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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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UPDATE*** Clovis police Lieutenant Trevor Thron reports Saturday, Sevilla was located by the Lubbock County Sheriff’s Department and taken into custody on the charges mentioned in the following story..... CLOVIS – Clovis Police were looking for a Clovis man in relation to an alleged kidnapping incident on Ross St. Thursday night. Kelvin J. N. Sevilla, 27, is charged with kidnapping, robbery, assault with intent to commit a violent felony and aggravated battery against a household member. Thursday at about 9:50 p.m. pol...
About 20 people united by a mistrust in how voting machines record election results gathered Wednesday morning in a basement hallway of the Roosevelt County Courthouse in Portales. Their mission on Wednesday was to scan copies of all 6,627 ballots cast by Roosevelt County voters in the 2020 election to be used for an unofficial audit of the 2020 election results. The ballots, obtained through the state's Inspection of Public Records Act, were in plain cardboard boxes stacked...
Booked The following were booked into local jails (Tuesday - Friday): Clovis * Shapiere Bryant, 26, false imprisonment, battery against a household member * Eddie Suniga, 51, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge * Juliana Chapman, 36, failure to pay fines * Vergil Lopez, 47, battery upon a peace officer, aggravated assault upon a peace officer, assault * Krystal Robles, 33, shoplifting, possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of a controlled substance * Mathew Edwards, 21, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge,...
Sunday • Women’s March to protest the Supreme Court’s overturning Roe v. Wade — 6pm at City Park in Portales. Monday through Friday *Make Your First Video Game – 9 a.m.-noon, Lab 108, University Computer Center, ENMU, Portales. Open to ages 8-10; cost $65; enrollment limited to 25. Students may be dropped off at 8:30 a.m. and picked up at 12:30 p.m. Information: ENMU Office of Distance Learning at [email protected] or 575-562-2165 Monday *Movie Monday: “Dolphin Tale” – 10 a.m., Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N....
Monday *City of Clovis Parks, Recreation, and Beautification Committee – 5:30 p.m., North Annex, Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main St., Clovis. Information: 575-763-9654 Tuesday *Clovis Municipal Schools board — 5:30 p.m., Board Room, CMS administration building, 1009 Main St., Clovis. Information: 575-769-4300 Wednesday *Clovis Community College Board of Trustees study session – 10 a.m., CCC, 417 Schepps Blvd., Room 512, Clovis. Information: http://www.clovis.edu/about/administration.aspx or 575-769-4001 July 4 *In...
On this date ... 1962: Completion and acceptance of classrooms at Lincoln-Jackson and Parkview elementary schools was expected in the next two weeks, Clovis schools Superintendent Travis Stovall said. Two classrooms were being constructed at Lincoln-Jackson and six were being constructed at Parkview. The Clovis school board was scheduled to meet July 12 and officials expected to review the construction work at that time. Another item on the school board agenda was plans for...
The books listed below are now available for checkout at the Clovis-Carver Public Library. The library is open to the public, but patrons can still visit the online catalog at cloviscarverpl.booksys.net/opac/ccpl or call 575-769-7840 to request a specific item for curbside pickup. “A Brush with Love” by Mazey Eddings. Harper is anxiously awaiting placement into a top oral surgery residency program when she crashes (literally) into Dan. Harper would rather endure a Novocaine-free root canal than face any distractions, eve...
Curry Residents Senior Meals Association 901 W. 13th St. Clovis Monday: Hot dog on a bun, chili sauce with cheese, French fries, ice cream. Tuesday: Chicken tacos, lettuce, tomato, pinto beans, Spanish rice, spiced apples. Wednesday: Pinto beans with ham, fried potatoes, cornbread, pudding. Thursday: Chicken Alfredo over fettucine, broccoli and cauliflower, breadstick, cake. Friendship Senior Center 901 W. 13th St., Clovis 575-769-7908 Monday: 9 a.m. Exercise class, 10:30 a.m. Toodlin’ Around Town, Traci’s Greenhouse. Space i...
I grew up on an irrigated farm, or maybe I should say farms, in Roosevelt County just before the handwriting appeared on the wall. Irrigated farming was destined to change and eventually cease in eastern New Mexico. Some had dared mention it in the 1960s but it wasn’t until I was off the farm in the 1970s that everyone knew the problem was dire and wouldn’t reverse itself. I was reading the 1977 Special “Progress Edition” of the Portales News-Tribune that I mentioned a few col...
Portales attorney Randy Knudson has handed in his resignation as county attorney for the Roosevelt County government. Knudson’s resignation letter was submitted to Roosevelt County Manager Amber Hamilton the afternoon of June 13, the same day as a regular county commission meeting in which two county commissioners, Rodney Savage and Tina Dixon, voted against the matter of renewing Knudson’s contract for another year. In his resignation letter Knudson noted the three to two commission vote writing, “If two of the five commissi...
PORTALES - Eastern New Mexico University Women’s Basketball Head Coach Meghan De los Reyes has announced the addition of two more members on the Greyhound roster for the 2022-23 season. KiKi Roberts and Ashley Shipley are now on the 2022-23 roster, with Roberts coming to Portales as a first-year student from California and Shipley joining as a college transfer from east Texas. Both Shipley and Roberts join Marly Freeman, Deja Adrian, and Corin Camara as part of the first signing class for De los Reyes. Roberts joins E...
