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CLOVIS - The Clovis Police Department is looking for a man it suspects of kidnapping and other charges. An arrest warrant was issued for Carlos Sanchez-Trillo, 31, following an investigation that began after a 20-year-old male approached an employee Friday morning at the city landfill. The victim, who was not identified in the CPD release, had an apparent gunshot wound to his chest. He was taken to Plains Regional Medical Center and later transferred to a Lubbock facility....
CLOVIS — The city’s water policy advisory committee meeting Tuesday morning was as good a place as any for David Lansford to make his latest pitch for a water banking effort funded largely by the federal government. But for Lansford, the former mayor and current chair of the Eastern New Mexico Water Utility Authority, the meeting was also the best place to propose a city finance committee meeting to identify dollars that could go to the effort on the Readiness Environmental Protection Integration application next month. The...
SANTA FE — State officials provided good news regarding COVID-19 infection rates Thursday, but did not present any public health order changes. Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said the virus is challenging and unfair, and that while congratulations are in order there’s still more work to do. “I really do appreciate New Mexicans are making huge differences every single time,” Lujan Grisham said, “to a new normal and getting things reopened to the greatest degree possible until there’s a vaccine.” The state reported a spread rate... Full story
I might as well just admit it: I am not a good door-knocker. Knock, knock. Who’s there? Probably not me, or you’d not have heard the clatter. I don’t like to make noise. I like peace and quiet and assume that others do, too, so I tend to knock too quietly. Nor do I enjoy having to stand outside a door as I realize that I knocked too tentatively and that it’s probably my own fault that I’m standing there, waiting, wondering if anyone is home, if anybody heard my wimpy kno...
Booked The following were booked into local jails (Friday-Tuesday): Clovis • Matthew McClellan, 42, probation violation • Adrian Favela, 34, criminal damage to property • Jonathan Romero, 25, armed robbery, aggravated burglary, aggravated battery, breaking and entering • Kayla Solomon, 25, criminal trespass • Monica Cordova, 39, driving under the influence of liquor, driving while license suspended or revoked, open container, no insurance, evidence of registration • Manuel Romero, 20, aggravated fleeing a law enforcement...
On this date ... 1975: Johnny Mitchum of Harrison, Arkansas, had captured the Old Fiddler Contest at the Roosevelt County Fair. Lorita Baldridge of Clovis had finished second and Dink Essary of Floyd had finished third. Their photos, with their fiddles, were on the front page of the Portales News-Tribune. 1970: Clovis school board officials had decided on names for the district's three newest elementary schools. Cameo and Lockwood were selected "because they are short" and...
A good many years back I had dinner with some new acquaintances who had recently moved to our area. After we ate, I asked the mom — I'll call her Daisy — if she happened to have a toothpick. Daisy directed me to a cabinet to the left of the kitchen sink and said toothpicks were the one thing her family — in all their many moves — always knew where to find. She said the first thing she did upon arriving in a new home was to put a carton of toothpicks in the cabinet that wa...
MULESHOE — Now that they’ve gotten off the schneid with their first victory in more than a year, the Muleshoe Mules are looking to take the next step — a winning streak. Muleshoe won a battle of teams coming in on 13-game losing streaks on Friday, beating Lamesa 42-6. The competition ratchets up a bit against longtime and former district rival Friona in a 7 p.m. (CDT) kickoff on Friday night in Muleshoe. The Chieftains (2-0), who have won the last two meetings against the Mules by a combined score of 109-35, have two solid...
PORTALES — Eastern New Mexico University was one of 20 schools statewide to receive funding through a New Mexico film program funded by industry participants, according to a release from the New Mexico Film Office. Overall, 20 higher education institutions will share in $330,000 from the GiveBack Program — which is funded by film and television production companies that have used the state’s tax incentives for filming in the state. The purpose of the program is to strengthen the state’s educational programs in film/te...
