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TEXICO — The Texico Municipal Schools bond and mill levy election is just under a week away but turnout has already exceeded past elections, according to election officials. Curry County Clerk Annie Hogland and Roosevelt County Clerk Stephanie Hicks told The News on Monday that of the 1,036 ballots that were sent out, 151 voted ballots have been returned, a turnout of about 14.6 percent. Even with six days remaining to vote, that number is still higher than the last Texico bond election in 2013 when just 38 ballots were c...
PORTALES — Roosevelt General Hospital is less than three months away from opening a clinic in Clovis, according to Chief Executive Officer Kaye Green. Green said in her report to the RGH Board of Trustees during Tuesday’s meeting that the hospital has set a tentative opening date of April 8 for its Clovis location, 2000 W. 21st St. Unit R1. Green said the clinic’s sign will be going up in the next week or so. The Clovis location was officially confirmed at the board’s May 31 meeting last year after a billboard announc...
PORTALES - The city of Portales and Roosevelt County will soon be tasked with developing a new agreement to share services. The Portales City Council formally terminated an existing joint powers agreement between the two entities during Tuesday's meeting. Since 2000, Portales and Roosevelt County have had an agreement covering the law enforcement complex housing the Portales Police Department and Roosevelt County Sheriff's Office. According to the agreement, the city covers...
MELROSE — Meet the new boss, same (philosophy) as the old boss. That was the message out of Melrose last week as the Melrose Municipal Schools Board of Education selected elementary school principal Brian Stacy as the district’s next superintendent. Superintendent Jamie Widner, who is set to retire following 25 years with the district at the end of the school year, told The News that he expects Stacy will bring a similar philosophy to the position. “My hope and I know the board’s hope is that the consistency and stabili...
PORTALES — The 2019 Roosevelt County spelling bee was a family affair. The brother-sister duo of Aneesh and Sanjana Chava both won first place in their respective divisions at Friday’s competition held on the Eastern New Mexico University campus. Older sister Sanjana, a seventh grader at Portales Junior High School, won the senior division (grades six through eight), defeating five other competitors to earn her spot in the state spelling bee, scheduled March 9 in Albuquerque. Her younger brother Aneesh, a fourth grader at...
PORTALES - The Eastern New Mexico University Board of Regents on Tuesday officially confirmed its intent to build a new president's residence. ENMU previously released a survey to the public in late November eliciting input regarding how the university should proceed after the discovery of asbestos and mold in the president's residence, located at 1600 W. Cherry St. since 1973. Before making the motion to advance plans to build a new home in the same area, Regent Terry Othick...
CLOVIS - Monday morning's Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. symbolic march and rally in Clovis had three main components to its theme - remember, celebrate and act. Action was the focus of Pastor Robert L. Grimes' keynote speech. "We can quote it, we can recite it, we can remember it. When are we going to start to act on it?" Grimes said of King's famous "I Have a Dream" speech. "When are we going to take the vision off the page and start applying it to our everyday lives?" More than...
MELROSE - While the Academy Award nominations had people around the country talking on social media on Tuesday, a different kind of award was making news in eastern New Mexico. Melrose Superintendent Jamie Widner told The News on Monday that junior and high school science teacher Alan Daugherty recently won the 2019 Excellence in STEM Award in the high school division. "It was a nice surprise to be able to get some recognition for some of the things the students and I have...
CLOVIS - It's almost time for a celebration: members of the Eastern New Mexico Water Utility Authority on Thursday discussed plans for a groundbreaking ceremony for Finished Water 2, the seven miles of pipeline between Clovis and Cannon Air Force Base. Executive Director Orlando Ortega and office manager Sara Widner said the ceremony will begin at noon on Feb. 26 at the ENMWUA offices at the Sitterly Professional Center, 801 Pile St. A catered open house at the office will...
CLOVIS - For most people, it costs a lot of money to earn a private pilot's license. That won't be the case for Clovis High School senior Jason Garten. Garten was recently selected as one of 150 Air Force Junior ROTC cadets nationwide to receive a Flight Academy scholarship from the Air Force, a training program that allows cadets to earn a private pilot's license free of charge. "They teach you the physics of flight, the terms, how to fly, how to talk to air traffic control,...
CLOVIS — A particular type of nut likely tasted extra sweet for one Clovis student on Friday. Angel Garcia, a seventh grader at Marshall Middle School, won the Curry County spelling bee after correctly spelling “cashew.” Linda D’Amour, the coordinator for the spelling bee, said 30 students — fifth through eighth graders from Clovis Municipal Schools, Clovis Christian School and Texico — competed in the event, held at Clovis Community College. Garcia won following 17 rounds of competition. Valeria Cardenas, a fifth-grade...
No matter how you plan to spend your day today, your evening might be well spent looking to the sky. That’s where the “Super Blood Wolf Moon” can be found. Tonight’s astronomical event will be the first total lunar eclipse visible in eastern New Mexico since last January’s “Super Blue Blood Moon.” It will be eastern New Mexico’s last chance to see a total lunar eclipse until May 2021. The first phase of tonight’s eclipse will begin around 7:35 p.m. and the final phase will end about 12:30 a.m. Monday morning. The tota...
