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Twenty pledge class members of the Zeta Tau Alpha sorority were taking an Easter break after soliciting contributions for the Cancer Crusade as their community service project. Joy Wiman, of Hereford, was president of the Delta Pi ENMU chapter....
The Portales News-Tribune reported that seven applications for liquor licenses had been filed in Portales since the city voted a local option the week before. John Romero, assistant director of...
PNT staff reports Law enforcement officials found blood but no people upon arriving at the scene of a one-vehicle rollover Monday afternoon on N.M. 358 in northeast Roosevelt County. County Sheriff Darren Hooker said he and a deputy responded to the call about the wreck around 1 p.m. A van had left the road, and the driver then overcorrected, rolling the van at least twice on the road, Hooker said. The vehicle was heavily damaged. The occupants had left the scene, but Hooker said there was a lot of blood. Police took samples...
PNT staff reports A New Mexico State Forestry Division investigator has ruled the cause of the grassfire southwest of Causey on April 9 could not be determined, according to Roosevelt County Sheriff Darren Hooker. Hooker said the investigator was able to approximate a point of origin, but couldn’t find the cause. The fire burned 1,300 acres and a home in two hours.... Full story
Greg Young is certainly one coach who believes that the Eastern New Mexico University men’s basketball team can successfully compete in the Lone Star Conference. If not, the current head coach at Jacksonville (Texas) Junior College wouldn’t have been quite as enticed to enter the race to be the Greyhounds’ new leader. As it is, as he related to a small group in Portales on Monday, Young has always been a Lone Star fan and now wants to be part of the head coaching fraternity within that conference. “I’m at the point in my car... Full story
Greg Young is head coach at Jacksonville, Texas, Junior College. PORTALES — Greg Young is certainly one coach who believes that the Eastern New Mexico University men’s basketball team can successfully compete in the Lone Star Conference. If not, the current head coach at Jacksonville (Texas) Junior College wouldn’t have been quite as enticed to enter the race to be the Greyhounds’ new leader. As it is, as he related to a small group in Portales on Monday, Young has always been a Lone Star fan and now wants to be part...
CNJ staff photo: Liliana Castillo Kim Adams changes a bag of medicine for one of her patients at Plains Regional Medical Center’s Cancer Center. After years helping cancer patients, an award-winning nurse is planning ways to educate people about cancer at next month’s Relay for Life cancer-research fundraiser. Kim Adams, October 2008 winner of the New Mexico Excellence in Ambulatory Care award, is lending her experience to Relay For Life of Clovis by bringing educational programs to the event. She works in onocology a...
BIG SPRING, Texas — Eastern New Mexico University’s men finished fifth in the Howard College rodeo over the weekend. Senior Kyle Roberts of Durango, Colo., teamed with Jake Cobb of Weatherford College (Texas) for first place in team roping with a time of 13.3 seconds. Junior Payton Terry teamed with Tarleton State’s Lance Millican for fifth place in the short-go and sixth in the average in the event. Jacob Gerentz took fourth in the short-go and fifth in average in steer wrestling, sophomore Rankin Lindey was fifth in...
Freedom New Mexico BIG SPRING, Texas — Eastern New Mexico University’s men finished fifth in the Howard College rodeo over the weekend. Senior Kyle Roberts of Durango, Colo., teamed with Jake Cobb of Weatherford College (Texas) for first place in team roping with a time of 13.3 seconds. Junior Payton Terry teamed with Tarleton State’s Lance Millican for fifth place in the short-go and sixth in the average in the event. Jacob Gerentz took fourth in the short-go and fifth in average in steer wrestling, sophomore Ran...
FNM correspondent: Helena Rodriguez From left, Jake Tayler, Chase Varnell and Calvin Tayler examine soil outside Dora High School. The trio took first place in the homesite evaluation contest during the recent New Mexico State FFA Career Development Event in Las Cruces. FNM correspondent: Helena Rodriguez Dora High School students have uncovered a lot of dirt at their school, and that helped them take first place in the homesite evaluation competition at the New Mexico State FFA Career Development competition. The DHS...
Dora High School students have uncovered a lot of dirt at their school, and that helped them take first place in the homesite evaluation competition at the New Mexico State FFA Career Development competition. The DHS homesite evaluation team — consisting of Jake Tayler, Chase Varnell and Calvin Tayler — were among a slate of area high school students who won honors at the statewide event held in Las Cruces on April 1-3. Students from Texico and Tucumcari also took some top honors, qualifying them to compete in the... Full story
New hires • Jake Simmons will join the Department of Communicative Arts and Sciences as assistant professor of communication. • Patty Saylor will join the Department of Health and Human Services as the new director of the social work program. • Jason Vest has moved into a tenure-track appointment as assistant professor of voice. • Michael Snipes has moved into a tenure-track appointment as assistant professor of economics. • Elwyn Hulett will join the Department of Curriculum and Instruction....
