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  • Sandia meal service shuttered after COVID-19 concern

    Updated Apr 27, 2020

    CLOVIS — Citing a potential risk of exposure to COVID-19, Clovis Municipal Schools will discontinue grab-and-go meal service at Sandia Elementary School for the remainder of the school year, according to a release from the district. The release noted the district was alerted Sunday about the potential exposure of an employee. It was not immediately clear if the employee had tested positive for COVID-19. The district notes it has observed public health guidelines throughout school closures, prepared meals with staff wearing g...

  • Virtual graduation set for May 30

    the Staff of The News|Updated Apr 27, 2020

    PORTALES — Eastern New Mexico University’s spring graduation won’t be held at Greyhound Arena, but instead on TV and online. The virtual ceremony is scheduled for May 30, the university announced last week. University officials have been working on the ceremony for the last few weeks. The board of regents voted last month to postpone spring commencement services originally scheduled for May 9 due to COVID-19 pandemic concerns. The virtual graduation will be broadcast statewide at 10 a.m. May 30 on KENW 3-1 and 3-2 and webca...

  • Senior menus - April 26

    Updated Apr 25, 2020

    CRSMA Senior Diner’s Club 901 West 13th St., Clovis Monday: Sloppy joe on a bun, potato wedges, mixed vegetables, fruit salad. Tuesday: Baked ham with pineapple sauce, sweet potatoes, green beans, carrots, cornbread w/margarine, butterscotch pudding. Wednesday: Beef, cheese and potato burrito, pinto beans, salad w/dressing, cake w/peaches Thursday: BBQ chicken, baked potato, blended vegetables, dinner roll w/margarine, peaches. Friday: Not available at press time. Community Senior Center 1100 Community Way, Portales M...

  • Senior safety, fitness ahead on show

    Sheryl Borden|Updated Apr 25, 2020

    Information on various products for seniors in terms of safety, fitness and pets, choosing fabrics for quilting, and fun projects to make using candy melts will be the featured topics on “Creative Living” 9:30 p.m. Tuesday and noon Thursday (all times Mountain). As seniors look towards where they want to live in their platinum years, designers are realizing that changes need to be made in their living conditions. If you choose to “age in place” Lisa Cini has some ideas f...

  • Keep your chin up, folks

    Karl Terry|Updated Apr 25, 2020

    Frustration — it’s become a part of life these days. Can I get an amen? Being shut in my house and trying to move forward with the work that should be ahead of me is testing me in ways I never thought possible. It’s been hectic since this whole “stay at home” order was issued. About as hectic as my job has ever been, but that’s not where the frustration abides. Actually that pressure to do new things quickly and do normal things in new ways has probably been the only thing...

  • Restaurant offering produce boxes

    Kevin Wilson - Staff|Updated Apr 25, 2020

    Amid non-essential business shutdowns and stay-at-home/shelter-in-place orders, Americans have faced numerous COVID-19 pandemic issues. Many of those were just as much supply-chain issues as supply issues. Take March 18 in Albuquerque, when a toilet paper manufacturer that primarily served wholesale distributors tweaked its supply chain and offered a public sale. Miles of cars lined up at Roses Southwest Papers Inc. and drivers frustrated by empty grocery store shelves forked over $35 in cash for 96 rolls of the new white...

  • Salon owner hits walls with small business money

    Peter Stein - Staff writer|Updated Apr 25, 2020

    CLOVIS — Lisa Holt just wants to cut hair. She has made her living at it for 25 years and has owned Main Street Barber Shop for almost 20. But Holt, like every barber shop and salon owner in New Mexico, was ordered to close last month under the stay-at-home order by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham. While Holt waits to re-open, which won’t happen until at least May 15, she is trying to get money that is supposed to be available to small-business owners through the CARES Act. The government program allocated trillions of dol...

  • Portales teacher: Circumstances 'uncharted territory'

    Peter Stein - Staff writer|Updated Apr 25, 2020

    PORTALES — Wade Fraze knows history. It’s the reason he teaches social studies at Portales High School. “I’ve always loved history,” Fraze said. “I’m a history nerd, I guess. So I was just drawn to it.” Now he has the opportunity of putting these historic coronavirus times into context for his students. “As a matter of fact, the next thing that we were going to teach right after state basketball tournament was the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl,” said Fraze, who is also head coach of Portales’ girls basketball team, whic...