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After claiming a seesaw first-game win, Portales High's volleyball team went on to take control en route to a 28-26, 25-15, 25-21 victory over Hobbs in the Lady Rams' home opener on Tuesday night at the Ram Athletic Center. "I don't think anybody had a lead of more than three points in the first game," PHS coach Bailey Greenwalt said. "It was very much back-and-forth the whole game." Senior setter Myleigh Banda compiled team highs of 13 digs, 26 assists and three aces for the...
LOS ALAMOS – Even though his team breezed to a quarterfinal win on Friday in the eight-team Louie Cernichek tournament hosted by Los Alamos, Clovis High boys soccer coach Greg Trujillo said his team could have played better. Senior forward Ihab Mesbah and junior forward Jose Herrera each scored a pair of goals as the Wildcats did all their damage on offense in the first half in an 8-1 victory over the Tigers. Clovis (3-1) was slated to play either Lovington or Los Lunas in S...
Portales’ new city manager will be paid $105,000 annually with plans for three consecutive one-year terms, according to his employment agreement. Christopher Moyer, hired by the Portales City Council during an Aug. 3 meeting, will also receive a city-issued laptop, cell phone and personal use of a city vehicle, the contract shows. He will receive three weeks’ paid vacation annually plus one day of “sick leave” per month. The Eastern New Mexico News obtained a copy of the employment agreement through an Inspection of Public...
According to a news release from Assistant City Clerk Vicki Reyes, there are three vacancies on the Economic Incentive Board for citizen representative from Districts 1 and 3 and an industry representative (manufacturing, warehousing and transportation). The city is also accepting applications for one citizen representative and one student representative to serve on the Clovis-Carver Public Library Board. The city is also accepting applications for two representatives for the Planning & Zoning Commission. There is one...
TUCUMCARI – The Tucumcari police chief confirmed Wednesday a Snapchat video showing police officers with a significant amount of cash is the subject of a police investigation. One of the captions with the video stated: “This is what we do with the drug money we confiscate.” At one point the money is tossed into the air. But TPD Chief Patti Lopez said the cash wasn’t confiscated from an arrest. Instead, she said, it was money that one of the officers won while gambling at a casino. Lopez described the video as “office...
BOVINA -- Texas Rangers on Tuesday arrested Bovina Police Chief Joe Orozco, accusing him of three counts of tampering with government documents, according to KFDA-TV in Amarillo. Texas Department of Public Safety Sgt. Cindy Barkley said the Rangers had investigated the case, but they have now turned it over to the 287th District Attorney. The city of Bovina website lists Orozco as having been with the Bovina Police Department since 2017 and having 29 years of law enforcement experience....
A 43-year-old man was jailed Friday after he broke into a home in the 1800 block of College Park Drive and began shooting, according to a news release from Clovis police. No one was seriously injured. Police said they recovered 15 shell casings inside the home. Julian Montoya was taken into custody after police located him near the main entrance of Clovis Community College. The college was placed on lockdown briefly as a result of the incident, police said. Residents of the ho...
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...
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...
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...
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...
RUIDOSO – Bailey Greenwalt was happy to see her Portales High volleyball team win its season opener on Thursday night – while knowing the Lady Rams still have plenty of room for improvement. PHS posted a 25-22, 27-25, 25-21 victory over Ruidoso as junior middle hitter Skyler Massey collected 13 kills. "There (were) a lot of encouraging things," Greenwalt said. "It'll take a little time for us to figure out how to work together." Portales led most of the way, but couldn't sha...
ROSWELL – It was rough sledding out of the gate for the Clovis High girls soccer team on Friday night. Playing in an eight-team tournament co-hosted by Roswell High and Roswell Goddard, the Lady Wildcats absorbed a 6-0 loss at the hands of Centennial in the quarterfinal round. CHS was slated for two matches on Saturday, facing Lovington in the semifinals in the morning and then playing for either fifth or seventh place in the afternoon. The Hawks led just 2-0 at the i...
PUEBLO, Colo. – Defending 8-man state champion Melrose passed its first test on Friday with a remarkable comeback. Trailing by 18 points in the second quarter, the Buffs scored the final 26 points and held defending Colorado 8-man runnerup Haxtun scoreless for the final two quarters en route to a 44-36 victory in the season opener for both at Colorado State-Pueblo’s football facility. Melrose put together a 54-yard drive to win it, capped by senior quarterback Josiah Roybal’s 4-yard TD pass to Eldridge with under 1 ½ minute...
FARMINGTON – Clovis High’s scheduled football season opener on Friday night against Farmington was pushed back a day to to lightning and inclement weather. The Wildcats and Scorpions were scheduled for a 9:30 a.m. kickoff on Saturday. CHS returns home on Friday night to take on Rio Rancho at Leon Williams Stadium. Portales 22, Roswell Goddard 16 – At Roswell, senior quarterback Paxton Culpepper threw for a pair of touchdowns and the Rams opened their campaign with a 22-16 victory over the host Rockets at the Wool Bowl. PHS l...
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...
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...
A staff sergeant assigned to Cannon Air Force Base died Thursday in a “non-combat related incident at an undisclosed location,” Cannon officials said last week in a news release. Tristen Wright, 28, of Palm Bay, Fla., was assigned to the 27th Special Operations Logistics Readiness Squadron and was deployed in support of Operation Inherent Resolve, Cannon reported. The incident is under investigation. “Tristen was a force for good within the 27 SOLRS and beyond,” said U.S. Ai...
A police pursuit that started in Portales ended early Monday afternoon near Clovis High School. Tevin Lee King, wanted on armed robbery charges stemming from a home invasion in Albuquerque, was arrested after his vehicle crashed on Columbia Lane. Police said no injuries were reported during the pursuit. According to a Clovis police news release: Members of the Region V Drug Task Force were contacted and requested to assist in locating King, who was possibly traveling to Clovis from Hobbs in a black Chevrolet sedan. Officers...
Xcel Energy and the electric cooperatives* in eastern New Mexico and across the region have declared an "Energy Alert" and are urging customers cut back on their use of electricity. The alert is in effect Monday evening until 9 p.m. (MDT), according to an Xcel news release. "Xcel Energy and the electric cooperatives declare an Energy Alert only when a reduction in electricity use is urgently needed to maintain the electricity system and service to customers, the release stated. Adrian Rodriguez, president of Xcel Energy -...
A Clovis man was arrested Saturday and charged with sexual exploitation of children, bestiality and failure to register as a sex offender, all felonies. Timothy Harper, 53, remained in the Curry County jail early this week without bond. Court records show police made contact with Harper after allegations he'd planned to have sex at his Fourth Street home with a girl he believed to be 13 years old. Harper told police he changed his mind about meeting the girl "because it was...
