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CLOVIS — Due to the spread of the coronavirus and a recent state order banning large gatherings, Clovis Municipal Schools is shifting operations to instruction-only, effective immediately. The district will suspend all events, functions, and travel by staff and students, according to a Thursday CMS release. A ban on gatherings of more than 100 people exempts schools, and no positive tests for COVID-19 have been reported in Clovis or Curry County, but the district is acting with "an abundance of caution," according to the r... Full story
SANTA FE — New Mexico health officials on Thursday issued an order temporarily prohibiting mass gatherings in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Health Secretary Kathy Kunkel issued the order. It defines mass gatherings as events that bring together 100 or more people in a single room or connected space like auditoriums, stadiums, arenas, conference centers and theaters, according to a health department news release. The order means this weekend's Lion's Club Gun/Knife Show is postponed. Event organizer Joe Whitehurst was opt... Full story
Update: The tournaments have been canceled. Via a release from the NCAA: "Today, NCAA President Mark Emmert and the Board of Governors canceled the Division I men’s and women’s 2020 basketball tournaments, as well as all remaining winter and spring NCAA championships. This decision is based on the evolving COVID-19 public health threat, our ability to ensure the events do not contribute to spread of the pandemic, and the impracticality of hosting such events at any time during this academic year given ongoing decisions by... Full story
The NBA is suspending the 2019-20 season. The announcement came after Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert tested positive for the coronavirus. The league announced the decision, which will go into effect after Wednesday's slate of games, after a bizarre scene in Oklahoma City, where a game between the Thunder and the Jazz was cancelled seconds before tipoff. "The NBA announced that a player on the Utah Jazz has preliminarily tested positive for COVID-19. The test result was reported shortly prior to the tipoff of tonight's game... Full story
Amid concerns over the spread of novel coronavirus, the New Mexico State Basketball Tournaments will proceed without the general public allowed to attend. The New Mexico Activities Association announced on its Twitter page at 10:06 p.m.: “Per the guidance of Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham & recommendations from the New Mexico Department of Health, the remainder of the 2020 State Basketball Tournament will go on as scheduled, however without fans.“ Every team is allowed 20 members, Including players, coaches and adm... Full story
BERNALILLO — It was rough going for several area teams on Wednesday’s first full day of state competition, but not for Melrose. The top-seeded Buffaloes, bidding for a third consecutive Class 1A boys state title, opened with a 64-32 rout of Quemado at Bernalillo H.S., right after the second-seeded Lady Buffs took care of To’hajiilee 45-27. In the boys game, Melrose (27-1) hit five second-quarter 3-pointers to turn a 13-8 lead into a 25-point margin at halftime, outscoring the Eagles 25-5 in the period. It was no conte...
President Donald Trump took the extraordinary step Wednesday of announcing a suspension of all travel from Europe to the U.S. in an effort to contain the coronavirus, calling the fast-spreading respiratory illness a "horrible" disease that requires an "aggressive" response. After downplaying the virus for days, Trump struck a serious tone in a national address from the Oval Office and announced that the travel ban will go into effect Friday and last for the next 30 days. "To keep new cases from entering our shores, we will... Full story
ALBUQUERQUE — Clovis High’s boys battled top-seeded Las Cruces High down to the wire. In the end, the Bulldawgs just made a few more plays late. Cruces converted four free throws in the final 20 seconds, the last two with under a second to go, and escaped with a 51-46 victory over the eighth-seeded Wildcats in a Class 5A state quarterfinal matchup on Wednesday morning at The Pit. Trailing by a point, CHS senior Ro Morgan had a couple of shots from the paint rim out on him in the final minute as the Bulldawgs (28-3) ral...
