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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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CANYON, Texas — The Eastern New Mexico men's basketball team will hit the national airwaves Tuesday night. As they face the fourth-ranked Division II team in the country, West Texas A&M, the Greyhounds will be televised on ESPN 3. Tip-off time is 6:30 p.m. Mountain Standard Time. Eastern then closes out its pre-tournament slate with a 7 p.m. game at Grand Canyon University in Phoenix on Wednesday....
New Mexico lawmakers agree it's time for a change. But they can't seem to agree on whether we should spring forward or fall back. The Senate on Thursday voted 25-17 to allow the state to remain on daylight saving time all year. The House, however, earlier this week voted to remain on Mountain standard time all year. The Albuquerque Journal reports that opponents of both proposals have focused on the potential to complicate life for New Mexico residents who live near the Texas... Full story
The Roosevelt County Chamber of Commerce issued its weekly "Legislative Report" on Thursday. It points out that a Senate Joint Resolution seeks an amendment to the Constitution concerning how university regents are selected. Currently the responsibility rests solely with the governor followed by confirmation of the Legislature. This measure would give the Legislature the responsibility for selecting the committee that would have no more than 50 percent of one party. The committee would vet potential regents then send three na... Full story
PORTALES — However the rest of Portales’ basketball season plays out, Tuesday night was a benchmark for both the boys and girls teams. With both squads playing at the Ram Athletic Center for the first time in two weeks, Portales’ girls escaped with a 58-55 victory over Artesia that gave them sole possession of first place in District 4-4A. The Portales boys rolled past Artesia 68-48, leading by double digits for almost all the second half and posting a crucial district win. The two may have set the tone for the upcom...
Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Wednesday sent an "executive message" to state senators, asking them to "pass legislation creating a department for early childhood education." Senate Bill 22 would establish the Early Learning and Care Department as a cabinet-level department within the executive branch, Lujan Grisham said in a news release. "This consolidation of existing childhood services will better serve New Mexico's children because they will receive a continuum of care from birth to age five and enable the State to lay t... Full story
PORTALES — The Eastern New Mexico women’s basketball team rallied from a 12-point second half deficit Saturday to take down No. 17 Angelo State 71-67 in the Hounds’ final home game of the 2018-19 season. With the win in the Senior Day game, the Greyhounds (18-6, 13-3 LSC) moved into a three-way tie for first place in the Lone Star with the Rambelles (18-4, 13-3 LSC) and No. 20 West Texas A&M (21-3, 13-3 LSC). It was a back-and-forth battle early in the first quarter. After Angelo State converted a three-pointer on its secon...
PORTALES — The Eastern New Mexico men’s basketball team pushed its win streak to five games thanks to a dominate second half and secured an 83-71 victory over Angelo State on Saturday. Playing their last home game of the season, the Hounds (12-11, 9-6 LSC) limited Angelo State (16-7, 9-5 LSC) to just 29 second-half points and a 23.5 percent (8-of-39) shooting percentage from the field in order to come back from a 42-28 halftime deficit. Senior Arcaim Lallemand put together a story-book ending to his career inside Gre...
This is it, the meet high school swim teams aspire to all season. Beginning Friday and continuing Saturday, New Mexico swimmers will be descending upon Albuquerque Academy High School, all hoping for a medal or a trophy. The Clovis girls, a newly-minted District 3-4 champion, will compete along with Carlsbad, Cleveland, Eldorado, Albuquerque, St. Pius X, Belen, Taos, Los Alamos, Las Cruces, Sandia, Rio Rancho, Farmington, Cibola, Hope Christian, Albuquerque Academy, La Cueva, Santa Fe Prep and Cottonwood Classical Prep....
AUSTIN, Texas — Eastern New Mexico University’s baseball team lost Friday’s series opener against Huston-Tillotson about the worst way a baseball team could lose a game — via grand slam with two outs to eliminate a three-run lead. The Greyhounds, however, had the best reaction, winning the final three games of the series by a 22-4 count. Eastern New Mexico split Friday’s doubleheader with a 7-6 loss and an 8-1 win, then won 9-2 on Saturday and 5-1 on Sunday to improve to 5-3 on the season. The Greyhounds pounded out 35 hi...
PORTALES — The Division II indoor track and field qualifying period runs through Sunday. Eastern New Mexico is playing the waiting game until then. Mercy Rotich won the 3,000-meter final, helping the Greyhound women take a fourth-place finish at the Lone Star Conference Indoor Championships, held Saturday and Sunday at the Texas Tech Performance Center. The Greyhounds had 61.5 points to edge Dallas Baptist and Tarleton State. The men finished eighth with 22 points. West Texas A&M swept the men’s and women’s titles. “We w...
CLOVIS — Police on Friday arrested one of four young suspects in connection with the burglary the weekend prior of over $40,000 in property from an antiques store on Clovis’ Main Street. Ryan Hernandez, 19, entered no plea this week in magistrate court on four felony charges, including larceny and aggravated burglary. Clovis police allege he and three others broke through a front-door window of the business belonging to Robert Vilandry shortly after midnight Feb. 10. Vilandry on Feb. 11 gave police an itemized des...
SANTA FE — A work session for the Eastern New Mexico University Board of Regents scheduled for Tuesday was postponed until next month due to weather, according to an ENMU press release. The work session was rescheduled for 10 a.m. March 5 at the Hilton Santa Fe. Communication processes and current and future university procedures will be discussed with no official action to be taken, according to the agenda....
ALBUQUERQUE — The legislative advocacy non-profit “New Mexico Counties” celebrated in a news release last week the dismissal late last year of a lawsuit against Curry County by a former employee of the local jail. Amanda Sinfuego had alleged the county violated the Whistleblower Protection Act and her civil rights in a complaint filed in July of 2015. In a summary judgment filed Dec. 27, federal district court judge James Browning ruled in favor of the county, its manager Lance Pyle and the Curry County Detention Cente...
