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Click to watch Shooting Video Click to watch Interview Video CLOVIS — Brent Aguilar said he was in fear for his life and that of his fellow Clovis police officer when he used deadly force Oct. 8 while pursuing a car-thief suspect. “Officer Aguilar began to shed tears and indicated if he had gotten hurt or worse from the suspect stabbing him, who was going to watch over Sergeant (Dagoberto) Rodriguez if Sergeant Rodriguez was hurt and if the suspect would have turned on him.” That’s according to a report by Gerardo Hernand...
It’s fascinating how easily people accept something they would otherwise know is wrong when someone they view as an authority figure tells them it’s right. Voltaire observed, in 1765, “Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.” This truth has led to many of the worst horrors in history. People still haven’t learned the lesson. There are hordes of people working full-time — at your expense — to trick you into believing absurdities. My hope is t...
CLOVIS — Chanse Bhakta has been selected this year’s winner of the Dick and Bertha Rowley award. The award, established by Richard, Nick and Mac Rowley in honor of their parents, is a $1,000 grant to a Clovis High School senior with the highest grade-point average from grades 10-12 among those who have lettered in a varsity sport. The recipient must also enroll as a full-time student the following fall. Should two or more athletes have the same GPA, the award is split among the recipients....
PORTALES — The portion of West University Drive between U.S. 70 and Avenue O will be closed to traffic from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Thursday for road repairs. BNSF Railways will have an employee present at the work site to ensure safety. A detour will be set up directing traffic to Avenue K....
Walking into Lockwood Elementary the other day, I came face to face with a Sasquatch-like character; definitely a bit startling. Immediately reaching out his fuzzy paw to shake mine, I realized all was well. “Squatch” is the mascot of ACT, a program of our local district attorney’s office, which stands for “Abolish Chronic Truancy.” Begun roughly 10 years ago, the program is to not only reduce truancy, but also to positively encourage consistent and on-time student attendanc...
ALBUQUERQUE - Portales High School took home its first award from the Enchantment Awards on Saturday. Junior Julian Valero won best supporting actor for his performance of Lionel, the Royal Steward, from the PHS production of "Cinderella." "It's really exciting. I'm still kind of in the place where it doesn't exactly feel like a real thing that happened," Valero said. Producer Terry Davis said the award was handed out based on the scores assigned to the students' performances...
SANTA FE — New Mexico State Senate Minority Leader Stuart Ingle, R-Portales, has been reappointed to various interim Legislature committees, either as a voting member or advisory member. Ingle, Senate Minority Floor Leader since 2000, represents District 27 that includes Portales, Fort Sumner and portions of Curry, Roosevelt De Baca and Chaves counties. According to a news release from the New Mexico Senate Republican Office: Interim committees examine the effectiveness of state government and how departments and agencies c...
PORTALES — The Roosevelt County Chamber of Commerce is hosting a party for first responders who battled the 267 Fire in April. The 5:30 p.m. Thursday gathering at Portales City Park will include hot dogs, soft drinks, ice cream and cookies provided by the chamber and area businesses. A brief program thanking those first responders will be included. The April 10 blaze, aided by 70 mph wind gusts, claimed four homes and injured two people, one a firefighter. It consumed nearly 3,000 acres before it was stopped short of a s...
CANNON AIR FORCE BASE — A partnership between Cannon Air Force Base and The Conservation Fund has resulted in the protection of more than 30,000 acres of land adjacent to the Melrose Air Force Range, according to a Cannon release. A conservation easement has been placed on the land, which surrounds the range. The easement restricts development, encroachment and changes to the land that could negatively impact operations for the range and the 27th Special Operations Wing. The Conservation Fund worked with landowners Tom and S...
Thursday • 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 Friday • Clovis Community College Commencement — 6 p.m., Curry County Events Center, 1900 E. Brady Ave., Clovis. Information: 575-769-4025 Saturday • ENMU Spring Commencements — 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., Greyhound Arena, Portales. College of Liberal Arts a...
Today • New Mexico Environment Department Petroleum Storage Tank Bureau public meeting on gasoline contamination in the area of Commerce and Prince Streets — 7 p.m., North Annex, Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main St., Clovis. Information: call Renee at 575-291-2109 Thursday • Friends of the Portales Public Library — 12 noon, meeting room, Portales Public Library, 218 S. Ave. B, Portales. Program: Tawna Luscombe, interim director, Portales Public Library. Information: 575-356-3940 • City of Clovis Lodgers’ Tax Advisor...
CLOVIS - It's not unusual for community college students to follow a long road to graduation, but for most Clovis Community College graduates, that road did not begin in Alaska. That's the case for Angela Lam, one of 397 CCC graduates set to receive degrees on Friday. Lam will be receiving a pair of associate's degrees, in liberal arts and business administration, after moving to Portales to live with her grandparents to try something different in her life. "I was enrolled in...
PORTALES — The Portales High softball team, coming off a third-place finish in District 4-4A, learned it would be the No. 10 seed in the Class 4A state softball tournament. Portales (14-12) is slated to visit seventh-seeded Gallup in a noon Saturday first-round affair. The winner will face either Los Lunas or Kirtland Central in an 8:30 a.m. second-round game May 16 at Cleveland High School. The Bengals (17-9) and Rams have not faced each other this season, and only have one mutual opponent in Hobbs. The teams both faced t...
