David Stevens, The Staff of The News|Updated Apr 15, 2025
If Matthew Gibbs were alive today, he probably would not condemn the man driving the pickup that killed him as he walked to work on Dec. 29, 2023. That's what Candice Gibbs told Collin Guthals on Monday in Clovis' 9th Judicial District Court. "In some way, he would also forgive you. That was how sweet, compassionate and loving he was," she said. But Candice Gibbs, Matthew's stepmother, also told Guthals those grieving Matthew's death are living a nightmare. "There must be puni...
Hounds stay in tourney picture
the Staff of The News|Updated Apr 15, 2025
Sunday's finale didn't go so well for Eastern New Mexico University's baseball team, but the Greyhounds did enough against Lubbock Christian over the weekend at Greyhound Field to stay in the middle of the Lone Star Conference postseason tournament picture. LCU got a home run apiece from six players on Sunday and run-ruled the Hounds 18-8 to earn a split in the four-game set. It's the first time ENMU has managed as much as a series split against the Chaparrals, who hold a...
ENMU spring football game set for Friday
ENMU|Updated Apr 15, 2025
Eastern New Mexico University’s annual football’s spring game is set for 6 p.m. on Friday at Steve Loy Stadium, wrapping up spring drills for the squad. “(We’re) excited to showcase the hard work our team has committed to and looking forward to seeing all the fans Friday night,” coach Kelley Lee said. The format of the spring game will be to split up the roster with a Green team and a Silver team. At halftime, ENMU football athletes will be recognized with spring awards. Those acknowledgments showcase the work ethic of...
Water dispute may scuttle American Legion Post 20 event
the Staff of The News|Updated Apr 15, 2025
TUCUMCARI – A planned open house for the new location of American Legion Post 20 at the former Pow Wow Restaurant & Lizard Lounge may be endangered due to unpaid water bills at the property. Post 20 recently moved from the former Hardee’s to the Pow Wow. On Thursday, it announced an open house from 3 to 7 p.m. on April 24 at the new location at 801 W. Route 66 Blvd. Post Cmdr. John Pacheco aired his grievances against the city’s water shutoff Saturday in a lengthy Facebook post, including vowing to contact the state’s attorne...
Assessor: Quay County's taxable value rises by $14 million
Ron Warnick, The Staff of The News|Updated Apr 15, 2025
TUCUMCARI — Quay County’s new assessor said the county’s taxable value rose to $279 million this year from $265 million the previous year, thanks in part to rapidly rising property values in the Logan and Ute Lake region. Assessor Jefferson Byrd indicated Monday during his annual report to the county commission that the increase might blunt the effect from an increase in property-tax exemptions for veterans, which he said affects $1.7 million in taxable assets in the county. Byrd, who took office as assessor in January after...
Tucumcari won't allow pot-growing in commercial zones
Ron Warnick, The Staff of The News|Updated Apr 15, 2025
TUCUMCARI — City commissioners learned during a work session Thursday that four cannabis dispensaries want to grow marijuana on their premises but cannot do so because city code bars it. Commissioners were disinclined to let those dispensaries, despite them possessing a state production license, to proceed because chemicals used to produce marijuana would disrupt beneficial microbes at the city’s sewer plant. Commissioner Clayton Thorne and other commissioners directed the city to draft a letter to those dispensaries and hav...
State land commissioner visits EPCOG
Grant McGee, The Staff of The News|Updated Apr 15, 2025
New Mexico Commissioner of Public Lands Stephanie Garcia Richard is looking for ideas. She wants to "hear ideas for use of state land in your community." Garcia Richard gave a presentation to the Eastern Plains Council of Governments on April 8, reminding board members state land can be a revenue producer for area "cities, counties, even school districts." Garcia Richard began her Power Point address to the group giving a local example of how public lands can bring funds to...
Two Tucumcari restaurants lauded by Route 66 association
Ron Warnick, The Staff of The News|Updated Apr 15, 2025
TUCUMCARI - Three days after their restaurant was heavily damaged by fire, the owners of Kix on 66 tearfully accepted a New Mexico Route 66 Association Heritage Award. The owner of Del's Restaurant in Tucumcari also received an award and announced he would organize a fundraiser for Kix's owners and their displaced employees later this month. The blaze on April 4 tore through the roof of Kix on 66, prompting it to be closed indefinitely while its owners, Todd and Donna...
