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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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On this date … 1915: The Clovis Woman’s Club appointed a sanitation committee to ensure the city’s livery stable was cleaned out twice a week. Club minutes also tell us, “Mrs. Anna Janes reported that the box supper will be December 8, proceeds of which will be used for the library fund. Be sure to bring your husband and remind him that his bids are to be very generous.” 1969: A black airman at Cannon Air Force was being court-martialed for refusing to cut his hair. Airman First Class August Doyle said he believed the order...
While Portales High’s girls have a veteran leader in Wade Fraze, the boys enter the 2024-25 basketball season with a new coach in Ty Thatcher. Both teams kick off their campaigns this week. The Rams welcome Los Alamos to the RAC for a 5:30 p.m. tip on Monday, while the Lady Rams start play on Thursday in a tournament at New Home, Texas. Girls – Fraze begins his 12th season at the helm with a squad that returns four starters from last season’s 20-9 (4-2 District 4-4A) contingent. “Hopefully, that experience will help us this...
Fire destroyed most of his roof, but Richard Mares is still in business. The longtime car repair shop at 14th and Thornton in Clovis – Richard's Auto Service -- caught fire early Wednesday morning, but Mares said the roof took the brunt of the damage. The building is without power, but he's still able to do some work inside and the rest he's continuing at home. "I'm not giving up," he said Friday morning. "Just like Trump: Fight, fight, fight." Clovis Fire Department Deputy C...
I must admit the blessings I feel gratitude for are embarrassingly mundane this season of Thanksgiving. I mean, I am thankful for weekends, babies, walks in the rain, comfy sofas, random acts of kindness, the fact that I pay so little attention at work, I am permanently exempted from having to sign a non-disclosure agreement… I am thankful that the descendants of Abraham have been blessed to be as numerous as the stars in the sky and the grains of sand on the seashore, although they do fall short of the number of a...
Otto von Bismarck, known as the “Iron Chancellor,” is arguably Germany’s greatest statesman and was responsible for transforming a collection of small German states into the German Empire. Bismarck was its first chancellor and served in that position from 1862-1890. He once said, “God has a special providence for fools, drunkards and the United States of America.” If Bismarck could watch the evening news today, he’d be saying, “I told you so.” On Thanksgiving, families all ov...
Two Eastern New Mexico University athletes were among those named to the New Mexico Sports Hall of Fame’s Class of 2024, according to an ENMU news release on Monday. Greyhound football players Steve Loy and Michael Sinclair are in the class that also includes New Mexico State’s Randy Brown (basketball) and Fredd Young (football), rodeo’s Roy Cooper, and Paralympian Alana Nichols. “These athletes and coaches have had significant careers, achieved high standards of athletic success, and contributed to sports, thereby bestowi...
MELROSE – Heavily favored to repeat its 8-man football championship from a year ago, Melrose had just a little bit of trouble getting out of the gate on Saturday. Not to worry, though. The Buffaloes scored the final 40 points of the contest and throttled District 3 compatriot Mesilla Valley 62-12, the game ending about five minutes into the final stanza on the 50-point mercy rule. Senior quarterback Josiah Roybal threw for a pair of touchdowns and ran for two more, giving h...
On this date … 1956: The White House Christmas tree was scheduled to make a stop in Clovis prior to heading east, Santa Fe Railway officials said. The 65-foot spruce cut in the Lincoln National Forest was slated to be shipped via two flat cars. The tree would be on the cars “considerably west” of the passenger depot, officials said, before being loaded onto a different freight train sometime during the night. 1957: Big news in Elida: Mr. and Mrs. Claud McDowell were driving a new Mercury car, the community was still talking a...
President-elect Donald Trump has hit the ground running, alerting the public to the sort of individuals he intends to appoint to his second presidential cabinet. He continues to advertise his colorful selections, rewarding his most ardent supporters, setting the tone for what his administration will attempt to accomplish, and demonstrating little if any concern for what anyone else thinks. Trump’s most controversial picks so far include former Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz to l...
Ah, Thanksgiving, my favorite holiday of them all. As its name implies, it’s a day to give thanks for our many blessings. And for me, it’s family time up in the mountains, in a lodge we rent out every year for a long holiday weekend reunion. This year, we’ll be grieving the loss of a loved one, celebrating the youngest among us, reconnecting as a family and going home exhausted from all the fun. And then there’s politics. I’ve already been warned not to be bringing it up, and I said I’ll try. I’m not a bit happy with Tr...
Metro State finally met its match in the Lone Star Conference. Coming in at 3-0 with all three coming against LSC opponents, the 19th-ranked Roadrunners saw that streak end on Wednesday night with a 93-84 loss at the hands of Eastern New Mexico University at Steve Loy Arena. Metro had previously beaten Sul Ross State (89-61), Texas-Tyler (62-59) and Texas A&M-Kingsville (88-77). Five players were in double figures for the Greyhounds (3-1), including junior guard Jaden Clarke...
Clovis High’s basketball teams are gearing up for the start of the 2024-25 basketball season this week, both featuring many new faces on their rosters. The boys play at home on Tuesday against Albuquerque-based Atrisco Heritage at The Rock, then visit Rio Rancho on Saturday afternoon. Meantime, the Lady Wildcats’ opener is set for Saturday afternoon at Valencia. Boys – Corey Pickett, who has spent 11 years as an assistant coach in the Wildcats’ program, takes over a team this season which was 20-9 overall and 4-2 in Distric...
