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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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CLOVIS — Some of the old COVID-19 restrictions are coming back, and they’re being joined by new ones. And it’s not at all unpredictable how local residents feel about it. “It sucks,” Ronnie Erwin said bluntly Friday, before adding some context on face coverings and other measures to combat the pandemic. “I don’t know whether they’re working or not; time will tell.” The two biggest changes in the new public health order, which takes effect Monday, roll back indoor restaurant dining and tighten requirements on wearing face c...
The following marriage licenses were recently issued at the Curry County clerk’s office: • David Refugio Delgaldo, 50, and Mayra Anabel Madrid, 37, both of Clovis • David Atehortua, 23, and Kenzie Lynn Gompf, 21, both of Clovis • Joseph Marshall D’Alatri, 20, and Jazmon Sian Wood, 26, both of Clovis • Ryan Alexander Williams, 19, and Micaela Cherie Jacobs Garza, 21, both of Clovis • Ruben Servando Cano Chavez, 43, and Noemi Garcia, 39, both of Clovis • Alejandro Ponce Jr, 20, and Gabrieal Tapia, 19, both of Clovis • Mario...
PORTALES — The Portales Municipal Schools Board of Education will consider re-entry plans for the 2020-21 school year when it meets in regular session Monday afternoon. The livestream for the 1 p.m. meeting will be available at livestream.com/accounts/25937490 or at the webcasts section of portalesschools.com. Anybody needing help may call 575-356-7000. The agenda includes two different re-entry plans, one for in-person instruction and one for remote schooling. The Public Education Department has mandated that all New M...
CLOVIS — Rada Winkles always had a perfect stitch, a perfect story or just a kind word, locals who knew the longtime Clovis resident said. Winkles, who died June 2 at the age of 80, gained many friends along the way in a life spent in eastern New Mexico and west Texas. The Hereford native, who retired in Clovis following more than 20 years at the Texico post office, could be found frequently at the Plains Regional Medical Center gift shop as part of the hospital’s auxiliary. Rhonda Murdock, an executive assistant at PRMC and...
CLOVIS — Police are asking for public assistance in locating a dark blue Dodge Stratus involved in a shooting on Tuesday night. According to a police news release, a CPD detective was in the area of 10th and Ash streets at 11:36 p.m. Tuesday when the vehicle passed him at a high rate of speed. The vehicle did not have a license plate or any type of registration displayed, the release said. A pursuit followed with the car’s driver at one point firing several shots with a handgun. The pursuit was canceled near 21st and Ech...
CLOVIS — After hearing numerous concerns over what future homes would look like, and if they were even needed, Clovis planning and zoning committee members recommended Wednesday for a zone change allowing for a new subdivision at 21st Street and Humphrey Road. The 7-0 decision, like any other committee decision, now goes to the Clovis City Commission for final approval. It would create a zone change from Residential Single Family 170 to Residential Single Family 7 for what is proposed as the Colonies Subdivision on a 1...
PORTALES — The city of Portales has entered the mandatory water rationing stage of its contingency plan, according to a city release. The city asks residents to do the following: • Not water lawns from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. or on Mondays. • Odd-numbered addresses could water lawns Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. • Even-numbered addresses could water lawns Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays. • Water from sprinklers or hoses should not enter gutters or run down the street. Noncompliance is punished by written warning for the first...
CLOVIS — Plains Regional Medical Center last week confirmed its first death related to COVID-19 and positive tests for the virus spiked across the region. Presbyterian Healthcare Services spokeswoman Amanda Schoenberg said the death occurred on Tuesday. State health officials said the victim was a man in his 70s who lived in Curry County. No additional information was provided. PRMC officials said three COVID-19 patients were hospitalized last week, including one admitted on Friday. Roosevelt General Hospital officials on F...
A North Dakota man must pay $74,000 in restitution for poaching a trophy mule deer buck that led to an investigation lasting several years. Sandoval County Judge James Noel ordered Cody W. Davis to pay $20,000 for killing the mule deer out of season without a license and $54,000 to reimburse the state Department of Game and Fish for an investigation in which officers logged 2,000 hours and 25,000 miles, according to an agency news release. In December 2015, conservation officers found a large, headless mule deer near...
Curry Resident Senior Meals Association 901 W. 13th St., Clovis 575-762-9405 Note: All meals come with 2% milk and a tossed salad with dressing. Monday: Steak fingers, mashed potatoes w/cream gravy, blended veggies, biscuit w/ margarine, lemon pudding Tuesday: Chicken & noodles, green beans, dinner roll w/ margarine, cake w/fruit Wednesday: Cheeseburger, lettuce, tomatoes & onions, baked beans, potato wedges, peaches Thursday: Meatballs w/onion gravy over noodle, seasoned peas, dinner roll w/margarine, yogurt Friday: Chicken...
Information on interior design tips for seniors and eliminating clutter in the home will be the featured topics on “Creative Living” 9:30 p.m. Tuesday and noon Thursday (all times Mountain). Lisa Cini is an interior designer who works with seniors and elderly. She will explain what she means by the “Love Method: Light, Optimize, Visual and Ease” and how using this system will increase independence and dignity and allows the care-giver the flexibility to adapt to their loved on...
The following books are available for checkout at the Clovis-Carver Public Library: “The Greatest Heist Stories Ever Told” by Tom McCarthy. Crime does pay. At least for a while. You'll see that quickly in these nine compelling and true stories of brilliant plans and guile, where the thieves seem to have it all. It took a lot of guts and nerves of steel to do what they did and not fold under the pressure. You'll appreciate the efforts that go into truly magnificent heists — stunning, well-planned and audacious capers that...
