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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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The Clovis Police Department SWAT Team was called out Saturday morning to help the Curry County Sheriff's department in arresting a sex offender on an outstanding warrant. According to a news release from Clovis Police department captain Roman Romero the SWAT team was requested to support sheriff's office personnel at about 3:45 a.m. at a motel at 1616 Mabry Dr. for a possible hostage/barricaded subject. According to undersheriff Michael Brockett, information had been received that Theodore Christan, 53, was at the motel....
Tye Hiatt, head football coach ENMU, has set a regional high school seven-on-seven tournament this for Friday, in Portales at Greyhound Stadium at 9 a.m. High school teams from New Mexico and west Texas have been invited. Hiatt confirms Clovis, Portales, Texico, Muleshoe, Artesia, Hobbs, Roswell, Lovington and Carlsbad will be there. He also said some of the state’s bigger schools will have players there: Rio Rancho, Volcano Vista, West Mesa, Santa Fe and a “slew of others.” There will be a Big School Division, Small Schoo...
No arrests had been made by mid-day Tuesday in connection with Clovis' latest homicide. Police said the victim was Victor Davila, 22, of Friona. Two women, whose names were not released, were injured during the shooting. The women were treated and released at Plains Regional Medical Center, Police Chief Roy Rice said. District Attorney Brian Stover said police have two suspects in the shooting that occurred about 12:50 a.m. Saturday in the 900 block of Connelly Street....
Usually when a public figure of some sort declares that the latest election or Supreme Court decision was “the last straw,” and they’re seriously considering depriving the United States of their presence and moving to, say, Qatar or Monaco or an island in French Polynesia (Rwanda or Iran rarely make the list), I’m tempted to send them a note and offer to help pay for airfare. I figure we could muddle by without them. But the much more permanent departure of a few of my favo...
Booked The following were booked into local jails (Friday - Tuesday): Clovis * Jadon Nicholson, 19, larceny * Nicholas Garcia-Padilla, 22, public affray, concealing identity * Zane Morris, 21, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge * Alexis Edwards, 20, tampering with evidence, possession of a firearm or destructive device by a felon * Esperanza Mondragon, 27, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge * Neal Anderson, 51, failure to pay fines * Anthony Jaramillo, 59, trespass * Michael Dubin, 46, criminal damage to property,...
Roosevelt County’s Heritage Days celebration scheduled for this weekend got me to wondering about its origins, the “heritage” of Heritage Days, as it were. It took some looking — as well as a few texts with Roosevelt County Chamber of Commerce Director Karl Terry and emails with Regina Bouley-Sweeten at Eastern New Mexico University’s Golden Library — to find the dates of the first one, but we did: May 24-26, 1985. I learned that Sandi Usrey — now Sandi Bergman—was m...
In the end, it wasn’t one scandal that brought down Boris Johnson. It was a series. While each transgression was unique, they shared this truth: The British prime minister is a liar. The weight of the untruths finally became too much even for Conservative parliamentarians. In recent days about 50, from closely allied Cabinet secretaries to ministers and lower-level officials, resigned with refrains that the serial mistruths on matters political and personal made Johnson’s continued tenure untenable. Johnson, true to for...
Everyone has blind spots. Especially when it comes to politics. In fact, I’d say politics is made up of blind spots knitted together with wishful thinking, expressed through legislation designed to violate people you don’t like. Conservatives generally love the Constitution. They have a blind spot when it comes to unconstitutionally controlling people’s movement. They obsess over “immigration” and are willing to toss the Constitution aside for this issue. It’s almost a un...
New Mexico’s been making the national news a lot lately, and not the good kind. First came the wildfires. The Hermits Peak Fire was making national headlines even before it merged with the Calf Canyon Fire and became the biggest fire in state history. Before that there was the McBride Fire that ripped through a residential woodland at Ruidoso, killing two people, and since then we’ve seen the Black Fire in the Gilas grow into the state’s second largest fire ever. As of this writing, the nation has turned its attention towar...
CLOVIS -- Some things will be the same at this year’s Curry County Fair, but some new events are planned, too. So said Curry County Events Center General Manager K. C. Messick as he appeared before Curry County commissioners Tuesday during their regular monthly meeting. The county fair is set for Aug. 16-20. Messick said Thursday will feature Michael Salgado, a county fair regular, along with opening act The Liberty Band from San Antonio, Texas. Country Night at the fair will feature Reckless Kelly and opening act Roger C...
