Roosevelt County News Archives

Engineering manager for Roosevelt County Electric Cooperative Inc. and owner of Eastern New Mexico Engineering.

The year is winding its way to an end and 2010 is right around the corner. For many in the state who are aware of the importance of numbers, that means one very important thing: It's time for a new census.

Roosevelt County is proposing fees for road cuts to access utility lines, but utility service providers are concerned about the costs.

With the harvest about halfway there, this year's peanut crop is good to average, according to people in the know.

Gail Strickler and Elizabeth Lawrence spent a month building their log cabin. Now they're hoping to find it a home.

Storms dropped about an inch of rain around Roosevelt and Curry counties and caused lightning-related power outages in the region Tuesday night.

The Little Wranglers Junior Association gives children a chance to compete in rodeo style events for fun.

Eastern New Mexico University celebrated a little legume that has a large impact on Roosevelt County and much of eastern New Mexico.

Roosevelt County Community Development Corporation Director Greg Fisher said Friday he and others in the county would work with the New Mexico Renewable Energy Transmission Authority to support new connections to the expected Tres Amigas National Electrical Grid Superstation near Clovis.

I salute the flag of the State of New Mexico, the Zia symbol of perfect friendship among united cultures.

The man charged with shooting a Causey farmer in 2005 as part of a murder-for-hire drug deal has pleaded guilty in exchange for a life sentence, avoiding the death penalty.

Why did the chicken cross the road? Maybe it was to get to the Roosevelt County Bantam Show.

Sharon Davis of Roosevelt County may have retired from the retail furniture business, but she keeps busy with a multitude of volunteer activities.

At the Roosevelt County Commission meeting Tuesday morning in the county courthouse, commissioners: Approved matching money of $1,300 for an Office of Economic Adjustment grant to pay for a regional growth planner, an administrative assistant and expenses to carry out recommendations from the Regional Growth Management Plan.

The excitement is almost tangible when some locals talk about rebuilding the oldest, grandest hotels in Clovis and Portales.

High numbers of patients with flu-like symptoms and concern about the H1N1 virus have prompted Roosevelt General Hospital to set up a special triage unit in the parking lot.

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN ROOSEVELT COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO * UNTIL 245 AM MDT * AT 1248 AM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING OVER SOUTHEAST ROOSEVELT COUNTY.

About 175 quilts will be on display Friday and Saturday at the Memorial Building in Portales for the High Plains Quilt Festival.

Jail escapee Reynaldo Jeremy Enriquez - who police called the ringleader in eight home invasions - was sentenced to 30 years in prison Wednesday for the home invasion that ended a 2008 summer crime spree.

School officials has confirmed that a kindergarten student at Rio Rancho Elementary School died of the H1N1 virus.

The New Mexico Department of Health has announced that an infant girl from Roosevelt County and an elementary school student from Rio Rancho have died as a result of the H1N1 virus.

New Mexico Department of Health officials said Friday the H1N1 flu virus is widespread throughout the state, and announced the deaths of three children who had no previous chronic medical condition.

The New Mexico Department of Health has announced an infant in Roosevelt county has died from the H1N1 flu.

The New Mexico Department of Health announced today that a female infant from Roosevelt County and a 5-year-old female from Sandoval County died as a result of H1N1 influenza.

A Roosevelt County infant girl has died of the H1N1 flu, according to a news release from the state Department of Health.

The New Mexico Department of Health announced Thursday night that a female infant from Roosevelt County and a 5-year-old girl from Sandoval County have died from swine flu.

A 10-year-old Portales girl was forced to eat meals quickly, by herself, then locked in her room at night "to prevent her from getting up and eating food," according to a police incident report .