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CLOVIS — Curry County will host a quick public hearing Tuesday to update residents on its Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) project. Administrative Services Coordinator Doria Rey told The News that the hearing is intended to update citizens on what project was selected — road improvements to Curry Road 11 — and the county’s next steps, completing an application by the end of June. The public hearing is scheduled for 4 p.m. Tuesday in the commission chambers at the Curry County Administrative Complex, 417 Gidding...
My name is Lacey Field. I am 35 years old and I was born in Lubbock. I now live in Clovis with my husband of 11 years, Mike, and my twins Haycie and Holden, who are 5. I teach first grade at Melrose Elementary and I attend church at 16th and Pile Church of Christ. My parents CC and Patty Pyle are a huge part of my life and are my right hand man and woman besides Mike. Tell us about a time you cried. When we found out we were pregnant I cried. At 35 weeks I delivered the...
PORTALES — The Portales City Council will look ahead to 2020 during Tuesday's meeting with a resolution to form a committee with Roosevelt County related to the 2020 census. City Manager Sammy Standefer said the city and county were approached by the census bureau and asked to form a committee to promote awareness for the 2020 census. Standefer said the committee will included city and county officials tasked with coming up with ways to increase citizen participation in the census. "It's important to get everyone counted," h...
Portales High’s boys basketball program will run its summer camps May 28-30 at the PHS gym. Boys entering grades 1-6 will go from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., while boys in grades 7-9 will go from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Registration is $50 and will be accepted on the first day of camp. Information: Rickie McBroom, 557-219-9176. The Lady Ram Basketball Fundamental Camp is scheduled for May 28-30 at the Portales Junior High Gym. There will be a 9 a.m.-11 a.m. camp for girls entering grades 3-5, with a $45 registration; and a 1 p...
Oil points intentionally misleading Regarding last Sunday’s column headlined “Industry must find emissions balance:” It is disappointing to read an academic repeating talking points from the oil and gas industry, particularly when those points are intentionally misleading. Energy In Depth, the industry-funded group claiming Permian Basin methane pollution from the oil and gas industry has decreased, claims EPA backs up their numbers. It doesn’t. The EPA actually says Permian oil and gas methane pollution nearly doubled...
Good afternoon, graduates of this particular area high school OR community college OR four-year college. Whoever scheduled me as your graduation speaker has made a terrible mistake. It was such an awful mistake that nobody made it, and you’re reading this speech here instead of pretending to concentrate on the words I say while you play on your phone. Trust me, you’re parents are doing the same thing right now, unless they’re using it to take pictures of you or stream it for somebody who couldn’t get to the celebra...
A surveillance program that allows the U.S. government to comb through hundreds of millions of Americans’ telephone records in search of connections to terrorism could soon be a thing of the past. That would be good news for personal privacy and responsible intelligence-gathering. Reports in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal suggest that the National Security Agency has lost its enthusiasm for a program that is the successor to the massive “bulk collection” of telephone records revealed six years ago by Edwar...
RANCHVALE — The Ranchvale Volunteer Fire Department will soon be responding to fires as it received its official certification as a fully operational fire department from the state fire marshal's office on Wednesday. "I'm ecstatic, it's been a long hard process," Fire and Safety Director David Kube said. The Curry County Commission approved the creation of a new fire district in May 2018, and since then Kube said the department's chief Kenneth Davis and its 26 members have worked towards securing equipment and training. W...
PORTALES — The Roosevelt County Commission met for close to two hours Thursday morning to finalize the county's preliminary operating budget for the upcoming fiscal year, which will go before the commission for approval on Tuesday. The commission budgeted about $8.43 million in revenues, up from $7.7 million in the previous fiscal year. The county received $1.2 million in capital outlay for road improvements, vehicles, fairground upgrades and renovation of the detention center kitchen and laundry area. County Manager Amber H...
