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PORTALES — Portales junior Janae Hale is showing she’s ready for a breakout season. Hale captured her third individual medalist title of the spring on Thursday with a 39-37 — 76 to take honors in the Lovington Invite golf tournament. Hale beat Lovington’s Kathryn Campbell by three shots. Nobody else in the tournament shot below 89. Lovington won the five-team competition at 374, followed by Hobbs (389), Portales (404), Clovis (428) and Carlsbad (440). “Today, she just committed to every short,” PHS girls coach Candra Reyn...
Vern Witten says he didn't select the part of Simon the Zealot when First United Methodist Church of Portales first performed "The Living Last Supper" in 1998 in the sanctuary of the old church. Then-director Karyl Lyne nabbed him for the role, telling him she had "no doubt" it was the right fit. After reading the part, Witten said he concurred. Nineteen years later, Witten has been Simon the Zealot in all nine of FUMC's presentations of the play, and he's scheduled to assume...
Darren Williams, seventh-grade life science teacher at Marshall Middle School, recently conducted a unique lab as a culminating activity for a unit he’d taught. Inviting me to come observe students, and even participate in his “Beak Lab,” this was clearly an opportunity too tempting to pass up. Combining efforts with the other science class, taught by Michelle Patrick, students gathered in Williams’ lab for the occasion. Williams had set up four biomes, naturally occurri...
PORTALES — Eastern New Mexico University emphasized to its students Monday night that they can always come to them with any problem. The New Mexico Office of the Attorney General visited the campus Monday to share some statistics with local college students as part of Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Officials with the attorney general's office showed students an hour-long documentary titled "The Hunting Ground," which revolved around college students who were victims of s...
CLOVIS — With defending champion Rio Rancho Cleveland not returning, Clovis High boys track coach Darren Kelley hopes this is his team's year to win the Wildcat Relays. The annual meet is scheduled for today at Leon Williams Stadium, with field events starting at 3 p.m. and track finals at 4:45 p.m. Even without the Storm, Kelley said the field remains solid. "The competition will still be pretty good," he said. "We haven't lost to a team from New Mexico yet, and hopefully w...
On this date ... 1972: A 22-month-old girl died in a tent fire in a Tucumcari campground. Christine Bennett's 11-month-old brother and their parents suffered first- and second-degree burns and were hospitalized following the incident. Police said the family was spending the night in the tent because their car had broken down and they had no money. The fire started when a gasoline lantern tipped over inside the tent, igniting the lantern's gasoline tank. The family was travelin...
PORTALES — Jeff Elwell of Tennessee was named the new president of Eastern New Mexico University on Wednesday afternoon after several days of closed Board of Regents sessions and visits from the four final candidates. Elwell visited all three ENMU campuses last week, along with the other three finalists: Charles Crespy of Michigan, John Fritch of Iowa and Neal Weaver of Louisiana. The university will pay Elwell a $230,000 annual salary with a three-year contract in place. ENMU...
CLOVIS — The Clovis Police Department is seeking information on a shooting late Wednesday morning near the 300 block of Thornton Street. According to a press release, officers responded to a report of a lone gun shot at the location, but found no victims or obvious damage. Less than half an hour later, they were dispatched to Plains Regional Medical Center, where they found a 20-year-old man receiving treatment for a gunshot wound to his right thigh. The man would not answer questions from a police detective and was t...
CLOVIS — Gov. Susana Martinez came to Clovis on Wednesday afternoon to discuss her recent veto of a $350 million tax increase proposed by the state Legislature at the end of their session last month. The legislature met from Jan. 17 through March 18 and, according to Martinez, squandered too much of that time discussing the state song, Bigfoot research, and other "ridiculous things." "They had already wasted 58 days," said Martinez. She said they threw together the budget p...
MELROSE — A fire burned through a Melrose business Monday morning and while the fire was contained in under two hours, local crews were still working at the scene into the late afternoon. The fire started about 9:30 a.m., according to Melrose fire department Assistant Chief Jeremy Burnett. The Halloway and Sons general contractors building, located at the corner of North Main and Avenue A, was destroyed in the fire; only the front facade still stood after the blaze was e...
The following is a sampling of calls for Portales police, fire and sheriff: Tuesday • 10:08 a.m.: Threats report, 1500 block West 18th Street • 2:57 p.m.: Ambulance requested, 300 block South Avenue C • 3:12 p.m.: Trespass report, 1000 block West Second Street • 5:09 p.m.: Ambulance requested, 200 block South Knoxville Street • 7:35 p.m.: Shoplifting report, 1600 block South Avenue D • 8:32 p.m.: Ambulance requested, 2000 block South Avenue I • 10:24 p.m.: Remove subject, 1000 block West First Street Wednesday • 12:00 a.m.:...
