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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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U.S. Sen. Tom Udall announced Monday he would not seek re-election for a third term in 2020. In eastern New Mexico, local representatives supported his decision and applauded his service to their communities. "His experience will be missed, but it will be a good opportunity to fill that seat," Portales Mayor Ron Jackson told The News. "He's been instrumental in helping us with our Ute Water project; we'll probably miss his expertise in that matter." Jackson said he was proud o...
PORTALES — The second annual Greyhound Open at Eastern New Mexico University wasn’t the most competitive of track meets, with the host school winning 17 events and no team scores taken in the three-team meet. But that doesn’t mean the season didn’t start off well for the Greyhounds, Senior Danee Bustos, who made the Division II indoor championship meet a less than three weeks ago in the 200, is off to a good start to make the outdoor national meet after posting a 24.51. The ti...
Three-time state champions want to be four-time state champions. Makes sense. Those championships have a beginning, with the late-winter practices that get teams ready for the regular season, and the early regular-season games themselves, which are the first-laid bricks in a season-ending championship wall. Texico’s baseball team, though, came out of its first weekend with just one brick to its credit. The Wolverines opened well enough — with a 16-2 thrashing of Hatch Valley Thursday at the Cardinal Classic in Eunice. But...
SANTA FE — It doesn’t always take a powerful hitting performance to get wins in prep baseball. Sometimes, and especially early in the season, just putting the ball in play is enough. That’s what happened in Santa Fe over the weekend, as the Portales Rams turned around the young season with a 4-1 win over Santa Fe High Saturday to claim the St. Mike’s Invite. Entering the road tournament, the Rams (3-2) had been winless with just three runs scored. The last three games in Santa Fe, however, saw Portales score 20 runs on 21 h...
KINGSVILLE, Texas — Playing the 11th-ranked team in the country probably isn’t the best way to snap out of a losing funk. It sure wasn’t for the Eastern New Mexico softball team, which dropped the final game of a three-game series to No. 11 Texas A&M-Kingsville, 9-1, on Saturday afternoon, allowing the Javelinas to sweep the three-game series while dealing the Greyhounds their ninth straight defeat. The Hounds last tasted victory on March 2. A&M-Kingsville’s bats were hot right out of the gate, producing a pair of runs in...
Portales native Blakey named scholar athlete PLAINVIEW, Texas — Portales native Kambrey Blakey was recognized as an NAIA scholar athlete, according to a release from Wayland Baptist University. Blakey, a 6-foot junior, averaged 11.8 points and 4.6 rebounds a game on 47 percent shooting. She started the final 21 games of the season for the Flying Queens. She was joined by teammates Morgan Bennett and Maci Merket as scholar athletes and one of 148 total selections in NAIA Division I women’s basketball. Blakey was also one of...
DALLAS — A doubleheader split isn’t as good as a victory sweep, but better than getting swept. The Greyhounds will take it after they opened with an 11-8 victory over Dallas Christian on Saturday, before losing the second game 10-7. In the first game, Dallas Christian took advantage of a Greyhounds error in the first inning to scratch across the first run of the game. The Hounds got the run back in the top of the second. After Malcolm Smith reached base by getting plunked, he stole three consecutive bags, including a steal of...
RANGER, Texas — Following a break of more than a month, Eastern New Mexico’s women’s rodeo team had a strong showing at the Ranger College Rodeo. Four members of the team reached the short round on Saturday, with three producing scoring finishes. That led to 102 team points and a sixth-place finish. Tarleton State won the rodeo with 310 points. No member of the men’s team made the short round. Junior Saige Bell posted a time of 7.4 in the short go to end up fourth in the goat tying event. That performance jumped Bell up to f...
PORTALES — A portion of West University Drive from Avenue I to Avenue K in Portales might experience an interruption to its water service today due to waterline repairs, according to a release from the city of Portales. University Drive will be blocked from Avenue I to Avenue J, with work expected to begin at 8 a.m. today. Work may not be complete until after 5 p.m....
Booked The following were booked into local jails Friday - Monday: Clovis • Milton Hyman, 63, driving while under the influence of intoxicating liquor, speeding, no insurance, failure to display registration plate, open container, evidence of registration • Daniel Saiz, 42, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge, failure to pay fines, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge, robbery, residential burglary, aggravated assault, larceny • Joel Cordova, 38, probation violation • Steven Watkins, 43, failure to appear on misdemeano...
PORTALES — Residents of Portales and Roosevelt County should expect to hear emergency sirens today at noon, but the only event it marks is a testing of the sirens. All of the sirens are set to go off at the same time, and are supposed to last for three minutes. A siren that goes beyond that will need to be manually shut off, but the city plans to have an employee at each siren in case such action is needed....
PORTALES — Eastern New Mexico University was listed among OnlineMasters.com’s rankings of top programs in the country for an online master’s degree in gifted and talented education, according to an ENMU press release. ENMU ranked 25 out of the 27 schools listed based on curriculum quality, program flexibility, affordability and graduate outcomes....
AMARILLO — The Eastern New Mexico News on Saturday received 12 awards at the annual Panhandle Press Association gathering, including the top prize of General Excellence. The News picked up seven first-place awards, including: • News writing (Jamie Cushman, David Grieder, David Stevens, Kevin Wilson) • Editorial writing (Stevens) • Humorous column writing (Wilson) • Sports writing (Peter Stein and Wilson) • Spot news photos (Cushman, Grieder and Wilson) • Front-page layout (Jenna Zamie) • Headline writing (staff) The New...
