Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Sorted by date Results 1 - 25 of 28
ALBUQUERQUE — A fairly easy victory with the next day to practice and shop. It’s not usually that good at the state basketball tournament, but the beginning of the Class 1A girls tourney for the Grady Lady Bronchos on Tuesday was everything the doctor ordered for a nice, stress-free visit. And the Cliff Cowgirls, Grady’s opposition in a quarterfinal game at Valley High, helped fill out the prescription. Solid all-around play from several Lady Bronchos, particularly sophomore Stephanie Bailey, helped propel Grady (25-5) into t...
Temple Baptist’s next close game this season will be its first. The defending Class 1A state runnerup Roadrunners have cruised to a 29-0 record heading into today’s 8 p.m. 1A boys state quarterfinal match against Floyd at Albuquerque’s Valley High School, and only one — a nine-point verdict against Magdalena — has not ended in a double-figure spread. James Adams, Temple’s 12th-year coach, doesn’t mind the tag of tournament favorite. “Anything can happen, but if we come out and play our game we’re going to be tough to beat,...
STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS ALBUQUERQUE — Sandy Fortner scored 23 points and Fort Sumner spoiled Mescalero’s first trip to the State Tournament with a 55-47 win in Tuesday’s Class 1A girls quarterfinals at Rio Grande High School. Tobea Patterson added 15 points for the Vixens (26-4), who will play two-time defending state champion Des Moines in Thursday’s semifinals. Des Moines advanced with a 63-49 win over Magdalena. The Lady Chieftains stayed close through the first half, down just 20-16 going into the third quarter. Fort Su...
Tuesday Girls Class 1A quarterfinals Grady 51, Cliff 34 Des Moines 63, Magdalena 49 Elida 33, Tatum 24 Fort Sumner 55, Mescalero 47 Class 2A quarterfinals Hatch 33, Eunice 21 SFIS 59, Zuni 52 Cimarron 65, Navajo Prep 55 Santa Rosa 58, Hope Christian 52 Prep summaries Girls Class 1A state tournament At Albuquerque Quarterfinals Grady 51, Cliff 34 Grady (25-5) — tephanie Bailey 8 1-2 17, Heather Blackburn 4 0-2 9, Aerial Verble 4 1-2 9, Jennifer Blackburn 3 2-4 8, Taris Pond 2 1-1 5, Brittany Bailey 1 0-0 3. Totals 22 5-11 5...
PORTALES — Joey Aguilar’s one-out, bases-loaded squeeze bunt drove in Mark Wallace with the winning run in the bottom of the ninth Tuesday night as Eastern New Mexico University edged New Mexico Highlands 7-6 in a non-conference baseball game at Greyhound Field. The Greyhounds (7-11), avenging an 18-9 loss to Highlands at home in February, got four strong innings from junior right-hander Jesse Garcia-Perez and carried a 6-0 lead into the sixth inning. Highlands (4-10) pulled even 6-6 with a five-run seventh against Jimmy Wel...
Roswell Invitational Tuesday At Spring River Municipal G.C. Team standings: 1. Roswell Goddard 367; 2. Ruidoso 384; 3. Alamogordo 390; 4. Roswell High 395; 5. Hobbs 399; 6. Clovis 410; 7. Raton 419; 8. Artesia 456. Medalists: 1. Destiny Esquero, Goddard 82; 2. Kelly Rigsby, Ruidoso 84; 3. Kelly Velarde, Goddard 85; 4. Traci Garrett, Raton 86; 5. Erika Willis, Goddard 87. Clovis results: Susan Shelley 91 (qualfied for state), Whitney Jones 102, Carlee Snyder 103, Breanne Bracken 114, Tiffany Reid 114....
ROSWELL — Senior catcher Alicia Odom hit a pair of inside-the-park home runs Tuesday night to rally the Clovis High softball team past Roswell High 3-2 for a sweep of their doubleheader. The Lady Wildcats (4-1) won the first game 8-7, scoring five runs in the top of the sixth to erase a 5-3 deficit. Odom brought the Lady Cats within 2-1 with a fourth-inning homer, then added a two-run blast in the sixth. Junior Annie Tweedy (1-0) picked up the win with a complete game, striking out seven, walking three and allowing four h...
