Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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PORTALES — The juice isn’t worth the squeeze. After spirited debate, Eastern New Mexico University officials decided Friday they won’t fully reopen campus for the remainder of the spring semester. However, the university’s board of regents were adamant Roosevelt County was showing strong signs of recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, and the university needed to reflect it. The compromise: Reopen all university buildings associated with student services by April 5. Life has not been normal on campus since the COVID-19 pandemi...
OKLAHOMA CITY — First baseman Michael DiFiore capped a big day with a go-ahead, two-run homer in the eighth inning and Oklahoma Christian rallied past Eastern New Mexico University 6-4 on Friday, completing a sweep of their Lone Star Conference baseball doubleheader. The Eagles cruised in Game 1, crushing seven home runs in a 27-7 blowout of the Greyhounds. The finale of the three-game series was set for Saturday afternoon. ENMU (5-15, 5-14 LSC), which has dropped five in a row and seven of eight, had a chance to win the n...
PORTALES — Still hoping to sneak into next week’s eight-team Class 4A state tournament as the No. 2 team out of its district, the Portales High volleyball squad suffered a bit of an early hiccup on Thursday night. Facing a struggling young Lovington contingent, the Lady Rams trailed all the way in dropping the first set. They quickly righted the ship, though, and in the end thrashed the winless Lady Wildcats 19-25, 25-10, 25-5, 25-14 at the Ram Athletic Center. PHS (8-3, 2-3 District 4-4A), which suffered a tough thr...
ALBUQUERQUE — Portales High got its first state Class 4A cross country qualifiers last season. Now, in the program’s third year, the Rams and Lady Rams qualified their teams for state. Both teams ran shorthanded in Friday’s state event, hosted by Albuquerque Academy. Sophomore Michael Riess and his sister, eighth-grader Hannah Riess, missed the event due to a death in the family while sophomore Zoe Roy couldn’t go after sustaining an ankle injury during a soccer match earlier in the week. Michael Riess is the boys’ top runne...
CLOVIS - After playing four matches in nearly 17 months, Clovis High's soccer boys will play that many in essentially a week's time. It started on Saturday with a District 4-5A contest against Carlsbad at Leon Williams Stadium - a 2-0 victory for the Wildcats. Clovis (3-2, 1-2 district) visits Hobbs on Tuesday and Carlsbad on Thursday before finishing the regular season at home against Roswell High on Saturday, and the Cats need to string some wins if they hope to make the...
SANTA FE — The New Mexico Environment Department is offering free water well testing in Curry and Roosevelt counties for the “forever chemicals of PFAS. Signup is available by calling 505-660-3391 or emailing [email protected]. The chemicals, which the U.S. Air Force acknowledged were present in groundwater surrounding Cannon Air Force Base two years ago, are scientifically known as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances. The chemicals are present in numerous everyday objects like fast food wrappers and nonstick coo...
LOVINGTON - When the smoke cleared, literally, on Friday night's Portales-Lovington football game at Lovington High School, the Rams' undefeated streak had ended, the Wildcats had bested an opponent that gave them trouble in recent years, and the bizarre March sprint of a football regular season was over for both teams. The game's final play was a short touchdown run by Lovington's Tres Arreola that made the Wildcats' final win tally 36-20. A cannon fired from beyond the end...
PORTALES — Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Eastern New Mexico University has shelved many of its athletic programs for the last 12-plus months. Due to what it claimed were concerns over budget and Title IX compliance, the school is shelving its men’s soccer team for at least the 2021-22 academic year. Administration made the announcement Friday after making its case to the ENMU board of regents. There was no action item on the agenda regarding the men’s soccer program, and regents gave administration the latitude to suspe...
Monday through Thursday • Final days of the Friends of the Portales Public Library “pay what you can” used book sale — front lobby area, Portales Public Library, 218 S. Ave. B, Portales. Large assortment of used books sorted by genre available for sale during regular library hours. New stock added daily. Access will be limited to 30 minutes and no more than 10 shoppers at one time; social distancing enforced, masks required. No set prices; donations of all sizes welcome. All proceeds used to support year-round program...
Meetings are subject to change due to coronavirus concerns. Monday • City of Clovis Parks, Recreation, and Beautification Committee — 5:30 p.m., North Annex, Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main, Clovis. Information: 575-763-9654 Wednesday • Clovis Community College Board of Trustees study session — 8 a.m., virtual format. Information: http://www.clovis.edu/about/administration.aspx or 575-769-4001 Thursday • Clovis City Commission — 5:15 p.m., North Annex, Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main St., Clovis. Pub...
The following marriage licenses were recently issued at the Curry County Clerk’s office: • Victor Trevino, 27, of Clovis, and Rachel Hofmann, 27, of Wimauma, Florida • James Coon, 20, and Aubrie Gershon, 21, both of Clovis • Marco Garcia-Flores, 28, and Esermalda Arzate, 22, both of Clovis • Dennis Smith, 55, Melrose, and Robert Brewer, 44, both of Melrose • Mathew Williams, 41, of Fort McCoy, Floria - Tami Lincul, 43, of Silver Springs, Florida • Jaden Robinson, 21, of Clovis, and Jada Blount, 22, of Amarillo • Richard Yan...
On this date ... 1961: Police had arrested three people who claimed responsibility for burglaries at 35 Clovis-area businesses. The suspects, ages 15, 17 and 21, had most recently been questioned about seven nighttime burglaries that had occurred in one evening. The value of property stolen was in excess of $1,500, police said. All of the burglaries had taken place in the previous six months. 1961: Attendance at Conchas Lake near Tucumcari had dropped in 1960, though...
