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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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BASEBALL Prep linescores Thursday District 4-5A Hobbs 12, Clovis 2 Clovis 101 000 0 — 2 1 2 Hobbs 320 034 x —12 10 0 Jayden Jameson, Josiah Mendoza (5) and Jasiahs Jimenez; Colton Graham and Kenyon Singleton. W — Graham. L — Jameson. Top hitters — Clovis: Will Jordan 1-3, HR. Hobbs — Eryk McNabb 4-5, 3B, HR, 2 RBIs, 2 runs; Graham 1-3, HR, 2 runs; Bernie Socarras-Puig 1-3, HR, 2 RBIs, 2 runs; Isaiah Montes 1-2, 2B, 2 RBIs, 2 runs. Records — Clovis 5-13 (0-4), Hobbs 17-4 (4-0). District 4-4A Portales 7, Roswell Goddard 4 Godda...
Two fires on Thursday could have been much worse than they turned out to be, officials said. A fire in a storage facility at Barnett Oil Co., at 617 First St. in Clovis, did not reach the volumes of kerosene and propane within the building, Clovis Battalion Chief Chet Chenault said, and there were no injuries. In Roosevelt County, a wind-driven grass fire scorched 2,500 acres of vegetation, but no buildings were damaged and no injuries were reported, according to Portales...
It’s been said that patience is a virtue. If that is so my virtue is really in question these days. Lately I’ve been short on patience, primarily with other people but sometimes in general situations. I’ve found myself dealing with medical bills and getting them covered by insurance. It seems like nearly every bill that comes through these days is purposely left with a charge that is uncovered. I’ve begun to smell a rat and if things don’t quickly go my way in the conversat...
Constance Williams, of Pampa, Texas, is no stranger to adversity. As a young child, she witnessed her parents' divorce. As a teenager she spent time in a domestic violence shelter with her mother and the separation from her older siblings. In high school, the small-town Texas girl became a big city-transplant to Dallas. Those formative experiences have all shaped her world view and perspective on her own life. But Williams considers herself -- above all else -- to be an...
Curry Residents Senior Meals Association 901 W. 13th St. Clovis Monday: Taco salad, pinto beans, fruit. Tuesday: Steak fingers, mashed potatoes with pepper gravy, corn, bread with butter, cake. Wednesday: Barbecued chicken, roasted potatoes, peas and carrots, dinner roll with butter, peach cobbler. Thursday: Meatloaf, mashed potatoes with brown gravy, green beans, dinner roll with butter, sliced apples. Friday: Sloppy Joe, tater tots, mixed vegetables, pickles, onions, sliced peaches. Friendship Senior Center 901 W. 13th...
CLOVIS - Hobbs has one of the top high school golf programs in the area, but Clovis Christian's boys and Clovis High girls tested themselves against the Eagles and Lady Eagles in Wednesday's CCS Eagle Invite at Colonial Park Golf Course. Suffice it to say, both local teams made some progress. Hobbs turned back CCS, winning the boys team title at 318 to 325 for the defending Class 1-3A state champion Eagles. Meantime, the Lady Wildcats shaved a few shots off their score and...
PORTALES - Hagen Rains pretty much did it all on Thursday. The Portales High senior knocked in four runs with a home run and a single, and allowed three hits and only one earned run while pitching into the seventh as the Rams defeated Roswell Goddard 7-4 in District 4-4A baseball at Ram Field. Rains staked the Rams (9-12, 1-3 district) to a 2-1 lead with a two-run homer to left in the first, then put Portales in front for good with a two-run single through the right side in a...
MELROSE — Only four teams will make it to next month’s Class 1A state baseball tournament — the three district winners and one at-large team. With Logan seemingly in control of District 3-1A at this point, Thursday’s Grady-Melrose doubleheader figured to go a long way towards settling an at-large bid. The teams split, though, with the host Buffaloes pulling out a 6-5 win in the opener and the Bronchos claiming a 10-8 triumph in Game 2 when darkness ended play in the bottom of the seventh. In the opener, freshman Cy Draper...
CLOVIS - A one-day boxing tournament is about to be staged in Clovis. Elijio and Lacy Sena, who run the local Sinner's Den Boxing Gym program, have put together the "One More Round" boxing event for next Saturday at Roy Walker Community Center. About 30 bouts are scheduled. The competition begins around 5 p.m., Elijio Sena said. Doors at Roy Walker will open at 4 p.m. Weight classes are from 55 pounds to heavyweight. The Clovis group includes 35 fighters ranging in age from...
HOBBS — Clovis High’s baseball team managed a run on four walks in the first inning of Thursday’s District 4-5A matchup against Hobbs. But the Wildcats got little going after that. They finished with one hit — sophomore Will Jordan’s third-inning home run — and absorbed a 12-2 setback from the Eagles in a game called in the bottom of the sixth on the 10-run rule. The teams were slated for a doubleheader on Friday night at Bell Park. “We’ll just line it up and try to get better tomorrow, hopefully,” CHS coach Richard Cru...
Eastern New Mexico University along with their campus in Roswell continues to be involved in relief efforts in Ruidoso after the area’s major wildfires, which have reportedly destroyed or damaged more than 200 homes. The ENMU system continues to provide material, financial and moral support to the branch campus in Ruidoso according to an ENMU press release. The ENMU-Ruidoso campus did not sustain any damage from the McBride fire. The ENMU-Roswell campus delivered three generators to Ruidoso Thursday to help with power n...
