Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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CLOVIS — It took the Clovis City Commission less than 13 minutes to spend $1.25 million Thursday night, as the body handled a pair of land deals in a short special meeting. After a short introduction and explanation from Mayor David Lansford on both, commissioners immediately moved to what would be 7-0 votes. All commissioners but Fidel Madrid attended; Commissioner Sandra Taylor-Sawyer participated by phone. The first transaction was $1.25 million, plus closing costs, to Sam and Julie Snell for 633 acres of land west of t...
Three area prep football players were selected as the state’s best, regardless of classification, as part of the All-USA New Mexico Football Team, announced by USA Today High School Sports. Players were selected based on their athletic achievements from the 2018-19 season. Clovis had a pair of first-teamers, with senior Stephen Acosta a first-team offensive lineman and senior Montez Wright a first-team defensive back. Portales junior Romeo Gbassagee was named to the second-team defense in a lineman position. Class 6A state c...
EDMOND, Oklahoma — The Eastern New Mexico men’s basketball team was hoping to carry a five-game winning streak into 2019, but will instead go into the new year on a one-game losing skid. The Greyhounds lost at Oklahoma Christian 72-62 Saturday afternoon, thanks in part to a poor rebounding effort — as in, getting outboarded 47-26. Still, Eastern was down only 38-34 at halftime, but couldn’t keep the Cougars from staying in control during the second half and winning by 10. Eastern dropped to 5-5 as a result, but will at leas...
PORTALES — The Roosevelt County Commission considered just four ordinances in 2018, but only one really caught the attention of residents in eastern New Mexico and elsewhere in the state, leading to a pair of marathon public comment sessions. The debate surrounding the county’s right-to-work ordinance, which says county residents cannot be required to join a union or pay dues as a condition of employment, was among the top stories to come out of Roosevelt County in 2018. The notice of intent to adopt the right-to-work ord...
CLOVIS - While Seth Martin was actually appointed to the Curry County Commission at the end of December 2017, it wasn't until the new year when his presence was really felt. Martin cast the tie-breaking vote to approve two contracts totaling over $900,000 at the county's first meeting of the year, as the road barn and water line extension were among the top stories from Curry County in 2018. At the commission's first meeting of the year and thus Martin's first meeting as a com...
CLOVIS - As the first days of January flowed into the closing days of December, it wasn't hard to notice water as a constant concern when it came to the city of Clovis. In its first meeting of the year, the Clovis City Commission approved an agreement to work with Southwest Cheese on a project to accept wastewater, thus limiting the potable water needed for municipal uses. The final time the body met, it made a land purchase. While the largest intent was to work with an...
SANTA FE — A lawsuit filed in the First Judicial District alleges a former deputy chief public defender in Clovis created a hostile and hypersexualized work atmosphere and targeted employees who reported the misconduct. Chandler Blair, who resigned in July to enter into private practice in Albuquerque, is accused of misusing his position as second in command for the state’s public defender department in a lawsuit filed by former Clovis Division Managing Attorney Jocelyn Garrison. Blair, who has previously denied sexual harass...
PORTALES — The city of Portales has scheduled a public hearing for 4 p.m. Jan. 7 to discuss its Americans with Disabilities Act transition plan. No action will be taken at the hearing, scheduled for two hours at the Memorial Building. Agenda items include a PowerPoint presentation on updates to the transition plan, a public comment and discussion period and a request for written comments from participants. Information: 575-356-6662....
CLOVIS — Jazmine Williams described her older brother James Andre Williams as a friendly guy without many close friends, likely to spend nights at his house tinkering around in the kitchen and the repair shop. That made Christmas morning quite the surprise, when family was shocked to learn he suffered a gunshot to the head in an incident where details still weren’t clear a few days later. Williams, 46, remains at the intensive care unit at University Medical Center in Lubbock. His sister said it’s possible he’ll be moved to a...
