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Pioneer Days returns to Clovis this week after a two-year absence. Richard Hadley, president of the Curry County Mounted Patrol, said he and many other Pioneer Days supporters are glad there will finally be a 50th anniversary event. There had been plans to celebrate the Pioneer Days 50th anniversary in June 2020 but the COVID-19 pandemic happened. Restrictions that stopped the event continued in 2021. "We're excited to finally get to have it," Hadley said. The Curry County...
Fuel cost increases for the Roosevelt County Road Department are budgeted to rise by more than 73%, or $275,000, over the next fiscal year, compared to the current fiscal year’s total of $360,000, in the county’s preliminary fiscal year 2023 budget approved Tuesday by the Roosevelt County Commission. Fuel costs for the county sheriff’s department are expected to rise by 64% from about $70,000 to $115,000, in fiscal 2023 in next fiscal year’s budget, according to figures presented to the commission by County Manager Amber H...
June … it’s June. Usually by now, the toads and frogs are back. It’s oddly quiet out here at Head Acres. I don’t know if it’s because it’s so dry or if there’s some other toad/frog thing I don’t know about. Whatever it is, I miss them. They add a lot of personality to the garden. Last year, when I’d water in mornings and evenings I’d have a collection of groupies waiting for a sprinkle. We’d even find them buried in the potted plants, cooling off in the dirt. This year, noth...
I’d promised myself not to write this particular column. But it’s a promise I found that I could not keep. Like anyone who has a heart and who has heard of the murders at the school in Uvalde, Texas, my heart is breaking. That kind of evil takes our breath away. Of course, the national media seem to have plenty of breath, plenty of bandwidth, and plenty of ink available. And, of course, they have to report it. But I’m not convinced that wallowing in it is necessary. Many...
I had two boxes worth of old home movies converted last month into a format compatible with 21st century technology. My uncle Jack owned the camera — he had a passion for gadgets. Most of the reels of film were shot in the 1940s and 1950s. I spent hours last week immersed in images that likely haven’t been seen in decades — possibly even since they were shot. While Jack would never have won any awards for filmmaking, what he did succeed in doing was capturing tidbits of daily...
PORTALES – Josh Harden has been promoted to lead the Eastern New Mexico University cross country/track and field programs, according to a news release from ENMU. Harden had been the assistant cross country/track and field coach at Eastern prior to the promotion. “Coach Harden is a tremendous fit for us on so many levels,” said ENMU Athletic Director Paul Weir in a news release. “His commitment to our team and community make him an incredible model for our student-athletes. We look forward to his career here, making Greyhou...
MELROSE -- Drew Hatley has been named head football coach and boys basketball coach at Melrose, Superintendent Brian Stacy said on Tuesday. Hatley, former defensive coordinator for Clovis’ Wildcats and former Clovis High baseball coach, succeeds Caleb King who has accepted a coaching position in Olney, Texas. Stacy also said Kevin Lackey, who had been coaching the Melrose boys basketball team, will now be head coach of the Melrose Lady Buffs basketball team....
Kaylene Davis has been named principal of Clovis’ Zia Elementary School. According to a news release from Clovis schools superintendent Renee Russ, Davis replaces Jennifer Longley who has become the district’s executive director of strategic planning and school support - elementary. Davis has been working on the administrative staff of the Bovina school system. Davis has worked for Clovis schools, most recently as assistant principal of Yucca Middle School until 2015. Davis returns to Clovis schools with an established bac...
The Lincoln National Forest and some Bureau of Land Management properties have been closed to the general public due to high fire risks. Camping and other recreational activities in the Lincoln National Forest, location of the resort towns of Ruidoso and Cloudcroft, are popular with a number of eastern New Mexicans. Forest officials announced May 23 that the forest is expected to be closed until July 30, unless the order is rescinded sooner. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management announced May 24 that the Fort Stanton-Snowy...
The city government of Clovis is looking for city residents and “stakeholders” to take part in a “visioning survey.” The information gathered from the survey will help inform and guide the city’s economic development strategic planning efforts. The survey will be available until Monday, June 13, and can be found on the city’s website or at https://survey.zohopublic.com/zs/0PCzTc. According to a news release from the city manager’s office, the city of Clovis has engaged economic development consulting firm TIP Strategies, b...
