Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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FOOTBALL Prep Area bowl game results Friday Eunice 26, Texico 19 Mountainair 64, Clovis Christian 18 Hondo 47, Elida 19 VOLLEYBALL Prep summaries State tournaments Tuesday Class 5A quarterfinals Santa Fe High 3, Clovis 1 Clovis 17 24 25 21 Santa Fe High 25 26 21 25 Clovis individual statistics Kills — Kaci Cabeldue 13, Kiara Cox 8, Tabitha Gallegos 8, Kameron Kelley 6. Blocks — Cabeldue 3, Cox 1, Skyler Jordan 1. Digs — Janelle Macias 18, Hannah Gallegos 14, Camryn Barros 11, T. Gallegos 11, Kelley 11. Aces — H. Gallego...
New Mexico is on its way to joining more than a dozen other states in legalizing recreational marijuana. House Bill 2 passed the Senate with a 22-15 vote during Wednesday’s special session, moving it to the governor’s desk where she is expected to sign it. Recreational cannabis is expected to be sold legally throughout the state by this time next year. The legislation’s companion bill, Senate Bill 2, will dismiss charges for certain prior marijuana convictions. Area residents said last week they have mixed feelings about lega...
PORTALES — Like many basketball coaches this spring in New Mexico, Portales High boys coach Rickie McBroom is patiently waiting for the moment he can get his full team together. The Rams were to play their fifth and final football game of this abbreviated season on Saturday. On Tuesday night, many of those same players will be seeing action in their first basketball game in more than a year. “About half the varsity is still playing football,” McBroom said last week as his remaining players tried to prepare for Tuesd...
CLOVIS — Clovis Christian’s girls trailed Grady by 12 points at the end of each of the first three quarters in Thursday’s basketball season opener at the CCS gym. The Lady Eagles made a final push down the stretch, only to come up just short in a 51-49 District 6-1A loss to the Lady Bronchos. “We had a slow start and Grady came out hot,” CCS girls coach Matt Chandler said. “We’ve obviously got a few things to work on, but I was proud of them.” Senior Kristin Grau hit two 3-pointers and senior Isabelle Martinez added another a...
PORTALES — Eastern New Mexico University athletic director Matt Billings has announced the appointment of Dusté Grawrock as interim softball coach for the remainder of the 2021 season. Grawrock has previous college head coaching experience at Southern Virginia University, an NCAA Division III school in Buena Vista, Va., where she posted a 30-93 record from 2010-2014. Prior to that, she was an assistant softball coach from 2003-05 at Valley Catholic H.S. in Beaverton, Ore. From 2007-17, Grawrock served as a private pi...
ROSWELL — Clovis High’s boys got off to a fast start on Thursday night, hitting four 3-pointers for a 14-9 lead late in the first quarter. The Wildcats then cooled off and found themselves down by five points entering the final period. They pulled even late to force overtime, then outscored Roswell Goddard 6-2 in the extra session to claim a season-opening 67-63 victory. Sophomore guard Bryson Goldsmith scored 24 points for the Cats, who overcame a 33-point outing from Rockets junior guard Noah Reese. Goldsmith’s basket tied...
ALBUQUERQUE - Texico and Eunice battled as if a Class 2A state championship were on the line in Friday's New Mexico Activities Association "bowl game" at University Stadium on the campus of the University of New Mexico. Both teams came in 4-0, but it was Eunice which pulled away with a couple of touchdowns early in the final stanza to take a 26-19 win over the Wolverines. Senior quarterback Hayden Dean ran for two scores and passed for another as the Cardinals overtook Texico...
SAN ANTONIO — After dropping a tough one in the lidlifter, Eastern New Mexico University’s baseball team was quickly taken out of contention in the nightcap. St. Mary’s sent 14 men to the plate in a 10-run first, and the Rattlers went on to crush the Greyhounds 21-3 for a sweep of Friday’s Lone Star Conference doubleheader. Third baseman Fernando Zubia drove in five runs with a single and a pair of two-run doubles in a game stopped in the seventh inning by the 10-run rule. The Rattlers (14-13, 11-12 LSC) pounded out 16 hits a...
