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CLOVIS — A 2-year-old boy pulled from Dennis Chavez Lake on Friday afternoon was resuscitated and rushed to the Clovis hospital, officials said. Clovis Fire Department Battalion Chief Joel Gershon said the child was flown to Lubbock about 7:20 p.m. on Friday in critical, but stable condition. Gershon said the child was showing "good signs of life after resuscitation," but the next 24 hours will be critical. A police news release said officers responded at 4:14 p.m. to a report of a child not breathing. On arrival, "a f... Full story
SANTA FE — New Mexico Department of Health officials on Friday are scheduled to present the latest information on the COVID-19 coronavirus and the department’s role in preparing for it. A public forum is slated for 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. Friday at the Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main St. The forum will be streamed on the city of Clovis Facebook page. According to a DOH news release: • Department of Health leadership will provide a short presentation followed by a question and answer session immediately following. In addit... Full story
FORT SUMNER — De Baca County commissioners discussed the potential of hosting an annual free day for e-waste recycling at the county solid waste transfer station. Commission Chairman Scot Stinnett said the growth in the use of computer-based devices has led to a rapidly escalating need for disposal of obsolete devices and that recycling offers the best solution. Stinnett said in talking with solid waste facility manager Bill Moulton, there is some recycling value for e-waste. Stinnett asked the department’s office man...
SANTA ROSA — Guadalupe County is one step closer in its role to bring a large wind farm project to the area. At the Feb. 20 regular county commission meeting, County Attorney Jesus Lopez said the county still intends to negotiate payment in lieu of taxes, or PILT, with Pattern Development for its planned wind farm and transmission line development spanning portions of Guadalupe, Torrance and Lincoln counties. The county has formed a committee that will begin negotiating with Pattern Development. PILTs are fees that c...
FORT SUMNER — The De Baca County Cooperative Extension Service will host a free cattle seminar, “Let’s Talk Mineral,” March 20 at the Extension office. Registration begins at 5 p.m. and the seminar begins at 5:30. The event will include general information on mineral supplements for cattle, including balancing a mineral program based off of a local forage analysis, and mineral absorption. Three continuing education units for the Beef Quality Assurance certification will be available to those attending. A meal will be served....
A bill signed into law Monday by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham will provide free breakfast and lunch to thousands of low-income public school students who have been required to pay a reduced fee for meals through a federal program. House Bill 10, funded through a $650,000 appropriation to the Public Education Department that was included in the main state spending bill for fiscal year 2021, will eliminate copays of 30 cents or 40 cents per meal for about 12,500 students across the state who qualify for federal reduced-price...
SANTA FE — Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed into law Monday sweeping changes to New Mexico’s retirement system for police officers, firefighters and public employees — a move intended to strengthen the financial health of the state’s pension plan. The bipartisan legislation, Senate Bill 72, will temporarily freeze cost-of-living adjustments for some retirees and require public workers and government agencies to pay more into the system. The changes are intended to better position the Public Employees Retirement Associa...
On this date ... 1970: Clovis’ Firestone tire dealer was targeting area women with newspaper advertising. The dealership at 821 Main told area wives: “We will pay you 20 cents cash for each pound your husband weighs when he buys a pair of Firestone deep tread or all traction field and road tractor tires during our Farmer Days.” An illustration featured a 200-pound man on scales with a caption that read “This husband is worth $40. Do you have one worth more?” Firestone was also giving away free copies of the Farmers Almanac a...
CLOVIS - Clovis voters chose a new direction Tuesday, selecting Mike Morris as their next mayor. Morris, a longtime insurance agency owner in Clovis, took a five-way race with 33.6% of the vote. He had 1,510 votes to finish ahead of Stephen North (1,132) and former city manager and police chief Raymond Mondragon (943). He'll have two new city commissioners and six incumbents joining him in the commission's April 2 meeting. City Clerk LeighAnn Melancon said votes were...
Senior Natalie DeLonge led three in double figures, and Eastern New Mexico's women advanced Tuesday night in the Lone Star Conference tournament with a 70-52 victory over Oklahoma Christian at Greyhound Arena. Sophomore Zamorye Cox added 15 and Alivia Lewis 10 for the fifth-seeded Greyhounds (21-8), who move on to a 7:30 p.m. Thursday quarterfinal against fourth-seeded Tarleton State. The top four seeds received a first-round bye to the tournament, which continues at Comerica...
PORTALES — It was a celebration long-delayed, but better late than never for the Portales High football team Sunday night. Following its 12-1 season and its second Class 4A title in four seasons, the Rams held their celebration banquet Sunday. Coach Jaime Ramirez said in the weeks following Portales’ title win over Bloomfield, time simply got away from staff and a decision was made to wait until there were no known conflicts. Portales players had nine players take 12 Class 4A all-state first-team selections, and two oth...
PORTALES — With a Lone Star Conference tournament berth in the balance, a last-ditch rally came up short for Eastern New Mexico University’s men on Saturday. Trailing by seven points with under two minutes to go, ENMU junior Devin Pullum converted a 3-point basket and a three-point play, but two free throws by junior forward Yosnier Cobas failed to find the mark with two seconds left and Midwestern State escaped with a 68-67 win at Greyhound Arena. MSU (8-20, 8-14 LSC) put together a bit of a mad dash with four wins in its...
WOLFFORTH, Texas — Yes, it’s track and field season already. While basketball will hang around for another week and a half, spring is here (kinda). So Clovis’ boys and girls track and field teams were competing this past weekend in the Don Black Invitational at Frenship High School’s Tiger Stadium in Wolfforth, Texas. Clovis’ boys finished fourth out of 14 teams, earning 73 points — 19 off the pace of meet host Wolfforth Frenship and Lubbock Cooper, who tied for first with 92 points. Midland Lee (75) was the only other team...
Already tired of presidential primaries and sneezing into your elbow? Need a break after carrying your Mayor Pete and Amy Klobuchar campaign buttons out to the curb? For a change of pace, a nice diversion from the news, here come the state high school boys basketball playoffs, which tip off this Saturday. Six local boys teams will begin their state championship quests, highlighted by Clovis’ first state home game in seven years. Not since 2013 has Rock Staubus Gymnasium b...
PORTALES — If nothing else, the Valley Vikings figure to be a bit out of their element in Friday’s 6 p.m. Class 4A round-of-16 girls state tournament game against Portales High at the Ram Athletic Center — it’s the first time in 29 games that they’ll be playing outside the Albuquerque metro area. The next step for the third-seeded Lady Rams (20-7) is to make the Vikings uncomfortable at what they like to do, which is shooting 3-pointers. PHS girls coach Wade Fraze said Valley (17-11) is a scary No. 14 seed. “They may be the...
HOBBS — Last week hadn’t been playing out too well for the Clovis baseball team. Until Saturday, when the Wildcats used a two-out, two-run rally in the top of the seventh inning and 1-2-3 pitching from Matthew Rubio in the bottom of the seventh to edge Artesia 6-4 in the Hobbs Round Robin Invite, marking the Wildcats’ first victory of the 2020 season. Saturday’s late-inning surge followed Thursday’s 11-0 loss to Cleveland and Friday’s 6-3 setback against Belen at the Invite. “It was a big game for us,” Clovis head coach Rich...
