Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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District 2-6A girls semifinal No. 3 Clovis (17-11) at No. 2 La Cueva (14-10), La Cueva H.S., Albuquerque, 7 p.m. Last time out: Clovis rallied from a 39-33 fourth-quarter deficit to force overtime, then edged Manzano 49-46 in the extra period of Wednesday night's district quarterfinal at Rock Staubus Gymnasium. La Cueva last played on Saturday night, hosting none other than the Lady Wildcats in the regular-season finale for both teams. And the Lady Bears staged a...
SAN ANGELO, Texas — Ja'Michael Brown scored five of his 23 points in overtime, including the go-ahead 3-pointer with 1:27 to play, and Angelo State found just enough to top Eastern New Mexico 86-83 Thursday night. Davion Cole-Johnson added 16 for the Rams, who are locked into the No. 5 seed in next week's Lone Star Conference tournament after Texas A&M-Commerce pulled an upset at West Texas A&M. The Buffaloes, despite the loss, remained tied with Texas Permian Basin, which l...
PORTALES — The 2018 indoor track season has been a special one for Eastern New Mexico thus far, as the men's team recently climbed to 22nd in the national rankings - its highest indoor track ranking ever. The women's team, meanwhile, is an even deeper squad that has recorded several top 10 finishes on the year. The ENMU track and field team will now tackle its biggest challenge thus far, when they head to Lubbock for the Lone Star Conference Championships, which start today an...
SAN ANGELO, Texas — Marquita Daniels scored 19 points, and Angelo State kept pace for first place in the Lone Star Conference with a 59-56 win Thursday evening over Eastern New Mexico. Dezirae Hampton added 11 for the Rambelles (20-5, 15-5), who had to sweat out a last-second 3-point attempt from the visiting Greyhounds despite a cold-shooting night. The Greyhounds (16-10, 12-7) could finish as high as third — via three-way tiebreaker with Texas A&M-Commerce (17-10, 13-6) and...
PORTALES — Eastern New Mexico University’s athletics office has a limited number of free all-session passes for next week’s Lone Star Conference basketball tournament. The tournament will run Thursday through Sunday at Dr Pepper Arena in Frisco, Texas, with the top eight men’s and women’s teams qualifying. The deadline to request free tickets is noon Wednesday, and requests can be made by calling Kim Sites at the ENMU athletic office at 575-562-2153. All-tournament passes are $45 in advance and $60 at the gate and online. T...
CLOVIS — Even with a pair of new coaches, and promises of a new facility soon, there's still some familiarity for the Clovis High tennis programs. The boys and girls teams, which open the season Friday at Lovington's Wildcat Open, are each dealing with losing three or four seniors from last season. That's a rounding error in football, but it matters on tennis teams that usually only boast seven varsity members. New coach Brad Heath thinks Clovis should be competitive going i...
MORIARTY — After downing Ruidoso for a third time on Tuesday night, Portales was hoping that the reverse result wouldn't be true when traveling to Moriarty on Thursday night, in a District 4-4A boys basketball semifinal. Luckily for the Rams (16-11), they avoided a season sweep against the Pintos, taking a 49-44 victory, thanks to a strong defensive effort throughout. Portales held Moriarty to just four points in the third quarter, thus advancing the Rams to Saturday's d...
Wealth. How varied and strange are the uses of that word. More often than not, when we use the word “wealth,” we’re talking about money, a necessary commodity, for sure. But measuring wealth is not as easy as it might seem. A boatload of financial wealth, if allowed to possess us, may amount to less than a nanoparticle of the wealth that matters, the sort that frees us. (Oh, and this is tricky. A grasping, greedy soul can be throttled by much or by little.) Surely you don’t...
Ten Eastern New Mexico University students emerged victorious from a wildlife conference this month. From Feb. 1 through Feb. 3, the 10 members of the ENMU Fish and Wildlife Club, along with their advisor, Wildlife Biology Professor Ivana Mali, attended the New Mexico and Arizona Wildlife Society Conference in Flagstaff, Arizona. They returned with six awards in a photo contest, won several scholarships, and gave oral and poster presentations. Master’s student Thanchira Suriyamongkol claimed first place in the “caught in the...
On the movies, the kids dream of ponies and cars and money and being left alone. I found out, in those rare times that I spent a concentrated amount of time with people my own age — those mysterious humans that lived further than just down the road — that real kids are often similar. It can be a luxury, to have a little extra spending money to buy some things that you don’t need. But the important thing, which is left out of all those wishes on TV, is you don’t get it for fre...
