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An investigation into the Eastern New Mexico University women’s basketball program resulted in “no findings of an abusive nature,” according to a university statement Athletic Director Paul Weir provided The News on Tuesday. The statement also said the investigation was related to “the use of volunteer services” and there were no findings “that any ENMU employee forced student-athletes to seek volunteer services.” Weir said the statement was issued by the university in response to questions from The News regarding mas...
The death of a man found unresponsive at Cannon Air Force Base on Tuesday is under investigation. U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Quameir A. Harding, 27th Special Operations Communications Squadron unit deployment manager, was found unresponsive outside the base gym, according to a Cannon news release. He was transported to Plains Regional Medical Center but was later pronounced deceased. “Q was well known for his mentorship and growing the next generation,” Lt. Col. Benjamin Wingler said in the release. “He expressed this in so...
BASEBALL College standings LONE STAR CONFERENCE All Times MDT Conf. All W-L W-L Angelo State 38-6 40-6 Texas-Tyler 31-13 32-14 St. Edward’s 30-13 32-13 Lubbock Christian 26-18 28-18 West Texas A&M 26-18 28-18 Texas A&M-Kingsville 25-23 26-24 Eastern New Mexico 20-23 22-23 St. Mary’s 20-24 22-24 Texas A&M International 18-26 19-27 Texas-Permian Basin 17-27 19-27 Oklahoma Christian 13-31 13-33 Ark.-Fort Smith 11-33 12-34 Cameron 12-32 12-34 Friday’s results Ark.-Fort Smith 11, Texas-Permian Basin 6; Texas A&M-Kingsville 7, Te...
Food for students who need it will be at Clovis Community College's "Campus Cabinet," which is having its grand opening Thursday at 10 a.m. According to a news release from CCC's Director of Communication and Marketing, Nicolle Holcomb, the grand opening is part of CCC's Community College Month events. Holcomb writes the Campus Cabinet was formed by CCC faculty and staff who recognized issues of food insecurity for CCC students and community members. Committee members worked...
For over 20 years, Aaron Watson has been making music. He has no plans to go "Outta Style" anytime soon since he's performing in Portales this Saturday at the Greyhound Arena. The singer-songwriter is no stranger to eastern New Mexico. Watson, 45, was born and raised in Amarillo, and attended New Mexico Junior College in Hobbs to play baseball back in the day. Watson has played several concerts in Clovis including the Curry County Fair, and he said he's excited to be back on...
On this date ... 1901: Thomas Edward “Black Jack” Ketchum, described as the “most noted desperado of the Southwest” by the Galveston Daily News, was hanged in Clayton. Ketchum, a self-confessed train robber accused of multiple crimes including murder, was also a rancher near Tucumcari who rode on many trail drives. He was hanged for a failed train robbery in which no one was killed. They hung him so hard, the history books tell us, his head came off. The native Texan, who lost an arm in the botched train robbery, seemed...
G. K. Chesterton wrote that there are no uninteresting things – “only uninterested people.” And he’s right, you know. I just returned from a few days with my three brothers at Robert Lee, Texas. For almost 40 years, two times a year, we’ve met at our maternal grandparents’ old place there. For more than a few of those years, our dad was with us. Precious time. A precious place. Granddaddy Key had that little house built in 1928, so it’s sneaking up on 100 years old. We’ve pi...
A woman who leads an effort to build homes, churches, orphanages and schools in the African nation of Kenya will be bringing her message to Pleasant Hill Baptist Church Sunday. Ronna Jordan established Houses with Hope, a non-profit organization, in 2003. According to a news release, Jordan’s organization also sponsors U.S. volunteer teams to Kenya. In 2022 the group started Emmanuel Community Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya which serves a population of over 500,000 people. According to the news release, in 2018 Jordan’s org...
People in the Sunrise area on the south side of Clovis were wondering about those explosions they heard Sunday morning. “Those were exploding tires from a vehicle fire,” Clovis Fire Department (CFD) Battalion Chief Chris Elam said. Elam said CFD personnel and vehicles were called out to the blaze in an alley near the 600 block of Dawn Loop Sunday at about 9:40 a.m. “It was a 2015 Toyota Tacoma stolen from Roosevelt County,” Elam said. “It was a total loss.” The fire is under investigation by the state fire marshal’s o...