The 2022 Curry and Roosevelt County 4-H Contest Awards have been handed out. Mindy Turner, Family and Consumer Science Agent for the Curry County Extension Office of New Mexico State University, said the awards were given out on Friday June 10 and included several youth who will go on to compete in the district and state competitions. “These are educational activities that we are providing to build life skills for our youth,” said Mindy Turner, Family and Consumer Science Agent for the Curry County Extension Office of New...
CLOVIS -- A Clovis City Commission vote to hike property tax by $1 per $1,000 of taxable value has resulted in the start of a petition drive to recall Mayor Mike Morris and seven of the city’s eight commissioners. Carlos Arias said he has drawn up petitions to recall Morris and commissioners George Jones, Gene Porter, Chris Bryant, Juan Garza, Helen Casaus, Lauren Rowley and Megan Palla. Arias is having the wording of the petitions reviewed by a local attorney so they’re not rejected on a technicality, he said. Arias isn’t dr...
ABC News thought it was -- in the words of George Stephanopoulos -- “too ugly” and “too dangerous” and declined to show it on air. So Rep. Adam Kinzinger tweeted it Sunday night, letting us all see the threatening letter that recently came to his wife. Sofia, at the home where they live with Christian, their 5-month-old son. It greets her with a profane sexual slur. Then it gets worse: “That pimp you married not only broke his oath, he sold his soul. Yours and Christian...
The old system of cash bonds that was in place before voters passed a constitutional amendment in 2016 reforming the bail system was not equal justice under the law. It included a schedule that set the amount of bond for each offense. Those who could pay the bond stayed out of jail; those who couldn’t pay the bond went to jail. Let’s say a big company held a party where folks had too much to drink and then drove off. On the way home, the company president, manager and janitor all get arrested for the same offense. The pre...
As we move beyond a contentious series of primaries in both parties and look to the fall election, one of the big issues on the fall ballot is the plan to “tap” New Mexico’s permanent fund to provide universal preschool. For years this has been an agenda item for the state’s left-leaning interest groups. But it only received legislative support with the retirement of Senate Finance Committee Chairman John Arthur Smith. This November voters will decide whether to: “allocate 1.2...
The latest Biden administration official I’ve heard declare that the United States is “on a war footing” is Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm. Based on statements made by our political leaders, both the executive and the legislative branches of the federal government appear to believe we are at war. The only group of Americans who remain unaware that we are at war, are the great, unwashed citizenry. For what it’s worth, here’s the situation, as seen by one of those gre...
When President Joe Biden says something isn’t inevitable, it is time to count on it as a deadlock guarantee. The president’s handling of events has been poor and the same with his policies. But nothing has been quite as bad as his snakebit, maladroit, poorly informed, dishonest attempts to spin away the miserable results of his governance, especially on the economy. If he says the border is not a crisis, there must be people crossing the Rio Grande en masse and getting adm...
Texas is a fine state populated with many great people who do interesting and important things, most visibly in science, technology, energy and agriculture. Texans traditionally place a high value on individual autonomy and liberty. The Republican Party gave us Abraham Lincoln, and he and the party saved the union from slavery and dissolution. You might expect that together, Texas and the Republican Party would promote a society in which people live their own lives, make their own choices and mind their own business. So how i...
High school sophomores, juniors and seniors in Curry and Roosevelt counties along with those level students from across New Mexico who are interested in spending a day with the FBI in Albuquerque are encouraged to apply for the agency's Teen Academy, which will be held Tuesday, July 26. According to a news release issued from the agency's Albuquerque office, the deadline to apply is July 7. The FBI Teen Academy allows participants an opportunity to have a look at the inner...
The Eastern New Mexico Water Utility Authority board welcomed a new member from Elida Thursday at the board’s regular monthly meeting. Durward Dixon, mayor of Elida, farmer and rancher, was sworn in on the six member board. He joins board chairman and Clovis mayor Mike Morris, board vice-chairman and Portales mayor Ron Jackson, board secretary and Clovis city commissioner Chris Bryant, board member and Clovis city commissioner Juan Garza and Portales city council member Jim Lucero. Dixon has served on the board before, ...
A decision on whether to authorize negotiations that could result in the Portales Police Department providing law enforcement support to the town of Elida was delayed Tuesday by the Portales City Council. The council decided to delay the decision to negotiate after raising questions about whether the $45,000 a year for 12 hours a week of law enforcement aid that Elida offered would be sufficient, insurance for Portales police officers working in Elida, and how the move would affect police manpower in Portales. In addition,...
With the posting of a want ad in “The Chronicle of Higher Education” June 15 the search for the next president of the ENMU campus in Portales and chancellor of ENMU, ENMU Roswell and ENMU Ruidoso is underway. Patrice Caldwell, president and chancellor of the ENMU system, announced her retirement this past February. She said she would stay in the position until the university’s Board of Regents found her replacement. The search for the new chancellor is being handled by the executive search firm EFL Associates. The person lead...
Clovis Mayor Mike Morris says the city needs to increase its mill levy by one to pay a share of the cost of constructing the Ute Pipeline, because the Ogallala Aquifer is running out of water. Morris spoke at the June 16 commission meeting about the critical need for the Ute Pipeline, which would provide a sustainable source of drinking water to the city. He addressed the proposal to increase the residential and non-residential property tax. Morris said in an interview Thursday that the need for the pipeline is “extremely c...
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade, a landmark 1973 court ruling that established abortion as a constitutional right, that revokes the right from women and shifts authority over the procedure to the states. “We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled,” the majority opinion said. States across the country will now have the legal authority to ban abortion outright for the first time in 50 years. Thirteen states are already positioned to do so with “trigger laws” in place that will activate...
