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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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PORTALES — Classic cars are as much a part of Roosevelt County's heritage as covered wagons, according to Heritage Days Car Show chairman Donny Massey. Massey said people can always expect a variety of vehicles and eras to be represented at the car show, held in conjunction with Heritage Days each year. It's all scheduled for Saturday. Last year's People's Choice in the car show was a '60s Ford Mustang, according to Massey. Cost to register is $20 per vehicle, and car o...
PORTALES - The Portales man charged with vehicular homicide in an April 1 accident said Wednesday he believes the criminal action against him is too harsh. Randolph McGee, 65, said he had "a couple of drinks" the night he rolled his vehicle on U.S. 70, but said he did not believe he should be charged with vehicular homicide. There's a good chance, he said, his son might have lived had another car not run over him after he was ejected from the vehicle. The incident occurred...
PORTALES — The Roosevelt County Detention Center has rearranged the way it houses inmates, according to RCDC Administrator Justin Porter. "What it does is it doesn't rely on current charges; it relies on the type of charge, so you put violent people with violent people and less violent people with less violent people," Porter explained the change to Roosevelt County commissioners at their meeting Tuesday morning. "When we did this reclassification, it was a huge project u...
PORTALES — The town of Elida lost its lawsuit against Roosevelt County Sheriff Malin Parker on Friday. District Judge Fed Van Soelen denied Elida’s request for declaratory judgment regarding the Roosevelt County Sheriff’s Office and Parker interfering with Elida police business. The lawsuit, filed in October 2016, claimed that Parker interfered with Elida police business on at least three occasions with the most recent incident involving former Elida Police Chief Joe Alford, who was enforcing a town ordinance related to dogs...
PORTALES — A district court judge on Wednesday ruled in favor of prosecutors regarding a motion to dismiss in a rape case. Roy Brown, 29, of Portales, is accused of breaking into a woman's home two miles south of Portales in June 2016 and attacking her as she slept on the couch. He is charged with two counts of criminal sexual penetration, a second-degree felony, along with the felony charges of aggravated burglary and resisting, evading or obstructing an officer and a m...
PORTALES — After a long debate of what the benefits might include, Portales city councilors on Thursday tabled a request to formally intervene in Xcel Energy’s application for the Sagamore wind project. The 522-megawatt wind farm was announced earlier this year with Xcel purchasing the project from Chicago-based Invenergy and constructing it. Councilor Jessica Smith said the formal intervention refers to the transfer of the Sagamore wind project from Invenergy to Xcel Energy. “The benefit of doing an intervention is not to sa...
PORTALES — Finance Director Marilyn Rapp presented Portales city councilors with a balanced but uncertain interim budget at their Tuesday night meeting. Rapp said there is a slight reduction in revenue in the city’s general fund for the upcoming 2017-18 fiscal year, but if anything changes in the special legislative session — which began Wednesday — revenue numbers could be reduced further. Councilors approved the interim budget. Rapp said local and state shared gross receipts taxes make up 73 percent of the city’s revenue....
PORTALES - New Mexico Department of Agriculture officials visited Portales on Tuesday to tell ag producers they will be charged an additional fee for becoming organic certified. NMDA Marketing and Development Division Director David Lucero referenced a meeting with locals in August 2016 to discuss with them the possibilities for NMDA's organic program. In August, Lucero had told ranchers and dairy operators that program fees were not offering enough financing to keep the...
National Emergency Medical Services Week might be a time for the Clovis and Portales communities to recognize those in the life-saving business, but for local fire departments, it's a time to get in some extra training. "This is basically a week where we review our training as much as possible," said Clovis Fire Chief Michael Nolen, adding that his department will be holding testing dates for new hires June 1-3. Nolen said the emergency medical flight company AeroCare will be...
PORTALES — There she is — an unhappy Miss New Mexico. Reigning pageant queen Stephanie Chavez said last week she's still owed scholarship winnings from last summer and that pageant Director Greg Smith is a "manipulative" bully. Smith responds the pageant crowns comes with rules and expectations, and Chavez failed to properly submit her paperwork for the money. "The minute the crown goes on your head, it is no longer about you; it's about what you can do for others and how you...
There is fun to be had at the Clovis and Portales libraries this summer as both prepare for the start of their summer children's program to begin the first week of June. This year's theme for both libraries is "Build a Better World" in which the two libraries are planning STEM (Math, Science, Technology and Math) activities, events that emphasize treating the Earth kindly and of course, some activities in which "we are going to just have fun, and it won't really follow the...
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...
PORTALES — The trial for a Portales man accused of murder will likely not be going forward later this month due to a plea agreement. Ninth Judicial District Attorney Jake Boazman declined to say what the plea agreement is until it is officially filed in court, but he notified District Judge Donna Mowrer on Monday that a plea offer had been extended to the attorneys of David Smith. Smith, 42, allegedly held William Vaughn, 45, hostage in Smith's home in November 2015 as he beat him. Vaughn suffered a traumatic brain injury, m...
