Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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CLOVIS — Sometimes getting into Dodge can be just as much trouble as getting out. That’s the case for three bounty hunters each charged with multiple felonies for “the manner” in which they served in Clovis a non-extraditable warrant from Kansas two Aprils ago, officials said. Married couple Fabian Arreola and Yeira Sanchez (a.k.a. Yeira Arreola) of Dodge City, Kansas, and Lubbock-area “retrieval agent” Bradley Smith were each charged May 31 with kidnapping, aggravated burglary and extortion following a month-long investigati... Full story
Thursday • Curry County Commission — 9 a.m. in commission chambers in commission room at Curry County Administrative Complex, 417 Gidding. Information: 575-763-6016 Tuesday • Civil Aviation Board — 5:30 p.m. at Clovis Airport. Information: 575-769-7828 July 5 • Clovis City Commission — 5:15 p.m. at north annex of Clovis-Carver Public Library. Information: 575-769-7828 July 9 • Portales Schools Board — Noon in board room, 501 S. Abilene. Information: 575-356-7000 The meetings calendar is a daily listing of area events. To...
CLOVIS - Allegations against a Clovis Municipal Schools Board of Education member were the focus of the open forum section of Tuesday's meeting. Kyle Snider, who has served as the school board member for District 1 since 2013 according to the CMS website, was charged in May with two counts of petty misdemeanor battery stemming from an alleged incident on March 24 at Guy Leeder softball complex where he is accused of inappropriate contact with a concession stand employee. At... Full story
RICHARDSON, Texas — The Lone Star Conference announced its Commissioner’s Honor Roll list for the 2017-18 spring semester on Tuesday, and Eastern New Mexico was among the LSC’s better-performing schools. The Greyhounds, who have had a number of student-athletes honored with various academic awards already this spring, recorded the fifth-highest number of honorees within the league. ENMU had 107 athletes honored by the Commissioner’s office, trailing only West Texas A&M (124), Angelo State and UT-Permian Basin (121 apiece)...
TEXICO — A months-long investigation into allegations of hazing by Texico baseball team members did not reveal wrongdoing on the part of any players or coaches, Superintendent Rob Brown said Tuesday. Brown said findings from Doug Bowman of the Texico Police Department were received June 13, and sent to both the Ninth Judicial District Attorney’s Office and the New Mexico State Police. “We shared all of the information we had, as well as the report from Officer (Doug) Bowman,” Brown said. “The final result is there was no ev...
Clovis High’s football team continues its small steps toward the 2018 season, with more of those steps taken over this past weekend. The Wildcats took part in the New Mexico State University 7-on-7 scrimmages in Las Cruces, and they saw some good things, some that needed tweaking. It’s all part of the deal in June — getting it right, getting better, ironing out the kinks, in preparation for the curtain rising on Aug. 24 at Hobbs. Overall, Clovis went 2-2 in pool play, earning a fourth seed out of 19 teams, before narro...
Today • Preschool storytime — 10 a.m. at Clovis-Carver Public Library. Information: 575-769-7840 • Rockstars — 10:30 a.m. at City Park, Portales. Featuring Cannon AFB Military Working Dogs. Information: 575-356-3940 • Norman Petty Studio tours — 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Draggin’ Main Music Festival event. Clovis. Information: 575-763-3435 • Remembering Bobby Vee featuring The Killer Vees — 7 p.m. at Marshall Auditorium. Tickets: $25. Information: 575-763-3435 Friday • Norman Petty Studio tours — 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Draggin’ Main Music F...
On this date ... 1968: New Clovis Police Chief Ken Kingsbury was shaking things up, upsetting longtime officers along the way. Kingsbury, appointed to the job 28 days earlier, said "...(S)ome men here think this is a social club," the Clovis News-Journal reported. "I'm going to shake it up and see where it falls. The people of Clovis deserve a good department." The major change was in the detective division - all detectives "were ousted from their positions," the newspaper...
Booked The following were booked into local jails Monday: Clovis • Jared McDaniel, 22, assault with intent to commit a violent felony • Maria Ratigan, 51, resisting, evading or obstructing an officer • Angel Villalobos, 21, failure to appear on a felony charge • Anthony Bara, 23, failure to appear at time and place stated in citation • Donna Garcia, 55, aggravated assault (deadly weapon) • Jimi Gallegos, 26, probation violation • Dennis Johnson, 39, criminal damage to property, probation violation • Fred Kelly, 24, unla...
CLOVIS — In conjunction with the weekend’s Draggin’ Main festivities, the Clovis Committee of 50 is helping host a free dinner for active and retired military members and their families. The barbecue meal will be served beginning 4:30 p.m. Saturday until the food runs out at the Clovis-Carver Public Library. Seating will be available in the Ingram Room inside the library. Information: 575-763-3435....
PORTALES — The city of Portales’ street department is closing three sections of roads Wednesday for work from 8:30 a.m. to noon. The roads to be closed are Fifth, Sixth and Seventh streets between Avenues A and C. The city asks people plan travel away from that area, and to watch for men working on the road....
Eastern New Mexico University and Clovis Community College both received Gold School designation as a Military Friendly School. The listing of schools is posted in G.I. Jobs magazine’s May edition and is available at www.militaryfriendly.com. More than 1,400 schools across the country apply for the designation through a survey, with 941 receiving a Military Friendly designation. There are 50 schools that received a Top 10 designation — 10 each for graduate school, large community college, large public, non-traditional and...
PORTALES - The Roosevelt County Commission voted 4-0 to approve the notice of intent for a right-to-work ordinance at Tuesday's meeting following an approximately 30-minute public comment session which featured speakers both for and against the proposed change. Supporters of the right-to-work ordinance pointed to the increased freedom it gives to workers while opponents said the ordinance would be bad for labor unions. "Right-to-work is really a union-busting measure. That's...
One of the latest excuses for more government interference in your life is the “opioid crisis.” Yes, people abuse drugs, including opioids. This is nothing new; they have done so for centuries. Abusing drugs is a dumb vice, but drug prohibition is far worse — it is wrong. Laws and punishment will never end drug abuse. The desire for the feeling drugs create is too much a part of being human. If it’s not one drug, it will be another. Sadly, when use of the safer drugs is as i...
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, who led the short-lived national embarrassment that was President Donald Trump’s Commission on Election Integrity, suffered his own dual major embarrassment last week: A federal judge threw out a 2013 Kansas law championed by Kobach that requires voters to prove citizenship before casting a ballot. Judge Julie Robinson also ordered Kobach to complete six hours of remedial legal education because he so badly botched the rules of civil procedure in presenting his case. Kobach may a...
