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Clovis police are investigating a homicide that happened in the city early Saturday. Officers were dispatched to the 900 block of Connelly Street on a report of gunshots fired about 12:50 a.m., according to a news release from police Capt. Robbie Telles. While responding to that call another call came in about a vehicle crashing into a home at 915 Connelly St. According to the news release: Emergency responders found a black GMC pickup truck had crashed into the house at 915 Connelly. A man was removed from the truck's... Full story
CLOVIS -- Jelayne Curtis was everything an executive assistant should be for the 25 years she worked in the superintendent's office of the Clovis Municipal School District, according to Renee Russ, the district's current superintendent, and others who have worked with her. "The scope and depth of Jelayne's knowledge of the last quarter century of the district's history is unmatched," Russ stated in an email. "Jelayne will be greatly missed, and she will always be remembered...
PORTALES – District court judges early this week granted an extension of time for determining whether juvenile murder suspects will be tried as adults. A new grand jury is scheduled to be convened Friday in Portales to hear evidence against three boys accused of killing James Roper, 37, early last month. A fourth juvenile accused in the case has not been located. A grand jury had been scheduled July 1, but could not hear the case because 12 grand jurors must be present. District Attorney Brian Stover said only 11 grand j... Full story
LAS VEGAS — The Las Vegas Veteran Affairs clinic is no longer in danger of being shut down, New Mexico’s U.S. Senators announced June 27. The Department of Veterans Affairs in March recommended the closure of 174 VA clinics across all 50 states, including four in New Mexico, including Las Vegas. If the recommendation had been followed, veterans who use the Las Vegas facility would have been forced to seek treatment at in Albuquerque, nearly two hours away from Las Vegas. The Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee, led by effor...
CLOVIS – The City of Clovis will be hosting a public meeting to provide an informational update on the construction of the Ute Pipeline. The meeting will include a presentation of the City of Clovis’ funding strategy in relation to the project. The meeting will be today at 5:00 p.m. in the North Annex of the Clovis-Carver Library, at 701 N. Main St. A quorum of Clovis City Commissioners may be present. The meeting will be broadcast on the City of Clovis’ media platforms for those unable to attend in person. For quest...
If you are worried about the next few years, I can relate. Supply chain problems, inflation, the ongoing drought, and the possibility of political violence seem like they are closing in on us. An effective way to defeat the worry is to take charge of your life. Be responsible for your own well-being. Don’t wait to be rescued. You’ll always feel worse about things you think you can’t control. So, take control and do what you can, and you’ll put your energy to better use tha...
Patchie, a beautiful white and black heeler, is our resident grouch. We’ve had her almost 10 years and she was probably about 2, give or take, when we found each other. Like so many past and present residents of Head Acres, she came to us through no fault of her own. She was abandoned and fending for herself on a trash pile in the fields behind the house. I found her while taking a walk in December 2013. She was a mess. Skeletal with open wounds. Fearful. Starving. S...
I guess I’m safe. On my computer, I mean. My passwords for my online accounts are so strong that I can’t even get into half of my own accounts more than half of the time. And it takes so much time. You need “two-factor authentication,” the computer security experts say. What that means is that even if I manage to remember my password, I still have to go to my mobile phone to get the code that they send, or, for Google, head over to YouTube and tell them, “Yes, I would ver...
PORTALES - A standout from Oklahoma’s Connors State College, Jahcoree Ealy, has joined Eastern New Mexico Men’s Basketball team according to Head Coach Brent Owen. Ealy is the second recruit from Connors State, joining Greg Johnson on the Greyhounds roster. Ealy filled the stats sheet with the Cowboys, starting all 33 games he played in for the 2021-22 season. In that time, Ealy averaged 15.4 points per game, on 59.2% shooting from the floor, with 4.3 assists per game. On defense, Ealy poked out 1.5 steals per game, dis...
PORTALES — Eastern New Mexico University will open its volleyball season Aug. 26 at the Dr. Steve Aicinena “Iceman” Invitational in Odessa, Texas, and wrap it up Nov. 4 at home against Western New Mexico University. University officials released the schedule on Tuesday. “We are looking forward to another exciting season,” said ENMU head coach Sia Poyer in a university news release. The Greyhounds will have three tournaments before heading into conference play, with 16 Lone Star Conference matchups and eight home contests....
Reserved seat tickets for the 2022 Wildcat Football season go on sale July 18. Past reserved seat ticket holders will have until Friday, August 5, to buy their tickets. After that date, remaining tickets will go on sale to the public. According to a news release from administrators at Clovis Municipal Schools, those who no longer want to buy reserved seat tickets, are asked to contact the CHS athletic office before August 5. The cost for reserved seat tickets is $60 per seat and $75 for each box seat. There will be an...
