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CLOVIS — Rape charges against three local airmen charged early last year with raping a colleague in Clovis will be dropped by the 9th Judicial District Attorney, according to a news release. Andrea Reeb said her office would drop charges of second-degree criminal sexual penetration against Cannon Air Force Base airmen Thomas Newton, 25, Isaiah Edley, 20, and Rahman Buchanan, 19, citing recent forensic evidence results from serology testing by the state’s crime lab. “I have reached the conclusion that the State would be unabl...
CLOVIS — A pair of city boards focused on senior center wellness met Thursday, with approval on building renovations and discussion of area entities that support seniors. The Senior Center Plan and Design Task Force took just 15 minutes to give the go-ahead on changes to the kitchen designs at the future Clovis Senior Center at Hillcrest Park, which would house Curry Resident Senior Meals Association services. The renovations to the prior plan added a reception area in the front, plus an additional office for a t...
CLOVIS - Wayland Baptist University-Clovis celebrated the academic accomplishments of 14 students during Friday's graduation ceremony at Central Baptist Church. Executive Director Gary Mitchell said 10 students were in attendance for the event. Mitchell said former Clovis Mayor Gayla Brumfield was recorgnized as the distinguished alumni recipient. Clovis Police Chief Doug Ford recieved the campus' first distinguished alumni award last year. Master degree recipients: • J...
Three years ago, Dasha Fincher was arrested in Monroe County, Georgia, after deputies performed an on-the-spot test of a bag of blue substance that they found in the car in which she was a passenger. The suspicious stuff tested positive for methamphetamines. After her arrest, the judge in her case set bail at $1 million because she was perceived as a drug trafficker. There was just one problem. The roadside drug-test was wrong. The blue substance wasn’t meth — it was cotton candy. Fincher would spend three months in jail bec...
When is it offensive? Congressional Democrats stumbled all over themselves and each other last week trying to answer that question. Then they scrambled to cover any culpability that might result from any answer that may hint that any Democrat anywhere might discriminate in any way against anyone or any group. Here in my view is what happened: Democratic freshman legislators in Congress have made a habit of trumpeting points of a far-left agenda that is every bit as offensive to most people as any racially charged statement...
We interrupt the talk of the president “manufacturing” a crisis at the border with this hair-raising report about the crisis at the border. Alarming new numbers about border apprehensions from U.S. Customs and Border Protection should puncture the lazy conventional wisdom about the border being under control, except in the lurid imagination of President Donald Trump. More than 76,000 migrants were apprehended crossing the southern border last month, the highest February in...
Have you ever had a friend who was embarrassingly better at something than you without even trying? That was Adrian. He wasn’t a great athlete, and nobody would ever mistake him for one. He wasn’t a great student, though pretty much everybody at our high school knew he was probably the second-smartest person in our class (the first guy was 40 points away from a perfect SAT). But wow, was Adrian hilarious. I’d say funny things and do some funny things, but everything he did was hilarious when I was privileged to attend high...
The number of terrible ideas that have come from New Mexico’s lawmakers this legislative session must be in the hundreds by now. But at least the illogical gun-control measures, the liberty-robbing minimum-wage bills and the out-of-control spending and tax-hiking have been well publicized. So we have a chance to lessen some of those impacts even if we can’t stop big government from growing larger. But just as frightening are the lesser-known bad ideas that mostly New Mex...
On this date ... 1969: Clovis police were investigating the theft of a safe from Clovis Automotive Supply at 200 Gidding St. Officials said an intruder entered the office through its back door sometime between 1 a.m. and 6 a.m. on a Sunday. The thief “passed up a cash register and took the firm safe,” the Clovis News-Journal reported. “The safe was later found in an alley at Fourth and Gidding with the bottom ‘peeled’ out in what police termed a ‘professional manner.’” The amount of money in the safe was not disclosed. Poli...
PORTALES - Starting July 1, Portales Area Transit is set to receive what officials said would be the public transportation program's first fare increase in its dozen years of operations. That's after city approval of a 25-cent-per-ride bump during Tuesday's Portales City Council meeting. The proposal passed by a 6-1 vote, with Councilor Chadrick Heflin casting the lone vote in opposition. After the meeting Heflin said as a fiscal conservative he does not believe in raising...
CLOVIS — For the third time in 15 days, the Clovis City Commission created another place to grab a beer. For the third time, it passed 7-1. The commission granted a beer and wine license to Red Door Brewery at 120 Maple St., inside Mainline Bowl. The commission also granted a small brewer off-site location license for on-premises consumption only. Matt Biggs, owner of Red Door, was the only person to speak during the public hearings for either request. The site in question is more than 1,000 feet from any church or school, a...
PORTALES — Ballots for next month’s special election in Portales regarding the city’s use of Local Economic Development Act funds will be mailed to registered voters on Monday. Voters will be asked to consider whether retail businesses, cultural facilities and arts and cultural districts should be eligible to receive LEDA money. City Manager Sammy Standefer told The News on Friday that the tax generates a little over $200,000 annually for the city, with about $1 million currently available. He said taxes would not incre...
CLOVIS — The Clovis Municipal Schools Board of Education approved the advertising for its superintendent search during a special meeting Tuesday. According to the approved advertising, minimum requirements for applicants include a master’s degree, New Mexico administrative licensure, principal experience, administration experience, as well as a commitment to reside in the district, which was an addition the board made on Tuesday. “If we want them to be visible and a member of the community, then certainly we’d prefer they liv...
