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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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Friday • Blood drive — 11 a.m.-3 p.m., Bloodmobile, High Plains Harley-Davidson, 4400 Mabry Dr., Clovis. Register online at http://www.bloodhero.com. Information: 877-258-4825 • Paul Ellis retirement reception — 2-4 p.m., American Heritage Bank, 3300 N. Prince St., Clovis. Information: 575-762-2800 • 5th Friday Art Show — 5 p.m., Yam Theatre, 219 S. Main St., Portales. Sponsored by Portales Creative Group. Music, dancing, art. Information: 575-218-9166 Saturday • 3rd annual Color Dash to benefit the Hartley House — 8 a.m...
PORTALES — Five members of the Eastern New Mexico track and field teams received designation this week as U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association All-Americans. The women’s 400 relay team of Kandice Miles, Maijah Mathis, Danee Bustos and Lateria Slaughter received first-team All-American honors. Second-team selections went to Miles in the women’s 200 and Ivar Moinat in the men’s 800. The squad finished fifth in the championship heat at 46.68, besting their 2018 eighth-place finish. It was the team’s...
DORA - Time moves differently when a tornado is battering your house and property. Meteorologists said the storm lasted less than half an hour. But for Gordon Fraze, it felt like much longer waiting out weather that ripped down trees, fences and barns, hurtled a cattle feeder across his yard and flipped trailers like a tin can. "Things were flying around like you wouldn't believe," Fraze told The News on Monday of the tornado that hit his property outside Dora on Sunday night....
The truth is, I don’t actually have 40 friends in my immediate community. I only recently moved to town when I married Peter. So, I just went around town and invited every person I recognized and, somehow, ended up inviting 40 people to my patio on a recent Monday evening to celebrate the release of my book. I invited all the neighbors, and a guy I met on the trail, some writers, and a librarian, and a woman I occasionally see walking her dog — sometimes with her friend, Georgina. The dog-walking woman was recently div...
When Clovis hosts its annual Draggin’ Main/Music Festival June 22-29, a number of high school graduation classes will be joining the festivities for reunions. There will be talk of long-ago hooky playing, prankstering, sports heroics ... and some of the stories may even be (partly) true. This summer is a good time to remember remembering because it’s the 80th anniversary of the 1939 Clovis High School graduating class. Most of those students are gone now, but we know a lot...
A story with two perspectives A wily old Rhode Island Red hen (Hazel Smith) came precariously close to removing a young girl’s eye last Tuesday. The girl (Bethany Jones) reported that she had merely wanted to view the eggs that Smith had produced the week before. Then suddenly that old hen got an evil look in her eye. “At that point I became leery, and in the last second ducked, receiving a painful laceration to my forehead during the altercation,” Bethany said. According to Smith, the girl approached her without being invit...
Booked The following were booked into local jails Friday - Monday: Clovis • Cornelio Gomez, 38, theft of identity, forgery • Abel Chavez, 60, failure to pay fines • Elvis Gaytan, 28, criminal sexual penetration in the first degree • Brandon Thomas, 21, arson (over $500), conspiracy to commit arson, probation violation • Brock Hampton, 23, out of state fugitive • Lidia Gonzales, 21, false imprisonment, aggravated assault • Julian Zamora, 26, failure to appear on a felony charge • Christopher Clubb, 24, trafficking con...
A strange story it is, and enough to make a math or accounting major bite nails. I’m talking about Jesus’ “Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard” (Matthew 20:1-16). Here’s the story in a nutshell: It’s grape harvest in Palestine. A vineyard owner goes out early to hire men to work in his vineyard, and he agrees to pay them a denarius, a normal day’s wage. They go to work. At 9 a.m., he finds other men standing around in the marketplace and also hires them, promising to pay th...
You forget how quiet a house can be until the electricity goes off. It was a fairly regular occurrence when I was a kid, but we’re far more likely to have a quick blink or two these days, and even those are few and far between. (I hope I have not jinxed myself into a summer of interrupted service by committing those words to print.) When those tornadic winds ripped through Roosevelt County on Sunday evening, they took out a lot of power poles. Plenty of folks faced significant...
New Mexico is building itself up with some new, cutting-edge infrastructure. First, there’s Facebook and its $1 billion data center at Los Lunas. It’s creating a need for some expensive improvements to New Mexico’s energy infrastructure. The data center needs a lot of electricity and plans are in the works to build a transmission line on top of an existing line with less transmission capacity, at a cost of $85 million. As it stands, the state’s Public Regulation Commission has ruled that Facebook must pay $39 million of that...
