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Robert Reboe placed his 11-month-old son on the sofa so he could answer the door. Once he did, two men burst in and, within moments, Reboe’s teenage friend was shot and dying on the apartment floor. That’s what Reboe told Clovis police investigators and camera footage from inside his apartment confirms the report, court records show. Police said Jessie Villanes, 16, died from a gunshot wound to the neck just after 10 p.m. Sunday. It’s the fifth homicide in Clovis this year... Full story
CLOVIS - Clovis High faces its biggest longtime rival when the Wildcats open the 2022 football season on Friday night. Meantime, Portales High will step up a class in competition and take on an unfamiliar opponent in the Class 5A, Albuquerque-based Highland Hornets. The Wildcats (3-7 in 2021) hit the road to take on the Hobbs Eagles in a 7 p.m. matchup. CHS will be under the guidance of first-year coach Andrew McCraw, who was hired in June after Cal Fullerton resigned the...
We ran over a skunk the other night. My wife, her former judicial honor who still wields authority in my direction even if she is no longer officially invested with such, would say, “What’s with the ‘we,’ Bucko? You did that, not me.” Well, she was in the car. Yes, I was driving. But I maintain that since the beast was in the middle of the lane, the middle of my lane, as he waddled across the road, the only proper course for the captain of any automotive ship was to take him...
Oklahoma football enters the season in a familiar spot. The Sooners landed at No. 9 in the Associated Press’ preseason poll, the outlet announced Monday. It’s the seventh straight season the Sooners are ranked inside the Top 10 in the poll and the 19th time in the past 22 seasons. Alabama, Ohio State, Georgia, Clemson and Notre Dame took the top five spots, respectively. Alabama defeated Ohio State in the national championship game last season. Oklahoma is the highest ranked Big 12 team in the poll, one spot ahead of Bay...
Booked The following were booked into local jails (Friday - Tuesday): Clovis • Tiffany Martinez, 26, probation violation • Gilbert Lucero, 63, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge, resisting, evading or obstructing an officer • Stephanie Trujillo, 38, driving under the influence of liquor • Kelvin Najera-Sevilla, 27, failure to pay fines, armed robbery, aggravated burglary, bribe of witness, larceny, unlawful taking of a motor vehicle, assault with intent to commit a violent felony, aggravated battery against a househo...
On this date … 1977: Lowell Primrose’s back yard in Bovina “could be an area of interest to vegetable garden do-it-yourselfers,” the Bovina Blade reported. Primrose had grown a 2-pound tomato from a vine 15 feet across and 6 feet long. “The plant is a ‘Big Boy’ variety,” the newspaper reported. “Primrose estimates he will harvest two to three bushels of tomatoes from this one vine.” Pages Past is compiled by David Stevens. Contact: [email protected]...
Editor’s note: Betty Williamson is taking a few days off. This column was published in 2019. For a mere 50 cents, I picked up a gem at a recent used book sale — “The Woman You Want to Be: Margery Wilson’s Complete Book of Charm.” First published in 1928, mine is from the 18th printing, released in 1942. It’s filled with timeless tips — timeless, I tell you — on how to be a better person … OK, a better woman … but you men should listen up, too. If you’re hosting the meal at you...
The Eastern Plains Council of Governments has secured a $2 million grant from the federal government’s Human Resources and Services Administration. According to a news release from EPCOG, the grant money will be used to establish a four-year program to support behavioral health and fight substance abuse in Curry, Roosevelt, DeBaca and Quay counties. EPCOG will act as the fiscal and oversight agent of the grant program. Executive director of the United Way of Eastern New Mexico, Erinn Burch, said the grant is very i...
An automobile crash August 10 that resulted in the death of Minnie M. Corbin, 89, of Portales, continues to be investigated by New Mexico State Police. According to a state police news release the accident happened at about 4:30 p.m. August 10 as Corbin was driving her 2004 Lincoln eastbound on NM88 near Portales. For an unknown reason the Lincoln traveled into the westbound lane and shoulder, ramming the rear-end of a Roosevelt County Electric Cooperative (RCEC) Freightliner bucket truck. The truck was parked on the...
Have you realized yet that the U.S. federal government is waging a one-sided war against you? The IRS plans to hire around 87,000 new armed IRS employees -- the exact number is disputed; what they are being hired to do is not. The job posting, before they edited it, said new hires must be willing to use deadly force -- against you. Think about it: they will only be hired if willing to use deadly force against their bosses. They are being hired to “Sheriff of Nottingham” you...
