Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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County, city and local officials reported on the following at Tuesday’s city/county luncheon: • Clovis Municipal Schools Superintendent Rhonda Seidenwurm said the district will have about 100 fewer students in the coming school year because of Cannon Air Force Base’s transition to its new mission as home to the 16th Special Operations Wing. Seidenwurm also said this year’s Clovis High graduating class received about $2 million in scholarships. • Curry County Manager Dick Smith said improvements are being made to the Curry...
CNJ staff photo: Andy DeLisle Jim Hunsucker, right, watches Travis Odell drain water from a pot of potatoes Wednesday at Ned Houk Park. Odell and Hunsucker prepared food for the Mesa Redondo Cowboy Camp Meeting. The picnic tables filled as close to 100 people filed through the line with plates of chopped roast, mashed potatoes and baked beans at the 30th annual Mesa Redondo Cowboy Camp Meeting Wednesday. The meeting is part of the larger Ranchmen’s Camp Meeting Association that hosts interdenominational Christian cowboy c... Full story
Gilberto Reyes of Muleshoe is scheduled to die by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas, tonight for raping, beating and strangling his former girlfriend more than nine years ago. Reyes, 33, was convicted in 2000 of killing Yvette Barraz. A last-minute appeal could come but at this point everything is progressing on schedule, said Tom Kelley, a spokesman for the Texas Attorney General’s office. Reyes will be the first Bailey County resident put to death in at least 31 y...
Clovis Community College is ahead of a state safety plan to prepare colleges for a Virginia Tech-type event, a CCC official said. Soon after the Virginia Tech shootings, new locks were installed on doors inside buildings at the college for a lock-down procedure in the event a gunman opens fire on campus, CCC Vice President for Institutional Effectiveness David Caffey said. “People lock themselves inside interior rooms and get out of sight,” he said. “The main idea is to try to deprive a violent person of a target.” But the...
Ending his class at American Karate Studios, Markanthony Baca charges his students to display good sportsmanship and to stay out of trouble during the upcoming cage fight Saturday night. Part of the proceeds from the fight will go to Clovis’ American Red Cross. This will be the fifth fight Baca has hosted in Clovis. “Every time I do a show, I always give back to the community, whether it be a youth-development program, American Red Cross,” Baca said. “I do these for my fighters to raise funds for our training, but also for no... Full story
Local Growth Management Committee members say they’re impressed with the efficiency of their sister organization, the Local Growth Management Organization. They say planning for the transition at Cannon Air Force Base to Special Operations is falling in place right on cue. “It’s amazing the people they have surrounded themselves with,” LGMC member and Portales City Councilor Robert de Los Santos said. “There’s an amazing amount of information coming in. I don’t think there’s any way we could go on (in the process) withou... Full story
An Albuquerque jury will reconvene today to begin the penalty phase for Stanley Bedford, convicted last week of killing Odis and Doris Newman of Portales. The jury on June 14 handed down a guilty verdict for eight charges against Bedford, including two counts each of first-degree murder and kidnapping in connection with the March 3, 2005, deaths of the Newmans. A unanimous vote from the jury would make Bedford New Mexico’s third death row inmate, while any other vote would default Bedford’s punishment to the 120-year pri... Full story
An Albuquerque jury will reconvene today to begin the penalty phase for Stanley Bedford, convicted last week of killing Odis and Doris Newman of Portales. Last Thursday, the jury handed down a guilty verdict for eight charges against Bedford, including two counts each of first-degree murder and kidnapping in connection to the March 3, 2005 deaths of the Newmans. A unanimous vote from the jury would make Bedford New Mexico’s third death row inmate, while any other vote would default Bedford’s punishment to the 120-year prison... Full story
Local Growth Management Committee members say they’re impressed with the efficiency of their sister organization, the Local Growth Management Organization. They say planning for the transition at Cannon Air Force Base to Special Operations is falling in place right on cue. “It’s amazing the people they have surrounded themselves with,” LGMC member and Portales City Councilor Robert de Los Santos said. “There’s an amazing amount of information coming in. I don’t think there’s any way we could go on (in the process) withou...
