Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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On this date … 1914: Model Grocery in Clovis advertised pie peaches for 10 cents per can, 20 bars of soap for $1 and 12 pounds of sugar for $1. 1933: New Mexico Gov. Arthur Seligman died and Andy Hockenhull, a Clovis lawyer, banker and Central Baptist Church Sunday school teacher, was appointed his successor. Hockenhull, 56, had been the state’s lieutenant governor. Seligman died after complaining of a sharp pain in his chest, just minutes after speaking at a state banker’s convention, The Associated Press reported. 1941:...
ROSWELL – Roswell High rallied from a one-set deficit on Monday night for a 19-25, 25-21, 25-23, 25-16 win over Portales High. PHS coach Bailey Greenwalt was disappointed her team couldn’t build off its quick start. The Lady Coyotes (10-1) finally took control with a dominant fourth set. “We played some really good volleyball at times, but we had too many errors,” she said. “It was a good, dominant first set. We led in the second set (16-10), and the third set was back and forth.” Junior middle hitter Skyler Massey post...
Gaia Chies scored early, and the Eastern New Mexico University women’s soccer team made it stand up on Sunday for a 1-0 victory over Colorado Christian at Steve Loy Family Foundation Stadium, the Greyhounds’ first win of the season. Chies, a junior midfielder from Italy, took a pass from senior midfielder Meghann Wingsutton and curled the ball past Cougars goalkeeper Alana Lopp and into the top corner of the net with just over 7 ½ minutes gone – one of just two shots on goal for the Hounds in the match. Meantime, the Cougar...
ALBUQUERQUE – Clovis High’s boys kept winning on Saturday, but veteran CHS coach Greg Trujillo is a bit concerned with District 4-5A competition about ready to begin. Senior forward Ihab Mesbah had two goals and an assist and junior forward/midfielder Julien Salinas delivered a pair of assists as the Wildcats topped Del Norte 4-2, improving to 10-2 for the season with their sixth consecutive victory. “It was a sloppy game on our part,” Trujillo said. “We didn’t take care of the ball and retain possession. “We couldn’t conn...
Portales High’s football team has developed a bit of a rivalry against Los Lunas-based Valencia over the past few years. Now the teams find themselves in the same district as they prepare for Friday’s 7 p.m. clash at Eastern New Mexico University’s Steve Loy Family Foundation Stadium. It’s the fourth year in a row the teams have played. After splitting a pair of tightly contested games the first two seasons, the Rams ran away to a 51-0 victory in 2023. PHS coach Jaime Ramirez doesn’t expect a repeat of that on Friday ni...
Every two years New Mexico voters get the chance to make changes to our state constitution. Some years they’re big, fundamental changes, like scrapping the old state Board of Education in favor of a secretary appointed by the governor or ending the cash bail system. Some years they are just tinkering around the edges. This is one of those years. Voters will have four constitutional amendments on the ballot this year. Two of them will increase state support for disabled veterans and all veterans who have been honorably dischar...
Something about the mountains my soul needs regularly and loves always. There’s just something about gaining altitude, heading up. “I will lift up my eyes to the hills,” writes the psalmist as he beautifully affirms that all of his “help comes from the Lord” (Psalm 121). Reading the Gospels, I feel some sweet altitudinal affirmation when I read about Jesus “going up on the mountainside” to pray. Of course, we can pray and receive strength from our Father at any and all altit...
Mexican food is the fare at the new Cocina Delicious, 1501 N. Prince St., in Clovis. “It’s me, my mom Mila and our helper Ivonne,” owner George Alvarado said Monday. Alvarado said the restaurant is open Tuesdays through Sundays, “but we may be open some Mondays.” Alvarado said the restaurant will open at 8 a.m. and close at 2 p.m. “We are thinking about being open from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m.,” Alvarado said Alvarado said Cocina Delicious will be offering “different kinds of food, homemade.” “Menudo, enchiladas, smoked...
Finally, after 35 years, 100-plus cracked homicide cases and thousands of lives positively impacted, Dan Aguilar has decided to retire from law enforcement. A 2002 Officer of the Year while at the Clovis Police Department, Aguilar has been lauded by peers for his commitment and fearlessness: No better example than the seven years he spent working to catch Clovis' Noe Torres and Edward Salas who were involved in the murder of 10-year-old Carlos Perez in 2005. "Dan doesn't have...
In an ever-changing college sports landscape, where name, image and likeness deals, conference realignment and ladder climbing reign supreme, Eastern New Mexico University rodeo coach Albert Flinn is an outlier. This isn’t because he’s 83 and dons a bluetooth headset (yes, those still exist). Instead, it’s because he happily accepts getting paid half a typical salary – roughly $30,000 a year – to dedicate his life to lifting an underfunded program to national prominenc...
I had so many ideas for this column. But every time I started to write, the sentences would fall flat. Fortunately, as I sat at the keyboard, inspiration came to me in the most natural way. I was sitting at the same desk I’d been at on Sept. 11, 2001, as the second plane hit the World Trade Center. It was the same keyboard I’d used to write an email to my brother Michael in Manhattan after the family couldn’t get through to him on the phone. It was the same chair I’d collaps...
The Clovis High boys soccer team got off to a bit of a slow start, but in the end the Wildcats had too much for Portales High. Four second-half goals gave the Cats firm control in a 5-1 victory on Wednesday at the PHS pitch. The match had been slated for Tuesday, but was pushed back a day due to lightning. Senior forward Anthony Cordova gave the Rams a 1-0 lead early in the contest, but senior forward Ihab Mesbah headed in the equalizer off a corner kick from freshman...