David Arkin Republican lawmakers are pushing for a special legislative session. They want to discuss a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriages. But area legislators are doubtful the session is going to happen. And the area’s lone Democratic lawmaker, Rep. Jose Campos of Santa Rosa, called the plan “ridiculous.” Gov. Bill Richardson has said he does not support a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. The governor is against same-sex marriages though. Last month in Sandoval County, the county clerk there...
Vandals broke into Broad Horizons either Tuesday evening or early Wednesday morning, causing $700 in damage to glass windows and a glass door, police said Wednesday. The individual or individuals broke three 3-by-5 windows on the west side of the school building and a glass door which led to a classroom. At this time there is no determination on the appearance of the suspects, Portales Police Capt. Lonnie Berry said. “We are currently following some leads and we’ll know more in the next couple of days after we’ve exhau...
Roosevelt County United Way board members will meet at noon today to discuss joining forces with the Curry County United Way. Many RCUW officials are enthusiastic about the merger. Others are concerned. Board member Leo Lovett of the RCUW said he is for the merger and hopes the board will make a decision today to pursue the venture. “I feel that for use of resources the merger is the right thing to do for Roosevelt County,” Lovett said. “I think our main concern as board members as a whole is what is going to be best for o...
Today • Gattis Junior High band elementary tour. • ENMU to present “My Fair Lady” at 7:30 p.m. • Williamson Evening Lectureship Panel, 7 p.m. at Buchanan Hall, music building at the ENMU campus. Friday • Marshal Junior High chorale elementary tour. • ENMU to present “My Fair Lady” at 7:30 p.m. Saturday • ENMU to present “My Fair Lady” at 7:30 p.m. Sunday • ENMU to present “My Fair Lady” at 7:30 p.m. Monday • Diversity Festival at 8 p.m. at the University Theatre Center at the ENMU Campus. Tuesday • School board visitati...
Mesa Theater donated to Clovis Community College Thanks to the generosity of Lyle Walker, Kenneth Broad, Julian Bivins, and the Estate of Violet (Vi) Petty, the Mesa Theater has been donated to Clovis Community College. The theater will be named the Norman and Vi Petty Performing Arts Center and will be used as a venue for the Clovis Community College Cultural Arts Series as well as a classroom for the college’s theater, fine arts and music programs. Originally a movie theater, the building was renovated as a recording s...
Four Clovis School District employees from two schools were honored as employees of the month at Tuesday’s board meeting. Kindergarten teacher Robyn Ericson has taught 14 years at Mesa Elementary, she said at the meeting. “I love teaching kindergarten,” Ericson said. “You are expecting one thing but they give you something 10 times better.” Also recognized from Mesa was physical education teacher Dawan Wells. “It is so easy to be all that you can be at Mesa,” Wells said, “because all the teachers deserve this award.” Sandra...
PORTALES — Space, the final frontier: An everyday cliche for Star Trek fans, a creative compartment in the mind of Jack Williamson. Space exploration will be in the minds of those participating in the Jack Williamson Lectureship luncheon, titled “Space Opera — Then and Now,” which takes place today in the ballroom of the Campus Union Building at Eastern New Mexico University. Williamson is well known for his work in the science-fiction writing field and teaches a science-fiction class at ENMU during the spring, accordi...
Dorothea Sue Arnold Services: Have been held. Dorothea Sue Arnold, 86, of Aztec died Sunday, March 7, 2004, at San Juan Regional Medical Center in Farmington. She was born on Aug. 5, 1917, in Topeka, Kan. A resident of Aztec since 1959, she was active in the America Legion Auxiliary, the Girl’s State Program and the Women’s Society of Christian Service at the Aztec Methodist Church. In her later years she helped at the Aztec Senior Citizen’s Center. She was preceded in death by her husband, Woodrow “Woody” Wilson Arnold; a...
High school students from around the state will have a chance to become New Mexico’s best debaters at the State High School Speech Tournament. The event will be held today through Saturday at Eastern New Mexico University. This is the 25th year Anthony Schroeder, professor of communications at ENMU, is organizing the event at the school. Schroeder said the event is open to all school’s in the state and he is expecting about 300 students to compete in individual and team debates. He said there are about 12 debate cat...
