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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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Damian Lechner, the new director of the Hillcrest Park Zoo in Clovis, has added a young camel, two anteaters and sugar glider to the zoo's population since arriving in Clovis in May. Lechner said two kangaroos and two wallabies are expected in coming months. When combined with the sugar glider, a marsupial resembling a bat, Lechner said that will be the beginning of a special part of the zoo reserved for animals from Australia. Lechner came to Clovis from Los Angeles, where...
CLOVIS - To be honest, there wasn't much doubt about the outcome of Friday's Portales High-St. Pius Class 4A first-round playoff game. Still, if the Rams were looking ahead to a possible rematch at District 4-4A rival Lovington in this week's quarterfinals, it didn't show. Portales committed six turnovers on offense, but its defense picked off Sartans senior quarterback Alejandro Sapien five times en route to a 48-3 victory. The contest was moved to Clovis High's Leon...
PORTALES -- Water service was restored in Portales at 3 a.m. Friday, about 24 hours after a break in one of the city's main water lines forced schools, public offices and many businesses to close. A "boil water advisory" had been issued when the system was back up and running. The boil water advisory was lifted at about 5 p.m. Saturday according to City Manager Sarah Austin. The Portales water system was shut down early Thursday because a 24-inch PVC line, one of the system's...
PORTALES -- The City Council in Portales on Tuesday approved a schedule of rates at the council’s regular meeting that will up the cost of water, sewer and garbage services in town. City clerk Joan Martinez-Terry said the schedule will up the rates 8% per year for the next five years. Martinez-Terry stressed the increase is only for water, sewer and garbage. She said council asked for the rates to be reviewed annually. Martinez-Terry said the new rates go into effect Jan. 1. In other business council passed a resolution d...
CLOVIS - It was a squeaker to say the least, but Clovis High's seven volleyball seniors were at least able to end their high school careers on a winning note. Down two sets to one, the Lady Wildcats rallied to eke out Game 4, then rallied from four points down to pull out the fifth set and take a 25-16, 18-25, 17-25, 26-24, 17-15 District 4-5A victory over Roswell High on Tuesday night at Rock Staubus Gym. Trailing 12-9 in Game 5, junior outside hitter/setter Erin Creasy...
BOVINA — After Thursday’s 38-26 District 3-2A Division II victory over Lockney, it was wait-and-see time for Bovina. The result of Friday’s district clash between Sudan and Ralls would determine who the Mustangs would face in first round of the playoffs this week. As it turned out, Ralls won 27-13, leaving the Jackrabbits (7-2, 4-1 district) tied with the Hornets (8-2, 4-1) for the district title but giving them the tiebreaker. That dropped Bovina (4-5, 3-2) into third place and secured a 4 p.m. bi-district date again...
PORTALES - The Greyhounds won't qualify for next week's Lone Star Conference's postseason tournament, but Eastern New Mexico University's volleyball team came into its final two matches looking for a solid end to the season. That would include a winning record, which the Hounds put themselves in position for by knocking off Lubbock Christian 26-24, 25-20, 24-26, 25-15 on Wednesday night at Greyhound Arena. They finished the process on Friday night, turning back Western New...
PORTALES – The Eastern New Mexico University Chamber Singers and Swanee Singers will be on tour from Nov. 13 through Nov. 16 to promote the ENMU vocal program. According to a news release from ENMU's marketing and communications department, tour dates and locations are: Tydings Auditorium in Hobbs Nov. 13 at 7 p.m. and Carlsbad First United Methodist Church Nov. 14 at 7 p.m. The Chamber Singers and Swanee Singers will also be performing at the following schools: Carlsbad a...
If Yvette Herrell wins re-election, will that disprove the lawsuit filed by the Republican Party now pending in the state Supreme Court alleging gerrymandering? Earlier this month, the Supreme Court moved to take control of the case from the district court in Clovis. They plan to begin hearing arguments in January. The new district boundaries are in effect for the current election. In their lawsuit, Republicans argue that those boundaries give Democrats an unfair advantage. “These congressional maps were ramrodded through t...
Democracy is under threat -- the wrong candidates could win more votes than their opponents in hotly contested free and fair elections. That’s the worry of progressives insisting that “democracy is on the ballot” in the midterms. This trope, repeated endlessly on the center-left, is offered as a reason why voters of conscience should cast aside their other concerns and vote Democrat up and down the ballot. If this argument seems a touch self-serving -- indeed functionally indi...
An 82-year-old man sustains a skull fracture from a predawn home invasion, and you think it’s funny? Or that it’s fodder for another dumb conspiracy theory? What did you do with your humanity? Where did you mislay your souls? Have you no sense of decency at long last? One is tempted to say that in your response to that Friday morning attack on Paul Pelosi, many of you on the political right have hit rock bottom. But you lot have a knack for excavating depths that would mak...
It was early spring 1946. British Prime Minister Clement Attlee, seeing the untenable status quo, sent a simple message to the British colonial officer in India: “In any case, get Britain out.” The following year, King George VI signed legislation passed by Parliament, finally ending Britain’s violent colonial rule on the Indian subcontinent. Twenty years later, British colonies in East Africa successively declared independence, moving the United Kingdom along the difficult transition from an imperial power to modern liber...
