Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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BASKETBALL Prep summaries Tuesday District 4-4A Boys Artesia 66, Portales 48 Artesia (12-9, 2-0) — Nick Sanchez 21, Cameron Thorpe 10, Payton Deans 10, Jake Barrera 13, Diego Wesson 3, Rylee Jarnott 9. Totals 23 14-18 66. Portales (9-10, 0-2) — Eli Gomez 5, Paxton Culpepper 2, Kaden Hightower 12, Markus Aranda 5, Quadale Brown 10, Davian Lucero 10, Greydon Rigsby 4. Totals 19 9-18 48. Artesia 16 15 17 18 — 66 Portales 12 9 14 13 — 48 3-pointers — Artesia, Barrera 3, Thorp 2, Wesson. Portales, Gomez. Girls Portales 58, Artes...
HOBBS — Katy Archey got a last-second layup to fall in overtime, giving the Clovis Freshman Academy girls a 41-40 victory over Hobbs Black in the championship game of the Border Conference tournament on Jan. 29. Clovis came in seeded second in the eight-team event, and dispatched seventh-seeded Hobbs Gold in the quarterfinals and No. 3 Roswell High in the semifinals at home. Hobbs Black earned home court in the finals as the No. 1 seed. The Lady Wildcats finished second in Border Conference regular-season play behind H...
PORTALES - Junior guard Brielle Woods scored a season-best 18 points and Texas Woman's recovered in the closing moments after losing a double-digit lead to edge Eastern New Mexico University 63-57 on Thursday night in Lone Star Conference women's basketball at Greyhound Arena. The Pioneers (14-5, 7-1 LSC) won their fourth game in a row and moved into a share of the top spot in league standings with Cameron, which had its game against West Texas A&M postponed on Thursday...
The books listed below are now available for checkout at the Clovis-Carver Public Library. The library is open to the public, but patrons can still visit the online catalog at cloviscarverpl.booksys.net/opac/ccpl or call 575-769-7840 to request a specific item for curbside pickup. “A Deep Divide” by Kimberley Woodhouse. After being kidnapped as a child, heiress Emma Grace McMurray has seen firsthand the devastation that greed causes in the world. When she discovers her father has offered her up as a bargaining chip to exp...
Curry County Association of Educational Retirees After a brief description of her background and duties, Annie Hogland, Curry County clerk, entertained numerous questions from members concerning voting processes; Dominion voter machines allegedly flipping ballots in New Mexico, absentee ballots being accepted with postmarks after the time on Election Day; and myths and concerns of fraudulent voting practices we’ve heard about or read in recent media involving our nation. Our main concern is how we can keep our elections h...
Information on cake decorating techniques, making various party decorations, and the benefits of consuming fresh and dried figs will be the featured topics on “Creative Living” at 9:30 p.m. Tuesday, February and at noon Thursday. Emily Tatak is the former assistant assistant culinary specialist with Wilton Brands LLC in Woodridge, Ill., and she’s going to share some of the various techniques students learn when they take Course I in a Wilton Cake Decorating class. She will...
Our society has slowly but surely gone pantywaist on us. My valiant stands against the tide haven’t helped a bit either. I predicted it this past week, two days ahead, just from watching the weather reports. School delays or cancellations would be issued before the first snowflakes ever fell. The school officials in my school days never canceled school based on what Dan True’s forecast said was going to happen. If they had done that we would have been out of school a lot mor...
Originally from Michigan, Amanda Lunt is a photographer with two dogs, and a baby on the way. She and her husband are recent transplants to the Clovis area - they arrived from Guam last October on military assignment and have been acquainting themselves with the community ever since. When she's not snapping photos, Lunt enjoys good television, baking and reading. Q: What is your favorite book? A: I don't have a favorite book, but Nicholas Sparks is definitely my favorite...
All seven area small-school high school basketball games scheduled for Thursday night were called off due to the inclement weather. District 6-1A doubleheaders sending Melrose to Logan and Fort Sumner to Grady were rescheduled for Friday and Tuesday, respectively, while a 6-1A boys game sending Clovis Christian to San Jon was moved to Feb. 16. A non-district twin bill with Dora traveling to Floyd probably will not be made up. In area girls games on Tuesday: Grady 58, Floyd 31 — At Grady, the Lady Bronchos cruised to a n...
PORTALES - Portales High's girls are off to a solid start in District 4-4A action. The Lady Rams (14-5) improved to 2-0 in district play on Tuesday night with a relatively comfortable 58-37 victory over Artesia at the Ram Athletic Center. Portales, which was coming off a last-second 55-53 loss in overtime on Saturday at Clovis, led 19-10 at the quarter and never allowed the Lady Bulldogs (10-11, 1-1) to get back into it. "I thought that was four really solid quarters for us,"...
PORTALES - Guards Cameron Kahn and Julian Miranda combined for 32 of their 46 points after halftime, and Dallas Baptist overcame an early 17-point deficit to edge Eastern New Mexico University 83-77 in Lone Star Conference men's basketball on Thursday night at Greyhound Arena. The Patriots (14-7, 7-2 LSC), coming off a loss to West Texas A&M in their most recent outing, won for the eighth time in nine games while handing the Greyhounds (6-12, 2-7) their sixth loss in a row. Ka...
PORTALES — Eastern New Mexico University football coach Tye Hiatt announced a list of 24 signees for the 2022 season, a compilation of players who signed during the recent signing period as well as the early signing period in December. Hiatt is preparing for his second season at the helm of the Greyhounds, who were 4-7 in 2021 and 1-6 in Lone Star Conference play. “I thought this was a good class,” Hiatt said. “I thought our coaching staff did a great job of what we needed to get position-wise.” Eight of the players are from...
