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The grain harvest of wheat this year is the best in years due to more precipitation than usual, members of the agriculture industry are saying. At Portales grain elevator J.D. Heiskell and Company, Plant Manager Eldon Merrick said 90 to 95 percent of the wheat grown for grain in his area had been harvested. Wheat for silage or hay was harvested earlier in the year. “Wheat quality has been good; yields have been higher than average,” he said of the grain his company has taken. Most farmers brought in 20 bushels an acre or more... Full story
The grain harvest of wheat this year is the best in years due to more precipitation than usual, members of the agriculture industry are saying. At Portales grain elevator J.D. Heiskell and Company, Plant Manager Eldon Merrick said 90 to 95 percent of the wheat grown for grain in his area had been harvested. Wheat for silage or hay was harvested earlier in the year. “Wheat quality has been good; yields have been higher than average,” he said of the grain his company has taken. Most farmers brought in 20 bushels an acre or more...
A Portales woman who works at the local Veterans of Foreign Wars post served aboard a ship bombing Baghdad and traveled around the world during her time in the U.S. Navy. Christine Scharle, a Socorro native, was in the Navy from 2000-2004, and said it was a good experience. She joined because she played the flute and wanted to continue the activity in the Navy. However, she ended up working with sonar. During her four-hour watch shifts aboard the destroyer USS O’Kane, Scharle monitored the waters for objects under the s...
Freedom Communications Freedom Communications Inc. has named Mitchell Stern, the former chairman and chief executive of Fox Television Stations Inc., as CEO of the Irvine, Calif.-based media company. Freedom owns the Portales News-Tribune, Clovis News Journal and Quay County Sun. “We are very pleased that Mitch has agreed to lead Freedom Communications as its chief executive officer,” said James Dunning Jr., Freedom board chairman, in a statement from the company. “With his 30 years of experience in the media industry, he br...
Heartland Continuing Care has earned the highest rating from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. According to the Medicare website, the center has rated six nursing homes within a 50-mile radius of Portales, and Heartland is the only one with the five-star rating. Health inspections, quality measures and staffing factor into the evaluations, said Heart-land Administrator Joann Tweedy. She learned of the facility’s rating about a month ago. Tweedy attributed the five-star rating to a combination of things, but e... Full story
Heartland Continuing Care has earned the highest rating from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. According to the Medicare website, the center has rated six nursing homes within a 50-mile radius of Portales, and Heartland is the only one with the five-star rating. Health inspections, quality measures and staffing factor into the evaluations, said Heartland Administrator Joann Tweedy. She learned of the facility’s rating about a month ago. Tweedy attributed the five-star rating to a combination of things, but e...
A 1910 Roosevelt County Herald mentions the Portales Woman’s Club eating “grape whip and cake.” Editor David Stevens found the article and suggested a column. I’d never heard of grape whip. I found two recipes online and chose one from a 1964 Ottawa Citizen newspaper. To start, I heated grape juice too much — due to multi-tasking — before adding other ingredients and substituting grape gelatin for unflavored gelatin I didn’t have. The mixture needed to “chill until beginning to set.” Short on time and unsure of...
A Portales bar owner faces a felony allegation that she removed surveillance video requested by a state investigator. Court records show the investigator was looking into charges an underage clerk sold liquor to an intoxicated customer. Records show Susan Hamilton-Dick, owner of Goober McCool’s Saloon and Spirits, pleaded not guilty to obstruction of the administration of the Liquor Control Act, a fourth-degree felony, and tampering with evidence, a petty misdemeanor. Hamilton-Dick did not return telephone calls seeking c...
Several fundraisers were part of Heritage Days this past weekend, and organizers say they went well for the most part. The Portales Recreation Center held fundraisers for youth sports during the events last weekend. Athletics Director Michael Doerr said the dunking booth made $200 Saturday. “We had the biggest crowd there for the whole two hours,” he said. Also, six teams, each contributing $50 to city-league sports, participated in the kickball tournament later that day. The planned talent show was canceled because too few p...
Freedom New Mexico: Argen Duncan Seth Bright helps harvest a wheat field farmed by Bruce Lee between Elida and Floyd on Friday. Farmers say crops are growing well in the area but need rain. Crops are growing well in much of Roosevelt and Curry counties, although hail and excessive rain have caused problems in several places. Tom Dannelley of Eastern Plains Insurance Corp. said he’d received about 10 claims for hail damage to crops in Roosevelt County, which is about normal. “There have been some scattered around, but the...
Crops are growing well in much of Roosevelt and Curry counties, although hail and excessive rain have caused problems in several places. Tom Dannelley of Eastern Plains Insurance Corp. said he’d received about 10 claims for hail damage to crops in Roosevelt County, which is about normal. “There have been some scattered around, but they’re not really concentrated in one area yet,” he said. Bruce Lee, who has dryland and irrigated fields northwest, southwest and east of Floyd, said hail damaged his wheat and cotton a little mor...
A family with ties to Portales lost almost everything they owned in a flash flood, but the father rescued a 2-year-old girl as disaster struck New Braunfels, Texas. Harlan Carroll, a construction superintendent and road grader operator, and his family were visiting New Braunfels for a vacation and business trip and staying in the River Ranch RV Park. He said they had been living in their travel trailer since he was laid off last November. The morning of June 9, the Guadalupe River overflowed its banks in a flash flood. The...
Consultants are suggesting two options for the reconstruction of U.S. 70 through Portales, and a public hearing on the project is set for June 30. The project, planned to begin next year, would rebuild two miles of U.S. 70 from about the southwest edge of town to Bryan Avenue, a few blocks past the Square. Portales City Manager Tom Howell said traffic has increased on the highway, and so improvements are necessary. “It’s going to give us an opportunity to upgrade part of our community, and it’s going to make traffic throu...
