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PORTALES — Shonnie Standefer is on a mission – to make sure everyone’s vote counts. That’s why she’s planning to audit ballots today from Roosevelt County’s 2020 presidential election. Her primary concern is not with the accuracy of Roosevelt County’s election results, she said. It’s with the larger counties in New Mexico. “Most of us are not concerned about Roosevelt County,” Standefer said. “The election turned out about what we believe Roosevelt County looks like.” Roosevelt County Clerk Mandi Park said last week the audit...
TUCUMCARI — An Arizona man jailed for a crime he didn’t commit has alleged “grossly unsanitary conditions” and lack of precautions taken during the COVID-19 pandemic at the Quay County jail. Court records show Michael Lowe, 46, of Flagstaff, Ariz., filed a lawsuit against American Airlines in Tarrant County, Texas, through his Dallas-area lawyer, Scott Palmer. According to a copy of the lawsuit provided by Palmer, Lowe was flying on American Airlines on May 12, 2020, from Flagstaff to Reno, Nev., with a stop in Dallas....
TUCUMCARI — The Quay County commission on June 13 took several significant steps to building a new hospital to replace aging Trigg Memorial Hospital, including unanimously approving a nearly $1 million design service fee with an Arizona architectural firm. The $981,718.94 design service fee with Stantec Architecture in Phoenix, which has designed 19 other rural hospitals, covers architectural, structural, mechanical, plumbing, electrical, landscaping, civil engineering and heliport designs. Mike Williams, a healthcare p...
I’m writing this on Father’s Day. About an hour from now, it will be the day after Father’s Day. But I will never have a day when I don’t think about my father. I’ve never lived a single second of any day having to wonder if he loved me. My father was the best man I have ever known, and I’ve known some incredible men. I don’t say that with arrogance. I’m obviously stating the obvious when I ask, who has any say in whom his or her father will be? Or, for that matter, whether...
Eastern New Mexico University's summer camps, which are held on various dates from June to July, are now in full swing. Some space is still available for participants to sign-up. Inquiries are directed to [email protected]. The summer camps program "gives an opportunity for Eastern New Mexico University coaches and student athletes to instruct local youth and pass on their knowledge and skills on basketball courts to youth," said Cameron Brennan, ENMU Assistant Sports...
"Disaster preparedness" might not be on your summer fun list, but the members of the Greyhound Amateur Radio Club would like to change your mind on that, and provide some entertainment at the same time. Jesse Morgan, public information officer for the Portales-based group, invites us to drop by Calvary Baptist Church at 1101 W. 18th Street in Portales between 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. on Saturday for what his club is calling a disaster preparedness event. The come-and go-format...
Credit the Albuquerque Journal for launching a series on Title IX and its impact on sports, as this culture-shifting law turns 50 this year. The series is just getting started, and the Journal says it’ll be running for weeks to come. I’m looking forward to it. If you’re an educator, chances are you’re familiar with Title IX. It was signed into law just two years before I graduated high school, when women’s liberation was at full tilt and girls my age were growing up faster than guys like me. I was in high school when Title IX...
Do you ever get to the point where you feel like sitting back and watching the show while people suffer the consequences of their bad choices? I do, and I remember the biblical story about Jonah having the same impulse. It’s human nature. There’s one show I won’t be watching, though. I can’t think of a worse waste of time than watching the Jan. 6th Congressional clown show. Congresscritters are wallowing in their self-importance while the disasters they’ve unleashed on us are...
On June 15, 2012, President Barack Obama stood in the White House Rose Garden and changed the lives of hundreds of thousands of young immigrants. By his executive order, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program protected them from deportation and granted access to educational and work opportunities that have allowed many of them to thrive. However, DACA was never meant as a permanent solution. It was a stopgap response to legislative inaction on immigration. Ten years later, the program has proved an unquestionable...
Making Clovis a destination spot for national scale rodeo action got the attention of Clovis city and Curry County commissioners and administrators at the annual City/County Luncheon Monday. The topic came up as Curry County Events Center General Manager K. C. Messick spoke to the group about plans to tear down the existing animal barns at the fairgrounds and build a $10 million livestock pavilion. "This would be a game changer," Messick said. It is believed a new, modern...
On this date … 1972: The Hassell Club had recently met at the home of Mrs. Ronald Lewis. “The members helped Mrs. Lewis catch up with her sewing. They did machine and hand sewing such as dresses, pant suits and toppers for the Lewis girls as well as doing the hand work on these pieces,” the Clovis News-Journal reported. “Mrs. Lewis had the garments cut out. Two members brought their machines.” The business portion of the meeting focused on discussion about making sandwiche...
The New Mexico Racing Commission apparently will decide later whether to approve or reject Coronado Partners’ application for a sixth license that would allow it to build a horse-racing track and casino in Tucumcari. The commission discussed the application and two other items during a closed executive session during its regular meeting Thursday, but it took no action when open session resumed. Albuquerque judge Nancy Franchini on June 3, granting Coronado’s writ of mandamus request to compel the commission to perform its...
For Jay Fisher, cobbling together an analog recording studio is a labor of love, his own technical skills and nostalgia for the time when he could lay claim to being an extended member of the Norman and Vi Petty family, whose legendary studio became one of the birthplaces of rock 'n' roll. The Pettys had no children of their own, but since they were good friends with Jerry Fisher, Jay Fisher's dad, Jay Fisher and his twin sisters Lynne and Lynda were often entertained as kids...
