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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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State Rep. Randall Pettigrew jumped on the phone the same day Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham announced she was calling lawmakers back to Santa Fe for a special session in July. Pettigrew, a Republican who lives in Lovington in far Southeastern New Mexico — some 300 miles from the capital city — sought to find accommodations right away. “The Drury was booked, and La Fonda didn’t have anything for all the nights I wanted because I wanted to come in the day before,” he said, adding the unknown length of the session made booking a...
SAN ANTONIO – Eastern New Mexico University junior catcher Samantha Gutierrez has been named to the Division II Conference Commissioners Association All-South Central Region softball second team. Last week, Gutierrez was named to the all-region second team selected by the National Fastpitch Coaches Association. In 2024, the San Diego, Calif. native helped the Greyhounds (26-26) reach the quarterfinals of the Lone Star Conference postseason tournament, hitting a team-best .379 with 17 doubles, 10 home runs, 45 runs batted i...
Market gardeners and commercial producers will have an opportunity to learn new ideas and make connections at the upcoming Eastern New Mexico Local Food Summit in Clovis May 22. According to a news release from Berlin Arellano of Ogallala Commons, sponsoring agency, the event will be at Clovis Community College’s main building, Room 101, from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Arellano describes Ogallala Commons as a nonprofit education and leadership organization. Ogallala will be conducting the summit in collaboration with the Small B...
SOCORRO – Senior Liz Elam had a share of the individual lead and Texico’s girls were lodged in second place, nine shots beck of host Socorro, after Monday’s opening day of the state Class 1-3A golf tournament at the New Mexico Tech golf course. The Lady Warriors came in with a team score of 403 to 412 for the Lady Wolverines. St. Michael’s was third at 437, followed by Dexter at 452 and Gateway Christian at 474. Elam, who finished fifth in last year’s state tourney, shot 41-47 – 88 and shared the lead with Santa Fe Prep’s J...
SAN ANGELO, Texas – Strong performances in field events helped propel Eastern New Mexico University’s women to a third-place team finish over the weekend in the Lone Star Conference outdoor track championships, hosted by Angelo State. The Greyhounds tallied 68 ½ points in the 11-team get-together, the best showing in program history. ENMU’s men were seventh out of 12 teams with 48 points. West Texas A&M dominated the meet, winning its fourth consecutive title in both divisions. The Buffaloes ran up 284 ½ points to 122 ½ f...
ROSWELL – Clovis High’s girls scored in everything except long jump, the 100 and the 200 on Friday to claim second place in District 4-5A track competition. The Lady Wildcats finished with 81 points, well behind first-place Hobbs with 133 but comfortably ahead of Roswell High (47) and Carlsbad 42. Meantime, the CHS boys were third with 60 points, behind Hobbs (110) and Roswell High (85 ½). Carlsbad tallied 47 ½ points. Junior Gabrielle Foggie, the defending Class 5A girls state champion in the 400, ran a season-best time...
GRANTS – At the end of the day, it just wasn’t in the cards for Portales High’s baseball team. The 15th-seeded Rams gave it a great shot in Friday’s opener of the best-of-3, Class 4A first-round playoff series, only to see Grants rally late for a 4-3 win. Saturday’s game turned out to be no contest. The Pirates (22-6) jumped on top 4-0 in the first inning, then finished off a 10-run rule win with six in the sixth to oust the Rams 13-3. “We started off bad and ended bad,” Rams coach Arturo Ontiveros said of Saturday’s cl...
GALLUP – Portales High’s softball team gave top-seeded Gallup all it wanted in Saturday’s opening round of the Class 4A state tournament, but the Lady Bengals made a pair of first-inning tallies stand up for a 2-0 victory. Sophomore Morgan Belone went 2-for-3 with a double for the Lady Bengals (20-5), and knocked in both runs in the first inning. Senior Brenna Becenti finished 2-for-2 and scored a run. Freshman Annaleah Lujan went the distance in the circle for the Lady Rams (10-16), allowing just six hits with three walks...
