Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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CLOVIS - The Clovis City Commission was so impressed with two-plus hours it spent talking to Tom Phelps last Thursday, it needed no discussion to hire him as interim city manager this Thursday. Effective April 18, the former Plateau chief executive officer will join the city with pay prorated to $119,000 and four weeks leave per year. After thanking current City Manager Larry Fry for his two years of service, Commissioner Sandra Taylor-Sawyer made the motion that was approved...
PORTALES — The Class 4A state runnerup Portales High boys basketball team landed a plethora of players on the All-District 4A team as well as two players on the South squad for the upcoming New Mexico High School Coaches Association all-star game. Jeremie Karngbaye, Junior Ramirez, Braden Bridges and Darion Ontiveros were all named to the all-district squad. Hope Christian, the 4A state champion, had the most players selected with five, while Moriarty had three, Ruidoso two and New Mexico Military one. Karngbaye and R...
PORTALES - After a somewhat shocking and abrupt end to the 2016 season, the Portales High softball team is ready to take the field again. Waiting for their full complement of players to join the team, the Lady Rams are a little behind as far as games played with most of their opponents. The team was waiting on five players from the Lady Rams basketball team to join the squad. PHS, which reached the Class 4A state winners bracket semifinals last season before losing to...
EUNICE — The Texico Wolverines got off to a fast start in their season opener on Thursday. Meantime, the Portales Rams are still getting things together after their basketball team made a run to last weekend’s Class 4A state finals. Junior Ben Crist and sophomore Dalton Thatcher combined on a six-hitter and the Wolverines beat PHS 4-1 in a quarterfinal game of Eunice’s Cardinal Classic. Texico advances to a 4 p.m. championship semifinal today against the Midland Christian junior varsity, while the Rams take on Kermit, Texas...
The following is a sampling of calls for Portales police, fire and sheriff: Wednesday • 11:51 a.m.: Ambulance requested, 700 block Wylie Cox Circle • 1:11 p.m.: Breaking and entering, 600 block South Avenue D • 3:18 p.m.: Motor vehicle accident hit and run, walk in • 6:50 p.m.: Ambulance requested, 200 block East Ninth Street • 7:05 p.m.: Traffic hazard, 700 block East Brazos Street • 7:11 p.m.: Assault report, 1600 block East Spruce Street, report taken • 7:55 p.m.: Domestic report, 500 block West 17th Lane, report taken...
On this date ... 1992: Republican state Sen. Stuart Ingle announced his candidacy for a third term. Ingle, 44, was a farmer and rancher with an animal science degree from Oklahoma State University. He graduated from Portales High School in 1965. "The needs of those of us living on the east side of New Mexico are quite different from the more populated areas of this vast state," Ingle said in announcing his candidacy. "I believe we need representation in Santa Fe that...
The following is a sampling of calls received by dispatchers for Clovis police, Curry County sheriff and area fire stations: Wednesday • 12:28 a.m.: Report not required, 700 block of West Grand • 7:42 a.m.: Found property, 700 block of Starlite Drive • 8:11 a.m.: Burglary (auto), 200 block of Starlight • 8:57 a.m.: Burglary (auto), 700 block of Starlite • 10:36 a.m.: Shoplifting over $500, 3700 block of North Prince Street • 4:20 p.m.: Contempt of court (muni), Echols Street/Stanton Street • 4:35 p.m.: Criminal damage up to...
First Lt. Frederick "Drew" Dellecker was an accomplished trumpet player and surfer who loved the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Capt. Kenneth Dalga was a new dad. Capt. Andrew Becker was an Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University graduate who majored in applied meteorology. All three were in the prime of their lives when they died Tuesday night. Cannon Air Force Base officials on Thursday identified the three airmen killed when their U-28 aircraft crashed during a training exercise near...
The strategic utilization of uncertainties about the future was the subject of a presentation at the Tuesday morning Eastern New Mexico Water Utility Authority meeting at the Memorial Building in Portales. Ralph Marra, founder and senior principal of Southwest Water Resources Consulting, presented an overview of scenario planning, which he said involves operating in “planning environments that have a lot of uncertainty in them.” Marra said that scenario planning identifies several different scenarios entities can follow so...