The City of Clovis has openings on some committees and boards. The Public Works Committee has an opening for one citizen member from District 2. The committee meets on the fourth Wednesday of every month. Interested individuals should city manager’s office at 575-763-9654 or e-mail [email protected] for more information. Applications will be accepted until 5:00 p.m., Friday, June 10. There is one vacancy on the Water Policy Advisory Committee for one resident of Clovis. The committee meets on the second Monday o...
Senseless aggression toward innocent victims enrages me. No matter who is harmed or who commits the act. But to intentionally target children? Rage doesn’t begin to describe what I feel. Are you ready for some hard truth? Some of you are; those who aren’t should probably read the comics instead. You’ll never stop crime with new legislation and harsher enforcement. You’ll never even reduce crime that way. In fact, even if you imagine this tactic would prevent some crimes,...
Fatigue seems to have set in over Americans following the latest mass shootings, and for good reason. The numbers are staggering. So far this year, we’ve had 27 school shootings, according to Education Week. Last week’s mass murder in Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, was the biggest since the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting 10 years ago. Legislatively, nothing was done then, and most of us expect nothing to be done this time, either. At this pace, our nation will easily surpass the 34 school shootings that Edu...
On this date ... 1982: State Sen. Caleb Chandler, 39, of Clovis, defeated state Sen. Ben Altamirano of Silver City by more than 6,000 votes to win the Democratic primary in the hunt for New Mexico’s 2nd Congressional District seat. Chandler would challenge Republican Joe Skeen in November. Chandler, on leave from his job as deputy police chief in Clovis, said he expected a closer race, but attributed his victory to “the grassroots type of campaign we conducted.” Altam...
“Strategic ambiguity” is what U.S. diplomats call America’s policy on Taiwan and China. The strategy is to keep the peace by maintaining ambiguity over the degree the U.S. would go to defend Taiwan from a Chinese invasion. To date, that intentional vagueness has met its objective of keeping Taiwan from declaring formal independence, which would incense China, and from China invading what it considers a renegade province. Last week, however, President Joe Biden was unambiguous about U.S. policy. During a stop in Japan, Biden...
A New Mexico state department is stepping in to help a family business in rural Curry County. According to a news release from the state Economic Development department, that department is committing $360,000 in local economic development act (LEDA) funds to Melrose Tire so the business may replace its above-ground gasoline storage tanks and continue to operate as what the state terms “a vital economic hub.” Melrose Tire is a fuel service point and also the only tire service center and restaurant in Melrose. The business ope...
Anglers can fish for free in New Mexico on Saturday, June 4. as the state celebrates National Boating and Fishing Week. Anyone can fish for free in public fishing waters throughout the state but bag limits and all other rules and regulations must be observed. “This is a great time to take your family fishing,” said Mike Sloane, Director for the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish. State biologists are working on a number of Gila trout projects across the state to improve angling and have modified the stocking strategy at...
Curry and Roosevelt countians continue to cast early and absentee votes in the upcoming June 7 New Mexico primary. Curry County clerk Annie Hogland reports as this week begins 1010 total early voting ballots have been cast: Democrats 148, Libertarian 9 and Republican 853. Most of the votes were cast at the Curry County administrative complex, a total of 774. At the North Plains Mall voting location, 236 early votes had been cast. Total absentee by-mail ballots issued were 187. Of those 48 were to registered Democrats, 139 to...
Eastern New Mexico University has a new event facility thanks to a donation from an alumna. Casa del Sol, an adobe-style home on Portales' West 17th St. was built in 1948, designed by renowned Santa Fe architect John Gaw Meem and bought by Gay Su Pinnell in 2017. The ENMU alumna grew up in Portales and became a world-renowned early childhood literacy education expert. According to a news release from ENMU vice-president of communications and marketing John Houser, Pinnell...
FORT SUMNER - They named the area near this place Bosque Redondo, after a grove of cottonwoods near the river. The Navajo imprisoned there called it "Hwéeldi." Some say that translates to "place of suffering." It might as well have been called hell. It was near here, in Billy the Kid country, that the U.S. government attempted to strip members of the Navajo Nation and Mescalero Apache tribe of their language, culture and spiritual beliefs in the 1860s. The government had...
