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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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PORTALES — A new 522-megawatt wind farm is on its way to Roosevelt County, according to officials of Invenergy. Xcel Energy signed an agreement with the energy company Tuesday morning to buy the Sagamore Wind Project facility once it is completed. Krista Jo Mann, senior business development manager for the Invenergy, said the power will go into the eastern power grid. Mann shared plans for the project with Roosevelt County commissioners Tuesday morning, saying that the p...
Utopia isn’t an option. Even if you had the power to set up society the way you think it should be, reality would step in and make your Utopia imperfect. Expect the unexpected and remember it’s impossible to plan for everything. The most important thing to keep in mind: No one can design a society. The belief that it can be done is a conceit common to governments and people who believe in them. Societies grow from the bottom up, they are not designed or imposed from the top...
I have written before that when Hillary lost the presidential election, the Clintons lost their raison d’etre. Cracks began showing in the Clinton Foundation when they informed the New York Department of Labor that they intended to lay off all 22 of the employees working at the Clinton Global Initiative on April 15, 2017. The official reason for filing was, “Plant Closing.” The real reason was loss of product. You can’t sell political influence if you don’t have political...
LUBBOCK — Katlyn Holmes tossed a no-hitter and Lubbock Christian erupted for six runs in the third inning to beat Eastern New Mexico 8-0 on Tuesday and complete a doubleheader sweep over the Greyhounds. LCU (19-10) won the opener in eight innings 3-2. ENMU (13-24) saw its losing streak reach 10 games. The Hounds had three baserunners against Holmes (3-0), who finished with three strikeouts and needed just 57 pitches in a game called after 4 1/2 innings on the eight-run rule. Katera Eltsosie, who homered, drove in the w...
Like most Portales High spring sports, the golf teams are getting off to a late start to accommodate state runs in basketball, but that’s about to change. The PHS girls open the season today in the Hobbs Invitational, then the boys get going on Thursday in New Mexico Military’s Alien 8 event in Roswell before both teams travel to Ruidoso for another tournament on Friday. The Rams finished fifth in last year’s Class 4A state meet and return the state individual champion in senior Thomas Tulk. PHS coach Matt Hunton said the b...
LOVINGTON — From the plate and the mound, the Portales baseball team dominated Lovington on Tuesday, cruising to a 6-1 win. Facing one of the area’s better pitches in Christian Pando, the Rams (3-2) still managed to record 10 hits over the course of the game and drew five walks. “They threw a pretty good arm at us today,” Rams coach Dusty Nusser said. “I’m really proud of how we put the ball into play. (Pando’s) pretty good, he has kept them close in a lot of games. Pando struck out 11 Rams for Lovington (2-8). For Portales,...
HOBBS — If there was any positive for the Clovis High softball team Tuesday night in Hobbs ... at least it doesn’t count in district play? The former District 4-5A rivals battled Tuesday night, with the host Eagles taking a pair of easy 6-0, 12-0 victories. Hobbs (7-2) notched 19 hits, and Hobbs’ combination of Genesis Armendariz and Amy Vigil held Clovis to one hit on the night. Armendariz pitched a no-hitter in the first contest. Their first (pitcher) was amazing,” Clovis coach Brandi Thomas said. “She’s the best that w...
CLOVIS — Clovis High's boys tennis team lost only two sets on Tuesday in posting a 9-0 victory over Portales in a dual match on Tuesday at the CHS courts. The Lady Wildcats had a little tougher time, but pulled out a 5-4 victory over the Lady Rams. The only set lost in singles by the Wildcats came at No. 4 singles, when Portales freshman Zeke Aguirre took a 6-2 win over CHS junior David Heath. But Heath came back to win the final two sets by 6-0 scores. In doubles, senior R...
On this date ... 1967: Wayne Hallmark, an all-state wingback from Clovis High School, had been named to the High School All-American football team by Coach and Athlete magazine. The team was selected by high school coaches, college recruiters, sports writers and broadcasters from across the country. Hallmark was also a standout basketball player and had been named senior class favorite. He was being recruited to play college football at Oklahoma State University, Eastern New M...
CLOVIS — The Clovis City Commission has a special meeting planned for today, with the only agenda item final approval of an ordinance to hike city gross receipts taxes. The ordinance, introduced during the March 2 commission meeting, must be passed before the end of March for the rate to take effect July 1. The meeting is scheduled for 5:15 p.m.at the North Annex of the Clovis-Carver Public Library. The city’s gross receipt tax rate is now 8.0625 percent. If the ordinance passes, it would grow to 8.1875 percent. The rate chan...
PORTALES — Ranchers and dairymen have a new means of saving water but they also face a new danger, according to officials of the Roosevelt Soil & Water Conservation District. Mike Cone, chairman of the SWCD board, told Roosevelt County commissioners at their Tuesday meeting about his organization's recent "shade ball project." "What the whole theory and concept is on them is that you cover a body of water with them and number one, it helps with evaporation," Cone said of t...
CLOVIS — A stabbing, kidnapping, car robbery and police standoff last June will put a Clovis man in jail for the next 59 1/2 years. That was the sentenced handed down Tuesday following a guilty plea by Aaron Morrisette. The four felony charges included aggravated battery against a household member, assault with intent to commit a violent felony, unlawful taking of a motor vehicle and tampering with evidence. An eight-year enhanced sentence was added to each count based on three prior felony convictions. District Judge Matt C...
