Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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Today • Clovis Community College Board of Trustees — 8 a.m., CCC, 417 Schepps Blvd., Room 512, Clovis. Information: 575-769-4001 Thursday • Clovis City Commission — 5:15 p.m., North Annex, Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main St., Clovis. Information: 575-769-7828 Tuesday • Curry County Commission — 9 a.m., Commission Chambers, Curry County Administration Complex, 417 Gidding St., Clovis. Information: 575-763-6016 • Roosevelt County Commission — 9 a.m., Commission Room, Roosevelt County Courthouse, 109 W. First St., P...
Harvey Park may be on top of the world, but his feet are planted firmly on it. Park, a 33-year-old Clovis resident, won the Legacy Fighting Alliance’s Lightweight Championship on Friday, earning a technical knockout of Demarques Jackson. Yet Park feels like the same man who stepped into the Sanford Pentagon cage in Sioux Falls, South Dakota before the mixed martial arts bout. “It doesn’t feel any different,” he said Monday. “The fight is over, nothing’s changed. I’m just li...
CLOVIS - There are still "more questions than answers" regarding the water contamination plume near Clovis. But state agencies maintained in a public meeting Monday night that it was monitoring the situation while pursuing action from the federal level. Some four dozen attended the meeting in a town hall room of Clovis Community College, among them elected officials, landowners and dairy industry representatives. The meeting was hosted by the New Mexico Environment Department...
PORTALES — Eastern New Mexico University’s athletic department unveiled its latest Hall of Honors class Monday, with the six selections to be inducted during the school’s homecoming festivities in October. Selections, listed alphabetically, are Leroy Chavez, Jessie Poku, Isaiah Samoei, Norma Stroik, Jeff Thibodeaux and Layla Turner. They will be inducted during the Oct. 11 Hall of Honors banquet, and also recognized during halftime of the Oct. 12 football game against Tarle...
There was local golf aplenty over the last two days, with Clovis' boys and girls hosting the Colonial Invite and Portales taking part in the Piedra Vista Spring Invitational. 'Cats compete Missing sophomore Ryan Rowley, who was sick, the Clovis boys played decent on Tuesday, with all four golfers shooting in the 80s. Senior Kolt Bennett led the Wildcats with an 81. "Which is not real good for him but he had five out-of-bounds," Clovis boys coach Dale Fullerton said. "He ended...
You should probably drink a lot more water. It’s our age’s most oft-recited quasi-medical mantra. Never mind that most of us have long thought that the human body came equipped with an “idiot light” on the dashboard that flashes “You Are Thirsty!” to be sure we don’t miss the signal that we are when we are. Thirsty, that is. In need of liquid sustenance. Maybe even ... water. As precious as water is — far more precious than oil — you have to be really thirsty for it to...
There is a lot of ugliness in the world right now. It would be easy to blame social media, the times we live in, political unrest, and a host of other things. And as these things go, people have laid the blame squarely on the doorsteps of others. We see the posts, or the photos of people with faces distorted by hate or hear divisive statements from one political group against another. We don’t have conversations so much anymore as we do finger pointing. We’ve become “us” again...
When an upcoming weekend is as busy as this one (seriously, check out the events calendar for the next few days), I especially appreciate a two-for-one opportunity. The Roosevelt General Hospital Foundation and Eastern New Mexico University’s Department of Theater and Digital Filmmaking are teaming up to offer just that. The Pulitzer-prize winning play, “Wit,” by Margaret Edson opens at 7 p.m. Thursday on the Main Stage of the University Theater Center, and $2 of each of the $...
PORTALES — College track and field season flies faster than the sneakers carrying runners around the oval. As the season began in March, it seemed like the Lone Star Conference track and field championships at Eastern New Mexico University were far off in the distance. They’re now upon us, scheduled for Thursday through Saturday at Greyhound Stadium. It will be the first time ENMU hosts the LSC championships and the culmination of hard work for Eastern head coach Jeff Kav...
PORTALES — One spot remains in the Lone Star Conference baseball tournament. It could still belong to Eastern New Mexico, with a little bit of help. Cesar Capellan picked up his first win of the season in 2 2/3 innings of relief, and the Greyhounds kept their slim playoff hopes alive with a 9-8 win Sunday over Tarleton State to secure a split in the four-game series. The visiting Texans took the Friday opener 2-1 and Saturday’s doubleheader opener 21-13, while the Greyhounds t...
TEXICO — If the Texico and Eunice baseball teams are indeed seeded 1-2 in the upcoming state 2A tournament — as the Wolverines think they might be — Monday’s doubleheader could have been a good or bad omen for the green and white. When the teams entered Monday’s twin bill at Texico, the Wolverines had a 13-4 record, Eunice 14-5. They wound up splitting the day’s action, as Texico won the opener 9-0 and Eunice salvaged the doubleheader with an 8-3 victory in the nightcap. Texico emerged 14-5, Eunice 15-6. No harm, no foul? We...
RICHARDSON, Texas - Eastern New Mexico second baseman Nicholas Ankerman, following his best series so far this season, was named the Lone Star Conference's hitter of the week. Ankerman, a senior from Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, is the first Greyhound player to be honored this baseball season with a weekly award. The regular season ends this week with the Greyhounds heading to Texas A&M-Kingsville for a four-game series. Ankerman went .571 over as the Greyhounds split their...
ARTESIA — Lightning proved a challenging opponent for Clovis’ track and field team this past weekend. More so than most of the Wildcats’ opponents this season. The ’Cats have been racking up meet wins throughout the spring, having won three in a row through their own Wildcat Relays. Over this past weekend, they competed in the invitation-only Artesia Invitational, but only through the 400-meter dash because lightning struck after that event, forcing a delay. When the delay w...