We have no sympathy for Julian Assange, who released emails hacked by Russian intelligence to disrupt the 2016 election. We hope he is punished for crimes he is accused of committing in 2010, when the government says he worked with Bradley (now Chelsea) Manning to hack the Defense Department's computer network. Those who steal sensitive documents must feel the consequences. But in its superseding indictment against Assange filed Thursday, the Department of Justice went further than accusing the WikiLeaks founder of...
A few years ago, I was hiking down a trail in Colorado. Exploring trails — and off trails — is probably my favorite activity. After a few hours, I decided I needed to turn around and head back. It was past mid-afternoon, on my last day of vacation, and I needed to pack and get ready for the drive home. I doubt I had walked even 100 feet when my natural klutziness struck and I twisted my ankle. Hard. I was in agony, and the realization that I had miles to walk made it even wor...
ENMU program recognized Eastern New Mexico University’s film studies program has been named as one of the nation’s most affordable bachelor’s degrees in the category, as awarded by affordableschools.net. The website, which ranked ENMU’s program sixth, bases its analysis on graduation rates, average cost of attendance and student-to-faculty ratios. The ENMU program includes numerous aspects of media production, including traditional film, as well as new Internet-based forms of cinema, narrative and instructional video and fil...
PORTALES — The Roosevelt County Commission plans to approve its preliminary final budget during a special meeting set for 1 p.m. Thursday at the Roosevelt County Courthouse. The commission also plans to consider three resolutions and some other business items. A full agenda was not posted by the county at press time. Agenda items include: • A resolution opposition relocation of asylum seekers to the county and requesting border checkpoints be reopened. • A resolution setting rates and fees for county services. • A resolut...
A former Parmer County deputy sheriff was arrested Sunday for allegedly touching a child on three separate occasions in a Texico church bathroom. Davin Waters, 25, of Farwell, was charged with six counts of second-degree felony criminal sexual contact of a minor, perpetrated on a child under 13. “It is alleged that Waters did unlawfully and intentionally touch a child on three separate occasions, beginning in December 2018, while in a bathroom at a church in Texico, New Mexico,” said a news release Tuesday from Curry Cou...
CLOVIS — The Curry County Commission is accepting letters of interest to serve on a planning committee for a 10-year anniversary event at the Curry County Events Center. The celebration event is scheduled for Sept. 7, with the committee putting together and promoting the event. Applicants should be community members who live or work in Curry County. The commission will review letters of interest June 4 and appoint two members from within the applicant pool. Letters should be submitted no later than Thursday. They may be m...
Thursday • Roosevelt County Commission special meeting — 1 p.m., Commission Room, Roosevelt County Courthouse, 109 W. First St., Portales. Discussion of preliminary 2019-20 budget. Information: 575-356-5307 Saturday • Organ Transplant Support Group — 10 a.m., Calvary Baptist Church, 720 Davis St., Clovis. Inaugural organization meeting. Information: Richard Roy, 575-762-7029 • Eastern New Mexico University Regents — 1 p.m., Regents Room, ENMU Administration Building, Portales. Information: 575-562-2121 June 4 • Curry County...
On this date ... 1969: Missouri Beef Packers Inc. in Friona was accepting applications for full-time employment. “No Experience Necessary — We Will Train,” a newspaper ad read. Base wages were $2.40 to $3.15 per hour. The company also offered paid health and medical insurance, paid vacations and paid holidays plus other benefits. Pages Past is compiled by David Stevens. Contact him or sign up for our weekly historical newspaper deliveries at: [email protected]...
PORTALES - For the 73rd year, Roosevelt County honored its military fallen in a Memorial Day ceremony Monday morning at the Portales Cemetery. That's where 2,295 veterans rest. "Where we stand today is like most small communities throughout our great nation. They have a cemetery that is adorned with American flags on this most humble occasion," speaker Mike Woolley told a few dozen attendees including civilians and members of the local American Legion and VFW posts. "But what...
CLOVIS - For the last few decades, the various branches of the United States military have operated on voluntary enlistment. But even in the days of drafts, Hector Baez said, "There is always a way out for those committed to avoiding" military service and its risks. That's why it was so important on Monday to recognize Frank Taylor and Harvie Winkles III, recent and not-so-recent additions to those killed in combat and honored since 1866 in what America now commonly knows as...
PORTALES - Imagine somebody hitting your vehicle - or worse, you - with a baseball bat. Now imagine the bat is 200 pounds with jagged edges. That's the nightmare of elm trees Eastern New Mexico University is battling over the next few weeks. The school has hired Cut It Right to remove between 13 and 16 Siberian elm trees that have exceeded their lives on the Portales campus. All of the trees are in the green space between the administration building and U.S. 70. "These trees...
