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CLOVIS - Community leaders on Wednesday celebrated the launch of the community's new brand, slogan and a promotion they hope will make Clovis a place where everybody knows your name. The Clovis Industrial Development Corporation and Clovis/Curry County Chamber of Commerce played host Wednesday to a launch of the city's new brand, based on the slogan of, "heartfelt connections. endless horizons" Also announced Wednesday was the "hello! my name is ..." campaign, which will...
PORTALES — The 36th annual Portales Heritage Days festival had to wait a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but it will be back beginning with a street dance 7 p.m. Friday at City Park, near Seventh Street and Abilene Avenue, to the music of the Blackwater Band. The event will be the first community event in Portales to return after the pandemic, according to a news release from the Roosevelt Chamber of Commerce, the main sponsor of Heritage Days. “This year’s event will see a few changes but they are either something new o...
Booked The following were booked into local jails (Tuesday-Friday): Clovis • Andrew Franklin, 27, failure to pay fines • Jennelle Mullins, 30, battery against a household member • David Molina, 33, probation violation • Patricio Ortegon, 49, possession of a controlled substance • Chrystal Hope, 46, contempt of court, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge • Isaac Castillo, 33, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge • Hunter Mote, 26, failure to comply with specific requirements, probation violation • Kia Gallo, 28, driv...
On this date ... 1976: Legendary wrestler Haystacks Calhoun was on his way to his mother’s home in Tucumcari where his career seemed in jeopardy. Calhoun, alleged to weigh 601 pounds, was suffering from an infected toe that doctors warned could result in the loss of a leg if it wasn’t treated. Calhoun said he suffered the injury in Atlanta, wrestling barefoot as usual in an 18-man battle royal. His mother, Millie White, lived in Tucumcari and Calhoun said that’s where he wo...
A Clovis dairy farmer who has been fighting the federal government for more than two years on groundwater contamination addressed the matter Friday. The News was invited to a virtual press conference with Highland Dairy owner Art Schaap and Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández, D-N.M. Cannon Air Force Base in 2018 disclosed the presence of PFAS and PFOA in a plume surrounding the base, with the root cause firefighting foams used by its fire department. The Environmental Protection Agency has no federal standard for drinking water, but...
CLOVIS — The Clovis Regional Airport is working with the city and Cannon Air Force Base to qualify for an annual $1 million Federal Aviation Administration award to make improvements to the airport. Chairman T.J. Curtis said at Tuesday’s Civil Aviation meeting, covered virtually by The News, that official business base travel out of the airport is “still a critical piece” of the effort to increase the enplanement — an airport term for total passengers. “Our FAA yearly entitlement is $150,000,” Airport Director James Harris...
PORTALES - There are road trips, and then there are road trips. Portales got a look at the latter, as the Journey of Hope cycling team made its way through Chaves and Roosevelt counties Thursday before resting for the night at Portales' Calvary Baptist Church. The team of 20 cyclists and six support staff is one of two Journey of Hope teams making a 59-day, 3,600-mile trip from Santa Barbara, California, to Washington, D.C. The Roswell to Portales Thursday expedition was the...
Harry Sheets came to Farwell as an eighth-grader, and spent most of the rest of his life making it a better and more powerful place. Sheets died June 5 at his home at the age of 91, according to a eulogy by son Gene Sheets. He was a self-made businessman, occasional pilot and generally witty and funny role model. "He was very creative," said his other son, Dr. Kyle Sheets. "(He) always had another idea to make life easier." In 1950, Harry had an idea to use natural gas...
Jerry May could always make people laugh, even when he was the target of the laughter. May, a lifelong resident of Clovis, died June 9. His wife of 52 years, Sammye May, said they went to high school together in Clovis but connected while attending Eastern New Mexico University. They became acquainted when Jerry was helping her brother-in-law move to San Angelo, Texas. "We dated a few months and then ran off to Juarez, Mexico and got married in 1969," she said. He had a colleg...
CLOVIS - The youthful participants in the Curry County government's Summer Internship program began their jobs, the first for many, like most employees do - with paperwork. The 37 participants, high school students and newly minted high school graduates, gathered in two meetings on Tuesday. Before they were introduced to the world of forms, they heard County Manager Lance Pyle and Human Resources Director Melissa Gunn describe their early careers and how their ambitions...
ALBUQUERQUE — Three months ago, Eastern New Mexico University regents approved a purchase to further expand the footprint of its Ruidoso campus to include all of what used to be the Sierra Vista Mall. In a short meeting Friday, regents approved a resolution dictating how the university system would pay for it. The 5-0 vote authorized a resolution letting the branch borrow up to $1.8 million. “We don’t expect to borrow that much,” Vice President of Business Affairs Scott Smart said, “but we wanted some flexibility so we don...
Belen High School has moved quickly to find a new head football coach. Andrew McCraw, 34, who was coaching at Eastern New Mexico the last five seasons, accepted the job Wednesday. McCraw was the offensive line coach and run game coordinator — and, for the past two years, the assistant head coach — in Portales alongside former Greyhounds coach Kelley Lee. Lee departed in March to become athletic director and football coach at Veterans High School in Brownsville, Texas. McCraw served as interim coach before Tye Hiatt was hir...
PORTALES — After missing last season due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Eastern New Mexico University women’s soccer program plans a return to the field in September. Coach Abbey Barnum released the program’s 18-game schedule Wednesday. "While we had the unfortunate circumstance of not being able to play this past spring with the rest of the Lone Star Conference, it gave our program a huge sense of gratitude, eagerness, and increased competitiveness as we looked toward the fall," Barnum said in a school release. ”We are ext...
