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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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SANTA FE — A New Mexico Supreme Court ruling issued Monday provided legal framework for its September decision to free a pair of former Portales daycare owners from prison while they appeal their convictions for reckless child abuse. And language in the 4-0 opinion provided strong indication Sandi and Mary Taylor could see a new trial or even acquittal. Sandi and Mary Taylor, former owners of the Taylor Tots Daycare, were sentenced to 30 and 36 years in prison, respectively, after two children in their care were left in a h...
PORTALES — Roosevelt County officials said their detention center employees have performed difficult work throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, without the option of working remotely. By a unanimous vote, county commissioners on Tuesday agreed to provide a temporary bump in their paychecks through the remainder of the fiscal year. At the tail end of a roughly hour-long commission meeting, Detention Center Administrator Justin Porter sought permission for a $150 additional stipend per pay period, prorated to 86 hours of work. “The...
PORTALES — The party’s over, but it sure was fun while it lasted. Eastern New Mexico University’s softball team extended its winning streak to four by edging Texas-Permian Basin 4-3 in eight innings in the opener of Sunday’s Lone Star Conference softball doubleheader at Greyhound Field, but the Falcons rebounded with a 13-3 drubbing in Game 2. The Greyhounds (4-21, 4-20 LSC) put together a nice streak after losing their first 20 games of the year, but they ran out of steam in Sunday’s nightcap. ENMU closes out its campaign...
CLOVIS — With essentially no season last spring, Clovis High boys golf coach Dale Fullerton and girls coach Joe Dvozenja are in wait-and-see mode. The Wildcats and Lady Wildcats open the 2021 campaign today in a tournament at Lovington. Both teams managed to get in one meet last spring before the pandemic took over. “It’s hard to tell,” Fullerton said in assessing the upcoming campaign. “With not having a season last year, it really hurt us.” Dvozenja is hoping his squad can make the best of it. “We’re excited that we can get...
CARLSBAD — Portales High’s girls might be getting used to this overtime thing. Well, maybe not, coach Wade Fraze says. The Lady Rams went to a bonus frame for the second consecutive night on Saturday, pulling out a 48-44 victory over Carlsbad after busting loose for the first 10 points of the extra session. Junior guard Riley Shillings accounted for eight of those tallies, including a pair of 3-pointers. “I’m glad they have the character to finish like that,” Fraze said. “We did not get off to too good a start.” PHS (7-1), wh...
TEXICO - While prep basketball teams are happy to play any schedule, it was evident from Saturday's Texico-Clayton District 6-2A tilt that an NBA-type slate has profound impacts. The Yellowjackets (6-2, 3-1 district) got their second win over Texico in nine days, dominating the third quarter to secure a 45-29 victory at the Texico Sports Arena. In the boys game, Jahvon Askew had a game-high 23 points as Texico cruised to a 65-53 win. Mandy Crisp scored 18 for Clayton, which...
LOVINGTON — After a difficult stretch of games, the Clovis High girls basketball team got the opposite on Saturday. Senior post Hanna Nussbaumer scored a game-high 15 points, and bettered Clovis’ opposition in a 64-14 rout at Lovington. Luisa Chavez added nine for Clovis, which reached 5-5 and now looks to finish the season at a .500 clip. Clovis, which played Hobbs Tuesday night, would need a win against either Hobbs or Roswell Friday to secure the .500 mark. The Wildcats had little trouble against Lovington (1-8), posting a...
ROSWELL — Clovis High’s girls posted six top-four finishes while the boys had four in the eight-team New Mexico Military Invitational tennis tournament on Friday and Saturday. Junior Ayia Alsaleh and sophomore Niliyaah Hall led the way, winning the No. 2 doubles championship with a 6-4, 6-3 victory over Alicia Sena and Ashley Vigil of Las Vegas Robertson. Also for the Lady Wildcats, seniors Brittney Albin and Alex Gonzales finished second at No. 1 doubles. In singles, Alsaleh was second at No. 2, while Gonzales at No. 3, Hall...
BASKETBALL Prep summaries Saturday Boys District 6-2A Texico 65, Clayton 53 Clayton (3-5, 0-4) — Dario Avila 14, Rylan Ruf 18, Jonoven Hildago 3, A.J. Quintana 3, Blake McClure 15. Totals 20 9-14 53. Texico (7-2, 4-0) — Cade Collins 9, Anders Nelson 5, David Davalos 11, Brayden Bencer 4, Max Villarreal 6, Jahvon Askew 23, Gabe Bailey 3, Kayhden Queener 4. Totals 21 15-20 65. Clayton 12 10 15 16 — 53 Texico 13 14 17 21 — 65 3-poinrters — Clayton, Avila, Hildalgo, Quintana, Ruff. Texico, Askew 4, Collins 2, Davalos, Nelson. N...
Booked The following were booked into local jails (Friday-Tuesday): Clovis • Laura Tarin, 42, failure to appear on a felony charge, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge • Angelica Enriquez, 38, failure to pay fines • Aaliyah Sigala, 24, resisting, evading or obstructing an officer, possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of a controlled substance, battery against a household member, failure to pay fines • Eric Barela, 35, resisting, evading or obstructing an officer, false evidence of title and registration, possess...
On this date … 1961: Inmates at the Clovis jail were trying to settle back into their routines after a night the Clovis News-Journal described as “stormy.” Police Chief Ollie Damron said the trouble started about 2 a.m. when a fight broke out between two inmates. Damron said one inmate made “immoral suggestions” to the other and received “some lumps for his trouble.” Then a drunk fell from “the top of a jail cell where he had been perched for a snooze,” Damron said. The man was taken to Memorial Hospital where he received...
