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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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CLOVIS — A man and woman charged with assisting the escape effort this summer of three local jail inmates each pleaded guilty last week to charges. Jon Hausmann, 38, pleaded guilty Thursday afternoon to one fourth-degree felony charge of harboring or aiding a felon, through an agreement by which three other felony charges from the summer were dismissed. Hausmann was arrested June 19, when sheriff deputies followed an anonymous tip to a residence near Clovis’ Dennis Chavez par...
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...
The following marriage licenses were filed through Thursday at the Curry County Clerk’s Office: • Richard Henry Waggoner, 42, and Lisa Michelle Rollins, 50, both of Clovis • Samuel Steven Schope, 21, and Valon Rice Smith, 22, both of Clovis • Ricardo Enrique Wood, 39, and Kim Tifre Hayes, 33, both of Clovis • Clayton Michael Tamburelli, 29, and Meghan Rose Fucile, 31, both of Clovis • James Matthew Dupuy, 23, and Annah Marie Casil De Castro, 21, both of Clovis • Miguel Felipe Barrera, 21, and Makayla Ann Torres, 20, b...
On this date ... 1979: The Clovis News-Journal's editorial board had declared a proposed civic center a "Nightmare for Clovis Taxpayers" in a headline. "No, a civic center isn't a bad idea. But financing one through a tax increase is," the opinion piece declared. "... (A) civic center under bureaucratic management would be a sure money-loser, saddling taxpayers with operating deficits for years to come." Voters rejected the proposal by 318 votes - 1,760-1,388. City...
In a lifetime of watching them and nearly 20 years of covering them, I’ve learned three undeniable truths about sports: n We often take them far more seriously than we should. n We assign high importance and low importance to events that are often of the same importance. n It’s like life: Some people get substantially more credit or blame than they deserve, some people have to clean up messes they didn’t create and it isn’t always fair. But you still compete. That brings us to the week-long discussion that has emerged...
Gallegos U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Denae F. Gallegos graduated from basic military training at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland in San Antonio, Texas, according to a news release from Joint Hometown News Service. Gallegos completed an intensive eight-week program that included training in military discipline and studies, Air Force core values, physical fitness, and basic warfare principles and skills. Airmen who complete basic training also earn four credits toward an associate in applied science degree through the...
Clovis Christian Schools senior Alanna Greenwell, at 17, still isn't old enough to cast a ballot in any general election. But she had no trouble finding reasons why it mattered. The Veterans of Foreign Wars gave her another 600 reasons on Friday, as Greenwell was honored for her high marks in the VFW's nationwide Voice of Democracy essay contest. Greenwell finished third in New Mexico for the competition, and was honored in a brief Friday afternoon assembly at Clovis...
HURLBURT FIELD, Fla. — More than 350 people attended Thursday’s military funeral for Staff Sgt. Dylan J. Elchin, a Special Tactics combat controller assigned to the 26th Special Tactics Squadron, at Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia. Elchin, along with U.S. Army Capt. Andrew Ross and U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Eric Emond, were killed in action when their vehicle hit an improvised explosive device in Ghazni Province, Afghanistan on Nov. 27 while deployed in support of OPERATION Freedom’s Sentinel. U.S. Army Sgt. Jason McClar...
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 - School board members on Tuesday discussed the forthcoming retirement of Superintendent Jody Balch, whose career in education stretches across four decades. "You know when it's time," Balch told the Clovis Municipal School board at their regular meeting. He told The News on Friday that he always intended to serve five years as superintendent when he took the position in July 2014, and aimed to make that a reality with retirement this summer. He said he doesn't have...
As Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham and the Legislature consider a package of bills to transform New Mexico’s public schools, Think New Mexico urges them to include House Bill 77. HB77 will make sure a greater proportion of New Mexico’s education funding reaches our students and teachers in the classroom. The education reform bills being considered by lawmakers were developed in response to last year’s landmark Yazzie/Martinez court decision. In that decision, Judge Sarah Singleton directed New Mexico lawmakers to spend more...
The fundamental offense of the Covington Catholic High School kids wasn’t so much allegedly mobbing, mocking or getting in the face of an American Indian drummer at the Lincoln Memorial. It was wearing red Make America Great Again hats. That was the actual, incontestable conduct that created the predicate for the presumption of guilt and all the rest of the grief they’ve been subjected to since. For much of progressive America, if you are wearing the hat, you are suiting up...
The concept seems so ... un-American. Government can decide how much a Mom and Pop shop has to pay its employees? That has to be unconstitutional, doesn’t it? But just as we’ve allowed government to tell restaurant owners whether smoking is allowed in their place ... Just as we’ve allowed government to decide whether alcohol can be sold on Sundays ... Just as we’ve allowed government to determine who can host horse races — and who can’t ... ... It seems we simply have accept...
