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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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Margaret Padilla was taking a break from Bingo with family and friends outside Clovis' Red Arrow on Wednesday night. That's when sprinkles began, about 7:45 p.m. Then the hail hit. Padilla rushed inside where Red Arrow staff directed the Bingo players to a more central room in the building. They stayed there for 15 or 20 minutes while ice the size of hen eggs was thrown up against the building by winds estimated as high as 70 to 80 mph. The hail was hitting the ceiling so...
Summer means golf for many across eastern New Mexico. Here’s a look at some tournaments coming up in Portales, Clovis, and Farwell. The Portales Country Club kicked off its first tournament of the season in early May, but there are still plenty of opportunities to hit the green this summer. • A tournament for members and guests is scheduled June 10-11 • Hit the Green 4 Man Scramble is June 24 • A couples only tournament is July 8-9 • The 2 Men/1 Women tournament is July 30 • The Stone Invitational is Aug. 12-13 • The Ladies S...
Eastern New Mexico University is opening a foundation account to support athletic training while also honoring long-time trainer Bill Joy. “We are so grateful to the Joy family for agreeing to create this endowment in Bill’s name,” ENMU Athletic Director Paul Weir stated in a news release. “… At the very least it memorializes an absolutely amazing man. We hope to make our head athletic trainer position one dedicated to excellence and this endowment will help us do just that.” Joy got his start in Portales in 1966 after gradu...
Curry Residents Senior Meals Association 901 W. 13th St. Clovis Monday: Closed. Tuesday: Steak fingers, cream gravy, mashed potatoes, blended veggies, dinner roll with margarine, pudding with Oreo. Wednesday: Barbecued chicken drumstick, cole slaw, baked beans, roll with margarine, Mandarin oranges. Thursday: Baked ham, sweet potatoes, mixed veggies, roll with margarine, cake. Friday: Beef chalupa, cheese, green chile, salad, pinto beans, fruit cocktail. Baxter-Curren Activity Center 908 Hickory, Clovis 575-762-3631 Monday:...
Fallen uniformed service members, including a Roosevelt County World War II prisoner of war soon to be buried at home and faithful K-9 service dog, will be honored in cemetery services on Monday, Memorial Day, in Clovis and Portales. In Portales, The News’ columnist Betty Williamson will tell the story of PFC Thomas Vernon Long, who died in 1942 while a prisoner of war in the Phillipines, and the long journey involved to return his body home to Portales for burial. Williamson will be the main speaker at Portales’ gra...
The books listed below are now available for checkout at the Clovis-Carver Public Library. The library is open to the public, but patrons can still visit the online catalog at cloviscarverpl.booksys.net/opac/ccpl or call 575-769-7840 to request a specific item for curbside pickup. “What Happens Next” by Christina Suzann Nelson. Popular podcaster and ex-reporter Faith Byrne made a name for herself telling stories of greatness after tragedy. All that changes when she’s asked to spotlight her childhood best friend’s missing...
Rey Ortiz is so reliable as a volunteer at the Matt 25 Hope Center, that he is included on the employee in-and-out board at the center’s entrance. The center is an umbrella organization food and clothing distribution, and receiving charity donations, but at its headquarters building, the former Memorial Hospital, it hosts the United Way of Eastern New Mexico, the Girl Scouts of New Mexico Trails, and La Casa food service and family health care operations. Ortiz assists them all. “He’s amazing,” Renee Ortiz Rucker, Matt 25...
Deep down inside us all there lives a treasure hunter. I believe that is true to one extent or another. For some the treasure is in searching antique shops. For others it’s junkyards or auctions. For some it may be shopping malls or finding a new restaurant or winery. Lately I have a YouTuber I’ve been following who lives in Southwest New Mexico where he raises lion trailing hounds and rides and packs mules on his trips into the desert mountains around where he lives. On one...
Curry County's $49 million preliminary budget for fiscal year 2024 was presented to county commissioners Tuesday at their regular May session. Commissioners unanimously approved the preliminary proposal. The budget is due in Santa Fe by June 1. In other business at Tuesday's session: • Lisa Pelligrino-Spear and Paul Tankersley of Clovis Mainstreet appeared before commissioners to say "thank you" to the board for support of Clovis Mainstreet and to ask for continued support. "...
The preliminary fiscal year 2024 budget for Clovis Municipal Schools (CMS) is more than the FY24 preliminary budgets of Clovis and Curry County combined. At Tuesday's regular meeting of the CMS school board, the CMS preliminary budget was put at $168.9 million. Combined, the preliminary budgets for Clovis and Curry County are $118 million. CMS Deputy Superintendent of Finance, Shawna Stowe, said one year ago, the preliminary budget for FY23 was $162.9 million. "The biggest...
A preliminary budget that the Roosevelt County Commission approved on Tuesday projects revenues in all accounts of $18.3 million, expenses of $21.4 million, and a balance of $18.1 million at the end of fiscal 2024 on June 30, 2024, county manager Amber Hamilton told the commission. The balance includes the effects of $8.7 million cash on hand to begin the fiscal year on July 1, and $12.4 million in investments to offset the amount of expenses over revenues, according to budget documents. When nearly $3 million is set aside...
Monday *Memorial Day Tuesday *Clovis Civil Aviation Board special meeting — 5:30 p.m., North Annex, Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main, Clovis. Information: 575-763-9654 Thursday *Clovis City Commission - 5:15 p.m., North Annex, Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main St., Clovis. Information: 575-769-7828 Saturday *Eastern New Mexico University Regents — 1 p.m., Regents Room, ENMU Administration Building, Portales. Information: 575-562-2121 June 5 *Curry County Commission – 9 a.m., Commission Chambers, Curry Count...
