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CLOVIS – Charles Nwanko is resigning as president of Clovis Community College, and the CCC Board of Trustees voted unanimously on Wednesday to accept his resignation. That's according to board Secretary Terry Martin who said the resignation will not become official until Nwankwo signs the resignation agreement. Nwankwo, who could not be reached for comment, had not signed the agreement as of Friday afternoon, CCC attorney Kameron Barnett told The News. Asked if Nwankwo had wri...
Monday *Women United Luncheon — 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m., Clovis Civic Center, 801 Schepps Blvd., Clovis. Program by Maria Taylor, spouse of the Wing Commander of Cannon Air Force Base. Luncheon served at noon. Tickets: $20 for Women’s Initiative Network (WIN) members and their guests, if purchased in advance; $25 for non-members; all tickets will be $25 at the door. RSVP at http://www.unitedwayenm.org/luncheon. Information: 575-769-2103 *Clovis-Carver Public Library Adult Services Programs Read to Reel movie: “Much Ado About Nothi...
DALLAS - Most Texas public schools reviewed this fall passed random inspections meant to detect whether an intruder could gain access to campuses, but more than a quarter of them still need to make improvements. Nearly 3,000 campuses underwent the surprise audits and at about 95% of them, inspectors weren't able to get unauthorized access, according to a new report from the Texas School Safety Center. At about 130 campuses, inspectors were able to gain unauthorized access...
The field for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination is expanding. Former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley is expected to announce her campaign in mid-February, and more contenders will likely follow. Although Donald Trump was the first to kick off the race by announcing his run just after last year’s midterm elections, he’s not dissuading ambitious Republicans. Here’s the slate as it stands now. Donald Trump Is he running? Yes. Trump announced his third bid for the White House in November, and he remains the front-...
Did you buy a peach tree last spring? Or maybe an apple tree on summer clearance? Well, believe it or not, it’s time to prune those trees. Yes, it is the dead of winter here on the High Plains. That’s the perfect time, while the fruit trees are dormant, or in a deep sleep. Pruning now will stimulate new growth and encourage fruiting. So let’s get started. We need a nice sunny day and a sharp pair of pruning shears. Do not prune if the temperature is below 20 degrees. A bottle of alcohol is recommended to sterilize the shear...
More people die in auto accidents if they live in the “wrong time zone,” new research finds. Erratically-drawn time zones in the U.S. may be to blame. According to a news release from Jeff Gentry, Professor of Communication at Eastern New Mexico University (ENMU), across the United States, death rates are higher where people don’t wake up with the sun. Over twelve years of data, Gentry, the lead author who worked with Jayson Evaniuck, also of ENMU; Thanchira Suriyamongkol of Southern Illinois University, and Ivana Mali of No...
Booked The following were booked into local jail (Tuesday - Friday): Clovis • Stacy Fluker, 34, battery • Michelle Chavez-Romero, 30, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge, burglary of a vehicle, larceny, aggravated fleeing a law enforcement officer • Greg Leeder, 61, probation violation • Dustin Gallegos, 30, failure to appear on a felony charge • Fernando Adame, 30, failure to appear on a felony charge • Reynaldo Armijo, 25, failure to pay fines • Leeah Wilkomn, 37, failure to appear on a felony charge • Djordan Hill, 1...
In nearly five decades of teaching at New Mexico State University (NMSU), retired animal science professor Neil Burcham touched the lives of hundreds of students and colleagues, and had a lasting impact on the livestock industry in New Mexico and across the United States. According to a report from NMSU, Burcham, who passed away in December at age 81, was an associate professor of Animal Science in the Animal & Range Sciences Department in the College of Agricultural, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences for 48 years before r...
Details have been released about the vehicle wreck in Lea County in which Melinda Kay Shaw, 58, of Melrose died. New Mexico State Police Public Information Officer Wilson Silver reports NMSP officers were called at around 6:44 p.m. Jan. 28 to go to the intersection of U.S. Route 82 and Prairieview Road northeast of Lovington. According to Silver’s report, the initial investigation of the three-vehicle wreck indicated that a 2016 Ford truck driven by a 46-year-old female was traveling north on Prairieview Road. The Ford t...
The new year has so far demonstrated just how sick our society has become. In less than a month, we’ve seen seven mass shootings in California alone, leaving 31 dead and 24 injured. We’ve seen video showing Tyre Nichols being beaten so badly by Memphis cops that he died in the hospital. And here in New Mexico, we’re hearing reports about two kids, ages 14 and 15, shot in Albuquerque, leaving one dead and the other critically wounded. The south side of the Duke City is averaging a homicide every three days so far this year....
CLOVIS – A Clovis man is off to prison for 10 years pleading guilty Monday to a number of charges in an incident that happened in June 2022. Ninth Judicial District Attorney, Quentin Ray, said Fabian Vasquez, 32, pled guilty to two counts of false imprisonment, two counts of aggravated battery-strangulation of a household member and Interference with communications. Ray said Vasquez did not have any prior felony convictions. According to a news release from Ray, it was June 18, 2022 when Clovis Police officers were d...
The death of Black people at the hands of law enforcement has become so commonplace that it’s easy to feel both outraged and psychologically numb. Over the past few decades, from Rodney King to George Floyd, we have become front-row spectators to grainy and, in some cases, graphic footage of police officers engaged in horrific levels of violent behavior toward people of African descent. We can now add Tyre Nichols of Memphis, Tenn., to the growing number of victims, a list t...
