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Roosevelt County Sheriff’s officers working with the Region V Drug Task Force seized illegal drugs and arrested one man Sunday in Portales on an outstanding warrant. They are seeking felony drug trafficking charges against two individuals, according to a RCSO press release. According to the press release, a search warrant was issued for a residence at 615 S. Main in Portales after a traffic stop during which a K-9 alerted to the presence of drugs in the vehicle and later at the door of the residence. As a result of the s...
A home west of Portales was destroyed by fire Sunday afternoon. Occupants of the house escaped without injury, according to Portales Fire Department Battalion Chief Lance Hill. Four fire units from PFD and one from Floyd responded around 5:30 p.m. to the report of a grass fire endangering a single-wide mobile home at 370B South Roosevelt Road U. The fire quickly spread to the structure and by the time firefighters arrived the mobile home was fully involved in flame, according to Hill. According to family members of the...
Sponsors of the High Plains Prairie Chicken Festival, to be held April 11-13 in Milnesand invite artists of all ages to participate in a poster contest. The grand prize winning entry will be reproduced as the festival poster, according to a New Mexico Department of Game and Fish news release. The grand prize winner will receive $300 and the winners in three age categories — adult, grades 7-12 and grades K-6 — will receive $50 each. The deadline for artwork submissions to the NMDGF is Feb. 15. Any two-dimensional media, inc...
A Roswell man was taken into custody Monday in connection with a commercial burglary at the wind farm near Elida reported on Friday, according to a Roosevelt County Sheriff’s Office press release. Michael Robertson, 50, of Roswell was arrested by Chaves County Sheriff’s Department officers after a Portales Police Department officer reported the license plate number on a vehicle with rolls of copper wire in the bed. Robertson is charged with receiving/transferring stolen property in excess of $20,000 and tampering with evi...
The Portales Municipal Schools Board of Education approved the sale of $4.5 million in bonds to help finance the new Lindsey-Steiner Elementary School at a special meeting Tuesday, allowing the project to proceed at full steam. “This is a proud time for you folks,” said Al Clemmons of George K. Baum and Company, the school district’s investment firm. “It’s really a good thing you didn’t have any bids three weeks ago. As you can see from the bid sheet you got a very good set of bids.” According to School Superintenden...
St. Joseph, Mo. —The Missouri Western State University Board of Governors has named Robert A. Vartabedian its fourth president since 1969. Vartabedian has been vice president of academic affairs at Eastern New Mexico University in Portales since 2005. Vartabedian will succeed James Scanlon as Western’s president on July 1, 2008. “Dr. Vartabedian’s 22 years in higher education administration have prepared him well to be Western’s next president,” said Dirck Clark, chair of the Board of Governors. “He has outstanding c...
Unexpected money rained down on the Portales City Council from Santa Fe during Tuesday’s regular commission meeting. It came in the form of a state legislature appropriation for $120,026 that Jim Good, director of the Portales Senior Citizens Center, had been unaware of previously. He said he was recently contacted by the state and asked to have the Council prepare a resolution accepting the money. Good said the money didn’t contain a match and would be used for a variety of renovation projects at the center. Projects wil...
Portales Municipal Schools begins its annual series of holiday concerts this week with a twist. According to Portales High School choir director and district fine arts coordinator Franklin Smith, this year’s concerts will include a promotion to provide prepaid phone cards for U.S. troops overseas. Smith said he became aware of how much troops enjoyed getting phone cards through news stories and when Portales Junior High choir director Suzanne Cottrell’s husband was sent overseas recently. Smith said people attending the fre...
Plans for a new elementary school in Portales, approved by voters in October, are on track according to school administration officials. School board members met on Monday in a special meeting to give their approval for notice of the sale of $4.5 million in bonds. The sale is scheduled to take place Dec. 18 and proceeds should be available by mid-January, according to Portales Municipal Schools Superintendent Randy Fowler. “We’re continuing to work on planning for our new school,” Fowler said. “Our building committee has bee...
Law enforcement officers arrested a Roosevelt County man and seized items suspected to be used in methamphetamine production Tuesday. According to a news release from the Roosevelt County Sheriff’s Office, Cody Banister, 27 was arrested on probation violation and RCSO officials say numerous other charges related to the production of methamphetamine are pending. Agents of the RCSO and the Region V Drug Task Force and the Portales Police served a search warrant after a parole officer on a home visit to Banister’s residence at 1...
Portales Fire Department personnel performed an aerial rescue Monday at the J.D. Heiskell grain elevator. One person was transported to Roosevelt General Hospital. Portales Fire Department Battalion Chief Lance Hill said the accident did not result in a fatal injury. Hill said privacy laws prohibited him from releasing the name, age or sex of the victim and the extent of injuries. The fire department received a call at 8:20 a.m. Monday of an industrial accident at J.D. Heiskell at 117 E. Commercial for a fall victim needing...
Eastern New Mexico University Police Department officers arrested a suspect last week in the October burglary of the Campus Union Building. According to police reports, Frankie J. (Flaco) Martinez, 27, was arrested shortly after 8:30 a.m. on Nov. 8 at 813 W. University Drive. The suspect broke three windows to gain entry to several offices in the building, including the Cultural Affairs office suite, where a Native American crown and other artifacts were taken, according to police reports. Vendors at the Peanut Valley...
Eastern New Mexico University Regents learned Monday that the cost of renovating the natatorium will likely cost more than what was OK’d at an October regents meeting. Meeting in a special session with the natatorium as the only business item on the agenda, regents gave the OK for the administration to request $2 million from the Higher Education Department instead of the $1.5 million request approved in early October. “The tremendously escalating cost of construction made us go back in and look at that request,” ENMU Presi...