I had an email a few weeks ago from a man named Larry Richardson who mentioned a long-time connection he had to the old Portales News-Tribune, a favorite aunt of his. “She was probably before your time,” Richardson wrote, “but you may have heard of her…Georgiana Cooper. She actually published a book from the many public interest columns she wrote.” Not only had I heard of her, but I remembered her well, as do many others in this community, I’m sure. Richardson said his fa...
Before she was elected governor, Michelle Lujan Grisham acknowledged the state’s system of allocating elk licenses was unfair to N.M.’s resident hunters. But instead of empowering the New Mexico State Game Commission to implement a more equitable system, Lujan Grisham has fallen back on a tired tradition of using unchecked gubernatorial power to preserve the status quo, a system that makes New Mexicans an afterthought in harvesting — and protecting — the wildlife that belongs to them. This isn’t a new criticism, nor exclu...
It’s being declared often these days. There’s even a book pushing the notion in its title: “America is a Christian nation.” To which I ask: Which Christian? Which version of Christianity are we talking about, the conservative Christian nationalists or the liberal Christian internationalists? They may share the “Christian” moniker, but they are, in reality, two separate religions. In some Christian churches, there’s a civil war going on. New Mexico’s largest Christian denomination, the Catholic church, is becoming more d...
Booked The following were booked into local jails (Friday - Tuesday): Clovis * Andrea Archie, 20, failure to appear on a felony charge – attempt * Kelvin Najera-Sevilla, 27, assault with intent to commit a violent felony, aggravated battery against a household member, robbery, kidnapping * Dameko Salguero, 24, unlawful carrying of a deadly weapon, failure to appear on a felony charge * Jose Baca, 56, parole violation, out of state fugitive * Michael Maness, 23, aggravated driving while under the influence of intoxicating l...
On this date … 1912: No money but you want a subscription to The Clovis News? No problem. According to a note in the paper: “To you farmers who haven’t the ready cash to pay for a subscription … don’t forget that we are not going to break the time-honored customs of taking anything from pumpkins and henfruit to wheat stubble in exchange for a subscription. “You want the paper and we want you to have it.” Pages Past is compiled by David Stevens. Contact: dstevens@then...
PORTALES — The opening of Roosevelt County’s new county road maintenance barn is being celebrated with an open house and ribbon cutting at 2 p.m. Tuesday. The event will be at the new facility at 1320 N. Boston St., Portales. The Roosevelt County Commission successfully used a combination of state capital outlay funding and county general funds to build the new facility. The construction cost for the 8,000 square foot road barn was just over $616,000. “We have one of the best Road Departments in the state and the new Road...
CLOVIS -- About five dozen area residents unhappy with the U.S. Supreme Court's overturning of the 50-year-old Roe vs. Wade decision legalizing abortion protested across from the Curry County courthouse on Saturday in Clovis. Some of the peaceful protesters held pro-choice, pro-abortion signs; some urged passing vehicles to show support by honking horns. Before protesters started pacing up and down Main Street near the intersection with Seventh Street, Sarah Hartzell addressed...
It's summer and that means it is time for the All-American, now gone global, tradition of soap box derby races. Clovis, New Mexico held its local soap box derby race June 25 and 10-year-old DJ Padilla finished First Place. He will go onto the FirstEnergy All-American Soap Box Derby World Championship in Akron, Ohio held from July 17-23. "The Local Race Program is a race held annually by this Soap Box Derby licensed Local Race Organization," as stated on the...
Jason Smith, now 18, was fined $107 and court costs, Thursday after pleading "no contest" to a charge of failing to exercise due care 10 months after the pickup truck he was driving on Aug. 29 struck and killed Martha Castillo, 68, as she was crossing Clovis' Thornton Street. Smith entered his plea and received the sentence in a hearing held in Curry County Magistrate Court before De Baca County Magistrate Judge Buddy Hall. Hall allowed members of Castillo's family to speak,...
The Ogallala Land & Water Conservancy, along with other members of the Clovis-Curry County community, have been working to forge an agreement with 10 farmers who own land to the north and west of Cannon Air Force Base. The mission is to take the water in the aquifer accessed by their wells out of production for irrigation for three years. An agreement is expected to be reached this month. The farmers would be paid to conserve the water in their wells, using only enough water for dryland farming, cattle grazing and personal...
