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CLOVIS - Be they entertainers, public servants or business owners, Purple Pride Hall of Honor recipients gathered Saturday for a ceremony that was larger in some ways, smaller in others, but just as special as any before it. After a year that saw the 2020 banquet wiped out by the COVID-19 pandemic, this year's induction banquet from the Clovis Municipal Schools Education Foundation did double duty with inductions of the classes of 2020 and 2021. A total of nine were honored -...
BASEBALL Prep linescores Tuesday District 4-5A First game Roswell High 16, Clovis 2 Clovis 200 00 — 2 9 1 Roswell High 615 4x —16 14 1 Josh Martin, Zack Wheeler (2) and Joseph Albert; Brady Villegas, John Anchando (5) and Hunter Myers-Palma. W — Villegas. L — Martin. Top hitters — Clovis: Johnny Jimenez 2-3, 2B, RBI; Will Jordan 2-2; Emmanuel Gutierrez1-1, BB; Norbert Archibeque 1-2, run, BB. Roswell High: Villegas 3-4, 2B, 3B, 3 RBIs, 3 runs; Rhett Stokes 3-3, 3B, 2 HRs, 5 RBIs, 4 runs, BB. Second game Roswell High 12,...
On this date… 1971: The Pioneer Days Rodeo parade was declared such a success that instead of awarding top prizes in only three categories, the judges gave five first-place awards and four honorable mentions to participants in the 56-unit parade. Doc Stewart Chevrolet-Buick won the judges parade award for an entry featuring a new pickup perched atop a slanted float emblazoned with the company logo. Other award winners included La Vista Lounge’s float featuring a bunch of hil...
CLOVIS - It took 16 innings for Clovis High to finally dent the scoreboard against District 4-5A rival Carlsbad this season. It took even longer for the Wildcats to get a hit. CHS suffered its third consecutive no-hit loss to the Cavemen in the opener of Friday's doubleheader at Bell Park, although the Cats finally broke through late for some runs in a 7-3 loss. Their first hit came on senior Norbert Archibeque's two-out single to center in the first inning of the nightcap....
ALBUQUERQUE — Portales High seniors Laura Blaeser and Taryn Wood advanced to the Class 4A tennis doubles semifinals on Thursday at Albuquerque Academy H.S, where they ran into a buzzsaw. Blaeser and Wood, seeded fourth in the eight-team event, rallied for a a 3-6, 6-3, 6-1 quarterfinals victory over seniors Lily Zhang and Julia Ross of host Academy. Turning around about an hour later, they dropped a 6-0, 6-1 decision to the top seeds, junior Hannah Garcia and freshman Mariela Rigales of St. Michael’s, in the semis. “Th...
CLOVIS - John Tigert had a feeling that something wasn't right. He thought his talented but young Carlsbad softball squad might be in for a bit of a comeuppance on Thursday night. The Cavegirls, leading District 4-5A standings comfortably entering a doubleheader against Clovis High at Lady Wildcat Field, cruised to a 5-0 lead in the second inning of Game 1 when the tide suddenly turned. The Lady Wildcats, winless in district play starting the night, erupted for eight...
PORTALES — Portales High boys basketball is keeping it all in the family. The school announced this week that Randy McBroom will replace his father as the Rams’ head coach going forward. The younger McBroom, an assistant during Rickie McBroom’s entire nine years as head coach, said he hopes to add to what his father established with the program. The elder McBroom retired from coaching and teaching in late May. “We’re going to look at increasing discipline,” Randy McBroom said. “We’re going to look to continue to build on the...
Booked The following were booked into local jails (Tuesday-Friday): Clovis • Bridgette Pyle, 36, failure to comply with specific requirements • Carlos Lopez, 37, residential burglary, disarming a peace officer, criminal damage to property, battery upon a peace officer • Idalia Garcia-Sanchez, 35, criminal damage to the property of a household member, aggravated battery against a household member • Donsha Currie, 23, breaking and entering, battery against a household member, probation violation • Juan Molina, 53, stopped vehic...
PORTALES — A Rogers man was arrested Friday on allegations he possessed child pornography and pressured two students who rode his school bus to send him explicit photos. Jason Mapp, 40, was booked into the Roosevelt County Detention Center Friday on charges of sexual exploitation of children and child solicitation by electronic communication device. Mapp was a bus driver for Dora Consolidated Schools. Dan Lindsey, the attorney for Mapp, said his client is a longstanding community member and will fight the charges. “We den...
PORTALES — The Lady Ram Basketball Fundamental Camp is scheduled for June 15-17 at the Portales High School gym. The camp will have an afternoon session for girls entering grades 3-5 from 1:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m., followed by an evening session for girls entering grades 6-8 from 4:30 p.m.-7 p.m. Registration, available on the first day of the camp, will be $45 for the elementary camp and $50 for the middle school camp. Discounts will be available for multiple campers in the same immediate family. The camp will include i...
CLOVIS — Construction on Seventh Street between Ross and North Prince has been extended through Friday to continue Century Link’s repairs to underground telephone cables. During this time, the public is asked to continue to adhere to all traffic signs. Information: Jesse Harker, 575-703-0842....
Thanks to solid investigative reporting by Searchlight New Mexico, the state Children, Youth and Families Department is no longer using a secure messaging system designed to circumvent open records laws by automatically deleting records before a request can be made. The system allowed CYFD officials to automatically delete their text messages. According to former CYFD Chief Public Information Officer Cliff Gilmore, Department Secretary Brian Blalock told top staff members that they should set their messages to automatically d...