CLOVIS — Curry County remains on pace to stay in the state’s vaunted turquoise designation when the state unveils its next round of “Red to Green” county ratings. But the margin for error has significantly shrunk. The state has, since Nov. 30, graded counties every two weeks on meeting gating criteria of 8 daily cases per 100,000 residents and test positivity at or below 5%. Green counties meet both, yellow counties meet one, red counties meet neither and turquoise counties make green for two consecutive data collect...
In the world of education, this past year was consumed by the logistics of re-inventing school: virtual, online; face-to-face, hybrid, or a combination of the above. Nearing the end of any school year typically arouses nostalgia, but this year gives us pause. A year ago, the world turned upside down, and enormous changes took place. Amidst the upheaval there was great tragedy, but there was also heroism. Shifting from face-to-face (F2F) school to online overnight was a...
MULESHOE — Two neighbors are running for the City of Muleshoe’s top political slot in the town’s mayoral race on Saturday. Erin Jo Gonzales, a local nurse practitioner, who among other things, hopes to curb the city’s tax dollar spending, will face off against current city council member and funeral home director Colt Ellis. Ellis is the vice president and manager of Ellis Funeral Homes in addition to his position on the council. Ellis could not be reached by The News for comment. Gonzales said that if elected to run Mulesho...
This past weekend offered numerous opportunities to spend time (both virtually and in-person) with other people who love books and reading as much as I do. First came three days of events associated with the annual Williamson Lectureship hosted entirely online this year by Eastern New Mexico University. Then there was a Sunday afternoon backyard gathering of several vaccinated members of a loosely organized book club I’ve belonged to for years. In both cases, there were l...
Once New Mexico’s marijuana rules have changed, everyone with marijuana charges on their record should get a clean slate. At least where marijuana is concerned. Then they need to be paid the restitution they are owed by those who harmed them. People arrested or fined for a crime that is no longer a crime deserve a break. Those who were jailed over marijuana were wronged. Those who were fined need to be repaid the money that was taken under phony pretexts. All for a ...
As I was driving the other day, I heard some troubling rants as I surfed the AM dial for a little talk. One was from some preacher who was comparing people who don’t pay their rent to demons who occupy free space in our souls. His logic, if you can call it that, was dumbfounding. Who is his audience? Landlords who aren’t getting their rent checks? Hardline capitalists who don’t care about anything but getting paid? Then I landed my dial on a couple of reactionaries talking among themselves. The host was questioning whether th...
Within hours of the guilty verdicts against former cop Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, police in Detroit shot and killed a man who had stabbed himself and was stabbing an officer. At roughly the same time, a cop in Columbus, Ohio, had to make a split-second decision when confronted with a teen girl who was attacking another girl with a knife. He shot and killed her. Both those instances highlight the challenges the nation faces as it attempts to curb police shootings. It’s not all about r...
PORTALES — The United Way of Eastern New Mexico selected Sara Williams of Clovis as its 2021 recipient of the Patricia Bazar Community Volunteer of the Year. The award was announced during a Friday ceremony to mark National Volunteer Week. A donation of $500 will be made in the name of Williams, who serves as Cannon Air Force Base’s school liaison officer, to the local charity of her choice. Williams has additional duties as an ambassador for the Clovis/Curry County Chamber of Commerce, board membership with the United Way...
CLOVIS — Curry County will perform an overlay of chip seal today and Thursday, with road closures required. The work will happen on Curry Road C.2 from U.S. 60/84 to Curry Road 8 and Curry Road G from U.S. 60/84 to Curry Road 6. The county road department has scheduled the following work times: • Curry Road C.2 overlay: 8 a.m.-11 a.m. Wednesday • Curry Road G overlay: 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Wednesday • Curry Road G overlay: 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Thursday Motorists are asked to seek alternate routes, and avoid driving on the roads in the hou...
PORTALES — The Roosevelt County Road Department will begin work on South Roosevelt Road 4 Wednesday, according to a county release. Work on the between South Roosevelt Roads AG and AI, is anticipated to take three weeks. The roadway is being enhanced to caliche from dirt. Residents are asked to drive slow and watch out for heavy equipment and personnel in the work area. Information: 575-356-5942 or 575-356-5307....
CLOVIS - The good news was none of the four grass fires Curry County saw in a roughly 30-hour period Sunday and Monday reached any structures or caused any injuries. The bad news is the fifth grassfire seems like all but a certainty. "We have a higher level of humidity today and possibly tomorrow," Clovis Fire Chief Mike Nolen said, "but outside of that we've had low humidity and winds. It's just been a tinder box ready to go." Nolen, reached by the news, didn't have...
Warm, dry weather has fueled multiple wildfires across New Mexico this week, but forecasters are hoping a midweek storm will provide some relief to the drought-stricken state. The best chance of rain in eastern New Mexico is today, though thunderstorms are expected to be isolated. High temperatures are expected in the upper 60s today and Thursday in the Clovis-Portales area, with rain chances 30-to-40 percent today. But the region will quickly dry again Thursday as winds are expected in excess of 40 mph. Rain chances fall off...
CLOVIS - When the city's Parks, Recreation and Beautification committee met Monday at the Pappy Thornton Museum, it looked exactly like it did last time the committee met there two Novembers ago. The last few decades are the same story, and that's the problem the committee discussed trying to fix as it took its monthly meeting on site to the little-known trove of farm equipment outside and home devices of yesteryear inside. The building's primary usage is storage and office...
RUIDOSO — A wildfire that started Monday morning at the Three Rivers Campground near Ruidoso had consumed 6,100 acres by Tuesday morning. Officials said the fire was 0 percent contained early Tuesday and multiple communities had been evacuated. Nmfireinfo.com reported Tuesday no structures had been burned and no injuries had been reported. “Cooler temperatures and precipitation moved into the area earlier than forecasted and is dropping rain and snow on parts of the fire thi...
