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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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The Eastern New Mexico University men's soccer team went toe-to-toe with Fort Lewis on Saturday, playing the 21st-ranked Skyhawks to a 1-1 draw at Steve Loy Family Foundation Stadium. Junior forward Ben Sauerlander put ENMU (1-0-1) in front in the 15th minute, driving a shot past Skyhawks keeper Lucas Martin from the right side off assists from freshman midfielder Teddy McIntire and junior midfielder Kevin Nunez. That held up until the 74th minute, when Skyhawks junior defende...
In a 36-17 victory over Sul Ross State, where his bulldozing blocks helped Eastern New Mexico get to 2-0, 25-year-old offensive lineman Bailey Adair was reminded why he's still playing. It's the feeling of knowing he has something left to give, coupled with the overwhelming feeling of knowing his job at ENMU isn't finished. "I bleed green and silver," said Adair, the only member of the 2019 Greyhound squad that captured the program's first Division II bowl win, after...
LOVINGTON – The Clovis High boys soccer team is off to a fast start this season, mostly at the expense of Lovington. Junior forward/midfielder Julien Salinas scored on a rebound with about five minutes left, and the Wildcats (6-2) held on for their third victory in three tries against Lovington, a 3-2 decision on Saturday. Salinas tapped in a rebound of a shot by senior forward Ihab Mesbah to snap a 2-2 tie and put the Cats into the winner’s circle. Mesbah, meantime, tallied twice in the opening stanza to stake Clovis to a 2...
I heard a report the other day that the St. James Hotel in Cimarron is closing. Another Wild West landmark goes down. The St. James is where I got the best steak I’ve ever eaten, but that wasn’t so long ago, when its owners’ focus was more on fine dining than cowboy accommodations. Back in the day, it was a rough and rowdy place, to say the least. Lots of shoot-em-ups, dozens of killings — one estimate I read had the total at 26 dead. Traveling lawmen and notorious outlaws frequented the place, and stories have been passed...
It was a Sunday morning and I was pondering the day ahead as I drank my coffee and The Lady of The House had her tea. “I think I can get two mowings in today. I gotta get my mowing done before the weed police cruise the neighborhood,” I said. We have an electric lawn mower. I can knock out about a half-hour of mowing before it needs to be charged again. It takes about three mowings to tackle our hacienda’s lawn. “We need a goat to take care of the lawn,” The Lady of The House said. This is not the first time bringing...
While it didn’t result in a win, Portales High football coach Jaime Ramirez had to be encouraged by what he saw in Friday’s 14-7 loss at Bernalillo. Playing shorthanded without senior quarterback Paxton Culpepper and three linemen due to injuries, the Rams (1-2) hung in the game until late against the 3-0 Spartans. “We played great defensively,” Ramirez said. “Offensively, we struggled throughout the night.” West Las Vegas (2-1), which visits the Rams this weekend, should provide another challenge, Ramirez said. “They’re a...
HATCH – Portales High’s soccer girls finished one of the best weeks in program history over the weekend, winning twice to take third place in the eight-team Hatch Valley Invitational. Portales used a 4-0 second-half charge to thump the host Lady Bears 6-2 in Friday quarterfinal. PHS (3-3) then lost to Santa Teresa 4-0 in Saturday’s semifinals before taking out Chaparral 2-0 in the third-place contest. With a 5-0 win at West Las Vegas on Wednesday, PHS posted a 3-1 mark for the week. First-year coach Laci Lozoya said her t...
LOVINGTON – Clovis High’s girls edged Hobbs for team honors while the Wildcats and Lady Wildcats claimed individual championships in Saturday’s Lovington Invitational cross country meet. The Lady Cats went 1-3-4 in the event to finish with 30 points and edge Hobbs by three points in the five-team competition. Meantime, the Clovis boys finished with 59 points and second to Hobbs (30) in a seven-team field. Sophomore Brooke Newcomer took individual honors for the girls, covering the 5K course in 20 minutes, 10.02 seconds. Senio...
MORIARTY – Portales High’s volleyball team made a strong run to the finals on Saturday in the 16-team Moriarty Invitational, but in the end the Lady Rams came up short. Albuquerque Academy claimed the championship, outlasting Portales 25-23, 25-18, 25-22 in the title tilt. The Lady Rams went 4-2 to finish second in their four-team pool on Friday, then whipped Sandia Prep 25-9, 25-16, 25-22 in Friday’s quarterfinal round before topped Valencia 19-25, 25-19, 25-23, 25-19 in Saturday morning’s semifinals. Texico earned fifth p...
Traffic at Clovis Regional Airport has nearly tripled in the past five years. Clovis city commissioners on Thursday responded to that growth by greenlighting a new $25.5 million terminal. Commissioners approved a low-bid award to EPX Construction Partners of El Paso, Texas, as the contractor to build the terminal. City Manager Justin Howalt said the city's share of the cost will be about $500,000. The Federal Aviation Administration will fund the rest. The airport saw about...
These days, it ain't easy being Stan Hodges, Clovis High School football's first-year head coach. Following a 54-0 loss to Cleveland High School on Friday, the Wildcats are 0-3 and have been outscored 151-8. The last two of those losses have been mercy-rule defeats. After the game, similar to the previous two losses, Hodges maintains it's the grueling, early steps which lay the foundation for the resuscitation of "The Beast from the East." "I know that the best is yet to...
BERNALILLO – Down two quarterbacks at the end, Portales High’s bid for victory came up just a bit short on Friday night. Senior QB Uriel Castro was picked off four times, but threw for two scores – including a 49-yarder to senior running back Nathan Encinias with about five minutes left – and the Spartans claimed a 14-7 victory over the Rams. “It was a tough ballgame,” Rams coach Jaime Ramirez said. “We played great defense all night. It was just two big plays on offense for them (which decided the game).” Castro gave Ber...