The following is a sampling of calls received by dispatchers for the Clovis police, Curry County sheriff and area fire stations: Tuesday • 1:06 a.m.: Failure to comply with conditions of release, Ninth/Prince • 7:09 a.m.: Larceny, 1100 block of Concord Road • 9:04 a.m.: Failure to comply with conditions of release, 800 block of Mitchell Street • 2:50 p.m.: Larceny, 600 block of East Second Street • 3:33 p.m.: Fraud, 4200 block of Sandstone Drive • 5:17 p.m.: Embezzlement, 3700 block of North Prince Street • 5:36 p.m.: Fa...
Track • Today – Junior High meet in Tucumcari • Tuesday – Junior High meet in Ft. Sumner Baseball • Friday – Dora Varsity will have a double header against Grady in Dora, 2 p.m. • Monday – Varsity and Junior Varsity will play in Grady, 3 p.m. Softball • Today – Varsity and Junior Varsity will play in Logan, 4 p.m. • Monday – Varsity will have a double header against Estancia in Dora, 3 p.m....
The Eastern Plains Council of Governments board of directors met Wednesday morning at the EPCOG office at 418 Main Street in Clovis. The board met for two hours. The following took place during the meeting: • Clyde Hudson of USDA Rural Development spoke on the administration’s rural development funding programs and gave everybody at the meeting a cheat sheet of grants, loans and assistance programs offered in the areas of housing, community and business. “We have a program for just about anything you want to do,” Hudson...
Pair of Clovis High choirs medal CLOVIS — A pair of Clovis High School choirs medaled during the New Mexico Activities Association state choir contest, held Friday and Saturday at Cleveland High School in Rio Rancho. The school’s women’s select choir received a second-place medal in hte treble choir division, while its chamber choir took third place in the mixed choir division. The finishes are the highest Clovis has earned in the 10 years the contest has been held. The choirs are under the direction of Sean Galloway and P...
PORTALES — Devin Pullum is going from one Segler to another. Eastern New Mexico University men’s basketball coach Tres Segler received a letter-of-intent from Little Elm High School in Texas. The 6-foot, 170-pound point guard played his high school ball in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex for Rusty Segler, Tres’ father. The Greyhounds’ Segler said Pullum can “flat-out score” and is one of the most decorated high school athletes the program has signed. “A guy like Devin is special,” Tres Segler said. “What Devin brings to u...
Editor's note: This is one in a series profiling local educators each week. After moving from the classroom to a more intimate setting where she works with small groups of students, Brown Early Childhood Center kindergarten reading coach Lynne Walker has been able to compound her love of literacy even further. "A reading coach is able to work with small groups of kiddos that either struggle, and I also have a small group of kiddos who need that advancement. We have lots of...
PORTALES — Organizers of a May event hope to find veterans assistance they need, even if the veterans aren’t sure if they’re eligible for it. The Veteran Resource Day event will take place 10 a.m. May 2 in the Campus Union Building Ballroom on the campus of Eastern New Mexico University, and is open to all veterans, according to coordinator Gretchen Leigh. Leigh said veterans in rural areas such as Portales are not always aware of the services at their disposal. “I worked at one point for the Texas Veteran’s Commissio...
CLOVIS — Tuition rates are going up for the first time in five years at Clovis Community College, school President Becky Rowley said Wednesday. CCC’s board of trustees on Wednesday morning voted unanimously to increase in-state tuition from $39 per credit hour to $44 per credit hour, beginning with the fall semester. Tuition for out-of-state students will increase from $89 to $111 per credit hour. The hike is expected to generate about $400,000, Rowley said. Some student fees will also go up, by $10 to $25, according to num...
CLOVIS — The cold-case trial for William Hadix is on the backburner again. It’s likely to be at least another six months before Hadix, 69, will face charges for the 2003 death of Jessie Clyde “J.C.” Tucker. “There will be no trial today, or this week, or next week,” Judge Fred Van Soelen told a courtroom full of juror candidates Wednesday morning. “A very important witness was not able to be here. We tried to work around that, but we couldn't.” That witness was Dr. Patricia McFeely, a pathologist who performed Tucke...
Today • Preschool story hour — 10 a.m. at Clovis-Carver Public Library. Theme: E is for Easter eggs. Wear play clothes. We will decorate eggs. Information: 575-769-7840 • Teen program — 4:30 p.m. at Portales Public Library for ages 13-18. Activity: Beaded bracelets. Information: 575-356-3940 • P-4 Partnership spring job fair — 3 p.m.-7 p.m. at Clovis Civic Center. Information: 575-935-5000 • Preschool screening clinic — 1 p.m.-3 p.m. at Grady school. For ages birth to 5 years. Information: 575-357-2192 Saturday • East...
Thursday • CHS Class of 1978 reunion meeting — Noon at Workforce Connections, Clovis. Information: 806-437-0603 Tuesday • Cultural and Ethnic Affairs Committee — Noon at city hall, Clovis. Information: 575-769-7828 • Curry County Commission — 9 a.m. in commission room at the courthouse. Information: 575-763-6016 • Roosevelt County Commission — 9 a.m. in commission room at the courthouse. Information: 575-356-5307 • Portales City Council — 6:30 p.m. in council chambers at the Memorial Building. Information: 575-35...