CLOVIS - A 25-year-old Clovis man has been arrested in connection with an Aug. 13 shooting during a home invasion in the 500 block of Axtell Street. Court records show Jonathan Romero was arrested Friday and charged with robbery, aggravated burglary and aggravated battery. He was in the Curry County jail on Tuesday after the shooting victim identified him in a photo lineup. Court records show Joel Ordonez-Chavarria was in the kitchen of his home when a man entered with a...
Since a Aug. 29 public health order allowing museums in New Mexico to reopen in limited capacity, local museums are slowly getting back into the routine. The Bosque Redondo Memorial in Fort Sumner announced it is looking forward to welcoming the public back to its site soon, and the Norman & Vi Petty Rock N Roll Museum in Clovis turned the Clovis Sound back on Aug. 31. During the pandemic places like these came up with ways to evolve past their in-person exhibits to keep...
CLOVIS — The first week of September has seen a significant drop in COVID-19 cases, and the same is proving true in eastern New Mexico. Monday marked the first time in 87 days that Curry County did not record at least one new coronavirus case. The first seven days of September saw the county record 38 new cases, 28 between Thursday and Saturday. The early September average of 5.4 daily cases for Curry is down from 9.3 cases per day in July and 6.9 per day in August. Roosevelt County has had a total of nine new cases in the f...
Last time, as a great escape from the troubles of our times, I started out writing a funny column about comedy, but it turned out to be about comics instead. This time, I'm just going to make you laugh. In googling around the internet in search of jokes (with a Rolling Stone magazine article from 2017 listing “The 50 best stand-up comics of all time” by Matthew Love as my cheat-sheet), I've gathered up several one-liners with no political or cultural agenda in mind, except to keep it cleaner than some adults might be use...
The cattle industry is an intrinsic piece of New Mexico's history and culture and a vital component of our state's economy. Spanish explorers brought a small herd of cattle to the upper Rio Grande nearly 500 years ago and today New Mexico is home to more than 1.6 million head of beef and dairy cattle. Together, they are our state's most profitable agricultural products. The coronavirus has impacted nearly all industries and sectors worldwide and New Mexico's cattle industry...
Last week I was reminded how intensely I dislike bureaucracy. People who impose bureaucracy on the rest of us are as useful to society as plague-spreading fleas. You might believe bureaucracy has a place and is beneficial, but you’d be mistaking government for society; its opposite. I have no tolerance for bureaucracy or authoritarianism. My preference doesn’t threaten anyone; yet those who thrive on bureaucracy and authoritarianism can’t leave the rest of us alone. We must be...
CCC receives five-year grant CLOVIS — Clovis Community College has received a grant for the next five years through the U.S. Department of Education as a Hispanic serving institution. The college plans to use the grant of approximately $600,000 per year, by creating a pipeline between students in its Early College High School program and local school district employees. Students will be tracked with a four-year university partner and have a first-year mentorship in local school districts. The grant will allow CCC to d...
MELROSE - Being an advocate for science has paid off for a Melrose teacher, and he's hoping to make his recent award pay off for his students. Alan Daugherty, who has taught 25 of his 30 years in Melrose, received $10,000 as part of the Society for Science and the Public's Advocate Program. The Advocate Program is focused on providing funding for teachers to help students pursue scientific research, and Daugherty said the $10,000 was part of an additional grant to help...
The weather is getting weird this week as eastern New Mexico goes from a high of 93 degrees on Monday to a cool 40 degrees on Wednesday, then back in the high 70s on Saturday. With fall still two weeks away, what's causing this drastic change? Blame Canada. The Albuquerque office of the National Weather Service described a "clipper system," or a fast-moving low-pressure area weather system that generated in the Canadian Rockies and headed South out of Alberta on Monday. It wor...
CLOVIS — Accepting $4.26 million in federal CARES Act money won’t be the complicated thing for the Clovis City Commission. The challenge lies in exactly how that money will be awarded to small businesses over the next few months, and City Manager Justin Howalt said Tuesday plenty of uncertainty remains. The commission will meet in special session at 5:15 p.m. Thursday at the North Annex of the Clovis-Carver Public Library with three business items, including acceptance of the CARES Act money from a state pool of $150 mil...