PORTALES - While some students enter higher education with a set plan for their next four years, others do so in hopes of finding their passion. Breanna Smith, one of 795 candidates for graduation from Eastern New Mexico University on Saturday, found that passion in graphic design. Smith, a Clovis High School graduate, said she was undecided on what she wanted to study so she chose ENMU based on cost and location. After meeting someone from the graphic design program, Smith...
PORTALES - There's a certain importance to keeping things local. Both Taylee Rippee and the Eastern New Mexico University basketball program can appreciate that, for different reasons. Rippee made her commitment this week to play for the Greyhounds next season, following a stellar career at Portales High. She is part of a spring signing period for ENMU that includes Rio Rancho product Julia Chavez and Division I transfer Jasmine Williams. Greyhound coach Josh Prock said the...
No Monday blahs this week. It was an exciting day of golf for local teams competing in their district tournaments. Texico’s girls team won the District 1-3A meet at New Mexico Military Institute in Roswell, with the Lady Wolverines’ Grace McDaniel winning an individual title. In the 4-5A meet at Hobbs’ Rockwind course, both Clovis teams captured second place, with Kolt Bennett nearly winning an individual championship for the boys and Logan Clayton taking an individual second for the Lady Wildcats. Texico’s champio...
Sunday is Mother’s Day. May I hasten to say that having a Mother’s Day is a good thing. I am sincerely pro-Mother’s Day and pro-moms. Good ones deserve far and away more honor than they receive, and I’m happy to have some part in helping bestow some of that honor. But as a preacher who has stood in the same pulpit now for 34 years, I’m finding that preaching on Mother’s Days is getting a bit harder. It’s my own lack of imagination, I know, but I quickly preached most of the r...
KINGSVILLE, Texas — Eastern New Mexico University needed a miracle if it was to grab the final playoff spot in the Lone Star Conference over the weekend. But the only thing out of the ordinary was inclement weather, which transformed the four-game, three-day series into a pair of doubleheaders. The Greyhounds fell in both against host Texas A&M-Kingsville, 4-0 and 4-3 Saturday and 6-2 and 10-6 Sunday. The Saturday doubleheader eliminated ENMU from contention for the LSC tournament, which will be hosted by West Texas A&M. A...
You probably know the African proverb about how it takes a village to raise a child. The Kanmore family of Portales might argue that it takes a community to save one. They're in a position to know. They returned home on April 25 after a three-month long journey none of them ever expected to take - one that has left them with nothing but gratitude for the people who supported them along the way. • • • Late on the afternoon of Jan. 31, Brittany Kanmore was heading home from clas...
Nearly a dozen area tennis players are hitting the courts today in Albuquerque, with their eyes on possibly playing for a state championship Thursday. Portales sends seven players to this week's doubles and singles championships to be held at the Jerry Cline Tennis Center and Albuquerque Academy, and its girls team will come in Friday in the eight team Class 1A-4A bracket. The Ram girls enter as the No. 8 seed in the racket, and will face St. Pius 11 a.m. Friday at Sierra...
PORTALES - No matter how things went this past weekend, Eastern New Mexico's track and field program was going to come out of it having done something the Greyhounds had never done. Host the Lone Star Conference Track & Field Championships. As significant an achievement as that was, there was also history made among the nearly 600 athletes who competed at Greyhound Stadium. • Four national records were set. • There were 28 top-five national marks. • There were 39 top-10 natio...
CLOVIS — The Clovis boys track and field team has been a district champion before and there’s no reason the Wildcats can’t be a district champion again. Winners of the District 2-6A title in each of the last two seasons, the ’Cats will be looking for a District 4-5A crown on Thursday when they visit the Wool Bowl in Roswell for the district championships. The meet was originally scheduled for Friday, but bad weather forecasts caused it to be pushed back a day. As of Tuesday afternoon, Friday’s Roswell forecast was rainy and...
My husband Peter is preparing for the End Times. This might not be literally true, but it would certainly appear to be if you checked out the food supplies we have stashed away. Peter hates the fact that packages now contain less than they used to while the price continues to rise. He is infuriated when products substitute less quantity and quality and try to “get away with it.” “Whenever I find a product I like, they discontinue it or change it,” Peter laments. I tell him he sounds like an old person. Peter and I are get...
Texico’s baseball team has had one main goal this season — to win a fourth consecutive state championship. State 3A champs in each of the past three seasons, the Wolverines (16-5) will be vying for a 2A crown this year because of offseason realignment. On Sunday night, they were awarded 2A’s top seed, and will host 16th-seeded Navajo Pine (5-11) tonight, beginning at 6 p.m. The Wolverines expected themselves and Eunice to be 2A’s top two seeds, in whatever order, and the top two seeds they are. Eunice is seeded second...
I collect tidbits that interest me from area newspapers. Here are a few from the first half of Mays past published in Roosevelt County papers: • May 1, 1955: Portales Valley Mills workers discovered the company safe had been cracked the night before while three employees worked in an adjoining warehouse. Employees noticed a strange car in the parking lot, but hadn’t noticed anything out of place. The thieves took $70. • May 2, 1910: The Roosevelt County Herald reported Portales was installing “a very comprehensive system...
