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Scouting to baseball is like vitamins to the body. It’s essential for growth and progression, for survival really. So that makes Logan White kind of like a guy who owns a multi-vitamin store. The 1980 Portales High graduate has spent most of his adult life tasked with scouting for the Baltimore Orioles, Los Angeles Dodgers and most recently, the San Diego Padres. He’s made a career of beating the bushes, peering under the rocks, visiting the small, tucked-away towns, the ham...
PORTALES — A jury is in place, and the trial for two former daycare workers charged more than 18 months ago with the death and serious injury of two young girls in their care begins today. “We’re looking forward to getting the trial moving and getting this tried,” said 9th Judicial District Attorney Andrea Reeb, prosecuting for the state. “It’s been a year and a half now; I think everybody, including defense, victims and defendants are ready to resolve this matter in one way or another.” The mother-daughter duo of Mary and S...
What a sweet morning I’ve just experienced. And this from a person not in the habit of gushing about mornings. A “morning person,” I am not. The preceding sentence is just a fact. No moral ramifications are attached. Not by me. I have actually even met a few humble morning folks who seem to harbor no self-righteous “early to rise” prejudices. I refer the others to mounting research and genuinely science-based books such as Dr. Till Roenneberg’s “Internal Time: Chronotypes,...
PORTALES — Monday’s Eastern New Mexico baseball practice was a microcosm of a new season outlook overall. Hoping for better times ahead. The Greyhounds look forward to better conditions than Monday’s grey skies, howling January wind, brown patches of grass and big puddle behind third base — a not-so-hot corner. And overall, they look forward to a season that was better than the last, one that ends deeper in the playoffs. Sixth-year head coach David Gomez likes what he sees so...
Nearly every day I talk to my friend the tree. There, I’ve said it. Every day I take the same walk into the woods; I see changes in the forest throughout the year and, at about the halfway point, I see my friend the tree, waiting for me. “Hey,” I say. The tree greets me. (It’s subtle, but I see it.) There was a time in my life when I might have been embarrassed to admit I talked to a tree. Heck, there was a time in my life when nearly everything embarrassed me. I would stand at my kitchen sink, washing dinner dishes and rev...
With basketball season in full swing, it’s also homecoming time for a number of local schools. Dora and Melrose welcome alumni home Friday; Elida follows on Feb. 8. When I hear the word “homecoming,” I’m launched back in time and think of two things: chicken wire and paper napkins. If you do, too, chances are you are my age or older and attended a small school. I’m unsure who deserves the credit for the idea that festive décor could be crafted from chicken wire stapled on...
Booked The following were booked into local jails Friday-Monday: Clovis • Alex Chavez, 18, probation violation • Jeremy Duarte, 27, criminal damage to the property of a household member, battery against a household member • Xavier Valero, 19, failure to pay fines • Alison Marquez, 26, probation violation • Aaron Garcia, 33, possession of a controlled substance • Chris Dean, 55, failure to appear on a felony charge • Brittany Barrows, 27, probation violation • Joseph Sandoval, 49, failure to appear at time and place stated in...
RICHARDSON, Texas — Halfway through the Lone Star Conference season, it’s fair to say Eastern New Mexico University sophomore Alivia Lewis has the inside track to win the conference’s defensive player of the yeara little more than a month from now. That’s because Lewis took her second-consecutive LSC defensive player of the week honor, and third overall this season. No other player in the 11-team conference has taken more than one defensive award in the 11 weeks of selecti...
TEXICO — The Texico Municipal Schools bond and mill levy election is just under a week away but turnout has already exceeded past elections, according to election officials. Curry County Clerk Annie Hogland and Roosevelt County Clerk Stephanie Hicks told The News on Monday that of the 1,036 ballots that were sent out, 151 voted ballots have been returned, a turnout of about 14.6 percent. Even with six days remaining to vote, that number is still higher than the last Texico bond election in 2013 when just 38 ballots were c...
CLOVIS — Clovis’ city manager said Tuesday that the city was working with the board of the Curry Residents Senior Meals Association to ensure services were not impacted following the recent departure of the program’s director. Justin Howalt said the city “will continue to support CRSMA and make sure that the services provided to the seniors are not impacted...due to the departure of Ms. (Cherisse) Perez.” Howalt said Perez’ departure was a “personnel matter” and referred questions on the matter to CRSMA’s board, whose pres...
Schools holding volunteer workshop Clovis Municipal Schools welcomes residents who want to be volunteers in the school system. A workshop is scheduled for 5 p.m.-6 p.m. Feb. 12 at the Clovis High School Lecture Hall, and is open to anybody who wants to be certified as a volunteer. The approval process for a volunteer includes attending a volunteer training workshop, completing a SafeSchools training course and submitting to a background check (requiring a $44 processing fee). Volunteers from previous school years who wish to...
One of our long-term and ongoing goals is to develop ways to actively engage our secondary students as we prepare them for the workplace. One of our strategies is to partner with community enterprises — whether non-profits or businesses, or others — to develop learning opportunities that powerfully impact our students’ futures. To that end, we came into contact this past fall with a couple of groups who themselves partner to take advantage of one of our most prevalent natur...
CLOVIS — Clovis High School’s Freshman Academy was placed briefly on a level 1 lockdown Tuesday afternoon on reports of a weapon on campus, but nothing was found. “I think a couple of kids left campus, and they said they left campus because they heard that there was a gun on campus, so they told the assistant principal, who immediately called police,” Clovis Municipal Schools Superintendent Jody Balch told The News. The lockdown went into effect around 1:45 p.m. and was lifted by 2:30 p.m.; police responded “and there was...
