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XLOVIS — Bryce Cabeldue couldn’t believe the first time a Division I college was interested in him as a football player, and it’s been the same every time another scholarship offer came the Clovis senior’s way. “It was a huge shock,” Cabeldue said Monday, a day after he committed to the Kansas Jayhawks and coach Les Miles. “I wasn’t really believing it, and honestly it still doesn’t feel real right now.” He’s a week away from the next step in that process, when he can first si...
Their names are long forgotten, at least in Clovis' political circles. But they laid the groundwork for other women to become active in city government. Phyllis Wood, Tommy L. Turner and Lela Bainum were all making headlines 50 years ago as they were "believed to be the first women to ever seek city offices in Clovis," the Clovis News-Journal reported. All three women were soundly defeated in their respective municipal races in 1970, but all three presented credible...
CLOVIS - Curry County may decide to close the doors of its juvenile detention center this year, which would leave only five JDTs in the state, the closest then located in Lea County. Curry County Manager Lance Pyle said it may be in Curry County's best interest to close its JDC, which in many ways has become the regional JDC for eastern New Mexico, taking juvenile offenders from Roosevelt, Quay, Eddy, Chavez and De Baca counties as well as Curry. "There are six counties that...
BBROOKFIELD, Ill. — Eastern New Mexico running back Paul Terry moved one spot up Monday as he was named a repeat selection to the Don Hansen All-American team. Terry, a second-team selection last year, was elevated to the first team this year following a record-setting senior campaign. The Amarillo native led the Lone Star Conference, and was second in all of Division II in rushing with a school-record 1,888 yards. He rushed for the century mark in 11 of the Green and Silver’s 12 contests. Greyhound offensive tackle Vili Fis...
TEXICO — Texico’s boys basketball team has at times this season pulled mid-game disappearing acts. Fortunately for the Wolverines on Saturday night, they reappeared in plenty of time to rout Logan, 67-46, at Texico High School. Ahead by 14 late in the first quarter and still up by 11 early in the second, Texico saw its lead shaved to three by midway through that second period. But then the Wolverines turned it on again, led by 11 late in the half, by nine at the break, and...
PORTALES — Of this Friday’s Eastern New Mexico baseball season opener one could say, “ENMU Greyhounds, come on down!” After all, the Hounds are going to find out this season if the Price is right. Riley Price was hired last summer to replace David Gomez, who had stepped down in May. Price, who grew up in Kansas, has played junior college and Division II college baseball, has coached in a collegiate summer baseball league and in the Lone Star Conference for Angelo State, and ha...
TEXICO — For Logan’s girls basketball team, Saturday night’s game at Texico High School represented another in a series of games, another step, that the Lady Longhorns hope leads them to a state championship. For a young Texico team trying to improve amidst an injury-riddled season, it was a chance to take down the recently-minted Eastern Plains Athletic Conference champions. And though the Lady Wolverines came close to doing just that, they fell short against Logan and lost...
If you could make any changes to Portales, what pops into your mind? Maybe a movie theater in one of our empty buildings? A gazebo in City Park or on the courthouse square? A repurposing of the old Santa Fe train depot? A new site and a new life for the Governor Lindsey house on North Boston? Some of us who love Portales have been looking into that proverbial crystal ball this week and dreaming big, thanks to a contest sponsored by a series on Home and Garden Television (HGTV)...
Today • Preschool storytime “Share a Little Kindness” — 10:30 a.m., Portales Public Library, 218 S. Ave. B, Portales. Information: 575-356-3940 • Roosevelt County 2020 Census Job Fair — 3-6 p.m., Memorial Building, 200 E. Seventh St., Portales. Various field and office positions available, full and part-time positions, flexible work schedule. Hiring through March. Information: 2020CENSUS.GOV/JOBS • Portales Municipal Schools math curriculum adoption presentation — 3:30 p.m., Zia Room, Portales Schools Central Office Annex Bu...
Booked The following were booked into local jails (Friday-Tuesday): Clovis • Ruben Hernandez, 33, aggravated burglary, aggravated battery, battery • Samantha Calderon, 29, receiving stolen property • Jeremy Banning, 20, aggravated assault upon a peace officer, aggravated fleeing a law enforcement officer, possession of a firearm or destructive device by a felon, shooting at or from a motor vehicle, resisting, evading or obstructing an officer, parole violation • Jonelle Vandeman, 42, failure to appear on a felony charge...
CLOVIS — While citizens of District 4 will see two names on the ballot this year when they go to vote for a representative on the Clovis City Commission, Chris Bryant is the only one in the running as of Monday. Bryant’s sole opponent, Rodney Lusk, withdrew his candidacy Monday after two weeks in the running and a little under a week before early voting starts on Tuesday. The deadline to withdraw candidacy was Jan. 14 however, so Lusk’s name will still be on the ballot. Lusk told The News that after further consi...
I want you to hunger for liberty; to crave the freedom to do everything you have a right to do, even if you choose to not do it all. I want you to want liberty as much as I want it. I also want you to respect the liberty of others. To govern yourself and no one else — this is your primary obligation to others. I realize some people are scared by the thought of liberty or freedom. I’ve even seen people complain that libertarians want to “force people to be free.” This has becom...
In 1970, President Richard Nixon invited Johnny Cash to the White House. Nixon asked the country music star to sing “Welfare Cadillac,” a parody about a shiftless man who took his government checks to buy a luxurious car, and “Okie from Muskogee,” an anti-hippie anthem of that time. Instead, Cash sang a protest song he’d written, with a chorus that goes: “And the lonely voice of youth cries, ‘What is truth?’” Vietnam was raging as “Nixon’s war” while the phrase “generation gap” had been coined to describe a deep national di...