Suffice it to say, Eastern New Mexico University’s volleyball team has turned it around against Sul Ross State over the years – and the Greyhounds are glad to now see the Alpine, Texas-based Lobos in the Lone Star Conference. ENMU earned just its second win of the campaign on Friday night, rallying past Sul Ross 21-25, 25-22, 26-24, 25-18 at Steve Loy Family Foundation Arena on the second night of an LSC Volleyball Challenge event. It was the Hounds’ 23rd consecutive win in the series, which dates to the late 1970s. Sul R...
ALBUQUERQUE – Clovis High’s football team broke its lengthy scoring drought on Thursday night and stayed competitive for much of the game. In the end, the Cibola Cougars were a bit too much and walked away with a 36-12 victory at Nusenda Community Stadium. Coming off losses against three of the better Class 6A teams in the state, the Cats had been outscored 158-0 since tallying a TD and a 2-point conversion on their first drive of the season. But early in the second stanza, the pulled to 7-6 when junior running back John Roy...
On this date ... 1910: Miller & Luikart, a Portales dry goods store, offered men’s black derby hats for $3. 1931: Pearson Valley school 26 miles west of Portales was wrecked for the second time in two weeks. Teacher Ruth Isham opened the school to find desks crashed to splinters, blackboards demolished and school records torn to bits and scattered over the floor, the Clovis Evening News-Journal reported. 1941: De Baca County homes were being evacuated and broomcorn farmers feared heavy crop losses after torrential rains f...
A friend of mine, who has long been retired from her career as an elementary public school educator, was reminiscing recently about her days in the classroom, and the stories she read aloud to her students. Her favorites were the “Little Britches” books by Ralph Moody, autobiographical accounts of Moody moving west with his family in 1906 to a Colorado ranch and the many adventures that followed. She said she found that no matter where she was teaching — and no matter the a...
Watching the classic rivalry of New York Jets vs. New England Patriots as I write this column on a Thursday night, I’m struck by one thing. It’s just no fun hating the Patriots anymore without Tom Brady and Bill Belichick. When Brady retired, then unretired, much like myself a few short months later, he went on to lead Tampa Bay to a Super Bowl win. Hating Brady then, without Belichick wasn’t the same, even when he beat my favorite quarterback Patrick Mahomes for the honor. Su...
Aucutt's Paint Store celebrated its 85th anniversary in July. Tisha Brothers runs the place now, an occupation that started with her great-great-grandfather G.C. Williams on Main Street, Clovis, back in 1939. Did she train for the job? How did she come into running a paint store? "I grew up around the business, I learned from my dad and my education," Brothers said. Brothers, also director of the Clovis Volleyball Association for more than 20 years, told The News more about...
MULESHOE – A BNSF train derailed about 9:45 p.m. (CDT) Tuesday along U.S. 84 between Muleshoe and Sudan. BNSF spokesperson Kendall Sloan told The News in an email the train was “stopped during a high wind warning” when dozens of cars were tipped off the tracks. No injuries were reported. Sloan said mainline operations resumed through the area about 2 p.m. Wednesday. Sloan declined to provide any additional information....
Officials on Thursday broke ground on a pipeline project intended to deliver 6.5 million gallons of water per day to the city of Portales. If all goes as planned, the water should begin to flow about 2031. The Eastern New Mexico Water Utility Authority calls it Finished Water 3B of the Ute Water Project. The ceremony was held at the intersection of Lime Street and Boston Avenue in Portales. FW3B is scheduled for completion in about a year. It will cost "about $15.5 million,"...
Quay County attorney Warren Frost asked to speak to Clovis city commissioners on Thursday, reporting he had “new and alarming information” about the Ute Water Pipeline. Permission denied. “You don’t have new and alarming information to this commission; this commission is informed. I don’t see you as qualified to lecture us,” Clovis Mayor Mike Morris told Frost. Frost and others opposed to building the 100-mile pipeline have publicly stated in recent weeks that costs for a necessary water treatment plant will run $400 millio...
How can you expect people, especially those who believe in politics, to agree on anything when they can’t even agree on the reality of what is happening right in front of them? Add in the opposing way events are framed, depending on the bias of the information source, and I don’t think it’s possible. I saw neighboring yards in town; one had a Trump yard sign and the other had a Harris sign. I’d bet both think they are the reasonable one and their neighbor is nuts. Or maybe t...
When New Mexico’s rural hospitals called for help, our entire state came together – hospitals statewide, the governor’s office, NM Health Care Authority and legislators from both sides of the aisle -- to pass the 2024 Health Care Delivery and Access Act. New Mexico is at a pivotal moment as we struggle to address healthcare challenges facing our hardworking families especially when it comes to access to healthcare. Almost half of our residents are enrolled in Medicaid and, frankly, the Medicaid reimbursement rates to pay o...
Are people in New Mexico allowed to smoke marijuana outside of businesses in public? Consuming cannabis in public in New Mexico is illegal. The News got the answer from Clovis Police Department Deputy Chief Trevor Thron. “According to the New Mexico Cannabis Regulation Act: All cannabis consumption (smoking, vaping, eating, etc.) must be done either in your private residence or at a licensed consumption lounge,” Thron wrote in an email response Thursday. Thron also said it’s illegal to use cannabis or cannabis products while...
Clovis city commissioners on Thursday narrowly approved the renewal of a service agreement between Retail Strategies LLC and the city. The company is contracted to recruit businesses to Clovis. Mayor Mike Morris urged renewing the contract, but Commissioner Helen Casaus objected. Casaus has asserted that Clovis’ newest businesses have come to town at the urging of North Plains Mall owner Sam Mick and the economic development department at the city’s Chamber of Commerce. “And the city wasted $160,000 on Retail Strat...