ROSWELL - How long was Portales' District 4-4A series opener against Goddard? Three days later, it was the series closer. The Rams took a 6-2 loss Monday at Goddard in a rain-delayed conclusion to the three-game series, resuming what was the Friday opener to the three-game series. The teams played the other two games in the series as scheduled Saturday, with the host Rockets winning both by 10-0 counts. Friday saw Portales (9-13, 0-6) score early on a two-run single by Baylor...
Fourteen local students win scholarships Fourteen local students were among the 35 scholarship winners awarded this month by the Plateau Education Foundation, according to a Plateau press release. Among the $8,000 scholarship winners were Jackson Jarman of Farwell High School, Baylee Sours of Texico High School, Krista Baltes of Fort Sumner High School and Saylor Samora of Clovis High School. The $3,000 scholarship recipients included Mari Ferrel, Emma Norman and Ramon Reyes for Farwell High School, Cory Terrell and Alex...
The Roosevelt County Road Department will begin work on Mesilla Park Loop Off of South Roosevelt Road N beginning today. This project is expected to be completed in two weeks, weather permitting, county officials said. The roadway is being enhanced to caliche from dirt as part of a Local Government Road Fund Grant. Motorists are asked to reduce their speed and watch out for workers and equipment. Information: Road department, 575-3556-5942 or county administration at 575-356-5307. CCC will sponsor blood drive CLOVIS — C...
Booked The following were booked into local jails Friday - Monday: Clovis • Guillermo Quintana-Carrillo, 49, driving under the influence of liquor (impaired), failure to maintain traffic lane • Darren Helms, 42, aggravated driving while under the influence, no proof of insurance • Arcenio Sanchez, 60, probation violation • Moses Ortiz, 22, failure to appear on a felony charge, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge • Anthony Lucero, 26, assault upon a peace officer • Brandon Fenley, 31, possession of drug paraphernal...
CLOVIS — Few people, never mind businesses, can say they’ve made it to 90 years old. One Clovis company will celebrate reaching that milestone on Friday. Holland’s Clovis Office Equipment Co., located at 601 N. Pile, will hold an open house to celebrate its 90th anniversary all day on Friday, including a 10 a.m. ribbon cutting. “It’s challenging to be the president and owner of a company for sure, but it’s even more challenging when you know that this business is 90 years old and you have to continue,” owner Randy Holland...
You may not be aware, but our pre-primetime way of life is undergoing a big change. Jeopardy! is being transformed. Like many Americans, I’m a fan of this game show, which I like for brain teasing entertainment value. I’m not a regular viewer because my work doesn’t always allow me to be at home in time (it airs at 6 p.m. weeknights here in New Mexico). Millions of Americans, however, tune in regularly — more than 10 million daily, according to one Nielson report. TV Guide lists Jeopardy! as the biggest game show of all tim...
I’m sure there will be a final answer on the racetrack/casino any month now. Right? Those who support a local racino must see by now how giving government the power — permission from the people — to approve and ration racinos is obviously a terrible idea. Tying anything to the government’s wagon makes certain it won’t be as good as it could be. Nor will it be timely. Those who oppose the racino should have noticed that if you give control of such things to government it will d...
The timing, of course, was part of the intent. A gunman with a semiautomatic rifle walked into the Chabad of Poway synagogue during services Saturday morning and opened fire. It was the last day of Passover. At least one person was killed and three were wounded, while uncounted others have again been seared with mortal fear, all in the name of hate. This is the second deadly synagogue attack in the United States in six months, following the shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh in October. That was the...
ALBUQUERQUE — And they’re off ... again. The New Mexico Racing Commission has scheduled a special meeting for 11:30 a.m. Friday at its boardroom at 4900 Alameda Blvd. NE in Albuquerque. This will be the first meeting since Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham dismissed the previous five committee members and appointed a new commission a week ago. The meeting will include elections for chair and vice chair, along with chairs for the race dates and medication/rules committees. Following an executive session, the commission plans to dis...
Editor's note: The victim and those associated with her are not identified in this story, in line with Eastern New Mexico News policy not to identify victims of alleged sexual assault. A former Tucumcari fire chief avoided time behind bars for embezzling city funds and drugging and trying to sexually assault a city employee, but not without hearing scathing statements from the victim and her acquaintances and receiving additional conditions from the judge during sentencing...
CLOVIS — If the agenda for Thursday’s Clovis City Commission meeting is any indication — and be assured, it is — the commissioners are getting set for what may be their shortest meeting of 2019. Just two items are listed for the 5:15 p.m. meeting at the North Annex of the Clovis-Carver Public Library. The commission first plans to declare May 14 as Nonagenarian Day in the city, in conjunction with that day’s 2 p.m. event at Baxter-Curren Senior Center. The event is to honor all people 90 and older, and the oldest male and...
May 9 • Clovis Community College Nurses’ Pinning Ceremony — 1 p.m., Clovis Civic Center, 801 Schepps Blvd, Clovis. Information: 575-769-4025 • Clovis Community College RadTech Pinning Ceremony — 6 p.m., Clovis Civic Center, 801 Schepps Blvd, Clovis. Information: 575-769-4025 May 10 • Clovis Community College Commencement — 6 p.m., Curry County Events Center, 1900 E. Brady Ave., Clovis. Information: 575-769-4025 May 11 • ENMU Spring Commencements — 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., Greyhound Arena, Portales. College of Liberal Arts and...
