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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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BASEBALL Prep linescores Friday First game Eunice 12, Portales 2 Eunice 131 70 —12 14 1 Portales 020 00 — 2 6 1 Zeke Benton, Jordan Ruth (5) and Conagher Pierce; Carmelo Nunez, Miguel Gomez (4) and Noah Swift. W — Benton. L — Nunez. Top hitters — Eunice: Micah Tippett 2-4, 3-run 3B, run; Chance Tucker 3-3, 2-run 2B, 2 runs, HBP, SB; Benton 2-3, 2B, 2 RBIs; Marcus Tercero 2-4, RBI, 2 runs; Sean Stinson 2-2, inside-the-park HR, 2 RBIs, 2 runs. Portales: Andru Ontiveros 2-2; Swift 2-3; Alex Garcia 1-2, run. Records — Eunice...
PORTALES - Jim Lucero has stepped down as the Roosevelt County Community Development Corporation's executive director. Lucero and RCCDC Board President Eric Segovia said Lucero left the post after negotiations for Lucero's contract broke down. Lucero added, "I rejected their first offer and they allowed me to counter their offer. I provided them with a counter with a lot of supporting data ... and they came back with their original offer, which was take it or leave it to me. S...
Three Clovis recreational cannabis retailers are opening for business in grand style on Friday, the first day of legal cannabis sales declared by the state of New Mexico. Earl and Tom, located at 106 S. Main Street downtown, will open with a ribbon cutting at 9 a.m. Friday, according to co-owner Earl Henson. Cowboy Verde, a branch of an Albuquerque-based dispensary operator, will open its doors to customers at 9 a.m. Friday, with free gifts for the first 75 customers, founder Anthony Torrez said. Cowboy Verde in Clovis is loc...
PORTALES - After getting run-ruled in the opener, the Portales High baseball team was an eyelash away from handing Eunice its first loss of the season on Friday night. Trailing 3-2, the Cardinals scored once in the seventh to force extra innings, then tacked on two more in the eighth to claim a 5-3 win and sweep the doubleheader at Ram Field. Eunice (6-0) notched a 12-2, run-rule win in five innings in the opener. Eighth-grader Carson Pfaffenberger struck out 11 and allowed...
AUSTIN, Texas — Freshman Breanna Loyola picked up her first collegiate RBI on Sunday, and it was a big one. Loyola, a backup catcher, delivered the go-ahead run with a pinch-hit single in the top of the sixth — her second hit in seven at-bats this season — and Eastern New Mexico University made it stand up for a 3-2 win over St. Edward’s to gain a split of their Lone Star Conference softball doubleheader. Sophomore Brook Leger (9-10) earned the decision in both games, a tough 1-0 complete-game loss in the opener and a three...
PORTALES — Second-year Eastern New Mexico University football coach Tye Hiatt is anxious to get his team on the field again. The Greyhounds will do just that beginning today when they kick off spring football with a 3 p.m. practice session. The team is slated for 14 practices before ending the spring campaign with the Green & Silver intrasquad game, set for 6 p.m. on April 29 at Greyhound Stadium. “For the last, about, nine weeks, we’ve done a lot of lifting and running and conditioning,” Hiatt said. “I can tell you our p...
Friday marks the beginning of legal marijuana purchase and use in New Mexico. New Mexico has joined 17 other states in allowing the recreational use of cannabis. That leaves 32 states where cannabis laws range from limited use such as for medicinal purposes to totally illegal. New Mexico’s eastern neighbor, Texas, does not allow medicinal, let alone recreational, use of cannabis. While buying and smoking pot in New Mexico means one thing to residents, it could mean trouble for Texans or other out-of-state residents who t...
All this national news about Supreme Court judges has me thinking about the judges who make day-to-day differences in our lives, namely, the lower court judges who live and die among us. As a journalist, I’ve known many judges through the years, and have bittersweet memories of one district judge in particular. I came to know him quite well as a reporter in Conway, Ark. His name was Watson Villines, a young man in his 30s who took the higher standards of his job quite seriously. He followed the law in his courtroom, but he a...
Grieving the loss of a loved one looks different for each one of us. When my son died I went in to a state of shock. I cried for months and I couldn’t drive past his apartment without gut-wrenching pain. I couldn’t go through and sort the boxes of his belongings. I couldn’t scatter his ashes because that would mean letting go and I was unable to do that. I felt guilty because I couldn’t have a proper funeral for him but I couldn’t say goodbye. I’m still not saying goodbye, but I am finally ready to create a memorial fo...
Life is too short to waste it trying to govern other people. If you’re honest you’ll admit you have enough to keep you busy just controlling – governing -- yourself. Even if you have it all worked out and you are perfect, your perfection collapses the moment you try to govern someone besides yourself. It’s your responsibility to govern yourself. It’s not your responsibility to govern anyone else. In fact, governing others is something no one has the right to do. Nor can you d...
Booked The following were booked into local jails (Friday - Tuesday): Clovis * Martin Bejarano, 27, non-residential burglary, larceny * Dario Chavez, 29, failure to appear on a felony charge * Samantha Lomaintewa, 30, probation violation * Israel Gonzalez, 32, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge * Joe Chavez, 61, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge * Johnathan Trujillo, 32, possession of a controlled substance, possession of drug paraphernalia * Larry Smith, 45, driving while license suspended or revoked, improper tur...
There are many more pets vaccinated in the Clovis area after the Adopt-a-Pet animal rescue organization sponsored a free shots clinic Saturday at the Baxter-Curren Senior Citizen Center in Clovis. Karl Korff, an Adopt-a-Pet founder, said 78 pets, mostly dogs, received basic animal vaccines that protect against diseases like parvovirus and distemper. An employee of Dr. Rebekah Ford of the Clovis Veterinary Hospital, who administered the vaccines, said Monday that Ford poked 77...
