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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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BASEBALL College standings LONE STAR CONFERENCE All Times MDT Conf. All W-L W-L Angelo State 28-4 30-4 St. Edward’s 25-6 27-6 Texas-Tyler 24-12 24-12 West Texas A&M 21-11 23-11 Texas A&M-Kingsville 21-15 22-16 Lubbock Christian 17-15 18-15 St. Mary’s 14-18 16-18 Eastern New Mexico 13-18 15-18 Texas A&M International 15-21 16-22 Texas-Permian Basin 14-22 15-22 Oklahoma Christian 11-21 11-22 Cameron 7-25 7-27 Ark.-Fort Smith 5-27 7-27 March 28 results Texas-Permian Basin 15, Sul Ross State 5; St. Mary’s 15, Our Lady of the Lake...
I love spring. I’m antsy to clean up garden areas, and plant things. There are green blobs already sprouting in various tubs throughout the yards. Could be weeds. Could be flowers. Could be one of a thousand seeds I planted last year coming back to life. There’s a sense of promise in the air. Anticipation. Hope. As a kid, I’d all but throw a party when the seed packets showed up in store aisles. I’d have to pick up and read each packet, explore the garden pots, the figurin...
“Christendom has had a series of revolutions,” writes G. K. Chesterton, “and in each one of them Christianity has died. Christianity has died many times and risen again; for it had a God who knew the way out of the grave.” Oh, yes, and a God who “so loved the world” that he truly did “give his only Son” both to pardon and to empower. The pardon had to be real. The power had to be real. Why? Because humanity’s problem was real. Put simply, our problem is that none of us measur...
On this date ... 1939: Edmund Dillon was welcomed to the Kiwanis Club in Clovis when new members met at the Harvey House for their weekly luncheon. Burke Culpepper, a visiting evangelist from Memphis, Tenn., gave a “fine talk” about “the milk of human kindness,” the Clovis News-Journal reported. Dillon was the son of pioneer Clovis doctor A.L. Dillon and Dixie Morrow. The Dillon family donated the land where Plains Regional Medical Center is located today. 1960: Portales voters sent Mayor Heck Harris to a second term, but gav...
GRADY – Junior Zane Rush hit a grand slam home run and Grady's baseball team outlasted the Texico junior varsity 10-7 on Monday afternoon. The Bronchos (6-2), who won their fifth consecutive game, hit the road early on Tuesday morning for a doubleheader at Magdalena. Also on Monday for Grady, sophomore Deakin Ragland whacked a pair of doubles while sophomore Jayce Garrett was 2-for-3 with an RBI. Eighth-graders Gabriel Whitehead and Andre Garcia handled pitching duties for the...
HOBBS – The Clovis and Portales tennis teams ran into some stiff competition on Friday in a quadrangular co-hosted by Lovington and Hobbs. CHS and PHS split head-to-head duals, Clovis winning the boys matchup 9-0 while Portales took the girls clash 6-3. Both schools struggled against their Lea County hosts, with the Hobbs boys beating the Wildcats and Rams by identical 9-0 counts and the Lady Eagles claiming an 8-1 win over Clovis and a 9-0 decision against Portales. Lovington’s boys, meantime, topped the Cats 5-4 and the...
PORTALES – Eastern New Mexico University's baseball team got the salvage game in their Lone Star Conference series against Texas-Tyler on Sunday at Greyhound Field. All it took was an outing with season highs in runs and hits – not to mention three innings of hitless relief by side-arming senior right-hander William McBride. ENMU banged out 21 hits, including three home runs, and held off the Patriots 17-14 after Tyler, which swept Saturday's doubleheader, took Sunday's lid...
PORTALES – Suffice it to say, Texas-Tyler junior left-hander Tatum Goff has lived up to her billing as the Lone Star Conference softball preseason pitcher of the year. Goff improved to 24-0 on Sunday, throwing her second shutout of the series as the third-ranked and LSC-leading Patriots completed a three-game series sweep of Eastern New Mexico University with an 8-0 victory at Greyhound Softball Field. Tyler (37-4, 25-2 LSC) banged out three home runs in making Goff’s job relatively easy. She walked one, struck out five and s...
PORTALES – Prior to Saturday, Zane Mayberry had only pitched in a couple of games for Portales High this season. But with the Rams looking at the last of 11 games in 13 days, the junior right-hander seemed pretty comfortable on the bump. Of course, having a huge lead doesn't hurt. Mayberry scattered six singles over five innings and the Rams completed a doubleheader sweep of Texico with a 15-1, run-rule victory at Ram Field. Portales (7-6) almost let the first one get away, bu...
In a short-lived fit of spring-cleaning last week, I was dusting a kitchen counter and wiped a layer of accumulated topsoil off of a couple of small wooden boxes that sit in a back corner. These boxes remain on my counter solely for sentimental reasons. They are filled with recipes — many handwritten — from my maternal grandmother, a woman who died in the early 1950s, long before my existence was ever even a consideration, much less a twinkle in anyone’s eye. I never use these...
We know the whole world has gone crazy. Nowhere has it become more insane than what’s been going on in women’s collegiate and high school sports. Biological males have been allowed to compete against girls and women in swimming, softball and even weightlifting, which, to people who are not woked out of their minds, is patently unfair to girl and women athletes. The poster child for how crazy women’s sports have become is Lia Thomas. Born William Thomas, he identified as a wom...
