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  • Meetings watch: Curry County Commission

    Updated Aug 1, 2020

    Curry County Commission: 9 a.m. Tuesday at Commission Chambers, 417 Gidding St. Clovis Access • Due to public health orders the meeting is only accessible through www.currycounty.org or the Curry County Facebook page. Questions can be sent to the county manager at [email protected] • Consent agenda Items listed below are recommended by the county manager for placement on the consent agenda. These items are placed on the agenda so that the commission, by unanimous consent, can designate those routine agenda items that the...

  • Meetings watch: Portales City Council

    Updated Aug 1, 2020

    City of Portales: 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at Memorial Building Auditorium, 200 E. Seventh St. Portales Agenda: ∞ Appointments to Infrastructure Capital Improvements Program (ICIP) Project Evaluation Committee - S. Standefer, City Manager ∞ Public Hearing for Approval of an Application for a Wholesaler Liquor License for Enchantment Vineyards, LLC, DBA Name to be used: Enchantment Vineyards - R. Jackson, Mayor 1. Action to enter into public hearing for Wholesaler Liquor License. 2. Action to close the public hearing. 3. Action by...

  • Public record - Aug. 2

    Updated Aug 1, 2020

    The following marriage licenses were recently issued at the Curry County clerk’s office: • Matthew Ryan Bodzer, 20, of Clovis, and Yuriana Lira, 23, of Newton Grove, North Carolina • Wesley James Cooper, 29, and Livia Oliveira Costa, 20, both of Clovis • Ethan Shea Tongate, 26, and Tayler Raye Fields, 25, both of Clovis • Razal Jess Douglass Barton Jr., 27, and Emily Ann Owens, 22, both of Clovis • Jared Casey Baca, 33, and Gladys Zubia Aranda, 30, both of Clovis • Joey Wayne Hargrove, 45, and Darlene Denise Padilla, 50,...

  • Bridge replacement to be complete early next year

    Kevin Wilson, Editor|Updated Aug 1, 2020

    TEXICO - Water takes a 50-mile trip through the Frio Draw, mostly through three Texas counties. It takes just a few seconds for New Mexico motorists to pass over where it rises in Curry County. Or at least it will sometime early next year, when the New Mexico Department of Transportation anticipates finishing the $4 million bridge replacement it began in late January. The Curry County bridge is one of 530 managed by NMDOT's District Two, which includes Curry, Roosevelt and...

  • Portales council approves 2020-21 budget

    the Staff of The News|Updated Aug 1, 2020

    PORTALES — The Portales City Council on Tuesday approved the final budget for fiscal year 2021. “It’s going to be pretty much the same as it was the previous year; the state allowed us to use the previous year’s budget,” Portales City Clerk Joan Martinez-Terry said. “Because of COVID-19 it’s very difficult to figure out our revenue, so they proposed the same revenue. We’ll have to keep an eye on it. ... COVID-19 did a lot of things to the state, a lot of things to the community. We just don’t know where our revenues are goin...

  • Roosevelt commission approves final budget

    Kevin Wilson, Editor|Updated Aug 1, 2020

    PORTALES — The state giveth, but the state — mandateth? — much more. The Roosevelt County Commission discussed both of those in a Friday meeting that included approval of the final budget for the 2020-21 fiscal year. County Manager Amber Hamilton gave the three commissioners attending — Paul Grider, Tina Dixon and Dennis Lopez — some positive news following Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s Thursday announcement that largely renewed existing public health orders during the COVID-19 pandemic. Part of those new state directives...

  • De Baca issues drought request

    De Baca County News|Updated Aug 1, 2020

    FORT SUMNER — The De Baca County Commission has issued a drought emergency request in an effort to bring attention to the struggles of drought-stricken county ranchers. In a unanimous vote, the commission approved a letter to be sent to various public officials connected to the weekly development of the U.S. Drought Monitor. The Drought Monitor is one of the major factors used by the federal government to determine when the federal Livestock Forage Program is initiated. The vote came a week after the commission heard from Y...