During the Portales Municipal Schools Board of Education meeting Monday in the district Administration Building, the board: • heard Portales Junior High School Principal Steve Harris say math and reading scores on Measures of Academic Progress (MAPS) tests had increased slightly over the past school year. • heard Portales High School Principal Melvin Nusser say ninth- and 10th-grade math MAPS scores increased over the last year, but 11th-grade math scores dropped a bit and he didn’t know why. The tests are used w... Full story
For one Eastern New Mexico University student, a cartoon-watching session with her son turned into an effort to raise money for children with cancer. Marissa Hyde, a sophomore in public relations, is organizing a Heritage Days bake sale in conjunction with Cookies for Kids’ Cancer, an organization that contributes money to pediatric cancer research. As far as she knows, her bake sale will be the first for Cookies for Kids’ Cancer in Portales. “Because I’m a mother, I’m thankful every day my son isn’t sick,” she said. “But I... Full story
If the discussion is a system to trace diseases in cattle, New Mexico already has a sufficient system in place, members of the New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association said. The group covered several topics at its southeast regional meeting Tuesday night at the Roosevelt County Fairgrounds. According to information from the Cattle ID Group, made up of cattle industry organizations, in February, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced new regulatory framework for identifying livestock and tracing their interstate m...
A Roosevelt County teenager beat out almost 60 contestants Saturday to win a statewide hunter education contest. Garrett Lee, 17, scored 2,065 points in the annual Youth Hunter Education Challenge in Raton, according to the YHEC website. Garrett’s father, Shannon Lee, said 2,400 points were possible. Competitors shoot muzzle loaders, .22-caliber rifles, shotguns and bows, as well as take written exams, testing their use of compasses and maps, identifying wildlife and going through scenarios with a game warden. “It’s real... Full story
A live buffalo is up for bid in this year’s KENW online fundraising auction. The buffalo, a 3-year-old male pet belonging to a Portales man, is for sale along with about 820 other items — ranging from an autographed Green Bay Packers football to out-of-production Barbie dolls to couches. The auction runs through 6 p.m. Thursday and proceeds help pay for programming. Sheryl Borden, who organizes the auction, said items have received fewer bids this year, and so far people aren’t trying to out-bid each other. “I know...
A live buffalo is up for bid in this year’s KENW online fundraising auction. The buffalo, a 3-year-old male pet belonging to a Portales man, is for sale along with about 820 other items — ranging from an autographed Green Bay Packers football to out-of-production Barbie dolls to couches. The auction runs through 6 p.m. Thursday and proceeds help pay for programming. Sheryl Borden, who organizes the auction, said items have received fewer bids this year, and so far people aren’t trying to out-bid each other. “I know...
Amid a sea of flag-adorned gravesites, with a gunship en route, Col. Philip Frazee reminded a crowd Monday that the day was not about cookouts and time at the lake, but the soldiers who gave their lives to make those events possible. “It may be easy to think of Memorial Day as another three-day weekend, another break for summer, another cookout,” said Frazee, the former 27th Fighter Wing vice commander, speaking to a crowd of about 150 at Lawn Haven Cemetery in Clovis. “As all of you out here know, Memorial Day is more than...
Amid a sea of flag-adorned gravesites, with a gunship en route, Col. Philip Frazee reminded a crowd Monday that the day was not about cookouts and time at the lake, but the soldiers who gave their lives to make those events possible. “It may be easy to think of Memorial Day as another three-day weekend, another break for summer, another cookout,” said Frazee, the former 27th Fighter Wing vice commander, speaking to a crowd of about 150 at Lawn Haven Cemetery in Clovis. “As all of you out here know, Memorial Day is more than... Full story
In the wake of Tuesday’s primary elections, county clerks are estimating voter turnout was low, and local political activists are looking forward to the November general election. In Roosevelt County, County Clerk Janet Collins said 26 percent of eligible voters came to the polls. In the county’s individual parties, she said, about 33 percent of registered Republicans and 17 percent of registered Democrats voted. “I think this was a little low, really,” Collins said of the turnout. In Curry County, County Clerk Coni Jo Lyma...
In the wake of Tuesday’s primary elections, county clerks are estimating voter turnout was low, and local political activists are looking forward to the November general election. In Roosevelt County, County Clerk Janet Collins said 26 percent of eligible voters came to the polls. In the county’s individual parties, she said, about 33 percent of registered Republicans and 17 percent of registered Democrats voted. “I think this was a little low, really,” Collins said of the turnout. In Curry County, County Clerk Coni Jo Lyma...
Democrat Rodney Payne and Republican Kendell Ray Buzard won their primary elections Tuesday for the Roosevelt County Commission District 5 seat. They will face each other in the November general election. Incumbent Paul Grider could not run for re-election because he reached his two-term limit. Buzard received about 37 percent of the votes in a race with a 48-vote span between first- and fourth-place candidates. Lori Bohm brought in 25 percent of the votes, while just more than 19 percent of voters supported Allen Deen and...
Incumbent Roosevelt County Assessor Tex Belcher kept his position by capturing more than 71 percent of the votes for the Republican seat in Tuesday’s primary election. Belcher received 998 votes, compared to the 398 votes — or almost 29 percent — challenger Kenner Carrasco received. There was no Democrat candidate running, meaning Belcher is unopposed in the November general election and will continue as assessor. “I’m just very pleased I had as much support as I had,” he said. Belcher pledged to continue doing h...