CLOVIS - What does it sound like when a speeding car crashes into the truck parked in front of your house, sending that truck careening through the wall of your den? "Like a bomb," agreed siblings Sandra and Isai Gonzalez, who were inside the adjoining kitchen with their mother at the time of the Monday night incident. According to their mother, Zandra Lozoya, who had been inside that den just a few minutes earlier, it felt like getting a new lease on life. Lozoya might have s...
On this date ... 1969: An airman stationed at Cannon Air Force Base had died at Alamogordo Lake — the third area drowning victim at the state park lake in a week. Robert Schenke, who worked at the hospital at Cannon, was attempting to swim from the shore to a barge anchored 40-60 feet out in the lake. “He swam 30 or 35 feet out from shore and then began yelling for help,” the Clovis News-Journal reported. One week before Schenke’s accident, Johnny Harvey, 6, of Clovis fell into turbulent water near the lake’s spillway....
Today • Texico High School graduation — 2 p.m., Texico Sports Arena, Texico Municipal Schools, 520 N. Griffin St., Texico. Information: 575-482-3801 • Grady High School graduation — 5 p.m., Gymnasium, Grady Municipal Schools, 100 Franklin St., Grady. Information: 575-357-2192 • House High School graduation — 2 p.m., Big gymnasium, House Municipal Schools, 309 N. Apple St., House. Information: 575-279-7353 • Baccalaureate Sunday — 6 p.m. Portales High School Performing Arts Center, 201 S. Knoxville, Portales. Presented by th...
Monday • City of Clovis Parks, Recreation, and Beautification Committee — 5:30 p.m., Clovis City Hall assembly room, 321 N. Connelly, Clovis. Information: 575-763-9654 • High Plains Historical Foundation — 6 p.m., Pappy Thornton Museum, Ned Houk Park, Highway 209 North, Clovis. Information: 575-309-9893 Tuesday • Roosevelt County Commission — 9 a.m., Commission Room, Roosevelt County Courthouse, 109 W. First St., Portales. Information: 575-356-5307 • Friends of the Clovis-Carver Public Library — 11:30 a.m., Clovis-Carver P...
CLOVIS — The Curry County Commission may begin the initial planning phase of building a new magistrate courthouse during Tuesday's meeting. The first of 13 action items on the agenda for Tuesday's meeting is a memorandum of agreement between the county and the Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC). According to the agreement, the county's lease of the magistrate court currently located at 221 Pile is set to expire in 2023. The agreement calls on the AOC to pay for architectural services to design a new 16,000 to 18,000 f...
CLOVIS — The Clovis City Commission was in the doghouse with several outspoken critics of its proposed animal leash ordinance, with final approval hanging in the balance during its Thursday meeting. Undeterred by those critics, and their complaints commission minds were made up before the meeting even began, commissioners voted by a 7-0 count to implement changes to city code that will require leashes no more than 8-feet for any dog not on private property. The ordinance includes exceptions for dogs in city-approved t...
CLOVIS - A four-hour standoff Tuesday in Clovis ended with one man hospitalized with minor injuries and for a mental health evaluation, police said. Timothy Batchelor, 35, was charged with misdemeanor resisting, evading or obstructing an officer and negligent use of a deadly weapon after he allegedly threatened to commit "suicide by cop" while holed up alone for hours in a Clovis residence with a shotgun and loaded AR15 rifle. Clovis police responded around 3 p.m. to the...
TEXICO — A young girl missing from Texico was located unharmed in Portales and reunited with her family after an exhaustive community-wide search that stretched through Wednesday night. Police found 9-year old Roberta Manzanales Thursday morning, locked in a church closet, and the “family friend” alleged to have left her there was arrested that evening on first-degree felony kidnapping charges. Augustin Gallegos, 34, of Portales, cried in an interview Thursday afternoon with Texico police officers and admitted that he did n...
