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PORTALES - You could easily say Emma Long had a career night on Wednesday. The Portales High junior had never gone deep in her high school career, but she belted a three-run homer in each game and drove in a total of eight runs as the Lady Rams swept Ruidoso 12-8 and 17-6 at Wheeler Park. More than that, Long had a perfect day at the plate with a walk and three hits in the opener and a 4-for-4 outing with five RBIs in Game 2. Her first home run, to left-center field in the bot...
ROSWELL - Portales High's girls just missed a clean sweep on Tuesday, notching an 8-1 dual tennis victory over New Mexico Military. Sophomore Lorena Fernandez dropped a tight 9-7 pro-set decision at No. 4 singles to Sara Jones, but other than that Portales dropped just one set in dispatching the Lady Colts. Meantime, NMMI had its way on the boys' side, blanking the Rams 9-0. Portales' closest match in that dual was a 9-7 loss by freshman Aidan Harvey and junior Joseph Garcia at No. 3 doubles against the Colts' Naom Emerson...
More officers are on duty on the streets of Clovis due to changes made by the city's new police chief. Chief Roy Rice reported to members of the Clovis City commission at a regular meeting Thursday evening that four new officers are patrolling city streets. "We have room for 18 more officers," Rice said. "We promoted three new sergeants," Rice continued. "We need dispatchers." Rice has found places in the Clovis police department where civilian workers may be put in positions...
A "bumper crop" of tumbleweeds is plaguing Roosevelt County and the county road department is doing all it can to deal with them. The new plague of tumbleweeds was discussed at Tuesday's Roosevelt County commission meeting. "There are mountains of tumbleweeds," road superintendent Rick Lovato reported to the commissioners. "We continue to move tumbleweeds, crushing them as we go along. Sometimes we cover gates and we don't mean to." "I know you're getting calls about the...
BASEBALL Prep linescore Tuesday Eunice 9, Portales 6 Portales 201 100 2 — 6 6 1 Eunice 002 052 x — 9 8 3 Zane Mayberry, Miguel Gomez (3), Carson Pfaffenberger (6) and Noah Swift; Zeke Benton, Chance Tucker (6) and Conagher Pierce. W — Benton. L — Gomez. Top hitters — Portales: Travin Price 2-3, 2-run 2B. Eunice: Gio Chacon 2-3, 2B, 2 runs, BB; Micah Tippett 2-3, HR, 3 RBIs, SF; Jorge Ontiveros 1-3, 2B, RBI, run, BB. Records — Portales 6-8, Eunice 9-0. SOFTBALL Prep linescores Tuesday Portales 19, Clovis 9 Clovis 0 2 1 51 ...
Tuition will rise for nearly all Clovis Community College students starting in the fall, and CCC employees will receive pay increases of the equivalent of 3% annually for the last quarter of the current fiscal year, which began April 1 and rising to 4% per year starting July 1. The community college board approved tuition increases and pay raises on Wednesday at its monthly board meeting, as well as an operating budget for fiscal 2023, which begins on July 1 and ends on June 30, 2023. The tuition increases include: • From $...
A Farwell man died Wednesday night in a one vehicle accident on Stateline Rd. According to a news release from Curry County Sheriff Wesley Waller Wednesday at 8:30 p.m. Curry County sheriff’s deputies responded to a single-vehicle crash on NM 348 just north of Curry Road 7. An investigation determined that a 2002 Chevrolet Trailblazer, driven by Marcos Castro-Chich, 27 of Farwell, was traveling south on NM 348 when the vehicle left the roadway and overturned. Castro-Chich died at the scene from injuries sustained during t...
Legislators who represent the area in Santa Fe had mixed reactions to Wednesday’s special session at The Roundhouse. District 64 Republican representative Randal Crowder was glad that business was quickly handled and done. “I’m pleased they didn’t try to sneak something in,” Crowder said. “I’m very pleased about that.” “It’s good people are going to get some relief on high gas prices and inflation,” Crowder said. The major things accomplished by the one-day special session were the reinstatement of the funding bill, known a...
Clovis Monday: Breakfast: Breakfast Round. Lunch: General Tso egg roll, fried rice, steamed broccoli, chilled pears, or (grades 6-12) spicy chicken sandwich or (grades 6-12) cheeseburger on a bun. Tuesday: Breakfast: Chicken Waffle Bites. Lunch: Spaghetti and meatballs, garden salad and ranch, chilled fresh fruit, cheesy bread stick, dessert or (grades 6-12) cheeseburger on a bun or corn dog Wesnesday: Breakfast: Breakfast pizza. Lunch: homemade green chili chicken enchiladas, fresh pinto beans, Spanish rice, garden salad...
The books listed below are now available for checkout at the Clovis-Carver Public Library. The library is open to the public, but patrons can still visit the online catalog at cloviscarverpl.booksys.net/opac/ccpl or call 575-769-7840 to request a specific item for curbside pickup. “Along the Rio Grande” by Tracie Peterson. Recently widowed Susanna Jenkins has decided to follow her family to the booming town of San Marcial, New Mexico, to aid in her family’s sudden change in fortune. They are tasked with managing her uncle...
Weed was legalized this month, on my birthday no less, and still I’ve never actually partaken of the herb. Lots of people may not believe that, coming of age in the 1970s I never smoked marijuana, but it’s true that I never did, even if my sister refuses to believe me. Granted, she probably has every reason not to believe me, based on the crowd I hung out with part of the time in high school. It was present at nearly every party I went to, if not out right in the open, you...
