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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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CLOVIS - It still feels unreal to Esmeralda Arias, whose uncle died and grandmother was hospitalized after a structure fire early Sunday morning in Clovis. Arias came in Monday from Portales to visit her grandmother, Mary Delgado, who was still in Plains Regional Medical Center on breathing support. Arias said Delgado, 71, used a wheelchair and oxygen tanks and lived with her son Alfred Tacorante, who was dead after being pulled from the fire. Officials did not identify the in...
CIMARRON - More than two dozen youth got a crash course in running their own ranch, as New Mexico State University offered its annual Youth Ranch Management Camp. The camp had 29 participants from mostly New Mexico. One youth from Illinois and two from Maryland also took part in the five-day event. Held at the 130,000-acre CS Cattle Company Ranch just outside of Cimarron, the camp teaches participants numerous aspects of ranch management, including financial statements,...
Amy Corbin, the newly inducted president of the Rotary Club of Clovis, claims that any effort she's ever made at creating artwork has been, well, "disastrous." So why does she have more than 150 works of art currently stacked in her office at Community Healthcare in Clovis? For the best possible cause. Corbin and her fellow Rotarians are hosting a months-long area-wide project called "Painting a Better Story." It's a creative (in every sense of the word) fundraiser that she...
Texico’s Ty Thatcher was named the baseball coach of the year for all classifications, and a pair of other local coaches will be honored with him later this month by the New Mexico High School Coaches Association. Among the awards are former Fort Sumner track and field and volleyball coach Lisa McMath, who is one of four inductees into the association’s hall of honor. She won 10 consecutive girls track titles, plus six state volleyball championships. She will be joined as 2019 inductees by Mayfield’s Michael Bradley, Rio R...
Booked The following were booked into local jails Friday - Monday: Clovis • Don Crespin, 30, failure to pay fines • Aleithia Artemis, 61, criminal trespass • John Chavez, 25, parole violation • Lorenzo Sierra, 32, probation violation, driving while license suspended or revoked, expired registration plate • Hector Alvarez, 38, failure to appear on a felony charge • Guillermo Ordonez, 30, aggravated fleeing a law enforcement officer, speeding, failure to yield right of way to oncoming vehicle, receiving/transferring stolen moto...
PORTALES — Becoming Eastern New Mexico’s head baseball coach seemed the next logical step for Riley Price. The Kansas native, like his father, played college ball. Price has had to be versatile throughout his playing and coaching careers. He’s had to deal with adversity throughout both. And after coaching near the Canadian border for a while, he was looking to head south. Eastern’s job checked all of the above boxes. And so Price, after passing muster in the ENMU intervi...
Hey Moon, thanks for the memories. It’s been almost 50 years since mankind first took that “giant leap” onto the surface of Earth’s moon, finally getting physical with a relationship that for much of human history only consisted of romantic poetry and yearning gazes through a telescope. And as Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin and Neil Armstrong became the first humans to land on the moon, the rest of the world watched in voyeuristic awe on their black and white television sets. Most people did, anyway. Clovis’ Dawn Lampley was 12 years...
CLOVIS — The city of Clovis has issued a reminder that its new Unified Development Ordinance will not allow future installations of pre-fabricated carports. The ordinance was developed over the course of two years through various public hearings and meetings with the city’s zoning and planning commission. The UDO largely keeps prior zones in effect, but does offer new titles. The new code will not impact any pre-fabricated carport districts that were already in existence. Information: 575-769-7828...
CLOVIS — Two apartment buildings were briefly evacuated Monday due to a damaged gas line on Clovis’ west side. Contractors doing excavation work on the 1500 block of Cameo Street “struck a 4-inch steel natural gas line” around 10:40 a.m. Responders evacuated residents from two nearby apartment buildings for close to two hours, according to New Mexico Gas spokesman Tim Korte. The leak was stopped around noon and repairs completed by 4:30 p.m., he said. There were no injuries and no interruption to customer service, since t...
CLOVIS — The city of Clovis will hold a 9 a.m. swearing-in ceremony for David Robinson as District 1 city commissioner, according to a release from the city. The ceremony will be held in the assembly room of Clovis City Hall at 321 Connelly. Robinson was appointed to the commission in its June 20 meeting after the resignation of Ladona Clayton, effective July 13. Robinson will fill the remainder of Clayton’s term, which expires in March....
Another weekend has passed, meaning more local Little League action is in the books. Roosevelt County’s softball All-Stars of District 3 — a team consisting of players from Portales and even some from Clovis — had a roller-coaster ride of a Junior Softball Division state tournament at the Lady Wildcat Complex. That ride ended Sunday when Roosevelt stormed out of the loser’s bracket and ran smack into District 7’s Copper, losing 26-2. As a result, Copper is the Junior So...
ALBUQUERQUE —With fair season approaching, the New Mexico Livestock Board is releasing several recommendations following confirmations of Vesicular Stomatitis Virus (VSV) in several New Mexico counties. The state has confirmed VSV in just four counties so far — Valencia, Sandoval, Los Alamos and Santa Fe — but the board urges diligence. “While we are not ordering the cancellation of any events at this point, we recommend several advisable steps to keep animals safe,” State Veterinarian Dr. Ralph Zimmerman said. “I encour...
CLOVIS — Trial this week for a man accused of strangling his son on New Year’s Day 2017 was continued to next month. The delay is attributed to the sudden unavailability of a lead investigator. David Plyler, 61, of Lubbock, was initially indicted on a charge of involuntary manslaughter. That case was dismissed due to issue with the medical investigator office in Lubbock and Plyler was re-indicted on the third-degree felony charge of aggravated battery (great bodily harm), according to Chief Deputy District Attorney Brian Stov...