SANTA FE — Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham suggested fans and families follow New Mexico's high school basketball tournament online — rather than in person — as the state tries to limit a virus outbreak. She said it was simply her advice, not a mandatory order. But limiting attendance at public gatherings will make it easier for New Mexico to slow the spread of COVID-19, she said. "My advice to fans and family members — watch it on TV" or follow it on social media, the governor said of the basketball tournament. "The whole f... Full story
SANTA FE — Health officials on Wednesday announced that three New Mexico residents tested presumptive positive for COVID-19, the first confirmed cases in the state. According to a news release from New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham: Per the state Department of Health, two of the cases are a Socorro County husband and wife, both in their 60s, with known recent international travel to Egypt. Both are at home in isolation. The third case is a woman in her 70s in Bernalillo County with known recent travel to the New York C... Full story
The following candidates signed up for the June primaries Tuesday. Candidates for state offices representing multi-county areas signed up in the county of their voter registration. New Mexico primaries will be June 2. Primary winners move on to the Nov. 3 general election. County races Curry County Commission District 1 • Robert Sandoval (Democrat) District 2 • James D. Ridling (Republican) • J. Albin Smith (Republican) District 4 • Seth H. Martin (Republican) District 5 • Robert E. Thornton (Republican) Curry County Cl...
CLOVIS — Saturday night was the first Clovis boys basketball state playoff game at Rock Staubus Gymnasium since 2013. And the Wildcats’ last game there, period, for another nine months. Clovis marked the occasion with a solid tip-off-to-final-buzzer performance against La Cueva, as the eighth-seeded Wildcats beat the ninth-seeded Bears 71-60 in Saturday’s state 5A first-round clash. The ’Cats went ahead for good late in the second quarter and rolled on to earn a state quarterf...
ALBUQUERQUE — Sophomore Taris Rippee had 20 points to lead three Rams in double figures, and Portales passed an early-morning test Tuesday at The Pit with a 63-54 victory over sixth-seeded Bernalillo. Portales (22-7), which also got a double-double from Kylyie Paden with 17 points and 12 boards, moves on to an 11:30 a.m. Thursday semifinal at The Pit against either second-seeded Kirtland Central or seventh-seed Gallup. The two teams tipped off after press time. “Either team’s good,” Portales coach Wade Fraze said of the sem...
ALBUQUERQUE — This past weekend Clovis’ swim team put a bow on the 2019-20 season with a solid performance in the state club championship meet at the Albuquerque West Mesa Aquatic Center. Competing against some large schools in a 17-team field, Clovis’ boys and girls finished a combined eighth. The Clovis girls themselves were sixth, the boys 12th. And there were several impressive marks that capped off the season in style. “I was thrilled,” Clovis head coach Gordy Westerberg said. “It was a perfect way to finish the season....
The Clovis High softball team is off to a 3-1 start this season, but can’t get too comfortable. After all, last year’s Lady Wildcats began 3-0 but wound up 5-19. So, there’s still a long way to go this year. But 3-1 is 3-1, a good foundation for second-year head coach Emery Sierra to build upon, as Clovis looks to make its way toward a respectable season. “There’s quite a bit of potential there,” Sierra said. “As long as they work together and make plays and hit the ball I think they can compete. It’s just those little th...
CANYON, Texas — The Clovis High track and field team advanced through its second week of competition this past weekend, as the boys finished third among 10 teams, the girls seventh among nine at the Canyon Invitational. The Clovis boys tallied 97 points, 37 behind champion Tascosa. Amarillo High finished second with 127 points. Canyon Randall (94) and Lubbock Coronado (93) rounded out the boys top five. Amarillo High won a top-heavy girls meet with 186.5 points. All the top four girls teams scored over 100 points, with C...
RIO RANCHO — For the second straight week Clovis High’s baseball team gained a little, lost a little. Just like the week before in Hobbs, the Wildcats won a game and lost two last week in the Cleveland Round Robin Tournament, and are 2-4 as a result. Clovis’ lone win last week occurred on Friday against Capital by a 9-4 count — a combined no-hitter by Norbert Archibeque, Chris Muscato and Zayvier Hartman despite those four Capital runs. The game was scoreless through three innings before the Wildcats plated four runs in the t...
