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CLOVIS - Parents opposed to state mask mandates packed a Clovis Municipal Schools school board meeting Tuesday to protest. New Mexico's Public Education Department on Monday issued guidelines stating elementary school students, teachers, staff, volunteers and visitors be required to wear face-coverings at school. PED also stated the unvaccinated - and those not providing proof of vaccination - must wear masks in all public schools. The PED stated it based its new masking and d...
State Education Secretary Ryan Stewart is leaving “to address family health issues,” the Governor’s Office announced Thursday. Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has picked Kurt Steinhaus, who recently retired as superintendent of Los Alamos Public Schools, to lead the Publication Education Department. She also announced that Jason Bowie, deputy chief of the Rio Rancho Police Department, will take over as secretary of the Department of Public Safety. Timothy Johnson has been serving as the acting secretary of the Department of Pu...
In conjunction with the City of Clovis Floodplain Management Program, the library maintains a collection of materials on National Flood Insurance programs including maps of local floodplains, manuals for designing or retrofitting structures, handbooks on residential repair, guidelines for erosion control, and similar topics. Librarians will be happy to assist users in locating these materials. • “Addressing Your Community's Flood Problems: A Guide for Elected Officials.” Association of State Floodplain Managers Inc. and the F...
Curry Resident Senior Meals Association 901 W. 13th St. 575-762-9405 Monday: Bratwurst, Italian pasta salad, baked beans, sherbet Tuesday: Oven baked chicken, stuffing, peas/carrots, Hawaiian roll, diced peaches Wednesday: Spaghetti w/meat sauce, green beans, garlic toast, cake Thursday: Chili Relleno w/cheese, Spanish rice, refried beans, chips/salsa, pudding Friday: Chicken salad on a bun, sliced tomato, carrot raisin salad, cottage cheese, pears Friendship Senior Center 901 W. 13th St. 575-769-7908 Monday: 9 a.m. exercise...
Information on texturing the surface of fabric, ways to look ten pounds thinner, and making fringe flowers will be the featured topics on “Creative Living” on Tuesday, August 3rd at 9:30 p.m. and on Thursday, August 5th at 12:00 noon. (All times are Mountain.) Barbara Crawford, crafter and designer is going to demonstrate some techniques that result in texturing the surface of fabric, older clothing, new garments and other items. It’s called “Catch and Release” and you can e...
My family took the easy way out — again. We had our annual chance at a professional portrait and decided to let (insist) son Gideon pose solo for the umpteenth time. Oh, we’ve had three-person portraits before and every once in a great while, I get an updated “mug shot” for this column (amazing how editors can crop out the spear and the wooly mammoth!), but this year we wound up pinning all our hopes on Gideon once more. My wife and I always pledge to do better next time, but we have an unfortunate Ko(dak)-dependency thing g...
Editor's note: As we begin to see COVID-19 in our rear-view mirrors, travelers are cautiously returning to the roads. This series offers destination options for eastern New Mexico-area residents looking to get away for a few days. Imagine wandering ghosts up and down your street. Remnants of history and time are as vigorous as the people around you. At Albuquerque's History and Ghost Tours of Old Town, you have the opportunity to experience a historic ghost walk through...
The way Texas Tech fans see the latest Armageddon blast from college football is that in a few years, the Red Raiders will be either: (A) Playing UCLA on a glorious October afternoon in a Pac-12 conference game in the Rose Bowl setting with the San Gabriel mountains watching over them, or (B) Hosting Hardin-Simmons in a homecoming game before 12,500 disinterested fans in a quiet Jones Stadium with the late afternoon shadows of What Used To Be covering the turf. Uncertainty has...
Booked The following were booked into local jails (Friday-Tuesday): Clovis • Kayla Dixon, 31, failure to appear on a felony charge • Rukyia Brown, 50, fraud by worthless check • Rodolpho Martinez, 33, resisting, evading or obstructing an officer, failure to obey traffic control devices • Isaiah Carver, 27, probation violation • Joel Gracia, 21, driving on wrong side of road, aggravated driving while under the influence of intoxicating liquor or any drug, negligent use of a deadly weapon • Lucario Balboa, 28, aggravated...
Tuesday • Agricultural Science Center-Clovis annual field day — 7:30 a.m., Clovis Ag Science Center, 2346 State Road 288, Clovis. Keynote speaker: Dr. Leslie Edgar, associate dean and director of research, New Mexico State University. Lunch program catered by The BBQ Shop of Farwell, TX. Information: 575-985-2292 • Free preschool screening clinic — 9 a.m.-3 p.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 th...
It’s not that we forget. But sooner or later, news becomes history, and the awful thing that happened loses its power to shock. You remember the emotions you felt, but you don’t re-experience them — not to any degree of sharpness or immediacy. One day, that will happen to the events of Jan. 6. One day, as was the case with Dec. 7 and Nov. 22, that day will primarily be one of remembered pain. But as Tuesday’s hearing into the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol vividly proved,...