I just called our Realtor. My wife and I just put our house in Los Angeles on the market. We’re selling everything except our washer and dryer. Then we’re going to buy a really nice tent and move to Encino and live on the street. We’ll find a fire hydrant and a long extension cord, hook up the washer and dryer and live happily ever after for free … As you no doubt know, L.A.’s homeless population is in the news again. This time, it was because of the washing machine that was...
This week we will celebrate Veterans Day, on Nov. 11. As I’ve written before, when I was a child we celebrated that day as Armistice Day. During the Great War, on the Western Front, at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918, after fighting more than four years, an armistice was signed, and the guns on the Western Front fell silent. Also, as a child, we were required to memorize a poem from that conflict written by a Canadian doctor and teacher who served in t...
The Curry County administration wants public input on a possible county sports complex/recreation center. According to a news release from County Manager Lance Pyle the public is invited to a meeting on the matter Monday at 5:15 p.m. in the county commission room in the county administrative building at 417 Gidding Street in Clovis. The purpose of the meeting according to the release is to get input and ideas from the public on the need for recreational space in the community and throughout the county. The county...
Curry County Manager Lance Pyle reports the medical clinic in Melrose that will be operated by Presbyterian Health Care is expected to open in Jaunuary. Pyle said Jorge Cruz, administrator of Plains Regional Medical Center which is operated by Presbyterian, said they are targeting “a go-live date of January 1st” for the Melrose clinic. At the Aug. 24 session of the Curry County Commission, commissioners unanimously approved an agreement between Curry County and Presbyterian Health Care for Presbyterian to run the Melrose Hea...
The man who killed Jahmal Burge in the kitchen of a Clovis home has been sentenced to 19 years in prison. Johnny Rae Vigil, 29, pleaded "no contest" to the second-degree murder of Burge in a plea agreement. During Tuesday's sentencing hearing, District Judge Drew Tatum heard from Burge's sister, Chandra Smart, via an internet teleconference. "I miss him the most," Smart said of Burge, who was 36. "I know he is watching down from heaven." Smart also told the court that her...
Robin Jones’ month-to-month tenure as interim president of Clovis Community College has been extended another month, to Dec. 7. The CCC Board of Trustee’s voted 3-0 to extend the appointment at its regular meeting Wednesday. Trustee Laura Leal abstained from voting. She also abstained last month, saying it’s time to put President Charles Nwankwo back to work. Trustee Terry Martin did not attend Wednesday’s meeting. Jones was named interim president at a special board meeting on Aug. 8 and that appointment was extende...
Portales – Eastern New Mexico University earned status as a U.S. News “Best College.” ENMU earned the ranking because of what a news report from the university’s Marketing and Communications department termed its “excellent standing” in the recently published 2022-2023 Best College rankings. ENMU was ranked in the top 50 percent of universities in the category of social mobility, for regional universities in the west. The report said social mobility rankings focus on economically disadvantaged students who are less likely...
The main entrance to the Curry County Courthouse is going to be different from Monday until this June. According to a news release from the Curry County Manager Lance Pyle’s office, the entrance relocation is due to the beginning of the next phase of the courthouse addition and renovations and addition. Entry into the courthouse will be temporarily relocated to the south side of the building off Seventh Street beginning Monday. The news release reports the construction project is moving into its second phase after recently c...
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 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 relea...
The 2nd annual Roosevelt/Portales/Curry/Clovis Alzheimer’s Awareness Walk is happening Saturday at 10 a.m. at ENMU’s Greyhound Arena. According to a news release sent out jointly by Roosevelt County Manager Amber Hamilton and Curry County Manager Lance Pyle, the event is a collaborative effort by all four of the local governments to raise both awareness and funding to support the Alzheimer’s Association’s initiatives. The report noted the addition of ENMU as an event partner ensured an ideal indoor location within the com...
PORTALES -- Over three days of sparsely attended community forums, the five finalists to become Eastern New Mexico University’s next president/chancellor introduced themselves and responded to questions from the public last week. Most of the questions were asked by Charles Bennett, a long-time volunteer with the ENMU rodeo team, and Rose Robbins, president of the Greyhound Club, which assists in meeting needs of the college’s athletic teams. Robbins noted that most of those who attended the public forums were associated with...
Clovis police have released details on a “shots fired” incident at Fifth and Lea streets Tuesday night. Clovis Police Captain Roman Romero said no one was injured in the incident Tuesday. Romero said at about 9:44 p.m. officers responded to the area of Fifth and Lea streets in reference to a shots fired call. Romero said when officers arrived on the scene, they located a home that had been shot. “Contact was made with its occupant,” Romero said. Officers recovered numerous nine-millimeter bullet casings, a projectile and wha...
CLOVIS -- City commissioners voted Thursday to table a controversial ordinance that would have banned abortion clinics in the city, an ordinance that would fly in the face of New Mexico's statute that allows abortion. An audience of 190 watched as Commissioner Lauren Rowley made a motion to table the measure. The motion was seconded by Commissioner George Jones. The vote to table was 7 to 1 with Commissioner David W. Bryant the lone "no" vote. Proponents have said they want...
