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The Roosevelt County courthouse is closed Friday. County Manager Amber Hamilton issued a news release Friday morning that read: "The Roosevelt County Courthouse will be closed Friday, Nov. 4, due to a water leak that surfaced overnight. All other County offices will be open for business during regular hours. Early voting will be available at the Jake Lopez Building from 12 pm-8 pm Friday, Nov. 4 and from 10 am-6pm Saturday, Nov. 5. The Courthouse will be open tomorrow for early voting from 10 am-6pm, however, public...
PORTALES -- Water service has been restored in Portales according to city officials. With the water back on a boil water advisory is in effect until further notice for water customers. To use water for drinking or cooking it should be brought to a boil; when the water boils it should be allowed to boil for one minute then it's ready for use, officials advised. The Portales water system was shut down early Thursday because of a break in one of the city’s main water lines. Portales City Manager Sarah Austin said the 24-inch P...
A vehicle crash early Wednesday morning resulted in the death of a Cannon Air Force Base airman, officials said. The Curry County Sheriff's Department reported in a news release that deputies responded to a single-vehicle crash west of Clovis on US 60/84 about 4:40 a.m. Shaun McNair, 20, of Cheyenne, Wyo., was killed when his 2014 BMW left the roadway, collided with a tree, and overturned, the release stated. "It is believed that McNair was the only occupant and was in route to Cannon Air Force Base to report for duty," the...
A Hobbs man is accused of using his former employer's gas card to rack up more than $1.2 million in gasoline charges over several years since leaving the company. David Rochel, 50, is charged with six counts of fraudulent use of an illegally obtained credit card of over $20,000 and one count of theft of a credit card in the case. An attorney for Rochel could not be reached Tuesday. Although the fraudulent charges were ongoing for years, court records show more than $120,000 in diesel fuel was charged to the company card...
FOOTBALL Prep playoffs New Mexico Class 6A First round Friday (12) Atrisco Heritage at (5) Volcano Vista, 7 p.m. (4) Hobbs, bye (11) Alamogordo at (6) Rio Rancho, 7 p.m. (3) Centennial, bye Saturday (9) Los Lunas at (8) Cibola, 1 p.m. (1) Rio Rancho Cleveland, bye (10) Carlsbad at (7) Farmington, noon (2) La Cueva, bye Quarterfinals Nov. 11-12 Semifinals Nov. 18-19 Championship Nov. 26 Class 5A First round Friday (12) Belen at (5) Deming, 7 p.m. (4) Roswell Goddard, bye (11) Santa Teresa at (6) Mayfield, 7 p.m. (3) Piedra...
Xcel Energy is now proposing to stop producing electricity with coal in its eight-state service area by 2030 as another plant – Tolk Station in Texas, nine miles east of Muleshoe – plans on retiring its coal-fueled units earlier than originally planned. The plan will further accelerate Xcel’s efforts to reduce carbon emissions by 80 percent by 2030 according to Xcel senior media relations representative Wes Reeves. The two coal-fueled units at Tolk Generating Station in Lamb County, Tx., had been scheduled for retir...
The county clerks of Curry and Roosevelt counties have released details of their county’s 2022 general election unofficial early and absentee turnout as of Monday. Curry County Clerk Annie Hogland reports 2210 early voting ballots have been cast as of the close of business Friday. 1621 of those votes were cast at the Curry County administrative complex, 587 at the voting location at the North Plains Mall. Hogland said 905 absentee by-mail ballots had been issued, of those 504 have been returned. Hogland said, “There’s still...
There’s an old dusty manual of sports sayings somewhere, and in it is this one: A team isn’t as good as its best game and isn’t as bad as its worst. That one is true, especially for a program that’s still looking to escape annual mediocrity. Two weekends ago, after rolling West Virginia, 48-10, Texas Tech fans were rubbing their hands in anticipation of a five-game winning streak and trying to mentally calculate who needs to beat who down the stretch for the Red Raiders...
ELIDA — It was second verse, pretty much the same as the first for the Elida Tigers and Animas Panthers on Saturday. Senior Mason Pritchett ran for seven touchdowns and the third-seeded Tigers outscored Animas 41-0 in the second half en route to a 71-22 victory in the 6-man playoff quarterfinals. On Friday night, Dora also reached the 6-man semifinals with a 61-6 thumping of Ramah, while Melrose earned a rematch with rival Fort Sumner in the 8-man semis by blitzing Logan 46-0. All three teams have stiff challenges ahead on Fr...
PORTALES — The Eastern New Mexico University women’s soccer squad closed out its 2022 campaign on Saturday with a win, edging Texas-Tyler 1-0 at Greyhound Stadium. Senior midfielder Hannah Grady, who transferred to ENMU from Division I Portland State this season, scored her first goal for the Greyhounds in the 10th minute with a shot from about 30 yards out which got past diving Patriots goalkeeper Camri Cecil and into the bottom left corner of the net. Senior midfielder Sierra Villanueva started the move with a throw-in to...
PORTALES - Texas-Permian Basin's football team is used to playing close games, and that experience may have paid off on Saturday. Facing their sixth consecutive one-score contest and seventh in nine games this season, the Falcons got a 12-yard touchdown pass from sophomore quarterback Dylan Graham to senior wide receiver M.J. Link early in the final period and made it stand up for a 24-21 Lone Star Conference victory over Eastern New Mexico University at Greyhound Stadium....
PORTALES — Ranked second in Class 4A just a week ago, Portales High’s football team wasn’t necessarily expecting to be playing this weekend as the 12-team 4A playoffs kick off. Friday’s 20-14 loss to Lovington at Greyhound Stadium not only prevented the Rams from winning the District 4-6/4A championship, it also dropped them to a No. 5 seed and thus means they have a first-round matchup this Friday. The Rams (8-2) host No. 12 St. Pius (2-8) in a 7 p.m. kickoff. The winner advances to the quarterfinals next week against...