It was entirely predictable, but still despicable, that right-wing demagogues like Sen. Josh Hawley are trying to spin the Nashville school shooting into an indictment of transgender Americans generally because the assailant happened to identify as trans. That was the obvious thrust of a Fox News discussion between the Missouri Republican and host Laura Ingraham that was initially about the shooting but morphed seamlessly into the utter non sequitur of transgender medicine. “We’ve got to tell the truth about what hap...
I had hoped that legislators would take advantage of the unprecedented $9.4 billion budget this year to begin the transition away from an economy that is dependent on oil and gas revenue, but I don’t think that was ever on the agenda. The governor had promised before the election that we would all get checks in the mail if she won, so that was a given. Legislators also passed new tax credits for the film industry, and a phased-in reduction of the gross receipts tax. Those moves will help, but seem inadequate to the c...
The Roosevelt County Road Department is currently working on South Roosevelt Road 6 (SRR6), and started on South Roosevelt Road O, between NM 88 and South Roosevelt Road 10 on Monday. The whole project includes SRR6, between Kilgore and South Roosevelt Road J; South Roosevelt Road Q, between 18th Street and South Roosevelt Road 8; South Roosevelt Road 7, between NM 88 and U.S. Highway 70; South Roosevelt Road U, from NM 267 to South Roosevelt Road 6; South Roosevelt Road 6, between South Roosevelt Road U and South Roosevelt...
Clovis City Commission is scheduled to take steps to get funding for some city projects that didn’t get any Capital Outlay money from the 2023 Legislature. The action is on the agenda for Thursday’s regular commission meeting. The agenda simply states commissioners will vote on applying for grants from the Transportation Project Fund Grant Program administered by the New Mexico Department of Transportation. City administrators hope to get funding for the Purdue Street drainage project, street improvements to Marvin Haas Bou...
The Roosevelt County Commission took no action Tuesday related to a New Mexico Supreme Court ruling that blocks local ordinances, including one passed by Roosevelt County, that would ban shipment of equipment and supplies used to provide abortions. After an executive session Tuesday in which the Supreme Court case was discussed, the commission took no action. Commissioner Paul Grider, president of the commission, said he does not anticipate the commission will take action on the matter at a later date. The executive session...
A new airport terminal and a freshly painted airport runway: those are the top projects on the agenda of Clovis Regional Airport's new director, Amanda Brungart. "I love it. I'm excited for the opportunity," Brungart told The News Monday. As director, Brungart's responsibilities include directing, coordinating and supervising airport operations, including maintenance and security. Clovis City Manager Justin Howalt said in a news release he is glad Brungart has joined the city...
Curry County’s extension office will be participating in an effort to address the country’s response to a national mental health crisis. According to a press release, the Curry County extension office will bring mental health first aid training to the area. Youth mental health first aid, for adults working with young people ages 12-18, will be offered April 20 and adult mental health first aid will be May 18. Both sessions will take place at the Clovis-Carver Public Library and will last from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Of the...
In an effort to prevent tree-related power outages, Xcel Energy announced they’ll be tree trimming in parts of eastern New Mexico and west Texas. “Trees are valuable assets in our communities, but when limbs grow too close to our lines, they can greatly impact the reliability of service to our customers,” Xcel Energy program manager for vegetation management in Texas and New Mexico Michael Swanson said in an Xcel news release. “We trim branches away from our lines as an effective means of preventing outages.” Swanson s...
World Autism Day was Sunday, but the whole month of April still brings awareness to the disability. According to the National Autism Association, Autism is a bio-neurological developmental disability that generally appears before the age of three. Autism impacts the normal development of the brain in the areas of social interaction, communication skills, and cognitive function. Individuals with autism typically have difficulties in verbal and non-verbal communication, social...
Easter Sunday is quickly approaching, and there won’t be a lack of fun things for families and kiddos to do this holiday. The City of Clovis is putting on a community Easter egg hunt Saturday. City Clerk Vicki Reyes said this will be the city’s largest egg hunt to date “with close to 10,000 eggs and the most giveaways we’ve ever had.” A flyer for the event says there will also be music, crafts, and giveaways for those in attendance. Children should bring their own egg baskets. That egg hunt will be Saturday starting...
PORTALES - Eastern New Mexico University (ENMU) will present the 46th annual Jack Williamson Lectureship April 13-15, featuring guest of honor, author, and two-time Hugo Award winner Arkady Martine. According to a news release from ENMU, assistant vice president of marketing and communications John Houser said, “Martine is a true superstar in the world of science fiction and fantasy.” Houser writes Martine’s debut novel, “A Memory Called Empire,” won the 2020 Hugo Award for best novel. The sequel, “A Desolation Called Peac...
Two guys who regularly have a game of noontime basketball in Portales have also gotten together to write their fifth American history book. Eastern New Mexico University professors Donald "Doc" Elder, professor of history, and Michael Shaughnessy, professor of education, wrote "Washington's Generals," stories of 25 commanding officers under George Washington's command during the American Revolution. Elder said the inspiration for writing the book is the 250th anniversary of...
It’s been a year since cash registers first started ringing up sales of adult-use recreational marijuana in New Mexico. They haven’t stopped. Commercial sales of recreational cannabis topped more than $300 million in their first year, generating more than $27 million in excise taxes, according to figures released Monday. “In just one year, hundreds of millions of dollars in economic activity has been generated in communities across the state, the number of businesses continues to increase, and thousands of New Mexicans are e...
