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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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BASEBALL Prep linescores Tuesday Clovis 12, Lovington 1 Clovis 171 30 —12 10 2 Lovington 000 01 — 1 3 0 Manuel Gutierrez, Jayden Jameson (3) and Jasiahs Jimenez; Mika Pando, Cameron Ochoa (3) and Jayden Hernandez. W — Jameson. L — Pando. Top hitters — Clovis: JImenez 2-3, 4 RBIs, run, SF; Justin Lawson 1-1, RBI, 3 runs, 3 BBs; Quinn Culiver 1-2, 2-run 1B, 2 runs, BB; Derek Bretz 1-2, 2 runs, BB; Jameson 1-1, 2-run 1B. Records — Clovis 3-4, Lovington 0-7. Junior varsity — Clovis 18, Lovington 4. Thursday Artesia Invitational...
Originally from Oklahoma City, April Roberts met her Texico-native husband, Jason, in college at the University of Central Oklahoma in Edmond. After marrying, the two decided to move back to New Mexico to farm. Growing up, Roberts' only experience with farm life was the time she spent at her grandparent's farm (which they ran for over 50 years). Roberts said some of her best childhood memories were walking out into the cotton field with her Pa. Those sweet memories with her...
Odessa College golf coach Paul Chavez woke up around 3 a.m. Wednesday to various texts and links that left him in shock. He was informed by his volunteer coach that a van carrying members of the University of the Southwest’s men’s and women’s golf teams was involved in a fatal accident Tuesday night near Andrews. “This is something that you want no one to go through,” Chavez said. “It is a coach’s worst nightmare to go through an event like this; I definitely feel for everyone.” Nine people died in the accident. Six a...
Clovis Spring break. Portales Monday: Breakfast: Cheese filled bread stick, fruit cup, juice Lunch: Chicken sandwich, fries, carrots, mixed fruit, or (grades 7-12) Beef and potato burrito, pinto beans, carrots, mixed fruit. Tuesday: Breakfast: Cake donut, applesauce, juice. Lunch: Cheeseburger, baked beans, lettuce & tomato, chips, pineapple, or (grades 7-12) Asian chicken, rice, broccoli & carrots, pineapple, rice crispy treat. Wednesday: Breakfast: Muffin, sliced apples, juice. Lunch: Chicken Smackers, macaroni & cheese, gr...
Baxter-Curren Activity Center 908 Hickory, Clovis 575-762-3631 Monday: 8:30 a.m. Exercise; 10a.m.; Jewelry Pals; 1 p.m. Line dance; 5p.m. Game night. Tuesday: 8a.m.-2p.m. Quilting; 6p.m. Trivia. Wednesday: 8:30 a.m. Exercise; 9 a.m. Sew Days; 1p.m. Needle Gang. Thursday: 8a.m. Breakfast $5; 1 p.m. Bingo. Friday: 8:30 a.m. Exercise; 10 a.m. Needle Gang; 1p.m. Line dance; 1 p.m. Pinochle; 6-10 p.m. Dance, $6 per person. Saturday: 11a.m. Chat-n-Chew at KBOB’S; 4 p.m. Game Night. Friendship Senior Center 901 W. 13th St., C...
It was a full winter without a basketball game for me. Now I think I might get my March Madness on this spring. Growing up, a good bit of our basketball was played outside on the driveway but we got it done, sometimes with a jacket and numb fingers. When warmer spring weather rolled around and city league ball was done we kicked things into high gear. That was back well before the NCAA basketball tournament was even referred to as March Madness. I was never really very good...
Booked The following were booked into local jails (Tuesday - Friday): Clovis • Samuel Smith, 55, failure to comply with specific requirements • Jody Childress, 35, driving under the influence of liquor • Steve Garcia, 32, resisting, evading or obstructing an officer • Jessie Suniga, 52, driving while license suspended or revoked, evidence of registration • Jesus Mandujano, 19, aggravated battery against a household member • Patrick Martinez, 34, battery • David Fitzgerald, 27, criminal damage to property • Ever Mendoza, 1...
Clovis businessman and city commissioner James Burns has been given a national award from the Association of Defense Communities. Burns is one of 10 people from across the country who received a Defense Community Champion award from the ADC at its recent national summit in Arlington, Va. The award recognizes those who the ADC determines excelled at creating military-community collaborations that support mission readiness and quality of life for service members, military...
TULIA, Texas — The reward for a former sheriff’s deputy wanted for continuous sexual assault of a child in Texas has been increased to $8,500. The Tulia Police Department in the Texas Panhandle issued warrants seeking the arrest of James Mark Bishop in July. Bishop is one of Texas’ 10 most wanted fugitives, according to a news release from the Texas Department of Public Safety. The reward, from Texas Crime Stoppers, is for information leading to Bishop’s arrest if tips are received during the month of March. Bishop, 49, is...
Clovis Municipal Schools led the state’s 10 largest districts with the biggest year-over-year improvement in four-year graduation rate between 2020 and 2021, according to a New Mexico Public Education Department news release. The district’s 2021 graduation rate of 77.9% was 7.5 points higher than the rate of 70.4% in 2020, despite the difficulties of remote learning and isolation brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite the COVID-19 difficulties most school systems in Clovis and Curry counties were able to maintain or...
On Jan. 29, a convoy of ticked-off truckers rolling across Canada reached its final destination, Parliament Hill in the capital city of Ottawa. They proceeded to use their trucks to shut down the core of the downtown area to all incoming traffic. They disobeyed police orders, ignored the law and effectively took over as occupiers of that part of the city. We saw those same tactics put to use in the summer of 2020, when protesters demanding police reform temporarily occupied several blocks in Portland, Ore. The Canadian...
