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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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PORTALES — The Texico boys basketball team entered Saturday night’s EPAC Tournament championship game at Greyhound Arena knowing history was within reach. Early in the second quarter, though, history seemed like it might just elude the Wolverines’ grasp. They were playing for a fourth straight EPAC title — something the boys program had never achieved before — but trailed a hot-shooting Fort Sumner team by 12 in the second period. Texico, though, remained steady and took firm...
PORTALES — Any team that wins three consecutive tournament championships expects to win a fourth straight. But expecting doesn’t guarantee it. The only guarantee comes from what the scoreboard says the team has earned at game’s end. And the Greyhound Arena scoreboard Saturday night said that Texico’s girls basketball team had done it, had earned a fourth consecutive EPAC Tournament crown by defeating Melrose 46-35. Only once before — from 1998-2001 — has a Texico girls team wo...
A big part of this is reverse snobbery, I know, but I love my old pickup truck. That faithful machine already had 90,000 miles on it when I flew down to Houston a bunch of years ago, laid eyes on it, and fell in love. The original owner must have loved that truck, too, because he took great care of it. I probably haven’t been quite as faithful in that department. I try to do basic maintenance, even a little touch-up paint here and there. I don’t spend an inordinate amount of...
PORTALES — Carsyn Boswell had 23 points, and the Carlsbad Cavegirls controlled the fourth quarter in a 45-33 win Saturday night to close out a 3-0 run in the Portales Shootout. Kaliyah Montoya scored eight of her 14 in the fourth quarter for the Cavegirls (14-2), who bolstered their resume with wins over Gallup Friday and Pojoaque Valley on Thursday. A young Portales squad cut a double-figure lead to 32-30, with a Codi Flores 3-pointer ending the third quarter. “Being 10 dow...
PORTALES - Lubbock Christian had plenty of star power in Saturday night's finale of the Portales Shootout. The host Rams had plenty of balance. The latter won out, as the Rams pulled away in the third quarter to beat the Eagles 62-55 and grab a clean sweep in their three Shootout contests. Kellan Hightower scored 12 to lead three in double figures for the Rams (10-5), who won their third-straight and sixth in seven games heading into Tuesday's home contest against Trinity...
PORTALES - Rev. Buddy Moore said he first heard the call to the church when he was 17, but he turned instead to a life in the armed service and later a job in the oil and gas industry. Moore said he then had a powerful religious experience that led him to recovery - now 27 years sober - and then to answer that call that he heard decades earlier. Moore, 73, went back to school to earn his degree in religion and philosophy and is now serving as the interim pastor at First...
On this date ... 1969: Murder suspects Dennis and Penny Carlton testified they saw two people running away from the Portales drug store where Elbert Muncy had been killed, but said they were not involved in the slaying. The Carltons said they just happened to be driving past the store on their way home that evening of Aug. 18, 1968. Dennis Carlton said the men he saw running were "not acting normally," and so he stopped his car behind the rear door of the drug store and rang...
SANTA FE — A key New Mexico legislative budget panel has unveiled a $7 billion spending plan for next year that would utilize tax dollars from a spike in oil production to increase teachers salaries, send more money to classrooms with high numbers of at-risk students and add 10 days to the state’s current school year in response to a landmark court ruling on education funding. In all, the Legislative Finance Committee budget plan would increase year-over-year state spending by $670.8 million — or 10.6 percent — and would e...
PORTALES — The United Way of Eastern New Mexico will continue with local TEFAP, or The Emergency Food Assistance Program, food distributions in 2019, with the first scheduled for Saturday at Central Christian Church in Portales, 1528 S. Main. UWENM Executive Director Erinn Burch said the TEFAP distributions served about 200 families a month last year. Burch said qualified families will receive about four to give bags of groceries, including items like canned goods, cereal, produce and frozen meat. Burch said the program t...
SANTA FE — After several years of tight budgets, political barbs and bottled-up bills, this year’s New Mexico legislative session has all the trappings of a Roundhouse geyser that’s set to explode. Consider the following: There’s a new governor in town, Democrat Michelle Lujan Grisham, who has vowed to pursue an aggressive policy agenda; an expanded Democratic majority in the state House; and a court-ordered mandate to improve the state’s public education system for at-risk students, including Native Americans and English-l...
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Following a split in their Lone Star Conference games last week, Eastern New Mexico University’s women dropped one slot to eighth in the D2SIDA South Central Regional poll, released Monday by the College Sports Information Directors of America. The Greyhounds received 15 points in the poll, voted on by six sports information directors from the Lone Star, Heartland and Rocky Mountain Athletic conferences that make up the South Central Region. In all, five Lone Star Conference teams found spots on the...
Booked The following were booked into local jails Friday-Monday: Clovis • David Childress, 45, driving while license suspended or revoked • Aubrie Philley, 27, failure to pay fines • Luis Natividad, 31, failure to appear on a felony charge • Maria Delgado, 49, probation violation • Carlos Sisneros, 31, driving while license suspended or revoked, no insurance • Brianna Sena, 19, failure to pay fines • Charlotte Queenan, 52, probation violation • Luis Rocha-Guzman, 25, driving under the influence of liquor, no proof of insura...
PORTALES — Eastern New Mexico junior Paul Terry, who led the Greyhounds in rushing last season, received first-team honors on the Don Hansen All-Super Region Four Team on Tuesday. Terry was joined by offensive guard Mister Birdo and kicker Tyler Vargas, who both were named to the third-team offense. The 2018 season saw Terry rush for 989 yards and 10 touchdowns to top a deep Greyhound rushing squad. Eastern were second in the Lone Star Conference with 3,130 yards rushing. He was one of five players to rush for at least 200 y...
Women Thursday Tarleton State (10-4, 3-3 LSC) at Eastern New Mexico (10-4, 5-1 LSC) 5:30 p.m., Greyhound Arena Last time out: Tarleton State had a fairly easy time of it last Thursday when hosting Texas Woman’s at Wisdom Gym in Stephensville, Texas, jumping out to a 26-7 lead after the first quarter and coasting all the way to a 79-41 victory. Also Saturday, the Greyhounds won for the third time in their last four tries when they beat Texas A&M-Kingsville 76-53 on the road. E...
PORTALES — Roosevelt County Sheriff Malin Parker this weekend requested assistance from New Mexico State Police on an internal investigation into a report of cash missing from the county evidence room, according to a news release. Once an employee notified Parker of the missing cash, he “immediately called for his evidence techs, and case agent to conduct a full audit to determine if the cash was missing as a clerical error, being misplaced, or malicious,” said the release Sunday. That audit returned “negative finding...
CLOVIS — In most of its games this season, Clovis’ boys basketball team has had more opponents than just the one it was facing on a given night. The Wildcats have also battled injury after injury. Saturday night against Santa Fe, they battled foul trouble, too. But they’re overcoming it for the most part, and Saturday’s 54-53 comeback victory at Rock Staubus Gymnasium was another example of that. The Wildcats entered the game without point guard Josiah Lombrana— who may be lost for the season — and guard Malik Phillips. G...