Clovis City Commission voted unanimously Thursday evening to seek funding for major improvements for the city's Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. from Seventh Street north to Twenty-first Street. "This is music to my ears," said district three commissioner Helen Casaus. Casaus and former city commissioner Fidel Madrid advocated for a major overhaul for the boulevard for a number of years. Kelsey Knight, the city's marketing, communications and grant coordinator, appeared...
“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” -- James Baldwin Here’s what we’re not going to do here. We are not going to indulge the lazy rationalizations, false equivalence, cheap gaslighting and other forms of rhetorical chicanery that have become so common to political discourse in this era. Our country is in crisis, and we owe it better. The warning is for those who claimed offense at my following observation: “What A...
Forty years ago we had a soaring inflation rate, obscene gas prices and interest rates in the teens. Today, thanks to their incredible incompetence, bad policies and serial stupidity, the Democrats in Washington are bringing back all those problems. It’s getting so bad, I’m actually beginning to think Jimmy Carter was not such a bad president after all. People under 40 have no idea how bad things were in the late 1970s under Carter. They’ve grown up knowing only 3 perce...
New Mexico is in a unique economic situation. Despite having the highest unemployment rate in the nation for all of 2022, our incredibly strong oil and gas industry, buoyed by high prices and rapid production growth, have given politicians in Santa Fe “more money than they know what to do with.” So, in the recent 30-day session we saw spending grow by more than $1 billion and some significant tax cuts. Then, in a special session, rebates to be paid out to taxpayers and non...
A year after being named Time magazine’s person of the year, Elon Musk is attempting to acquire Twitter. To listen to Musk’s critics, you’d believe it’s an act almost on par with Hitler invading Poland not long after being named Time’s man of the year in 1938. A writer for the left-wing website Salon worried that a Musk takeover of Twitter would enable fascism in America. A New York University journalism professor lamented that posting on Twitter with the threat of Musk loom...
The Kennedy/Nixon presidential race was the first one I remember that caused a major uproar about election cheating. The foremost complaint arose about the results from Cook County, Ill., or in other words, Chicago. It hasn’t changed much since then. It’s been said before, but it needs repeating. There are two major political parties in the United States, Republicans and Democrats. After the presidential election in 2016, all of the Democrats screamed that the election was...
It feels like New Mexico has been on fire for most of April. Two lives and hundreds of homes were lost in Ruidoso. Tens of thousands of acres of grassland have been scorched around the state. It’s tragic, but not surprising. It happens most every spring throughout the arid High Plains. Clovis Fire Chief Mike Nolen said we’re seeing as many as four range fires daily just in the Curry-Roosevelt county area. The danger is likely to get worse before it gets better as tem...
The Portales Woman’s Club Scholarship Committee on April 13 honored three students who won Woman’s Club scholarships, according to a news release from the club. The scholarship winners were: • Portales High School Senior Rebekah Courtney, who received the Woman’s Club $500 Scholarship. • Charley Bartl, of the New Mexico Connections Academy, an online charter school, who received a statewide Harriet Donohoo-Dorothy Pendleton scholarship at the General Federation of Women’s Clubs’ New Mexico State Convention in Roswell, afte...
In the race to become Roosevelt County’s next sheriff, three Republican candidates are vying in the June 7 primary election to represent the party in the Nov. 8 general election. There are no Democrats running in the primary election. Incumbent Sheriff Malin Parker is leaving the office because he has served two consecutive terms, the maximum allowed. Ryan Ainsworth Q: Why do you believe you are the best candidate for sheriff? A: Being a fourth-generation resident of Roosevelt County I am rooted here, this is my home. I h...
A Loving High School science teacher who is an Eastern New Mexico University alumnus has won a $25,000 Milken Educator Award from the Milken Family Foundation. Tyler Finch, a 2013 ENMU grad who received a master’s degree from ENMU in 2018, “was recognized for his innovation and creativity when motivating them to learn and prepare for life beyond high school and college,” according to an ENMU news release. The Milken Educator Awards is considered the “Oscars of Teaching,” the news release stated. The award “celebrates the Amer...
The New Mexico Division of Vocational Rehabilitation (DVR) is seeking a vocational rehabilitation counselor for its Clovis office, and the position is among 20 DVR jobs statewide up for grabs during a Virtual Job Fair that DVR will host on Wednesday. The job fair is lableled a “rapid hire” event, the first by a state agency to be all virtual, according to a DVR news release. Potential applicants from eastern New Mexico and even nationwide can tune into the job fair from cell phones, tablets or computers, the news release sta...
In the race to become Curry County’s next probate judge, two Republican candidates are vying in the June 7 primary election to represent the party in the Nov. 8 general election. There are no Democrats running in the primary election. Incumbent Probate Judge Mark Lansford is leaving the office because he has served two consecutive terms, the maximum allowed. The position of probate judge pays $21,590.17 per year. Hollie Barnett Q: What is the purpose of government? A: While there is no way to fully describe the purpose of g...
The United Way of Eastern New Mexico is spearheading a drive to get money for improved mental health services across eastern New Mexico. UWENM Executive Director Erinn Burch reports she got help from the staff at the Eastern Plains Council of Governments to apply for the $2 million grant from the federal Department of Health and Human Services. "We enlisted the help of EPCOG because of their expertise," Burch said. If the grant is approved it will provide $500,000 per year...
A long-awaited street improvement project took a major step toward becoming reality on Tuesday with a unanimous vote from the Portales City Council. The council on Tuesday authorized acceptance of a contract with Constructor’s Inc., of Carlsbad, to resurface Kilgore Avenue from State Route 88 to 18th Street. The contracted amount for the project is a little more than $1 million, which will be covered by New Mexico Cooperative Educational Services (CES) and state Department of Transportation (DOT) funds, according to d...
