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A man accused of killing an elderly Portales couple will go on trial a year from now. District Judge Stephen Quinn on Friday set Stanley Bedford’s jury trial for Sept. 5 through Oct. 13 next year. Bedford, 42, is accused of killing Odis Newman, 70, and Doris Newman, 69, in March. Jerry Fuller, 33, also faces two counts of first-degree murder and first-degree kidnapping in the Newmans’ deaths. His trial is set to begin June 19. A Roosevelt County grand jury indicted the two men in late March. But a Roosevelt County jury may...
Eastern New Mexico University Board of Regents members were told Friday enrollment at the Portales campus topped 4,000 for the first time since 1975. According to university officials, 4,052 students enrolled at ENMU for the fall semester. The fall enrollment is up 2.3 percent from the 2004 fall headcount, which was 3,959. In 1975 there were 4,248 students. “Any kind of growth is good,” Steven Gamble, Eastern New Mexico University president, said. “This is what I would call minimum growth.” Fall enrollment has increas...
Eastern New Mexico University Board of Regents members were told Friday enrollment at the Portales campus topped 4,000 for the first time since 1975. According to university officials, 4,052 students enrolled at ENMU for the fall semester. The fall enrollment is up 2.3 percent from the 2004 fall headcount, which was 3,959. In 1975 there were 4,248 students. “Any kind of growth is good,” Steven Gamble, Eastern New Mexico University president, said. “This is what I would call minimum growth.” Fall enrollment has increas...
A man accused of killing an elderly Portales couple will go on trial a year from now. District Judge Stephen Quinn on Friday set Stanley Bedford’s jury trial for Sept. 5 through Oct. 13 next year. Bedford, 42, is accused of killing Odis Newman, 70, and Doris Newman, 69, in March. Jerry Fuller, 33, also faces two counts of first-degree murder and first-degree kidnapping in the Newmans’ deaths. His trial is set to begin June 19. A Roosevelt County grand jury indicted the two men in late March. But a Roosevelt County jury may...
Tony Parra: PNT Staff Writer Some college students fear there won’t be a job for them when they graduate. A career fair held in Portales Thursday should help ease that fear. Ty Walker, director of Counseling and Career Services for Eastern New Mexico University, said there were more than 40 employers in the Campus Union Ballroom looking for future employees. The New Mexico Department of Corrections, Comcast, Edward Jones, Hyatt Regency, Wells Fargo Financial and Los Alamos National Lab were some of those businesses looking f... Full story
Tony Parra: PNT Staff Writer Portales Recreation Board members want some fine-tuning and a final proposal presented to them by the Portales Skate Park Organization members before approving a new skate park. Recreation board officials listened to a presentation from skate park club members on Thursday during a meeting. Recreation board members have already given approval of a location on city property, a 14,400 square-foot area on the north part of the Portales Recreation Center. Mary Carvey and Lorenzo Baca of the PSPO put...
Eastern New Mexico power company workers have made their way to southern Texas on a quest to restore power to those who have fallen victim to Hurricane Rita. Roosevelt County Electric Cooperative lineman Cade Standifer said about 60,000 meters were knocked out in Livingston, Texas and the customers are without power. Livingston is 70 miles north of Houston. Roosevelt County Electric Coop. Line Superintendent Apolonio Santillanes said he received a notice from the New Mexico Rural Electric Cooperative Association on Friday...
Portales Skate Park Organization members have already determined a location and on Tuesday evening they determined a cost of $50,000 and a design for a new skate park. In the middle of August, the Portales Recreation Board members approved the location of the new skate park to be a 14,400 square-foot area on the north portion of the Portales Recreation Center parking lot. Portales Skate Park Organization members will present the cost estimates and designs to the Portales Recreation Board for approval at noon on Thursday in...
Tony Parra: PNT Staff Writer A family member can film a wedding but having the wedding filmed professionally may be worth the extra cost for a treasured moment for the bride and groom to view the rest of their lives. Entrepreneurs from a business in Portales are making that attempt. Paul Hunton and his wife Andrea Hunton, both of Portales, opened AV (AudioVisual) Productions in the downtown area at 210 W. Second St. in March, according to Paul. The young couple saved up money to start a new business and with their different...
Tony Parra: PNT Staff Writer More than 130 people showed up at the Becky Sharp Auditorium on Tuesday evening on a quest for answers to the question, What is the price of freedom? Many of those in attendance were Eastern New Mexico University students who showed up to listen to communications professors talk about the infringement on Americans’ rights and the balance between Americans’ privacy and gaining intelligence on the war on terrorism. Margaret Kirby, a communications professor, said she was enraged over the Sept. 11...
Giving up the comforts of home for two weeks, 16 power company workers from eastern New Mexico are on their way to restore power in homes of hurricane victims in southern Texas. Apolonio Santillanes, line superintendent for Roosevelt County Electric Cooperative, said he received a notice Friday from the New Mexico Rural Electric Cooperative Association seeking volunteers to help repair electric line damage in southern Texas. Santillanes said he asked workers at the electric cooperative for volunteers, and all 16 who were...
Tony Parra: PNT Staff Writer Eastern New Mexico University students embarked on homecoming week Monday with the 15th annual Songfest. Students performed a variety of skits at the Campus Union Ballroom and the Zia soccer team did a tribute to the victims of Hurricane Katrina. Four resident assistants from Eddy Hall took first place. The members of the Eddy Hall team danced 30-second segments of different songs such as the Right Said Fred song, “I’m Too Sexy,” and they emulated a song made famous by the Napoleon Dynamite chara... Full story
Tony Parra: PNT Staff Writer Editor’s Note: The following is a part of an ongoing series of stories about local business owners in Portales. If a picture can say a thousand words, a husband and wife team in Portales is finding ways for the picture to say even more. John Lowry-King and Betty King-Lowry owners of 2Talents Digital Media in Portales specialize in portrait and event photography and Web design, but as Lowry-King said, one of the main money-makers is virtual reality photography. He said he and his wife have w...
