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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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CLOVIS — After 15-plus years at the helm of the Republican Party of Curry County, Rube Render announced this month he will not seek re-election when party members vote for a chairman in early 2019. Besides the typical reason a public figure gives for stepping away from their position — “I want to spend more time with my family, I’ve always wanted to say that,” he joked — Render told The News that he feels now is the time for somebody else to lead the party. He said he believes it’s bad for the county and the individual to...
CLOVIS — Signs, signs, everywhere there're signs. But the problem for the Clovis Parks and Recreation Department is they all too often don't say the same thing from park to park. A spirited but civil discussion about the need to overhaul signs throughout city-owned parks and sports fields took up the majority of an hour-long parks, recreation and beautification committee meeting Monday at Clovis City Hall. No action was taken on signs, or any other item, as the committee did n...
It’s not time to panic. Even if your water well should test positive for PFAS contamination, there are filters you can buy, and we don’t have evidence to fear the contamination has been there for long, meaning exposure has likely been limited. But the United States Air Force — the likely cause of this contamination with chemicals found in foam used for firefighting — and state/federal health agencies are not helping alleviate concerns with their lack of response to area residents’ questions. We’ve heard from multiple re...
If you know me, any of my three brothers, or, heaven help you, all of us, you know that our grandparents’ old place in Robert Lee, Texas, is dear to our hearts. Granddaddy Key built the house in 1928, and, long story short, in 1974, after Granddaddy had passed away and, partly to ease our grandmother’s mind as she made the transition to the nursing home just across the creek, my brother Gene bought the place. For seven years, it was occupied by various tenants whose rent hel...
Social media gets a lot of well-deserved criticism. It’s presented as a service, but with the vast majority of social media platforms, you and your information are the products being sold. Even worse than selling your information to advertisers, it opens its back door to government spies so they can come in, snoop around, steal your data, and watch everything you do. Definitely not the behavior of someone who’s on your side. When they say “your privacy matters” they are lyi...
In the book of Exodus, we see the clash between the God of the Hebrews, Yahweh, and all the gods of Egypt. God sends Moses as his reluctant spokesman. Moses is armed with the authority to call for great plagues, while Pharaoh is the king of the mightiest nation on earth. In his commentary on Exodus, economist Gary North proposes that what we have here is the collision of opposite religions. Though the original players have long-since passed away, their respective outlooks remain with us. The religions in this epic fight are s...
It takes Lisa Kia of Clovis both hands now to count the number of times her service dog, Levi, has saved her life. Kia and her team from ArchAngel K-9 Dog Training were at the Peanut Valley Festival in Portales last weekend, demonstrating skills of their four-legged companions and sharing some amazing stories. Kia’s dog, Levi, is an enthusiastic border collie (is there any other kind?) who has been trained to identify gluten and “alert” his owner so she can avoid what is, f...
In public relations, our job was to make the company look good, to cast the company in a good light. When I worked for “house organs” — or employee publications — I learned they gave the company complete control over what messages were sent and the context in which they were stated. I started thinking of such publications as “management’s makeup mirror.” A makeup mirror allows its users to control not only their reflection but the light in which they view themselves. Employee publications allow managers to perpetuate th...
Here we are, on the verge of one of the most important mid-term elections in American history, and Russian meddling is being charged. Guess it never really stopped. Last week, Elena Alekseevna Khusyaynova was charged with trying to influence the 2018 mid-term elections with what Justice Department officials are calling an “information war” against the U.S. and its elections. According to Reuters and other news services, Khusyaynova was chief accountant for Project Lakhta, an operation started in 2014 and financed by a Putin-f...
Lost in the hoopla over the contested elections on this year’s general election ballot are some issues that deserve our attention — and support. On the ballot are two proposed constitutional amendments and four bond issues, and we see no reason not to endorse them all. The bond issues are no-brainers; they come around every two years for our collective approval as part of our state’s financial approach to maintaining senior citizen centers, libraries and schools around the state, and this year is no exception. Bond Question A...
We don’t know much about Charles Franklin Petitt. He was from Cleveland, Tennessee, he’d apparently gone to Tucumcari, and his mother was worried about him in the fall of 1937. Ray H. Smith was secretary of the Tucumcari Chamber of Commerce at the time. Smith tried to help after receiving this note from a Petitt family friend: “Somewhere near Tucumcari, during the time of the earthquake around 6 years ago ... there lived a boy by the name of Charles Franklin Petitt. His mothe...
PORTALES — The results are in and Eastern new Mexico University's efforts to bring down costs for students outside of the Land of Enchantment have paid off. The Portales campus recently ranked 10th out of 1,800-plus schools in a list of lowest out-of-state tuition and fees organized by U.S. News & World Report. "I'm really glad because that was our goal to make good education as affordable as possible," said Jeff Elwell, president of ENMU-Portales. "(T)o be literally the 10th...
CLOVIS — For the third year in a row, Hillcrest Park will embrace the Halloween spirit for Boo in the Zoo. That means games, face painting, a bouncy house and candy galore for local residents. Organizer Terri Chavez said organizers go into the zoo the night before the event and "transform it into a Halloween everything, from spooky to comical" with pumpkin trees and skeleton fences. "It looks like the Great Pumpkin threw up on the zoo," Chavez said of the zoo's t...
CLOVIS — Motorists used to traveling across the Prince Street overpass connecting north Clovis to south Clovis have been inconvenienced for about two months now. But officials say that's pretty much the extent of the problems caused by construction that's closed the overpass until next summer — inconvenience. Even emergency responders say they're not seeing issues they hadn't planned for. "It's something that we definitely planned for," Clovis Fire Battalion Chief Joel Ger...