Dear Sen. Joe Manchin: It has only been 56 years. As Americans, we are pleased to call ourselves one of the world’s oldest democracies. We are actually one of the world’s newest. Democracy, after all, is government shaped by the will of the people. But until 1920, roughly half the people were not allowed to vote, disqualified by dint of gender. And until 1965 — 56 years ago — roughly 10 percent were restricted by color of skin. So American democracy is not even as old as you...
When I lived in France many years ago, I went to Mass regularly at Notre Dame Cathedral. My French was not so good at the time, so the ability to attend Mass in Latin was a blessing, because I was able to understand much of what was going on. It occurred to me that while the Second Vatican Council did some good things for the church, it stripped the ceremonies and celebrations of a great deal of their beauty by eliminating Latin from the Mass. It also unintentionally...
Joe Biden is taking his first trip overseas as president. After stopping in England he’ll summit with European leaders in Brussels and then move on to his mano-a-mano meet-up with Vladimir Putin in Geneva. I pray to God he does a great job, but I worry Putin will eat Joe alive. Historically, left-wing dictatorships like Russia, China and North Korea have done that to our leaders when they go visiting overseas. When they make deals with us, left-wing countries like to play t...
Majority rule great if you’re in majority I found the entire June 6 editorial page interesting. The editorial cartoon was most stimulating for the simple reason that it paints a legitimate movement in an extremely negative light. The most distasteful point is the hammer and sickle, a quick review of history will inform just how much death and destruction it represents. The man credited with its authorship was no less Joseph Stalin of Russia. Further, what does ANTIFA have to do with BLM? Any attempt to marry these two i...
After a year of uncertainty and financial upheaval, Americans have become more thrifty. Most adult citizens received more than $1,000 of stimulus money from the federal government during the COVID-19 pandemic. According to a survey from the New York Federal Reserve, citizens spent less than 30% of all stimulus funds, generally opting to save the money or lower their debt rather than pump it back into the economy. In light of the tumult of recent years, saving is a perfectly logical strategy. Paying off debt generally earns a...
Eli Terry, 17, was elected Governor of Boys State New Mexico early this month. Terry, a Floyd High graduate, said normally Boys State is held at Eastern New Mexico University but this year because of the COVID-19 restrictions, it was held online from June 1-4. He said he won three trips to Washington, D.C. this year from various groups but could not attend any of them due to the pandemic. He said he likes to "make the best of it" and so some of the time he lost not being able...
Sixto Paiz of Portales finished in the top 10 in the World Livestock Auctioneer Championship in Nashville, Tennessee last weekend. Paiz was named the organization's rookie of the year, but has not yet been notified of his ranking within the top 10. Paiz, a former oil field worker, decided on auctioneering as a career in 2015 when the price of oil per barrel dropped drastically. "I didn't know what else to do," he said of his decision to attend auctioneer school the following...
Monday • Monday children’s movie — Two showings, 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main St., Clovis. “Dolittle” (2020; PG; 1 hour, 40 minutes). Seating first come, first served until capacity is reached. Limited snacks available; outside snacks welcome. Information: 575-769-7840 • Monkey Business: “Floor Air Hockey” — 10:30 a.m., Portales Rec Center, 1001 W. 18th St., Portales. Portales Public Library summer reading program. Kindergarten through sixth graders welcome; limited to first 50 participants....
Tuesday • Portales Municipal Schools board — noon, Board Room, L.C. Cozzens Administrative Offices, 501 S. Abilene, Portales. The meeting is open to the public, will also be available via livestream at https://livestream.com/accounts/25937490 or on the Portales Municipal School District website, http://www.portalesschools.com. Information: 575-356-7000 Thursday • Clovis City Commission — 5:15 p.m., North Annex, Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main St., Clovis. Limited public access. Public is invited to view the meeting...
CLOVIS — The city of Clovis is seeking citizens to fill nine vacancies on four of its advisory boards and committees, according to a city release. Applications for the Civil Aviation Board, Clovis-Carver Public Library Board, Economic Incentive Board and Parks, Recreation and Beautification Committee are all available at the city manager’s office and will be accepted until 5 p.m. June 25. For questions or to obtain an application form, call 575-769-7828 or email [email protected]. The following positions are...
CLOVIS - Thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, last summer was a mulligan for pretty much any social event. This year is about recovery, and Draggin' Main is no exception. After the pandemic wiped out all but an informal gathering last summer, the event celebrating Clovis' car culture is back again. The music festival that normally accompanies Draggin' Main was pushed back for a second year due to various concerns, but festival committee chair Thom Moore anticipates a 2021...
CLOVIS - It's been 18 months since the first cases of COVID-19 were reported, yet the effects are still lingering, some in unexpected ways. Those who've bought homes, fixed fences, or done any DIY home improvement projects in the last year know first-hand that the price of wood has sky-rocketed since last spring. The world is experiencing a major lumber shortage. The price of wood is up 288% since April 2020, despite lumber production reaching a 13-year high, according to Fort...
PORTALES - There was little doubt Sarah Austin would be hired as Portales' new city manager during Tuesday night's city council meeting, as she was already sitting in the dais' designated city manager seat when the meeting started. Less than an hour later, assumptions became conclusions, as the council unanimously voted to offer Austin a contract following a 10-minute executive session. The council in May authorized a contract negotiation with Austin, village manager for...
