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Melanie Patrick is a woman on a mission. Actually, make that several missions. And she’s working hard to encourage more of us to get involved. Patrick moved to eastern New Mexico a year ago from San Antonio, Texas, with her husband, Col. Chris Patrick, commander of the 27th Special Operations Medical Group at Cannon Air Force Base. “I’m a military spouse and boy mom,” Patrick said. “I don’t really care for the traditional unspoken rules for military spouses. I honor my hu...
TEXICO — The Texico High machine keeps rolling along. The No. 1 Wolverines clobbered No. 16 Zuni in Wednesday's Class 3A baseball state tournament first-round matchup 21-0. The defending 3A champs sent 24 batters to the plate in an 18-run first and never looked back. With the win, the Wolverines advance to a 10 a.m. Wednesday quarterfinal at Cleveland High School against No. 9 Laguna Acoma. "I thought the kids came out prepared and locked in, and did a great job of taking w...
On this date ... 1983: Toney Anaya made his first official visit to Clovis since being sworn in as governor of New Mexico on Jan. 1. Anaya was in town to serve as guest speaker of the spring meeting of the Clovis Chamber of Commerce, but also used the visit as an opportunity to announce the appointment of Clovis resident Bob Lydick to serve on the state board of educational finance. "I had no idea he was going to make the appointment," Lydick said. "It was a surprise." Anaya...
If you live in New Mexico, you probably know somebody with the last name of Martinez, Garcia or Chavez, at least according to Ancestry.com. The genealogy website released the most common surnames by state, with a trio of Hispanic names topping the list in the Land of Enchantment. Texas sported nearly the same list as New Mexico, with Garcia, Smith and Martinez making up the state’s top three. Smith was far and away the most common surname in the country as there were only five states — including New Mexico — that did not h...
The following is a list of area high school and college graduations: High schools • Elida: 4 p.m. May 17, Elida High School Gymnasium • Clovis: 6 p.m. May 18, Curry County Events Center • Fort Sumner: 6 p.m. May 18, Ft. Sumner High School Gynanisum • Bovina: 7 p.m. (CDT) May 18, Bovina High School Auditorium • Muleshoe: 7 p.m. (CDT) May 18, Muleshoe High School Gymnasium • Clovis Christian Schools: May 19 at 2 p.m. at Living Stones Church • Dora: 3 p.m. May 19, Guy Luscombe Gymnasium • Texico: 2 p.m. May 19, Texico Sports A...
ALBUQUERQUE — The good news is Portales' Sarah Blaeser is moving on to the semifinals in the state tennis singles bracket. The bad news is it required eliminating a teammate. Blaeser defeated fellow Ram Zamorye Cox 6-0, 6-1 in the quarterfinal bracket Wednesday night at the Jerry Cline Tennis Complex. She'll move on to an 11 a.m. semifinal against Haley Garcia of St. Michael’s. That winner heads to the the 4 p.m. championship. Both matches are also at Cline. In early mat...
MELROSE — When you think of the communities of eastern New Mexico, supercomputing is probably not the first thing that comes to mind. But some Melrose junior high and high school students are trying to change that. At last week’s 28th annual New Mexico Supercomputing Challenge Melrose students showed off their technological abilities, taking home four awards and four scholarships totaling $5,100. “I think it’s a really unique experience that not a lot of high school students get to engage in,” senior Rebecca Rush said. “So...
CLOVIS — Frank Conte was watching overtime of a basketball game with his family when a truck barreled directly into their living room Tuesday night in Clovis. “Just a boom, buddy,” he told The News. “Before that I saw the headlights coming in, I saw it bump off the driveway.” Conte said he’s lived over 20 years in the house at the end of Sandia Drive, at its intersection with Harrison Avenue. This was the first time any heavy machinery crashed through the wall. His first r...
