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HOBBS — Though the Clovis swim team’s season is winding down, things keep heating up for the Wildcats. This past Saturday the ’Cats journeyed to Hobbs High School for the District 3/4 swim championships and journeyed back with a district title for the girls, a third-place finish for the boys. “Overall it was a fantastic meet,” Clovis head coach Gordy Westerberg said. Which might even be understating it. Defending champion Las Cruces had won last year’s girls meet by 40 points, but the Lady Wildcats outswam them Saturday by...
CLOVIS - In a full courtroom across the street from where a deadly library shooting shook the community less than 18 months earlier, prosecutors and victims asked that a judge have Nathaniel Jouett serve the rest of his life in prison. That is what the state's request would amount to, anyway. District Attorney Andrea Reeb requested Chaves County Judge James Hudson give Jouett, now 18, a term of 96 years. That sum comes from the 30 felony counts to which he pleaded guilty last...
EDINBURG, Texas - Nichele Hyman wasn't cursed, though it may have seemed like it for a while last season. The 2015 Clovis High graduate and University of Texas Rio Grande Valley junior guard was already battling through a concussion, and then late in the season she started to feel intense pain in her lower half. "I noticed my legs were hurting," Hyman said, "and nobody knew what was going on. Some people thought it was shin splints. I had different diagnoses and they just...
TEXICO — For Texico’s girls basketball team, winning a state championship will mean climbing over really good 2A schools. Pecos is one such really good 2A school. So, Texico’s 55-53 home victory over the Lady Panthers on Saturday may bode well for the Lady Wolverines in states, and in the District 7-2A championships, too. By edging district foe Pecos on Jasmine Davalos’ late-game turnaround mid-range jumper, the Lady Wolves proved themselves capable of beating both a district and state powerhouse with just one victory...
PORTALES — The good news for the Eastern New Mexico softball team in its home debut on Monday? It set a new program record for hits and tied a program record for runs in a single game. The good news for New Mexico Highlands, Monday’s visitor? Everybody decided it wouldn’t be a record-setting doubleheader. Due to high winds that made the game a chore to watch and play in despite gaudy offensive numbers, the Greyhounds and Cowgirls decided Monday’s 28-7 opener was enough for both parties. For the Greyhounds, who open Lone St...
DALLAS — If Eastern New Mexico were to play all of its games against Dallas Christian this season, it would likely have a very good record once the season ended. If the Greyhounds were to face Southwest Christian the rest of the season, it might have just as bad of a record once the season concluded. The Greyhounds got their season off and running over the weekend, grabbing two wins over host Dallas Christian (7-4 Friday, 10-0 Saturday) and losing twice against Southwest Christian (10-3 Friday, 6-0 Saturday). Eastern (2-2) h...
When the Eastern New Mexico basketball teams stride out onto the Greyhound Arena floor, there's something special, something different about it. They're home. They've got that crowd behind them, the energy. So it won't be too hard for Eastern men's coach Tres Segler and women's coach Josh Prock to motivate their players for the two games this week because they will be the last two played in that friendly, electric environment this season. For some players, they're the last...
Uh oh. It seems that the date for this column should probably indicate its content. Rats! If the whole thing reads like it was written by a Valentine’s Day grinch, I should just plead guilty. It’s almost certainly good for husbands like me to have a deadline that calls for something on the order of flowers, gifts, candy, seriously over-priced cards, etc. I have difficulty appreciating the Madison Avenue manipulation, but I don’t doubt that clods like me need the shove. It’s...
Booked The following were booked into local jails Friday-Tuesday: Clovis • Kevin Crook, 58, failure to appear on a felony charge • Janeth Ramirez, 23, failure to appear on a misdemeanor charge • Francisco Ramirez, 39, driving under the influence of liquor, reckless driving, abandonment of a child (no death or great bodily harm), failure to stop upon striking unattended vehicle • Billy Burns, 43, parole violation • Edward Alonzo, 22, failure to appear at time and place stated in citation • Nicolas Chambers, 20, probation v...
PORTALES - The Portales Municipal Schools Board of Education approved a pair of grants totaling over $150,000 during Monday's meeting. Rick Segovia, director of federal programs, said the nearly $57,000 annual rural low income grant will go towards tutoring, summer school, credit recovery and other programs at the junior high and high school. The board also approved a $100,000 grant from the Gay Su Pinnell Education Foundation to go towards the district's literacy program,...
How much of what you want government to do is based on your emotions? On your feelings about what you wish other people would do or believe they should do, and your willingness to use government violence to make it happen? If it’s more than “none” it’s too much. I recently ran across a quote by social psychologist Jonathan Haidt in which he said, “Some people are less emotional, more reasoned. We call these people ‘libertarians.’ There’s actually data on this — that libertaria...
Let’s start with this reality-based premise: The “national security crisis” we face is mostly internal. The violence and crime in our schools and on our streets doesn’t have anything to do with foreign-born “illegals” and terrorists. They’re almost entirely the result of angry and/or disturbed Americans. The real crisis in our country isn’t so much “us” verses “them” as it is us verses us. Black and white, rich and poor, city dweller and county folks, the mentally ill and the less mentally ill — as Americans, we’re all in thi...