PORTALES — The only office Portales Mayor Orlando Ortega plans to hold in the next two years will be in his hometown. The Democrat recently said he was considering a run at the New Mexico House seat in District 66. But on Tuesday, Ortega announced he would not seek that position until his term as mayor is up in 2006. “After much thought and discussion with citizens of Portales, I see clearly that my role and responsibility right now and for the next two years is to be mayor of Portales and to help move our community for...
Walter Williams What passes for educational enlightenment these days boggles the mind. Matt Gouras, of The Associated Press, writing in the Jan. 5 Seattle Times, tells a story about Tennessee schools. The success of some students has made other students feel badly about themselves. What’re the schools’ responses? Public schools in Nashville have stopped posting honor rolls. Some are considering a ban on posting exemplary schoolwork on bulletin boards. Others have canceled academic pep rallies, while others might eli...
Ned Cantwell Go up to your ordinary guy on the street in say, Hobbs, and tell him he looks like a space cadet, he’s liable to deck you. Try the same thing in Clovis, but first make sure the rifle is still hanging on the rack inside the pickup. Say it in Santa Fe and there’s a good chance you might be right. There was a story recently that surprised just about everyone in the country except New Mexicans. The Albuquerque Journal’s Wren Propp wrote a piece about a film maker who traveled to the Santa Fe Film Festival to show her...
It took a while, and the delay has been a profound embarrassment to the United States and the Iraqi Governing Council. But Iraq now has an interim constitution, signed by all 25 members of the council. It’s a start, but only a start, on a road whose destination few would be foolish enough to predict. On paper, this is an impressive document, vesting control of the military in civilian hands, setting up a federalist structure and guaranteeing freedom of religion, freedom of thought and expression, peaceable assemblies, fair t...
Two Melrose businesses were caught in a tobacco sting operation conducted Tuesday by officers from the Special Investigations Division of the New Mexico Department of Public Safety. According to a press release from Agent D. Ledezma-Pinon, the underage tobacco compliance operation targeted rural areas of Curry, De Baca, and Guadalupe counties. Ledezma-Pinon said a 17-year-old undercover minor entered and attempted to purchase tobacco from 19 establishments that sell tobacco products. Clerks at 14 stores checked the minor’s i...
The Planning and Zoning Commission on Wednesday approved four changes to the city’s zoning regulations that had been requested by builders and developers. Director of Building Safety Pete Wilt called them “worthwhile changes” that are “not anything drastic.” But Planning and Zoning Commissioner Bill Bollinger questioned the practice of having staff meet with Realtors, builders and developers to iron out the changes before they came to the commission and said the commission was making zoning changes in the wrong way. “Zon...
Roosevelt County United Way board members will meet at noon today to discuss joining forces with the Curry County United Way. Many RCUW officials are enthusiastic about the merger. Others are concerned. Board member Leo Lovett of the RCUW said he is for the merger and hopes the board will make a decision today to pursue the venture. “I feel that for use of resources the merger is the right thing to do for Roosevelt County,” Lovett said. “I think our main concern as board members as a whole is what is going to be best for o...
CNJ STAFF and WIRE REPORTS When Gov. Bill Richardson signed measures into law on Wednesday to finance $485 million in capital improvements across New Mexico, $14 million in projects he cut using his line-item veto powers included money that had been destined for Clovis and Curry County. Funds of $250,000 set aside to renovate a facility for the adult detention center in Curry County got the ax, as did $50,000 to plan, design, purchase and install refrigeration and other equipment at the Life Saver Food Bank in Clovis. Funding...
ALBUQUERQUE — As Gallup reached the bottom of the ramp leading to the floor at the The Pit for pregame warmups, Gallup players started singing: “Na, na, na, na, hey, hey, hey, goodbye.” Typically an end-of-the-game crowd sendoff to the losing team, the barb was directed at the Clovis Lady Wildcats, who collectively stood 50 feet away at the top of the ramp waiting for their entrance. Instead of waging in a war of words, the Lady Wildcats silenced the Bengals with a rock solid effort led by sophomore Aimee Hilburn and, as ESPN...
