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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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With $30 million allocated to the Eastern New Mexico Rural Water Project from the New Mexico Legislature on top of as much as $500 million expected from the federal infrastructure act approved this year, “This is the time we’ve been waiting for.” That assessment came from John Ryan, the Eastern New Mexico Water Utility Authority’s Washington lobbyist, at a work session Monday for ENMWUA board members Monday to discuss revised financing plans for the project. The project is expected to draw water from Ute Lake at Logan a...
Booked The following were booked into local jails (Friday - Tuesday): Clovis • Arthur Gallegos, 29, driving while license suspended or revoked • Jessica Garcia, 41, failure to pay fines • Chauncy Marez, 33, parole violation • Tye Jordan, 28, false imprisonment, child abuse – negligently cause, battery against a household member, interference with communications, criminal damage to the property of a household member • Jamani McClendon, 25, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge, battery upon a peace officer • Carl Armstron...
Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham signed House Bill 8 March 2 at the Tierra Amarilla County Complex in Rio Arriba County. The bill creates a land grant assistance fund that is registered with the state and provides funds to land grants proportionally to how much revenue they generate. Funding will help the land grants maintain and manage historic communal lands throughout the state. In House Bill 2, $2 million was approved for the fund. Steve Polaco, president of Merced de los Pueblos de Tierra Amarilla, said the bill...
Rats. It’s tax time again. Of course, with all the rules and regulations, payments and estimated payments, pre-payments and governmentally approved extortion payments (the preceding is the opinion of the writer of this column and should not be construed as to express in any way the opinions of ...), it’s always tax time in one way or another. Even after you die, it’s quite possible to have your estate pilfered postmortem. Legal? Yes. Wrong? Utterly (but the preceding opinion s...
Thursday • Curry County Health Council – 12-1 p.m., in-person at Curry County Administration Complex, 417 Gidding St., Suite 100, Clovis, and via Zoom. Information and Zoom link: 575-763-6016 • The Curry County DWI Task Force will meet Thursday at 4 p.m. The DWI Task Force meets virtually via Zoom. Everyone is encouraged to attend. For information or access to participate, email [email protected] or call 575-763-6016. All the public is welcome. The agenda is available at https://www.currycounty.org/se...
Today through March 25 • Kindergarten-ENMU 13th annual Juried Art Exhibition – Runnels Gallery, ENMU Golden Student Success Center, Portales. Available during all library hours. Coordinated by Bryan Hahn. Information: 575-562-2189 Today-Friday • ENMU spring break Today • Teens and Tweens Spring Break Programming: Movie Madness: “Teen Beach Movie” (2013, PG, 125 min.) – 2 p.m., Portales Public Library, 218 S. Ave. B, Portales. Open to ages 9-18. Information: 575-356-3940 • GriefShare grief support group – 6-8 p.m., Room 20...
LUBBOCK — Eastern New Mexico University’s softball team is currently mired in a seven-game losing streak. Then again, you have to consider that the level of competition is pretty high. ENMU has played four consecutive doubleheaders against ranked Lone Star Conference opponents, winning the first game against then-No. 23 Texas A&M-Commerce but coming up short since then against the Lions, top-ranked Texas-Tyler and, over the weekend, No. 18 Angelo State and No. 15 Lubbock Christian. On Monday, the Greyhounds (8-16, 1-7 LSC...
TYLER, Texas — Right fielder Carson Cox and shortstop Tanner Roach knocked in three runs apiece on Sunday, and Texas-Tyler salvaged the finale of a four-game Lone Star Conference baseball series with a 13-0 rout of Eastern New Mexico University. Cox , Roach and second baseman Tommy Van de Sanden all hit two-run singles in the Patriots’ 10-run fourth to break open a 2-0 game, while left-hander Nolan Cox (1-0) worked six innings, allowing four hits and striking out eight. The contest was shortened to 6 1/2 innings by the 10-run...
ALBUQUERQUE - The effort certainly wasn't lacking, but the Elida Tigers failed to get the one thing they needed in Saturday's Class 1A state championship game. That would be an off-night from Magdalena. Leading by just two midway through the opening stanza, the defending 1A champion and top-seeded Steers (30-1) went on a 15-3 run the rest of the quarter and stayed in control the rest of the way en route to a 71-55 victory over the Tigers, who were playing for a state boys...
RATON — Portales High’s baseball team rebounded from a 13-9 first-game loss to thump Raton 15-3 in five innings in the back end of a doubleheader on Monday. Senior Hagen Rains went 2-for-2 with three runs scored in the opener, and added a three-run double in the Rams’ seven-run fifth which put the nightcap out of reach. PHS (2-1) cut an early 5-0 deficit to 5-4 in the opener before the Tigers scored eight times in the bottom of the fifth. Portales made it a little more interesting with five in the seventh. The Rams outhi...
ALBUQUERQUE - It didn't take long to see it wasn't going to be Melrose's day in Saturday's Class 1A girls state championship. After scoring on the first possession of the game, the Lady Buffs watched District 6-1A rival Fort Sumner rattle off 11 consecutive points and never look back in a 56-30 victory at The Pit. Vixens junior Avery Cavett nailed two of her three 3-pointers and eight of her game-high 14 points during the early surge. No one else reached double figures for...
