Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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CLOVIS — More than a century ago, the Golden West Flour Mill stood tall and proud, one of many users of the railroad economy that helped establish the still-young city of Clovis. The building was no more Sunday morning, reduced to a city block of burned rubble by a fire that roared into the evening and also claimed a small local business. There was no cause determined for the fire Sunday morning, and Chief Mike Nolen said neither the department nor the state fire m... Full story
PORTALES - Shot and bleeding, Quintin Carmichael crawled outside Derek Garcia's house toward the front lawn where his friend since childhood lay dying. Carmichael didn't immediately realize the extent of Garcia's injuries, and he had barely realized himself that he had been shot in the leg. Inside the house, he saw another young man clutching his face and bleeding from a stab wound. That was around 2 a.m. Saturday. The evening had started out good-naturedly just a few hours earlier. "I showed up around 10:30, 11 p.m., a...
Harvey Park hopes 13 is a very lucky number. Park is 12-2 as a professional Mixed Martial Arts fighter, and if he gets his 13th pro victory on Aug. 6, he will earn an invite to the Ultimate Fighting Championship. It won’t be an engraved invitation, but it may as well be. For Park, reaching the UFC has been a goal since he began training 10 years ago after leaving the Navy. Park is fighting Venezuelan-born Omar Morales (7-0) in ‘Dana White’s Tuesday Night Contender Series’ on Aug. 6 at Las Vegas’ UFC Apex, a bout televised by...
McKINNEY, Texas — Fourth place is neither the penthouse nor the basement. And fourth is where the Eastern New Mexico football team was projected out of a nine-team field when the Lone Star Conference’s preseason poll was released at Monday’s LSC Media Day. Coming off a 5-6 season, Eastern New Mexico head football coach Kelley Lee will take the prediction — for now. But when it comes time to go out and do it on the field, Lee thinks his team is capable of so much more. “It’s n...
The mayor of Logan was fined $800, given a suspended 90-day jail sentence and put on unsupervised probation for illegally working and bidding as an electrical contractor without a license during a plea deal Tuesday afternoon in Tucumcari magistrate court. David Babb, 63, pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor violations of the Construction Industries Licensing Act — one for working as a contractor without a license and the other for bidding as a contractor without a license. He was charged in May after the state of New Mexico f...
There are many things I don’t know. There are things I think I know but I get wrong. There are also things people may believe I’m wrong about, but I’m not — a topic for another day. When I’m wrong, I want to be wrong in the least harmful way possible. I’d rather make the mistake of allowing you the liberty to live your life within your rights than to make the mistake of violating you for your own good. Or for the good of society. Since I’m going to make mistakes either way, I...
Like a lot of Americans, I got caught up in the 50th anniversary of our first moon landing. My moment was on CSpan3, where I channel-surfed into Reel America’s Moonwalk One, a dated NASA documentary that tells the story of the first U.S. mission to the moon. Now there was a moment when America was great. It encourages me to know that when our nation really applies itself, we can do incredible things. Going to the moon in 1969 — when computers were as big as houses, digital technology was still a baby, and the moon was made of...
PORTALES — The Portales City Council has scheduled a special meeting for 9 a.m. Friday at the Memorial Building. The meeting agenda includes only two action items: • A resolution to declare a dangerous building at 201 N. Ave. I. • Action on the property, either through an agreement with the landowner to abate the dangerous property or conditions, or an authorization to seek injunctive relief....
The recent U.S. Congressional vote on raising the minimum wage from $7.50 an hour to $15 must be addressed. Specifically, how did New Mexico legislators vote? Before we get to that, it’s frustrating to watch people we elect waste so much time whining about President Donald Trump’s tweets and arguing over whether to file articles of impeachment. Sifting through the Mueller report and hoping to find a scintilla of evidence is a waste of taxpayer money. Congress tried to condemn Trump’s racist tweets. How does that help their...
PORTALES — The New Mexico Department of Health’s Portales Public Health Office will host three back-to-school child immunization clinics at its office on 1513 W. Fir St., according to a department release. The clinics are scheduled for 1 p.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Aug. 7. Immunizations will be available at no cost, but parents should bring a copy of their child’s shot record and their insurance card, including Medicaid. Information: 575-356-4453...
Today • Eastern Plains Council of Governments — 10 a.m., Blue Hole Dive and Conference Center, 1085 Blue Hole Road, Santa Rosa. Annual meeting. Information: 575-762-7714 Thursday • Clovis City Commission — 5:15 p.m., North Annex, Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main St., Clovis. Information: 575-769-7828 Friday • Public meeting for input on the 2021-2025 Roosevelt County Infrastructure Capital Improvement Plan (ICIP) — Noon, Commission Room, Roosevelt County Courthouse, 109 W. First St., Portales. County residents a...
Tuesday • Floyd. Information: www.floydbroncos.com or 575-478-2211 Aug. 7 • Melrose. Information: www.melroseschools.com or 575-253-4269 Aug. 8 • Elida. Information: elidaschools.net or 575-274-6211 Aug. 9 • Dora. Information: www.doraschools.com or 575-477-2211 Aug. 12 • Clovis. Information: www.clovis-schools.org or 575-769-4300 • Portales, grades 3-12. Information: www.portalesschools.com or 575-356-7000 Aug. 14 • Clovis Christian School. Information: cloviseagles.com or 575-935-2278 Aug. 19 • Clovis Community Colle...
