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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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SANTA FE — State officials did not announce any pending changes to public health orders, but noted concerns with rising COVID-19 rates across the state during a Thursday virtual address. Human Services Secretary Dr. David Scrase said Bernalillo County and the southeast area of New Mexico are seeing the higher infection numbers, but an upward trend is pretty consistent across the state. The New Mexico Department of Health announced 227 new cases Thursday and 341 more on Friday, bringing the total positives to 30,000 since M...
As October begins, many are wondering how the pandemic will impact Halloween and fall festivals. Clovis Mayor Mike Morris has a suggestion: Let the Centers for Disease Control help you decide. “I think that the community should take the CDC recommendations and combine that with their own common sense and do what is best for them individually,” Morris told The News. “I believe for myself and my family we won’t be doing trick-or-treating and we won’t be hosting a party or going to a party or anything like that. We’ll enj...
On this date ... 1960: A new organization had been formed to “promote greater interest in intercollegiate athletics at Eastern New Mexico University.” Howard Martin of Clovis was president of the new Greyhound Club. Norris Willis was the club’s vice president. 1950: The Clovis High School football team was taking it easy this week with no game on the schedule. “Although there are no serious injuries on the squad, the Wildcats were pretty well used up after last Friday night’s...
For months, the presidential race has been stubbornly static but on Friday a huge question emerged: Where does it go from here? With President Donald Trump hospitalized with COVID-19 for at least the next few days, it is unclear when or if he will get back to campaigning, how voters — largely impervious to any number of startling events — will react to his sudden illness, and what Democrat Joe Biden does in the meantime. Not least, it is uncertain whether two more presidential debates will come off as planned. “We haven...
The following books are available for checkout at the Clovis-Carver Public Library: “Practical Magic” by Alice Hoffman. For more than two hundred years, the Owens women have been blamed for everything that has gone wrong in their Massachusetts town. Gillian and Sally have endured that fate as well: as children, the sisters were forever outsiders, taunted, talked about, pointed at. Their elderly aunts almost seemed to encourage the whispers of witchery, with their musty house and their exotic concoctions and their crowd of bla...
Curry Resident Senior Meals Association 901 W. 13th St., Clovis 575-762-9405 Monday: Hot chicken sandwich Tuesday: Sausage and sauerkraut Wednesday: Chili rellenos Thursday: Baked ham w/pineapple sauce, sweet potatoes, green beans and carrots, cornbread w/margarine, chocolate chip cookie Friday: Salmon patties or chicken nuggets, roast potatoes, spinach, dinner roll with margarine, fruit salad Friendship Senior Center 901 W. 13th St. 575-769-7908 All Facebook Live events are on the City of Clovis Senior Center Facebook Page...
Information on fine tuning your rotary cutting skills and creating semi-columns with different colors or prints of fabric will be the featured topics on “Creative Living” 9:30 p.m. Tuesday and noon Thursday (all times Mountain). Debbie Caffrey, Debbie’s Creative Moments, will show how to fine tune your rotary cutting skills as she discusses safety and ergonomics of rotary cutting. Accuracy and efficiency are also rotary cutting basics. Caffrey is from Albuquerque. Nancy Nix-R...
Last week’s presidential debate got my attention, as it did lots of folks on both sides of the political aisle. It was so vile it was hard to watch, but like a train wreck our eyes were glued to the unfolding scene. Ruminating on it I couldn’t help but compare it to the first presidential debate in my memory. It was 1976, the country was tired and divided over Watergate and Vietnam. Unemployment was soaring and we’d recently gone through an oil crisis and inflation was rampa...
Faith Christian Family Church in Clovis isn't exactly a traditional church with its auditoriums, two daycares, and gourmet coffee shop. Moving into 2021 will mean bringing that non-traditional church atmosphere to Portales. "Sometimes people get really caught up with the church as a building," said Hadley Howe, who is set to be the pastor of the Faith Christian Family Church Portales campus. "At the end of the day, we ask ourselves, what can we do for people? This is just how...
That’s over, and not a second too soon. Who won? Who cares? If you can find a winner somewhere in that mess, “Ah Salud!” as the Italians say. There was Trump, festooned in his presidential uniform, hair helmet included, and Biden, looking like a cross between my Welsh Corgi and a ghost in Disneyworld’s Haunted Mansion. I confess, I tuned into the first presidential debate for two reasons — one of which was merely macabre curiosity, the other a sense of responsibility as an American voter. But this was a debate only in the ac...
President Trump has been calling Democrats “radical socialists” and just last month, he said they might be “Communist.” Trump knows that words like “socialist” and “Communist” are bad. But I wonder if he knows what these words mean. There are two common meanings for “socialism.” One is moving toward economic equality among people. The other is state control of goods and services. The U.S. is a capitalist country, we are taught to believe, so we think free markets should control just about everything in the way of goods an...
I just signed up to be a mentor at my law school, and did something that is atypical for me: Display a preference for female law students. It even surprises me when I look at that sentence, since my entire career as a columnist has been dedicated to the proposition that gender, race, sexual orientation, religion and all of the other epidermal things that form our identity are less important than the intangibles of brain, values, heart and capacity for endurance. But the death...
“If you want to make God laugh,” Woody Allen once famously said, paraphrasing a Yiddish proverb, “tell him about your plans.” That’s not an issue for President Donald Trump, at least not on healthcare. He’s been promising a healthcare plan since he started running for president, often with superlative adjectives attached, and yet never produced one. His lack of a proposal was a stumbling block in Tuesday’s debate and plays into a broader, long-standing Republican vu...
