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Tommy Firestone, store manager at S&S Supermarket in the Hilltop Shopping Plaza in Clovis, is celebrating 50 years with the store this month. "I started to work for Piggly Wiggly, Aug. 8, 1974. I started as a 'sacker,' a bag boy," Firestone said Monday. The Piggly Wiggly was where S&S Supermarket is now. About two years into his job as a sacker, Firestone was reassigned to stocking merchandise. "That was my senior year of high school. I did that until 1980. I got married that...
In 2023, upon returning to Eastern New Mexico University after a two-year hiatus, head coach Kelley Lee wanted to check out the facility he called home for nearly a decade. So, he grabbed a pair of keys that he meant to return when he left but never did. "I turned the lock and it still worked," said Lee, ENMU's offensive coordinator and head coach from 2012-19. Maybe it was fate those keys remained in the glove box in his truck. Whatever the reason, as Lee enters year two of...
Eastern New Mexico University was recognized nationally and statewide in the Niche.com 2025 Best College Rankings released this week, according to an ENMU news release. Nationally, ENMU is ranked in the top 15% of universities in eight different categories. In New Mexico, ENMU is ranked first or second in nine different categories. ENMU national rankings include: • Best Online College in America for 2025 • #15 of 670 Best Colleges with no Application Fee in America 2025 • #20 of 377 Best Hispanic Serving Institutions in Am...
The Clovis-Curry County Chamber of Commerce has named Strickland’s Floral & Gifts as its newest Retail Rockstar. The public is invited to the award presentation at 8:30 a.m. Thursday at Strickland’s location, Sixth and Main streets. Strickland’s, a member of the West Texas - New Mexico Florist Association, was nominated for the award by MediSpa & Body Shop, the previous winner of the award....
Workers have been busy at the Leal’s Mexican Restaurant location on Mabry Drive. “We are finishing up on the remodel,” said restaurant owner Laura Leal. “We hope to possibly be open in about six weeks,” Leal said Monday. “We’re getting all of our equipment in, getting the metal painted, putting on stucco, fixing up the patio.” Leal added the crew is “completing a few things on the inside.” The popular eatery, which has a second location on Prince Street, closed its Mabry Drive location in 2020 after water pipes froze and bur...
On this date ... 1918: Workers were just about finished paving the north end of Clovis’ Main Street, between Fourth and Eighth streets, with bricks that remain today. A Plainview company did the work after a winning bid of $32,846.20, the Clovis News-Journal reported. 1936: A convicted Clovis rapist’s home was destroyed in a fire while he awaited transport to the state penitentiary. Curly Reynolds had lived at 204 Edwards St. in a small adobe house. Neighbors alerted firefighters to the blaze. Reynolds had pleaded guilty to s...
FFA members from Portales and Elida came away with the top bids in Friday night's Junior Livestock Auction at the Roosevelt County Fair. Joy Levacy, secretary of the Junior Livestock Auction, said top sale honor went to Trypp Hamilton of Portales High School FFA with his steer bringing in $12,000. Levacy reported second place went to Blayne Bricker of Elida Schools FFA with $10,000 for his market steer. Coming in third was Kyleigh Stephenson, also of Elida Schools FFA, with...
Have you ever been caught “red-handed?” The expression harkens back at least to the Middle Ages. If a peasant were caught killing a deer in the forest of his lord or king, he was said to have been caught “red-handed” with the blood of the deer probably literally still on his hands. The penalty was severe. Jesus and his apostles had just arrived in Capernaum when he surprised them with a question that caught them “red-handed.” “What were you arguing about on the road?” “Huh, Lo...
The Portales High boys soccer team struggled last fall in Dustin Harden's first season as coach. They're off to a better start this time around after turning back Ruidoso 1-0 on Saturday in their season opener at the PHS pitch. Senior Gabriel Duran broke a scoreless tie in the 54th minute, converting a through ball from just inside the 18-yard box, and the Rams managed to hold off the Warriors (1-2) down the stretch. Both teams had scoring opportunities inside the box, but...
Clovis High’s volleyball team managed to earn a winning record in Cristy Hill’s first year at the helm. Now the Lady Wildcats are looking to move up in District 4-5A play and trying to garner a Class 5A state tournament berth. Hill lost four seniors to graduation last year, but thinks the Lady Wildcats (12-11, 2-4 district last year) will be able to challenge their district rivals. “We’re in the mix with everybody,” said Hill, whose team opens with a 3 p.m. matchup against Santa Fe High on Saturday at Rock Staubus Gymnasium...
FARMINGTON – The Farmington Scorpions were certainly rude hosts in Stan Hodges’ first game as Clovis High’s football coach. In a contest moved back from Friday night due to inclement weather and lightning, the Wildcats marched the opening kickoff downfield for a score and a quick 8-0 advantage. It was all downhill after that, though, as Farmington cruised to a 47-8 victory. “They had a lot of good players,” Hodges said after the game. “They played hard and they played well. They just executed more than we did.” It doesn’t fi...
In her speech accepting the Democratic presidential nomination Thursday, Vice President Kamala Harris offered a withering indictment of her opponent. Donald J. Trump, she rightly observed, is in many ways “an unserious man,” but the consequences of returning him to the White House “are extremely serious.” She asked her audience to “consider the power he will have, especially after the U.S. Supreme Court just ruled that he would be immune from criminal prosecution. Just imagine Donald Trump with no guardrails …” She introduce...