So, what shall we make of Rep. Kinzinger’s apology? Adam Kinzinger, Republican from Illinois, took to Twitter on March 11 with a remarkable statement of contrition for failing to hold the last president accountable. He wrote that his “biggest regret” was his decision to vote against Donald Trump’s first impeachment. “The bottom line, Donald Trump withheld lethal aid to Ukraine so he could use it as leverage for his campaign. This is a shameful and illegal act, directly...
Years ago, when I was just beginning to practice immigration law, I remember hearing about two horrific genocides. They were almost back-to-back, happening within little more than a year of each other, and each became the focus of a war crimes tribunal at the Hague. The first one occurred in the spring of 1994 when Rwandan Hutus massacred hundreds of thousands of their Tutsi neighbors in a matter of months. A year later, in Bosnia, thousands of Muslim men and boys were murdere...
More than a year into the Biden presidency, Vladimir Putin has invaded a sovereign neighboring country and, of course, everyone knows who’s to blame — Biden’s predecessor. In an instance of misdirection for the ages, a spate of commentary has pointed the finger at Donald Trump for supposedly creating the predicate for Putin’s brutalizing of Ukraine. There’s no doubt that Trump has long had an apparently uncontrollable reflex to say warm things about Vladimir Putin. He foolis...
I pray that the fighting stops in Ukraine, both sides come to some settlement and no more people have to die to achieve this. Our government has imposed sanctions on Russia and embargoed oil and gas products as well as other goods from that nation. I don’t know what gas costs in Moscow today, but I called a friend of mine in the High Desert of California last Sunday, and he said regular gas was $5.47. I filled up my car here in Texas a week and a half ago for $2.98 and d...
Doesn’t the light in the sky at 7 p.m. feel great? How nice it would be to stay in daylight saving time year-round and not have to adjust the clocks to “fall back” or “spring forward.” Perhaps U.S. senators were thinking the same thing when they voted swiftly and unanimously on Tuesday, two days after we sprang forward an hour, to make daylight saving time year-round, beginning in November 2023. Sunlight, at least, appears to be something on which the nation can agree. The twice-annual changing of the clocks is worse tha...
Bear traps, golf carts, ropes and weeds peppered the talk about the condition of Clovis' Colonial Park golf course at Thursday's city commission meeting. The regular session had more than the typical number of people in attendance. A number of citizens who came to the meeting were there to air complaints about the golf course. Talk of the condition of the golf course was not on the agenda. It came up during the open comments section of the meeting as one after another...
Ancient documents will be in a display in Portales this summer. What are described as some of the most important historical documents in the world will be on display when the Remnant Trust exhibition opens at Eastern New Mexico University’s Golden Student Success Center in August. Remnant Trust is a public educational foundation which shares a collection of manuscripts and works dealing with individual liberty and human dignity, some of which are more than 4,000 years old. There will be 38 items on display, with individual a...
Shayla Ramsey has accepted the position of Detention Administrator for the Roosevelt County Detention Center. Ramsey has served as the jail’s interim director since the departure of the center’s previous administrator Justin Porter. A news release from Roosevelt County Manager Amber Hamilton says Ramsey has worked her way through the ranks of the detention center’s staff since 2014. “She has helped lead the facility accreditation process since 2016,” Hamilton wrote, “and has been instrumental in developing and implementin...
Jay Brady has accepted the position of deputy superintendent of operations, technology and athletics, according to a news release from Clovis Municipal Schools. Brady began his educational career in Clovis in 1996 as a teacher at Highland Elementary School. In 2001 Brady accepted the position of principal at Lindsey Middle School in Portales. In 2002 Brady returned to Clovis Schools when he accepted the position of principal at Sandia Elementary. In 2008 Brady became Marshall Middle School’s principal until 2016 when he b...
PORTALES — The former executive director of the New Mexico Baptist Children’s Home in Portales has sued the home’s board of directors for wrongful termination. Randy Rankin has asked to be awarded unspecified actual and punitive damages. Court records show Rankin was terminated from the position on Jan. 21 after being placed “on sabbatical” in November. In February, Rankin resigned his position as president of the Portales Municipal Schools Board of Directors. Officials said he was leaving his job at the children...
The Clovis Municipal School Board and administrators are looking into crafting ways to add time to the school year and pay teachers accordingly for their added time. Discussion on the topic came at the school board's regular March session Tuesday. While two members of the board were absent Sharon Epps, Cindy Osburn and Shawn Hamilton formed a quorum for any items needing board action. The possibility of a lengthened school year came up during discussion of the instructional...
Tributes came from throughout Texas and New Mexico last week as area nature lovers and weather watchers remembered a True legend. Dan True, who spent 40 years forecasting rain, snow and sunshine on regional television stations and a lifetime studying the world around him, died Wednesday. He was 97. One line in his obituary perhaps summed up his colorful personality: "There probably has never been a weather forecast when a rattlesnake is thrown out on the floor by the...
A former Portales man, shot while fleeing law enforcement in a stolen farm vehicle in 2018, will receive $3.75 million in a lawsuit settlement with Roosevelt County and Sheriff Malin Parker, officials said. James McFarlin, who now lives in Lake Havasu City, Ariz., was accused of stealing a front-end loader from a dairy, using it to damage his estranged wife’s car, then driving away. When McFarlin refused to stop the vehicle, law officers attempted to shoot its tires, but were not successful in disabling it. Parker then s...
The city of Portales became a “safe haven” where a baby less than 90 days old can be surrendered anonymously and without criminal prosecution and provides for installation of a device into which a baby can be placed safely and will notify first responders and adoption authorities of the baby’s presence. The city council gave the safe haven ordinance final approval Tuesday after a public hearing in which Angie Smith, president of the Roosevelt/Curry Right to Life Committee, and Monica Kelsey, founder of the Safe Haven movem...