Just a few weeks ago, it seemed COVID-19 was on its way out of New Mexico. Now we know it’s not. Curry County had 80 new cases in four days last week, including 33 reported on Wednesday. The state had 339 new cases on Friday, the most in a single day since July. The Albuquerque Journal has called it a “three-week surge.” New cases were averaging around 100 per day early in September. Now they’re averaging more than 200 per day. What to do? Employ personal responsibility. It’s...
Signs of trouble are already here I don’t know how this is possible, but a friend of mine says she doesn’t “believe in climate change.” How can that be? She thinks the hurricanes and fires are tricks the media is playing on the naive people of the land. When I told her how bad the water in Midland is from all the oil rigs, she said, “I’ve been to Texas and I’ve never had a bad shower.” She thinks big business is for the people, not just for the wealthy elite. She doesn’t see what factory farms are doing to the water supply,...
ALBUQUERQUE — Presbyterian Healthcare Services announced Friday a third-party vendor its foundation used was the subject of a data security incident earlier this year. Blackbaud, a vendor the Presbyterian Healthcare Foundation uses for fundraising and alumni or donor engagement efforts, informed the foundation of unauthorized access to its systems between Feb. 7 and May 20. Based on information provided by Blackbaud, the incident did not involve Social Security numbers, financial or credit card information or access to m...
CLOVIS — Less than a week after it halted to-go service, the Curry Resident Senior Meal Association will resume operations Monday. The association halted operations Monday night, following a positive COVID-19 test for one of its employees. Director Ashley White said the employee had no interaction with members of the public, but the closure was made out of an abundance of caution. White told The News on Saturday the positive employee was asymptomatic and should be cleared to work Monday. The employee was last on the p...
CLOVIS - A Clovis man was found guilty Friday of aggravated burglary and other charges stemming from a September 2019 incident, according to the district attorney's office. Ruben Lopez, 25, was sentenced to 15 years in the New Mexico Department of Corrections for the charges, which also included two counts of assault with a deadly weapon and felony firearm possession. District Judge Matt Chandler sentenced Lopez to a total of 20 years, six months with five years, six months...
CLOVIS — The Curry County Extension Office is celebrating 4-H Week beginning Monday, with open enrollment beginning Oct. 16 for the upcoming 4-H year. The non-formal education program teaches life skills, environmental education, community services and youth issues. According to information provided by the office, 4-H club work in New Mexico began in 1912, when the New Mexico Agricultural College and the Santa Fe railway ran an agricultural train on the Santa Fe Railway system throughout the state. By 1918, 4-H state e...
CLOVIS — Clovis Community College has pushed in-person graduation ceremonies again due to the COVID-19 pandemic, following an announcement Wednesday by President Charles Nwankwo. Graduates from the spring and fall 2020 semesters will be allowed to join spring 2021 graduates in the May ceremonies if they wish, and Nwankwo is looking at the Curry County Events Center as a site given the potential large number of students. The Curry County commission voted in September to close the events center until March. A virtual pinning c...
CLOVIS — The Clovis City Commission congratulated Ernie Kos Thursday on her 25th anniversary as director of the Clovis/Curry County Chamber of Commerce. Kos said there was no better way to celebrate than by helping out pandemic-affected businesses with CARES Act continuity grants. The commission agreed, and approved a pair of agreements for local entities to help distribute more than $4 million over the next few months. In unanimous votes, commissioners approved up to $60,000 to the chamber for awarding $4.2 million in s...
CLOVIS — After meeting for nearly two hours in executive session, the Curry County Commission took no action on a personnel matter discussed Friday morning. The commissioners voted to enter executive session at 9:05 a.m., then voted to re-enter open session at 10:55 a.m. before going straight to commissioner reports. Commissioners would not address specifics on the issue, with Chairman Ben McDaniel saying he didn’t anticipate having additional executive sessions on the matter and Commissioner Bobby Sandoval only saying, “We...
Today-Saturday • Mental Illness Awareness Week Virtual Walk/Run — hosted by Mental Health Resources. Registration $15 per person; register online at http://mhrnewmexico.com/oct5k.php. Participants have from Oct. 4-10 to complete steps via walking, running, on a treadmill, etc., tracking distance with a step counter, run tracker app, or photo of treadmill mileage counter. Proof of distance is submitted after Oct. 10. All participants who complete a 5K will receive a medal and t-shirt; those who complete a10K will get a med...
Meetings are subject to change due to coronavirus concerns Tuesday • Curry County Commission — 9 a.m., teleconference. Information: https://www.currycounty.org/open-government/meeting-portal or 575-763-6016 • Roosevelt County Commission — 9 a.m., Jake Lopez Building, Roosevelt County Fairgrounds, 705 E. Lime, Portales. Livestream available on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1bHckYttNQnmm6ymJhWaXQ and a recording of the meeting will be saved as a public video and linked from the county website, https:/...
CLOVIS - After playing what could best be described as a different type of table tennis, Clovis city commissioners on Thursday declined to provide a tax inducement for a local hotel project. Before making the 7-1 vote against a resolution that would have started the process for industrial revenue bonds of up to $18 million for the Xenia LLC hotel project, commissioners voiced concerns about setting precedents and attacking short-term problems with long-term fixes. The city's...
