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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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ALBUQUERQUE — Sebastian Nunez may not have picked up a win on the mound Saturday, but he helped seal one at the plate for Clovis High’s baseball team. The Wildcats junior went 2-for-5, including a single that scored an insurance run in the 10th to help the Wildcats defeat Sandia 6-4 for a District 2-6A split. The Wildcats (16-8, 5-3) dropped the opener 5-1 behind a no-hitter from Sandia’s Ricky Apodaca, but had their chances. Nunez scored Clovis’ only run of the game in the second as a pair of errors supplemented his leadoff... Full story
ROSWELL — With big hitting late, the Portales Rams moved into first place in District 4-4A — and assured themselves at least second place — with 8-3 and 16-2 wins Saturday at New Mexico Military Institute. Portales (17-6, 8-4), which also won Friday’s series opener 7-6, will play a non-district schedule this week while it waits on the remaining 4-4A teams to finish up the district slate. Hope Christian (16-7, 6-3), which took two of three from Moriarty on the weekend, dropped a half-game behind Portales in the 4-4A standings....
PORTALES — Angelo State got run-scoring singles from Jacob Boston and Jay Gonzales in a three-run sixth and the Rams held off Eastern New Mexico University 3-2 on Saturday for a sweep of their Lone Star Conference baseball doubleheader. The Greyhounds rallied for two-runs in the bottom of the sixth, but closer Joe Hauser survived that and worked the final two innings for his 12th save and second of the day. Both games were seven innings. ASU (32-9, 10-4 LSC) won the opener 5...
ALAMOGORDO — Clovis High’s boys appear to be pretty well positioned for the postseason. The Wildcats remained unbeaten against New Mexico schools on Friday, easily winning the Bob Sepulveda invitational with 131 1/2 points to 85 1/2 for Alamo. It was the second time this month the Cats have beaten their former district rivals. The Tigers hadn’t lost to a New Mexico school. “I was proud of the kids,” CHS boys coach Darren Kelley said. “The only meet Alamogordo had lost all year was like a 20-team meet in El Paso, but we’ve b...
ALBUQUERQUE — Sandia put a quick end to Clovis High’s two-game softball winning streak on Saturday. The Matadors run-ruled the Lady Wildcats twice, winning the opener 10-0 in five innings and the nightcap 15-0 in four in District 2-6A action. The Lady Cats (2-21, 2-6 district) were locked in a scoreless tie in the opener when Sandia scored four runs in the bottom of the third. The Matadors ended it on the 10-run rule with one in the fifth. Sandia collected 13 hits in the contest, with Madyson Ramkowsky going 3-for-3 and dri...
ALBUQUERQUE — Hope Christian didn’t score often on Saturday, but when it did it seemed to make the Portales Lady Rams a bit angry. Tied 2-2 after the first inning of their District 4-4A opener, Portales took off the rest of the way and handed the Huskies an 18-2 whipping, ending in four innings on the 15-run rule Then, down 5-0 after a five-run Hope second, the Rams came back with a 10-run third and went on to a 21-5 win in Game 2, which ended in five on the 10-run rule. “We hit the ball really well against some decent pitch...
There are some fun styles and accessories to try on this summer. StyleWatch magazine featured some of these looks in the May 2017 issue with straw market bags and much more. Embellished straw market bags are a fun way to go to the beach or meet friends for lunch in style. This bag is embellished with tassels, pom-poms, seagrass and colorful straps. The handbags range from $50 to $300. Next up is prints, which are popular right now. Solids are always safe but mixing prints is...
“Siri, why did the chicken cross the road?” “What’s up with humans and their obsession with chickens and woodchucks.” That’s right, that is the smart-alec response I get from the personal assistant Apple put into my phone. If you ask Siri how much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood, you get an even better answer. “Well, since a ‘woodchuck’ is really a groundhog, the correct answer would be: How many pounds in a groundhog’s mound when a groundhog po...
Information on monoprinting with a gel press, making pin cushions, and protecting children from bullying and self-blame will be the featured topics on “Creative Living” on Tuesday at 9:30 p.m. and on Thursday at noon. (All times are Mountain.) Designer Marjolaine Walker will show several projects made by monoprinting with a gel press. Monoprinting is a form of printmaking that has images or lines that can only be made once, unlike most printmaking. The gel plates eli...
FARWELL — Marlowe Churchill has heard his family story many times. But it didn't become real for him until Tuesday. That's when he placed his hands on the gravemarker, followed the letters of the nine names carved into the stone, and felt the tears. "It surprised me, it really did," Churchill said about the emotion that raced through him when he first encountered his ancestors. "I guess I just never really fully believed my mom. I just couldn't believe this story of this f...
While I waited on my debit card to be approved, my eyes wandered toward the end of checkout area. “Tell us how we’re doing,” the card implored. I read on, intending to find the answer to the only question that matters in these instances: Is there a prize drawing for doing this? I never found out. My eyes rolled too hard from the next sentence for me to go on. “If you score us below a 9/10 on any area, please ask to speak with our management immediately.” Good news for management: They’re getting five minutes off, because I’m...
According to The Washington Post, President Trump is asking for a $54 billion increase in military spending in 2018, raising the total to $639 billion — while slashing $54 billion from non-defense programs. According to the Department of Defense, there are: 460,000 active-duty Army soldiers, 335,000 National Guardsmen and 195,000 reservists; 182,000 active-duty Marines and 38,500 reservists; 380,900 active-duty sailors and reservists; and 491,700 active-duty, National Guardsme...