The first sentence in New Mexico’s Inspection of Public Records Act Compliance Guide states, “Access to public records is one of the fundamental rights afforded to people in a democracy.” Citizens can hold public institutions in the state to account through IPRA, and the Open Meetings Act. These acts mandate transparency. Government watchdog reporters are often able to shine a light on documents, text threads and other communication officials would rather be kept secret by filing IPRA requests or notifying the Attorney Gener...
A few years ago I was scammed by callers claiming to offer a great deal on my satellite TV service. I felt bad about losing the money, but felt worse about being duped. It’s a human reaction. All of us like to think we’re too savvy to be taken in, and it stings the pride to admit it when we’re not. A few months ago, an HBO documentary exposed Ronald Watkins, a 30-something porn-addled techie living in Asia, as “Q,” the secretive mastermind behind the QAnon phenomenon. Q was supposed to be somebody in the highest reaches o...
After the NFL became a bastion of gridiron “wokeness,” I basically stopped paying attention. But I have to say my interest was piqued by a news item last month involving football, or rather, involving the people who don’t know how to throw a ball or run a pattern but who are expert in throwing shade and running amok. They would be the owners, administrators and “others” who ooze social consciousness, hug trees, wear masks and bleat about their concern for humanity. In other...
All this talk about putting the “independent” back in the public school system is encouraging. Let's see some action now. School board members in Floyd last week flagrantly defied state instructions for students and staff to mask up in the fight against COVID-19. They declared masks and social distancing would be optional in their tiny district where there's no evidence the virus is sending masses to the hospital. Parents and others encouraged the Clovis school board to tak...
If you wonder what Republicans are accomplishing in Washington, look no further than the Senate Armed Services committee, where a majority of them voted to create the predicate for drafting women into the military. Astonishingly, only five of the committee’s 13 GOP members voted against an amendment requiring women to begin to register for the Selective Service. It’s unclear why this is a pressing national need, or why anyone believes it would help during a major war. Per...
PORTALES — The Roosevelt County Board of Commissioners Tuesday discussed the regulation of cannabis sales, manufacturing and consumption and whether to change the commission’s meeting time to evenings. Although the commission approved a Notice of Intent For Consideration of a draft ordinance on cannabis, which sets the approval process in motion, most of the discussion revolved around the concept of regulating activity on private land, with very little talk about specifics of the draft. Two commissioners said they did not thi...
On this date ... 1961: The Muleshoe Journal was encouraging its readers to shop at home. More than two dozen local merchants — including Damron Rexall Drug, Harvey Bass Appliance and Cobb's department store — helped fund the campaign with full-page newspaper ads that ran across multiple weeks. The Best Way of Life was published on July 27, 1961, followed by The Dollar of the Diary on Aug. 3, 1961. The diary began with a dollar bill reporting it had enjoyed a busy day. “Ea...
Monday • City of Clovis Neighborhood Watch Town Hall — 6 p.m., North Annex, Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main, Clovis. Join the City of Clovis and Clovis Police Department for a Neighborhood Watch Town Hall to learn more about how to make a difference in the Clovis community. Information: 575-763-9654 Tuesday • Curry County Commission — 9 a.m., Commission Chambers, Curry County Administration Complex, 417 Gidding St., Clovis. Meeting may also be viewed at www.currycounty.org. Contact Lance Pyle at lpyle@c...
CLOVIS — The BNSF railroad crossing on south Norris Street in Clovis will be closed from 7 a.m. Monday until 5 p.m. Thursday for repairs conducted by RoadSafe Traffic Systems, Inc. Officials are asking the public to watch for traffic signs. Questions: Contact RoadSafe Traffic Systems at 316-251-7315....
CLOVIS — The Eastern New Mexico Water Utility Authority (ENMWUA) board on Thursday unanimously approved a contract with CH2M Hill and Jacobs Engineering for engineering services for the Finished Water 3B pipeline project. It will extend from a point near Oasis State Park to a water facility on Lime Street in Portales. Including gross receipts tax, the contract approved totals nearly $3.2 million. The contract covers development of design and related services, easement acquisition support, bidding support, and services d...
CLOVIS — Two ordinances in preparation for legalized recreational cannabis were introduced Tuesday at a special meeting of the Curry County Commission. One ordinance would restrict indoor areas where marijuana and cannabis products can be smoked in unincorporated areas of Curry County, and the other sets conditions for cannabis businesses in unincorporated county areas. The commission also approved a final budget totaling $49.3 million in all county funds for fiscal 2022, which began July 1 and will end on June 30. The p...
The number of COVID-19 patients in New Mexico hospitals increased again last week, reaching the highest peak in more than two months. Health Department officials on Friday reported 148 people were hospitalized in the state with the virus. At the end of June, that number was 64. It's the most hospitalizations in New Mexico in a single day since 155 people with the virus were in state hospitals on May 20. The numbers also are rising in Clovis, though not significantly. Plains...
FLOYD — The Floyd Municipal School District has called a special board meeting for Monday night. The purpose: to review a memo from the state's Education Department that threatens to suspend board members' governance for facemask policies that are “inconsistent” with state mandates. The district announced on its website that the special board meeting will begin at 7 p.m. Monday in the high school computer lab to hear public comments and review the memo from NMPED Secretary Ryan Stewart that states the board must resci...