After a rough stretch lately, the wife and I finally threw caution to the wind and took a vacation last week. After our governor ordered Texans not to come to our state, we found that Ruidoso had open lodging and was ready to help us dispose of the little bit of disposable income that was left after filing our taxes. Sure, we only went inside one store and two restaurants out of an abundance of caution for my immune-suppressed honey but it was a welcome break. Just sitting on...
What spoils even more evening meals than robocalls? How about newscasts with their endless stream of titillating revelations coyly attributed to “reliable sources,” “people close to the matter,” “people familiar with the situation,” “people who thought the situation was a cast member of ‘Jersey Shore,’” etc.? The whole concept of “close to the situation” is overrated. Lots of people “close to the situation” can’t see the forest for the trees until Columbo, Poirot or Jessica Fletcher waltz in and make them look like doofuses....
Are renewable sources of energy ready to stand on their own two feet? After billions already spent and substantial subsidies that continue, wind and solar power generated only 9% of U.S. demand in 2019. In contrast, coal and natural gas met 63% of U.S. power demand. Replacing fossil fuels with solar and wind power will take decades and the costs, as well as the challenges to grid reliability, remain stunning. Yet demands for net-zero emissions and a renewable only future by 2050 are proliferating from climateers. The Green...
Here’s how far Donald Trump is willing to go to ensure his re-election: After trying to normalize COVID-19 deaths among senior citizens and asking us to just get used to the fact that more people will die, he’s now willing to use America’s schoolchildren as pawns in a proxy fight with Democrats. That is the only reasonable way to read the vitriol packed into the presidential Twitter feed recently, as Trump upped the pressure on state governors to reopen schools in the fall. (News update, Mr. President: Many districts have...
The other day I mentioned to my son Cameron something I heard the great economist Thomas Sowell say. Sowell had reminded the Black Lives Matter protesters who were indiscriminately toppling statues and defacing monuments around the country that a lot of white people were instrumental in ending slavery. Not just Ulysses Grant, Abraham Lincoln and the hundreds of thousands of Northern soldiers who died in the Civil War, but also many abolitionists who were fighting to end...
Mark Zuckerberg clearly hasn’t gotten the memo. The founder of Facebook persists in defending free expression, even though free speech has fallen decidedly out of fashion. His reward for adhering to what once would have been a commonsensical, if not banal, view of the value of the free exchange of ideas is to get vilified for running a hate-speech machine and to get boycotted by major American companies. In a speech at Georgetown University last fall, Zuckerberg stated it’s im...
Does the governor have the right to make us wear facemasks, stay 6 feet apart and avoid crowds because some people are getting sick and dying from a contagious disease? It’s a fair question. But probably not the most pressing question we should be considering today. A better one is whether we should wear facemasks, stay 6 feet apart, and follow other “safe practices” recommended by the Centers for Disease Control. Ultimately, we each get to decide the answers to those questions. Just ask Curry County Commissioner Seth Marti...
On this date ... 1950: Most of Roosevelt County was underwater. The Portales Daily News reported the region had gone from "drought to deluge" in 10 days. Boating on "Main Street Canal" was popular following a night of heavy rain. Bennie Zeigenfuss and John Parker launched their rubber life rafts at First National bank and floated down Main to the Arch Highway lake, the newspaper reported. "They might have been able to float clear to Arch. Water was running curb to curb all...
Tuesday • Portales Public Library Virtual Summer Reading Program — Alchemy and Art: “Rainbow Windsocks” — 10:30 a.m., Portales Public Library Facebook page. Crafts/experiments for second-sixth graders. Materials available in advance for curbside pickup while supplies last. Information: 575-356-3940 • Portales Public Library Virtual Summer Reading Program for teens — Magical Canvas Art — 2 p.m., Portales Public Library Facebook page. Programming for ages 13-18; materials available in advance for curbside pickup while su...
Meetings are subject to change due to coronavirus concerns Monday • Portales Municipal Schools board — 1-3 p.m., virtual meeting. The meeting is open to the public through live webcast found at the following link or on the Portales Municipal School District website: https://livestream.com/accounts/25937490 or http://www.portalesschools.com. (Scroll to webcasts.) Information: 575-356-7000 Tuesday • City of Clovis Lodgers’ Tax Advisory Board — 5:30 p.m., North Annex, Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main St., Clovis. I...
SANTA FE — Citing an explosion in virus cases, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said Thursday that New Mexico will reimpose a ban on indoor dining and call off high school football and other contact sports this fall. She also urged colleges and universities to postpone their football seasons but said she is still weighing whether it’s safe for New Mexico United, a professional soccer team, to play its season. The new rules — set to take effect Monday — will also require joggers and anyone exercising to wear a mask, elimina...
CLOVIS - Senior citizens are an obvious high-risk population during the pandemic. And Clovis Senior Services Director Barbara Riggan said without a vaccine available it's possible senior centers across New Mexico will remain closed until spring. Committee members met Thursday for the first time since November to discuss an uncertain future. Locally, the pandemic has already led to the cancellation of the 54th nonagenarian tea, the Old-Timers Day slated for the now canceled...
By fall, every New Mexico law enforcement officer must wear a body camera and keep the footage on hand for roughly four months. Officials are still looking into exactly how much it will cost them, and what they’ll need to do to be ready when the legislation takes effect in early October, 90 days after the measure was signed by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham. The camera bill passed 31-11 in the Senate and 44-26 in the House of Representatives during the June special session that was largely dedicated to patching pandemic-related...
