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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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As of Wednesday, 41.6% of New Mexico's eligible residents had received both doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. Once the state hits 60 percent, it will abandon its color-coded system, reopening completely — welcome news for restaurants and other local businesses that have been hit hard during the pandemic. But for now, area businesses are still struggling. In a press release issued April 28, the Clovis/Curry County Chamber of Commerce reported many businesses and restaurants nationwide and locally are in desperate need of e...
CLOVIS — The Clovis man charged with killing two men on Wednesday morning ran from police and tried to hide from them in a water-heater closet before he was arrested, records show. Danny Price, 54, was booked into the Curry County Adult Detention Center on Wednesday afternoon. Charges include murder, aggravated battery and firearm possession by a felon in connection with the deaths. Ricky Johnson, 58, died in a Lubbock hospital and Kennedy Hodge, 53, died at Plains Regional M... Full story
Meetings are subject to change due to coronavirus concerns. Monday • Portales Municipal Schools board special meeting — 6 p.m., Portales Junior High School cafeteria, 700 E. Third St., Portales. The meeting is open to the public, will also be available via livestream at https://livestream.com/accounts/25937490 or on the Portales Municipal School District website, http://www.portalesschools.com. Information: 575-356-7000 Tuesday • Curry County Commission — 9 a.m., Commission Chambers, Curry County Administration Complex...
Monday-Friday • Teacher Appreciation Week Monday • Clovis-Carver Public Library Stitch Addicts stitch — 6:30 p.m., Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main, Clovis. Limited in-person seating, or join online via Google Meet to follow Covid-safe protocol. Contact Sara at [email protected] to RSVP or to obtain Google Meet link. Information: 575-763-9687 Tuesday • Blood drive — 11 a.m.-3 p.m., multi-purpose room, ENMRSH Inc. Administration Building, 2700 E. Seventh St., Clovis. Register online at www.blood...
PORTALES — In lieu of a full chamber banquet due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Roosevelt County Chamber of Commerce will hold an awards reception Friday at Eastern New Mexico University’s Campus Union Ballroom. The event is scheduled for 5:30 p.m., with light refreshments available. Advance registration is required at portales.com, and those who attend are asked to wear facemasks and follow COVID-safe guidelines. Information: 575-356-8541....
On this date ... 1956: Portales High School had captured its first district baseball championship. The Rams swept a doubleheader from the Roswell Coyotes to secure the crown. Portales won the first game, 3-2, before walloping Roswell in the nightcap, 13-2. Ken Dunaway tossed a two-hitter in the first game, and Jim Vardeman followed with a five-hitter. Butch Duren hit a 350-foot home run for the Rams. 1966: Old Don Buford, who for 38 years lived under ground near the Western...
PORTALES — The Portales school board will consider a new 2021-22 academic calendar in a Monday special meeting that continues its current four-day school week. The 6 p.m. meeting at the Portales Junior High cafeteria has the calendar as its only agenda item. School would begin in August — Aug. 12 for grades 7-12, Aug. 17 for grades 3-6 and Aug. 24 for pre-K through second grade — with May 26 the final day of instruction. With Mondays off, the remaining four weekdays would go from 8 a.m. to 4:10 p.m. to fulfill time requi...
In his 2007 book, former CIA Director George Tenet boasts that the first U.S. covert teams were in Afghanistan 16 days after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. “Less than two and a half months later, a core group of 90 CIA paramilitary officers, along with a small number of special forces units, in combination with Afghan militias and supported by a massive aerial bombardment by the U.S. military, had defeated the Taliban and killed or captured one quarter of Usama bin Ladin’s top lieutenants, including his mil...
An open letter to the children: We owe you an apology. Meaning all of us in the generations above you. We had one job where you were concerned, and that was to keep you safe. “Save the children,” pleaded a man named Marvin Gaye a long time ago. But we didn’t. We failed. And for that, I’m sorry. You deserved so much more. I offer this apology in the names of more of you than there is space to list. It is in the name of Sherdavia Jenkins, who was 9 and Jacob Hall, who was 6....
When the Nazis wanted to march through Skokie, Ill., many of the residents were horrified. A large percentage were Jewish, and some had been interned in concentration camps. The memory of those camps was still vivid, since this was 1978, a mere three decades after World War II had ended. I was in high school when the controversy erupted. At the time, the ACLU defended the Nazi group, which never ended up marching. But the fact that the storied civil rights organization swooped...
It was a rough week for conservatives, Republicans and all Americans. The torture started last Sunday evening with the Academy Awards ceremony, which sounded like it was produced by the AOC/Stacey Abrams wing of the Democrat Party. I say “sounded,” because I didn’t actually waste three hours of my life watching Hollywood millionaires patting themselves on their backs for their awesome talents and even more awesome woke politics. As I’ve done in past years, I waited for the...
There’s believing your own press releases. And then, there’s believing your own delusions of grandeur. Joe Biden should look at the mirror every day and see a president elected on the basis of the unpopularity of his predecessor at a time when the country was slammed by a once-in-100-years pandemic. Instead, by every account, he sees a transformative leader with a mandate to change America as rapidly and irreversibly as possible. As the news site Axios noted, Biden wants his...
The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday considered whether public school officials can punish students for smarting off on social media. Hopefully it won’t take long to rule in favor of the First Amendment. But the 2017 incident that sparked the court case does provide some teachable moments about respect for others and consequences that can follow bad behavior. The background, according to The Los Angeles Times: A student known in court filings as B.L. was upset when she failed t...