Booked The following were booked into local jails (Friday - Tuesday): Clovis • Lyle Case, 37, parole violation, probation violation • Andrew Endrizzi, 31, out of state fugitive • Johnny Vigil, 29, first degree murder • Lindsy Petner, 36, shoplifting • Kjiyana Nash, 38, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge • Joey Gallegos, 49, failure to appear on a felony charge • Debraun Robinson, 24, aggravated battery, conspiracy to commit reporting/record violations • Zechariah Johnson, 32, aggravated driving while under the influ...
All year long, I’ve had a hard time getting excited about this election year. I’m just not into it this time around. This isn’t normal for me. For decades, I’ve told people that “politics is my favorite sport.” I liked the debates, the give and take, I even loved to hate the campaign commercials. But this time around, there’s just no fun in it for me. Maybe it’s the lack of a newsroom. After decades of newspapering at larger dailies with good-size newsrooms, going through an election cycle at my small weekly is a bit lonely...
On this date … 1967: The Clovis Evening Lions Club had raised flags in the city in memory of Cpl. David Stoll, who had recently been killed in Vietnam. Lions Club President Harry Smith said the club had voted to fly the flags on the day of memorial services or funeral services held for any Clovis youth killed in Vietnam. Stoll’s service was the first since the club voted to raise the flags. Stoll died Oct. 27, 1967, “through hostile action, small arms fire,” according to hono...
Politicians are always promising to do things politicians can’t do. Either they believe they are magic, or they want you to believe they are. Sometimes they promise things they can’t legally do -- things that violate the Constitution -- and other times they promise to do things that aren’t possible within the laws of physics in our universe. Do they believe you are gullible enough to fall for it? Probably. Often they promise to violate economic reality, which is nearly as im...
Thursday was the fourth October 27th since the massacre at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh’s Squirrel Hill, and antisemitism is in the news once again. We are reminded that hatred of the Jewish people endures; that it flares in times of political and economic uncertainty; and that antisemitic signals from prominent people serve as beacons of hate that draw bigots into the public square — and risk drawing them into action. Just this week, one of the most famous music artists in the world — Ye, formerly known as Kanye...
I blinked, and it’s November. Along with our usual flurry of activity with jobs and life and an eclectic crew of animals, my husband Wayne and I have had the added joy of serving as commissioned pastors of First Presbyterian Church in Tucumcari. We’ve been making the trip for just about six months now. It’s a labor of love for us. We’d left our long-time church back in 2020. It’s never an easy choice to leave a church, especially when you’ve established roots. There’s a s...
I learned a new phrase recently from my niece who is trained as a social worker: “Unconditional positive regard.” Therapists and social workers know the concept well. It’s the idea that no matter what they might hear from a client, they will continue to treat that client with (say it with me) unconditional positive regard. I love that notion because while I didn’t have those exact words for it, it’s pretty much how I barrel through life. Whoever the person and whatever...
I was laughing with some of my colleagues. Whether or not you were virus-screened regularly as 2020 and COVID-19 hit us hard, most churches were thrust into a love/hate relationship with video screens of all sorts. If a device had a screen, churches were scrambling for ways to beam their services onto it. We were suddenly tossed into the deep end of the video pool. Many churches spent big bucks for equipment. Almost all churches spent some bucks. And we all spent a lot of...
Clovis’ Yucca Middle School has a new sixth grade History teacher, Rachael Harrison from Waco, Tx. Harrison, who went to college at Texas A&M University and the University of North Texas, has been in Education for 22 years. “I did not want to be a teacher,” she is quoted as saying in a Clovis Municipal Schools news release. “I wanted to be a lawyer and changed my mind after college.” Harrison said when she is not at school you might find her at home involved in do-it-yourself projects, reading or exploring with her son. She...
Both sides of a debate over whether abortion clinics can operate in the Clovis city limits are making plans on what they want to say at Thursday’s Clovis City Commission meeting. The meeting is scheduled to begin at 5:15 p.m. An ordinance that forbids the issuance of a business license to any abortion clinic that does not comply with an 1870s federal law regarding shipment and accessing items used in the abortion business is on the agenda. “Is Clovis going to be a city that allows abortion within its city limits?” Ryan Dento...
Interviews for five finalists for the job of chancellor of the Eastern New Mexico University system have begun. According to a schedule published in the “forums and interviews” section of the ENMU Presidential Search website, Larry Sanderson from New Mexico Junior College in Hobbs and James Johnston from Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, Texas, both were scheduled to attend community forums Tuesday. James Williams of Emporia State University in Emporia, Kan., is scheduled for a community forum at 4:30 p.m. tod...
A blaze that involved personnel and equipment from four of Clovis’ five fire stations delayed trick-or-treating at those fire stations Monday night. Fire Department Lieutenant Jose Gutierrez said stations one, three, four and five responded to a blaze at a cabinet shop at 216 Mitchell St. Gutierrez said the fire was put out, personnel returned to their stations and were soon passing out candy to Halloween trick-or-treaters....
If Clovis city commissioners have decided how they’ll vote on the proposed “sanctuary city for the unborn” ordinance scheduled Thursday, they’re not saying just yet. In an informal poll conducted by The News this week, only Mayor Mike Morris seems to have taken a position. “I feel certain that if you were to poll the people, a large majority of Clovis’ residents would say they are pro-life,” Morris said. “So obviously, I’m proud to stand with them on the issue.” Morris, who only votes in case of a tie among the eight com...