Today • Free preschool screening clinic — 9-11:30 a.m. by appointment only, Texico Municipal Schools, 520 N. Griffin St., Texico. Sponsored by Regional Education Cooperative #6 and open to children ages birth to 5 in the Texico school district. Information or to make appointment: Debbie Ulibarri 575-482-3492 • Blood drive — 9:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., Battle of the Badges Bloodmobile, Clovis Fire Department, 320 Mitchell St., Clovis. Register online at http://www.bloodhero.com. Information: 877-258-4825 • Summer Movie Under the...
Reliable grocers all recommended it. When you asked for the best, you received Golden West. That's what the newspaper ads claimed anyway. "The experienced housewife will ... use no other flour because she knows the best cooks are the cooks who refuse to be handicapped by anything inferior," one Clovis News-Journal ad read in 1929. "The experienced housewife, the 'Master Craftsman' of the home, will demand Golden West Flour every time." In Clovis, that flour came from New Mexic...
Of all of the many astounding qualities of Jesus, one of the most amazing and winsome is that, as Philip Yancey has written, Jesus was “a sinless friend of sinners.” I keep being drawn back to this amazing fact. This is not the first time I’ve tried to write about this quality of Christ’s life. It will certainly not be the last. A thousand pages would not be enough to adequately plumb the depths of this amazing truth: Jesus not only loved sinners, meaning that he longed for th...
Nobody was using the old wren house. My grandfather built it. Grandpa started building birdhouses when he retired from milking cows and his second oldest son took over. That son, my mother’s brother, is now 87 and retired 20 years ago. It’s a pretty old birdhouse. “My dad never built fancy birdhouses,” my mother explained. Grandpa put on a tarpaper roof and, if you needed to clean it out, you had to unscrew the back. But they were sweet little birdhouses, painted bright blue with a little perch outside the round door. I...
I was visiting with a new acquaintance last weekend in her lovely home in Portales. During the afternoon, as we sipped ice water and munched on cookies she’d baked earlier in the day, she twice used a word that rarely makes it into conversations any more. In fact, I can’t think of the last time I’ve heard anyone use it. It’s not a challenging or unusual word. It’s not even hard to spell. It was this: Content. I’m talking about the one with the accent on the second syllable; t...
PORTALES — Police found a revolver, a shotgun, a Glock pistol, four .40-caliber bullet casings, loaded magazines, brass knuckles, at least two pocket knives and “several bottles of alcohol” while investigating Saturday’s shooting death of a Portales Army veteran. The items were discovered on scene or during the execution of nine search warrants served Saturday against five individuals and involving three residences and one automobile. Police found only alcohol, bullet casings and two knives at the scene itself, 510 E. 18th...
CLOVIS — One woman was killed and a man injured Monday morning in an accident between a motorcycle and a city sanitation truck. According to a release from Clovis Police Department Lt. Trevor Thron: • Officers were dispatched to the intersection of Ross Street and Commerce Way at 8:34 a.m. for the accident. Upon arrival, they discovered Bobby Trujillo, 51, and Patricia Trujillo, 61, on the ground. • Patricia Trujillo, the motorcycle passenger, died at the scene. Bobby Truji... Full story
PORTALES — More than a half-dozen departments teamed up on a structure fire in the northeast area of Portales. More than 50 firefighters from Portales, Clovis, Texico, Elida, Milnesand, Floyd, Arch, Dora and Causey departments battled the blaze on the 300 block of North Avenue I. Portales Fire Department Battalion Chief Steven Cain said the call came in a few minutes after 10 p.m. and was under control a little less than three hours later. Crews were still watching hot s...
PORTALES — He had barely turned 24 this month, but Derek Garcia had already served his country and traveled the world before returning to his hometown. Garcia, the eldest of six children, graduated Dora High School in 2014 and completed 38 career jumps as a U.S. Army paratrooper before receiving an honorable discharge in November 2018 and returning “to make his life in his hometown,” according to his mother. Annmarie Garcia told The News this weekend that she hopes justi...
MCKINNEY, Texas — The Lone Star Conference selected Midwestern State’s Juwan Johnson and UT Permian Basin’s Chris Hoad were preseason players of the year, according to a release from the league office. The voting results come from a panel of 25 LSC head coaches, sports information directors and media representatives. The poll was released during the LSC’s media day at McKinney Stadium. Plenty of players were considered for the awards, including seven overall for the offensive award and 11 for the defensive award. Johnson...
• Colonial Park Golf Course will hold a junior golf camp Monday through Aug. 8. The camp is for golfers 10-18 and goes from 8 a.m.-10 a.m. daily, with snacks and water provided. A limited amount of clubs will be available for players who don’t have any. Campers are asked to register in advance at the pro shop and arrive 15 minutes before camp each day. The camps are $75 each, but participants pay $35 with the Blake Berry Memorial Scholarship fund covering the remaining amount. Information: 575-762-4775. n Eastern New Mex...
CLOVIS — If you one day see Javier Jimenez pitching in the majors, you might remember you read about him here when he was 10. Javier has a long, long way to go before he could even get a whiff of pro ball. But, he's on a good path, a path that future major-leaguers once dug their cleats into when they were just kids. Javier is part of USA Baseball, which the Clovis resident and his family hope will lead him to the national youth team that will compete next year against t...
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