First game Texico 8, Eunice 1 Eunice 000 100 0 — 1 5 0 Texico 410 021 x — 8 8 1 Mason Caperton, Jose Hernandez (4) and Logan Gaskins; Dalton Thatcxher, Ben Crist (4) and Brock Thompson. W — Crist. L — Caperton. Top hitters — Eunice: Gaskins 1-3, run. Texico: Thatcher 1-4, 3-run 2B; Cole Rohrbach 1-2, 2B, 2 runs, 2 BBs; Thompson 1-3, RBI, run. Second game Texico 14, Eunice 4 Eunice 210 01 — 4 5 3 Texico 030 38 —14 7 2 Frankie Solis, Cristian Larrea (5), Braden Ortiz (5) and Gaskins; Nathan Phipps, MichaelHill (4), Luke Phi...
CLOVIS — The Clovis Municipal Schools Board on Tuesday voted to encourage students to take Preliminary SAT tests, but also gave students a way to opt-out. Board members agreed to a “presumed participation” approach to the test for 10th graders in the 2017-18 school year, following impassioned appeals from Deputy Superintendent of Instruction Joe Strickland and Clovis High Principal Jay Brady. Following five years of mandatory PSAT testing among 10th-graders, the district made participation optional this year and saw numbe...
The following is the schedule for the 25th annual Portales Ag Expo to be held Friday-Saturday at the Roosevelt County Fairgrounds: Friday • Preparing for sugarcane aphid in 2017: What did we learn in 2016?: 9:30 a.m. in the Art Room in the Idsinga Pavilion • Creative Touches: 10 a.m. McAlister Room in the Jake Lopez Community Center (JLCC) • Alternative Crop Options for Eastern NM: 11 a.m. in the Art Room in the Idsinga Pavilion • Mounted Shooting Demonstration: 11 a.m. at the Outdoor Arena • Antique Tractor Parade: 1...
The following is a sampling of calls received by dispatchers for Clovis police, Curry County sheriff and area fire stations: Monday • 12:00 a.m.: Battery, 200 block of Rencher • 3:54 a.m.: Failure to appear (misdemeanor), 200 block of Rencher • 5:46 a.m.: Careless driving (muni), 1100 block of Sandia Drive • 7:18 a.m.: Animal bite (dog or cat), 2100 block of North Martin Luther King Jr Boulevard • 8:17 a.m.: Obedience to traffic control device (red), Llano Estacado/Norris • 8:55 a.m.: Battery on a household member, 130...
The Curry County Commission met Tuesday morning at the North Annex of the Clovis-Carver Public Library. All five commissioners attended. All items listed below passed unanimously. • Eastern New Mexico Water Utility Authority Executive Director Justin Howalt gave a quarterly report. He said the authority is working on getting easements for its pipeline project, but is “at an impasse” with one landowner and is taking steps toward condemnation. The process would compensate the landowner at the rate of a third-party appra...
CLOVIS — After weighing the cost of adding sheriff’s office staff versus its responsibility to keep the county courthouse safe, the Curry County Commission tipped the scales for at least one new employee Tuesday morning. By a voice vote, the commission agreed during Tuesday’s regular meeting to add a second courthouse security officer at a cost of between $37,120 and $52,000, depending on benefits. County Manager Lance Pyle said the position will be posted, beginning Sunday, and that the county had enough savings from vacan...
Gov. Susana Martinez ordered flags to fly at half-staff statewide Tuesday in honor of the three Cannon airmen killed last week, according to a release from her office. First Lieutenant Frederick “Drew” Dellecker and Captains Kenneth Dalga and Andrew Becker died March 14 when their plane crashed during a training exercise. The release detailed some of the airmen’s backgrounds, and said more executive orders in their memory of the airmen would be issued in the coming days. • Dalga, 29, of Goldsboro, North Carolina, graduat...
In New Mexico we celebrate — and often take for granted — our U.S. military forces. We turn out en masse for parades and fireworks displays. We jealously guard the budgets of our national labs, Air Force bases and Army missile range. We glance up at the flyovers. And we don’t think twice when we see a vehicle with a Purple Heart license plate parked next to one with a Disabled Veteran plate down the row from one with a National Guard plate. But there’s an unspoken risk and sacrifice that comes with having such a large a...
Today • Toddler Time — 10 a.m. at Clovis-Carver Public Library. Information: 575-769-7840 • Preschool storytime — 10:30 a.m. at Portales Public Library. Book: Hello Spring. Information: 575-356-3940 • Teen program — 4:30 p.m. at Portales Public Library for ages 13-18. Game day: Xbox One free play. Information: 575-356-3940 Thursday • Floyd Country Jamboree — 7 p.m. at the Floyd High School gym. Admission: $7 general, $5 military. Information: 575-356-5354 • Popovich Comedy Pet Theater — 7 p.m. at Marshall Auditorium, Clovis....
Today • Clovis City Commission — 5:15 p.m. at north annex, Clovis-Carver Public Library. Special meeting. Information: 575-769-7828 Thursday • NM Municipal League Task Force — 4 p.m. at city hall, Clovis. Information: 575-769-7828 Monday • Parks, Recreation and Beautification Committee — 5:30 p.m. at city hall, Clovis. Information: 575-769-7828 This calendar is a daily listing of area public meetings. To place an item on the calendar, call the newsroom at 575-763-6991 or e-mail: [email protected]...
This fishing report, provided by Bill Dunn and New Mexico Department of Game & Fish, has been generated from the best information available from area officers and anglers. Conditions encountered after the report is compiled may differ, as stream, lake and weather conditions alter fish and angler activities. Northwest Abiquiu Lake — Fishing was slow to fair using crank baits, curly tail grubs and jigs for smallmouth bass and walleye. We had no other reports. Animas River — Water flow near Aztec on Monday morning was 1,680 cfs...