On this date … 1972: Texico-Farwell scouts had been exploring Alaska. The State Line Tribune newspaper offered daily reports from their adventure. On a recent Sunday, the group had “enjoyed pioneer family hospitality” near Copper Center, Alaska. They were hosted by a family named Swisher who “started from scratch when they came to Alaska, building their own log cabins and clearing their own land,” the newspaper reported. The scouts had attended Kenny Lake Nondenomi...
Enforcement of Clovis’ new sign code has “created quite a ruckus” according to Clovis’ Building Safety Director Daron Roach. Roach said the city’s new sign code went into effect in January and has regulations for all kinds of signage: Temporary signs, abandoned signs and more as well as new regulations for new signage. One area of enforcement that caught the attention of area residents is the apparent crackdown on “yard sale” signs. People who erect such signs may discover they’ve been quickly removed by city personnel. “We...
Clovis Police report there were no fatalities in a Sunday wreck between a loaded 18-wheeler and a pickup truck in Clovis at Norris Street and Mabry Drive. The crash is still under investigation according to Clovis Police Captain Roman Romero. Romero reports one person was injured in the crash, the woman driver of the Chevrolet truck. Because the truck was so badly damanged, Clovis Fire personnel had to extract her from the vehicle. She was transported to PRMC with injuries sustained in the crash. The semi-tractor driver was...
FORT SUMNER — Increased scrutiny of off-highway vehicles, both in Fort Sumner and the surrounding area, has irritated some local residents, the De Baca County Commission heard during a special meeting July 5. But that enforcement is being conducted according to state law, said Sheriff Chad Roybal. Commissioners Bill West and Scot Stinnett both said they had received calls about Game and Fish Officer James Lucero stopping OHV operators driving on state highways and paved county roads, for various violations. And while most of...
SANTA FE—New Mexico’s Cannabis Control Division has announced during the month of June, licensed retailers around the state sold nearly $38 million in adult-use and medical cannabis combined. “As adult-use sales remain steady, this new industry is bringing new economic opportunities for entrepreneurs and communities across New Mexico,” acting division director Carolina Barrera said. The state’s population centers of Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Las Cruces, and Rio Rancho saw the highest sales numbers, with Hobbs also posting h...
The City of Clovis is renovating the Lyceum Theater on Main Street in downtown Clovis. Area residents may remember tiles in front of the theater with names of people and businesses written on them. The tile work was done when those people supported the theater’s preservation a number of years ago. How long ago? “I think it was 1978 or ‘79,” local Realtor and lifelong area resident Brett Johnson said. “I remember because a friend bought one for me.” According to a press release from the city manager’s office the tiles were re...
When Dr. Stephen Haynes turned out the light and locked the doors to his office in Clovis on June 30, it ended 40 years of medical practice in the city. On July 1, however, Haynes returned in the morning to begin year 41 of his private practice in the city. Haynes has remained in Clovis because of the people, he said. "These are people who would give you the shirt off their backs and help you in any way they can," he said of the people of the Clovis area. "they're the best...
Clovis police on Monday released details of a July 4 auto accident in which a Clovis police cruiser hit the McDonald’s restaurant building at 2904 E. Mabry Dr. Officer Taylor Ward rammed a corner of the south side of the McDonald’s building after swerving to avoid a car that had turned in front of him, according to the police accident report. No injuries were reported. According to the report: A Lubbock woman was eastbound on Mabry Drive in her 2014 Nissan in the left turn lane when, she said, “she possibly had pushed on th...
An international husband and wife team is now overseeing operations at Clovis' Salvation Army office. Lt. Diane Shatto is from the United States and Lt. David Shatto is from Canada. The Shattos replace Capts. Miguel and Maria Ibarra who left Clovis at the end of June and moved to the Pacific Northwest. "Our stories are very different but then they converge and go off into the sunset together," Diane said. The Shattos are coming up on their 35th wedding anniversary. David and...
PORTALES — A cornhole tournament and some first-time musical acts are new events scheduled for the 37th running of Heritage Days in Portales on Friday and Saturday, according to Karl Terry, executive director of the sponsoring Roosevelt County Chamber of Commerce. Planners are hoping the turnout can beat the “best ever” turnout at last summer’s Heritage Days events, which marked a return of Heritage Days after a suspension in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This year, the cornhole tournament sponsored by the Rooseve...