RIO RANCHO – Seeded 15th, Clovis High’s baseball team gave No. 2 Rio Rancho a run for its money in their Class 5A opening-round best-of-three series over the weekend. In the end, the Wildcats came up short, dropping a 2-0 decision to the Rams in Saturday’s second game, winning the series 2-0. Rio Rancho (24-4) advanced to a 10 a.m. Thursday quarterfinal matchup at Jennifer Riordan Spark Kindness Sports Complex in Albuquerque against seventh-seeded Carlsbad (21-7), which completed a sweep of Centennial on Saturday by edgin...
ALBUQUERQUE – Three area teams came home with second-place finishes in small-school state track competition over the weekend at the University of New Mexico’s track complex. District 6-1A rival Logan, led by a strong performance from junior Hayden Judd, nipped Melrose 100-98 for the Class 1A boys team championship. The teams were tied 90-90 going into the 1,600 relay finale, and the Longhorns finished first in the event while the Buffaloes were second. Meantime, Texico led for much of Class 2A boys meet before defending cha...
Despite the rain and chilly weather, 30 volunteers came together to improve Hillcrest Park Zoo on Saturday. Zoo Director Stephanie Chavez said volunteers were split into teams at the Love the Zoo event, "to divide and conquer" the projects planned. "It was something where I even got emotional. Seeing everyone out in the rain, cold and wet, they were still smiling the entire time. It made me so happy and grateful to be a part of a community that loves their zoo so much,"...
The Hillcrest Senior Life Center at 1704 E. Seventh St., has scheduled its grand opening for Thursday. According to a news release from the Clovis-Curry County Chamber of Commerce, the opening is described as “a significant milestone in the City’s commitment to supporting and enriching the lives of its senior area residents.” The celebration is planned throughout the day with doors open at 9 a.m., a Chamber ribbon cutting set for 2 p.m. and a dance slated from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m....
Cornerstone Caregiving has opened an office in Clovis. The business held its grand opening Friday at its location in the Hilltop Shopping Plaza. Kelly Lindner, Cornerstone’s marketing director, described the business as one that “Provides non-medical in-home care.” “We send licensed, bonded caregivers into people’s homes, doing basically everything that nurses generally don’t do like light housekeeping, bathing, incontinence care and such,” Lindner said. Lindner said in addition to Clovis, Cornerstone has offices in Lu...
After 22 days, the Portales Fire Dept. announced this week that the Hampton Farms peanut mill fire is to a point where there is no need for fire personnel to be there on standby. The facility on US 70 towards Clovis started burning on April 15. Since then, smoke has remained present with 6 million pounds of peanuts continuing to burn inside the warehouses. According to a press release from PFD, the Hampton Farms staff agree that the property should be turned over to them. The News attempted to get in contact with state Fire...
New Mexico produces about 25,000 tons of peanuts annually, according to New Mexico State University. How much of the state’s 2024 crop was lost in the Hampton Farms fire at Portales in April? Will this impact the cost of peanuts in the grocery store? If so, by how much and when will we see that increase? “They should be able to overcome this,” Naveen Puppala wrote in an email. Puppala is peanut breeder with New Mexico State University’s agricultural center north of Clovis. Regarding a seed crop, Puppala wrote “all the seeds...
LUBBOCK – Eastern New Mexico University’s baseball team, which had previously earned only one Gold Glove award in All-Lone Star Conference postseason picks, had three in selections announced on Wednesday at the conference’s baseball awards banquet, held in conjunction with the start of a four-team, double-elimination conference tournament. Juniors Beau Preston at first base, Demetrio Archuleta at second and Tucker Gideon in the outfield notched gold gloves. Meantime, junior left fielder/relief pitcher Luciano Terilli was n...
ALBUQUERQUE – Clovis and Portales’ girls had no luck in Wednesday’s opening round of state tennis competition. At Jerry Cline Tennis Center, the Lady Wildcats had one entry in singles and one in doubles in Class 5A, while the Lady Rams had a doubles entry in Class 1-4A at Albuquerque Academy. For the Lady Cats, junior Hannah Lingala lost a 6-0, 6-0 decision to third-seeded senior Ellise Jay of Mayfield in singles. Jay advanced with a 6-2, 6-3 quarterfinal victory over La Cueva junior Varinn Sood, but she bowed out in the s...
