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The New Mexico Environment Department advised the town of Elida to issue a “boil water alert” Saturday, after bacteriological contamination that exceeded the maximum contaminant level for E. coli was discovered, according to a press release issued by the department Wednesday. Most strains of E. coli live in the intestines of healthy humans and animals and can be harmless, according to the release. A positive test for E. coli in the drinking water supply may indicate the presence of a dangerous strain of E. coli, or ano...
LAS VEGAS, N.M. — Portales Ram basketball coach Mark Gallegos has always said the experience his team receives at the Stu Clark Tournament in Las Vegas is important. But sometimes the lessons are hard. The Rams (3-3) got one of those lessons here Thursday as they lost to the Santa Fe Capital Jaguars 47-30 in opening round of the tournament. “The reason you come to these kinds of tournaments is to find out more about yourself as a team,” Gallegos said. “You find things to improve on before district starts.” One of those imp...
Only one Roosevelt County school board race will be contested come the Feb. 6 elections. Floyd Municipal Schools’ board of education member, Lisa Schmidt, faces opposition from challenger, Jack W. Moore, a retired long-time school administrator and coach. The incumbent currently holds the Position 5 seat. A total of 12 people, which includes 11 incumbents, filed to run for the 11 school board seats up for election in the Portales, Dora, Elida and Floyd school districts. The County Clerk’s Office in the Roosevelt County Cou...
Sponsors of the proposed Horace Mann Charter School will have to wait until after Christmas to know whether it will be organized under the umbrella of the Portales Municipal Schools Board of Education. New Mexico Secretary of Education Veronica Garcia heard from school sponsors as well as Portales school officials during an appeal hearing Monday in Santa Fe, and told the group she would study the issue and render a decision by Dec. 26. Garcia said Monday the recorded hearing will be reviewed by legal counsel for legal points...
The recent snowfall impacted driving in Roosevelt County but no serious accidents were reported. According to Portales Police dispatcher logs there were about 10 accidents in a 24-hour span. “I assume that the accidents are weather-related since the number of accidents that we have had is a little unusual,” said Sgt. Brack Rains of the Portales Police Department. Rains said he responded to three accidents himself Thursday morning, two of which were weather-related. Wednesday there were about seven accidents reported and of...
With just three state football championships to its credit, the last one in 1988, Portales is poised to cheer its team on with a community pep rally at 5:30 p.m. tonight on the Roosevelt County Courthouse steps. According to Ram Booster Club President Shelley Stanley the club always works to support the team but the community support right now for the team and the pep rally is mushrooming. “(We got the community pep rally started) just to show our support and to show the coaches and kids that we’re behind what they’re doing...
The Portales Police Department is warning residents to not fall prey to a new scam that has sprung up recently in the area. According to Capt. Lonnie Berry of the Portales Police Department, he has received calls from area residents in the last week who are concerned with the phone calls that they are receiving. The calls are originating in Canada and callers are asking people for money to bail a grandchild out of jail. When the grandparent asks for more legitimate information, the callers provide little else, said Berry....
Roosevelt County Commissioners approved a memorandum of understanding with the town of Elida Tuesday that will facilitate application for a state Community Block Development Grant that would provide the town with water system improvements. The county approved the agreement on a 4-1 vote, with Commissioner Tom Clark voting against the measure. Clark, who was not present at last month’s meeting when commissioners gave approval to proceed with the CDBG application, said he wasn’t comfortable helping one community and not oth...
The District 4-3A champion Portales Rams were given the seventh seed Saturday in the state football playoffs and will host Cobre at 7 p.m. Friday. The lower seeding in a four district conference came as a bit of a surprise to both Ram Coach Andy Correll and Portales Athletic Director Don Gomez. “I don’t quite understand it,” Correll said of the seeding. “But we’ve just got to hit the ground running and go play.” Cobre comes in as the District 3 runner-up at 3-6. Portales won the district championship Friday night with a 42-0...
A Portales man was sentenced Monday on charges filed in connection with the March 3, 2005 murders of Odis and Doris Newman of Portales. According to a press release from the 9th Judicial District Attorney’s office, Archie Crawford, 26, of Portales has been sentenced to eight years in the New Mexico penitentiary, for charges of disposing of stolen property, a third degree felony, and tampering with evidence, a fourth degree felony. He pleaded guilty to the charges in June. The sentence, handed down by Judge Stephen Quinn, w...
Fort Sumner — The Floyd Lady Broncos traveled to Fort Sumner Thursday night in hopes of pulling off an upset and a shot at the District 3-1A crown. Instead they were defeated by Vixens in three close games, 20-25, 23-25, and 19-25. Floyd (10-11) had played Fort Sumner twice previously and lost both contests during the regular season. In Fort Sumner they lost in four games and took the Vixens to five games before falling at home. The Lady Broncos stayed in the hunt in all three games of Thursdays district semifinal and swapped...
A 23-year-old Portales man signed a plea agreement last week in connection with the theft in March of more than $600,000 from an armored car service that employed him, according to court documents filed in 9th Judicial District Court in Portales. According to 9th Judicial District Attorney Matt Chandler, Scott Kirby agreed to turn himself over to authorities Friday and will be sent to the New Mexico state penitentiary for a 60-day evaluation prior to sentencing. According to court documents, the maximum sentence on the charge...
The Portales Municipal Schools board had a quick redo on its earlier denial of the proposed Horace Mann School charter Wednesday. But the result after the formality was the same: Application denied. Organizers for the Horace Mann School proposed a charter school in June. After an internal and external evaluation of the application, the school board voted Sept. 13 to deny the application based on incomplete information. According to Portales Schools Superintendent Randy Fowler, Wednesday’s action by the board rescinding its p...
