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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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CLOVIS — A Clovis man was arrested Friday evening in connection with a Thursday morning homicide in south Clovis. Steaphan Steele Shepherd, 26, was arrested on a murder warrant filed in the shooting death of Curtis Rittenhouse, also 26 of Clovis. Shepherd’s capture was announced via the Clovis Police Department Facebook page. A release from CPD Chief Doug Ford stated Shepherd was apprehended at 10:03 p.m. Friday by the Portales Police Department before his transport to Clo...
CLOVIS — Following two months of work putting it together, staff at the Eastern New Mexico Water Utility Authority received the seal of approval from its board on a preliminary 2020-21 budget Thursday afternoon. Authority Administrator Orlando Ortega presented the board an eight-page document, detailing dozens of revenues and expenses with columns for the 2019-20 budget and the 2020-21 budget. The authority anticipates revenues of $20.215 million, down from the current year’s $21.053 million. Total expenses are an ant...
CLOVIS — In a brief special meeting Tuesday, the Clovis City Commission approved a preliminary 2020-21 budget to meet a state deadline before Friday. The meeting, primarily scheduled to approve the preliminary budget, went just about 12 minutes from opening to closing gavel. In light of uncertainties created by the COVID-19 pandemic, the state Department of Finance and Administration has allowed municipalities to submit their 2019-20 final budget as a preliminary budget. City Finance Director LeighAnn Melancon said she and C...
Court will soon be in session. An order issued by the New Mexico Supreme Court on Thursday lifted the suspension of jury trials in criminal and civil cases that had been in effect since March. Courts are permitted to resume jury trials between June 15 and July 15. “As our state gradually reopens, courts can safely resume jury trials as local conditions permit,” State Chief Justice Judith K. Nakamura stated. “Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, New Mexico courts have worked diligently to protect the health of people enter...
PORTALES — Citing uncertainty over mass gatherings during the COVID-19 pandemic and anticipating difficulties in raising the necessary funds, the Roosevelt County Chamber of Commerce has decided to cancel its Independence Day fireworks display. According to Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s office, a phased reopening in early July limits mass gatherings to 100 people. “The chamber and our local public safety folks all agree that the ability to keep families distanced from each other would be very difficult if not impos...
High school sports in New Mexico will start to re-surface this summer after grinding to a halt in March due to the COVID-19 pandemic. And it appears athletics will initially look a lot different than when they were last permitted in late winter. Thursday, the New Mexico Activities Association released its guidance for a Phase 1 return to play, beginning June 15. “That gives us a couple of weeks to get ready for what we need to get ready for in regard to getting all the PPE (personal protection equipment) that we need and so f...
CLOVIS - The 2019-20 Clovis High School sports season was humming right along. The Wildcats' football team reached the 6A semifinals. Jerrick Maldonado finished second at the state cross country meet. The Clovis boys basketball team hosted a state playoff game for the first time since 2013. And then came the second week of March. Everything came to a screeching halt because of the coronavirus, ending Clovis' spring sports season just a couple of weeks in. So, when the top...
Curry Resident Senior Meals Association 901 W. 13th St., Clovis 575-762-9405 Monday: Sloppy joe on a bun, potato wedges, mixed veggies, tropical fruit Tuesday: Chicken fried chicken, cream gravy, scalloped potatoes, broccoli and cauliflower, dinner roll w/margarine, lemon pudding Wednesday: Sausage, fried cabbage, potato wedges, cornbread w/margarine, peaches Thursday: Beef lasagna, green beans, garlic toast, fruit cocktail Friday: Chicken fried rice, oriental veggies, spring rolls, mandarin oranges Community Services Center...
The following books are available for checkout at the Clovis-Carver Public Library: “Resurgence” by C.J. Cherryh continues the sci-fi Foreigner saga as diplomat Ben Cameron works to unite the central and southern clans. But Ilisidi has her own notions to solve the hostilities. Playing one problem against another, she commandeers the Red Train, taking what passengers she chooses, and heads for the snowy roof of the world, where a hard-scrabble town and its minor lord are the first pieces she intends to use. “The Look-Alike” by...
With our restaurant selections lately restricted to carryout, dining in Portales has become a lot like it used to be when I was growing up — except for the prices. I can maybe remember a 35-cent burger growing up but mostly I would say they were 50 to 80 cents back then. The only sit-down dining available was often at the two truck stops and the drug stores with fountain and grill service. The chain burger joints hadn’t come to town for the most part. I had heard of McD...
Information on silk ribbon embroidery, working with bamboo and making a miniature paper purse holder will be the featured topics on “Creative Living” 9:30 p.m. Tuesday and noon Thursday (all times Mountain). Kim Sanders represents the Embroiderers’ Guild of America, and she’s going to show how to use silk ribbon and familiar embroidery stitches to create some beautiful projects. She says this technique is a great place for those new to embroidery to begin their stitching journey. She lives in Flat Rock, North Carolin...
As New Mexico and states around the country gradually re-open, there’s been much talk of a “new normal.” People certainly miss the old normal, but that may be gone, if not forever, then at least for the foreseeable future. Plains Regional Medical Center Administrator Drew Dostal sees changes in routine medical visits that may last a while. “That’s a broad subject,” Dostal said. “I’m not sure that going forward it’ll be routine in the sense of what it used to look like. It was very clinical based. We really want to keep safe...
One of the big differences between state and federal governments is that states are required to balance their budgets every year. Keep that in mind the next time you hear a congressman bellyaching about the fiscal irresponsibility of the states. The federal debt was just under $23 trillion at the turn of the last fiscal year, before the COVID-19 pandemic. The last time Congress passed a balanced federal budget was in 1996. Since then, they’ve completely given up on the traditional budget process. They now fund the government...