Susie, my sister, was recently visiting a patient at a major medical center. As she turned the corner in the hospital hall, she came directly in contact with a young girl, her mother, and another who Susie assumed was the little girl’s grandmother. All three were walking together. My sister was immediately drawn to the child. Ashley was a beautiful, curly headed little girl about the age of Susie’s own 8-year-old granddaughter. However, there was a noticeable difference. The...
On this date ... 1983: Members of First Baptist Church in Clovis had just released a book called "Seventy Five Years," a history of their congregation from the church's founding in 1907 through 1982. Bound in red and stamped in gold, the book was published by the High Plains Historical Press, under the direction of Harold Kilmer. Besides church history, the book also contained histories of many families affiliated with the church, multiple photos, membership lists from...
PORTALES — A small part of a mystery presented last week is beginning to see some light. After an article detailing several unidentified photos from the early 20th Century was published in the Saturday edition of The News, a reader stepped forward with information. Pauline Clark, a longtime resident of Portales, recognized a photo on the front page as her grandmother, Eliza Gunn. According to family history written by Clark's cousin Gynn Deaton, who resides in Oregon, Gunn w...
CLOVIS — Wesley Flores still has to face the courts on the theft charges for which he was arrested early this month, not to mention any pending charges still to emerge from his ensuing violent standoff at the Curry County jail. But he also has to learn how to talk again. His recovery might be a while, up to a year, wrote his court-appointed public defender Jeremiah Hall in a motion filed Wednesday to quash the bench warrant on which Flores was arrested Feb. 1 in Clovis. “Mr. Flores requires six to eight weeks of healing tim...
Booked The following were booked into local jails Wednesday: Clovis • Mario Vega, 24, embezzlement • Lily Zamora, 20, out of state fugitive • Maritza Ramos-Sanchez, 41, failure to appear • Leo Lopez, 59, parole violation • Hunter Mote, 23, failure to appear on a felony charge • Crystal Hall, 32, shoplifting ($250 or less) • Coniel McDaniel, 41, probation violation • Austin Ewers, 25, probation violation • Cheressa Neumann, 28, probation violation • Desirea Hargrove, 24, possession of a controlled substance • Manuel...
TUCUMCARI — The New Mexico Supreme Court on Thursday suspended Tucumcari Municipal Judge Joe Dominguez without pay pending the criminal proceeding of his recent arrest and driving while intoxicated charge. Dominguez, 71, was arrested Feb. 4 by the New Mexico State Police after he failed a field sobriety test. Police said Dominguez was charged and booked for DWI, and a subsequent breath test determined his breath alcohol content was .09. The New Mexico Judicial Standards Commission filed a petition in the State’s Supreme Cou...
Monday • De Baca County Commission — 1:30 p.m. at the Annex Building, 643 B N. Fifth St., Fort Sumner. Information: 575-355-2601 • Clovis Parks, Recreation and Beautification Committee — 5:30 p.m. at the Bert Cabiness City Government Center, 321 N. Connelly St., Clovis. Information: 575-769-7828 Wednesday • Clovis Public Works Committee — 8:30 a.m. at the Bert Cabiness City Government Center, 321 N. Connelly St., Clovis. Information: 575-769-7828 The meetings calendar is a daily listing of area meetings. To place an item on...
Today • Friday Knit Night — 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. at The Happy Place, 119 S. Main St., Portales. Information: 575-226-2253 • Portales Kiwanis Chili Supper — 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. at First Methodist Church, Portales. $8 for adults, $4 for children under 12. Information: 575-749-1840 Saturday • 15th Annual Pancake Breakfast — 6 a.m. to 11 a.m. at Parkland Baptist Church Fellowship Hall, 921 Parkland Dr., Clovis. It’s $5 for all-you-can-eat pancake, bacon, and egg breakfast. Information: 575-309-8366 Monday • Stitch Addicts — 1:30...
CLOVIS — Appeals are in progress on the detention statuses of the three airmen who pleaded not guilty Thursday on rape charges from an incident last month in Clovis. In arraignments Thursday morning, Judge Matthew Chandler set a March 19 status conference date for all three defendants, who have remained without bond in the Curry County Adult Detention Center following their Jan. 27 arrests in Portales. Thomas Newton, 24, Isaiah Edley, 19, and Rahman Buchanan, 18, were indicted this month on one count each of second-degree c...
