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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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New Mexico farmers and ranchers are in for a tough year with production, according to New Mexico Secretary of Agriculture Jeff Witte. “This is going to be one of the toughest years that New Mexico farmers and ranchers have had in years. We are looking at a pretty long, impactful drought this year. The snow cap is just not there for what we need to fill our reservoirs,” Witte said, adding that there will be “severely reduced, if not non-existent, surface water allocations this year.” “We’re looking at areas of the state where...
Hobbs prep basketball legend Jeff Taylor, a New Mexico all-time great who went on to a decorated professional career in Sweden, has died at age 60. According to an article in the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, the former Texas Tech star died in Sweden, his adoptive home country, after a lengthy illness. “An injury-free Jeff is the best I’ve coached, and (if injured still) in the top ten,” Kelly Grant, Taylor’s coach with the Norkopping Dolphins, told the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet. “He commanded respect, his attitude...
The people of faith who impress me the most are the people who are the least impressed with their own faith. Folks like this are slow to throw down glib and easy answers to life's hardest questions. They're quick to be present, mostly in silence, as they put an arm around a friend facing one of life's genuine tragedies and offer real tears, but they're slow to show up to add verbal drizzle and plastic platitudes that, well-meant or not, make a horrible situation even worse....
FORT SMITH, Ark. — Eastern New Mexico University’s bid to get the salvage game of a Lone Star Conference weekend series against Arkansas-Fort Smith came up short on Saturday as the Lions pulled away late to claim an 8-2 victory. UAFS, which swept a doubleheader from the Greyhounds on Friday, scored five runs over the seventh and eighth frames to all but put the contest out of reach. ENMU (5-13, 4-13 LSC) grabbed a 2-1 lead in the third when third baseman Trevor Moses hit an RBI single and first baseman Kian Johnston del...
FLOYD - The Dora Coyotes got off to a bit of a slow start, but recovered nicely behind the scoring exploits of senior running back Alex Urioste on Saturday to post a 33-8 victory over Floyd. Urioste scored four touchdowns for Dora (1-2), which turned an 8-0 first-quarter deficit into a 12-8 lead at halftime and pulled away from there. Sophomore Gabriel Love put the Broncos (0-3) in front in the opening stanza with a 50-yard touchdown pass to senior wide receiver Juan...
CLOVIS - For Clovis High boys soccer coach Greg Trujillo, a matchup against Hobbs perhaps takes on a little more meaning than for most - even considering the longtime rivalry between the schools. It's a bit tough any time to stomach losing to the Eagles for Trujillo, a Hobbs High graduate. And dropping a 2-1 decision in Saturday's District 4-5A opener for both teams at Leon Williams Stadium certainly wasn't easy. "It's a tough, tough loss," Trujillo said. "They're a...
CLOVIS — Whatever Clovis’ postseason fate it, and whether there will be one, now comes down to Saturday night. The Clovis Wildcats, 1-2 following two difficult losses in Rio Rancho, will host Carlsbad in a 5 p.m. Saturday kickoff at Leon Williams Stadium. While there will still be plenty of COVID-safe guidelines, the Saturday game includes the Clovis High band and a former district foe in the Cavemen (2-1). Clovis coach Cal Fullerton admitted that simply out of competitive nature, he’s been wanting to face the Cavemen even...
RUIDOSO — With a win on Friday night at rival Lovington, Portales High’s football team will complete this abbreviated, COVID-affected spring football season with a perfect 4-0 record. That leaves open the possibility of playing for a state championship with the New Mexico Activities Association ostensibly looking to match the top two teams in each class during a “bowl week” scenario in early April. As far as PHS coach Jaime Ramirez is concerned, though, that game might as well be a year off. The Rams, he said, have their a...
PORTALES - A season that has so far started with a thud has taken another blow, as Kira Zeiter announced her resignation as softball coach at Eastern New Mexico University. Zeiter went 23-51 over her two-plus seasons, with a 13-35 record in Lone Star Conference play, and that record has been anchored by the team's 0-13 (0-12 LSC) start. "We thank Coach Zeiter for her leadership over the last few seasons and wish her the best as she moves on to future endeavors," Athletic...
ROSWELL - The Clovis High volleyball team was oh, so close to a big road win and early control of the District 4-5A race on Saturday. Host Roswell High, though, pulled out Game 4, then bolted to an 8-0 lead and held on in the deciding set to claim a 25-20, 14-25, 16-25, 25-23, 15-11 victory. The result leaves the Lady Wildcats (5-4, 2-1 district) in a three-way tie at the top with Hobbs and Roswell High. "They just played well," CHS coach Darrell Ray said of the Lady Coyotes...
HOBBS - Boys and girls teams from both Clovis High and Portales High have qualified for state cross country competition this weekend, scheduled for Albuquerque Academy H.S. In Saturday's Class 4-5A district meet, CHS took the boys team title with 13 team points to 27 for host Hobbs, while on the girls side the Lady Eagles were first with 15 points to 26 for the Lady Wildcats. Neither Carlsbad nor Roswell High had enough runners on either side to have a full squad. Senior...
On this date … 1951: Fifty head of Brahman calves, each weighing about 300 pounds, were purchased for an upcoming calf-roping competition. Officials with the Clovis Mounted Patrol reported the calves had never been roped. Champion roper Homer Pettigrew, formerly of Grady but currently living in Chandler, Arizona, said he planned to attend the April 8 competition and would bring his top roping horse. 1971: John Welborn, the soft-spoken, sandy-haired football coach of the Portales Rams the past two years, had resigned. W...