PORTALES — A special food distribution by The Emergency Food Assistance Program will be held Saturday morning at Central Christian Church, 1528 S. Main. The program is open to qualified individuals in the Portales area not being served through any other mobile food distribution site. New clients are asked to fill out an income eligibiity form. Distribution will begin at 9 a.m.-9:30 a.m. for last names A-G, 9:30 a.m.-10 a.m. for last names H-N, 10 a.m.-10:30 a.m. or last names O-Z and 10:30 a.m.-11 a.m. for new a...
CLOVIS - It may be little surprise that recent gun control legislation signed Friday by the governor found little support that same day at the Clovis Evening Lions Club gun show, concluding today at the civic center. One Curry County commissioner on Friday wondered if this would be one of the last such gun shows in the the Land of Enchantment, following word that Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham had only hours earlier signed Senate Bill 8 expanding the requirements for background...
As New Mexicans set their clocks forward an hour today, two dueling bills being considered in Santa Fe seek to end the practice, one by adopting daylight saving time year round and the other by abstaining from it completely. On February 19, the House of Representatives narrowly approved House Bill 73, which would exempt New Mexico from daylight saving time, by a 35-32 vote. If adopted, New Mexico would be two hours behind Texas for about eight months out of the year and remain one hour behind for about four months. Two days...
Information on making a “grand entrance” at our home and teaching children to sew using the Bella Stash Bag pattern will be the featured topics on “Creative Living” at 9:30 p.m. on Tuesday and at noon on Thursday. Interior decorator Latriece Brooks will show how to “make a grand entrance” so that your home portrays an inviting and cozy feeling. From the curb through the front door, she will explain how to choose colors and styles that make your home more welcoming....
The following are available for checkout at: Clovis-Carver Public Library “India Lately” by Ginger L. Franklin explores the experience of the modern nation of India through travel narrative, poetry and the author’s academic thesis. Franklin recounts her journey of personal discovery through this foreign land as she walks with gods, beggars and geniuses, discovering sights from the divinely inspired to crushingly destitute. “Homespun” by Lorilee Craker eavesdrops as Amish and Plain Mennonite women swap stories and spin yarns....
Curry County Association of Educational Retirees Our program featured a presentation by guest speaker Melissa Perkins, pharmacist at Plains Regional Medical Center entitled “Grief Share.” In her informative talk, Perkins told CCAER members about her own personal experience with loss and how she came to utilize the program she facilitates at Central Baptist Church, which gives information and tips to people who have lost a loved one, helping them to deal with their grief and loss. She explained that grief and loss takes tim...
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 Tuesday: 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, 8:45 a.m. board meeting, 1 p.m. bingo, 6 p.m. line dance Friday: 8 a.m.-4 p.m. exercise equipment, 8:30 a.m....
Clovis Elementary Monday: Breakfast — Breakfast pizza. Lunch — Chicken tenders, mashed potatoes w/gravy, mini carrots w/ranch, chilled fruit. Tuesday: Breakfast — Cinnamon roll. Lunch — Hamburger on a bun, baked fries, veggie cup w/ranch, sidekicks. Wednesday: Closed Thursday: Breakfast — Grape crescent. Lunch — Pig in a blanket, garden salad w/ranch, seasoned green beans, chilled fruit, cookie. Friday: Breakfast — Breakfast frudel. Lunch — Bean tostada, salsa, baked fries, Spanish rice, chilled fruit. • Breakfast include...
Three days a week, I strip down to a swimsuit and exercise with up to a half-dozen women. If that doesn’t give you self-confidence as a pudgy middle-aged man, don’t even bother with Dale Carnegie’s coursework. I used to swim for fun, recreation and relaxation. Those aren’t the reasons one would rise early and show up at the pool at 7 a.m. You would do it out of desperation to try and stay a step or two ahead of arthritis. A body can do things and stretch in ways that are muc...
Today • Daylight Saving Time begins — 2 a.m. Turn clocks ahead one hour. • Clovis Bowhunters Club “Luck O Thee Irish” shoot — 8 a.m.-2 p.m., archery range, northwest corner Ned Houk Park, eight miles north of Clovis on Highway 209. $10 per person; $20 per family. Information: 850-582-0816 or 575-799-6526 Monday • Produce to People — 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Memorial Building, 200 E. 7th St., Portales. Free in-season fruits and vegetables; no proof of income necessary; bring your own bags. Information: 575-763-6130 • Teens and Twe...
My name is Sara Williams. I grew up in a smaller town than Clovis in Connecticut and decided I wanted to see what is out there, so my twin brother and I both went to the Carolina's for college and became the Carolina Twins. While I was teacher in Charleston, South Carolina, I met my Air Force husband and we received orders to Clovis. We came to Clovis with our four beautiful children and I got a job teaching at Barry Elementary for four years in fifth grade and then applied...
Monday • Clovis Astronomy Club — 7 p.m., Room 143 or 145 (look for signs), Clovis Community College, 417 Schepps Blvd., Clovis. Information: 757-846-7509 March 19 • 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 • Clovis Municipal Schools board — 5:30 p.m., Board Room, Central Office, Clovis...