Alexis Knutson doesn’t want to see her friend reduced. That friend, she told The New York Times, “had the biggest, brightest smile. She always just had these dimples that, especially when she got excited about something — her smile was just huge.” “I always had a rule,” Knutson said. “She couldn’t call me before 9 a.m. because I like my sleep. She would always call me at 6 a.m.” Of course, she did. Because that’s how friends do one another. And Knutson hates the idea of s...
Every bill passed by the New Mexico Legislature begins with a conspiracy to break the rules and then cover it up. And every member is in on it. Before the start of floor debate on any bill, the sponsor has to read the following disclaimer: “I ask unanimous consent that the rules be suspended and the record reflect that all actions have been taken …” for final passage of the bill. I always wondered why they didn’t just change the rule, instead of agreeing to break it every time. And I wondered what would happen if just on...
The Vatican came out this month and confirmed that it would not be “blessing” same-sex unions, a move that should have surprised no one. The church changes certain things all the time, adapting and updating as it sees fit. Beyond changes in language and style, there have been some more substantive changes, including allowing for “altar girls,” allowing lay persons to distribute communion, allowing women to participate more fully in the liturgy and delighting butchers everywher...
New Mexico is blessed with a strong and diverse agriculture industry, both culturally and in what we produce. I love to share how our producers grow everything to fill your plate! Last week was National Ag Week. This is the perfect opportunity to reflect upon what it takes to fill the plate. Before we take a bite or a drink of whatever delicious products we have on our tables, let's take a moment to appreciate our food and beverages. Let's not just think about the actual product, but consider all the time, effort and hard...
Well, the principled stand Democrats took against Congress trying to overturn duly certified elections lasted all of a month or two. After rightly excoriating their Republican colleagues for challenging on Jan. 6 presidential results certified by the states, House Democrats immediately turned to doing, in effect, the exact same thing in an Iowa congressional district their candidate lost by six votes. Republican Mariannette Miller-Meeks won Iowa’s 2nd Congressional District b...
It has been clear for months that COVID-19 poses a higher risk of severe illness, hospitalization and death for seniors. But New Mexico is still playing catchup when it comes to vaccinating older people. The state doesn't categorize people 60 to 74 in their own phase based on age, but lumps them in with thousands of “other essential workers” in group 1C. That puts thousands of New Mexicans between the ages of 60 and 74 who don't have a qualifying medical condition near the tail end of the vaccine priority line — which is sh...
Booked The following were booked into local jails (Tuesday-Friday): Clovis • Zachariah Mares, 30, receiving stolen property • Alejandro Reyna, 41, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge • Carol Armstrong, 59, criminal trespass • Kimberly William, 35, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge • Angel Garcia, 21, failure to appear on a felony charge, possession of a firearm or destructive device by a felon, resisting, evading or obstructing an officer, unlawful carrying of a deadly weapon, possession of a controlled substance ...
PORTALES — A May 28 graduation has already been planned, in person and outdoors at the spacious Greyhound Stadium, for Portales High School seniors. The school will have a good idea of just how to handle it, as Eastern New Mexico University is planning its own in-person commencement ceremony there May 15. The university has not had an in-person graduation ceremony since the COVID-19 pandemic began in March 2020, and the school is mostly in a virtual setting for classes. But Chancellor Patrice Caldwell felt there were p...
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled in the favor of a Portales attorney’s client Thursday, with a divided ruling on Torres vs. Madrid. By a 5-3 ruling, the court reversed the decision of the Tenth Circuit and concluded that New Mexico State Police Officers Janice Madrid and Richard Williamson seized Albuquerque resident Roxanne Torres — a client of Portales’ Eric Dixon — even though she fled, and that she was within her right to seek damages from them in court. Dixon, in a Friday release from his office, called the opinion g...
SANTA FE — Of all of the signs the COVID-19 pandemic is starting to go away — counties turning green and turquoise, vaccinations beating new cases by a 72-to-1 margin — the clearest sign might be governmental agencies simply discussing it less. A note at the end of Wednesday’s webinar from the New Mexico Human Services and Health departments noted that the weekly updates on the COVID-19 pandemic would become bi-weekly with the next one April 7 — the next “Red to Green” update for counties. Curry County made the green designa...
SANTA FE — After a cannabis legalization bill fizzled in the final hours of this year’s 60-day legislative session, a small group of New Mexico lawmakers have been working in recent days to plant the seed for a possible bipartisan breakthrough. They will have that chance after Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said Friday she will call lawmakers back to the state Capitol for a special session starting Tuesday. In addition to the proposal to legalize recreational marijuana for adult users, the governor also said she would add to...
The U.S. Energy Information Administration released a report last month highlighting its projections that the U.S. electricity generation mix made up of renewables will have doubled by 2050. That's also when 42% of the nation's electricity will be provided by renewables. "Wind and solar generation are responsible for most of that growth. The renewable share is projected to increase as nuclear and coal-fired generation decrease and the natural gas-fired generation share remains...
FOOTBALL Prep summary Friday Fort Sumner 44, Melrose 14 Melrose 0 6 0 8 — 14 Fort Sumner 0 28 16 0 — 44 Scoring summary First quarter No scoring Second quarter M — Dathan Yeary 50 pass from Michael Cardonita (pass failed), 9:26 FS — Creed West 4 pass from Kane Burney (Chance Drake pass from Burney), 7:06 FS — Clay Norman 47 pass from Burney (West pass from Burney), 4:27 FS — Drake 46 pass from Burney (pass failed), 2:15 FS — Drake 47 pass from Burney (pass failed), :18 Third quarter FS — West 70 kickoff return (Parker...