EDMOND, Okla. — Senior catcher Freddy Carmona went 6-for-8 in the doubleheader, but it was his RBI groundout that drove in the go-ahead run as Eastern New Mexico University beat Central Oklahoma 5-1 Sunday in the second game to earn a split of their Lone Star Conference baseball twin bill and a split in the four-game series. ENMU (25-24, 20-20 LSC) dropped from fifth to seventh in the tightly-bunched battle for positions for the upcoming LSC tournament. The top six teams makes the tournament. The Hounds, though, are... Full story
Freedom New Mexico EDMOND, Okla. — Senior catcher Freddy Carmona went 6-for-8 in the doubleheader, but it was his RBI groundout that drove in the go-ahead run as Eastern New Mexico University beat Central Oklahoma 5-1 Sunday in the second game to earn a split of their Lone Star Conference baseball twin bill and a split in the four-game series. ENMU (25-24, 20-20 LSC) dropped from fifth to seventh in the tightly-bunched battle for positions for the upcoming LSC tournament. The top six teams makes the tournament. The...
Courtesy photo Brianne Aucutt-Hight, a senior animal science major, was selected Friday as the third area person to serve as the Masked Rider, mascot of Texas Tech University. A Clovis student was selected Friday as the third area person to serve as the Masked Rider, mascot of Texas Tech University. Brianne Aucutt-Hight, a senior animal science major, said she is realizing a childhood goal in donning the rider’s mask....
The Obama administration can’t understand why so many people are angry at a new Department of Homeland Security report assessing the threat the nation supposedly faces from “right-wing” extremists. Of course, a nation this large is home to extremists and potentially violent people who subscribe to every sort of ideology, but the Homeland Security report paints with an extremely broad brush and epitomizes the tendency of governments to blur the lines between legitimate dissent and dangerous activity. Although the depar...
Four Portales High School students were injured Monday morning in a single-vehicle crash on Lime Street. Two of the students were reported in stable condition at Lubbock hospitals Monday evening, and another was treated at Roosevelt General Hospital and released, according to officials and hospital staff members. An updated condition of the fourth student, front-seat passenger Selene Valladarez, 15, of Portales, was not available at press time. Valladarez was airlifted to Covenant Medical Center in critical condition,...
Freedom New Mexico A Freedom Communications newspaper in Mesa, Ariz., won a Pulitzer Prize, the most prestigious award in journalism, for a five-part series that exposed how police protection suffered as Sheriff Joe Arpaio focused on efforts to combat illegal immigration....
A Freedom Communications newspaper in Mesa, Ariz., won a Pulitzer Prize, the most prestigious award in journalism, for a five-part series that exposed how police protection suffered as Sheriff Joe Arpaio focused on efforts to combat illegal immigration....
Four Portales High School students were injured Monday morning in a single-vehicle crash on Lime Street. Two of the students were reported in stable condition at Lubbock hospitals Monday evening, and another was treated at Roosevelt General Hospital and released, according to officials and hospital staff members. An updated condition of the fourth student, front-seat passenger Selene Valladarez, 15, of Portales, was not available at press time. Valladarez was airlifted to Covenant Medical Center in critical condition,...
Brianne Aucutt-Hight accepted the reins to Midnight Matador on April 17, becoming the Texas Tech University’s 2009-2010 Masked Rider. In donning the rider’s mask, Aucutt-Hight, a senior animal science major with a specialization in production from Clovis, N.M., realizes a goal she set as a child after her parents attended a Red Raider football game and brought her an autographed card from the Masked Rider. “The Masked Rider represents a great Texas Tech tradition and I am honored to have been selected for such a prest...
A wonderful collection of watercolors called “Realism 2009” by Betty Blevins of Lubbock will be on exhibit from May 5 through June 30 in the Eula Mae Edwards Museum/Gallery at Clovis Community College. Blevins states that preserving memories of the past can inspire the present.... Full story
Take a memorable journey from one show-stopping song to the next with The Best of Broadway featuring the Songs of Andrew Lloyd Webber, a musical showcase of one of the most prolific and daring composers of all time. Featuring songs from Phantom Of The Opera, Sunset Boulevard, Evita, Cats and Jesus Christ Superstar, audience members will experience passion, romance, and comedy during this emotional ride through some of Broadway’s greatest moments. What makes this performance so special is that three of the performers s...