The Portales Rams can take a big step toward their goal of defending their District 4-3A championship as they travel to play the Ruidoso Warriors tonight (7 p.m.) at the midway point of the Rams district schedule. “The records are over,” second-year Ram head coach Andy Correll said. “We’re 1-0 and that’s how (we’re) thinking.” According to the Rams coaching staff, the Warriors mix an effective option offense with a productive passing game. “They try to lull you to sleep with the (fullback) dive and then all of a sudden the qu...
Officers with the Roosevelt County Sheriff’s Office and the Region V Drug Task Force arrested a 30-year-old man Monday on drug-trafficking charges, according to a RCSO news release. Genaro Solis-Cordoba, 30, of Mexico was arrested after officers found cocaine, a handgun and cash while searching a vehicle and a Roosevelt County residence. Solis-Cordoba was booked into the Roosevelt County Detention Center on the charge of trafficking of cocaine, a charge that carries a bond of $50,000 and is punishable by up to nine years i...
Both the Portales Fire Department and the Portales Police Department will host the Guns and Hoses Cancer Benefit Softball game on Saturday, beginning at 3 p.m. at the Softball Complex. Drinks and hot dogs will be available. Raffle tickets are also being sold for a 37” TV. Tickets are $10 each or 3 for $25 and are available from any police officer of firefighter....
DORA — The Dora Lady Coyotes won the final two games against Floyd Thursday night, beating the Lady Broncos 3-2, and earning a district tournament first-round home game next week. Floyd took two of the first three games, but the Dora girls fought back, winning the match 19-25, 25-20, 21-25, 25-22, 15-9. “They played well. They didn’t quit, which was a good thing for us because that was the hump that we had to get over this year,” first-year Dora coach Malaqui Webster said. “I’ve got some young girls who did a good job of...
RUIDOSO — The lines are clearly drawn for District 4-3A volleyball. At the top are Ruidoso and Portales, while Lovington and Dexter battle for third place. Tuesday night, Portales faced off against the Lady Warriors in a battle of district unbeatens with sole possession of district first place on the line, and Ruidoso won in a thrilling five game match; 25-18, 25-22, 17-25, 11-25, 15-6. “(Ruidoso) runs a very quick offense,” Portales head coach Ruth Chavez said. “It took us a while to adjust to that speed.” After dropping...
Fall cooking and decorating will take center stage as Roosevelt County Extension Home Economist Connie Moyers presents her annual holiday program at 6:30 p.m. Monday and 1:30 and 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Memorial Building auditorium, Seventh and Abilene Streets in Portales. This year’s program is entitled “Happy Fall-i-days” and will feature cooking demonstrations for fall recipes. The recipes included will feature pumpkins, winter squash, apples and sweet potatoes. A number of fall decorating ideas, gifts and food gifts...
Some good teams win despite sloppy play, while others win big district games on the road in a tough atmosphere. The Portales Lady Rams (14-8, 2-0) did both Tuesday night, beating the Lady Wildcats (6-11, 1-2) in three games at Lovington; 25-20, 25-18, 25-18. The Portales girls were coming off wins at Dexter and at Artesia last week, and Chavez says they came out a little flat Tuesday night. “We came off of playing two really strong games and I thought we were a little out of sync, but we came up winning and that’s what we...
A peanut butter made in Portales is ranked No. 1 by a national home improvement magazine. Sunland’s natural creamy variety of its Valencia peanut butter is rated No. 1 among six peanut butters featured in Better Homes and Gardens Fall Decorating issue out this month, according to Sunland officials. “That’s really exciting to get that distinction,” Sunland CEO and President Jimmie Shearer said. “Valencia peanuts represent less than 1 percent of the market and that kind of exposure will help our marketing tremendou...
Starting Monday, the latest issue of the Portales News-Tribune is a mouse-click away. Freedom New Mexico is debuting its e-Paper feature, and is giving readers a 30-day free trial to test the online version of Freedom New Mexico’s three publications — the News-Tribune, the Clovis News Journal and the Quay County Sun. A link to the e-Paper and registration is available at www.pntonline.com. FNM New Media Director Daren Estrada said the e-Paper is a replica of the paper delivered to customers and available on newsstands, access...
ELIDA — The District 3-1A volleyball season is at the midway point, and if Thursday night’s Elida-Fort Sumner match is any indication, it may be a wild finish. The Lady Tigers jumped out to an early two-game lead, but the Vixens rallied to force a fifth game before Elida won 25-21, 25-15, 15-25, 24-26, 15-12. “It was an awesome (match),” Elida head coach Darrell Chenault said. “It was just back-and-forth — two good teams whamming on each other. It was a fun (match) to watch.” Chenault says his team showed him something spe...
ARTESIA — The Portales Lady Ram volleyball team concluded its non-district schedule Thursday night in Artesia, dominating the Lady Bulldogs 25-12, 25-15, 25-18. “They played great,” Lady Ram head coach Ruth Chavez said. “We had a heck of a game. They played really well.” “I could tell we’ve improved a lot (since the last meeting with Artesia),” Chavez said. “It showed tonight. Everything was kind of clicking, and just looked good.” Thursday’s match completed a two-match season sweep of Artesia. Last month, the Lady Rams...
Roosevelt County Sheriff Darren Hooker said Tuesday no arrests have been made in the Sept. 6 death of a 9-month-old and the investigation is close to a standstill with reports pending. “We’re still waiting on some stuff from the Office of the Medical Examiner,” Hooker said. Hooker would not comment on what kinds of reports he was waiting on, but indicated the wait could be a month or possibly longer. He said the investigation is still ongoing locally, though at a much slower pace. “I would say that it’s still active,” Hooker...