ROSWELL — Junior Jolei Adkins shot 49-41 — 90 for medalist honors on Thursday, leading Clovis High’s girls to the team title in the Dexter Invitational golf tournament, played at the New Mexico Military course. Clovis finished with a team score of 389, nine strokes ahead of the host Lady Demons. Portales was third in a field of three full squads at 456. Juniors Kiaya Gallegos and Gracie Beevers both finished at 97 for the Lady Cats. The top scorer for Portales was Cydnee Massey at 54-54 — 108. Texico junior Liz Elam was sec...
CLAYTON — Texico’s baseball team began District 6-2A action on Monday with a 19-0 victory over Clayton. The second game of the scheduled twin bill was suspended by darkness with the Wolverines (5-4 overall) leading 9-1 in the middle of the fifth. The teams plan to finish it prior to their third and final scheduled meeting when the Yellowjackets visit Texico on April 23, Wolverines coach Todd Kuykendall said. Junior Tristan Chavez worked all five innings of Game 1, shortened by the 10-run rule. He threw 56 pitches, all...
Curry Residents Senior Meals Association 901 W. 13th St. Clovis Monday: Beef stroganoff with mushroom gravy, green beans, carrot-raisin salad, diced pears. Tuesday: Barbecued riblet on a bun, sliced pickles, onions, tater tots, cookie. Wednesday: Green chile chicken enchiladas, pinto beans, Spanish rice, chips and salsa, sopapilla with honey. Thursday: Sliced ham, sweet potatoes, green beans, cornbread, fruit salad. Friday: Crispy fish sandwich, lettuce, tomatoes, pickles, cole slaw, tartar sauce, cookie. Friendship Senior...
While he never held a city office, Duane Jacklin could be counted on to keep up with community events and speak up for his view of community betterment. Jacklin, who died March 17 at age 91, was active in Clovis community affairs, appearing at Clovis City Commission meetings, conferring with city official and a frequent contributor of letters to the editor for The News. Ray Mondragon, a former Clovis police chief and city manager, remembers being invited to Jacklin's home for...
The state of New Mexico has two different sets of rules when it comes to funding capital outlay projects for new construction or repair of basic infrastructure. All funding for education projects is governed by the Public School Capital Outlay Act of 1975. It requires that all school districts go through the same evaluation process, which uses a set of adequacy standards to identify and address the most critical needs first. The state Supreme Court has made it clear to the Legislature that it has a constitutional...
Two hundred times, they failed to get it done. They failed after 1899. That was the year an African-American man named Sam Hose was massacred by a white mob near Newnan, Ga., that castrated him, skinned his face, then cooked him alive over a fire and parceled out pieces of his body; his knuckles were offered for sale by a grocer in Atlanta. They failed after 1904, too. That was the year an African-American man named Luther Holbert and a woman who was never identified were put...
Recently, a friend showed me a sobering graphic depicting the gender disparity in suicide rates between men and women. While females tend to attempt suicide more often than men (and experience suicidal thoughts more frequently,) males are more “successful” in completing the act. There are a lot of reasons for the striking difference along gender lines, but one thing is clear: men are in crisis mode, and that crisis starts from early adolescence and carries all the way through...
The walls evidently aren’t closing in on President Joe Biden. Despite the mainstream press finally taking up the sleazy business dealings discussed in emails found on Hunter Biden’s laptop, the media’s lack of interest in the president’s knowledge or involvement in this lucrative part of the family business is palpable. If President Donald Trump were caught up in similar circumstances, he’d be hounded at every press conference and during every walk to Marine One with the...
The Christopher Steele dossier began a credibility slip for the mainstream media that has not ended at this time. The dossier, purportedly leaked to the New York Times by former FBI Director James Comey, had allegations of outrageous charges of Russian collusion with many members of the Trump campaign as well as against Trump himself. This document resulted in an FBI lawyer illicitly modifying documents that were presented to the FISA Court as evidence for the court to issue...
April is National Donate Life Month. And a total of 1,010,536 New Mexicans with driver’s licenses or state-issued identification cards are registered as donors, according to New Mexico Taxation and Revenue. Last year, through March 31, 2021 (the latest figures available) 74,540 out of about 136,000 people issued credentials during the preceding 12 months chose to become organ donors. That gave New Mexico a donor designation rate of around 55%, well above the national average of 47%. It’s heartening to know so many are willing...
Portales' Public Works Department received authorization Tuesday to seek grants from the New Mexico Department of Transportation to reconstruct a section of South Chicago Avenue and resurface a portion of West 18th Street to improve access to Roosevelt General Hospital. The Portales City Council voted unanimously to authorize the Public Works Department to seek both grants. The South Chicago Avenue project would include reconstruction of South Chicago Avenue between Second...
Look for more artworks to grace the streets of downtown Clovis by the beginning of summer. Lisa Pellegrino Spear, executive director of Clovis Main Street, says 15 pieces, metal art plants from creator Holly Felice, will arrive by early summer for placement in the pots on downtown Clovis street corners. "I love art," Spear said. "I believe art is such an important driver for community pride and tourism. It tells a story. It impacts people differently. Last month marked the one...
High-paying jobs for the region will come with construction of the Ute Water Project as it picks up its pace after over $177 million in federal funds has been promised for the venture. The term "good, high-paying jobs" was bandied about by officials as word of the coming infrastructure money made its rounds but few said exactly what the "good, high paying jobs" are. Orlando Ortega has a list of the "good, high-paying jobs." Ortega is the executive director of the Eastern New...
A drive-by shooting Wednesday afternoon in Clovis resulted in a wounded juvenile being airlifted to a Lubbock hospital and homes and cars in the neighborhood riddled with bullets. According to a report from Clovis Police Department lieutenant Trevor Thron at 3:27 p.m. officers responded to the area of 1300 N. Oak St. in reference to several callers reporting gunshots being fired and a black car fleeing the area. When officers arrived, two male subjects holding rifles were in the driveway of a home at 1300 N. Oak St. The two...