Booked The following were booked into local jails Tuesday through Wednesday: Clovis • Audra Childers, 22, probation violation, failure to appear on a felony charge, failure to appear at time and place stated in citation • Kimberly Cross, 39, failure to appear at time and place stated in citation • Robert Wilcox, 39, fraud, concealing identity, theft of identity • Jose Navarrete, 23, failure to appear at time and place stated in citation • Walter Garcia, 50, probation violation • Andrea Fluellen, 35, concealing identity, f...
On a recent visit to Gattis Middle School, I stopped off in the library for an errand. While there I saw a young man working and talking with students in the back of the library. The back of the Gattis library is, in fact, a wall of glass, overlooking the enclosed, grassy courtyard used daily by students moving between classes or during their lunch break. Curious, I wandered over to listen in. The young man is Joseph Williams, the student success coach at Gattis Middle...
Former ENMU president among honored PORTALES — Former Eastern New Mexico University president Steven Gamble is among the faculty being honored at the college’s Distinguished Faculty Emeriti Awards on Monday. The awards will be given at ENMU’s annual Emeritus Faculty Luncheon at noon in the Zia Room of the Campus Union Building. In his 16 years at ENMU, Gamble “reversed an eight-year decline in enrollment and initiated a 16-year period of growth of 67 percent from 3,583 students in 2001, to more than 6,000 in 2017,” according...
CLOVIS — The Clovis Community College Board of Trustees heard a review of the college’s TRIO Student Support Services program at Wednesday’s meeting. TRIO SSS Program Director Katrina Walley said the program serves 180 students, providing academic advising, campus tours and grant aid, with $48,949 awarded to CCC students this school year. Walley said the program is designed to benefit students who come from first-generation college or low-income families, and/or students who are physically or learning disabled. “We provide...
RICHARDSON, Texas — Danee Bustos got a little bit of hardware entering the Lone Star Conference track championship. The Eastern New Mexico junior was chosen as the LSC's female track athlete of the week. The award is the first of Bustos' career. She was credited with her work on the Greyhounds' 400 relay team, which finished with a team-record 45.96 at the weekend's Oliver Jackson Twilight meet at Abilene Christian University. Bustos runs the second leg of the relay team, w...
PORTALES — For some, this weekend's Lone Star Conference Outdoor Track and Field Championships are an opportunity to produce their strongest performance of the year, while others are trying to fine-tune their techniques heading into the NCAA Division II Championships in three weeks. For Eastern New Mexico track and field, that appears to be the reality when they head down to San Angelo, Texas to compete for league titles on the campus of Angelo State. The event, which will b...
Who says high art can't be creepy? Certainly not the New Mexico High School Musical Theatre Awards in Albuquerque, where the cast of Portales High School's production of "The Addams Family" will be performing this weekend. The production ran April 5 through April 8 and was attended by NMHSMTA judges who nominated the cast for best ensemble and actors Joseph Erwin, 17 (in the role of Gomez Addams) and Liam Hurley, 18 (in the role of Fester Addams) for the best-actor award,...
Today • Friends of the Portales Public Library — Noon at Portales Public Library, 218 S. Ave. B, Portales. Information: 575-356-3940 Tuesday • Portales City Council — 6:30 p.m. at the Memorial Building, 200 E. Seventh St., Portales. Information: 575-356-6662 Wednesday • Clovis Planning and Zoning Commission — 3 p.m. at the Bert Cabiness City Government Center, 321 N. Connelly St., Clovis. Information: 575-769-7828 • Clovis Civil Aviation Board — 5:30 p.m. at Clovis Municipal Airport, 459 Clovis Road 11, Clovis. Informa...
Today • National Day of Prayer Event — Noon at Curry County Courthouse. Information: http://www.nationaldayofprayer.org • Tween Program — 4:30 p.m. at Portales Public Library. Activity: Stop motion storytelling. Information: 575-356-3940 • Preschool Storytime — 6 p.m. at Portales Public Library. Story: “Little Birdies.” Information: 575-356-3940 Friday • Tucumcari Rawhide Days — All day at various locations in Tucumcari. The city will be transformed into an Old West town to commemorate the filming of the television series “Ra...