It’s always good when people take time out of their busy schedules to protest what they believe to be an injustice. And the Cradle of Liberty, good old Philadelphia, is the place to be for protests of all kinds, as we saw last month. On Jan. 24, we had pro-life activists raising their voices in support of one of their own, Mark Houck. Six blocks away, there were Black Lives Matter, LGBTQ, and other acronymed activists protesting at the Union League, a private club founded in 1...
Almost all of us want the same thing: to live in peace with what we need to survive and enjoy life, free to follow our interests. Problems arise when some of us think we can get there through socialism or legislation. I believe liberty is the only way to get there. Thomas Jefferson seemed to have been hinting at the same thing when he wrote: “Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others.” That sou...
There’s nothing white supremacy can’t do. It is supposedly so pervasive and powerful that it can cause Black men to sign up to serve as police officers in a majority Black city and severely beat a Black arrestee. It is to the contemporary left what capital was to Marx, sex was to Freud, and gravity was to Newton. It is the King Charles head of American public life, a matter of obsession that comes up in debates and contexts where it has no possible relevance. An opinion pie...
A strike that would have recently broken the supply chain, shaken an already shaky economy at a cost of nearly $2 billion a day, and damaged the rail industry was fortunately avoided. But the track ahead is far from clear for the railroads. The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) is considering a rule change that could make the industry less competitive. And, as was the case with the labor unrest, unions are again in the middle of it all. In July, the FRA proposed a rule requiring at least two crewmembers to be in the...
On this date ... 1929: Ridge Whiteman, 19, of Portales wrote a letter to the Smithsonian Institute reporting he’d found an arrow point with elephant bones at the site now known as Blackwater Draw. Anthropologists and archaeologists soon realized the discovery was proof that man was living in North America 11,000 years ago. 1952: Curry County Sheriff Val Baumgart announced a lie detector would soon be among the crime-fighting tools employed by his office. Baumgart said the p...
PORTALES - The Roosevelt County Planning/GIS/Emergency Management office will be permanently relocating to 1111 W. Fir St in Portales from their office in the Roosevelt County Courthouse the week of Feb. 13 . During that week, the office will be closed for the transition. According to a news release from County Manager Amber Hamilton, anyone needing to speak with Johnny Montiel during this time can email [email protected] or call 575.356.2869 and leave a message. According to the report Montiel said, “By moving, I...
The city of Clovis last week released “thousands” of emails and other electronic correspondence involving local and state officials, as requested under the state’s Inspection of Public Records Act. Clovis pastor Farril Defoor and Portales school teacher Logan Brown made the requests last December. Both men have been active in local efforts to successfully pass ordinances aimed at preventing abortion clinics from opening in eastern New Mexico. Defoor requested from city officials “any and all emails, faxes and any other c...
Clovis City Commission voted Thursday to approve a “Letter of Engagement for Professional Services” with Austin, Texas attorney Jonathan F. Mitchell, the author of the anti-abortion ordinance the city adopted in January. The ordinance is not active at this time as a petition drive for the matter to be put before city voters awaits approval of petitions by Tuesday. City Attorney Jared Morris said Friday the city entered in to the agreement with Mitchell, “to represent us and file a response in the recently filed [New Mexic...
Clovis Municipal Schools administration issued a news release with some reminders about Valentine’s Day, Feb. 14. Deliveries of flowers, balloons and other gifts are not allowed at any Clovis school campus or facility. Policy on Valentine’s cards, snacks and treats for the classroom is determined by each school. If allowed, they must be pre-packaged and individually wrapped. Balloons are not permitted on Clovis school buses. In Portales schools Superintendent Johnnie Cain said no deliveries are allowed at schools in the sys...
An Albuquerque district judge last week rejected arguments by the New Mexico Racing Commission to dismiss a lawsuit by Coronado Partners, setting up a legal showdown this spring whether to issue a sixth and final license to build a horse-racing track and casino in Tucumcari. District Judge Nancy Franchini’s three-page ruling on Jan. 23 to deny a motion to dismiss and allow the lawsuit to proceed was expected. Franchini had signaled during a telephone hearing in December she would allow the appeal by Coronado to contest the c...
The Eastern New Mexico Water Utility Authority (ENMWUA) board of directors passed a two-year update to its financial plan that leaves existing plans mostly unchanged. The plan outlines how federal, state and local funds will be collected and spent for the construction of the Eastern New Mexico Rural Water System, the ENMWUA’s $814-million project that is expected to bring water from Ute Lake near Logan, treat it, then pipe it to ENMWUA member communities. The member communities include Clovis, including Cannon Air Force Base,...
Three well-known franchise restaurants are under construction in Clovis, a sign of growing confidence in the city's economic base, according to Tina Dziuk, executive director of the Clovis Economic Development Corporation. The largest of the three restaurants is the Texas Roadhouse, located next to Applebee's restaurant in the 500 Block of East Llano Estacado Boulevard. A sign proclaiming "Texas Roadhouse" was spread across the middle of the two-story high front entrance on Th...
TUCUMCARI -- A pack of roaming dogs attacked and killed a Tucumcari man as he was walking near Mesalands Community College on Wednesday night, police said. Five mixed-breed dogs attacked Stanley Hartt, 64, as he was walking down 11th Street near Gamble Avenue, according to a news release from New Mexico State Police, which is investigating. Hartt was pronounced dead at the scene by the Office of Medical Examiner. NMSP will give its final report to the district attorney’s office for the possible filing of charges. A state p...