CLOVIS — A fixture of the Clovis newspaper's faith pages for nearly 40 years has decided to retire her pen. Judy Brandon, who has lived in Clovis since her father became pastor at Central Baptist Church in the mid-1950s, said she always loved to write. She got her start writing faith columns for the Clovis High School newspaper when she was a student there. An opportune phone call to The Clovis News Journal office in 1979 got Brandon her start writing a column for the city n... Full story
NEW YORK — Former Clovis High receiver Rishard Matthews will soon be back on an NFL roster, as he has reportedly agreed to sign with the New York Jets. ESPN reported the news Tuesday morning. The 29-year-old was released by the Tennessee Titans in September after he had requested a release or trade, citing displeasure with his limited role in the offense. He was released after the Titans couldn’t find any suitors. Coming off injuries that limited him through the offseason and preseason, Matthews had not started once. He als... Full story
CLOVIS — The U.S. Air Force has completed testing 25 private water sites near Cannon Air Force Base. At three of those sites, the water is not safe to drink, according to Environmental Protection Agency standards. Two other sites are below the EPA safety threshold, but still need monitoring. And 20 sites showed no evidence the water is contaminated. That’s the determination from the Air Force Civil Engineer Center, which tested locations in a four-mile space outside Cannon Air Force Base’s southeast corner. “We looked... Full story
CLOVIS — Near the site where police shot Arron Chavez dead during a pursuit early this month, community organizers and church leaders are working with his family to put on a candelight vigil this week. “I see some things with people trying to get understanding, to get together, to unify,” said David Dawson, pastor of Clovis’ Pure Heart Word Center church. “We’re pretty much just trying to comfort some people that are torn in different directions with sorrow, hostility...” Dawson will present during the event, and Living Word...
COMMERCE, Texas — When the Lone Star Conference women’s soccer playoffs begin Oct. 31, Eastern New Mexico and Texas A&M-Commerce are pretty likely to face off in the 4-5 game. Jocelyn McDonough helped the Lions improve their chances they’ll be hosting that game. She scored the only goal Sunday in the 77th minute as the Lions topped ENMU 1-0. The loss dropped the Greyhounds behind the Lions to fifth place in conference play with 13 points — three for a win, one for a tie. Easte...
WACO, Texas — The Eastern New Mexico men’s soccer team is hoping to notch its first — and last — Heartland Conference playoff berth in school history this week. They’ll start it off with the school’s first conference award winner in school history. Sophomore goalkeeper Ross Dalton was honored as the defensive player of the week, according to a release from the conference. Brandon Tripp, assistant commissioner for strategic positioning, confirmed Dalton was the first Greyh...
Booked The following were booked into local jails Friday-Tuesday: Clovis • Amber Finch, 24, probation violation, driving while license suspended or revoked • Ruben Garcia, 51, probation violation • Jake Lopez, 45, probation violation • Laeinani Barela, 29, probation violation • Tiffany Tagle, 33, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge, resisting, evading or obstructing an officer • Jeffery Myers, 35, battery against a household member • Coniel McDaniel, 42, resisting arrest, failure to appear at time and place stated in cit...
Today • Axle Contemporary mobile photo studio — 7:30-10 a.m., Rooney Moon Broadcasting, 420 N. Main, Clovis; 11 a.m.-2 p.m., The Lunch Box, 213 W. Grand Ave., Clovis. Bring a small object of personal significance and be photographed for a contemporary art project. Information: http://www.axleart.com or 505-670-5854 • Celebrate Recovery pumpkin patch fundraiser — noon-6 p.m., Living Word Church of God, 1201 E. 21st St., Clovis. Information: 575-218-1914 • Blood drive — 1:30-5 p.m., Portales Public Library, 218 S. Ave. B, Por...
Today • Clovis Public Works Committee — 8:30 a.m., Assembly Room, City Hall, 321 N. Connelly St., Clovis. Information: 575-763-9654 Tuesday • Curry County Commission — 9 a.m., Commission Chambers, 417 Gidding, Clovis. (Replaces meeting originally scheduled for Nov. 6.) Information: 575-763-6016 Nov. 1 • Clovis City Commission — 5:15 p.m., North Annex, Clovis-Carver Library, 701 N. Main St. Clovis. Information: 575-769-7828 Nov. 6 • Portales City Council — 6:30 p.m., Memorial Building, 200 E. Seventh St., Portales. Infor...
On this date ... 1968: More than 50 Muleshoe-area men were participating in the Muleshoe Miss America Comedy Hour scheduled Nov. 4-5. "Ladies clothing, especially in Queens' sizes, is in great demand now ... so are wigs, ladies' hats, false eyelashes," the Muleshoe Journal reported. "Some of the wives of the participants are threatening to leave town for the two nights of the show as they can't bear to see the bare knees of 'Papa' on the stage." Tickets were $1 general...
Ballots Nov. 6 General Election New Mexico U.S. Senator Martin T. Heinrich (D) Gary E. Johnson (L) Mick Rich (R) U.S. Representative District 2 Xochitl Torres Small (D) Yvette Herrell (R) District 3 Ben R. Lujan (D) Christopher Manning (L) Jerald Steve McFall (R) Governor/Lieutenant Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham/Howie C. Morales (D) Steve Pearce/Michelle Garcia Holmes (R) Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver (D) Ginger G. Grider (L) Gavin Clarkson (R) State Auditor Brian S. Colon (D) Wayne A. Johnson (R) State...