PORTALES - Rev. Buddy Moore said he first heard the call to the church when he was 17, but he turned instead to a life in the armed service and later a job in the oil and gas industry. Moore said he then had a powerful religious experience that led him to recovery - now 27 years sober - and then to answer that call that he heard decades earlier. Moore, 73, went back to school to earn his degree in religion and philosophy and is now serving as the interim pastor at First...
PORTALES - The Portales Municipal Schools Board of Education had a bit larger crowd than normal on Monday, moving its monthly meeting to the junior high cafeteria to account for the dozens of exemplary and highly effective teachers honored by the board. Superintendent Johnnie Cain said assessment scores, surveys, teacher attendance, professionalism and principal evaluations go into determining each teacher's evaluation. "I believe that if a student is learning and they are...
MELROSE — When former Melrose High School teacher Joe Reed told Superintendent Jamie Widner several years ago he planned to retire, Widner said he tried to talk Reed out of it. Reed wasn’t swayed, and told Widner a simple thing: When it’s time to retire, you just know. Widner, 57, now knows first-hand what Reed meant that day. And that’s what he told the board in October — with Reed serving as president — when he announced plans to retire at the end of the school year. “The night I announced, the other four board members...
Martin Luther King Jr's dream of nonviolence will once again take center stage in eastern New Mexico over the coming days as several events are planned in Clovis and Portales to celebrate the national holiday honoring the nation's most well-known civil rights leader. First up will be Clovis' annual scholarship breakfast, scheduled for 9 a.m. on Saturday in the Clovis High School cafeteria. Constance Williams, second vice president of the Clovis Dr. Martin Luther King Jr....
CLOVIS - This is setting up to be a make or break year for Curry County's foray into the concert business. With the 10-year anniversary of the Curry County Events Center on the horizon, the Curry County Commission voted on Thursday to host a concert to celebrate the occasion, as well as spend an additional $52,500 on musical talent for this year's county fair. Commissioner Robert Thornton said the county should look to bring in bigger name acts this year than it has in the...
The state Legislature is expected to consider a bill during the upcoming 60-day session that would legalize recreational marijuana in New Mexico. But it won’t be due to the support from legislators on the eastern side of the state. Six local Republican lawmakers interviewed by The News on Friday — Rep. Randy Crowder of Clovis, Sen. Stuart Ingle of Portales, Sen. Pat Woods of Broadview, Rep.-elect Phelps Anderson of Roswell, Rep.-elect Jackey Chatfield of Mosquero and Rep.-elect Martin Zamora of Clovis — unanimously said...
PORTALES - Mayor Ron Jackson on Tuesday night read a proclamation declaring Jan. 21 as Martin Luther King Jr. Day in Portales. He called on citizens "to join us in our efforts to follow in Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream towards equality for all." Councilor Oscar Robinson encouraged people to attend several upcoming events in the city held in honor of the slain civil rights leader. Robinson said Jeff Elwell, president of Eastern New Mexico University, will host a breakfast for...
PORTALES - A local dairy owner's tour of government entities to discuss the water contamination issue near Cannon Air Force Base continued at Tuesday's Roosevelt County Commission meeting. Art Schaap, who previously addressed the Clovis City Commission and Curry County Commission, shared much of the same details with Roosevelt County commissioners on Tuesday, calling on them to put pressure on the state's environmental department to hold Cannon accountable for the water...
CLOVIS - If Monday's legislative luncheon roundtable at the Clovis/Curry County Chamber of Commerce is any indication, marijuana will be on legislators' minds when they travel to Santa Fe later this month for the 60-day session. The legalization of recreational marijuana was one of many issues covered as part of the wide-ranging discussion that featured over 50 current and former area city, county, state, education and business leaders. Participants included Rep. Randy...
Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham wasted no time following through on her campaign pledge to do away with the PARCC. The Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, or PARCC, which has been in place in New Mexico for nearly half a decade and cost the state millions of dollars to administer, will be replaced by the beginning of the 2019-20 school year, the governor announced on Thursday. Reaction from local school leaders ranged from approval to indifference toward the governor’s decision. Melrose S...
CLOVIS — Second verse — or in this case, ninth verse — same as the first. Clovis coach Jeff Reed saw the same offensive struggles that have hurt the Clovis Lady Wildcats all season long rear their ugly head again Friday night as the Lady Cats scored just four field goals following a hot first quarter en route to a 50-42 home loss to Hereford. “That’s been every game for us,” Reed said. “All nine losses for us have been exactly a copycat of that. So somewhere down the road...
The state Legislature won’t officially convene until noon on Jan. 15. But hundreds of bills have already been pre-filed for the 60-day session. As of Thursday, 335 bills, memorials or resolutions had been pre-filed in the House of Representatives and the Senate, with 83 percent of the legislation in both chambers being introduced by Democrats. The Senate will be made up of 28 Democrats and 16 Republicans for the session and the House will have 46 Democrats and 24 Republicans, including 20 non-incumbents — 15 Democrats and 5 R...
New year, new me. It’s a common saying these days, especially on social media. As the calendar changes to 2019, people try to change or improve something about their lives with a New Year’s resolution. And while more than half of the 20-plus people approached for this story said they aren’t setting a resolution for 2019, several eastern New Mexico residents told The News that they are getting in the New Year’s spirit, and if their answers are any indication, expect to see a few extra people at the gym. “Health and weight. J...