The Eastern New Mexico womens soccer team won their second game in a row, to start the 2006 season by beating Embry-Riddle 2-0, Saturday morning at the ENMU soccer field. Zia head coach Travis McCorkle used the game to get some younger players game experience. “Today we tried to rest some of our girls,” McCorkle said, “We wanted to get some of our substitutes into the game.” One of the subs McCorkle was referring to, was senior forward Megan Dozier. In the 27th minute of the second half, Dozier blasted a shot past the Emb...
The Eastern New Mexico mens soccer team opened their season on the road Thursday afternoon with a 2-0 win at Colorado Christian. Andrew Perez got the Hounds on the board first with a first half penalty kick. Jared Morris added to that total after capitalizing on a one-on-one showdown with the Colorado Christian goalkeeper midway through second half. ENMU head coach Carlos Elizondo liked the effort. “We’re still working on some things, I like the way we are playing the ball on the ground, its when we get the ball up in the...
The Roosevelt 9-10 year old All-Star Little League baseball team lost in its first game in the state tournament Saturday to the Artesia All-Stars in Carlsbad. Sammy Villanueva, the manager of Roosevelt’s team, said the final score was 11-5. “We just weren’t hitting the ball today as well as we were in the district tournament games,” Villanueva said. He also said that Artesia’s pitcher threw some fast balls for his age. “He was clocked throwing the ball in the mid-50s (miles per hour). He threw the ball pretty hard for a...
Efrain Castillo-Najera, 24, of Portales was arrested Tuesday by Portales Police for trafficking cocaine, according to a Portales Police report. After being pulled over for blocked tail lights, Castillo-Najera was detained for being unable to provide sufficient Immigration and Naturalization Service paperwork to officers. Officers called for a K-9 unit which indicated drugs on the car. After being escorted to the police station to speak with an INS representative, officers obtained a search warrant for the car. Once towed to...
A one-vehicle rollover accident Friday near Portales claimed the life of an Illinois woman, according to a New Mexico State Police press release. The driver, Velma Joanne Smith, 72, of Granite City, Ill., was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident, the release stated. Passengers Jerry Talmadge, 62, and Marilyn Talmadge, 56, of Pontoon Beach, Ill., were transported to Roosevelt General Hospital in Portales with extensive injuries, the release stated. The accident occurred about 10 miles southwest of Portales on U.S. 70,...
For the better park of a week, prospective New Mexico high school boys will be taking a crash course in democracy. Starting June 4, Boys’ State will be holding its 2006 leadership program at Eastern New Mexico University to teach high school students about the interworkings of the government. During the course of the program, the students will be participating in a mock democracy, said Robert Jaramillo, commander of American Legion Post 69. Officials will be elected to form legislatures from a city council up to a state g...
RICHARDSON, Texas — Eastern New Mexico University sophomore third baseman Derrick Kennedy has been named to the All-Lone Star Conference South Division second team in baseball in selections announced this week by the conference office. The Greyhounds (24-32, 6-14 South) also had two honorable mention picks in senior catcher Brian Green and junior second baseman Mike McDuffie. Kennedy led ENMU with a .356 batting average. In 52 games, including 48 starts, he scored a team-leading 47 runs with 12 doubles, three triples and t...
ALBUQUERQUE — Sophomores Kandace Bergsieker and Jordan Roehl helped the Portales Lady Rams put together their best showing in some time in the Class 3A state track meet. Roehl added a fourth-place finish in discus on Saturday to her second-place effort Friday in shot put, while Bergsieker finished second in the 200 as Portales finished eighth in team standings with 15 points. Meantime, the Portales boys scored three points on Saturday to finish with six for the meet. Roehl, who threw 35 feet, 7 1/2 inches in shot on F...
A Portales police officer and a motorist were injured Wednesday in an accident that occurred as the officer was arriving to direct traffic at a railroad crossing near the intersection of U.S. 70 and N.M. 467, according to state police. According to State Police officer Ramon Borjas, a Dodge Dakota pickup turning onto N.M. 467 struck the right front panel of a police car as the officer was getting out to direct traffic. State police declined to release the name of the driver of the Dakota but said that the driver and Portales...
FLOYD — The Dora Coyotes scored five runs in the top of the eighth Thursday to turn back Floyd 7-3 in a playoff for second place in District 6-1A. The teams tied at 1-3 behind district champion Elida during the regular season. The six second-place district teams advance to two regionals next week, with the survivors earning the seventh and eighth state tournament berths. The quarterfinals and semifinals of the state meet are set for May 10-11 at Los Lunas, with the championship game the next day at Isotopes Park in A...
Area law officers arrested three people in two separate drug busts Tuesday in Portales. The busts netted what police say were large amounts of crack cocaine and marijuana. Police started the busts shortly after 5 p.m. Tuesday at 1112 W. 15th St., less than a block from the Eastern New Mexico University campus. It was there they arrested Bonifacio Hernandez, 53, of Portales, on suspicion of distribution of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia, according to police reports. Police said they received information...
Eastern New Mexico University’s struggles continued Tuesday night. The Greyhounds carried a 2-1 lead into the sixth inning, but New Mexico Highlands scored four runs without hitting a ball out of the infield and the Cowboys went on to an 8-3 victory at Greyhound Field. Highlands improved to 21-14 with its second win in eight days over the Hounds (19-20), who have lost 16 of their last 19 games and fell below .500 for the first time this season. Junior right-hander Jeff Roemer, shelled in his previous start on Saturday against...