Apparently driven by Curry County Commission Chair Robert Thornton's words, "I don't like to tell people what to do on their private property." On Tuesday, commissioners tabled a request by the county's Fire and Safety Director to declare a "fire danger emergency" in Curry County. Appearing at Tuesday's regular session of the County Commission, Fire and Safety Director Michael Booth had sought the emergency declaration "to get ahead of the game" in terms of possibly cutting...
The 2023 annual meeting of the cooperative members of Plateau is happening Saturday in Clovis in the Lecture Hall at Clovis High School. Remote two-way conferencing locations will be at Clayton High School, Logan High School and Santa Rosa High School. According to a Pleateau news release, members choosing not to travel to Clovis for the meeting can participate by registering and voting at one of the remote locations. Member registration begins at 8 a.m. and promptly ends at 10 a.m. with the start of the business meeting. Reg...
CANYON – Eastern New Mexico University’s athletes set several personal bests in Saturday’s Buffalo Invitational, hosted by West Texas A&M. Freshman Alex Williams led a 1-3-4 ENMU finish in men’s javelin, throwing 175 feet, with junior Devis Cheruiyot (143-0) and Jude Murray (141-6) following. Also in field events, sophomore Luis Holguin was third in pole vault (12-9 ¾) and freshman Noe Ybaben took third (44-6) in shot put. On the track, freshman John Magee (11.26 seconds) and Josh Bachechi (14.69) ran 2-7 in the 100; Cheruiyo...
HOBBS – Hobbs’ tennis teams handed Clovis High a pair of setbacks on Monday in District 4-5A action, winning the girls tilt 8-1 and taking the boys matchup 9-0. The Lady Wildcats played competitively in doubles, getting their only win from senior Niliyaah Hall and sophomore Hansini Lingali with a 6-3, 6-4 decision over senior Jessica Sturgill and eighth-grader Madelyn Simon at No. 1 doubles. Meantime, freshman Emily Bjorkland took Hobbs sophomore Nivia Nash to three sets at No. 6 singles before falling 2-6, 6-2, 6-3. Hob...
ARTESIA – Portales High’s girls nearly won Friday’s Artesia Invitational track meet, falling one point short in a 12-school field. The Lady Rams tallied 75 points to 76 for St. Michael’s, with Clovis High third at 56. Meantime, the Wildcats were third on the boys’ side with 66 points, trailing the host Bulldogs (89) and Carlsbad (84), while PHS finished seventh with 27 points. “The girls had a very good meet,” PHS coach Quintin Wilson said. “Everybody ran well. There were so many PRs (personal records), we must be doing s...
SAN ANTONIO – In what could have been a devastating weekend, Eastern New Mexico University’s baseball team salvaged a 10-5 series finale win over St. Mary’s in the second game of a doubleheader on Saturday and inched closer to securing a berth in the upcoming Lone Star Conference tournament. The Rattlers took the first game 9-7 and won the series three games to one. ENMU (22-23, 20-23 LSC) regained seventh place over the Rattlers (22-24, 20-24) with the Game 2 victory, and leads ninth-place Texas A&M International (19-2...
CLOVIS – Weather conditions were more suited for maybe mid-March than late April in Clovis High’s Wildcat Invitational on Monday at Colonial Park Golf Course, and hardly anyone was really satisfied with how it went. Clovis Christian boys coach Trent McKay said the Eagles were a bit off their game overall, even though they shot a four-man total of 350 for an 11-stroke margin over Clovis High. The Wildcats, meantime, edged Alamogordo and Roswell High by a stroke in the battle for second place. “We won, but we didn’t play ve...