History can be easily lost. It happens all the time, for all sorts of reasons. Nature overtakes a structure that decades or centuries ago served as the center of a community; time and the elements wear away at the clues past generations left to their existence; progress rolls over, or builds over, connections to the past before anyone realizes what’s being lost. Good fortune in the form of advantageous geography sometimes prevents demolition or degradation of historic sites. Surprising feats of engineering often defy the best...
Donald Trump may watch the stock market more closely than any day trader. For a president who underlined the increasing importance of working-class whites to the GOP coalition and who trampled so much bipartisan economic orthodoxy during the campaign, to be so overtly obsessed with the stock market is a strange disconnect. In fact, no president in memory has so publicly staked himself to the market. Trump has, in contrast, paid relatively little public attention to wage...
I’ve never understood how the letters to Santa thing works. Is one stamp enough to get a letter to the North Pole? It’s not part of the United States, after all. And what about those letters that don’t have stamps? Does magic get them there? Does Santa read the letters and then send them to the newspaper, or does the U.S. Postal Service cut out the middle man and take them straight to the newspaper? Regardless, I got a stack of these letters on Dec. 26. I submit some of these letters, hoping they had a Merry Christmas just...
The new year will bring a few more changes to The Eastern New Mexico News. But this time, those changes won’t involve cost cutting as they have so often in recent years. This time, the change will be driven by readers. Starting Wednesday, we will introduce a Readers Choice page. We’ve been asking readers — through our Facebook page and face-to-face encounters — what they’d like to see that the paper doesn’t publish now. A few of the responses: • More reader interaction ...
The following marriage licenses were filed through Wednesday at the Curry County Clerk’s Office: • Canh Huu Truong, 25, and Marie Esparanza Goemz, 22, both of Clovis • Thomas Edgar Sanders Jr., 69, and Debra Kay Weigle, 64, both of Amarillo • Ryan Belcher, 32, of Clovis, and Misty R. De Los Santos, 38, of Portales • Brody Lane Grimes, 27, and Ami Louise Tillery, 24, both of Farwell • Alfredo Valdivia Mora, 27, and Ezra Melissa Ortiz, 40, both of Clovis • Aaron John Borchard, and Jennifer Ethelina Webster, 36, both of Clovi...
ALBUQUERQUE — The New Mexico Racing Commission held a special meeting on Friday to discuss the state’s potential sixth racetrack license, but did not move any closer to actually issuing that license. “At this point in time, we’re basically in the same spot as we were previously,” said Izzy Trejo, the commission’s executive director. Friday’s meeting lasted about an hour and 45 minutes; almost all of it in closed session. None of the five groups vying to bring a racetrack to Clovis, Tucumcari or Lordsburg were awarded the l...
CLOVIS — The city of Clovis has joined four other communities with designation as a Great American Defense Community by the Association of Defense Communities, according to a release from the city. The 2019 class includes Clovis, Bay County, Florida; Greater Columbia Region, South Carolina; Middle Georgia region; and the North Country-Ford Drum Region of New York. “Defined by a mission of force and family, readiness and resilience, America’s defense communities are the foundation of our military’s strength,” Associati...
Booked The following were booked into local jails Monday-Thursday: Clovis • Jimmie Hicks, 70, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge • Bryant Banister, 32, driving while license suspended or revoked, leaving the scene of an accident (no great bodily harm or death), no insurance, evidence of registration, careless driving • Jesus Cabezuela, 35, no drivers license, failure to register vehicle, failure to appear at time and place stated in citation, no insurance • Isaiah Carver, 25, probation violation, aggravated battery...
Monday • ADA Transition Plan public hearing — 4 p.m., Memorial Building Council Chamber, 200 E. 7th St., Portales. Information: 575-356-6662, ext. 1 • Community Development Block Grant public hearing — 5:30 p.m., City Hall, 100 W. First St., Portales. Information: 575-356-6662, ext. 1 Thursday • Clovis city commission — 5:15 p.m., North Annex, Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main St., Clovis. Information: 575-769-7828 Jan. 7 • ADA Transition Plan public hearing — 4 p.m., Memorial Building Council Chamber, 200 E. 7th St.,...