Heroes are easy to find but hard to keep. Especially when we’re young, we need our heroes, or positive role models if you prefer, as examples of what courage, sacrifice and success are all about. We typically start with our parents, superheroes in our young eyes, while our imaginations gravitate toward mythical beings like the Man of Steel, the Dark Knight or, yes, that proverbial cowboy riding through a time when right was right and wrong was wrong and what you did, not what you said, was who you were. Parents and action f...
With the country’s current struggles — inflation, a lingering pandemic, a possible housing crisis — parents are struggling. Add school supplies, new shoes, and lunch money for their kids, and parents surely feel some stress. As students return to school, it might be tempting to shelter them, to limit their dreams, in case they aren’t fulfilled, or to communicate too much (or too little) about the current struggle now. This is a mistake. Despite the last few turbulent years, kids are still overcoming odds and making their d...
A pistol and box cutter knife along with other evidence was seized in an early Saturday morning “shots fired” incident at the McDonald’s restaurant at 14th and Mitchell streets in Clovis. Officers were sent out on a “public affray” call after former Clovis police officer, now Portales police officer Brent Aguilar reported the disturbance to Clovis dispatch. According to the redacted Clovis police report, once officers arrived on the scene at about 3:30 a.m. Saturday they talked with Aguilar who said he had stopped by the Mc...
A meeting planned for Friday about raising water rates in Portales has been canceled. Portales city clerk Joan Martinez-Terry put out the cancellation notice Tuesday about the session to discuss water rates. There is no word if the issue will be on next Wednesday’s Portales City Council agenda. Roosevelt County Chamber of Commerce executive director Karl Terry expressed concern in the rate hike, writing to chamber members, “As proposed by the city finance committee and presented by staff the rates could increase 30 per...
Mark Gallegos started his new job Monday as detention administrator at the Curry County Adult Detention Center. Some may see the name and realize Mark Gallegos is the name of the man who held that post until June. Others realize former detention administrator Gallegos has returned to his position with the county. Gallegos had left Curry County to be the warden at a federal correctional facility near Grants. Gallegos said it was a “professional development” move. Gallegos learned that his former position with the CCADC was...
Curry County District 4 Commissioner Seth Martin has been appointed as a subcommittee vice-chair with the National Association of Counties (NACo). Martin will be vice-chair of the Community, Economic, and Workforce Development Steering Committee for the 2022-23 term. According to a Curry County news release as a member of the steering committee, Martin is representing not only Curry County, but all of New Mexico. This particular committee handles all NACo matters pertaining to housing, community and economic development, and...
CLOVIS -- Every four weeks, Clovis’ First Presbyterian Church is offering everybody an opportunity for collective silence for 30 minutes. “This is an opportunity for people of any or all beliefs, or none, to come together to create their own space in silence,” Melinda Joy Pattison, the psychotherapist who organized this opportunity for “contemplative prayer” for the church. For the sessions held every fourth Tuesday, there is one rule, Pattison said. Silence. “They will enter in silence, and after 30 minutes, there will...
The New Mexico state Higher Education Department for the first time this fall semester has extended its Opportunity Scholarships to students working on a four year degree. Students who are attending Clovis Community College and Eastern New Mexico University in Portales both can take advantage of these scholarships and college administrators say they are doing just that. The state first rolled out the Opportunity Scholarship in 2020, according to a state release. Dr. Patrice Caldwell, chancellor of the Eastern New Mexico...
CLOVIS -- New housing construction is on the uptick in Clovis. Developer Brenner Campbell, owner of Brenner Investments, and a Clovis resident, is planning to construct 200 luxury apartments on an 11-acre site at the northeast corner of Main Street and Townsgate Plaza in Clovis. The Development, Sendero Luxury Apartments, in its first phase will contain 64- one, -two and -three-bedroom units. The building permits are filed with the city, Campbell said, and the project is...
Results of an independent audit of Roosevelt County’s November 2020 election were supposed to be released in July, according to a representative of the New Mexico Audit Force. But those results were still pending this week. Erin Clements, who operates NMAF with her husband David, wrote in a text message on Monday that Roosevelt County is one of seven counties whose NMAF audit findings are now going to be combined into a single report. Roosevelt County Clerk Mandi Park said she was told that Roosevelt County was the last of th...