MELROSE – Two-run singles by junior Ryker Loomis and sophomore Josh Roybal in the fifth inning helped Melrose pull away for a 9-4 District 3-1A victory over Cimarron on Monday. The four-run inning made it 8-0 and allowed the Buffaloes (9-3, 5-2 district) to weather a late rally by the Rams (5-8, 1-6). Melrose closes the regular season on Friday against top-ranked and unbeaten Logan (16-0, 7-0) in a 1 p.m. doubleheader. In other district action on Monday, Logan posted an 11-0 win at Grady (7-9, 1-6), while Gateway Christian (...
I heard a timely quote this week from Ira Glass, the host of the National Public Radio show, “This American Life.” “I am optimistic,” Glass said, “even when there is no factual basis for it … at all.” So am I, Mr. Glass, especially as the days grow longer and garden centers start to bustle with those most optimistic of humans: gardeners. The reason this quote resonated with me so much is that I not only don’t have a green thumb, I don’t even have a green fingernail. Flowe...
Curry, Roosevelt and Quay County residents and companies gave $445,000 to the United Way of Eastern New Mexico (UWENM) and received thanks at the charity’s annual banquet Monday night. UNENM’s top 10 workplace campaigns in Curry County were at Clovis Municipal Schools, Xcel Energy, Plains Regional Medical Center, Citizens Bank of Clovis, Plateau, Cummins Natural Gas Engines, Bank of Clovis, BNSF, City of Clovis, and Albertson`s Market. The top five workplace campaigns in Roosevelt County were at Eastern New Mexico Uni...
Violent events in the last few days prove how edgy Americans are. A 16-year-old boy who knocked on the wrong door was shot through the glass by a scared old man. A 20-year-old was shot because she pulled into the wrong driveway. A cheerleader was shot after she accidentally got in the wrong car at a shopping center. Everyone is so on edge today because of the madness and lawlessness they see on TV and the Internet. Every day brings new video of gas station smash-and-grabs, fla...
First they came for Bullet Bob. Now the city of Clovis is after little ol’ ladies who can’t push a lawn mower. Violate city decrees, and you just might find yourself in front of a judge facing “fines, fees and possible jail time.” That’s what we learned at Thursday’s City Commission meeting. Bullet Bob Vilandry’s crime was posting signs at his collectibles store on Main Street. The signs asked motorists to reserve a couple of spaces for Vilandry’s customers who otherwise routinely have to walk a block or more because the res...
In 1981, Sally Field won a Golden Globe for her portrayal of an ambitious and reckless newspaper reporter in the film “Absence of Malice.” The reporter uses information leaked by a federal prosecutor for a front-page story wrongfully accusing the character played by Paul Newman of the murder of a union boss. The evil newspaper gets away with it because of a 1964 Supreme Court ruling. The film’s title comes from the standard set in the case of New York Times Co. v Sullivan. Former Public Safety Commissioner L.B. Sulli...
Cannon Air Force Base has convincing proof the region missed its airshows. Officials said a capacity crowd of 11,500 people were on the grounds by 12:45 p.m. Saturday for "Wings Over Cannon," the base's first airshow in five years. They came despite blustery weather -- and more wanted in. A line of cars stretched more than a mile away from Cannon in the westbound lanes of U.S. Route 60-84 when officials began turning them away. Some vehicles pulled over in a wide spot off the...
Bestella Gardner remembered the PVC-pipe time capsule near the flagpole at Lincoln-Jackson School in Clovis and remembered it was supposed to be exhumed in 2020, 25 years after its burial. It didn't happen then, as a lot of things didn't happen, because of the COVID 19 pandemic. But on Saturday, two days after the 28th anniversary of its burial, the past was revisited. Gardner, who had been a secretary at Lincoln-Jackson for 30 years before she retired in 2010, was among an es...
A power outage that affected an estimated 6,000 Xcel customers from Clovis to Muleshoe is being blamed on faulty power equipment. Xcel spokesman Wes Reeves reports in a news release the power outage began about 10:55 a.m. Monday when “several breakers tripped at the Curry County Station.” Reeves describes the station as “an important hub for the transmission network serving the area.” Crews entered the substation and traced the outage origin to faulty transformer bushings that insulate the connections between the power l...
