Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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Benjamin Cross retained his 9th Judicial District judge's seat while Stephen Whittington topped a field of four to win Clovis' magistrate judge's position in Division 2 in Tuesday's primary election. Other contested-race winners in Curry County included Dusty Leatherwood (Curry County Commission District 3), and Hollie Barnett (probate judge). In Roosevelt County, Javier Sanchez is the new sheriff, while Roy Criswell and Paul Grider won county commission seats. All results... Full story
Two Clovis residents were arrested early Sunday after their vehicle collided with a state police unit in Albuquerque. According to a news release from New Mexico State Police: An officer observed a 1997 Buick traveling 100 mph on Interstate 25 near the Paseo Del Norte exit. The officer attempted a traffic stop but the Buick continued at a high rate of speed. The Buick ultimately collided with a police unit. After crashing into a ditch, the Buick’s driver and passenger exited their vehicle and fled on foot. “After a short foo...
Eastern New Mexico University regents Saturday got a first look at a plan to increase enrollment at the university’s main campus in Portales, as well as campuses in Roswell and Ruidoso. ENMU Chancellor Patrice Caldwell presented a draft of the plan to address declining enrollments, which will be submitted to the New Mexico Higher Education Department (HED) by June 15. HED is seeking “enrollment management plans” from all state-sponsored schools as part of its efforts to reverse declining enrollments at all state colle...
Every year during the second week of June or so, I start feeling an almost instinctive urge to head south. At first, this might seem surprising to anyone who knows me. It surprises me, too. I’m not usually particularly interested in heading south. Let me explain. I was born, and plan to live and die, a Texan. This does not mean that I’m blind to the assets and blessings of other states. I find myself longing right now, for example, for some time in the mountains of New Mex...
CLOVIS -- Marches for “common-sense gun control” are planned Saturday for cities across the country including Clovis. The event is called “The March for Our Lives Clovis” according to city resident and organizer Garrett Clark. Saturday’s march starts at noon at Greene Acres Lake, making its way south along Main Street and ending at the north end of the Clovis-Carver Public Library parking lot. “The main march will be in D.C.,” Clark said. “The nearest marches outside Clovis will be in Albuquerque and Lubbock.” Clark...
A number of students interested in the dairy industry are calling Clovis home for a few weeks as they attend the annual New Mexico State University Dairy Consortium. According to Robert Hagevoort, NMSU dairy extension specialist, while classes are held at the Curry County fairground pavilion the students are staying at area motels and eating at Clovis restaurants. The program began May 16 and lasts six weeks. “Students come here from all over the country,” Hagevoort said. “They come here to learn all about the dairy indus...
FORT SUMNER — Fort Sumner’s first legal cannabis dispensary opened Saturday. “Smokin’ Mike’s,” a recreational and medical dispensary, is owned and operated by local couple Fernando and Ashley Lopez. The business is named for the Lopezes’ nephew, the late Michael Gutierrez, who died from injuries sustained in an attack by two suspects. Two Fort Sumner men remain in jail awaiting trial in the incident. The Lopezes said they have sunk their hearts, souls and their own money into creating the dispensary. The business is t...
An Eastern New Mexico University graduate has donated $1 million to launch a new co-teaching project with the Portales municipal school district. ENMU alumna Gay Su Pinnell, of Dublin, Ohio, previously funded a $310,000 grant to the ENMU child development center in Portales, added a two-year-old pre-school classroom and enhanced the birth to pre-kindergarten students’ hands-on learning and early childhood literature library. According to a news release from ENMU marketing and communications assistant vice-president John H...
The feasibility of a proposed regional mental health facility serving Curry, Roosevelt, Quay and DeBaca counties will be discussed among officials from the affected counties beginning at 2 p.m. Thursday in Portales’ Yam Theater, according to a notice from the Roosevelt County government. The feasibility session will follow on from a town hall held in March in which officials from county government, law enforcement, fire and medical services and public health met to discuss behavioral health needs of the communities, what a r...
SANTA FE — Public Education Secretary Kurt Steinhaus is giving up some of his day-to-day job duties as he handles a personal health issue, state officials say. Steinhaus, who’s 68, said he expects to pull back from travel around the state as he transitions to a less-intensive role leading the department. In an interview Monday, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham and Steinhaus said they had talked earlier that day about a personal health matter involving the secretary. In response, the governor said, her administration will make cha...
We Americans like to accumulate stuff through most of our lives, then somewhere around old age we start trying to get rid of it. At least that’s true for me. I’ve been working to downsize my stuff since around my 60th birthday, and I’m still at it six years later. Right now, I’m going through a stack of boxes that contain bits and pieces of my life through the years. It’s a step back in time for me, to go through stuff that at some point I couldn’t quite let go of. I’m not a hoarder, but all those boxes suggest that, at one t...
Politicians speak most passionately about things they understand the least, like guns. This is especially dangerous when they talk about what they believe your rights are. President Biden has recently shown he doesn’t understand rights-- he confuses them with privileges and he’s plotting to violate our rights because he doesn’t like them. This is criminal behavior from him and should be treated as such. Recent events caused emotions to run high, which leads to foolish threa...
An analysis of studies of the effects of lockdowns on COVID-19 mortality has just been released by a team of researchers at Johns Hopkins University, and their conclusion is depressing. “Our study finds that lockdowns had little to no effect in reducing COVID-19 mortality,” they wrote. “However, lockdowns during the initial phase of the COVID-19 pandemic have had devastating effects.” One of the papers reviewed by the Johns Hopkins researchers, “COVID-19 Pandemic: A Review of the Global Lockdown and Its Far-Reach...
SANTA FE -- President Joe Biden is scheduled to visit New Mexico this week for a briefing on the Hermits Peak/Calf Canyon wildfire that has scorched nearly 500 square miles of wilderness and private property, and displaced thousands of residents from rural villages over the past two months. Biden is scheduled to meet with Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, firefighters, Federal Emergency Management Agency workers and others during his Saturday visit to the state Emergency Operation Center in Santa Fe. It was unclear if he planned...
CLOVIS — Arrest warrants have been issued for two Clovis brothers allegedly involved in an early April shooting incident in a Clovis residential neighborhood that resulted in the wounding of two juveniles and bullets hitting houses and cars. It’s a case where both parties claim the other shot first, court records show. The arrest warrants issued Friday set charges against two brothers who claim they and some of their friends were listening to music in the driveway of their home the afternoon of April 6 when they were sho...
I suppose it was inevitable. As I made the drive from Portales to Clovis last week on US 70, I noticed the cleanup was complete of the fire-ravaged building that once housed the Blackwater Draw Museum. That part I had expected. It was the removal of the remains of two nearby structures that tugged at my heart: the adobe “caretaker’s cottage” and the “bathhouse,” the last relics of the old Eastern New Mexico State Park. I might never have even heard of Eastern New Mexico State...