Portales High School student Isiah Lucero had the opportunity to spend a week on the University of New Mexico campus attending the Film and Media Bootcamp. “I enjoyed it a lot. Everything was planned out really good,” Lucero said of the boot camp. Lucero, who will be a sophomore in the fall, was the only student to attend the film and media boot camp from eastern and southern New Mexico, said Leonard Madrid, on-site coordinator for the group. The boot camp is an opportunity for the students to learn the basics of fil... Full story
Portales Police arrested two Portales residents Wednesday on charges of trafficking cocaine in connection with a seizure made last week, according to a Portales Police Department news release. Adrieanna Queen, 21, is free after posting a $50,000 bond. She was charged with one count of trafficking cocaine. Francisco Eric Ornelas, 20, remains in the Roosevelt County Detention Center with a bond amount of $50,000. He is also charged with one count of trafficking cocaine. Police seized over 9 ounces of cocaine on June 12 at a... Full story
Cindy Osburn, executive director of student support services for Clovis Municipal Schools, received the Administrator of the Year Award from the New Mexico Council of Administrators of Special Education, according to CMS officials. She will be recognized at the New Mexico Coalition of School Administrators Conference in July. Udall invites page applications U.S. Rep. Tom Udall, D-N.M., is seeking Congressional page applications for the fall semester, according to a news release from his office. Pages are appointed for one...
Jordan Garrett is a graduate of Clovis High School. She is the daughter of Danny and Kathy Garrett. What’s so great about your favorite sport? Softball has so many positives. I love the adrenaline rush it offers but also the friendships and teamwork associated with it. What do you envision your life being like in 10 years? Hopefully, I will be married with a family and running a business of my own. Who is your hero and why? My parents ... all the way. They have put up with both my brother and me, and I know that takes a l...
The latest quarterly report from the Pentagon on the war in Iraq confirms the general impression most of us get from daily news reports. After a brief period following the U.S. “surge” in troop strength, when violence declined, “the aggregate level of violence in Iraq remained relatively unchanged during this reporting period.” Unfortunately, since violence did decrease for a while, that means the trend is upward. Specifically, attacks on civilians and Iraqi and American troops increased about 2 percent over the previou...
• Wilbur Smartnick, former director of audits for the New Mexico State Auditors Office, was named internal auditor for Eastern New Mexico University • Eastern New Mexico University and the Portales Police Department were awarded a combined total of $38,000 in grant money from a $1.2 million federal grant. ENMU received $30,000 of the money to establish a drug abuse program in Tucumcari and Portales, while the police department received $8,000 to establish a two-man community relations team....
Air Force Senior Airman Richard B. Powell has been named First Term Airman of the Year by the Air Force Sergeant’s Association, Division 16 (Europe), according to a press release from Army & Air Force Hometown News. He is the son of Bobby R. and Deborah L. Powell of Clovis. The airman is a 1998 graduate of Clovis High School. Selection was based on his exemplary duty performance, job knowledge, leadership qualities, significant self-improvement, specific achievements, notable accomplishments, and community service and s...
Staff photo: Andy DeLisle Cannon Air Force Base Staff Sgt. Tanya Perez handles her bomb-sniffing dog, Ben, a 2-year-old German shepherd. They sniff for explosives or drugs and take down suspects often more than twice their size, all for the chance to have a few seconds with their favorite toy. Cannon Air Force Base’s military working dogs live to please their handlers and don’t ask much in return for their efforts, according to Staff Sgt. Gerald Hardesty. And for all the... Full story
If Stanley Bedford receives the death penalty, he’ll be in exclusive company — New Mexico’s death row — and odds are he’d be there for a while. Bedford was convicted Thursday of two counts each of murder and kidnapping and other charges in connection with the March 3, 2005, deaths of Odis and Doris Newman of Portales. The jury reconvenes Thursday for the penalty phase, and will choose either to make Bedford New Mexico’s third death row inmate, or let his judge-imposed sentence of 120 years stand. If Bedford receives th...
Organizations participating in the Curry County Fair in August will have to present proof of liability insurance before they can set up booths. Curry County Manager Dick Smith told county commissioners at Tuesday’s meeting the policy has been selectively enforced over the years, but the new fairgrounds manager, Justus Anderson, is now enforcing all the fairground’s lease requirements equally. The fairgrounds manager position was created last year. Earlier in the meeting, county resident Bill Bollinger asked commissioners why...
