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WASHINGTON — Sen. Martin Heinrich expressed disappointment Tuesday with the U.S. Air Force on its work so far in remediating water contamination near Cannon Air Force Base. Heinrich, speaking at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing, addressed Air Force Secretary Barbara Barrett in response to comments the Air Force was working with communities experiencing water contamination from the Air Force’s decades-long use of firefighting foams that contained per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, better known as PFAS. “In the c...
MELROSE — It was just a step along the way to Melrose’s ultimate goal. But it was a pretty cool step. Last Saturday night, the Melrose boys basketball team won its second straight District 6-1A championship by beating Fort Sumner 64-36 at Melrose High School. What the Buffaloes really want is to win a third consecutive state 1A title, but they were happy to successfully defend the district crown first. “I’m proud of the guys,” Melrose head coach Kevin Lackey said. “It’s alw...
FORT SMITH, Ark. — Eastern New Mexico University rallied for four runs in the top of the ninth, capped by a two-out, two-run double from freshman Camden Matthews, and the Greyhounds salvaged their four-game Lone Star Conference baseball series finale with a 7-6 win over Arkansas-Fort Smith on Sunday. The Lions (12-6, 12-6 LSC) threatened in the bottom of the ninth with two on and one out, but pinch-runner Baxter Mays was ruled out at third base for interference on a groundout to ENMU’s Trevor Moses, resulting in a gam...
BY THE STAFF OF THE NEWS HOBBS — Ho-hum, another district championship won at Hobbs High School. OK, maybe not ho-hum, since the Clovis boys basketball team only won this year’s District 4-5A title at Hobbs by hanging on, 67-65, last Saturday. But, it was the second year in a row the Wildcats captured a district title by beating the Eagles at Hobbs High School. So, it may at least seem like it’s becoming routine. A district tournament championship, though, however and wherever it’s won, is anything but run-of-...
Booked The following were booked into local jails (Friday - Tuesday): Clovis ∞ Joe Chavez, 67, driving while license suspended or revoked ∞ John Hobbs, 24, probation violation ∞ Bruce Pollard, 49, resisting, evading or obstructing an officer ∞ Ethan Beltran, 24, probation violation ∞ Patricia Messier, 33, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge ∞ David Baker, 62, aggravated driving while under the influence of intoxicating liquor or any drug, driving a vehicle at night without lighted lamps, failure to maintain traffic lan...
I love lists. I especially love lists when accompanied by color-coded sticky notes. Sometimes, however, even the best-laid plans complete with lists and sticky notes can fall apart. That point was made for me on a recent trip for work. I sent what could only be termed a note of desperation to my husband: “Well poop on a cracker! Guess what I didn’t pack? PANTS!” Now added to the angst of being away from home for a lengthy period of time, I had to worry about pants, or lack...
Quail. I have nothing at all against those birds. I enjoy looking at them. I’ve fed a few. Raised a few. Shot a few. Eaten a few. I enjoy them on every level, from my eyeballs to my taste buds. So I don’t mean to slander these fine birds when I say that their images should be woven into the logos of the world’s leading stock exchanges. Or maybe instead the exchanges could use in their logos images of a bunch of frightened old women leaning on walkers. But that would be gross...
Fourteen states held primary elections on Tuesday, including Texas. That makes today a good day to look back on the region’s choices for president through the years. Some interesting tidbits from Bailey, Curry, De Baca, Parmer, Quay and Roosevelt counties: • All six local counties have voted Republican since 1980, with one exception. In 1996, De Baca County chose Bill Clinton over Bob Dole by 20 votes — 509-489. • All six counties overwhelmingly supported Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton in 2016, but Trump received fewer v...
If you want to be technical, the cardboard box I excavated (I am not exaggerating) from my garage this week is not historically significant. But I can’t help feeling like an archaeologist as I wade through the dusty detritus of notebooks, envelopes, and crumpled registration forms from the 2015 reunion for the folks who attended the schools that eventually ended up in the Dora school district in south Roosevelt County. It was time to dig it out again because — like a fla...
Today • Tiny Tots — 10 a.m., Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main St., Clovis. Information: 575-769-7840 • Preschool storytime “10 Apples Up on Top” — 10:30 a.m., Portales Public Library, 218 S. Ave. B, Portales. Information: 575-356-3940 • Read with Gunther the therapy dog — 11 a.m.-noon, Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main St., Clovis. Space is limited; sign up available at the front desk. Information: 575-769-7840 • Stitch Addicts stitch group — 1:30-3 p.m., Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main St., Clovis...
CLOVIS — No injuries were reported, but a Sunday morning house fire displaced the residents and destroyed contents of a back room. Clovis fire officials said they responded to the fire at 2513 Wallace around 10 a.m. Sunday. Officials said the residents have contacted Red Cross and they are no longer staying at the home. Cause of the fire is still under investigation....
CLOVIS — The Clovis City Commission will consider a pilot program with the state that will allow the Clovis Area Transit System to operate outside of city limits on a limited basis. A memorandum of agreement will be discussed at the commission’s 5:15 p.m. Thursday meeting at the North Annex of the Clovis-Carver Public Library. It would provide $186,000 in state dollars for transportation services targeting senior citizens on Medicare without mobility options. The award, which requires no local match, would cover a veh...