Richard J. Heakin Jr. was a gay man who was visiting Tucson from Nebraska. On June 6, 1976, the 21-year-old was attacked and killed by four teenagers while leaving a bar near downtown. The 15- to 17-year-old killers received only probation for what was termed a hate crime. This event took place when I was 15, and I remember how horrified I was that boys my age would go out of their way to stalk individuals for the purpose of harming them. And then to cause the death of a person, simply because they did not agree or like his...
It’s 2009 again, or feels like it. That was when spontaneous, grassroots protests against overweening government sprang up and were widely derided in the media as dangerous and wrong-headed. The protesters then were inveighing against Obamacare; the protestors now are striking out against the coronavirus lockdowns. The anti-lockdown agitation shows that, despite the revolution in Republican politics wrought by President Donald Trump, opposition to government impositions is d...
News that Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham made a purchase from an Albuquerque jewelry store at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic has left other jewelers and “nonessential” businesses asking why they couldn’t take phone orders and provide curbside pickup or home deliveries. And it provided fodder for critics who believe her shutdown orders have been too severe and discriminatory against small businesses. During her news conference Thursday, the governor dismissed the whole episode as an incorrect story, calling it nothing more...
I feel terribly sorry for the hundred thousand Americans who’ve lost their lives to the coronavirus. I also feel sorry for all the small business owners in the country who have become innocent victims of the government’s mishandled war on COVID-19. They worked long and hard to start up their local restaurants, coffee shops, clothing stores, hair salons, health spas, book stores and pet grooming shops. But in just three months their livelihoods — and the livelihoods of milli...
Patriotic holidays not deserved We don’t deserve to celebrate Memorial Day, the Fourth of July or any other holiday this year that pertains to our freedoms. We as a nation have simply bowed to the governors of our states and blindly followed their instructions. We don’t even have the freedoms we would honor because our cowardice in standing up for liberty is causing us to surrender that liberty. We have surrendered our rights for the illusion of security. We have not demonstrated the American spirit even at its weakest. When...
June 2 primary ballots Federal U.S. President Republican • Donald J. Trump Democratic • Elizabeth Warren • Tulsi Gabbard • Joseph R. Biden • Deval Patrick • Bernie Sanders • Andrew Yang Libertarian • Lincoln Chafee • Arvin Vohra • Jacob Hornberger • Adam Kokesh • John Monds • Jo Jorgensen • Sam Robb • Daniel Behrman • James Ogle U.S. Senator Republican • Elisa Maria Martinez • Mark V. Ronchetti • Gavin S. Clarkson Democratic • Ben Ray Lujan Libertarian • Bob Walsh U.S. Representative District 2 Republican • Claire Chase • Yv...
Voters in Curry and Roosevelt counties on Tuesday will determine local contested races, and help make decisions on who will run for Congress in the general election. Voting will take place 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. at various polling locations. Polling sites in both counties are all voter convenience centers, meaning a registered voter can cast a ballot at any location in the county where they are registered. Due to concerns over the COVID-19 pandemic, and a push from the state’s county clerks, much of the early in-person voting a...
Meetings are subject to change due to coronavirus concerns Tuesday • Curry County Commission — 9 a.m., Zoom meeting. Information: https://www.currycounty.org/open-government/meeting-portal or 575-763-6016 • Clovis Civil Aviation Board — 5:30 p.m. North Annex, Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main. Information: Clovis Municipal Airport Director Joshua Matekovic at 480-432-6646 • Portales City Council — 6:30 p.m., Zoom meeting. Public may listen on City of Portales Facebook page at: https://www.facebook....
Monday • In-person registration and supply pick-up for Portales Public Library 2020 virtual summer reading program — 10 a.m.-noon, and 4-5:30 p.m., outside of the Portales Public Library, 218 S. Ave. B, Portales. Packets and supplies available for activities taking place during June and July for children ages 0-18. To request a curbside pickup at a different time, call 575-356-3940. Tuesday • Portales Public Library Virtual Summer Reading Program — Alchemy and Art: “Mad Hatters and Origami Rabbits” — 10:30 a.m., Portale...
CLOVIS — A Clovis man injured during a 2014 traffic stop has won an appeal allowing him to sue a former Clovis police officer for what he contends was an unlawful arrest. The decision, released Tuesday from the federal 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver, will allow Jorge Corona to seek damages for a broken cheekbone suffered in his arrest by then-officer Brent Aguilar. According to court documents: • Corona was a back-seat passenger in a vehicle pulled over by Aguilar for running a red light. • Corona repeatedly asked...
CLOVIS - When New Mexico canceled school for three weeks to fight the spread of COVID-19, Adriana Jones rationalized it as her Clovis High School spring break starting a week earlier and finishing a week later than planned. "And we never came back," Jones said Wednesday, a CHS graduate standing in front of its A Building. Just 10 minutes before, Jones was in the parking lot as a CHS senior. Jones and more than 400 of her classmates journeyed through a portion of CHS to...
CLOVIS — The 100th anniversary of the Curry County Fair may have to wait a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. County Manager Lance Pyle is advising the Curry County Commission cancel the fair, work with the fair board to have some type of junior livestock sale event in August and push centennial fair events to 2021. The board meets 9 a.m. Tuesday. It will be virtually due to public health orders banning mass gatherings. The meeting will be broadcast at currycounty.org and the county Facebook page, and comments or questions p...