In 2009, a writer named Judith Wynn Halsted published a book called, "Some of My Best Friends Are Books," a guide to 300 of her favorite books for young readers. The title has always stuck with me because, well, it's true: Some of my best friends are books. And a number of those friends have arrived via used book sales throughout my life. I spent a couple of hours last Friday among some potential new "friends" as we set up the Friends of the Portales Public Library Pay What...
Another era of big government has arrived. Arguably, it never ended. During the Great Depression of the 1930s, President Franklin D. Roosevelt initiated all sorts of programs to create jobs while expanding and investing in the nation’s infrastructure, and the federal government never really shrunk after that. Even during the Reagan years, when the president declared that “government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem,” our federal government grew, as did a big, fat deficit to pay for it all. Now w...
It is disappointing to read that the Bill Dalley windmill collection — which had been entrusted to the Roosevelt County government — is being split up. Let this be a lesson: if you want something protected and preserved for the future, don’t give it to a government. I spent some time exploring those windmills several years ago. I love the ingenuity shown by their various designs. I like seeing mechanical devices, especially if they still work and work well. I also appre...
Last week, as senators were planning a hearing on gun control, a string of shootings in Atlanta claimed the lives of eight people. On Monday night, Sen. Richard Durbin was going through his opening remarks for the hearing when news broke about another mass shooting, this time at a Boulder, Colorado, grocery store. Ten people were killed. “These victims and their loved ones are worthy of our thoughts and our prayers but there’s more that’s required,” Durbin said Tuesday during a hearing by the Senate Judiciary Committ...
Well, the weather is warming up, vaccines are getting into arms, and sports are once again making their way into our collective minds. For pro athletes, sports never really left, just modified a little. But for the hybrid creature known as the “student-athlete,” the return of sports is a huge deal. In 2020, the global pandemic robbed an entire class of student-athletes of their ability to showcase their skills for college recruiters. Coronavirus robbed them of one of the most unforgettable times in their lives; a time whe...
SANTA FE — New Mexico legislators are doing almost everything they can — short of making it mandatory — to get public schools to extend the school year as part of a strategy to boost academic achievement. They have passed legislation that would add flexibility to the state’s extended learning and K-5 Plus programs, in addition to authorizing about $280 million to pay for the extra school days, enough for any district or school that wants to participate. The state budget package also would require districts to explain in writ...
CLOVIS — Get ready to add some 575s in your dialing habits, because 10-digit numbers will be the norm pretty soon. The state is beginning a six-month introductory phase on April 24 to inform residents all in-state calls should be dialed as 10-digit numbers. On Oct. 24, only 10-digit numbers will complete. Automated recording will remind New Mexicans of the change. The change was announced Tuesday by the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission. The change is coming due to implementation of a three-digit number for the N...
CLOVIS — What started last year as a COVID-safe Easter celebration may just be turning into a tradition in Clovis as the Jericho Route is again set for Sunday. The Jericho Route, which has nearly 600 followers on Facebook, will be a Sunday afternoon parade of vehicles traveling seven laps around the city. The seven laps are a reference to the Battle of Jericho, when the Israelites marched around the city walls once a day for six days and seven times on the seventh day before blowing their trumpets. Organizer Latriece B...
Low temperatures, snow and high winds will sweep across New Mexico today, including the Clovis-Portales area. Daniel Porter, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service, said a “deeply cold air mass” will drop statewide temperatures 20 to 30 degrees below normal today. “That’s going to set the stage up for significant snowfall accumulations, because the atmosphere will be plenty cold enough to support snow for most locations across New Mexico,” Porter said. Eastern New Mexico is expected to see less than an inch of s...
SANTA FE — Curry County seemed primed to join surrounding counties in the green zone, and its more relaxed public health orders, with room to spare. But then Sunday happened. And a 16-case day has Curry teetering a fine line between reaching green status and staying in yellow. The state has, since Nov. 30, graded counties every two weeks on meeting gating criteria of 8 daily cases per 100,000 residents and test positivity at or below 5%. Green counties meet both, yellow counties meet one, red counties meet neither and t...
SANTA FE — The push to legalize recreational cannabis for New Mexico adults will have to wait after stalling in the final hours of this year’s 60-day legislative session — but maybe not for long. Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said she plans to call lawmakers back to the Capitol for a special session on marijuana legalization in about a week, adding a framework for a deal that was already largely in place despite its failure to win final approval. “It’s not really goodbye — it’s take a rest and I’ll see you soon,” Lujan Gr...
CLOVIS - One vaccination at a time, COVID-19 is going away. The remote work movement it helped inflate, however, is likely here to stay. The Clovis Industrial Development Corporation, and a few local businesses, are hoping to take advantage of that. The CIDC is marketing Clovis as a "TruGig Community," and partnering with Soloworks and Plateau to find and retain residents who can do remote jobs with small-town amenities and fiber-speed Internet. Rachel Forrester, public...
FOOTBALL Prep summary Saturday Portales 45, Ruidoso 10 Portales 14 12 13 6 — 45 Ruidoso 0 7 3 0 — 10 Scoring summary First quarter P — Baylor Diaz 5 run (Owen Smith kick) P — Dason Davis 59 punt return (Smith kick) Second quarter P — Davis 59 pass from Diaz (kick failed) R — Braxton Hall 2 run (kick good) P — Diaz 19 run (kick failed) Third quarter P — Adrian Ontiveros 11 pass from Diaz (Smith kick) R — FG 30 P — Ontiveros 51 pass from Diaz (kick failed) Fourth quarter P — Diaz 6 run (kick failed) Records — Ruidoso 0-3...
