Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., during a multi-day tour through the state, paid a visit Wednesday to New Mexico State University's Agricultural Science Center just outside of Clovis. Heinrich spoke with The News following the tour. Q: What are your immediate takeaways from the center tour? A: That we are just now starting to use agriculture as an additional tool, particularly as a climate tool. For years, we've been focused on energy. But land use and agriculture,...
Information on gluten-free cooking and using a grid as a guide for quilted creations will be the featured topics on “Creative Living” 9:30 p.m. Tuesday and noon Thursday (all times Mountain). K.C. Pomering is the founder of G-Free Foodie, an online resource for gluten-free cooking. She will discuss the benefits of a gluten-free diet and demonstrate how to prepare easy and delicious gluten-free meals. Pomering lives in Madera, California. Quilter and designer, Laura Murray wil...
CLOVIS — Police on Thursday arrested a man accused of shooting his brother earlier in the morning. According to a news release from Clovis police and court records: • Officials at 9:51 a.m. Thursday received an emergency call from "a subject who advised he had been shot by his brother. Officers and Emergency Medical Services responded to the scene, where they interacted with a 53-year-old male who had sustained multiple gunshots to his body." Police did not name the sho...
Curry Resident Senior Meals Association 901 W. 13th St., Clovis 575-762-9405 All meals served with 2% milk and tossed salad w/dressing Monday: BBQ riblet, macaroni and cheese, season peas, dinner roll w/margarine, fruit cocktail Tuesday: Green chili cheeseburger, baked beans, potato salad, peaches Wednesday: Red chili beef enchiladas, pinto beans, chips and salsa, salad, ice cream Thursday: Roast pork, mashed potatoes, black-eyed peas, cornbread w/margarine, oatmeal cookie Friday: Salisbury steak, scalloped potatoes w/gravy,...
CLOVIS — Reserved seat ticket sales for the 2021 Clovis High football season will begin July 19, according to a district release. Anybody who had seats last season will have until Aug. 6 to purchase or relinquish their seats, and any remaining seats will go on sale to the public. Tickets are $60 per seat and $75 for each box seat, along with a processing fee of $5 for reserved seats and $5.75 for box seats. Discounted rates are available for active duty and retired military members of $45 per seat with a $4.25 processing f...
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 clovis.polarislibrary.com or call 575-769-7840 to request a specific item for curbside pickup. “Golden Girl” by Elin Hilderbrand has been donated in the memory of Nedra Isbell. On a perfect June day, Vivian Howe, author of thirteen beach novels and mother of three nearly grown children, is killed in a hit-and-run car accident. She ascends to the Bey...
The old summertime saying goes: “I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream.” I’m not too sure I’ve ever done too much screaming for ice cream, but I sure have moaned and complained after eating too much of the frozen sweet stuff. I could eat ice cream every night if I let myself, but I try hard not to succumb to temptation that often. Still, as the hot days of July roll around I find myself craving homemade ice cream - by far the best summer dessert ever. My dad’s f...
Editor's note: As we begin to see COVID-19 in our rear-view mirrors, travelers are cautiously returning to the roads. This series offers destination options for eastern New Mexico-area residents looking to get away for a few days. If you like time travel, then you won't want to miss this stop in Albuquerque. The New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science takes you on a journey through New Mexico's past, past the formation of the universe, and walks through the present....
CLOVIS — Based on the crowd at the Baxter-Curren Senior Center’s Thursday board and business meeting, it’s safe to say the center was missed during the year-plus shutdown forced by the COVID-19 pandemic. At the center’s first meeting of any type since the pandemic began, board members addressed a crowd of nearly 75 people with optimism for the months ahead and a picture of how the private-owned center would function when a new city senior center at Hillcrest Park opens sometime next year. Board President Jeff Greene led the...
Lakes in central eastern New Mexico have been looking less thirsty as the region has enjoyed a reawakening of the monsoon season. The level rise at Conchas Lake, about 30 miles west of Tucumcari, was just short of a foot from June 30 to Wednesday, according to information from the U.S. Geological Survey, which tracks water depth and lake volume daily. The new water in Conchas was enough to reopen some boat ramps that had been shut down this summer because of low water level, according to Toby Velasquez, deputy director of...
PORTALES - The city of Portales has various awards, but it gave out one of its rarer ones Tuesday night to longtime City Clerk JoAnn Martinez-Terry. Mayor Pro Team Mike Miller presented Martinez-Terry with a 40-year service pin, marking her start date in 1981 - before two current councilors were born. Miller said he wasn't sure what the city would do without Martinez-Terry. "I'm sure you'd do fine," Martinez-Terry responded jokingly. She added the time with the city has been...
SANTA FE — The New Mexico Department of Veterans Service will reopen its offices starting Monday on an appointment-only basis, according to a release from the state. “We are so excited to once again be able to meet our veterans and their families” said DVS Secretary Sonya L. Smith. “I want to thank the veteran community for their patience and understanding while we offered our assistance remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic.” Veterans or family members must make appointments through their respective offices. The Clovis of...
PORTALES — A man who allegedly stole his father’s car in Albuquerque, then threatened drivers and shot at vehicles in Guadalupe County ended up Wednesday in the Roosevelt County Jail in Portales. New Mexico State Police arrested the man, Adam Romanek, 26, of Albuquerque, Wednesday morning after he was apprehended on foot after abandoning the apparently stolen car along Interstate 40 near Santa Rosa. Romanek has been charged with four felonies including aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, possession of a stolen veh...
