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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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Michael Ulibarri, age 63, passed away on Friday, April 12, 2024. Celebration of Life will be held on Sunday, April 21, 2024, 12:00 pm to 6:00 pm at 718 E Luna Drive, Hobbs, NM. Rosary will be Thursday, April 25, 2024, 6:00 pm at The Chapel, 1500 Thornton Street, Clovis, NM. Memorial Mass will be on Friday, April 26, 2024, 10:30 am at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church, 108 Davis Street, Clovis, NM with Father Eli Valadez officiating with a burial to follow at Mission Garden of...
Rita Peña, age 78, of Clovis, NM passed away on Wednesday, April 17, 2024. Rosary to be held on Thursday, April 25, 2024, 10:00 am and a Memorial Mass to follow at 10:30 am, at Our Lady of Guadalupe, 108 Davis Street, with Father Eli Valadez officiating. Nathan Peña, Rhyan Segovia, O.J. Peña, J.J. Peña, Matthew Segovia, and Justin Garza will serve as honorary pallbearers. Rita was born on May 23, 1945, to Antonio Peña and Manuela Montoya in Clovis, NM. She enjoyed work...
Three juveniles were robbed at gunpoint and shot at on Saturday afternoon outside Clovis, Curry County Sheriff Michael Brockett said. No injuries were reported. One teenager is in custody and law officers on Tuesday were looking for a second teen suspect. Police were notified of the incident about 2:30 p.m. Saturday. A farmer near the intersection of Curry Road O and NM State Road 245 was approached by three juveniles who said they’d been robbed, Brockett said. The victims, two from Clovis and one from Portales, had been i... Full story
On this date ... 1951: A Hereford family was asking Clovis-area residents to be on the lookout for their cocker spaniel named Blondie, last seen headed in the direction of home from Fort Sumner. Blondie and her family were visiting Fort Sumner when the dog “decided she didn’t like it” and started east, the Clovis News-Journal reported. 1956: Law officers were on the lookout for 15 prized bantam chickens stolen from a locked chicken house at 1312 E. 10th in Clovis. The victims included 13 hens and two roosters, offic...
My three brothers and I are back down at our maternal grandparents’ old homeplace at Robert Lee, Texas, for a few days. Since all of us are pastors (a couple are supposedly retired, though they don’t look much like it to me), getting as much as possible done early so we can get out of our respective towns and covey up together is always challenging. And since we all seem to be connected with non-prophet organizations (bad pun), much else often surprises us. But for around 40...
GRADY – Junior Cy Draper hit a three-run homer in the seventh inning and Melrose handed Grady its first loss of the season on Monday, a 6-3 decision in the District 3-1A opener for both teams. Draper’s home gave the Buffaloes (5-3) a 6-1 cushion, and they withstood a rally by Grady in the bottom half. The Bronchos (7-1) came into the game ranked No. 1 in Class 1A after their fast start. Senior Michael Cardonita went 3-for-3 with a pair of doubles and two runs scored for Melrose. Draper drove in a fourth run with a suc...
NORMAN, Okla. – Sophomore Kennedy Ulmer and the women’s 400 relay team earned NCAA Division II provisional qualifying marks over the weekend in the University of Oklahoma’s John Jacobs Invitational track meet. Ulmer went 145 feet, 4 inches on her final throw in javelin, good for sixth place and improving her Lone Star Conference-best distance in the event. “It was very exciting for me (to have) the opportunity to compete against D-I (athletes) and see how far (I’ve progressed),” Ulmer said. “The facility was just amazing....
OKLAHOMA CITY – Jonathan Baileys hadn’t had a lot of opportunity to play for Eastern New Mexico University’s baseball team before this weekend. Suffice it to say, he pretty much made the most of his opportunity. The junior designated hitter from Tipp City, Ohio went 7-for-17 with a triple, three home runs, nine runs scored and nine runs batted in against Oklahoma Christian, capped by a 3-for-5 day with a pair of early two-run homers and five RBIs in Sunday’s 13-5 triumph. That gave the Greyhounds three victories in the fou...
EUNICE – Senior Noah Swift went 3-for-4, scored twice and drove in three runs on Monday as Portales High’s baseball team registered a 10-5 victory over Eunice. With a Friday District 4-4A doubleheader against Artesia at Ram Field moved up to Tuesday, Rams coach Arturo Ontiveros decided to turn Monday’s tilt into a “bullpen by committee” game. Seven pitchers worked one inning each, with senior Dylan Saunders starting and followed by seniors Edel Legarda, Devin Diaz, Peyton Williams, Swift and Zane Mayberry and sophomore...
ROSWELL – Clovis High’s boys were in a tie for seventh place with Roswell High after Monday’s opening round of the two-day RISD Invitational golf tournament. Playing the par-71 Spring River Golf Course, the Wildcats and Coyotes posted four-man team scores of 355. Roswell Goddard had a four-man tally of 325 and led the 10-team field by one shot over Silver and by two over Artesia. The final 18 holes were to be played on Tuesday at the New Mexico Military golf course. Clovis had just three players available in girls competition...