SANTA FE — Clovis High’s girls gave Santa Fe High a decent run for its money in Tuesday’s Class 5A state volleyball quarterfinals. In the end, the Lady Demons showed why they earned the No. 1 seed in the eight-team field. Santa Fe broke away in the fourth set to nail down a 25-17, 26-24, 21-25, 25-15 win over the eighth-seeded Lady Wildcats. On Thursday, the Lady Demons (10-1) knocked out fifth-seeded Rio Rancho Cleveland in three sets to advance to Saturday’s title match at The Pit in Albuquerque, where they faced No. 2 s...
CLOVIS - There are different ways to look at Thursday's Roswell Goddard-Clovis High girls basketball game at Rock Staubus Gym. Goddard coach Jared Neighbors noted that his team has several players still involved in soccer and hasn't been able to go much fullcourt yet. Meantime, CHS coach Jeff Reed was without two players from last season, including 2019-20 scoring and rebounding leader Hanna Nussbaumer and junior guard Luisa Chavez. Both are members of the Lady Cats' soccer...
ALBUQUERQUE - Seemingly well on their way to a seventh consecutive Class 2A state championship, the wheels fell off late on Friday for the Texico volleyball team. Unbeaten, second-seeded Cloudcroft rallied to dominate the fourth and fifth sets and stunned the top-seeded Lady Wolverines 16-25, 25-21, 15-25, 25-11,15-5 at The Pit on the campus of the University of New Mexico. The Lady Bears (17-0) took advantage of Texico's late struggles to wrest the title from the Lady...
CARLSBAD — Clovis High’s boys kept their flickering hopes of a postseason berth alive on Thursday night. Senior forward Lupe Meza slipped a shot past Carlsbad goalkeeper Eduardo Aguilar about 10 minutes into the second half to break the scoring ice, and the Wildcats went on to a 2-0 District 4-5A victory over the Cavemen. Freshman midfielder Drex Carter gave the Cats (4-3, 2-3 district) an insurance goal with under four minutes to go. Despite the relatively close nature of the contest, CHS coach Greg Trujillo said he felt con...
On this date ... 1921: A Portales jury found Tom Gregory innocent of allegations he shot cattle belonging to Richard Robinson on Feb. 6. “It appears that on the day of the shooting, that Gregory was in Texico,” The Portales Valley News reported. 1931: The wife of Portales’ jailer may have prevented a jail break. “Mrs. Robinson … heard a noise of filing bars in the cell room over the living room of the jail,” The Portales Valley News reported. “Jailer Robinson was notified and found the prisoners attempting to file their wa...
The following marriage licenses were recently issued at the Curry County Clerk’s office: • Cassidy Richburg, 22, and Alyson Guthrie, 21, both of Clovis ∞ Inez Valdez, 38, and Isrea Silva, 40, both of Clovis ∞ Dustin Grider, 39, and Tory Quinn, 27, both of Melrose The following divorces were recently filed at the Curry County court clerk’s office: ∞ Jamie Mendoza and Demesio Mendoza ∞ Ramon Vizcarra and Matilde Holguin ∞ Paige Sneller and Colby Sneller ∞ Jade Abelon and Joey Abelon ∞ Jordan Sloan and Jared Sloan ∞ James Timpe...
Barring a very bad weekend of COVID-19 infections, Curry County should enter the state’s turquoise designation and Roosevelt County will stay there, based on estimates of public data by The News. Under the state’s “Red to Green” reopening initiative launched Nov. 30, counties are graded every two weeks on the 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 turquoise counties make green for two consecuti...
Dear Republicans: Let’s just say this plainly. You are a people lacking integrity and honor. And you have not a thimbleful of respect for one of this nation’s most sacred principles: Meaning equality under the law. One person, one vote. That harsh appraisal is necessitated by your response to losing the 2020 election. First, you pretended you didn’t, embracing the anti-fact hogwash your craven leader spewed like a broken sewer pipe. Then a mob of your voters breached the U...