AMARILLO — One of the particularly neat things about my job is the chance to talk with people about journalism and the newspaper industry as a whole. The conversations always go in different directions and the topics cover the gamut. It's fun, invigorating and sometimes even refreshing to hear folks' views about today's newspapers from people young and old, male or female, affluent or poor. This weekend I've had the opportunity to spend a few days in Amarillo at the 107th P...
By tabling a vote on whether they will support a U.S. Department of Energy plan to drill a 3-mile-deep borehole on private property to test the feasibility of burying nuclear waste in deep wells, Otero County commissioners joined a growing list of skeptics of the project. A nearly identical project is being planned near Nara Visa in Quay County, and that County Commission has come out against the project there. With the 2010 shutdown of the planned nuclear waste storage facility at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, the DOE has been...
On this date ... 1992: A National Women’s Study survey, financed by the government’s National Institution on Drug Abuse, showed 12.1 million American women had been raped at least once. Almost 62 percent of the assaults occurred when the victims were minors, the survey showed. “Twenty-nine percent of the rapes occurred when the women were 10 years old or young and 32 percent happened from ages 11 to 17,” the report showed. 1962: Clovis High’s baseball team was in second place in District 4-A. The Wildcats, 3-1 in loop play...
CLOVIS — The city manager position is in transition, with Larry Fry leaving at the end of the month and Tom Phelps less than a week into his interim appointment in the position. A reception is set for Tuesday in the city hall assembly room for Fry, who has been with the city for two years. Q: What was the most challenging aspect of your role and why? A: It's a very enjoyable job to have an impact on your community. There are always challenges, but Clovis has been c...
As the New Mexico Legislature and Gov. Susana Martinez battle over the state budget, and funding for higher education is currently at zero, there's no doubt uncertainty — and local college presidents are concerned. "We're not going to not fund higher education," Martinez said at a Monday news conference, a week-and-a-half after vetoing the state budget. "That is extremely important to the Legislature and to me. We set (higher ed funding) aside because I didn't have a b...
PORTALES — After a successful inaugural year, teams will once again be able to hit a soft, squishy ball with their friends and family at the Portales Relay for Life. The second annual co-ed mushball tournament will begin at 8 a.m. Saturday with teams competing in the name of cancer research and having fun doing it, according to coordinator Consuelo Cuevas-Florez. “I call them my softball family, the players. I go, ‘Why not bring them into the Relay for Life? They would have just as much fun as I have fun, because I enjoy...
Jerene Yazzie was born in Shiprock, and she was raised on the reservation in Sheep Springs. She is of the Navajo tribe and said her first clan is Kinyaa'aanii and she is born for Hashk'aahadzohi. Her first two clans come from her mother and father. Navajo children are "born to" their mother's clan and "born for" their father's clan. Yazzie enrolled at Eastern New Mexico University in the fall of 2015. She is a sophomore, majoring in biology with an emphasis in pre-medicine....
Non-district First game Lubbock Christian 5, Texico 4 Texico 000 310 0 — 4 8 2 Lubbock Christian 000 023 x — 5 6 3 Ben Crist, Cole Rohrbach (5) and Brock Thompson; Gary Bauler, Greg Gerber (5), Chris Acrey (7) and Hunter Bitonello. W — Gerber. L — Rohrbach. Sv — Acrey. Top hitters — Texico: Brayden Wines 2-4, 2 RBIs; Dalton Thatcher 2-4, 2B, run; Crist 2-3, RBI, run, BB. Lubbock Christian: Jake Fowler 2-3, 3B, run; Zac Lott 2-3, RBI. Second game Lubbock Christian 9, Texico 5 Texico 010 310 0 — 5 6 1 Lubbock Chrsitian 102...
Monday • Stitch Addicts — 1:30 p.m. Clovis-Carver Public Library. Open stitch, lesson review. Information: 575-769-7840 Tuesday • Afterschool STEAM — 4:30 p.m. at Portales Public Library for grades K-6. Activity: DIY ecosystem. Information: 575-356-3940 Wednesday • Toddler Time — 10 a.m. at Clovis-Carver Public Library. Information: 575-769-7840 • Preschool storytime — 10:30 a.m. at Portales Public Library. Book: Do Like a Duck Does. Information: 575-356-3940 • Tween program — 4:30 p.m. at Portales Public Library for ages 9-...
Clovis Elementary Monday: Breakfast — Breakfast pizza. Lunch — Orange chicken, steamed rice, garden salad, min carrots w/ranch. Tuesday: Breakfast — Cinnamon roll. Lunch — Pepperoni pizza, fresh mixed veggies w/ranch, chilled pineapple. Wednesday: Breakfast — Cocoa cherry bar. Lunch — Chicken drumstick, mashed potatoes w/gravy, veggie cup w/ranch, Jell-O. Thursday: Breakfast — Yogurt and graham cracker. Lunch — Pig in a blanket, fries, seasoned green beans, cookie. Friday: Breakfast — Pancake sausage on a stick. Lunch — Be...
Baxter Curren Senior Center 908 Hickory, Clovis Sunday: 2 p.m. gospel singing Monday: 8:30 a.m. exercise class, 10 a.m. jewelry pals, noon pinochle, 1 p.m. line dance, 5 p.m. social night Tuesday: 8 a.m. quilting, 9 a.m. and noon pinochle 101, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. exercise equipment, 6 p.m. musical Wednesday: 8 a.m.-5 p.m. exercise equipment, 10 a.m. sew days, 1 p.m. crafts Thursday: 8 a.m. blood pressure, 8 a.m. eggs, gravy and biscuits $4, 9 a.m. pinochle 101, 1 p.m. bingo, 6 p.m. line dance Friday: 8 a.m.-5 p.m. exercise...