In one inning on Sunday, Eastern New Mexico University's softball team nearly scored as many runs as were tallied combined during the rest of the weekend series. Senior designated player Taighen Whitzel capped an eight-run second with a grand slam, and the Greyhounds went on to blank Oklahoma Christian 8-0 and take the Lone Star Conference series at Greyhound Softball Field – their first series win all time against the Eagles. Saturday's doubleheader was a split, with each s...
Thanks to the so-called culture wars, debates about events on college campuses are being employed as useful weapons for attacking the gradual democratization that has occurred in higher education since the 1950s. Those of us who are academics and see education as crucial should be alarmed at the specter of partisan attacks, not to mention the garish and outlandish headlines that adversely affect many people trying to make sense of and understand their lives. Academic freedom,...
I don’t blame the public for not wanting to put the Republican Party back in power in Washington. As the GOP proved again in the House last week, it’s incapable of accomplishing anything of importance. The big vote was over the reauthorization of a reformed version of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act – aka, FISA. FISA is the controversial act that permits U.S. spy agencies to gather foreign intelligence by collecting the communications of non-Americans located outsi...
We have some big, rich and powerful neighbors, but that could change in the years ahead. Let’s start with Texas. New Mexico is heavily influenced by our neighbor to the east. In fact, a good number of New Mexicans on the east side of our state are wannabe Texans, aligning themselves to Texas values more than New Mexico’s. There’s a lot of chili (without the “e”) being eaten in eastern New Mexico. And the last time I visited the resort city of Ruidoso, I saw so many Texas license plates I wondered if I’d inadvertent...
Stanton Optical will be opening a location in Clovis soon on the west side of the 1600 block of North Prince Street. Angela Cobb, Lubbock brand manager with Stanton Optical, said the corporation plans on opening the Clovis location between June and July this year. Stanton Optical specializes in eyeglasses, contacts and eye exams. “We have free eye exams with eyeglass purchase and we pride ourselves on meeting everyone’s budgets so everyone can have glasses,” Cobb said. The corporation, based out of Dallas, has over 300 locat...
Kelley’s Bar and Grill has changed to a four-day-per-week operation, according to a post on its social media account. New hours listed by the business at 2208 N. Prince St. are 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. Wednesdays, 4 p.m. to 11 p.m. Thursdays, and 4 p.m. to close on Fridays and Saturdays. The post read the business is closed Sunday, Monday and Tuesday....
A thief stole 10 wheels and tires from three trucks at the Bender Chevrolet GMC dealer early Saturday. Brad Bender said a man who “knew what he was doing” left two wheels because “he didn’t have room in the bed of his truck.” The man captured on security video parked in a dark area and had removed the tags from his vehicle, Bender said. “Just a single guy,” said Bender, who is also a Curry County commissioner. “He spent two hours walking back and forth … when a car pulled in (to the car lot) he would crawl under a car to avoi...
The New Mexico Farmers’ Marketing Association has opened its annual applications for the New Mexico Grown Approved Supplier Program for farmers, ranchers, food hubs, and distributors across the state. According to a news release from the NMFMA, the Approved Supplier Program is a food quality assurance program that supports New Mexico Grown, a values-based local food purchasing program that provides “fresh, locally produced” food for New Mexico school-age children, older adults, and families. Approved vendors will be eligi...
A new president for Clovis Community College may be chosen at a special meeting of the college’s trustees on Thursday. According to an advance agenda distributed Friday, the board will meet in executive session as part of the meeting. Afterward the board is slated to attend to the agenda item listed as “Action, if any, regarding presidential selection and employment offer.” “You can read what the agenda says. That’s all I can divulge at this time,” Board Chair Lora Harlan said Monday. Five finalists were interviewed...
With recent incidents of earthquakes in the New York City area and in Taiwan I got to thinking about earthquakes in my life. Ever since somewhere along life’s pathway someone told me that if you’re looking out over open fields during an earthquake you see the land quiver like a big lake on a choppy day, I’ve wanted to see that. But while I’ve been in a few earthquakes I’ve never actually gotten to appreciate that I was in one. Case in point, the 3-point-something quake that hit Roanoke, Va., around 1968. My grandpare...
The annual Clovis Music Festival kicks off a three-night run Thursday with a “Spectacular” show. That’s what it’s called: the Pink Floyd Laser Spectacular. “Pink Floyd music is off the charts. Nobody has ever duplicated them. The show name is probably exactly what it’s going to be -- spectacular,” said Robyn Snowberger, chair of the festival’s executive board. Snowberger said all three nights feature acts for the entire family. The Laser Spectacular begins at 7 p.m. Thursday. Micky and The Motorcars open for Kip Moore start...
Roosevelt County commissioners in a special meeting Monday agreed to a proposed intergovernmental services agreement with the city of Portales. Terms of the agreement have been debated for more than a year, with the entities exchanging proposals back and forth. The latest proposals – submitted to the county from the city last week -- will now go back to Portales City Council for final consideration. Interim City Manager T.J. Cathey said he expects city officials will approve the deal when the Council meets next week. C...
The fire that destroyed the Portales Hampton Farms peanut processing plant on Monday was initially reported as “a fire outside of the building that is not large at this time.” Minutes later, with sustained winds near 40 mph and gusts near 60 mph, Portales firefighters found “fire in several different areas of the commercial structure and outside the building,” according to a Portales Fire Department news release. It took five hours, 27 fire trucks and 34 firefighters from six... Full story
