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Pay hikes, $8 million worth, are coming in varying levels for employees of Clovis Municipal Schools. The news came at Tuesday's monthly meeting of the CMS school board. Deputy superintendent of finance Shawna Russell outlined pay increases for the various departments in the system like teaching, administration, student nutrition and such. One item that was frequently mentioned by Russell is the system's minimum wage will go to $15 an hour. Funds for the state mandated pay...
Plains Regional Medical Center is planning on having an obstetrics and gynecological team to provide service to the community with the closing of Women’s Medical Center in June. The details emerged in a Monday meeting between Clovis mayor Mike Morris, Clovis mayor pro-tem Chris Bryant, PRMC administrator Jorge Cruz and other members of the hospital administration. Bryant represents the Clovis City Commission on the PRMC Board. Morris reported at the April 21 Clovis city commission meeting that he had received calls from area...
A changing mission and long tradition are reflected in the new emblem for the 27th Operations Wing (SOW) of the U.S. Air Force, based at Cannon Air Force Base, Clovis. The new emblem reflects a new mission for the 27th SOW, which came about in October with the addition of AC130-ACJ gunship aircraft to the fleet at Cannon and the 17th Special Operations Squadron for operation and training of the new gunships, the 27th SOW public affairs office confirmed on Tuesday. The new...
A financial plan for the 2022-2023 fiscal year that values remaining construction on the Eastern New Mexico Water Utility Authority’s Ute Lake Water Project at nearly $750 million received approval Thursday from the utility authority’s board of directors. After a workshop in March, board Chair Mike Morris, who is also mayor of Clovis, said the board learned that the estimate of the cost of the project was greater than was anticipated then, but that the total cost, including loan interest, would be reduced, so, Morris said, “W...
PORTALES – a 10-member Presidential Search Committee consisting of Eastern New Mexico University faculty, staff, students, alumni and community members will assist in the search for the university’s next chancellor. The Board of Regents approved the committee’s membership on April 22. “Organizations across the ENMU System appointed representatives” to serve on the committee, according to an ENMU news release. The regents plan to hire the University’s 12th president at the conclusion of the search, which should be sometime in...
Today *ENMU symphonic band and wind symphony – 3 p.m., Buchanan Hall, ENMU Music Building, Portales. Dustin Seifert and Sidney Shuler, conductors; Neil Rutland, percussion soloist. Information: 575-562-2373 *Mobile dairy classroom – 4 p.m., The Milkshed, 100 S. Chicago, Portales. See live cow milking and learn about the dairy industry. Information: 575-226-2781 *Founder’s Day – 115th birthday of the City of Clovis. Founder’s Day coloring contest open through May 8 for kindergarten through 12th grade. Contest informati...
Tuesday *Roosevelt County Commission - 9 a.m., Commission Room, Roosevelt County Courthouse, 109 W. First St., Portales. Regular meeting followed by budget workshop. Information: 575-356-5307 *Curry County Commission informal work session – 1:15 p.m., Commission Chambers, Curry County Administration Complex, 417 Gidding St., Clovis. Public invited to view the meeting at www.currycounty.org. Contact Lance Pyle at [email protected] prior to the meeting with comments or questions to be addressed in the meeting. I...
I’m not sure if I need a raise on this column-writing gig or if I need to start sending the column to a non-profit organization and take it as a donation on my taxes. For those of you who haven’t tracked my entire illustrious career as a columnist, I got started almost as soon as Johannes Gutenberg finished inventing his printing press. OK, maybe it was more like 1988 when I had my first column published, but that was almost 35 years ago. I’ll never forget the fellow who g...
On this date ... 1957: Ernest Marsh, known to his many friends in Clovis as “Maggie,” was named president of the Atchison and Santa Fe Railway Co. Marsh, 54, was born in Virginia, but came to Clovis with his parents when he was about 5. Maggie Marsh went to school in Clovis and started working for the railroad as a clerk in 1918, when he was 15. Old-timers in Clovis said they remembered Marsh for his “mathematical mind” and for his work as a “soda skeet” at the C. Parrish Con...
Portales Monday: Breakfast: Cheese-filled bread stick, fruit cup, juice. Lunch: Chicken sandwich, fries broccoli mixed fruit or (grades 7-12) beef and potato burrito, refried beans, sala with tomato, mixed fruit. Tuesday: Breakfast: Cake doughnut, applesauce, juice. Lunch: Cheeseburger, lettuce and tomato, baked beans, chips, pineapple or (grades 7-12) Asian Chicken, rice, roccoli and carrots, pineapple, rice crispy treat. Wednesday: Breakfast: Muffin, sliced apples, juice. Lunch: Chicken smackers, macaroni and cheese, green...
