The Eastern New Mexico News - Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities

If you use a private well within a few miles southeast of Cannon Air Force Base, the state’s Environment Department recommends you use bottled water until further notice. That’s following word from the U.S. Air Force that potentially...

CLOVIS — Police Officer Brent Aguilar told investigators that Aaron Chavez threatened him with what looked to be a knife just after midnight on Oct. 8. In response, Aguilar “discharged his duty weapon, firing four rounds fatally striking...

ESPANOLA — Paramedics rushed a married couple to the hospital just past midnight Oct. 8 after they each sustained serious injuries when a tree fell onto their tent near Trampas Lakes. Luke and Meredith Austin, of Amarillo, were camping at the...

FORT SUMNER — A former Motor Vehicle Department employee was sentenced last week to five years probation for embezzling over $30,000 from customers while voiding their cash transactions during an 18-month period. Alisha Segura, 34, pleaded guilty...

CLOVIS — The Clovis City Commission will recognize a pair of local boxers set for induction into the New Mexico Boxing Hall of Fame during Thursday’s meeting. Tony Romero and Brooks Byrd are to be inducted the final weekend of October, with a...

PORTALES — Eastern New Mexico’s 45th annual celebration of all things peanut is back. The Roosevelt County Fairgrounds in Portales this weekend hosts the Peanut Valley Craft & Music Festival. Organizers are touting some new features — and of...

LAS CRUCES — A Roswell man pleaded guilty Oct. 10 to the unlawful possession of explosives during an appearance in federal court in Las Cruces. Jeffrey Blake Vanover, 53, of Roswell, entered the plea of guilty without the benefit of a plea...

The weekend is closing in already and that means it’s almost time for more high school football games, with every local team in action. Friday Gateway Christian at Melrose, 7 p.m. Winning their opener followed five straight losses for the...

Racino will only make Clovis poorer My father and four friends went to Kentucky buying thoroughbred mares and a stud to breed racehorses. I loved the races as a child and still do. I taught school in areas of the state that had racing and loved...

It will shock no one to hear that the topic of gambling is a hot item in this region. What does the Bible say about gambling? Is it a sin? If it’s a sin, should it be criminalized? At the beginning, we should define our terms. Let’s agree that...

The cliché is, we’re a litigious society. Two clearly frivolous lawsuits were in the news recently. Both should remind everyone that we learn to walk about age 2. As a child, surely your parents admonished you, “Watch where you’re going....

SANTA ROSA — The other day I overheard an argument between friends over two particular candidates for the same office. One is the incumbent, so the question was posed, “What’s he done for us?” I’ll leave out the particulars — which...

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