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CLOVIS — It was not a welfare check but “a call for a suicidal subject,” potentially armed. That’s what preceded the recent incident for which the city’s police department is now being sued, Chief Doug Ford told The News on Friday. “This was not a welfare check call initially. This was totally opposite of that,” said Ford. “It was a call for a suicidal subject, with the mother telling us that he was probably armed and threatening suicide by cop. ... “That’s what people need to understand, that when we’re given that in...
There’s a sense of personal accomplishment, of self-worth, when you make something with your own hands through your own efforts. Even if you seek guidance from someone with experience, you’ve learned more than you knew before. You’ll probably value the results more than if you had no part in making it. If, after you do the work yourself, you decide you’d rather pay someone to do it for you next time, at least you now know what’s involved. You will probably have a better se...
TEXICO - Are you ready for some basketball? Girls from around Eastern New Mexico are, and they descended on Texico High School Monday for the start of the Texico Girls Basketball League. It was the first of four straight Mondays where girls basketball players from eighth grade through varsity, from Quay to Roosevelt to DeBaca to Parmer to Curry County, will be playing wall-to-wall hoops to hone their skills and try to improve as they look ahead to next winter. "It's our...
When Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz and New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez agree on something maybe it is time to declare victory. Or the Apocalypse. It all started when Ocasio-Cortez tweeted “if you are a member of Congress + leave, you shouldn’t be allowed to turn right around&leverage your service for a lobbyist check.” Quickly, Cruz responded. “Here’s something I don’t say often: on this point, I AGREE with @AOC Indeed, I have long called for a LIFETIME BAN on former Members of Congress becoming lo...
CLOVIS — The Clovis City Commission plans to hand out four keys to the city, a pair of employee awards, two proclamations and maybe a contract and lawsuit when it meets Thursday night. Plenty of awards and proclamations are on the agenda for the 5:15 p.m. meeting at the North Annex of the Clovis-Carver Public Library, including a proclamation for this week’s Pioneer Days celebration and keys to the city for four guests of the festivities. Miss Rodeo America Taylor McNair, Miss Turquoise Circuit Jamee Middagh, Miss Rodeo New...
PORTALES — Athletic facility repairs and funds for public broadcasting are a step closer to realization following Saturday’s meeting of the Eastern New Mexico University Board of Regents. Money from the recent legislative session includes $750,000 “towards the re-roofing of Greyhound Arena” and $497,633 “to replace end-of-life digital TV transmitters and translators for KENW-TV operations,” documents show. Additional funding of $600,000 on the roof project “was secured as a result of a lawsuit the University pursued and w...
PORTALES — When embroiled in a debt lawsuit, the last thing anyone needs is the additional hassle of taking time off work, getting to court and wading through months or years of legal proceedings. Hence a new “Online Dispute Resolution” initiative, starting this month as a pilot program in six counties including those of the 9th Judicial District. From April 2018 to April 2019 there were 287 debt and money-due cases in the district court of Roosevelt County and 613 in that of Curry County, Judge Donna Mowrer told The News....
Potter Doyle and Mary Potter of Clovis will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary Saturday in Clovis. The couple was married June 6, 1969, in Wheaton, Minnesota. They have four children and four grandchildren. He is a retired pharmacist. She is a retired high school teacher. Invitations have been sent....
Today • Clovis Summer Reading Program: Tiny Tots Storytime with rodeo queens — 10 a.m., Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main St., Clovis. Information: 575-769-7840 • Portales Summer Reading Program Rocketeers: Blast Off! — 10:30 a.m., Portales Public Library, 218 S. Ave. B, Portales. Preschool storytime. Information: 575-356-3940 • Rodeo Barbeque Kickoff — 11:30 a.m., Bender Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram, 3400 Mabry Drive, Clovis. Information: 575-763-3435 • Stitch Addicts stitch group — 1:30-3 p.m., Clovis-Carver P...
BY THE STAFF OF THE NEWS It takes a lot to be great. There’s the natural talent, the hard work, usually some intangibles. Sometimes there’s no specific formula. Whatever it is, Eastern New Mexico University has decided that basketball star Treyanna Clay and running phenom Ivar Moinat have it. The ENMU athletic department recently announced Moinat and Clay as the 2018-19 Greatest Greyhounds. Moinat joins a long list of storied track and field athletes that have received the award, which dates back to 1940, including for...
Today • Clovis Community College Board of Trustees — 8 a.m., CCC, 417 Schepps Blvd., Room 512, Clovis. Information: 575-769-4001 Thursday • Clovis City Commission — 5:15 p.m., North Annex, Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main St., Clovis. Information: 575-769-7828 Friday • Clovis Community College Board of Trustees — Special meeting, 2 p.m. CCC Room 512. Information: 575-769-4001 June 10 • Portales Municipal Schools board — 12-1:30 p.m., Board Room, L.C. Cozzens Administrative Offices, 501 S. Abilene, Portales. Informati...
CLOVIS — The Curry County Commission is looking into whether it can put $24,000 worth of toothpaste back in the tube. Except the toothpaste is really a vehicle. By a 5-0 vote, the commission voted to table a request to waive county policy for a line-item transfer from the Curry County treasurer’s office to cover a recent vehicle purchase. County Treasurer Debbie Spriggs said she had available funding to cover the vehicle cost, based on her office’s deputy chief position being vacant for months, but conceded she had “jump...