BY THE STAFF OF THE NEWS HOBBS — The Clovis High and Clovis Christian golf teams opened the season on Monday in the Hobbs Invitational, featuring around six schools but only a handful with full squads. Two teams had full squads for the girls, with Roswell Goddard posting a score of 372 to 441 for the Lady Wildcats. Junior Kate Lubera led the Lady Cats, shooting 50-51 — 101, followed by freshman Gracie Beevers at 57-50 — 107 and Jolei Adkins 57-59 — 116, senior Kassidi Jaramillo 59-58 — 117 and sophomore Cara McWilliams 61-70...
ELIDA — It’s been a special season for the Elida boys basketball team, and the Tigers aren’t ready to see it end just yet. Especially senior guard Tyce Delk. Delk scored 17 of Elida’s 23 first-half points and finished with 29 on Saturday as the Tigers downed Logan 61-41 in a Class 1A state round-of-16 matchup. “He’s playing well at the right time,” Elida boys coach Jared Fraze said. “He’s had some unbelievable games after the EPAC (tournament in January).” Only a few years removed from not being able to field a boys team,...
PORTALES — Eastern New Mexico University’s softball team belted three home runs, including sophomore Jenny McElroy’s team-leading sixth of the season, and held on late for a 10-8 victory over Western New Mexico on Saturday to complete the sweep of a Lone Star Conference doubleheader at Greyhound Softball Field. The Hounds (9-8, 3-1), who split their LSC-opening twin bill with Texas-Permian Basin at home on Friday, erased an early 4-0 deficit and notched a 6-5, eight-inning victory over the Lady Mustangs (9-12, 2-6) in Saturda...
PORTALES — Eastern New Mexico University’s baseball team finally broke the scoring ice on Monday, but even a day’s delay due to weather couldn’t change the Greyhounds’ overall fate. Sunday’s Lone Star Conference series finale between ENMU and Texas-Permian Basin at Greyhound Field was pushed back because of rain. After 24 scoreless innings to start the four-game set, the Hounds managed some damage on offense in the finale, but they fell behind 10-0 early and dropped an 18-6 decision to the Falcons, who posted their first...
PORTALES — The Eastern New Mexico women’s basketball team stepped off a bus from Frisco, Texas on Sunday, confident but not convinced they’d have at least one more road trip on the season. Less than an hour later, what energy the Lone Star Conference tournament and the bus trip hadn’t beaten out of them went to celebrating their next trip to Lubbock. The Greyhounds (22-9) discovered Sunday night they had qualified for their second-straight Division II national tournam...
Booked The following were booked into local jails (Friday - Tuesday): Clovis • Mark Trujillo, 44, failure to pay fines, theft of identity, forgery, fraud, conspiracy to commit theft of identity, conspiracy to commit forgery, injuring or tampering with a motor vehicle, failure to appear on a felony charge, shooting at or from a motor vehicle • Erick Terrones-Palacio, 28, concealing identity, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge, battery against a household member, aggravated driving while under the influence of int...
Oops! I doubt he cares, but it looks like a billionaire toy maker for cool kids just got himself into a bit of a bind. (He makes high-priced and over-hyped electric cars — he can keep those, as far as I’m concerned — and some seriously cool rocket ships.) All Tesla CEO Elon Musk did to generate knee-jerk howls was to tweet elegantly and articulately, “The coronavirus panic is dumb.” Not everybody disagreed. I’m told that he got a million “likes” almost immediately. Ma...
Langdon Skarda was an intelligence officer in the U.S. Army during World War II. He was also an attorney, farmer, rancher and banker with wide-ranging hobby interests. Skarda lived most of his life in Clovis, having been born in the city on Feb. 8, 1914. He became a champion quarter-horse breeder after the war, and learned to judge show dogs. He remains a legend among Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show fans. In 1979, a Siberian Husky named Cinnar was having a difficult time catching judges’ eyes because a kennel mate had b...
