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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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CLOVIS -- A Clovis man was arrested by New Mexico State Police on Tuesday after he allegedly dropped what appeared to be feces through a mail slot at New Mexico State Police headquarters in Clovis. According to a criminal complaint, Christian Cook, 24, was confronted by state police officers as he walked away from the headquarters building about 10 a.m. Tuesday, but was allowed to leave without incident. Clovis police arrested Cook on Thursday on a warrant from Curry County Magistrate Court Judge Janemarie Vander Dussen....
PORTALES – Eastern New Mexico University football coach Tye Hiatt said on Thursday that he has resigned his position at ENMU to accept a job as the offensive coordinator at Southern Utah, a Football Championship Subdivision (formerly NCAA Division I-AA) program located in Cedar City, Utah. Hiatt, the Greyhounds coach for the past two seasons, will be working under DeLane Fitzgerald. The two had coached together in previous stops at Division III Frostburg State (Md.) and S...
PORTALES – For three quarters, Portales High’s boys had a pretty good handle on Tuesday’s matchup with Lubbock Christian at the Ram Athletic Center. Then the Eagles erupted for a 30-point fourth quarter and pulled away to a 65-58 win over the Rams. “They had some guys who made some plays in the fourth quarter,” Rams coach Randy McBroom said. “A lot of their guys have been starting for three or four years.” Portales (5-5) got off to a solid start, leading by five points at the end of each of the first two cantos and building...
Sam Bernal, Scoutmaster of Clovis area Boy Scout Troop 226, is appreciative of the bump in enrollment in his troop. Troop 226 is now up to three scouts, two boys recently signed up. "It seems nowadays Boy Scouts are regarded as nerdy," Bernal said in regard to why the troop's ranks are low. "At one time the troop had 13 scouts. Plus we're not allowed to recruit like we used to." Bernal has been involved with scouting since the 1970s. He attained his Eagle Scout rank in 1977....
Curry Residents Senior Meals Association 901 W. 13th St. Clovis Monday: closed Tuesday: Taco salad, pinto bens, Spanish rice, cake. Wednesday: Cheeseburger, green chile, fried okra, cookie. Thursday: Chicken noodle soup, cornbread, sliced peaches. Friday: Spaghetti with meat sauce, green beans, dinner roll, diced pears. Baxter-Curren Activity Center 908 Hickory, Clovis 575-762-3631 Monday: 8:30 a.m. Exercise, 10 a.m. Jewelry Pals, Line Dance,1 p.m. Canasta/Quiddler, 1 p.m. Line dance, 5 p.m. Potluck and games. Tuesday: 8...
The books listed below are now available for checkout at the Clovis-Carver Public Library. The library is open to the public, but patrons can still visit the online catalog at cloviscarverpl.booksys.net/opac/ccpl or call 575-769-7840 to request a specific item for curbside pickup. “Courting Misfortune” by Regina Jennings. Calista York needs one more successful case as a Pinkerton operative to secure her job. When she’s assigned to find the kidnapped daughter of a mob boss, she’s sent to the rowdy mining town of Joplin,...
Years ago, in a cold, dark pasture, a simple man, a shepherd, settled into his camp with fellow shepherds to keep watch over the flock through the night. These sheep were valuable to those who entrusted him with their care and protection and he took his job seriously even though his masters and most of the rest of the folks in the nearby towns looked down on him and his buddies. They told him he smelled bad, he was uneducated, poor, with thread-bare garments and, worst of...
At the end of this year, Eastern New Mexico University is saying goodbye to their Title IX Coordinator, Linda Neel. Neel has been working for the University in various capacities since 2013. But Neel's passion for higher education dates back much farther than that. Originally from Eugene, Oregon, Neel moved to the area at the age of 5, when her native New Mexican parents decided to come home and try their hand at farming. Initially, the family went to Muleshoe, TX before...
PORTALES – Eastern New Mexico University (ENMU) will be closed for Winter Break Thursday and will re-open Jan. 3. According to a news release from the university, all campus offices will be closed during this period. The campus will re-open Jan. 3, at 8 a.m. Students can still apply for admission and register for the spring semester online at www.enmu.edu. The spring 2023 semester begins Tuesday, Jan. 17. According to the release the ENMU staff and faculty wish everyone a happy holiday season and a safe and productive new y...
As 2022 began the COVID-19 pandemic was still very much part of the news in Roosevelt County. The Roosevelt County Chamber of Commerce opted to move the annual banquet from Jan. 20 to March 3 over coronavirus concerns. The first three weeks of January, Roosevelt County reported the highest number of new cases in any month since the pandemic began in March 2020. Kaye Green, the chief executive officer of Roosevelt General Hospital, in January said the hospital’s clinic handling COVID-19 cases is seeing roughly 150 patients a...
Clovis Municipal Schools (CMS) welcomes five new teachers to the school system by way of a special program created by the state legislature. CMS partnered with Eastern New Mexico University through House Bill 13 to provide year-long teacher residencies to five ENMU students studying to become certified classroom teachers. This month, these residents were offered full time teaching positions for the 2023-2024 school year. The teaching residents were assigned a level three classroom teacher to partner with for this school year...
On this date ... 1976: Owen Jones, a 26-year employee with the Bailey County Cooperative, had announced his plans to retire. Jones, who lived in Muleshoe, was first employed by the coop on Dec. 5, 1950, and had served as a system engineer since that time. Jones brought 26 special guests to his retirement party. He received a gold watch, fishing equipment and a scrapbook of photos from his quarter-century-plus on the job. 1946: Singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett was born in...