Pioneer Days Rodeo week starts Monday with a “mutton bustin’” event in the indoor arena at the Curry County Fairgrounds. While Pioneer Days had gone on for years in the Clovis area, the first rodeo in the fairgrounds’ Mounted Patrol Arena was in 1970. The Curry County Mounted Patrol was formed in 1939. According to the Pioneer Days Rodeo website the group “enjoyed sponsoring western entertainment such as rodeos and for several years sponsored a championship Steer Roping on Labor Day which would attract all the top steer rop...
Today *Unity in the Community – 11 a.m.-4 p.m., Hillcrest Park, 1001 Sycamore St., Clovis. Sermons, games, vendors, car show, food, live music. Information: Terri Chavez at 575-218-5776 or email [email protected] Monday *Memorial Day *Portales Memorial Day observance – 10:30 a.m., Joe Blair Pavilion, Portales Cemetery, 1600 E. Third St., Portales. Sponsored by American Legion Post 31. Information: call or text Randy Dunson, American Legion Post 31 Commander, at 575-760-3341, or email at [email protected] *Clovis Mem...
On this date ... 1945: Military and civilian personnel at Clovis Army Air Field were cutting back on cigarettes. A more-stringent War Department system was going into effect that would cut the cigarette supply in half. 1946: The employees of Barnes Cleaners in Clovis had hosted a surprise chicken-fry supper at Hillcrest Park in honor of their boss, Buck Barnes. Employees’ families and friends turned out to eat and play games on Barnes’ birthday. 1950: The Roosevelt County com...
A recent trip from Small Town America to Big City USA got me thinking about the differences between those who live in our cities and those who make their homes in small towns or out in the country. If you look at a color-coded political map, you’ll see a massive sea of red dotted with islands of blue, and purple shorelines. Republicans dominate the rural areas of America, Democrats own the cities, and a battle continues for control of the suburbs. But, with only a few exceptions, that’s not indicative of how we all live. Dee...
The United States government has a nuclear waste storage problem, and it sees its solution in southeast New Mexico. Earlier this month, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission approved the application by a Florida-based company named Holtec to build a new waste storage facility in Lea County. The license authorizes Holtec to store 500 canisters holding 100,000 metric tons of spent nuclear fuel. Holtec plans to eventually store up to 10,000 canisters, shipped in from nuclear power plants around the country. Which gives state...
Memorial Day is Monday, and we will once again honor those who have made the ultimate sacrifice for their service to this country during a time of war. Alas, I fear that we are on the brink of another major war, and I see our government doing little to curtail these fears. For more than a year, we have been involved in a so-called proxy war in Europe that our government continues to insist we have no actual responsibility for. We continue to provide weapons, ammunition and...
What was the biggest threat to America in the last seven years? If you have swallowed the party line of the Democrats, it was the storming of the Capitol by dangerous Trump “insurrectionists” on Jan. 6, 2021. For more than two years, Democrats and their parrots in the liberal media touted 1/6 as the worst thing that has happened to the United States since 9/11. President Biden went even farther, repeatedly claiming that 1/6 was the “greatest threat” to American democra...
It’s going to take either climate change or a technological breakthrough to keep this region livable, as far as water is concerned. Drilling more wells into a shrinking aquifer or relying on pipelines connected to vulnerable reservoirs, which in turn depend on unreliable precipitation, isn’t a viable long-term strategy. Neither approach is a solution; only a temporary patch. Maybe patching the problem can get us far enough into the future for a proper solution to be fou...
Wendel Sloan remembers a hot summer day driving his new, used Chrysler LeBaron convertible on its maiden voyage home to eastern New Mexico from the dealership in Lubbock. They were cruising along Kakawate Road, about halfway between Muleshoe and Portales, when the engine died. They coasted to the side of the road. “Eventually, I figured out how to pop the hood,” Sloan said last week. “Since my mechanical abilities end at filling a gas tank, I may as well have been looking at t...
Portales City Council members on Tuesday unanimously approved a property tax increase, but by a smaller amount than originally proposed. Council members voted to hike taxes by 1.47 mills, up from the current 2.796 mills for residential property owners. A mill generates $1 for every $1,000 in taxable value. If property is assessed at $300,000, its taxable value is $100,000 and the property tax would be $100 per mill. The council in February voted tentatively to increase the...
The City of Clovis recently added a new function in a software package that was purchased called the “My Civic 311” app. The app will give citizens the chance to report issues directly to city departments, according to Director of Information and Technology, Stephen Rickman. The concept for the app is nothing new, however. The city did have an app called “SeeClickFix,” which allowed citizens to still report back to the city. One thing that is now different with the “My Civic 311” app is that the Parks and Recreation...
You’re probably familiar with the Wright brothers of aviation fame, but Portales had its own Wright brothers, well-known in their time for sadder reasons. Durward Haynes Wright and his younger brother Warren Wright both died during World War II, making their mom, Lillie Mae Wright, a double Gold Star mother, an honor no woman seeks. With Memorial Day on the horizon, it’s a good time to remember this family. You can find the Wright family marker in the Portales Cemetery, a shor...
The 27th Special Operations Wing at Cannon Air Force Base welcomed a new wing commander Wednesday morning at the change of command ceremony. The wing's guidon (military flag) was transferred from U.S. Air Force Col. Terence Taylor to U.S. Air Force Col. Jeremy Bergin, symbolizing the exchange of responsibility. U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. Tony D. Bauernfeind, commander of Air Force Special Operations Command, presided over the ceremony and thanked Taylor for his last two years of...
