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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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New Mexico’s House late Friday adopted legislation that would reshape New Mexico’s tax system and raise about $356 million a year in new state revenue for public schools, government operations and roads. The Albuquerque Journal reports the proposal would increase personal income taxes on some New Mexicans — especially high earners — and raise taxes on cigarettes and car sales. It would also impose new taxes on some hospitals, online retailers and e-cigarettes. • The Eastern New Mexico University Board of Regents has two n...
A Curry County jury on Thursday convicted Darryl Turner for the Sept. 5, 2017, shooting death of David McDonald. The shooting occurred at the Clovis Apartments. The guilty verdict for voluntary manslaughter followed almost four days of trial and 90 minutes of deliberation. In a sentencing hearing scheduled for April 1, Turner faces six years in prison with a possible enhancement for prior felonies in California. Prosecutor Brian Stover said the state was “exceptionally pleased” with the verdict, while public defender Ibu...
The Eastern New Mexico University basketball teams, in a doubleheader televised on ESPN3, fell to West Texas A&M on Tuesday night. The women’s 67-60 overtime loss knocked the Greyhounds (18-9, 13-6) out of the running for second place in the Lone Star Conference tournament. They began Wednesday third in the conference standings. but could also end up fourth or fifth depending on their game Saturday at Texas Woman’s and how the teams behind them — Tarleton State and Texas A&M-Kingsville — fare in their final two games....
CLOVIS — Clovis girls basketball coach Jeff Reed has worn some sullen expressions this winter. A ‘can’t-anyone-hit-a-field-goal’ scowl here, a ‘can’t-anyone-sink-free-throws’ frown there. Tuesday night, though, it was smiles aplenty for Reed after he watched his team play dominant basketball wire-to-wire and clobber Roswell 57-24 in the opening round of District 4-5A tournament play. By scoring the game’s first 12 points, the Lady Wildcats took control early. And they’d never let it go, rolling over a Roswell team they...
CLOVIS — The Clovis baseball team’s season opener wasn’t exactly one to put in a time capsule. Unless the time capsule is buried in Lubbock. Facing Lubbock-Coronado Tuesday night at Bell Park, Clovis was beaten 20-0, as the Mustangs belted 19 hits while holding the Wildcats to just two in a game halted in six innings by the mercy rule. It began OK enough for Clovis, as Coronado mustered only run in the top of the first on an RBI groundout by designated hitter Jaxson Edwards. The run wouldn’t even have scored had it not bee...
GRADY — The Grady Bronchos will do some unorthodox drills during their practices — sometimes including 12-on-12 play with the subvarsity levels chipping in — so the game action they face won’t be nearly as hard. That work paid off Monday, as the Bronchos controlled things from start to finish in ousting Clovis Christian 79-51 in the first round of the District 6-1A tournament Monday night. Chisum Rush had 33 points to lead three in double figures for Grady (8-16), who never t...
ALBUQUERQUE — The trek to Albuquerque can seem long no matter what your reason for going. Local athletes head up there — and back — regularly. When they get what they came for, the trip may seem ... well, it’s still long, but worth it. So consider this past weekend’s trip to Albuquerque long but worth it for Clovis’ swim team. Prior to the state swim championships that began Friday and concluded Saturday at Albuquerque Academy High School, Wildcats head coach Gordy Westerburg...
PORTALES — The Eastern New Mexico men’s and women’s basketball teams are headed for the 18th hole of their regular season, they’re in the final week. “It’s been — as I’m sure every coach says — kind of a blur,” Eastern women’s head coach Josh Prock said. “It seems like yesterday we were hosting our first tournament and now the regular season’s almost over.” How each team plays this week could say a lot about how they’ll play in the Lone Star Conference tournament. Each w...
GRADY — The Clovis Christian and Grady girls basketball teams have struggled throughout the year, as evidenced by the fact they were playing Monday night in the first round of the District 6-1A tournament. But both teams executed late, giving the crowd a nailbiter 46-43 win for the host Broncos. Teryn Foote had a game-high 18 points, and Timia Northcutt hit a pair of free throws on an intentional foul call with 14.8 seconds to go to give Grady (5-20) just enough of an a...
PORTALES — A pair of Greyhounds are heading to the Division II national indoor championships, as senior Danee Bustos and junior Ivar Moinat both got invites on Tuesday. The Division II national meet, scheduled for March 8-9 at Pittsburg State, does not give any automatic bids to conference champions. Competitors are made up of a field of automatic qualifiers, and provisional selections who make certain benchmarks at any meet throughout the season. Moinat, who finished third i...