On this date ... 1923: Jerry “Bruiser” Nuzum was born in Clovis. The son of Mr. and Mrs. W. N. Nuzum became the first Clovis High School graduate to play in the National Football League. The halfback spent four seasons — 1948-1951 – with the Pittsburgh Steelers. He died in 1997, at age 73. 1952: The Clovis Mattress company was featured in the business review section of the Clovis News-Journal, and noted for having the only felting machine in the city. "The felting machine felts cotton giving you a mattress free from lumps a...
Editor's note: September is National Suicide Prevention Month. In 2021, suicide was the 11th leading cause of death in the U.S., claiming the lives of more than 48,000 people - nearly double the number of homicides. People of all ages, ethnicities and backgrounds choose to end their own lives. That means that people of all ages, ethnicities and backgrounds may be affected by suicide. When learning that a loved one, friend, neighbor, work colleague or child has lost someone to...
New Mexico's attorney general has filed a lawsuit accusing the owners of the social platform Snapchat of promoting illicit sexual material involving children and facilitating "sextortion" and the trafficking of children, drugs and guns. The 164-page complaint against Snap Inc., filed Wednesday in state District Court, accuses the company of violating the state's Unfair Practices Act by designing its product to be addictive to young users, failing to impose significant age-verification mechanisms, promoting harmful content and...
New Mexico Gas Company personnel were busy Thursday answering calls around Clovis about the smell of gas. “We had a high volume of leak calls,” said Tim Korte, communications manager for New Mexico Gas Co. “Typically we might have five or six calls a day. Thursday we had 92. We had people working until 10 p.m. Thursday.” Korte said the source of the increased number of gas smells was “what we call upstream of the Clovis service area.” He declined to be specific but said the odorant calls came from all over the city. Korte...
Clovis Community College’s Board of Trustees learned what acts are scheduled for the upcoming season of the college’s Cultural Arts Series at their regular monthly meeting Wednesday. Cultural Arts Series Director Christy Mendoza outlined seven acts that will be performing in town through April: n Sept. 21 it’s “The World Famous Popovich Comedy Pet Theater.” n Oct. 17 Sugar Skull, a musical production about Dia de los Muertos comes to town. n Nov. 7 it’s Sweet Jazz, which Mendoza described as “some of the best jazz in the s...
One can only wonder about JD Vance’s peculiar and freakish obsession with people who do not have children. The Ohio senator and Republican vice presidential candidate has disturbingly targeted women who are absent of biological offspring as “childless cat ladies” (apparently being an adoptive parent or stepparent does not qualify) and perversely stated child-free Americans are “more sociopathic” than Americans with kids and make the U.S. “less mentally stable.” As Vance sees...
Never in my life as a political observer have I ever associated “joy” with a candidacy for any office, much less the presidency. But it’s not the word so much as it is the sentiment the Harris-Walz campaign is trying to tap into — an upbeat view of our future. It’s something that’s been lacking for some time now, although there are still folks out there who see America’s future in a positive light. I recently read a piece by Matthew Yglesias, a “techno-optimist” and blogger/journalist who contends there are many reasons to lo...
As I watched the Kennedy siblings close ranks against Robert F. Kennedy Jr. because of his support for Donald Trump, it reminded me of the fragility of human bonds. Over the past eight years, since Trump burst onto the political scene, I’ve witnessed the crumbling of so many relationships, including marriages and childhood friendships, based upon an absolute inability to deal with difference and dissent. I know very few conservatives who have disowned liberal friends. The o...
Our state is facing a water crisis, and we need our elected officials to act quickly to help solve it. As the executive director of the Ogallala Land & Water Conservancy, I see every day how important water is, especially in eastern New Mexico, which is home to the largest amount of agriculture statewide. Here, we are ground zero for water challenges, but also for local solutions being carried out by community partnerships, collective action and collaboration. We know all too well the dangers of letting our sole finite...
Anyone who is on the side of censorship and punishing people for their speech is not on the right side. It doesn’t matter if they are a government, a corporation, or an individual. It doesn’t matter if they are a crooked Brazilian judge, a U.S. presidential candidate, or a probable android running a “book” of faces. Banning speech, especially for political reasons, is inexcusable. Freedom of speech is non-negotiable, but this matters less when it’s speech you like hearing a...
I learned last week there is an organization called the National Coffee Association. Each spring it releases a “National Coffee Data Trends (NCDT) report,” as it did earlier this year. In skimming the highlights from its press release, I discovered that I’m among the 67% of Americans who drink coffee on a daily basis, which they claim is “more than any other beverage, including tap or bottled water.” Coffee wasn’t a regular part of our family life when I was growing up....
State officials on Thursday issued a news release recommending horse owners vaccinate their animals to protect them from West Nile Virus and Eastern and Western Equine Encephalitis. “The New Mexico Department of Agriculture – in cooperation with the New Mexico Department of Health and the New Mexico Livestock Board – make the recommendation after NMHealth confirmed a West Nile Virus infection in a resident of Union County,” the release stated. “Horses, as well as humans, become infected after being bitten by many different...
U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich and his Republican challenger, Nella Domenici, are turning up the heat and going on the attack in their TV ads in the final stretch of election season. While TV ads reach a wide audience, they don’t come cheap. Heinrich has spent more than $1 million across broadcast and cable. Domenici has spent more than $2 million in broadcast, cable and streaming ads, including coordinated expenditures with the National Republican Senate Committee. Heinrich’s most recent ad, which accuses Domenici of sup...