Meetings calendar - April 16
Updated Apr 15, 2025
Wednesday *City of Portales Lodger’s Tax Advisory Board – 9:30 a.m., Memorial Building, 200 E. Seventh St., Portales. Information: 575-356-6662 *City of Clovis Investment Committee – 2 p.m., assembly room, Burt Cabiness City Government Center, 321 N. Connelly, Clovis. Information: 575-763-9654 Friday *Good Friday *Eastern New Mexico University Regents — 8:30 a.m., Regents Room, ENMU Administration Building, Portales. Information: 575-562-2091 or [emailprotected] Monday *City of Clovis Parks, Recreation, and Beautif...
City, county officials discuss sports complex
Grant McGee, The Staff of The News|Updated Apr 15, 2025
A proposed Curry County Sports Complex headlined discussion at Thursday’s city-county meeting at Clovis-Carver Public Library. County Manager Lance Pyle told the group of about 30 people that Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham wants to see a partnership between the city and county. The project has been discussed since 2023. Pyle said he doesn’t believe there will be any state money coming to the project unless there is a partnership. Efforts to build the complex so far have been led by the county. County Commissioner Bradley Ben...
Trucker story: Frank and the jake brake
Grant McGee, The Staff of The News|Updated Apr 15, 2025
When I was a truck driver, I went over the High Sierra Mountains of Nevada and California a time or two, miles of mountains and pines -- the kind of place that appealed to my Boy Scout heart. Quite different from our High Plains. It was June 2002 and I was westbound on Interstate 80. Westbound means a long downhill grade, about 25 miles, from the tops of the Sierra Nevada to the lowlands around Sacramento. I had heard many a tale over the years of truckers losing their brakes going down long mountain grades. They’d lose t...
Tom McDonald, Syndicated content|Updated Apr 15, 2025
If history is going to remember April 5, it won’t be as a single day, but as one among many — when Americans stood up to resist the direction President Trump is taking this country. “Hands off” went the mantra for the day, when thousands upon thousands of people hit the streets in a peaceful demonstration against Trump, Elon Musk and their billionaire buddies and their attacks on education, health care, equity and inclusion, world trade and foreign relations, the economy, and our very own cultural underpinnings. By one est...
Opinion: Liberty a powerful right you own
Kent McManigal, Local columnist|Updated Apr 15, 2025
Last week, the news of the dire wolf’s de-extinction was everywhere. It didn’t take long until calmer voices pointed out that these are not really dire wolves, which weren’t even wolves, just gray wolves genetically altered to have what someone believes were some dire wolf traits. The kind of liberty most people offer is similar. It’s not real liberty; it’s authoritarianism with a few tweaks of what some politicians believe real liberty might be like. They’ll claim to su...
Opinion: New Mexico lacks economic freedom
Paul Gessing, Guest columnist|Updated Apr 15, 2025
A thousand years ago, a group of people settled along Red Willow Creek at the base of the Taos Mountains and never left. They were among the first, but hardly the last, to be enchanted by New Mexico’s snow-capped mountains and sun-drenched vistas. The state’s moderate climate, rich culture, and mouth-watering cuisine are peerless. And now that New Mexico churns out 2 million barrels of oil every day — more than 15% of all U.S. production — you’d think New Mexicans would be...
Opinion: 'Oops' a violation of international human rights
I’ve been writing about immigration for over two decades. I’ve been practicing immigration law for over three decades. You could say I’m an expert. For much of my professional life, I’ve tried to straddle the often invisible line between advocating for immigrant rights, and supporting government efforts to keep this country safe. I work with the government, when necessary, because it’s better to avoid the adversarial process and reach a good result for both the client an...
Opinion: NY Times report far from believable
Rube Render, Local columnist|Updated Apr 15, 2025
The New York Times recently published a 4,000-word story -- “The Secret History of the War in Ukraine” – that divulged information that may have been secret to the publisher, editors and newswriters of the NY Times, but was widely recognized as fact by readers of more than one source of information. This news story is in keeping with such other late kernels of information provided by the NY Times as the 12 CIA camps in Ukraine, Prime Minster Boris Johnson’s trip to torpedo...
Sooner the tiger's feeling g-r-r-r-e-a-t
Grant McGee, The Staff of The News|Updated Apr 15, 2025
Even tigers can suffer from achy, stiff joints in their advancing age. And if your tiger is in pain, you want to help if you can. That's why Hillcrest Park Zoo Director Stephanie Chavez recently introduced Sooner to CBD. She believes it's working. CBD stands for cannabidiol. It is a compound found in the cannabis plant, often used for pain relief in people. Chavez believes it has helped Sooner as well. "My vet had heard they were doing a case study on CBD use for lions,"...