The New Mexico Legislature is not a co-equal branch of government, and that’s by design. The New Mexico Governor’s Office is modern and up-to-date; and operates much like other governor’s offices throughout the country. The last major update came in 2020 when a new Cabinet-level department was added to coordinate services for young children. The New Mexico Legislature is antiquated and out-of-date; and is thoroughly unlike any other state legislature in the country. I’m not sure when (or if) the last major update was, bu...
The pandemic of 2020 was a tragedy for the whole world. But our all-out war against the coronavirus taught Americans a bunch of important lessons. It proved that our political system in Washington is a partisan train wreck. It proved that you can’t teach kids by Zoom as well as you can in person. It proved that the CDC doesn’t know what it’s doing and Blue State governors will issue sweeping lockdowns even when they have no idea how much collateral harm they’ll do to the res...
Tom Wolf, lame-duck governor of Pennsylvania, announced on Twitter that he wanted the commonwealth to legalize pot. His comment was hailed as timely, necessary and courageous by many of his lame-duck followers on social media. There is a huge constituency in Pennsylvania, and nationally, for ending what some call a prohibition and others view as a common-sense limitation on recreational marijuana. It is important to note that neither Wolf nor I are referring to medical...
By this time next year, pot will be legal and openly for sale across New Mexico. The Legislature approved cannabis legislation in a special session last week and the governor is expected to sign it any minute now. There are plenty of reasons marijuana is a bad idea, as Republicans, and a few Democrats, have argued: It can result in impaired driving, workplace injuries, delayed brain development, and it may be a gateway to more serious drug addictions, which can result in lifelong health problems and death. But of course you...
So far, the defining word of the Biden era is “trillion.” The Joe Biden who portrayed himself as a moderate, old school, bipartisan dealmaker during the presidential campaign is now a distant memory. He’s been replaced by the Joe Biden who is dazzling progressives with his willingness to “go big” — in other words, spend jaw-dropping amounts that would have been unimaginable prior to the pandemic and are still shocking even now. Why has Biden embarked on a historic spending sp...
SANTA FE — The New Mexico Supreme Court ruled Friday that courts in the state cannot order a veteran to reimburse a former spouse for a divorce agreement's share of military retirement pay that ended when the veteran opted to receive disability benefits. The 4-0 decision on Russ v. Russ holds that federal law precluded state courts from enforcing a 2006 divorce agreement between Angela and Jeffery Russ. The couple separated in 2006 after 13 years of marriage, and entered into a settlement that granted Angela Russ would r...
CLOVIS — For the first time since last March — and the first time ever for its three newest members — the Clovis City Commission sat as one on the dais Thursday night. There were still clear signs of the COVID-19 pandemic and safety measures at the North Annex of the Clovis-Carver Public Library, including Plexiglas shields between the eight commissioners and Mayor Mike Morris. Based on public health definitions that have shifted numerous times since the first COVID-19 case was confirmed 13 months ago, the commission has s...
CLOVIS — A man serving probation for drug charges was sentenced to serve his remaining nine years in jail on Wednesday. David Devenport, 49, was convicted for second-degree felonies of trafficking controlled substances in 2016. During the Wednesday hearing, officials from the Adult Probation Office testified Devenport continually missed appointments, failed to call in and failed to get court-ordered treatment. District Judge Drew Tatum revoked the probation, telling Devenport the APO’s time is better spent on other peo...
ALBUQUERQUE — Melrose senior outside hitter/middle blocker Hailey Martin didn’t mind that Thursday’s Class 1A state volleyball championship match was a little tougher than usual. In fact, she said, she liked it that way. Martin compiled 25 kills and 24 digs to help the top-seeded Lady Buffs overcome a slow start and outlast second-seeded Gateway Christian 13-25, 25-18, 25-15, 26-24 at The Pit on the campus of the University of New Mexico. Melrose (14-1), playing in its seventh consecutive state final under coach Casey Jacks...