Today • Texico High School graduation — 2 p.m., Texico Sports Arena, Texico Municipal Schools, 520 N. Griffin St., Texico. Information: 575-482-3801 • Grady High School graduation — 5 p.m., Gymnasium, Grady Municipal Schools, 100 Franklin St., Grady. Information: 575-357-2192 • House High School graduation — 2 p.m., Big gymnasium, House Municipal Schools, 309 N. Apple St., House. Information: 575-279-7353 • Baccalaureate Sunday — 6 p.m. Portales High School Performing Arts Center, 201 S. Knoxville, Portales. Presented by th...
Name of book: “Blue Yarn ... A Memoir About Loss, Letting Go, & What Happens Next” Author: Carrie Classon’s column appears each Wednesday in Readers’ Choice Classon, on her motivation: “I started writing ‘Blue Yarn,’ honestly, to try to understand what had happened to me. I had been a successful business person. I had a 22-year marriage that I assumed would last forever. In the space of two months, I found myself without a job, a husband, or even a home, living in Lagos, Nigeria — and I had not seen any of it coming. How the...
The following are available for checkout at: Clovis-Carver Public Library “2019 Guide to the Night Sky” by Storm Dunlop and Wil Tirion is an easy introduction to astronomy and useful reference for seasoned stargazers, providing a comprehensive month-by-month guide to the stars and constellations visible from North America. Features include advice on where to start looking, how to navigate the sky, easy to use star and constellation maps, as well as details of objects and sky events you might see in 2019. “When Montezuma Met C...
Curry County Retired Educators Our guest speaker was Cindy Kleyn-Kennedy, Clovis Municipal Schools (CMS) Instructional Tech Coordinator and weekly columnist for The Eastern New Mexico News. She spoke to us about a program being used in the middle schools called “Capturing Kids Hearts” which addresses today’s needs in the classroom. This program helps develop positive student-teacher relationships through various methods, such as handshakes, hugs, or fist-bumps between student and teacher. Through a social contract, stude...
Baxter Curren Senior Center 908 Hickory St., Clovis Monday: 8:30 a.m. exercise class, 10 a.m. jewelry pals, 1 p.m. line dance Tuesday: 8 a.m.-4 p.m. exercise equipment, 8 a.m. quilting, 9 a.m. pinochle class, 10 a.m. beginning line dance, 1 p.m. pinochle, 6 p.m. trivia mania Wednesday: 8 a.m.-4 p.m. exercise equipment, 8:30 a.m. exercise class, 10 a.m. sew days, 1 p.m. needle gang Thursday: 8 a.m. eggs, gravy and biscuits $4, 8:45 a.m. pinochle 101, 1 p.m. bingo, 6 p.m. line dance, 6 p.m. railroad potluck Friday: 8 a.m.-4...
Clovis Elementary Monday: Breakfast — Cook’s choice. Lunch — Cook’s choice Tuesday: Breakfast — Cook’s choice. Lunch — Cook’s choice Wednesday: Breakfast — Cook’s choice. Lunch — Sack lunch • Breakfast includes 100 percent fruit juice, fresh fruit, milk, choice of cereal, toast or graham cracker. Salad bar offered daily. Clovis Middle Monday: Breakfast — Cook’s choice. Lunch — Cook’s choice Tuesday: Breakfast — Cook’s choice. Lunch — Cook’s choice Wednesday: Breakfast — Cook’s choice. Lunch — Sack lunch • Breakfast incl...
Information using chalk paste, e-craft publications and Guinea pigs as pets will be the featured topics on “Creative Living” at 9:30 p.m. on Tuesday and at noon on Thursday. Kari Child will demonstrate a project uses a chalkboard, chalk transfers and chalk paste. She will then show a simple but fun ombre technique to make the project more unique. She lives in Midvale, Utah. Designers Ann Butler and Lisa Rojas will show samples of each of their magazines and explain the cha...
How does a maggot sausage dog and a big bowl of insect ice cream sound? I’m not too sure about the maggot sausage. Maggot seem like something that would eat sausage, not something you would make into sausage. According to a recent CNN article that popped up on my phone’s news feed. An Australian research scientist believes eating insects could be the solution to a looming food protein crisis. I guess it makes sense because John the Baptist was supposed to be living on a die...