Booked The following were booked into local jails (Tuesday-Friday): Clovis • Weston Casey, 33, failure to appear on a felony charge, failure to pay fines • Laureano Nunez-Alvarado, 55, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge • Clayton Chavez, 26, failure to appear on a felony charge, resisting, evading or obstructing an officer • Isabelle Maldonado, 22, failure to appear on a felony charge • James Taylor, 33, driving while license suspended or revoked • Raymond Cortez, 58, failure to appear on a felony charge • Christina Gal...
CLOVIS — Not that they’d ever take it for granted, but last year’s National Day of Prayer with participants limited to their cars made the non-pandemic events of years past just a little more special. “I miss this openness, being able to pray with everyone,” Sistar Yancy of Clovis’ Christian Believers in advance of this year’s event in downtown Clovis. “Being together, I miss that. I’m excited we can do this again. We need prayer, we need it more than ever at this point.” The event is scheduled for noon Thursday in front of t...
CLOVIS — Health officials announced Tuesday when they hope the state is expected to be fully reopened, went over updated Centers for Disease Control masking guidelines, and outlined new criteria for the statewide color-coded framework, which will now factor in vaccination rates. Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham announced that 60% of eligible New Mexicans are projected to be fully vaccinated by the end of this coming June, and that in about nine weeks, the state will be fully and safely reopened. “I really want New Mexicans to be...
CLOVIS — Curry County will hold a public meeting on Community Development Grant Block projects during the regular Curry County Commission meeting 9 a.m. Tuesday. The public meeting is intended to report on former CDBG programs and receive public input on future CDBG projects. The federal program, established in 1974, assists communities with essential community facilities. Prior CDBG projects in the county include the Melrose health clinic and Curry Road 11 improvements. Information: Nikki Lovett, 575-763-6016 or n...
CLOVIS — The Clovis/Curry County Chamber of Commerce is now accepting registrations for its Leadership Clovis Golf Tournament, scheduled for May 22 at Colonial Park Golf Course. Registration forms are available at clovisnm.org and are due to the chamber by 3 p.m. May 19, either in person at 105 E. Grand Ave. or by fax at 575-763-7266. The tournament costs $100 per person, with entry fees covering breakfast and lunch. Prize money will vary based on total teams registered. Presuming the tournament draws 26 four-person teams, w...
PORTALES — The city of Portales will close a portion of North Boston Street this week for renovations, according to a city release. The portion of Boston between Lime and Spruce streets will be closed Wednesday through Friday. Motorists are asked to find alternate routes, and watch for workers in the general area of the project. Information: 575-356-6662, option 5....
PORTALES — The Roosevelt County War Memorial Committee is accepting walkway paver orders in advance of Memorial Day, with an order cutoff of noon May 17. The walkway portion of the memorial honors all veterans, with monument stones honoring the county’s war dead. Pavers are $125 each and include up to five lines of 20 or fewer characters per line. Order forms are available at the news tab of portales.com. The form, with a check made to Roosevelt County War Memorial, can be dropped off or sent to the Roosevelt County Cha...
CLOVIS — A Clovis woman has been arrested on charges in connection to a Sunday drive-by shooting on Aspen Street. Elizabeth Holt, 35, was booked into the Curry County Adult Detention Center Monday on charges of shooting at or from a motor vehicle and felon possession of a firearm or destructive device. She is currently held there without bond on a pretrial detention hold, with the matter to be heard this week in district court. According to a criminal complaint filed Tuesday in Curry County Magistrate Court: • An officer res...
CLOVIS — On Wednesday, The City of Clovis Public Works Committee discussed possible means of funding the city’s various construction projects, and provided an update on a number of Clovis Municipal Schools projects. Clovis City Manager, Justin Howalt, provided an update on projects currently underway. Some of the projects discussed at the meeting included Seventh Street renovations from Maple Street to Main Street, Martin Luther King Boulevard work, the Llano drainage project, the Thornton and Seventh Street project, and a pr...
If you go to Ned Houk Park any time soon, where the buffalo roam, you may catch a glimpse of a new resident. A calf was born last week, increasing the herd from eight to nine. Park Superintendent Bryan Harris said the park recently attained three additional buffalo from the Hillcrest Park Zoo, and one of those cows had been pregnant. The park now has five cows and three bulls in addition to the calf, whose sex is unknown. Harris said the buffalo have a large area in the park...
CLOVIS — Seniors at Clovis High School will return to remote learning through graduation, officials said last week, a “preventative measure” intended to ensure prom and graduation ceremonies can go on as planned. Graduation is scheduled May 23 at Leon Williams Stadium, while prom will be in the CHS commons area May 8. Prom had initially been scheduled Saturday, but officials postponed it a week “to allow time for existing close contact quarantine periods to expire.” School administrators, concerned about the ongoing COVID-19...
BASKETBALL Prep summaries Tuesday Boys District 4-5A Hobbs 95, Clovis 61 Clovis (5-6, 1-4) — Darrell Lewis 8, Dominick Brown 14, Bryson Goldsmith 17, C.J. Gutierrez 3, Juan Hernandez 2, R.J. Nora 6, Jaylen Hyman 3, Jaden Phillips 8. Totals 21 16-30 61. Hobbs (6-3, 2-3) — Michael Mackey 6, Isaiah Lewis 21, Jesus Ramos 13, Ronnie Ross 9, Jalen Goar 7, Tyler Box 5, Caurtney Morgan 10, Aaron Mora 24. Totals 41 10-19 95. Clovis 16 12 15 18 — 61 Hobbs 12 22 28 33 — 95 3-pointers — Clovis, Brown, Goldsmith, Gutierrez. Hobbs, Go...
