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Roosevelt Chamber accepting job fair vendors The Roosevelt County Chamber of Commerce is accepting vendors for its June 16 job fair, according to a chamber release. The fair will be held 2 p.m.-6 p.m. at the Eastern New Mexico University Campus Union Ballroom. The event is free for chamber members, with registration available online at portales.com/events/details/portales-job-fair-4746. Other businesses can inquire by calling the chamber at 575-356-8541. The registration deadline is June 9. Jobseekers are asked to bring a...
MELROSE — An 11-year-old boy died Monday following a trash-dumping accident Sunday afternoon. Camden Stevens, 11, attempted to jump from a trailer, but lost his footing and fell under the trailer tires, according to a news release from the Curry County Sheriff’s Office. The boy was transported by ambulance to Plains Regional Medical Center, then flown to a hospital in Lubbock. He died about 1:30 a.m. Monday. According to the news release: Sheriff deputies responded to the Melrose dump station at Fifth and Avenue B fol...
BASEBALL Prep linescore Monday Texico 11, Portales 2 Portales 010 001 0 — 2 6 2 Texico 010 505 x —11 8 2 Mario Valesco, Daniel Galvan (2), Derek Belden (4), Dason Davis (4), Adrian Ontiveros (4), Damian Pierce (6) and Chanden Neece; Seth Griego, Freddy Davalos (6) and David Davalos. W — Griego. L — Belden. Sv — F. Davalos. Top hitters — Portales: Davis 1-3, run, SB, Josiah Tellez 1-2, 3B, run, BB; Braden Mignard 1-3, RBI; Trevan Price 1-3, RBI. Texico: Gabe Bailey 1-3, 2-run 1B, run, HBP; F. Davalos 1-2, RBI, 2 runs, 2 BBs...
Booked The following were booked into local jails (Friday-Tuesday): Clovis • Irak Arce-Barreras, 36, probation violation • Marco Rivera, 30, probation violation • Johnathan Trujillo, 31, failure to pay fines • Gerald Martinez, 50, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge • Michael Prucey, 26, battery upon a health care worker, battery upon a peace officer • Channas Spight, 26, out of state fugitive • Marisa Martinez, 24, out of state fugitive • Anthony Stubbs, 31, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge • Jerry Clewis, 62,...
FORT SUMNER — Among potential adjustments to De Baca County's 2021-22 budget discussed at a special meeting May 14 are intergovernmental agreements with the village of Fort Sumner for solid waste collection, law enforcement and communications. While the county agreed to provide communications for the village at a rate of $91,000 for the third consecutive year, the agreements for solid waste and law enforcement remain incomplete. The county is requesting a 5-percent increase in fees for solid waste collection and t...
FORT SUMNER — The Carlsbad Irrigation District is planning a large release of water from Sumner Lake starting this week. The release is expected to contain 8,000-10,000 acre-feet of water and will require about 3 1/2 days to accomplish, said Sumner Lake Dam Tender Mike Cantrell. The water will be released at a volume of 1,200-1,300 cubic feet per second, so area residents can expect a full Pecos River during the release. There is no corresponding release from Santa Rosa Lake, so the level at Sumner Lake is expected to drop s...
SANTA FE — New Mexico added more than 110 fatalities to its official COVID-19 death toll Monday as the Department of Health announced the completion of an audit of public health records. The adjustment pushed the state’s coronavirus-related deaths to 4,245 — a jump of 114 fatalities since the final report of last week. All but one of the deaths — that of a man in his 60s from Bernalillo County — was due to the audit of health records, according to the state figures. David Morgan, a spokesman for the Department of Health, s...
Entropy. What pops into your head when you hear that word? Well, just to prove that I listened some in a science class 4-plus years ago, here ya go: “The tendency of a body in motion to remain in motion and a body at rest to remain at rest.” Impressive, right? Not so much. Because, I’m now reminded, that is the definition of “inertia,” not “entropy.” OK. Let me think. “Entropy” is “a wasting away or progressive decline due to disuse or disease — for example, a muscle due...
On this date … 1951: Furnishings for Portales’ new Hotel Cal Boykin had arrived, with crews to install them expected within the week. Boykin had not set an official opening date, but hotel board members said the 60-room, $500,000 facility could begin receiving guests by June 15. Each of the top three floors in the four-story building contained 20 bedrooms - one 24 x 14 feet, one 10 x 16 feet and 18 that were 13 x 12 feet. Each bedroom had an adjoining bathroom with tub and built-in vanity case and each bedroom featured a bui...
PORTALES — Roosevelt County commissioners welcomed the New Mexico Department of Transportation’s new district engineer, and hoped to continue a spirit of communication fostered by the previous engineer. Francisco Sanchez, the engineer for DOT’s District Two, said he wanted to continue the relationship predecessor Tim Parker had with Roosevelt and other counties in the district, and was optimistic new state funding would help the department stay ahead of what he called a “deterioration curve” for state roads. Recent years, Sa...
LOVINGTON — Portales’ tennis teams split District 4-4A duals against Lovingtton on Monday, with the Lady Rams taking a 7-2 victory and the boys dropping a 9-0 verdict. The Lady Rams won five of six matches in singles and took two of the three doubles contests, all in straight sets. The only wins for the Lady Wildcats came at No. 4 singles and No. 2 doubles. Meantime, Lovington ran away with the boys dual. Except for a three-set win by the Wildcats’ Michael Hein over Portales’ Marcus Aranda, Lovington dropped just one game in...
CLOVIS — For the second and third times within a week, Portales High’s softball team came up short against Clovis. But the Lady Rams at least made it a little more interesting. The Lady Wildcats posted a 10-4 win over PHS in the opener of a Saturday doubleheader at Lady Wildcat Field, then survived a serious comeback by Portales before nailing down a 17-14 victory in Game 2. The previous Monday at Wheeler Park in Portales, CHS dominated the Lady Rams 16-2. “We’re very young, and we don’t have a whole lot of varsity experienc...
