Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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Cannon Air Force Base is gearing up for its first air show since 2018. Wings Over Cannon is scheduled April 22. Capt. Jacob Weiner, pilot and director of the air show, said he’s excited to see the community back on the base. “The air show is a really great opportunity for us to thank the local community for all the support they have for us here,” he said. “The air show gives the community the opportunity to see what those on base do on a day-to-day basis. It’s safe to say th...
Area legislators have requested $39.9 million in Capital Outlay funds for Curry and Roosevelt counties in House Bill 505. The requests are now in the hands of Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham awaiting her approval or line-item veto by April 7. A review of legislative records shows area Republican legislators, Sens. Stuart Ingle and Pat Woods and Reps. Andrea Reeb, Martin Zamora and Jack Chatfield, whose districts include portions of Curry and Roosevelt counties, put in for funds for multiple projects. Curry County Manager Lance...
DENVER — The East High School staffer who had been checking a 17-year-old student for weapons each morning wasn’t available Wednesday, leaving two administrators to perform the duty instead, according to the Denver Public Schools superintendent. Police say the student, during the pat-down required under his safety plan, shot and wounded two East High administrators, Eric Sinclair and Jerald Mason. The teen fled the school and later died by suicide in Park County. Dr. Alex Marrero, the superintendent, called the situation “ine...
ROSWELL - Keep Roswell Beautiful has unveiled a new anti-littering program inspired by nature itself. It asks people to consider how trees might react if they saw a person littering near them. Through the use of signs as well as a billboard pointing north on the 700 block of North Main Street, next to the UFO-themed McDonald's restaurant, these signs exclaim this warning: "Nature is watching you!" There are 42 trees in several city parks with unique faces that exhibit a range...
TAOS — Around 8 a.m. on March 15, two deputies and Sheriff Steve Miera climbed a steep descent down the gorge to recover the body of a young male adult who jumped from the Río Grande Gorge Bridge. The man jumped over the railing — a 4-foot-tall obstacle — while visiting the bridge with his family mid-afternoon on March 14. According to Miera, the man’s girlfriend attempted to scale the railing after him, but she was stopped by a guard and transported to Holy Cross Hospital for a behavioral health evaluation. The bridge has be...
Attorneys for actor Alec Baldwin last week continued to slam the former special prosecutor in the "Rust" movie shooting case, now suggesting that she used the role to advance her political career. A motion filed Tuesday by Baldwin's attorneys cited a New York Times report about a private email the former special prosecutor, Andrea Reeb, sent in June suggesting that the high-profile post could help her bid for the state House of Representatives. Reeb was named special prosecuto...
Whenever a government program is failing, the instinct of those who work in government is to do more of it. They insist on spending more money on it; finding ways to be more involved and controlling. It’s a bad instinct and leads to bigger failures. Eventually, failures so big they cause a collapse. It’s only a matter of time and degree. One recent example in the news involves public schools. Schools fail to educate adequately, so government sentences the school inmates --...
Monday *City of Clovis Parks, Recreation, and Beautification Committee – 5:30 p.m., North Annex, Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main, Clovis. Information: 575-763-9654 *Regional Soil and Water Conservation Districts annual meeting/legislative event – 6 p.m., Melrose Senior Citizens Center, 427 N. Main St., Melrose. Tom Sidwell, speaker; enchilada dinner by El Rancho. Information: Border SWCD at 575-760-1273, Central Curry SWCD at 575-799-1904, Roosevelt SWCD at 575-356-6629, ext. 3019, or Southwest Quay SWCD at 575...
Booked The following were booked into local jail (Friday - Tuesday): Clovis • Dylan Gutierrez, 30, criminal damage to the property of a household member • Jesus Navarro, 20, falsely obtaining services • Charles Walker, 60, failure to pay fines • Jesus Morales, 30, failure to pay fines • Elias Suniga, 54, criminal damage to property • Tommy Costello, 57, disorderly conduct, indecent exposure • Yeferson Najera, 22, aggravated driving while under the influence of intoxicating liquor or any drug, battery against a household mem...
The Curry County Commission is asking for letters of interest from county residents who would like to serve on the County Valuation Protest Board. The County Valuation Protest Board consists of three voting members and three alternates appointed to serve as voting members in the absence of a voting member. The members are individuals representing the public, the state and the appraisal community. The Protest Valuation Board hears and decides any protest of valuation determination made by the County Assessor and makes a...
EPCOR and the city of Clovis announced Thursday the completion of the approximately 3.8-mile-long water pipeline that now connects the Clovis Regional Airport to the water system serving the city. According to a news release from EPCOR, the project broke ground in the summer of 2022 and is the latest partnership between the city and EPCOR. The project solves the airport’s critical water shortage problem, which had previously relied on an isolated water system served by a single potable water well that was at risk of f...
On this date ... 1941: The Curry County jail had no prisoners. Sheriff Bill Collins said it was the first time he’d been without prisoners to watch since he took office two years and three months earlier. Collins posed for a photo on the front page of the Clovis News-Journal with a sign on the jail door that read, “For rent.” 1946: Clovis’ Memorial Hospital had 19 newborns in its nursery. “Hospital attaches are thankful that their nursery has been enlarged, or they wouldn’t...