ALBUQUERQUE — Seven area players have been selected to participate in New Mexico High School Coaches Association all-star basketball games, scheduled for Saturday at Santa Fe High (Classes 4-5A) and Melrose (Classes 1-3A). Three players will represent Portales High in the girls 4-5A matchup, with Kylyie Paden and Teagan Faust playing for the Green team and Taris Rippee chosen for the Red squad. Meantime, Melrose’s Johanna Roybal was selected to the Green contingent in the 1-3A girls matchup. Her coach, Caleb King, will ser...
On this date … 1952: Mac’s Drive-Inn, “Where Good Friends Meet … To Eat,” announced plans to close for two days so its employees could attend the New Mexico State Restaurant Association meetings in Albuquerque. Mac’s owner J.W. McCarty said he would attend the gathering with employees Claude Musick and Dale Martin. Duncan Simmons, formerly of Portales, was executive secretary of the state association. The McCarty family owned and operated Mac’s from 1949 until 1957 in Porta...
I’ve done both — I’ve experienced urban and rural living. I grew up in a small town. I’ve lived on a military base. I’ve lived in New Mexico’s largest city, as well as other states. Right now, I live in Portales. There are things you miss out on when you live in a town you didn’t grow up in. I don’t get to be a member of the “Remember when” crowd. You know all those stories shared between people who have a history together, they can bring up one event or place and no explanation is necessary. When you’re new, you feel like a...
Recently, I read an obscure little book I think is worth writing about. It suggests Billy the Kid lives on — genealogically. The book is titled “Billy the Kid’s Kid — The Hispanic Connection” and was written by Elbert A. Garcia, who claimed to be the descendent of Billy the Kid. Garcia, who died a couple of years ago, wrote it mostly for his family. It lacks the proof needed for a decisive contribution to the real history of the Kid, but it does offer up a perspective worth considering. Much has been written about Billy the...
The U.S. government is probably relieved it can now blame the results of some of its past crimes and bungling -- such as inflation and other economic disasters -- on the Russian military invasion of Ukraine and most people will believe it. In fact, the same is likely true of every government in the world. The fact is, this train pulled out of the station years before the Ukrainian invasion was considered. The inflation was caused by the Federal Reserve’s destruction of the d...
The $50 million “junior” spending bill Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham vetoed last week provided a current-events lesson in just one of the dysfunctional aspects of our state’s legislative structure. The bill provided supplemental spending for a host of purposes picked by individual lawmakers. The $50 million would come from the state’s general fund, even though about half of it was earmarked for capital projects, usually funded through general obligation bonds. In vetoing the legislation, the governor noted some of the project...
The Clovis Curry County Chamber of Commerce’s Legislative Breakfast scheduled for 7 a.m. Thursday morning at the chamber has been postponed to a later date as yet to be determined. The City of Clovis’ Public Works Committee meeting scheduled for March 23 has been cancelled. The next scheduled meeting will be at 8:30 a.m., Wednesday, April 27 in the North Annex, Clovis-Carver Library, 701 N. Main. Please contact the City Manager’s office if you have any questions....
Even though we have returned to normalcy, most would agree we are still experiencing residual effects of the pandemic. One ongoing challenge in our schools is consistency in school attendance. Students in home environments where there is little or no parental involvement or support struggled to keep up when we were all having to function virtually, and virtual attendance was a perpetual problem. In returning to school physically, it’s remained a significant challenge to get s...
Dustin Seifert, director of bands in the Eastern New Mexico University Department of Music, was elected to the American Bandmasters Association when the organization held its national convention last week in Indianapolis, Ind. According to an ENMU news release, as a part of the nomination process, Seifert submitted 70 minutes of live recordings of the ENMU wind symphony under his direction, which were juried by the entire ABA membership. “I am excited to be a member of this esteemed professional association,” Seifert sai...
SANTA FE — Citizen-initiated petitions to convene grand juries to investigate the governor’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic are legally invalid, the state Supreme Court ruled March 7. The Court issued an order directing district court judges to deny grand jury petitions filed in Chaves, Eddy and Lea counties and any similar petitions elsewhere in the state “because they only describe lawful, noncriminal activity,” which is outside the boundaries of what a grand jury can investigate. The Court noted its previous rulings...
The electric company will not call you and threaten to disconnect your power. So says spokesmen from area electric companies regarding an uptick in fraudulent phone calls area residents have apparently been receiving. Social media comments from the area have made reference to the scammers. Fraudsters make a call and connect with a utility customer. The scammer then tells the customer that the customer must come up with money in the form of a debit card or gift card in a very short time to prevent their electricity from being...
Somewhere in the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration between "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself" in 1933 and "Yesterday, Dec. 7, 1941, a day that will live in infamy," came the Works Progress Administration. Somewhere in the late years of the Great Depression, the WPA left its stamp on Tucumcari, quite literally, and not once but hundreds of times. Just about everywhere in town, pieces of sidewalk have the letters "WPA" and the date they were made engraved into th...
Technically, yeah, those NCAA Tournament office pools are illegal. “From a strict interpretation of Article 19 of the criminal code, yes, an office pool for money is technically gambling and could be considered a petty misdemeanor,” said 9th Judicial District Attorney Brian Stover. That means potentially six months in jail and a $500 fine. The good news is Stover said he’s not conducting any local hoop sting operations and won’t be prosecuting anyone for participating in the...
The mandated recount in the Clovis city commission district 1 balloting will take place Wednesday, March 23. At least that's the unofficial word, according to Clovis city clerk LeighAnn Melancon. "I'm still waiting for the official word and procedures," Melancon said. "I started doing elections in Clovis in 1998. This is my very first recount." According to Melancon state law requires a mandatory recount if the difference in the tally between candidates is less than 1%. In...
