-in ceremony for the Clovis Police Department. Lujan Grisham began her visit to Clovis with a stop at Clovis Community College's Allied Health building where she announced $2 million coming from the...
PORTALES – A Portales grand jury on Friday indicted two teenagers on adult charges of second-degree murder and conspiracy to commit aggravated battery with great bodily harm in connection with last month’s beating death of a Portales man. Gabriel Love, 17, and Luciano Sotelo, 16, both face up to 16 ½ years in prison if convicted of all charges. A third teen, who was 15 at the time of the attack, will face juvenile charges in connection with the death of James Roper, 37. Assistant District Attorney Arwen Gaddis said that susp... Full story
Doug Eaton loved mountain climbing. That’s where he’d been the past three weeks, hiking up 23 different peaks, each at least 14,000 feet high. The dream vacation was ending last week. He contacted his mother late Wednesday afternoon and told her he would reach her home near Abilene in a few hours. But first he was planning to take a short nap at Oasis State Park near Portales. Family members never heard from Eaton again. His body and his pickup truck were found late Thu... Full story