CLOVIS - There's not a lot left to prove this spring for the Texico girls and Clovis Christian boys golf squads. Both will have a chance to contend for Class 1-3A state championships in about a month. Right now, it's more about fine-tuning things. On Monday, the Lady Wolverines and Eagles cruised unchallenged to team titles in the Clovis Christian Invite at Colonial Park Golf Course. Texico shot a four-player total of 342 to 388 for Clovis High and 409 for Dexter, while...
A Clovis motorcyclist died in a one-vehicle accident May 12 on Highway 469 south of San Jon. According to a news release Monday from the Quay County Sheriff Russell Shafer, the accident occurred between mile markers 14 and 15 on the highway, at the descent from the caprock. The report didn’t identify the motorcycle’s driver. A worker at Muffley Funeral Home in Clovis confirmed the victim was Jared McDaniel, 25, of Clovis. A sheriff’s deputy reported the wreckage and driver were in the northbound lanes. The driver was bleed...
TEXICO - Faced with its opening District 4-4A twin bill on Tuesday at Artesia, Portales baseball coach Ruben Tellez decided to get a look at his group of left-handed pitchers on Monday night. The Rams paraded six hurlers to the mound, the first five of them lefties. Four-time defending Class 2A state champion Texico put together a pair of five-run innings to hand PHS an 11-2 setback. "We were just trying to see who could do it on the mound for us," said Tellez, whose squad...
I have a proven record of misidentifying things I see. It isn’t getting better with time. Once it was an owl. I would have bet money on it. It was nighttime and our dog was in the front yard barking like a maniac. I flipped on the porch light and peered out to see what the cause of the ruckus might be. On the ground, maybe 30 feet from the porch, I was met by two glowing eyes, their gaze fixed upon me. It was unquestionably an owl. There was simply no doubt. I knew it s...
When you’ve lived a full life, you think back on those who helped shape you into who you are. Parents and spouses immediately come to mind for most folks, but people you meet along the way also make their mark on you. When we’re young, our families shape us, and when we get older it’s the people we live with or marry who influence us the most. I’m sure I’m not alone in saying my mother and father raised me with the values that have remained with me throughout my life. And, even though we split up years ago, my wife of 20-plu...
“Wake-up call” is perhaps one of the most over-used phrases in the English language. And one of the most ignored. The recent shutdown of the Colonial Pipeline because of hackers, apparently a criminal gang working out of Russia, is a case in point. The pipeline stretches from Texas to New Jersey and transports half the fuel consumed on the East Coast. When the pipeline was shut down, panic buying ensued with long lines and gas shortages. Hundreds of stations ran out of fuel. The company that operates the pipeline paid rou...
Any argument against the idea of having a free society — one free of political government — also works against the idea of having such a government holding society down. The only reason anyone still tries to make this argument is because crimes are called by different names when they are committed by government employees instead of by the self-employed. When you pretend criminal acts aren’t criminal, you can justify anything. Theft is called “taxation,” “asset forfeiture,...
Our Clovis Municipal Schools Education Foundation has sponsored the Clovis High School Hall of Honor for the last decade “to recognize and honor former graduates of Clovis High School whose achievement, strength of character, and citizenship” have demonstrated exceptional contributions above and beyond in their respective areas of expertise. The CHS Hall of Honor event is important not only to pay tribute to the accomplishments of former classmates, but also serves as an opp...
CLOVIS — An inmate at the Curry County Adult Detention Center attempted suicide Sunday, and was treated at Plains Regional Medical Center. Interim jail administrator Joseph Alaniz did not identify the inmate, other than to note he had a slew of charges that may or may not have been a motive for the suicide attempt. First responders were called to the detention center at 2:38 p.m. Sunday after discovering the inmate alone in his cell with a standard issue blanket tied around his neck. The inmate Alaniz said, was back at the f...
CLOVIS — The Clovis City Commission will meet in special session Thursday, with the intent of approving the city’s preliminary budget for the 2021-22 fiscal year. The agenda for the 5:15 p.m. meeting at the North Annex of the Clovis-Carver Public Library does not have any other agenda items. The preliminary budget for the year will be $61.733 million, about $5.25 million more than last year’s $56.478 million budget. City Finance Director LeighAnn Melancon told The News most of the increases were related to imple...
PORTALES — The Portales High School graduation is set for 7 p.m. Friday at Eastern New Mexico University's Greyhound Stadium. Portales High Principal Arturo Ontiveros said there would be somewhere between 160 and 170 students graduating in the class of 2021. The district is making sure it's following COVID-19 protocol. The students were each given 12 tickets for family and friends who will attend the ceremony. Ontiveros said families will be told to social distance in the stands during the ceremony, with only family groups s...
CLOVIS - After 429 days with the surround sound silenced and the big screen dark, North Plains 7 reopened in Clovis on Friday. People on both sides of the ticket booth said they are excited to be back at the movies. Suzette Ramirez, the theater's manager, described the closures brought on by COVID-19 as a "struggle," for her and other theater employees. But Friday marked a brighter future. "It wasn't even a struggle to get people to come back to work, so that was wonderful....
CLOVIS - As the soon-to-be former students of Clovis High School made their way onto the field of Leon Williams Stadium, they were greeted by a raucous crowd. The celebration, Principal Jay Brady said, was well deserved. "These kids," Brady said, "deserve every inch of this celebration." A senior year of high school, conducted entirely during the COVID-19 pandemic, came to a conclusion for the CHS 2021 class on a sunny Sunday afternoon. Due to virus concerns, the school held...
