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The number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 in New Mexico has increased 89 percent in the past four weeks, according to the state’s Department of Health. The state reported 64 COVID patients were in New Mexico hospitals on June 30. That number was at 121 on Tuesday, the highest single-day total since May 26 when 130 were hospitalized. The rise in hospitalizations happened on the same day the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention changed its guidance to recommend that even fully vaccinated individuals wear masks in p...
All elementary school students, teachers, support staff, volunteers and visitors will be required to wear masks in New Mexico public schools when classes resume next month, the state's Public Education Department announced Monday. In addition, those who are unvaccinated, or who don't provide proof of vaccination, will be required to wear masks in all school classes. The PED stated in a news release the guidelines are "designed to make sure New Mexico K-12 students can safely...
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SANTA FE — The head of New Mexico’s chief regulatory agency said she fears a lack of access to bank loans and other financing will keep local residents from entering the new cannabis industry and competing with out-of-state companies. Linda Trujillo, superintendent of the state Regulation and Licensing Department, told legislators Monday that her agency is working “behind the scenes” to examine how the state can help ensure startup money is available to New Mexicans who want to launch a marijuana business. But legisla...
New Mexico is expected to close out a wet July with another rainy week - except for the east side of the state. Daily rain and thunderstorm chances will be concentrated in the state’s western half and northern mountains, said Scott Overpeck, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service office in Albuquerque. “We still need to be on our toes with the heavy rainfall threats with flash flooding,” Overpeck said. “Especially in our areas that have already seen a lot of rainfall, it won’t take much for ... the arroyos to fill...
On this date … 1961: Police in Muleshoe and Clovis had a $20,000 mystery on their hands. What they knew for sure was that a man named Carlos Fierro Jr. had died in the Muleshoe hospital following a one-car crash July 19 southeast of Muleshoe. The Clovis man driving the car had a criminal history and was arrested after the wreck, accused of driving while intoxicated. As for the $20,000, Bailey County Sheriff Dee Clements said investigators believed Fierro had deposited the m...
We’re having one of those summers where, when I close my eyes, all I see are snaking tendrils of goathead vines, dotted with those seemingly innocent tiny yellow flowers. You’re not fooling me, Goatheads. I’m on to you. While I have failed to crack Mother Nature’s code as to what conditions are necessary for a bumper crop of these spiky spreaders, I can say with certainty that we have hit on the ideal combination this year, as we do now and again. Also known as punctur...
Editor’s note: Curtis Shelburne is taking a brief vacation from column writing. This is from 2016, but still seems relevant today. “Honey, if you’re going to the store, would you pick up ...” asks my wife. Well, first of all, I try to avoid going to the store. I’m not good at it. And I’m easily distracted. I see prices on the rise, and I’m suspicious. It may be low on the sights of conspiracy theorists (and Andy Rooney isn’t around to expose this), but have you noticed how...
Eastern New Mexico University is expected to finish sixth among the eight Lone Star Conference football teams. That's according to a preseason poll released this week. Greyhounds first-year coach Tye Hiatt said it doesn't mean much. “The last time we played,” he said, “was on Dec. 7, 2019, so it's been 18th months.” Most other teams in the conference are in the same situation, Hiatt noted. “I think we have good players, including all-Americans,” he said. “We had the training camp, and we get better every day,” he said...
The torch has been lit, albeit for an empty stadium, and the Olympics are underway anyway. History is being made in so many ways. If you’ve been keeping up, you know it’s the 2020 Summer Olympics taking place in the summer of 2021. Tokyo has a brand new 68,000-seat stadium, but only a thousand or so at a time are being allowed in to watch the action live. This year’s lack of spectators is part of a wide range of COVID precautions being imposed on these Games, but that isn’t good enough for most Japanese citizens, who wanted...
After Sir Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos both went to space — depending on how you define “space” — within days of each other, in rockets built by their respective companies, outrage activists got upset. Were people angry when Henry Ford first rode in a Ford automobile, or when Alexander Graham Bell made his first phone call? It’s not a matter of how wealthy Branson and Bezos are. It was their responsibility to ride their rockets. When your company builds rockets, you, as t...
New Mexico lawmakers, in the words of Senate Majority Leader Peter Wirth, D-Santa Fe, “have got ourselves in a really tough predicament.” Richard Anklam, executive director of the nonpartisan New Mexico Tax Research Institute, gave legislators a presentation this month showing what that predicament looks like — and how it is hitting consumers in the pocketbook and making it tougher for businesses to compete. Testifying before the legislative Revenue Stabilization and Tax Policy Committee, Anklam said rising gross recei...
CLOVIS — A Clovis man is facing felony charges of kidnapping, conspiracy to commit kidnapping, armed robbery and three counts of aggravated battery following an incident on July 13. Police arrested Corey Gilmore, 32, last week. The case was transferred from Curry County Magistrate Court to Ninth Judicial District Court on Thursday, where a pre-trial hearing has been delayed. According to Clovis Police Agent Haley Levy, Gilmore had invited the victim over to “kick it,” on July 13, but after arriving at the house, the victim we...
An essential department functioning primarily in the background is our Operations Department. John King, deputy director of Operations, oversees the myriad activities that go on behind the scenes, essential tasks and responsibilities that keep us up and running as a district. The Operations Department ensures we have clean, safe, and secure buildings where teachers can come teach and students can come learn. When King stopped by and began talking about all the projects and...
Cannon Air Force Base is among bases and state agencies that have received an award for efforts to improve early school access for over 243,000 military-connected students and veterans in New Mexico, Cannon announced in a news release. The Military Child Education Coalition presented the Pete Taylor Partnership of Excellence Award to a statewide partnership that influenced passage of four New Mexico legislative bills aimed to ease the stress and frustrations of relocating military families. On April 6, New Mexico Gov. Michell...
The U.S. Department of Education has approved New Mexico’s American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief plan and has distributed to the state, the education department announced in a news release. The state will use the funds to help safely reopen and run schools and expand opportunity for students who need it most, particularly due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the news release stated. New Mexico is receiving more than $979 million total in relief plan funds, and the most recent approval o...
Clovis is home to a new business with a uniquely modern product - the "selfie." Snap That, located at 1310 N. Main St., opened its doors this month. The business is designed like an interactive gallery with each wall boasting its own photo opportunity. Every room provides customers with multiple props and backdrops to set up their own creative photoshoots. One room features a bed positioned on the wall so customers can seemingly defy gravity in the perfect bedroom selfie....
Lubbock’s Chamber of Commerce has joined the chorus sharing concerns about impacts from the University of Texas’ and Oklahoma’s potential departure from the Big 12 conference. The Chamber last week announced it sent a letter to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, voicing concerns about the future of the Big 12 and what it could mean for both Texas Tech and the local economy. “The potential demise of the Big 12 — and of major college athletics in Lubbock — could devastate not just Texas Tech itself, but the local economy that is accustom...
LUBBOCK — Just call it Texit — with some Sooner separation for good measure. Texas and Oklahoma effectively served notice Monday to the Big 12, setting the stage for SEC membership and dealing a major blow to their former home. An 11th hour meeting Sunday with the Big 12 executive committee, including commissioner Bob Bowlsby, failed to deter Texas and Oklahoma from a plan assembled many months ago. Texas board of regents chairman Kevin Eltife was a key figure in the move. Texas president Jay Hartzell and OU counterpart Joe...