ROSWELL — After a 12-2 loss to Hobbs in the season opener, the Clovis High baseball team has certainly found a lot of pitching. CHS got another solid outing from junior Kayden Shober on Thursday and cruised past Ruidoso 9-0 in the quarterfinals of an eight-team tournament hosted by Roswell Goddard. Since that loss in the opener of a doubleheader at Bell Park on Feb. 27 — Clovis won the nightcap 4-1 — the Wildcats (7-3) have allowd just 18 runs, including three shutouts and no more than five runs in any game. Now, if the h...
After five months of attempts to acquire a Clovis property, the Eastern New Mexico Water Utility Authority agreed to pursue condemnation of the land at its Thursday morning meeting at the Memorial Building in Portales. The proposed site for the 85-foot easement is located north of a tank owned by water utility company EPCOR Water, and would be home to an intersection between the authority’s interim pipeline project and EPCOR Water’s system, according to ENMWUA’s contracted attorney David Richards. Staff and admin...
Monday • Planning and Zoning Commission — 5:30 p.m. in council room at the Memorial Building, Portales. Information: 575-356-8449 Tuesday • Cultural & Ethnic Affairs Committee — Noon at city hall, Clovis. Information: 575-769-7828 • Relay for Life Committee — 5:15 p.m. in Ingram Room at Clovis-Carver Public Library. Information: 575-714-1925 • Relay for Life Captains — 6:15 p.m. in Ingram Room at Clovis-Carver Public Library. Information: 575-714-1925 • Roosevelt County Commission — 9 a.m. in commission room at courthouse,...
Today • St. Patrick’s Murder Mystery — 6 p.m. dinner show, ‘Top o’ the Murder To You’ at Clovis Civic Center featuring The Brickstreet Players. Tickets: $30 general, $45 VIP. Information: 575-935-5000 Saturday • Eastern New Mexico Big Game banquet — 5 p.m. at Clovis Civic Center. Tickets: $65 single, $95 couple. Hosted by Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation. Information: 406-523-4500 Tuesday • United Way banquet — 6 p.m.-8 p.m. at Clovis Civic Center. Tickets: $40 per person, $400 table of 10. Information: 575-769-2103 • Afte...
CLOVIS — With a new spin on Disney’s tale as old as time, the recent “Beauty and the Beast” movie stirred up some controversy before even hitting theaters. The live-action remake of the 1991 Disney film opens nationwide today, including at the Allen theaters in Clovis. Beyond the central human-beast romance, however, there’s an entirely different relationship raising eyebrows. Director Bill Condon revealed to “Attitude” magazine in early March that Josh Gad’s character LeFou will have an “exclusively gay moment.” LeFou is...
When I was a little lad, my family and I spent some evenings doing what families now almost never do: We rode bicycles together. I know it’s hard to believe, and it gets harder. We even on regular occasions took time to sing together as a family. I don’t want to misrepresent things. My dad worked most evenings, but somehow we still managed to have a good bit of family time together. In our world today, it seems that 1) many families don’t really want much time together, and 2...
I read an article on how being a minimalist can add lasting satisfaction to one’s life. The author claimed that being a minimalist is keeping those possessions most dear to us and then eliminating those that distract us. With this freedom, the author claimed, people can grow as individuals and discover their purpose in life. After reading the article, I decided I was not a minimalist. In theory, being a minimalist means that one gets rid of all the clutter in all areas of l...
Spring is here. Don’t argue temperatures with me. There have been enough warm days and enough windy days to officially call it. And if that isn’t enough evidence for you, the kicker is that it is shipping time here on the High Plains. Shipping time is the best of times in the winter wheat cattle business. It means the calves are not all dead, the wheat isn’t quite all gone, and you’ve hopefully found a buyer for all that beef on the hoof. It’s not an easy day, this day of bo...