When former Gov. Bill Richardson ended the gross receipts tax on food in 2005, I thought it was a no-brainer. Food and water are the two things we can’t live without, so of course they shouldn’t be taxed. But the experts at New Mexico Voices for Children — who understand the intricacies of our tax system much better than I do and know that when it comes to setting tax policy, everything’s a brainer — disagreed. They predicted correctly that shifting the burden from food to other purchases would hurt the poor more than help th...
We don’t even know the woman’s name yet. In fact, we don’t know much of anything about her except that she is Black. That’s not a lot, but it’s more than enough for some people. Ever since Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer announced his retirement, and President Biden said he would keep a campaign promise to nominate an African-American woman to the court, Republicans have stumbled all over themselves to decry this terrible thing. Like Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, who said on h...
Exactly 10 years ago, the Supreme Court was presented with a case involving affirmative action. The majority rejected a policy employed by the University of Texas that allowed it to consider race as one factor in its admissions decisions. A majority of the court rejected the university’s arguments that this was a good way to achieve “diversity,” and sent the case back to the lower courts to determine if “strict scrutiny” justified the use of the policy. Justice Clarence...
Last month at the Beth Israel Synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, a gunman held four hostages for more than 10 hours. Fortunately, the hostages managed to escape unharmed. The FBI then entered the synagogue and killed the suspect, a British national who had entered the U.S. just weeks before. Early reports indicate that the man, Malik Faisal Akram, had a history of mental health issues as well as a criminal record. Akram’s brother, Gulbar, noted, “He’s known to police. Got a cri...
Joe Biden was the candidate of normality who hasn’t been able to deliver it, particularly on the pandemic. This is not entirely his fault, obviously. He didn’t create the delta and omicron surges, nor did he — or most anyone else — foresee that the vaccines wouldn’t prevent infections as advertised. On COVID, though, as on much else, he has been trapped by a commitment to his political base and by a reflexive opposition to everything associated with Donald Trump into an e...
For some, New Mexico Senate Bill 43 is about giving “a second chance to young people who have grown into different people, are committed to repairing the harm they caused, and ready to safely rejoin society.” Those are the words of ACLU attorney Denali Wilson, who supports the bill’s intent to prohibit life without parole sentences for juvenile offenders convicted of first-degree murder. For Clovis’ Paul Young, SB 43 “is like a slap in the face. They’re trying to make us victims again.” “Are they out of their mind?” he asked...
Improvements to make the Curry County Courthouse more accessible to people with disabilities will receive a boost of $230,472 in Community Development Block Grant funds awarded by the New Mexico Community Development Council. The grant to Curry County government for the courthouse was one of 15 projects statewide that will receive a total of $10.5 million in grant funds, according to a news release issued Tuesday by the New Mexico Department of Finance and Administration (DFA). The Community Development Council worked with...
CLOVIS — A 16-year-old boy involved in a pedestrian fatal last year will receive a traffic citation for failing to exercise due care, District Attorney Andrea Reeb said last week. The teen was driving a pickup that hit Martha Castillo, 68, as she crossed Thornton Street about 8:45 p.m. on Aug. 29, police said. Castillo died at the scene of the accident. The boy left the scene but returned “within a very few minutes,” his attorney, Dan Lindsey has said. “He thought he might have hit an animal. He wasn’t sure what he hit.” Inv...
PORTALES – Two Portales men are being held in the Roosevelt County Detention Center on charges that include kidnapping and extortion. Pedro Marquez, 30, and Erik Pina-Martinez, 26, are accused of holding two men for ransom on the afternoon of Jan. 30. In at least one instance, “firearms were used to hold at least one victim against their will,” according to a criminal complaint. The complaint shows a suspect said in a phone call “just give me the money and I won’t harm them.” The incident was “motivated at least in part...
Two guys from Albuquerque hope they've found greener grass than real estate along with their discovery of Clovis as a place to do business. Earl Henson and Tom Schoneman are getting ready to launch Earl and Tom's, a small business that will grow and sell marijuana, located at the site of a former gun shop at 106 S. Main St., Clovis. They have even put their name over the front entrance. Since they became the second cannabis business to receive a New Mexico recreational...
A man convicted in October of aggravated battery has been sentenced to seven years in New Mexico’s Department of Corrections. Aiden Carpenter, 24, was sentenced by Judge Drew Tatum for his assault on a former girlfriend, according to a news release from District Attorney Andrea Reeb. “On the afternoon of May 25, 2021, Mr. Carpenter approached his then-girlfriend at Hillcrest Park and confronted her for ending their relationship,” Reeb stated in the release. “He proceed...
CLOVIS — One Clovis firefighter suffered an arm fracture Wednesday morning while fighting a fire that started Tuesday afternoon at the Gavilon grain elevator on U.S. 60-84 west of the city. Battalion Chief Chet Chenault said the fire was contained about 11 a.m. Wednesday. The injured firefighter was hospitalized but was released from the hospital by Friday, Clovis Fire Chief Mike Nolen said. Chenault said the firefighter was hurt when his arm was pinned between a hose and r...
COVID-19 treatment drugs are in short supply at Plains Regional Medical Center in Clovis and Roosevelt General Hospital in Portales, as they are in the rest of the state, hospital representatives said. Both hospitals are mostly concerned about the supply of monoclonal antibody treatments, which have been shown to relieve symptoms in most patients after a single 30-minute infusion. Jorge Cruz, administrator of the Plains Regional Medical Center, said monoclonal antibody treatments are being given to patients who are most...