Opinion: NM shifts wildlife focus to preservation
Walter Rubel, Syndicated content|Updated Apr 15, 2025
The New Mexico Legislature didn’t do much this year to update policies and procedures that are more than a century old. We will continue to have an unpaid Legislature convening in 30- and 60-day sessions to meet the lifestyle demands of those living in 1912. But there was one area where lawmakers decided to update from the horse and buggy days, and that was wildlife preservation. Laws on the books until this year treated wildlife as either food or sport. The job of the state was to ensure there were plenty of animals to be s...
Ask the News - April 16
the Staff of The News|Updated Apr 15, 2025
When are we due for fixing potholes on Clovis’ main streets: 21st from Norris to Martin Luther King Jr., Seventh from Thornton to Main, 14th from Gidding to Mitchell streets? Pothole repair was under way April 7, the day after the weekend of snow. “We fixed potholes from Norris to Martin Luther King Jr. on 21st streets (on Monday), from Grand to Main, from Rio on Seventh to Main St., all of Prince St.,” Clovis Streets Superintendent Larry Hall told The News in an email on April 8. Hall added, “On Brady from Norris to MLK, Hu...
Kids entrepreneur fair upcoming
the Staff of The News|Updated Apr 15, 2025
Registration is underway for the May 3 Eastern New Mexico Children’s Entrepreneur Fair, an event from Clovis MainStreet. Clovis MainStreet Executive Director Lisa Pellegrino-Spear said Monday kids ages 6 to 17 are welcome. “Younger kids can be accompanied by another child partner,” Pellegrino-Spear said. Pellegrino-Spear described the event as giving “our local and regional youth the opportunity to launch their very own startup business.” The one-day shopping event “allows for kids to develop a brand, create a product or...
Conversations with the car baffling
Betty Williamson, Local columnist|Updated Apr 15, 2025
Six months ago I finally made the decision to replace a 25-year-old car that had racked up nearly 300,000 miles. The day I picked up the new car, I was surprised that the question was, “Have you downloaded our app?” I’m technologically connected enough to know that for any task or need we might have, “there’s an app for that,” but for a car? To me, a car is a tool, pure and simple. I don’t care how it looks, how cool others may perceive it to be, or how many bells and whi...
Teen, 14, to be tried as adult in Tucumcari
Ron Warnick, The Staff of The News|Updated Apr 15, 2025
TUCUMCARI — A 14-year-old armed robbery suspect will be tried as an adult after he was arrested at Tucumcari Middle School and found with an unloaded handgun in his possession, officials said. Tenth Judicial District Attorney Heidi Adams said the suspect, identified in court documents as Jason M. Rodriguez of Tucumcari, is being charged with armed robbery and unlawful carrying of a deadly weapon on school premises. The charges are both felonies. The youth also faces two misdemeanor counts of unlawful carrying of a handgun b...
Hotel Clovis evacuates after fire in kitchen
Grant McGee, The Staff of The News|Updated Apr 15, 2025
A small kitchen fire activated the sprinkler system that caused the total evacuation of Hotel Clovis on Thursday night, officials said. Clovis Fire Department Deputy Chief Terrance Lizardo said Monday “The sprinkler system stopped the fire.” “The sprinkler system worked as designed. There is a fire pump in the hotel and it sent up a lot of pressure,” Lizardo said. Lizardo said about 50 residents were evacuated from the historic downtown icon on Thursday night and all day Friday. “Officially Saturday was the day evacuees...
Theater manager wins age-discrimination lawsuit
David Stevens, The Staff of The News|Updated Apr 15, 2025
The longtime manager of Clovis’ Allen Theatres will receive $250,000 in settlement of an age-discrimination lawsuit. Abby Parrish filed the lawsuit through the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission after alleging the theater group refused to allow him back at work after the COVID-19 pandemic due to his age. The lawsuit states EEOC investigators interviewed Allen Theatres President Russell Allen and that he told them “under oath” that he required “Parrish be ‘mandatorily retired’ in September 2020.” “President Al...
Clovis, Roosevelt County schedule DWI checkpoints
the Staff of The News|Updated Apr 15, 2025
The Clovis Police Department and Roosevelt County Sheriff’s Office have planned sobriety checkpoints over the next few weeks. In Clovis, a DWI checkpoint is scheduled April 25. Specific times and locations have not been made public. “Officers will be specifically targeting alcohol and drug-impaired drivers,” according to a police news release. Roosevelt County’s checkpoint is set for 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. May 9 on U.S. Highway 70 near NM 202. “Deputies will be looking for drivers who are operating a motor vehicle while under the...
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