CLOVIS — Commissioners on Tuesday tabled a request to consider raising facility fees at the Curry County Events Center and Fairgrounds, with the hopes of keeping the venue affordable for local entities. A proposal from Spectra management comparing CCEC’s rates with other facilities suggests raising the first day rate for the indoor arena from $1,000 to $1,500, with the second and third days costing $1,200 and $800, respectively. Rates have not changed since CCEC opened in 2009, and County Manager Lance Pyle said the pri...
J.D. Hipp is not the father of 16-year-old Mikaela Snider nor 11-year-old Kailie Wieland. But he’s like a proud papa this month just the same. Hipp serves as gymnastics coach for Snider and Wieland. Each gymnast competed in the 2019 USA Gymnastic Championships during the first week of July at the Iowa Events Center in Des Moines, and each turned in memorable performances. Snider of Clovis reached the finals and finished top-eight there, “which is a big deal,” Hipp said, “because the U.S. Olympic team will come out of the eli...
If your idea of a good time is to vandalize someone’s home, I have no sympathy for you no matter what consequences result. Last year a relative’s home near Clovis was burglarized and cleaned out. Through the ruthless determination of his granddaughter, all his belongings were discovered on the property of the burglar (or an accomplice) and recovered. Now, someone has decided it was a good idea to try to destroy his whole house. The house he built with his own hands more tha...
Recycling has always been a feel-good issue for the casual environmentalist, but it’s turning out to be even less than that. It’s becoming less practical and affordable. Silver City and Taos are just two New Mexico examples of how solid waste authorities are finding it too costly to recycle — and a big part of the problem, it turns out, is China cleaning up its act. Sierra magazine recently ran a cover story about the condition of our recycling efforts, painting a bleak picture of just how ineffective we’ve been. Have yo...
A cliche about violent offenders is that someone often will say what a nice, quiet neighbor the person was before the eruption. A new study of mass attacks in America suggests quite the opposite — and that perhaps more of these rampages can be prevented. The U.S. Secret Service National Threat Assessment Center studied 27 incidents in 2018 in which nearly 200 people were killed or injured in public spaces. Researchers found that most attacks were motivated by specific grievances. Two-thirds of offenders had histories of m...
• Eastern New Mexico University is now selling 2019-20 memberships for the Greyhound Club, with club membership required to buy season tickets for football, volleyball and basketball. Memberships start at $100 with different benefits for donation tiers of up to $5,000, and money may be directed to support specific programs. Season tickets in general admission are $35 for volleyball, $40 for football and $50 for basketball, while reserved basketball season tickets are $60 and chair-back season tickets for football are $75. Gre...
CLOVIS - A special guest making its nationwide tour this summer came Sunday afternoon through eastern New Mexico to the accompaniment of a law enforcement escort and about 75 motorcyclists. That was none other than Old Glory, an American flag making a relay-style motorcycle journey across all 48 contiguous states. The "Patriot Tour" started May 18 in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, and came up last weekend from Roswell and through Portales for a changing of the guard ceremony in Clovis...
Schools seek contact info Parents of returning students for Clovis Municipal Schools are asked to verify their contact information prior to the school year. Verification can be done via Skyward Family Access, located under clovis-schools.org/registration.html For families without computer or internet access, computers are available at the CMS administrative offices, 1009 Main St. Information: 575-769-4300 Supply list published Clovis Municipal Schools has published its supply list for the upcoming school year, which starts...
On this date ... 1969: Price checks: • Burger Chef cheeseburgers were six for $1. The restaurant slogan was “Take a time out for Burger Chef.” • Piggly Wiggly offered Farmer Jones hickory-smoked sliced bacon for 74 cents per pound. Saltine crackers were 19 cents for the 1-pound box. A six-pack of bottled Coke: 25 cents. • Guthals Co. was having a lawn mower sale. Its 21-inch mower was $115.90. The 18-inch mower was $84.95. They both came with “sturdy” grass catchers. Pages Past is compiled by David Stevens. Contact him a...
Today • Swearing-in ceremony for Clovis City Commissioner David Robinson — 9 a.m., Clovis City Hall, 321 N. Connelly, Clovis. Information: 575-769-7828 • City of Clovis Finance Committee — 2 p.m., Clovis City Hall small conference room, 321 N. Connelly, Clovis. Information: 575-673-9654 Thursday • Curry County Health Council — 12-1 p.m., Commission Room, Curry County Administration Complex, 417 Gidding St., Clovis. Information: 575-763-6009 Tuesday • Clovis Municipal Schools board — 5:30 p.m., Board Room, CMS administration...
FORT SUMNER - You visit the moonlit gravesite of an infamous outlaw at midnight on the anniversary of his violent death, you do well to expect about anything. So if you visited the Fort Sumner burial ground purporting to hold the remains of "Billy the Kid," shot dead just before midnight on July 14, 1881, in a house on a property adjoining that site, you could be forgiven a few goosebumps. Maybe there won't be something as dramatic as a spectral vision or a rattling on the...
CLOVIS — The Clovis police officer who discharged a weapon during a July 6 standoff has not been identified by either the department or the New Mexico State Police, but he was returned to full duty four days after the standoff. The weapon was discharged, officials said, in response to Damon Smith, 42, brandishing a weapon during the two-hour standoff that began around 5 p.m. July 6. Police were called to a report of a domestic disturbance with shots fired on the 2700 block of Wallace Street. Smith remains in the Curry County...