Sunday morning, Kobe Bryant awoke to his last day on Earth. A few hours later, the Earth shook — reverberated actually — at the news that Bryant had died in a helicopter crash along with his daughter Gianna and seven others. Bryant, who played 20 seasons for the Los Angeles Lakers, was a legend of not just the National Basketball Association, but of the entire sports world, of the pop culture world. The entertainment world too after winning an Oscar for ‘Dear Basketball’, a short film based on a poem he wrote when retirin...
You can predict it like a Valley shower following a thunderstorm forming over the Jemez Mountains. When there’s a state budget surplus, teacher unions come begging for more money for teacher salaries. While they’re long on sob stories and promises of better education for students, they’re always short on data that demonstrates any student improvement following past raises. Recently columnist Sherry Robinson pointed out most New Mexicans are ignorant to what teachers are actually paid. They’re just used to hearing “pay ra...
Vicki Kelley has spent the last year as municipal judge, appointed to fill the void left by the retirement of Judge Jan Garrett. Now she wants to be elected to the position. Kelley isn’t alone in the running however, with Paul Nelson also throwing his hat in the ring for the position. The News sat down with both candidates to ask them a few questions before early voting starts on Tuesday and Election Day comes around on March 3. Vicki Kelley Why did you decide to run? I’m running because I’m really fortunate to have come...
Some producers could get funding LAS CRUCES — Specialty crop producers may be eligible for federal funding, and the New Mexico Department of Agriculture is holding two workshops to assist growers and processors with the Specialty Crop Block Grant application process. The workshops will be held: • 2:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m. Thursday at the NMDA office in Las Cruces at 3190 South Espina St. • 10 a.m.-noon Feb. 5 at the Santa Fe Doubletree at 4048 Cerillos Rd. Registration is not necessary for either workshop, which will include infor...
HOBBS — “Excellent, excellent.” That was how Clovis swim coach Gordy Westerberg described his boys and girls teams’ performances at last weekend’s Hobbs Invite. And for good reason. The girls finished first, the boys second, among seven teams. “I was really, really thrilled,” Coach Westerberg said. Especially after getting eight first-place finishes and five new state-qualifying times. Clovis’ first-place finishers were: the girls 200 medley relay team of Shyann Kissinger, Bella Zamora, Nina Mead and Hannah Luscombe (1:56....
Friday • Community Development Block Grant application public hearings — Noon and 5:30 p.m., Commission Room, Roosevelt County Courthouse, 109 W. First St., Portales. Public hearing to report on past CDBG activities and receive public input on community development needs and suggestions for future projects. Information: 575-356-5307 Tuesday • City of Clovis Civil Aviation Board — 5:30 p.m., Clovis Municipal Airport Terminal Conference Room, 459 CR 11.5, Texico. Information: 575-769-7890 Feb. 5 • Clovis Community College B...
PORTALES — Beginning Monday, the Portales office of the New Mexico Motor Vehicle Division will be located at 1601 S. Ave. D, according to a release from the New Mexico Department of Revenue and Taxation. Tuesday was the final day of operations at the MVD office at 1410 S. Ave. O. An MVD mobile unit will be available at the new location from Monday through Wednesday. The new Avenue D office will open 8 a.m. Feb. 6. Customers can conduct transactions in the interim at mvd.newmexico.gov or the Clovis field office at 814 W. S...
PORTALES — The U.S. Census will hold a job fair today at the Memorial Building in Portales. The fair is scheduled from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m., and a flyer for the event notes the Census will be hiring through March. Information: 2020census.gov/jobs...
PORTALES — Roosevelt County had a clean audit for Fiscal Year 2018, scoring the county a second Audit Accountability Award from New Mexico Counties organization and the New Mexico state auditor this year. The county had zero findings in its FY2018 audit, maintaining the improvements made over the last few years. “There was a time when we had a really rough audit with 14 findings and a modified opinion,” Roosevelt County Manager Amber Hamilton said. “It was a bad place for the county and the best part about these types of awar...
CLOVIS — Law enforcement is continuing to search for a man accused of a Saturday morning shooting. A warrant was issued Saturday for Dyonjai Jones, 22, on charges of assault with intent to commit a violent felony and aggravated battery. The charges are connected to that morning's shooting of Brandon Brooks, 29, at his apartment in Clovis. Clovis Police Capt. Roman Romero confirmed Monday afternoon that Jones remained at large, and local detention centers had no current booking records for Jones. According to an arrest w...
PORTALES — A Second Amendment rally is planned Thursday morning to protest potential state legislation on “red flag” laws. The rally is set for 9 a.m. at the Roosevelt County Courthouse. Sheriff Malin Parker said the sheriff’s office is not hosting the event, but he used the sheriff’s Facebook page to encourage residents to attend. “Turn out!! Central NM county held a 2 A rally today they had maybe 50 people show up!!” Parker wrote on Sunday. “If Roosevelt County does this on Thursday we might as well tell Santa Fe it’s o...
CLOVIS — Juniors Lola DeGroot and Makayla Robinson combined for 32 points and Clovis Christian’s girls overcame an early 12-point deficit on Monday to edge the Portales junior varsity 49-46 at the CCS gym. DeGroot scored seven of her game-high 19 points in the fourth quarter, while Robinson added 13. Adrianna Garcia had 11 points to lead the Ram JV. An Eagles’ boys contest against Vaughn was scheduled to follow, but Vaughn canceled early Monday afternoon. On Saturday: Grady boys 54, Fort Sumner 37 — At Fort Sumner, the Bro...