PORTALES – A Portales man on Monday reached a plea agreement to a charge of murder in the second degree with aggravating circumstances in connection with a 2021 stabbing death. Jesse Lujan, 35, was accused of stabbing to death his cousin, Roy Courtney Lujan, 41, with a steak knife on Sept. 11. District Judge Donna Mowrer sentenced Jesse Lujan to 20 years in prison, according to a news release from District Attorney Brian Stover. Records show Portales police responded to a r...
A Clovis man is in a Lubbock hospital recuperating from a Sunday shooting incident. According to Clovis police, Alejandro Alvarado of the 500 block of Hinkle Street was beaten with a baseball bat and shot three times in the incident. While Alvarado was being treated by medical personnel at the scene, he told police that he was in the kitchen of his home when Gustavo Ramos “kicked down the door to his residence … began beating him with a baseball bat, fired several shots which struck him at least three times.” Alvarado said...
Eastern New Mexico University has a new logo that is being phased in. John Houser, Assistant Vice President of Marketing and Communications, reports in an email that the new logo is called "our legacy primary mark, a way to honor our past while moving us into a brighter future." The new ENM Mark adorned the university's letterman jackets and sweaters for many years until it was discontinued a some time ago....
The New Mexico Department of Workforce Solutions has released its latest labor market review, which breaks down the state’s employment data for January and concludes that New Mexico is grappling with the second-highest unemployment rate in the country. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor of Statistics, New Mexico’s unemployment rate in January was 5.9 percent, surpassed only by the District of Columbia, at 6.3 percent. California had the third-worst ranking, with a 5.8 percent unemployment rate. The Department of Wor...
Thirty food and agriculture groups have released the sixth annual Feeding The Economy report, a historic farm-to-fork economic analysis revealing how these sectors influence the local and broader United States economies. Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, this year’s study highlights how the industries remained resilient to provide Americans with jobs, economic opportunities and safe food. The report’s findings show that seven percent of the nation’s economy and 29 percent of American jobs are linked to the food and agric...
The City of Clovis will hold a swearing-in ceremony for the newly elected commissioners at 9 a.m., Friday, in the City Hall Assembly Room, located at 321 N. Connelly St. according to a city news release. New commissioners will be David Bryant from district 3, George Jones from district 1 and Gene Porter from district 2. A quorum of commissioners may be present. The public is invited to attend the ceremony but may also view the proceedings via Facebook Live at City of Clovis, NM (City Government) or www.fac...
Bovina will be getting a splash pad thanks to The Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission. The city of Bovina received a $150,000 small community grant for its Community Park Splash Pad project. Proposed developments include splash pad, picnic tables with covered seating and signage. The commission approved more than $12.5 million in grants to help create and enhance outdoor recreational opportunities in Texas. The competitive grants are allocated to local government entities on a 50-50 reimbursement match basis, and once...
For years, the city of Española’s water has contained elevated levels of naturally-occurring fluoride. On March 14, the City of Española posted a public notice on the city’s website about fluoride levels in the water system. It showed test results from three fluoride tests at what is called the Miox tank #4 (where water from various wells are blended) from December 2016, July 2017 and January 2021 that showed concentrations (in milligram per liter) of 2.92, 2.29 and 3.28, respectively. According to the Environmental Prote...
A Tucumcari man rescued from a steep ledge on Tucumcari Mountain after becoming stranded there for hours recently had been denied access by one of the mesa’s owners earlier that day. Daniel W. Pennison, 43, was booked into the Quay County Detention Center on March 14 on charges of criminal trespass and resisting, evading or obstructing an officer. Both are misdemeanors. According to a criminal complaint filed in Tucumcari magistrate court, the Quay County Sheriff’s Office was informed on March 14 about a man being stuck on Tu...
On this date … 1987: Several homeowners who lived along Clovis’ Llano Estacado Boulevard were protesting plans to turn the dirt road into a four-lane paved highway. They had voiced their concerns to the executive committee of the Economic Development Division of the New Mexico Highway Commission, which was considering the project. “The thing is, it’s already a racetrack through there,” Marcie Bell told the Clovis News-Journal. “We don’t live there, but the grandkids do. “Our thinking is, these kids moved to the country bec...
Amid all the hubbub of it being the first of the month, of Friday being the day legal recreational cannabis sales begin in New Mexico, the day three new city commissioners officially take office in Clovis some may forget that Friday is April Fool’s Day. April Fool’s Day, when pranks, practical jokes and hoaxes may pop up. Here at The News we asked our readers to share thoughts about April Fool’s Day. At Michelle Shover’s house April Fool’s Day is not called April Fool’s Day. “It shall forever be known as Pranksgiving...
Dale Smith's wife and three children helped to honor their husband and father Monday in a ceremony organized by the Tunnel to Towers Foundation, which arranged and paid for the new therapy room and bathroom modifications that Dale needs in the family home. Smith has been disabled since he received head wounds from a sniper's bullet in July 2011 while he was a sergeant in the U.S. Army, serving in Afghanistan. That was after he had been deployed three times, once to Iraq and...
Legal recreational cannabis comes to New Mexico on Friday. “We are breaking new ground and continuing to expand our economy to new heights,” Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham wrote in a social media post Sunday. “A year ago I enacted legislation legalizing recreational cannabis in New Mexico,” the governor wrote. “An industry that will create 11,000 new jobs for New Mexicans and generate hundreds of millions of dollars in sales and tax revenue.” The state’s Cannabis Regulation Act allows adults 21 and older to buy, possess, cons...