If you read or follow online blogs or podcasts you realize there are those who are aggregators of news from many sources, such as Real Clear Politics. Some provide in-depth examinations of complex issues, like the Duran. And some are original stories from onsite reporters. I consider interviewers like Tucker Carlson and Joe Rogan to fall into the “in-depth” category. I regularly peruse as many of these sites as I can absorb before I get MEGO (My Eyes Glaze Over). Also, I add n...
Editor’s note: Some content in this report is sexually explicit and may not be appropriate for some readers. A Clovis occupational therapist is facing additional charges alleging sex crimes against children. Jared Cordum, 29, was initially arrested in July and charged with one count of criminal sexual penetration of a child under 13, multiple counts of criminal solicitation to commit criminal sexual contact of a minor and practicing medicine without a license. He is now f...
I probably hadn’t seen Frank Capra’s “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” before launching my crusade 50 years ago, but the idea “lost causes are the only causes that are worth fighting for” would’ve certainly resonated with me. On Nov. 10, 1974, I opened the Sunday comics section of the Nashville “Tennessean” and discovered that “Dick Tracy” had been unceremoniously canceled mid-story. I was blindsided. The jut-jawed detective had “always” (well, since 1937, anyway) been part of the “Tennessean” Sunday funnies. Call me an obsessed...
On this date … 1952: Cannon Air Force Base personnel were preparing to celebrate Thanksgiving with a traditional turkey and dressing feast served in both airmen dining halls and the officers open mess. A Thanksgiving eve dance was also on the calendar, as well as Jewish, Protestant, and Catholic services. Many airmen also had invitations to dine with local families in lieu of spending the holiday on base. 1956: A pair of Clovis teens had confessed to robbing the juke box at Juarez Café. One boy told Chief of Police Nelson Wor...
Eastern New Mexico University has fired its strength and conditioning coach and banned him from the campus, the coach told The News on Monday. Cory Bell was arrested following a Nov. 1 altercation in the ENMU football field house. Court records show Bell pushed a graduate assistant coach to the ground, causing him to strike his head against a wall. Bell was arrested the same day as the incident and charged with battery, a third-degree felony. Bell said he was notified of his dismissal from ENMU in a document delivered the...
On this date … 1940: A man known “from the Pecos River to the Texas line as a character of the old days of the West,” died in a Clovis hospital at age 75. The Clovis News-Journal reported that Frank H. “Doctor” Childs died from injuries suffered when he was “slugged and robbed” in El Paso a few days earlier. Childs, who homesteaded near Melrose in 1908, was easily recognized throughout the region because he was always “well dressed ... with a cane slung over his arm,” CN-J reported. 1946: Movies playing in local theaters in...
TEXICO – To say Texico barely broke a sweat on Saturday would probably have to be classified as a huge understatement. The Wolverines, defending Class 2A state champions and the top seed this year, ran nine plays in the first quarter – all in Navajo Prep territory – and scored five times en route to a 52-0 win over the Eagles in a quarterfinal round matchup ending at halftime on the 50-point rule. Next up for Texico (10-0) is a trip to fifth-seeded Eunice (9-3), a remat...
It’s been two weeks since Election Day, and we’ve heard what pundits think cost Vice President Kamala Harris the election. Their hit list of topics included the uneven economy, high inflation, the Israeli-Hamas conflict, rising crime, extreme and excessive wokeness, and out-of-control borders. Yet, there is another reason that hasn’t been discussed nearly as much in most quarters – the intersection of race and gender. Harris would have been the first woman of any race and the...
When Amazon billionaire and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos decided not to allow his newspaper to endorse Kamala Harris for president, a quarter million readers canceled their subscriptions. Now this esteemed newspaper is suffering from a credibility crisis that may never recover under Bezos’ compromised ownership. Something similar happened to Fox News back in 2020, when the network essentially called the election for Joe Biden while their most loyal viewers were drinking in Donald Trump’s Kool-Aid and denying the rea...
Christine Gallegos will always remember Marcos Ramirez as a big jokester and a great guy. He was a role model, too, she said, the kind of man who stood up for those who didn’t have a voice. “He had a bit of a rough start,” said Gallegos, a family friend who knew Ramirez since he was in junior high. “His mom was a teen mom, so they kind of grew up together.” After high school, Ramirez joined the Army as a paratrooper and then returned to his hometown of Clovis to take care...
Four juvenile males – age 15 to 16 -- were charged Thursday morning with murder after a gun deal "went bad" in the Hilltop Shopping Center parking lot on West 21st Street in Clovis. Court records allege Marcos Ramirez, 26, met the boys with a gun he had for sale late Wednesday afternoon. One of the boys then shot Ramirez who died soon after at Plains Regional Medical Center, police allege. A man who was with the victim told police he saw one of the boys fire a gun into the bac...
Eastern New Mexico University rodeo coach Albert Flinn has been placed on administrative leave following criminal allegations of embezzlement and animal cruelty filed against him in Roosevelt County Magistrate Court. An affidavit for issuance of criminal summons was filed Nov. 4 in the court, charging Flinn, 83, with two counts of embezzlement (under $20,000) and one count of cruelty to animals. It wasn’t immediately clear whether Flinn had turned himself into the court. T...
The period immediately after a presidential election is a glorious moment for institutional media of all types. This instant in time allows them to race ahead with a multitude of what purports to be news, but is in actuality political posturing and news releases from those seeking appointments to positions in a new administration. If, for instance, I would like to be secretary of defense, one of my trusted associates will contact his friend who is a reporter for the current...