On this date ... 1949: The Clovis News-Journal reported the annual Pioneer Days parade was attended by “the largest crowd ever.” The parade “marched south from 7th street on Mitchell, east on 1st to Main, and then north to 12th street before breaking up,” the newspaper reported. “In several of the blocks on Main street the crowd stood from the store fronts so deep into the street that it was difficult for marchers to get by.” Red Walling, who lived two miles east of Farwell, was named “best-dressed” cowboy of Pioneer Days. G...
CLOVIS - Ride 'em cowboy won't cut it. When it comes to the Pioneer Rodeo Days, it's ride 'em cowboy, cowgirl, even young-uns. This year's rodeo, the 49th installment, will take place Thursday, Friday and Saturday at the Curry County Event Center, beginning at 7:30 p.m. each day. And the goings on offer plenty of variety. There's bull riding, bareback riding, saddle bronc riding, calf roping, team roping, steer wrestling, steer roping, barrel racing and wild cow milking....
Unbelievably, another school year has zoomed past. Students filled with excitement, while educators are uttering a deep sigh of exhaustion. For both, there are likely bittersweet moments: teachers thinking of students so challenging at the beginning they’ll really miss now; students feeling the tug of a heartstring as they leave that teacher they so disliked at the beginning of the year, now feeling sad and realizing how much that teacher deeply cared about them and their succ...
CLOVIS — Clovis Municipal Schools has made a quartet of administrative transfers, according to a release from the district. Laura Adkins, Kristi Hopper, Nicole “Nikki” Hahn and Carrie Geisler will all change positions for the upcoming school year. They begin their new positions July 15. • Adkins will become the district’s executive director of language, culture and at-risk services. She replaces Renee Russ, who will become superintendent for the district. Adkins had been principal at James Bickley Elementary since 2013, and...
FORT SUMNER — The old west trappings of rodeo, barbecue and, uh, tombstone racing, live on this week with the 44th iteration of “Old Fort Days” today through Sunday in Fort Sumner. “We’ve got a whole weekend packed with family stuff,” said De Baca County Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Gerald Cline. “Even though these little events are kind of winding down, even on bad years we see 1,500 to 2,000 people at the tombstone race.” Cline referred to one of the more unique items on the schedule of coming days, the “Worl...
CLOVIS — Nearly a year ago, Curry County and the city of Clovis agreed the county would give the city $1 million in environmental gross receipts taxes for implementation of the city’s master water assurance plan. County commissioners are hoping they can convince the city to slightly rethink how it uses those dollars. By a 5-0 vote Tuesday morning, the commission approved a recommendation to the city to spend the $1 million specifically on remediation of the water near Cannon Air Force Base that has PFAS/PFOA con...
ALBUQUERQUE — Dozens of graduating seniors got in their last action as high school basketball players Friday and Saturday as the New Mexico High School Coaches Association held its All-Star ceremonies at Manzano and Valley high schools. And though she didn’t come away with a win at the end, Portales’ Taylee Rippee may have had one of the biggest games. Rippee had game highs of 17 points and nine rebounds, going 8-of-11 from the floor and hitting her only free throw attempts, but teh Large School Northwest team held off Rippe...
Eastern New Mexico’s women's basketball program will hold an early registration session 3 p.m.-6 p.m. Friday in the lobby of Greyhound Arena for its upcoming individual skills camp. The camp is scheduled for Monday through Wednesday at Greyhound Arena. Registration is also available on Monday Morning or online at abcsportscamps.com/enmuwbb. The camp is $100, or $80 for children of ENMU employees or military members. Additional siblings are $75 each. The camp goes from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. daily with lunch provided, and campers c...
Everybody dreams. Or so the sleep experts say. I feel most refreshed when I wake up with no memory of dreaming during the night. I feel most exhausted when I had a bad or intensely frustrating dream, got up a time or two in the night, and each time was launched right back into the same past-midnight mess. If I remember what I learned in some long-ago psychology class — maybe I just dreamed this — we all dream during sleep, but the only time we remember the dreams is when we...
“Family is everything.” Simple. Profound. Recently, I attended the celebration of life service for a man I didn’t know. Like many others, I felt as if I did “know” him because of his presence on regional television. Little did I realize how his life connected with mine, even in a small way, until I read of his passing. David Gonzalez of Roswell passed from this life to the next on May 6. His family, and his community, honored him with a touching celebration of life service on...
The loss of her own rescue dog a year ago led Linda Sumption to the cement building at 1700 N. Boston in Portales that houses the cats, dogs, kittens, and puppies picked up each day by Portales Animal Control. "I wanted to do something to improve the lives of abandoned dogs and cats in our community," Sumption said. An English professor at Eastern New Mexico University, Sumption is one of a dedicated corps of local people who devote their hearts, their time, and their spare...
I get anxious, as I might have mentioned. While I don’t think it’s anything requiring medication, fortunately, I became aware at middle-age that I have always had a sort of “hum” of anxiety going on in the background. I usually only notice it when it stops — like when the refrigerator has been running nonstop and you only notice when it falls silent. Anxiety has not always been my enemy. I am almost never late. I never miss a deadline. I lie in bed and obsess about everything I’ve written to everyone so I don’t make a lot of...
Clovis hosts its annual Pioneer Days events this week, highlighted by a parade on Saturday. Promoters are promising fun times for all involved. That may be true, but the times probably won’t be as dangerous as they were during the first Pioneer Days parade. That happened in 1935 and featured Leo the Lion. Leo was a real lion — a real dangerous lion, as Bill Nelson found out when he tried to load the beast into a cage the night before the parade. “The lion was securely caged...