Booked The following were booked into local jails (Tuesday - Friday): Clovis • Travis Rice, 40, criminal damage to property • Jair De Jesus Sanchez, 20, battery against a household member • Shenoa Garcia, 31, failure to pay fines • Velia Garcia, 38, probation violation, failure to pay fines • Michael Bazley, 41, failure to pay fines, concealing identity • Jay Aranda, 29, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge • Victoria Rodriguez, 35, aggravated assault against a household member • Barbara Gonzales, 50, driving under t...
There’s a school of political thought that divided government is the government that governs best. Put the White House in the hands of one party, and Congress in the hands of the other, the argument goes, and the two sides inevitably will have to come to the negotiating table to work things out. Much like New Coke, or electing a faded reality television star president, it’s something that initially sounds good in theory, but tends to be utterly unworkable in practice. Heck, sometimes it doesn’t even work when one party has c...
By Marla Jo Fisher The Orange County Register I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but it’s Christmas Day. This is an important day in our country, because it’s when many people are inundated with gifts, some of which they take one look at and go, “Huh?” Then, they quickly recover and thank the giver wholeheartedly, while looking around for a gift receipt. I once wrote a story about the worst Christmas gifts anyone had ever received, and it made me laugh out loud. My personal favorite was the guy who told me his family had...
As the state’s Permian oil production boom continues in New Mexico the budget surpluses available to legislators each session grow as well. The latest announced budget surplus is $3.6 billion, which is a positively mind-blowing 43 percent. This surplus is on top of already dramatic spending growth of 30 percent during the first four years of the Lujan Grisham Administration. More spending growth this year is to be expected, but the capacity for government to continue e...
It takes some doing in this country to be more than 25 miles from a production of “The Nutcracker” during the Christmas season. The ballet has become as American as Friday Night Lights, and as much a holiday tradition as Frosty the Snowman or Charlie Brown. It is a reliable revenue generator for ballet academies and companies, and the story and music show up everywhere -- in books, advertisements, and pop culture. Its popularity has even driven a minor industry in toy nut...
The Christmas season always makes me think of music. Not “Jingle Bells,” or “Frosty the Snowman,” but the sacred music that I grew up with in western Iowa and eastern Nebraska: “O Holy Night,” “When Blossoms Flowered Mid the Snows,” “O Little Town of Bethlehem,” Adeste Fideles,” “Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella,” “What Child is This,” “Joy to the World,” and the most loved, “Silent Night,” to name a few. To really get the full impact of choral music, and especially Christma...
The holidays are just about perfect on the Hallmark Channel. In real life, they can be stressful. We all want that Charlie Brown Christmas, but most of us can get a little grinchy sometimes. And memories of loved ones not around the family tables during the holidays can send us spiraling into depression, sometimes even before the presents are opened. For those of us not starring in a holiday Disney movie, the New Mexico Department of Health offers suggestions for facing the...
The Portales City Council unanimously approved a water purchase contract with the Roosevelt County Water Cooperative (RCWC), which increases the rates the coop pays the city for water it then will provide to its customers at the rate the RCWC will set. The city recently instituted a water rate increase across the board for all its customers in an effort to conserve water: residential, commercial, industrial, and the Roosevelt County Water Cooperative. The reason for the rate...
An academy for sixth graders is being considered for the Clovis Municipal School (CMS) system as a way to better prepare elementary students for middle school. Discussion of the proposal was headed by Carrie Nigreville, CMS Deputy Superintendent of Academic Services and Leadership at Tuesday’s December meeting of the school board. Nigreville told the board the idea for the sixth-grade academy came up in 2019 prompted by Clovis educators noting a drop in sixth graders academic performance from elementary to middle school. “We...
An April 29 fire that destroyed four homes and burned through 185 acres was the dominant story in Curry County for 2022. Also destroyed in the fire were 14 outbuildings and other vehicles and property. There were no serious injuries reported in the fire northwest of Clovis. Fire department personnel and vehicles were joined by three helicopters, personnel and equipment from Cannon Air Force Base, the city of Clovis, Curry County’s road department, Clovis police, Curry County Sheriff’s deputies and state police, Clovis Fire Ch...
PORTALES -- On Jan. 10, the public comment session before the Roosevelt County Commission on an anti-abortion ordinance will allow an hour for speakers on each side, alternating pro- and anti-ordinance speakers for three minutes per speaker, the commission decided on Tuesday. The commission also decided Tuesday that the hearing will begin at 7 p.m. at the Jake Lopez Center in Portales to accommodate an expected large number of participants. Doors to the Lopez Center will open at 6:30 p.m. to allow speakers to register, the...
Police have arrested a 23-year-old Clovis man and charged him with first-degree murder in the shooting death of Ismael Zachery Martinez, 27, whose body was found Dec. 16 in a field near Curry Road K and Curry Road 8. The suspect, Cesar Rascon-Chacon, is facing charges of first-degree murder, being a felon in possession of a firearm, a third-degree felony, and tampering with evidence, a third-degree felony, in connection with Martinez's death, according to court documents....
BASKETBALL Prep tournaments At The Rock, Clovis K. Barnett & Sons Holiday tournament Boys Tuesday’s quarterfinals Roswell High 65, Taos 61 Sandia 70, Socorro 33 Volcano Vista 72, Centennial 35 Clovis, bye Wednesday’s semifinals Consolation bracket Centennial 59, Taos 52 Clovis JV 46, Socorro 41 Championship bracket Volcano Vista 75, Roswell High 37 Sandia 75, Clovis 57 Thursday’s finals Centennial 67, Socorro 50 (7th) Centennial 46, Taos 45 (5th) Clovis 66, Roswell High 52 (3rd) Volcano Vista 48, Sandia 44 (cham...