PORTALES — A Fort Sumner High School football and boys basketball coach was arrested early Saturday morning in Roosevelt County for driving under the influence of liquor. Brad Holland, 39, of Alto, entered a plea of not guilty Monday afternoon to the petty misdemeanor DWI charge and was released on personal recognizance pending a court date in March, records show. A sheriff’s deputy wrote in a complaint that Holland “performed poorly” on field sobriety tests and “made statements indicating he knew he was driving impaired....
With the calendar set to switch over to February, several area schools have events planned to celebrate Black History Month, starting with a kick-off at 11:30 on Friday at Eastern New Mexico University’s Campus Union Building (CUB). Damieanus Ochola, coordinator for African American Affairs at ENMU, said the university’s kick-off event is meant to raise awareness for all of the other activities scheduled for February, which begin on Feb. 6 with “Swahili Time.” Scheduled for 2 p.m. in the Sandia room in the CUB, Ochola,...
Two of eastern New Mexico’s higher education institutions have been recognized as Military Friendly schools for the 2019-20 school year. Clovis Community College received a gold award in the small community college category while Eastern New Mexico University earned designated status as a small public school. CCC President Becky Rowley said the college has received an award from the group over the past several years. “We’re really pleased and we’re going to continue to provide that high level of service,” Rowley said. Jef...
I’m done with the NFL. At least for this season. If I were a man of higher principles, I’d be done with it for good. The New Orleans loss to the Rams was the straw that broke my back. To essentially end a great season with such a blatant penalty that wasn’t even called is tough to take. And what’s going to come of that? Further delays to the game, as officials will now be allowed to second-guess their calls (and non-calls) on the field. And now we’ve got to watch those cheatin’ Patriots, again, this year up against a f...
It’s a bitter pill to swallow, and one many people can’t accept, but you and I can never know everything. This means if you want to act politically, you’ll come from a place of ignorance whether you mean to or not. I can’t know the ultimate reality about Anthropogenic Global Climate Change — commonly called “global warming.” I can’t know all the possible consequences of building a new “Berlin Wall” between America and Mexico. I can’t know how a total gun ban would affect actua...
On Jan. 17, with just over two weeks on the job, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham announced that she needed around $1.2 million more from taxpayers to run her office. Specifically, to enable her to formulate and implement her “bold, aggressive agenda.” Granted, the funding increase — from about $3.3 million to roughly $4.5 million — is still below that of Gov. Bill Richardson’s $4.7 million office costs. And it’s only .063 percent of the proposed $7.1 billion state budget. And our governor has an ambitious to-do list aimed at bo...
A risk advisory last week from the Office of the State Auditor urges the public to keep an eye out for funny money, though local business representatives have so far reported no such sightings. “The OSA has received notice of counterfeit money targeting the communities of southern New Mexico, particularly in the City of Alamogordo,” said the advisory. “Individuals, business owners, and agencies are strongly encouraged to take special attention in processing cash transactions.” Counterfeit bills reported so far were largely id...
CLOVIS - Cowboy clothing and cell phones sound like their from two very different eras, but one Clovis business will be recignized for succesfully combining the two for close to a decade. El Caporal Western Wear, LLC will be one of 18 businesses around the state recognized on Monday at the 20th annual New Mexico Small Business Development Center Network Star Client Reception in Santa Fe. Dominique Chairez, assistant director of the Small Business Development Center (SBDC) at...
For local educators in search of relevant lessons for their students on concepts of engineering and energy careers, it doesn't get much more hands-on than climbing inside of a windmill. Some 30 teachers from districts in Curry and Quay counties had that opportunity Friday, first with a day of workshops at Clovis High School and then with a sunset field trip to the turbines in progress at the Grady Wind Farm and those already completed on the Broadview project. A Science,...
Tuesday • Curry County Commission — 9 a.m., Commission Chambers, Curry County Administration Complex, 417 Gidding St., Clovis. Information: 575-763-6016 • Roosevelt County Commission — 9 a.m., Commission Room, Roosevelt County Courthouse, 109 W. First St., Portales. Information: 575-356-5307 • Portales City Council — 6:30 p.m., Memorial Building, 200 E. 7th St., Portales. Information: 575-356-6662 Feb. 6 • Clovis Community College Board of Trustees — 8 a.m., CCC, 417 Schepps Blvd., Room 512, Clovis. Information: 57...
Today • Tiny Tots — 10 a.m., Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main St., Clovis. Information: 575-769-7840 • Preschool storytime “Let’s Hibernate” — 10:30 a.m., Portales Public Library, 218 S. Ave. B, Portales. Information: 575-356-3940 • Teens and tweens “Game On: X-box one free play & board games” — 4:30 p.m., Portales Public Library, 218 S. Ave. B, Portales. Open to ages 9-12. Information: 575-356-3940 Thursday • Preschool storytime — 10 a.m., Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main St., Clovis. Information: 575-...
On this date ... 1969: A Clovis photographer had been named official photographer for the New Mexico Legislature. The office of state Sen. Odis Echols Jr., D-Clovis, announced that Al Sass had been named as Senate and House photographer. Newspaper archives show Sass and his wife, Marguerite, studied professionally photography in New York before opening Sass Photography Studio in Clovis in 1948. Al Sass died in 1993. Pages Past is compiled by David Stevens. Contact him at:...