Monday • New Year’s social — 1-3 p.m., Wheatfields Senior Living Community, 4701 N. Prince, Clovis. Drinks and hors d’oeuvres. RSVP to: 575-762-8700 Jan. 10 • Roosevelt County Chamber of Commerce Banquet: “Portales Goes Hollywood” — 6 p.m., Yam Theater, 219 S. Main, Portales. Doors open 6 p.m .; dinner at 6:30 p.m. Tickets $35 per person or $250 per table of eight. Cash bar available. Information and reservations: 575-356-8541 Jan. 12 • Wine and Chill — 6-9 p.m., Clovis Civic Center, 801 Schepps Blvd., Clovis. Drinks and...
On this date ... 1968: Furr's grocery store was preparing to ring in the new year with "Discount Miracle Prices Every Time You Shop!" Those prices included: • Two cans of Elna blackeyed peas for 15 cents • King-size box of Cheer for 99 cents • Petroleum Jelly for 43 cents per 16-ounce jar • Spam - 48 cents per 12-ounce can • USDA graded and inspected fryers - 29 cents per pound • Two-pound bag of Georgie Porgie popcorn - 25 cents. Pages Past is compiled by David Stevens. Co...
The following are available for checkout at: Clovis-Carver Public Library “Suffer the Children” by Lisa Black offers up a psychological crime thriller where Rachael Donahue, raised in foster homes, has been living at Firebird, a secure facility for juvenile offenders in Cleveland. When her body is discovered at the bottom of a stairwell, there’s evidence the girl may have been involved with a much older man. Other children are also suffering “accidents” at the facility, and forensics expert Maggie Gardiner with detective...
Baxter Curren Senior Center 908 Hickory St., Clovis Monday: 8:30 a.m. exercise class, 10 a.m. jewelry pals, 1 p.m. line dance Tuesday: 8 a.m.-4 p.m. exercise equipment, 8 a.m. quilting, 9 a.m. pinochle class, 10 a.m. beginning line dance, 1 p.m. pinochle, Wednesday: 8 a.m.-4 p.m. exercise equipment, 8:30 a.m. exercise class, 10 a.m. sew days, 1 p.m. needle gang Thursday: 8 a.m. eggs, gravy and biscuits $4, 8:45 a.m. pinochle 101, 1 p.m. bingo, 5:30 p.m. ladies night out, 6 p.m. line dance Friday: 8 a.m.-4 p.m. exercise...
Information on remodeling and a collage quilting technique called “Scrappy Applique” will be the featured topics on “Creative Living” at 9:30 p.m. on Tuesday and at noon on Thursday. If entering your home makes you sigh and you just don’t know what to do to remedy the situation, it may be time to talk to a professional decorator. Latriece Brooks will talk about how to rethink your space and your furniture plan, and then discuss accessorizing, rehanging artwork and paying atten...
I logged into my social network a couple of times last week. No, I wasn’t lurking around on Facebook. I was ringing the bell for Salvation Army’s Red Kettle campaign on behalf of Rotary. I’m pretty sure I got more social networking done in two one-hour sessions in front of Wal-Mart than most people accomplish in a year on social media or on their smart phone. My wife gets frustrated with me when I go to Wal-Mart anyway. Seems it takes too long because she thinks I talk to ever...
My name is James Burroughes. I am a senior at Clovis High School. I am the corps commander of the CHS Air Force Junior ROTC, the community emergency response team (CERT) commander, FEMA Section VI Youth Representative, Ignite Nation (Go Cats!) mentor, member of the National Honor Society and a runner for the CHS cross country team. I love the outdoors and helping people (over 400+ service hours), am an Eagle scout and certified private pilot. My hobbies include the following:...