There are a lot of historical figures that have left their mark on the world. For me, Gandhi, M.L. King, Jesus, Abe Lincoln, and Peter Lawrence “Yogi” Berra are such people. Berra, a Hall of Fame baseball player, went to 13 World Series as a player and nine more as a coach or manager. Some have argued that when he was playing for the New York Yankees, you most wanted Yogi to come to bat in the late innings. His three Most Valuable Player awards are tied for the most MVP awards ever by a pro baseball player. I par...
Feb. 5 • Curry County Commission — 9 a.m., Commission Chambers, Curry County Administration Complex, 417 Gidding St., Clovis. Information: 575-763-6016 • Roosevelt County Commission — 9 a.m., Commission Room, Roosevelt County Courthouse, 109 W. First St., Portales. Information: 575-356-5307 • Portales City Council — 6:30 p.m., Memorial Building, 200 E. 7th St., Portales. Information: 575-356-6662 Feb. 7 • Roosevelt County Commission special meeting — 9 a.m., Commission Room, Roosevelt County Courthouse, 109 W. First St., P...
Today • New Mexico Music Educators Association All-State Jazz Concert, featuring top New Mexico high school jazz students with Richard Schwartz, director — 1 p.m., Buchanan Hall, ENMU music building, Portales. Tickets: $7. Information: 575-562-2377 Monday • Clovis/Portales Microplex legislative appreciation dinner — 6:30 p.m. cocktails, 7 p.m. dinner, Hotel Santa Fe, 1501 Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe. Tickets $100. Information: 575-763-3435 or 575-356-8541 Tuesday • Blood drive — 11 a.m.-3 p.m., Bloodmobile, Eastern New...
The following are available for checkout at: Clovis-Carver Public Library “Beneath Copper Falls” by Colleen Coble dives into a romantic suspense with 911 dispatcher Dana Newell. In addition to an emotionally charged career, she’s faced her own emergencies and moves to tranquil Rock Harbor. But the idyllic town hides danger and secrets. After a 911 call featuring a friend’s desperate screams on the other end, Dana’s painful past collides with the present-and threatens to keep her from the future she's always wanted. “Final Cu...
Baxter Curren Senior Center 908 Hickory St., Clovis Monday: 8:30 a.m. exercise class, 10 a.m. jewelry pals, 1 p.m. line dance, 1 p.m. canasta Tuesday: No beginning line dance, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. exercise equipment, 8 a.m. quilting, 9 a.m. pinochle class, 1 p.m. pinochle, 6 p.m. musical Wednesday: 8 a.m.-4 p.m. exercise equipment, 8:30 a.m. exercise class, 10 a.m. sew days, 1 p.m. needle gang Thursday: 8 a.m. eggs, gravy and biscuits $4, 8:45 a.m. pinochle 101, 1 p.m. bingo, 6 p.m. line dance Friday: 8 a.m.-4 p.m. exercise equipmen...
Clovis Elementary Monday: Breakfast — Pancakes. Lunch — Chicken nuggets, ranch mashed potatoes, steamed veggies, chilled mixed fruit, whole wheat roll. Tuesday: Breakfast — Mini cinni’s. Lunch — Porky rib on a bun, babked fries, steamed green beans, chilled fruit. Wednesday: Breakfast — Breakfast bread. Lunch — Roasted drumstick, garden salad w/ranch, sesoned corn, chilled pears. Thursday: Breakfast — Breakfast pizza. Lunch — Ham and cheese sandwich, cheesy broccoli, chilled fruit. Friday: Breakfast — Bean and cheese bur...
Information on choosing the perfect paint for your home, adding more nutrition to your recipes and creating a bronze effect on interior columns will be the featured topics on “Creative Living” at 9:30 p.m. on Tuesday and at noon on Thursday. Decorator Megan Hamilton will explain how to choose the perfect paint for your home. She’ll discuss accent walls, the “new neutral” paint color and explain the difference between a flat paint and a high gloss paint. She’s from Portales. C...
It’s pretty cool taking dogs in vehicles with you if they’re not throwing up. My dogs don’t ride with me too much; maybe it’s because the little one tosses her cookies about every other time she goes for a ride. Mostly I just don’t take the time to load them up. I was reminded of just how much joy dogs take in a car ride recently when a friend posted a video of their dog riding in the back of their pickup wearing a Wonder Woman cape. That dog really looked like she was havin...
My name is Desiree Cooper. I'm the coordinator of media relations and social media at Eastern New Mexico University, where I write stories about students, faculty, staff and alumni and share them with the Greyhound community on ENMU's website and social media platforms. I graduated with a bachelor's degree in communication with an emphasis in public relations and a minor in history in 2015 and a Master of Arts in communication in 2017. My fiancé Adam Fajardo is the webmaster a...
