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CLOVIS — A point of dispensing, or POD, for the COVID-19 vaccine will open on Monday at the former Raintree Grocery Store. Roden Smith, in partnership with the city of Clovis emergency management, Clovis Family Healthcare, and other local public...

PORTALES — Portales’ Income Support Division office of New Mexico’s Human Services Department is considering shutting its doors for good. No official plans have been made. However, the NMDOH has created a survey to feel out the potential...

PORTALES — The new year was off to a busy start for the Roosevelt County Commission at their first meeting of 2021, with Rodney Savage welcomed to the commission and the commission unanimously declaring Roosevelt a pro-life county. During a...

PORTALES — The Portales City Council met in a matter of minutes Tuesday night to approve two items on their consent agenda. The first item was to declare Jan. 18 as Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the township. On the agenda was included a...

The Clovis-Portales area can expect a snowstorm this weekend, a reprieve from recent dry weather. Forecasters said the region should see 2 to 5 inches of snow between Saturday and Sunday. The storm is expected to hit northwestern New Mexico on...

If not tonight, Curry and Roosevelt counties can expect to see snow on the ground Sunday. At least 2 inches are expected to fall by mid-day Sunday with a good chance of receiving more, according to the National Weather Service in Albuquerque.... Full story

New Mexico has received 49,625 vaccines, and administered 41,075 of them over the last two weeks, according to Dr. Tracie Collins, New Mexico Health Secretary-Designate during a press conference on Wednesday. “This vaccine distribution for this pan...

PORTALES — The end of 2020 is right around the corner and Roosevelt County has had a year full of newsworthy events. While the pandemic may have taken center stage for most of it, plenty was happening behind the scenes as well. January began with...

The New Mexico Department of Health launched a COVID-19 vaccine registration website last week. Registrants on the site will be notified when they are qualified to receive the vaccine once it becomes more widely available. The website allows individu...

New Mexico’s Economic Development Department released the quarterly economic summaries for each of the states counties this month. These summaries show data from the first quarter of the new fiscal year compared to fiscal year 2020. Each of the...

PORTALES — Courthouse Cafe on Portales’ downtown square was the scene of a small, peaceful protest against public health orders on Friday afternoon. Owner Julie Rooney said customers were ordering their meals to-go and then chose to eat inside...

Xcel Energy’s Sagamore Wind Project wrapped up its construction phase with a virtual celebration and news conference Wednesday with project and state leaders. Project Manager Brian Hudson said the last turbine has been commissioned and all...

PORTALES — The Portales City Council authorized a loan and grant agreement between the city and the New Mexico Finance Authority for $3.3 million for its water project fund and the costs inherent to it. Included in the costs are construction and de...

Governor Lujan-Grisham's weekly COVID-19 update began with a grim milestone for the state. She reported that a total of 48 New Mexicans passed away on Thursday, a record high that brought total deaths to 2,097. “I am very concerned,” Lujan...

New Mexico received its first doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine on Monday. Christus St. Vincent hospital in Santa Fe was the first facility to receive the vaccine early Monday morning, and began administering it to frontline healthcare workers...

PORTALES — Roosevelt County announced the recipients of the last round of their small business CARES Act Grants during their Tuesday meeting. The $60,289.77 awarded this round effectively used up the remainder of the grant before the Dec. 31...

CLOVIS — Float entries for this year’s Clovis and Portales Christmas parades were down by nearly two-thirds each, but public attendance was observed to be high in the pandemic-friendly conditions. “We were incredibly surprised with the...

CLOVIS — So far during the COVID-19 pandemic, Curry County is 10th in the state with 3,441 total, while Roosevelt County is ranked 16th with 1,115. That’s following Monday’s report from the Department of Health, which detailed 22 new cases and...

CLOVIS — The second round of the Clovis CARES Act grants for small businesses ended last Friday, with Mayor Mike Morris reporting that around 120 applications had been submitted by the deadline. “The number of businesses expressing need and...