Clovis Regional Airport has a new airport manager. Amanda Brungart, the new manager, was introduced to Clovis City Commissioners Thursday at the commissioners regular session. Brungart replaces James Harris who resigned last fall to take a job as the manager of the Santa Fe airport. In other business Thursday: • Constance Williams, Regional Representative from U.S. Senator Ben Ray Lujan's office, had a presentation for commissioners on citizen services available from L...
Local bands will be featured in the “Clovis Takes the Stage” concert series the week before the Clovis Music Festival scheduled for April 14 and 15. “Clovis Takes the Stage” is sponsored by the Clovis/Curry County Chamber of Commerce and Clovis Economic Development (CED). Plans call for the series to become a mainstay with continued recognition throughout the year for musical acts performing locally. According to a chamber of commerce news release the bands performing in the concert series range in style and sound. The fir...
The city of Texico has been put on the state auditor’s “at risk” list because of late audits and alleged lack of required written status reports according to an email to the city from State Auditor Joseph Maestas. The email dated March 16 noted that Texico’s last audit report was completed for fiscal year 2020. State law requires quarterly written status reports to be submitted to the Office of the State Auditor March 15, June 15, Sept. 15 and Dec. 15. for each date of non-compliance. Last September The News reported the Alb...
What’s up with the new tennis courts at Portales High School? There are some new tennis courts in the making in Portales that will be located at Kilgore Avenue and East Third Street, across from the cemetery and right behind the baseball field. The sport in Portales has a long history that goes back at least to 1974. Jeanne Fairman was the person behind the tennis program that year. Fairman passed away in late February, but her son Robert spoke to The News about her role in local tennis. “She was instrumental in getting the...
New Mexico’s unpaid, part-time Legislature has 15 members who are attorneys, including both the speaker of the House and the majority leader of the Senate. There are only two medical doctors, and one of them is retired. Perhaps that’s why our medical malpractice laws are so skewed in favor of the lawyers. In 2021, lawmakers passed a multifaceted bill to reform our malpractice laws. Like many bills that work their way through the Legislature’s committee process, it started as one thing and finished as something compl...
‘Sleepy little college town’ treasures community I write in response to a “Commentary” piece by Phill Casaus, editor of the Santa Fe New Mexican, which appeared in the March 15 edition of The Eastern New Mexico News. Casaus’ strong endorsement of the appointment of Ray Birmingham as a new regent on the Eastern New Mexico University board was rousing and enthusiastic, and, I believe, was well received by those of us who love, admire and cherish ENMU. We all hope Birmingham’s presence as a regent will prove to be most productiv...
Several years ago, a women’s working group at the Philadelphia Bar Association invited me to speak to their members about being a conservative woman in the legal profession. When word got out that I was the guest, an online mutiny broke out among lady lawyers who were triggered by the idea that any female could be pro-life. That seemed to be the crux of the problem, even though the Trump thing played into it as well. To their credit, the Bar Association actually had the g...
During President Bill Clinton’s administration, the U.S. signed a treaty to establish the International Criminal Court. The U.S. said it strongly supported “international accountability,” but believed the treaty, known as the Rome Statute, had “significant flaws” that still needed addressing. The court investigates and brings to justice people responsible for genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes, intervening when national authorities cannot or will not prosecute....
At their regular meeting Tuesday, the Roosevelt County Commission approved an intergovernmental agreement (IGA) for fiscal year 2023 with funding for the Portales Communications Center. They also drafted a JPA (joint powers authority) for fiscal year 2024. Portales Councilwoman Veronica Cordova was in attendance at Tuesday’s meeting to speak with the commission about the communications center agreement. This has been an item on the agenda for quite some time now, and both the commission along with Cordova agreed it was time t...
Small-town newspapers used to regularly publish photos of community leaders dressed in drag. Remember those? The mayor or a city councilor would put on a dress with high heels, stick out his hairy leg and encourage the audience to donate to a charity. Nobody worried about being labeled a sexual deviant. Everybody had a great laugh, and it was for a great cause. We don’t do that much anymore … laugh, that is. Nobody’s laughing about drag queens and kings anyway. The most unfun...
The Roosevelt County Chamber of Commerce held a legislative luncheon Thursday afternoon with five guest speakers in attendance. All of them were there to discuss the last legislative session and what their experiences were in Santa Fe. Sen. Stuart Ingle, Sen. Pat Woods, Rep. Martin Zamora, Rep. Andrea Reeb, and Rep. Greg Niebert all took the microphone to share with those at the luncheon. Rep. Jack Chatfield was on the list of speakers but was unable to attend Thursday. Reeb took the microphone first to discuss the crime...
Trina Donohew, a physician's assistant who worked part of her career in Clovis, recently passed away in a vehicle accident in Oklahoma City where she and her family had moved. According to Donohew's obituary, she chose her career field, "because of her empathy for anyone suffering, and she took immense pleasure in seeing her patients get better." The obituary says that Donohew had a 15-year career as a Physician Assistant where she focused on Family Practice and Dermatology....
This week marks one year since the legalization of recreational cannabis in New Mexico. With 10 months of statistics officially reported and recorded, Clovis cannabis retailers alone have racked up a little more than $8 million in sales. Clovis’ sales in the first 10 months rank it 10th among the state’s cities in recreational cannabis sales, according to data from the Cannabis Control Division of the state Regulatory and licensing Department. The city’s recreational sales were 58% larger than sales of medical canna...