In a legislative first, freshman Rep. Andrea Romero, D-Santa Fe, asked the speaker of the New Mexico House of Representatives to table House Bill 437, the “Right to be Forgotten Act & Private Info.” The act came amid public backlash from the media and First Amendment activists. The bill required that “a publisher shall remove inaccurate, irrelevant, inadequate or excessive content regarding an individual, and any links or indexes to that content within thirty days of the date of receipt of a request to do so from that indiv...
ALBUQUERQUE — The Clovis Christian School elementary archery team won first place out of 16 teams last weekend at the 2019 National Archery in the Schools Program state tournament in Albuquerque, marking its third win in the past four years according to middle school teacher and archery coach Bruce Vincent. Fifth grader Benjamin Potters was also recognized for finishing in first place out of 196 elementary boys with a score of 266, recording 11 tens. “Since we’re a little school going against the other big schools in the stat...
Earlier this month when the House Commerce and Economic Development Committee debated House Bill 31, one of several proposals to raise the state’s minimum wage being considered during the current legislative session, dozens of people from the restaurant industry took to Santa Fe to oppose the bill. A similar sentiment is felt in eastern New Mexico as several restaurant owners told The News that proposals to raise the minimum wage would devastate small businesses and restaurants, especially in rural parts of the state, t...
CLOVIS — Robert Vilandry was still making inventory Monday afternoon of the items stolen in a multi-party, two-stop break-in to his Main Street antiques shop over the weekend. “BB guns, pellet guns, spurs, pocket watches,” he told The News, surveying cabinets near the store’s entrance, a stone’s throw from where an actual stone was lobbed through the front glass door soon after midnight Sunday. Then there were the pieces of squash blossom jewelry, a guitar, some video games, and up to 50 swords, including one so large the...
On this date ... 1969: The front page of the Clovis News-Journal featured the following local news reports: • Thomas R. Tucker, a Portales serviceman, had been presented a Bronze Star for heroic action in Vietnam. The son of Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Tucker was "credited with preventing his 50-foot patrol boat from sinking while on patrol on the Bo De River in the summer of 1968," CN-J reported. • Charles Marlow Preston of Tucumcari had been killed in a single-engine plane cra...
CLOVIS — Clovis crews battled a small grassfire Wednesday evening that was complicated by its time and place. There were no reports of structures damaged or people injured as the grassfire knocked out about five acres near the intersection of Brady Street and Martin Luther King Boulevard, according to Capt. Alan Silvers of Clovis Fire Department. But the timing of the fire, just after 5 p.m., made traffic difficult for anybody trying to use the Hull Street Overpass or MLK south of the railroad crossing....
ENMU gets back scorecard Eastern New Mexico University’s College of Education and Technology received a B rating from the state’s Public Education Department, according to an ENMU press release. The PED’s educator program scorecard measures admissions, candidate promise, hiring and retention and graduate performance. Clovis schools hosting concerts Clovis Municipal Schools has multiple concerts scheduled this month in honor of “Celebrating Music in Our Schools Month,” according to CMS press releases. The CMS elementar...
You may well have heard more about spelling bees in recent months than in the past. This is because a more concerted effort has been made to engage students, staff, and schools in the event. As a spelling bee judge, it is always fascinating to see how caught up in the event students become; waiting to see if a fellow classmate’s spelling was correct or not; enthusiastic cheering for those spellers who spell their words correctly; and hearing from participants about how hard t...
CLOVIS - Work on the Prince Street Overpass is expected to go through July. However, frustrated motorists may have some relief on the horizon next month, as Department of Transportation officials expect to open the overpass to traffic in March. The $2.5 million project, which began in late August, has had plenty of work phases completed, according to DOT District 2 Public Information Officer Manon Arnett. Finished work, Arnett said, includes replaced concrete approach slabs, s...
CLOVIS - Emphasizing his client's potential for rehabilitation and the circumstances preceding the deadly library shooting for which he was convicted last year, defense attorney Stephen Taylor asked the judge Tuesday morning that Nathaniel Jouett only serve 20 years of his forthcoming sentence in prison. Taylor's recommendation came on the second day of a sentencing hearing this week, following the state's request Monday that 5th Judicial District Judge James Hudson give...
Today • Eastern Plains Council of Governments — 10 a.m., EPCOG office, 418 N. Main, Clovis. Information: 575-762-7714 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 • Eastern New Mexico University Regents work session — 10 a.m., Cedar Room, Hilton Santa Fe, 100 Sandoval Street...
Today • Tiny Tots — 10 a.m., Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main St., Clovis. Information: 575-769-7840 • Preschool storytime “Hugs & Kisses” — 10:30 a.m., Portales Public Library, 218 S. Ave. B, Portales. Information: 575-356-3940 • Eastern New Mexico University Office of African-American Affairs presents: “The Town of Blackdom, NM” — 2 p.m., Sandia Room, ENMU Campus Union Building, ENMU, Portales. Presentation by ENMU professor Geni Flores. Information: 575-562-2347 Thursday • Plains Regional Medical Center Gift S...
If you're on the hunt for a sweetheart this Valentine's week, here's an idea: Visit a local nursing home or senior resident center. Those places are packed with them. Take Sarabel Hall Key, for instance. A couple of months past her 97th birthday, Key lives at the Beehive Home in Portales, where I found her holding court at the piano Saturday morning as she often does. Her good friend Kenny Reed had dropped by with his mandolin. The two of them kept a small, but exceedingly...