As of Tuesday a Clovis man was sentenced to nine and a half years in the Department of Corrections for aggravated fleeing a law enforcement officer, according to a press release from the Ninth Judicial District Attorney’s Office. According to the release Anthony Abeyta, 28, will be facing nine and half years consecutive to a six year sentence he received earlier this year for violating probation. Last Sunday, Abeyta was found guilty by a jury when he was involved in a high-speed chase fleeing from Curry County Sheriff O...
A Muleshoe woman died Wednesday night in a vehicle crash in Lamb County, Texas, near Amherst. Sherri Harrison, 57, was killed after her 2009 Toyota Camry collided with a truck near the intersection of U.S. 84 and Farm to Market Road 37, according to a report by the Texas Department of Public Safety. A preliminary investigation revealed that Harrison’s vehicle was leaving a private drive off U.S. 84 and “pulled into the path” of a 1998 Kenworth tractor-trailer driven by Clay Hayes, 66, of Albuquerque, according to DPS. Hayes...
Early numbers for enrollment are up this summer and this fall at Eastern New Mexico University in Portales. The news came from ENMU Chancellor and President James Johnston in a presentation to the university’s Board of Regents at their May regular meeting Friday. Johnston said the early numbers show summer enrollment is up 2% from last year, fall up 4% from last year. Johnston also noted it is hoped the search for an athletic director for the university will be wrapped up by the time of the Regents’ June meeting. Joh...
Charges have been dismissed against the Clovis man who fatally shot a dog he said was “aggressively barking” at his dogs in November. Bradley Pearson, who lives in the 100 block of Zia Place, faced a fourth-degree felony charge, punishable by up to 18 months in jail and a $5,000 fine. But District Attorney Quentin Ray said last week the animal - a labrador retriever - “had a history of attacking people.” Court records show the suspect told police on Nov. 1 that he shot the dog after it barked at his own dogs in the front yard...
A woman with a rubber bat attacked a woman visiting the Portales cemetery last Sunday morning, Portales police said. Francine Galvan, 26, was arrested and charged with robbery in connection with the incident. Portales Police Capt. Chris Valdez said officers were dispatched to the cemetery about 8:40 a.m. last Sunday. Valdez said the suspect had approached the victim and demanded her belongings. “An altercation occurred with injuries to the victim and items being stolen,” Valdez wrote. Valdez reported the victim was eva...
Clovis police are investigating the death of a Clovis man struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver Monday night. According to a news release from CPD Capt. Roman Romero, Vincent Galvan, 73, was found severely injured in the eastbound lane of West Seventh Street near West Street Monday around 11:15 p.m. Police and EMS personnel arrived on the scene, responding to a call to dispatch. Information relayed to dispatch showed the vehicle involved in the crash had fled the scene. Galvan was transported to Plains Regional Medical...
LOVINGTON – Clovis High’s girls earned 1-2 finishes from freshmen in both the 1,600 and the 300 hurdles on Friday to claim team honors in Lovington’s Ross Black Relays, which concluded the regular season. The Lady Wildcats posted 118 points in the six-school event to outlast Carlsbad (106) and Portales High (95), followed by Roswell High (63), Roswell Goddard (56) and Lovington (26). Team scores were not provided by Lovington on New Mexico MileSplit and were unofficial. Lovington captured the boys team title, finishing with...
ROSWELL – Clovis High’s baseball team essentially had its destiny in its hands going into Friday’s District 4-5A and season-ending doubleheader against Roswell High. With a sweep, the Wildcats could have finished second in the district and perhaps locked in a reasonably good seed in the upcoming 16-team Class 5A state tournament. A split would have all but assured a berth, but the Cats left it in the hands of the New Mexico Activities Association selection committee after dropping 11-9 and 2-1 decisions, relegating them...