PORTALES — The 2017 Eastern New Mexico University commencement speaker named himself as such because this will be his last chance to speak to ENMU students as a whole. However, said outgoing ENMU President Steven Gamble, he does not want his speech to be a walk down memory lane, but a celebration on the students' accomplishments. "Because I'm retiring and this will be my last commencement as president, I thought I would give the commencement address. It's my last chance to be...
PORTALES — Two energy companies hosted a full house Tuesday evening as public officials, business leaders and other residents piled into the Yam Theatre to ask questions about what will soon be the largest wind farm in New Mexico. Sagamore Wind Project, a 522-megawatt wind farm, is on its way to Roosevelt County as of 2020. Chicago-based Invenergy has been working on the project the last several years, according to Director of Renewable Development Krista Jo Mann, and has a...
PORTALES — Despite another rough year with budgeting for the next fiscal year, Roosevelt County Commissioners heard good news from their third quarterly report for the current fiscal year at their Tuesday meeting. Michael Steininger with the Department of Finance and Administration, who has been working with Roosevelt County since it first discovered a $1.3 million deficit in 2015, told commissioners Tuesday that two years ago, the general fund was almost $600,000 in the red. A year ago in April, the county had $2.6 m...
PORTALES — County Manager Amber Hamilton told commissioners Tuesday the best-case scenario for the 2017-18 fiscal year is no capital outlay and lowered gross receipts and oil and gas taxes. After hearing the last of the county needs for the upcoming fiscal year from Hamilton and other department heads and organizations at a Tuesday budget workshop, commissioners faced a budget where expenses outweighed revenue by $1 million. Total expenses were $8.5 million, a $500,891 i...
PORTALES — Pouring rain and 35-degree weather was still not enough to keep those fighting for a cause home on Saturday. Despite the miserable weather conditions, 12 of 19 registered mushball teams showed up to the Portales Relay for Life Saturday at the Portales Softball Complex, because, as coordinator Mark Clark posted on Facebook Saturday morning, "We will not quit. We will not let cancer win; we will finish the fight." The annual event, which raises money for cancer treatm...
PORTALES — Roosevelt County commissioners are once again in the position of having to decide what to cut and what to keep in regard to the county budget. County officials shared their priorities with commissioners this week during two budget workshops in which most departments presented commissioners with 2017-18 fiscal year budgets larger than the budgets for the current current fiscal year, which ends June 30. The following were each department’s budget as presented to commissioners on Wednesday and Friday morning in the...
PORTALES — Area residents are in for a unique experience this weekend with a production created by Eastern New Mexico University students. "They have been fantastic," theater professor Janeice Scarbrough said of the students who have written and produced the play. "It's kind of a tradition here that we do a lot of work that comes from the students. I believe in the new voice of our students, so we have always had a collaborative process. What's different about this is it is a...
PORTALES — If everything goes right, Portales Municipal Schools could give teachers pay raises in the 2018-19 school year, according to Superintendent Johnnie Cain. Cain told school board members and school officials Friday during a special meeting that as long as the district’s unit value remains at its current standing for the upcoming school year (2017-18), the district might have enough money in the following year to give pay raises. The New Mexico Public Education Department collects data regarding each of New Mex...
PORTALES — The Society of Creative Anachronism is more than just living in medieval times. It's about family. That is according to long-time members of the local Clovis/Portales shire, or chapter, Blackwaterkeep. The SCA is an international nonprofit organization "dedicated to researching and re-creating the arts and skills of pre-17th Century Europe," according to its website. Sam Hudspeth of Clovis has been a member of SCA since 1979 and has participated in SCA events and t...
PORTALES — Eastern New Mexico University emphasized to its students Monday night that they can always come to them with any problem. The New Mexico Office of the Attorney General visited the campus Monday to share some statistics with local college students as part of Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Officials with the attorney general's office showed students an hour-long documentary titled "The Hunting Ground," which revolved around college students who were victims of s...
PORTALES — Jeff Elwell of Tennessee was named the new president of Eastern New Mexico University on Wednesday afternoon after several days of closed Board of Regents sessions and visits from the four final candidates. Elwell visited all three ENMU campuses last week, along with the other three finalists: Charles Crespy of Michigan, John Fritch of Iowa and Neal Weaver of Louisiana. The university will pay Elwell a $230,000 annual salary with a three-year contract in place. ENMU...
PORTALES — Officials from Natural Chem visited Portales last week to tell local business leaders they will not regret doing business with the Houston-based renewable energy company. The company held a meet and greet event last week at Mark's Restaurant in Portales to explain Natural Chem's plans for biodiesel production and the two local plants. "Our preferred business model is to work with distributors who are already active in the region; we'd like to be in a c...