An unusual amount of buzzing is going on around the county and county officials are receiving many calls about bee problems. Floyd McAlister, Roosevelt County ag extension agent, reported an unusual amount of calls about bees in Roosevelt County during the county commission meeting on Tuesday morning. “I know we have received several calls on Africanized bees,” McAlister said. “I have received more calls on bees this summer than any other year in the 20 years that I have been here. The Africanized bees are here and they... Full story
Tony Parra: PNT Staff Writer Although Mexican Independence Day is celebrated on Sept. 16, it was in the waning moments of Sept. 15 when the wheels were in motion to break free from Spain’s rule. Every year at midnight on September 15, Mexicans shout the grito (yell), honoring the crucial, impulsive action that was the catalyst for the country’s bloody struggle for independence from Spain, according to Mex Online Web site (www.mexonline.com). In fact, in Mexico the people begin celebrating at midnight on Sept. 15 all thr...
Tony Parra: PNT Staff Writer One of the two major trash clean-up efforts will take place on Saturday with the Portales Trek for Trash event. Trek for Trash, coupled with the Keep New Mexico Clean and Beautiful event in Portales during April, are the two largest clean-up events in Portales. Veda Urioste was one of the organizers of the Keep New Mexico Clean and Beautiful event in the city of Portales during April. There were 274 participants and 714 trash bags in the Keep New Mexico Clean and Beautiful event. However, Urioste...
Tony Parra: PNT Staff Writer Parents of students in the Reading Recovery program at Steiner Elementary can involve themselves more in their first-graders’ education by viewing a 30-minute reading lesson given to their children. Reading Recovery teachers assist students who need additional help with reading as first-graders. Shelly Buzard and Robbie Ferguson have been working as Ready Recovery instructors for three years. They are two of the six Reading Recovery teachers. Buzard said the students are accepted into the p...
Tony Parra: PNT Staff Writer Portales teachers are aiming for higher reading-level goals for elementary students who have trouble reading in the Reading Recovery Program, which is going into its seventh year. The goal of the Portales teachers in the Reading Recovery Program is to have a higher number of Steiner Elementary students go from below average reading levels to average or above average reading levels after at least 20 weeks of instruction. Program teachers sit with their students and provide one-on-one instruction....
Tony Parra: PNT Staff Writer Portales community leaders decided they will combine efforts with various Clovis organizations to raise money for the victims of the Hurricane Katrina disaster through the High Plains Yard Sale. The High Plains Yard Sale will take place from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Oct. 1 at the Curry County Fairgrounds. Dan Williams, a health educator for the New Mexico Department of Health, said the Clovis people wanted to extend an invitation to Portales people to contribute items to the yard sale and raise...
Tony Parra: PNT Staff Writer Portales residents continue with efforts to help Hurricane Katrina victims, even as the need for cash donations become increasingly urgent. Some organizations have stopped accepting clothing and food donations because these items require manpower to separate and itemize, said to Chuck Haman, Portales city emergency management coordinator. Haman said he attended meetings Thursday and Friday in Albuquerque with state emergency management officials. “In general non-cash donations are being d...
Tony Parra: Freedom Newspapers Portales residents continue with efforts to help Hurricane Katrina victims, even as the need for cash donations become increasingly urgent. Some organizations have stopped accepting clothing and food donations because these items require manpower to separate and itemize, said to Chuck Haman, Portales city emergency management coordinator. Haman said he attended meetings Thursday and Friday in Albuquerque with state emergency management officials. “In general non-cash donations are being d... Full story
Tony Parra: PNT Staff Writer The Eastern New Mexico University Board of Regents on Wednesday gave a Texas firm the go-ahead on plans for a privatized housing project east of Eddy Hall. The proposal calls for 96 units with 270 beds in four apartment complexes located behind Eddy Hall and extending east to South Avenue I. Eastern New Mexico University Steven Gamble said replacing two of the school’s dorms would be more cost-effecient than trying to refurbish the aging buildings. Rafael Figueroa, president of Collegiate D... Full story
Tony Parra: PNT Staff Writer In the wake of a Hurricane Katrina, Portales residents will take time to remember those who were killed in another tragedy — Sept. 11, 2001. There will be a city-wide memorial held at 7:30 a.m. on Friday at the Portales National Bank parking lot. On Sept. 11, 2001, terrorists hijacked four U.S. planes and crashed them into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field, killing almost 3,000. Amy Carter of Portales will sing the National Anthem and the Portales High School choir w...
Tony Parra: PNT Staff Writer City representatives commended Portales citizens for their generosity when called upon to help Hurricane Katrina victims and to raise money for the muscular dystrophy association. Capt. Chuck Haman, emergency management director of the Portales Fire Department, said at one point it looked like Portales would receive 100 evacuees. “As a new emergency management director, in less than 48 hours he had a plan to shelter 100 people,” Portales Fire Department Fire Chief Jesse Mowrer said at Tue... Full story
Tony Parra: PNT Staff Writer The Roosevelt County Commission approved a county ordinance Tuesday that would restrict the sale of cold medicine that included an ingredient used to make methamphetamine. The ordinance passed by a 4-0 vote. Commissioner Dennis Lopez was not in attendance. The restrictions are for non-gel tablets and include: • Moving all medicine containing pseudoephedrine behind the counter or in a locked display case. • Requiring all purchasers to present photo ID and allow their name to be recorded on a lis... Full story