CLOVIS - Judith Glikas, who began her career in Curry County as a police dispatcher in 1988, retired last week with the titles of administrative assistant to Ninth Judicial District Attorney Andrea Reeb, paralegal with New Mexico Bar Association credentials, and dog handler. For the past two years, Glikas has been most important to a big, shambling, affectionate Labrador retriever named Darwin, the DA office's resident therapy dog. On Wednesday, the DA's office staff, members...
Frank and I were home after our first year of college and Bruce had just graduated from high school in the summer of 1977 when we decided it would be safe to smoke pot in an abandoned field off a quiet road. We were in an abandoned field because none of us had a home of our own at the time. We were all staying with our parents for the summer. The abandoned field wasn’t a great hideout. The police officers dumped our baggie into the wind, took down information from our IDs, gave us a stern talking-to and ended by t...
Another year, another 50th ranking for New Mexico in the annual Kids Count report. And this dismal ranking doesn’t even take into account the negative impact of COVID 19 and Gov. Lujan Grisham’s harsh lockdowns and over a year of lost in-person schooling. The average U.S. child has lost the equivalent of five to nine months of learning during the pandemic, according to a report from McKinsey & Company. With New Mexico’s high poverty rates and lack of broadband access relative to other states (combined with more lost classroom...
Sometimes, the system works. A client of mine, an abused woman from El Salvador, recently was granted asylum. You might not think that’s important or impressive. It won’t change the world, and it won’t make the “Breaking News” segment on CNN. But for my client, it’s monumental. She doesn’t have to go back home to a country where she was sexually and physically abused. Her U.S. citizen children won’t lose their mother. Her sisters might find the courage within them to seek pr...
When hammer-thrower Gwen Berry turned her back on the American flag at the Olympic Trials, it made me think of Sgt. William Carney. Berry probably doesn’t know who Carney was. Neither, I bet, do the Black Lives Matter activists who spent last summer blindly tearing down statues of historical figures to protest the racist origins of America and the systemic racism they claim exists today. Thanks to the lousy way history is taught in our schools, most Americans — of every col...
Barely a day passes without additional news of Taliban gains in Afghanistan. Perhaps the Afghan government and its forces will prove more resilient than many expect, but if the country continues its slide toward chaos or, worse, the Taliban rapidly take Kabul, President Joe Biden’s decision to withdraw a residual U.S. force will look like an amateurish, unforced error by a man who prides himself on his foreign policy experience and acumen. With his top military leadership oppo...
The middle-of-the-night assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse at his home near Port-au-Prince early Wednesday is a shocking and brutal act that will be felt far beyond the island nation. In Miami, with its deep connections to Haiti, this bloodshed comes as cataclysmic news. It will no doubt create even greater fears that the country, already hurting for so long, will now descend into chaos. It’s not yet completely clear what happened. Initial reports indicated the attackers spoke English and Spanish and that so...
Today through Wednesday • Vacation Bible School — First Baptist Church, 100 S. Ave. C, Portales. Information: 575-356-6761 Monday through Friday • Vacation Bible School — 6-8:30 p.m., Prince Street Baptist Church, 421 Prince St., Clovis. “Concrete & Cranes.” Open to grades 1-12. Information: 575-762-4220 Monday • Monday children’s movie — Two showings, 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main St., Clovis. “Tarzan,” 1999, 1 hour, 28 minutes; rated G. Seating first come, first served until capacity is rea...
Tuesday • Curry County and Area Republican Women — 11:30 a.m., K-Bob’s Steakhouse, 1600 Mabry Dr., Clovis. • City of Clovis Lodgers’ Tax Advisory Board — 5:30 p.m., North Annex, Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main St., Clovis. The public is invited to view the meeting on Suddenlink Channel 10, www.cityofclovis.org, and on Facebook at City of Clovis, NM (City Government). Questions to be shared with the board may be called in at 575-763-9200. Information: 575-763-9654 Wednesday • City of Clovis Finance Committee — 2...
CLOVIS — When cannabis dispensaries open up shop next year in Clovis, they’ll probably have to do so more than 300 feet from existing schools, churches, rehab centers, playgrounds or public parks, and more than 500 feet away from other dispensaries. That’s according to an ordinance that will soon make its way through the Clovis City Commission. The city’s planning and zoning commission met Wednesday to discuss the planned ordinance, which city officials want in place before the state begins accepting dispensary applica...
CLOVIS — A Clovis man pled guilty Tuesday to a pair of felonies, according to a release from the district attorney's office. Kevin Perry, 28, pleaded to charges of arson and aggravated burglary and was sentenced to 10 years by District Judge Drew Tatum. According to a release from the office: • During the investigation of a July 2019 burglary, Curry County sheriff's deputies found a residence had several items taken from it and set afire. Perry was found down the road from the house, and admitted to breaking into the res...
CLOVIS — A Clovis man was sentenced to 11 years in the Department of Corrections Tuesday for charges of possession of a controlled substance and tampering with evidence, according to a release from the district attorney's office. Ernesto Martinez, 32, was found guilty of the charges June 23. According to the release, Martinez, while a detainee at the Curry County Adult Detention Center, was observed trying to pass an item to another detainee. The item intercepted by detention officers contained methamphetamine, and during a...