On this date ... 1969: Curry County Sheriff’s Office was investigating a burglary at the Hi Plains Distributing Co. north of Clovis. Intruders stole a pickup truck and $5,000 worth of weed killer, the Clovis News-Journal reported. Sheriff Nelson Worley said the weed killer — called Treflan — had been stolen in a series of recent thefts around the region. The Treflan taken in the Clovis break-in was kept in 5-gallon and 1-gallon cans. Worley said he believed the pickup was taken to haul the cans of chemical. The sheriff said...
CLOVIS — Felony charges against a bounty hunter accused of kidnapping a subject from Clovis in 2017 were dropped just days in advance of a trial this week after an alleged victim signed an “affidavit of non-prosecution.” Bradley Smith, 40, of Lubbock, was among three bondsmen charged last year with kidnapping, aggravated burglary and extortion in connection with what local police said was the unlawful extradition in April 2017 of one Jared Baca, a man allegedly wanted then on misdemeanor charges out of Ford County, Kansa...
PORTALES - The magical world of "Cinderella" will come to life on stage this weekend thanks to performances from Portales High School students. Melody Gallagher, the drama teacher at PHS, said the students have been working on the production since the end of January. "I'm really excited because they are really well-prepared," she said Monday afternoon during a dress rehearsal. "Now of course we've probably got a couple things to work out, little details, but they're ready,...
PORTALES — Residents of eastern New Mexico will have a chance to show off their trivia knowledge and raise money for local youth during the Battle of the Brains scheduled Saturday night at Eastern New Mexico University. Teams of eight will compete in a trivia competition covering 10 different categories including math, science, history and art. “It’s going to be funny, entertaining and we’re doing something good, too,” Jeff Gentry, dean of ENMU’s college of fine arts said. “To me primarily this is not a fundraiser as...
CLOVIS - Fingers crossed, but motorists could be crossing the Prince Street Overpass later this week. The New Mexico Department of Transportation is hopeful it can give the final thumbs-up this week on the $2.5 million repair to the 30-year-old bridge, which has been closed since August. Manon Arnett, a public information officer with District 2 of the NMDOT, said the roadway needs to be striped and a final inspection needs to take place. The DOT anticipates doing both of...
Today • City of Clovis Public Works Committee — 8:30 a.m., Clovis City Hall assembly room, 321 N. Connelly, Clovis. Information: 575-763-9654 Tuesday • Curry County Commission — 9 a.m., Commission Chambers, Curry County Administration Complex, 417 Gidding St., Clovis. Information: 575-763-6016 • Roosevelt County Commission — 9 a.m., Commission Room, Roosevelt County Courthouse, 109 W. First St., Portales. Information: 575-356-5307 • City of Clovis Lodgers’ Tax Advisory Board — 5:15 p.m., Clovis City Hall assembly room, 32...
Sometimes the main event is not the main event. A couple of times a year I usually receive article requests, three at a time, from a great little daily devotional magazine. As with all of their writers, the editors pick two Scripture passages for me and I get to pick the third. So when I received the request letter a few weeks ago, I wasn’t surprised. I opened it, perused the assigned passages, and saw that one was 1 Samuel 17:16-28. That’s a good one. Or, to be entirely acc...
Today • Final photography & writing session with ENMU’s visiting writer Don Mitchell — 8 a.m., Rotary Park, Portales. Free. Meet by playground. Bring camera of your choice, including cell phone cameras. Information: 575-607-6643 • Tiny Tots — 10 a.m., Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main St., Clovis. Information: 575-769-7840 • Preschool storytime “On the Farm” — 10:30 a.m., Portales Public Library, 218 S. Ave. B, Portales. Information: 575-356-3940 Thursday • Blood Drive — 9 a.m.-2 p.m., Sandia Room, ENMU Campus Uni...
March is wrapping up with a crazy busy weekend. Here’s a list of items you may need to help you get through a handful of the scheduled events: 1. A tiara 2. Dancing boots 3. Work gloves and canned goods 4. A fishing pole 5. A thinking cap Ready? Portales High School has invited all of us to come to the ball as it presents its spring musical, “Cinderella,” for four performances beginning at 6 p.m. Friday in the PHS Performing Arts Center at 201 S. Knoxville. “Tiaras are enc...
I returned to college after I turned 50. I had been working in business and, for a variety of reasons (reasons that required an entire book to explain) I was no longer willing or able to continue. After a lot of hemming and hawing, I finally decided I would jump through the necessary hoops and start over in an entirely new course of study. I decided, at 50, I wanted to be a writer. I moved out of state and into a converted garage, bought furniture on Craigslist, lived on the stipend the university paid me for teaching, and...
Entering its 69th year this weekend, the Floyd Jamboree shows there’s little need to mess with a good thing. The primary fundraiser for the Floyd’s Lions Club, the event has run since 1950 and draws performers and attendees from across the region and out of state. “It’s a traditional old country show,” said Paul Benoit. “The music is good — not just good, it’s great.” The “regular jamboree band” consisting of longtime performers will return. Among its number are Ronny Fouts on...
If you took a poll asking who is eastern New Mexico’s most famous resident of all time, the choices would likely include: • former pro football star Hank Baskett • music producer Norman Petty • or maybe actor Ronny Cox or former U.S. Treasurer Katherine Davalos Ortega, both graduates of Eastern New Mexico University. The list would not include Lila Leeds, a teenage beauty queen who dropped out of Clovis High School to pursue a career in the movies. But she could have been a star if she’d been born in a different era. Toda...