The Curry and Roosevelt county clerk’s offices are reminding prospective candidates for the June primary elections that Tuesday is the only day to file for positions. Filing will run 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Curry County clerk’s office at 417 Gidding St. in Clovis and at the Roosevelt County clerk’s office at 109 W. First St. in Portales. The following races are available for filing in each county: • County clerk • County treasurer • County commission (Districts 1, 2, 4 and 5 in Curry; Districts 1 and 2 in Roosevelt)...
Wayland to hold commencement CLOVIS — Wayland Baptist University’s Clovis campus will hold commencement services at 10 a.m. Friday at Central Baptist Church. The college has 10 candidates for degrees — five master’s, four bachelor’s and one associate’s. David Robinson, chief executive officer of Plateau and a WBU-Clovis graduate, will give the commencement address and an endowment of $25,000 will be recognized. Education Digest is compiled by the staff of The News. Contact Editor Kevin Wilson at 575-763-3431, ext. 320, o...
Clovis company receives grants A Clovis-based company was one of five in the state to receive Business Start-Up grants, according to a release from the New Mexico Economic Development Department. Petricor was chosen among 25 applicants in the fields of aerospace, biosciences, cybersecurity, intelligent manufacturing or sustainable/green energy. The company will use the money to build a prototype industrial printer. It received a $25,000 grant, with most Start-Up grants in the $10,000 range. Other companies receiving the...
CLOVIS — North Geo Engineering Services will perform a Geotech survey of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard on Thursday, according to a city news release. The survey will run from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. between Seventh and 21st streets. Traffic control devices will be in the vicinity, and the public is asked to adhere to all signs. Information: John North, 505-400-2919....
PORTALES —Volunteers with Eastern New Mexico University are seeking community service projects as part of the university’s annual Eastern in Action Day on March 28. Registration packets are available at Portales City Hall or the ENMU Department of Public Safety. They are due 5 p.m. March 13 at the ENMU DPS office or emailed to [email protected]. Any projects submitted after the March 13 date will be considered but prioritized below projects submitted by the deadline. Projects should be tasks volunteers could reasonably com...
PORTALES — The city of Portales will close its solid waste convenience center from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. today for staff training. The center is scheduled to reopen at 8 a.m. Thursday. The center is located at 1230 N. Avon Ave., and is intended for residents to dispose of large and small trash items. City residents can use the center free of charge if they bring in a recent city bill indicating garbage service. Commercial businesses, county residents or anybody else who doesn’t pay for garbage service is subject to fees based on...
Today • Clovis Community College Board of Trustees — 8 a.m., CCC, 417 Schepps Blvd., Room 512, Clovis. Information: 575-769-4001 Thursday • Clovis City Commission — 5:15 p.m., North Annex, Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main St., Clovis. Information: 575-763-9654 Friday • Eastern New Mexico University Regents — 10 a.m., ENMU-Ruidoso, 709 Mecham Drive, Ruidoso. Information: 575-562-2121 Monday • Roosevelt County Commission — 9 a.m., Commission Room, Roosevelt County Courthouse, 109 W. First St., Portales. Infor...
Stopping by Lockwood Elementary School to speak with fifth-grade veteran teacher Sherry Byrd was an unexpected delight. She and her students had returned from a field trip, which itself was a result of a workshop she'd attended with other teachers recently to participate in the KidWind workshop. KidWind and Pattern Energy sponsor the program to help students and teachers explore renewable energies. Upon returning from the teacher workshop held at Mesalands Community College in...
This nation has been urbanizing since its beginnings, ever since the first industrial revolution started creating jobs in the cities. For centuries now, country folk have been moving to the city in search of something better than the subsistence existence of their rural roots. But city life isn’t necessarily a better life, so some have returned to the country — satisfied, I suppose, that they’ve seen enough of the world to know where they belong. Then there’s that in-between land, where small towns and cities give their r...
The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals made an important and necessary point again last week when it threw out a lawsuit that claimed YouTube violated the Constitution’s free-speech protections by restricting access to videos and advertising on its platform. As big as YouTube may be, it is simply not a public space run by the government, and therefore it is not bound by the First Amendment. The lawsuit was brought in 2017 by Prager University, a nonprofit organization co-founded by conservative talk radio host Dennis Prager i...
As much as I appreciate sheriffs who refuse to enforce the latest blatant violation of the Constitution — so-called “red flag” legislation — I wonder where their courage to not do the wrong thing has been hiding until now. Unconstitutional gun legislation — which includes every “law” concerning guns — has been enforced by those in these same offices since 1934. This newest violation isn’t worse than the others. This is an arbitrary, theatrical line-in-the-sand....
PORTALES —Maintenance is one of those things that, if done right, nobody else gives it a second thought. Portales Municipal Schools board members and administrators were thinking about it plenty as they bid an early farewell during Monday night’s board meeting to longtime district Director of Maintenance Nat Gomez. Gomez, who has served the district in that position since November 2002, is leaving later this month for a position with the Lancaster Independent School District in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. Board mem...
PORTALES - Around 40 employees were laid off at the Ready Roast Nut Company peanut plant in Portales on Friday, including Plant Manager Jim Lucero. The layoffs follow the recent purchase of the plant by Hampton Farms, which already owned a peanut processing plant in Portales prior to the purchase. Officials from the Portales Ready Roast plant said they were unable to comment on the layoffs, but said a press release would be out later this week with more information. Leonard...