Donald Trump’s campaign is in a fierce tailspin as his failed attacks on Kamala Harris haven’t been able to slow down her growing popularity. “It’s very clear the former president is unraveling. He’s having a complete meltdown,” Ashley Etienne, a former Joe Biden staffer and political advisor, said during a recent segment on Anderson Cooper’s CNN show. “Kamala Harris has got him a chokehold that is really driving him to the point of insanity, and really driving his cam...
Tommy Fellows, a self-proclaimed online child predator catcher who operates Colorado Ped Patrol, approached Clovis resident Timothy Conrad Harper at Harper’s Fourth Street home on Aug. 17. Over the past couple of weeks, Fellows said Harper had been led to believe he was conversing with Molly – a 13-year-old girl – and expressed interest in taking her virginity. Court records show he intended to meet with her last weekend. Harper knows now that Molly never existed. Someone else was online posing as a child. Court recor...
Eastern European native Stefaniya Yanez is a "huge Swiftie" loving life in her adopted country. The Eastern New Mexico News associate shared thoughts about war in her homeland, smiling strangers and other things she cares about. Q: So you were born in Russia and later lived in Ukraine, right? What do you remember about those days and how old were you when you left for the U.S.? A: The opposite actually. I was born in Ukraine, (Yalta, Crimea to be more specific) and then that a...
Eastern New Mexico University on Friday announced it will host a drone show as part of its 90th-anniversary homecoming celebration scheduled Sept. 30-Oct 6. Open Sky Drone Light Shows of Salt Lake City, Utah, will provide a sound and lights show with a music soundtrack and custom animations, ENMU announced in a news release. The drones will launch at the conclusion of a bonfire and pep rally, set to begin at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 4, near the Steve Loy Family Foundation Arena. The...
The city of Clovis is pouring an estimated $925,000 into improvements at Hillcrest Park to construct a new destination playground, pickleball courts, volleyball courts and lighting at two large soccer fields. Hillcrest Park consists of 157 acres bordered by Sycamore, 14th, Norris and Seventh streets in Clovis. Parks and Recreation Director Russell Hooper said the project “will improve the quality of life in Clovis. It’s been a long time coming — we’re getting close to finally completing our master plan.” The new playgroun...
The city of Clovis is holding a public meeting to discuss and take comments on the design phase of the Liebelt Channel Multi-use Trail at 6 p.m. on Tuesday at the Clovis-Carver Public Library. The 2.8-mile multi-use trail, which is in the planning stages, would run along the natural drainage channel from northwest Clovis near Bob Spencer Park southeast to Greene Acres Lake, as previously reported by The News. Other aspects of the new trail system include lighting, widening of sidewalks within Greene Acres Park and way...
Thursday’s water authority meeting got off to a contentious start when a village of Logan administrator alleged members were damaging Logan’s economy in favor of others. “I’m simply going to leave you with one small request,” Logan village administrator Rodney Paris told the Eastern New Mexico Water Utility Authority: “Don’t do any construction (in Logan) until you figure out how much it’s going to take, and you have full funding to build your treatment plant before you start tearing up everything there, damaging our ec...
Air Force veteran Christopher Moyer started his job as Portales’ city manager on Monday. The Portales City Council swore him in Tuesday during its regular meeting. “I’m glad to be here,” he told Council members. “I’m glad to be serving in the city of Portales and the residents. I look forward to working with everybody.” Earlier Tuesday, Moyer told The News in an interview that he came to the area as a master sergeant with the U.S. Air Force in 2020. He was stationed at Cannon Air Force Base. After his retirement fr...
Is Kamala Harris a communist? That would depend on what “communist” means. Defenders of communism get very slippery when you try to pin them down on the definition. Their usual tactic is to demand to know how you define communism rather than to define it themselves -- probably because they can’t define it without looking like monsters for defending it. Whatever you say in response, they’ll claim it isn’t “real communism” like they are advocating. The dictionary says communism...
Fear and hope, the stuff campaigns are made of. As unique as this year’s presidential campaign is, there’s nothing new about the candidates’ efforts to tap into these two visceral emotions. Each side is trying to scare the hell out of voters by demonizing their opponent and promising to lead us into a better future. And like all other campaigns before this one, the hyperbole runs thick, but I don’t want to create a false equivalency here. Donald Trump is the fearmonger in this race, while Kamala Harris is bringing hope ba...
This seems like it’s been a hot August here on the High Plains. Is this any hotter than normal? How many days have we hit 100? Is there any cooler weather and/or rain in sight? “People are definitely not imagining things,” said Andrew Mangham, a hydrologist with the National Weather Service in Albuquerque. “This is a hot August.” Through Tuesday, Mangham said Clovis had seen three days in August with triple-digit high temperatures. “The average maximum temperature for Clovis so far (in August) is 95.7 degrees,” he said. “The...
Despite about a dozen protestors outside, Clovis city commissioners at their regular meeting Thursday voted to adopt an ordinance forbidding camping on city property, including parks. The ordinance is seen by some as a public safety measure and by others as an affront to the homeless. The proposal first appeared in July, in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court greenlighting a similar ordinance in Grants Pass, Ore. A first violation of the new ordinance will be met with a...
As our area schools fall into the rhythm of a new academic year, I had fun last week looking back 90 years ago as Eastern New Mexico Junior College was gearing up for its first “winter term.” Opened as a two-year college in June of 1934, a preliminary round of summer classes with 168 students in attendance had been successfully completed. By early September, 18 faculty members were engaged to welcome an anticipated 250 “farm boys and girls,” according to an article in the Sep...
