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Eastern New Mexico University sprinter Timothy Frederick gazed up at Greyhound Stadium, a place that helped resuscitate his career. "My home," said Frederick, a native of Trinidad and Tobago, a few weeks before competing in a trial that could send him to the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics. Back in 2018, Frederick was considered a lock to make the Olympics. Then came multiple quad tears and snatched opportunities. In 2020 he was cut from the University of Alabama track team, whi...
Shocked. That’s the word Clovis High School Athletic Director Lonnie Baca used Monday to describe the sudden departure of Wildcats head football coach Andrew McCraw. McCraw told school officials last week he’s leaving for a coaching position at Eastern New Mexico University – just two months before the season begins. “It is what it is and we just have to put our best foot forward,” said Baca, who’s looking to hire a new coach by the end of next week. As of Monday morning, Ba...
Chris Elam described the scene as "utter destruction." "It was devastating for us just to see the mass destruction of that entire neighborhood, and just knowing people lost their homes and belongings and memories. There are pictures on the wall, you know, heirlooms, things like that," Elam said. Elam and about two dozen other Clovis firefighters spent parts of last week helping fight the fires that forced evacuations of Ruidoso and much of Lincoln County. CFD's focus was to...
A God who gets tired. That, my friends, is quite a picture. But it’s one of the amazing pictures hanging on the wall of the universe we inhabit. And, surprise, it hangs right there in the living room. I’d have expected to see a Do Not Touch sign prominently displayed, but, on the contrary, a rather amazing placard posted nearby informs and invites us: Please Note the Question Scribed on the Back of the Frame. So, before gazing at the front and center depiction itself, we rea...
Today *Campus Walk and Talk – 7:30-8 a.m. Meet outside on the quad side ENMU’s Golden Student Success Center for a 30-minute stroll with other community members. Well-behaved dogs on leash are welcome. Bring a water bottle. Information: www.enmu.edu/summerprograms *Allen Theatres Summer Kids Series free movie “Ruby Gillman: Teenage Kraken” (2023, PG, 1 hour, 3 minutes) – 9 a.m., 11:20 a.m., 1:40 p.m., North Plains Cinema 7, 2809 N. Prince St., Clovis. Free; open to all ages; first come, first served. Information: 575-218-7...
Booked The following were booked into local jails (Friday - Tuesday): Clovis • David Martinez, 25, tampering with evidence, resisting, evading or obstructing an officer, shoplifting, delivery or manufacture of drug paraphernalia, battery upon a peace officer • Jerron Fallis, 31, criminal damage to property • Jimmy Norwood, 61, failure to appear on a felony charge – attempt • Miguel Nunez-Franco, 32, harassment • Jose Urioste, 35, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge • Shaun Acy, 35, probation violation • Brian Weiss, 43...
FORT SUMNER — Able to survive its “one bad event,” Singleton Ranches of Lamy and Elida clinched a berth in the Working Ranch Cowboys Association World Finals with a victory in the Fort Sumner Ranch Rodeo here June 14-15 at the De Baca County Fairgrounds. Singleton put together 100 points over the two-day event — despite missing two team members sidelined due to injuries. With regulars Tanner Hart on crutches and Gregg Gudgell in a shoulder sling, Singleton won both the bronc riding and the team branding, piling up 54 points...
Shocked. That’s the word Clovis High School Athletic Director Lonnie Baca used Monday to describe the sudden departure of Wildcats head football coach Andrew McCraw. McCraw told school officials last week he’s leaving for a coaching position at Eastern New Mexico University – just two months before the season begins. “It is what it is and we just have to put our best foot forward,” said Baca, who’s looking to hire a new coach by the end of next week. As of Monday morning, Baca said CHS was looking at seven candidates....
An Eastern New Mexico University alumnus has donated $2.5 million in what college officials are calling the “single largest gift in university history.” ENMU announced in June it had accepted a large donation from Steve Loy, a sports agent and former ENMU football player, but did not announce the amount until this week. The donation is to support ENMU athletes and athletic programs. In honor of the gifts, ENMU will rename Greyhound Stadium and Greyhound arena after the Loy family, according to an ENMU news release. ENMU spo...
Today *City of Clovis Public Works Committee – 8:30 a.m., North Annex, Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main, Clovis. Information: 575-763-9654 Thursday *Eastern New Mexico Water Utility Authority – 3 p.m., Ingram Room, Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main St., Clovis. Information: 575-935-4262 July 1 *Community Development Block Grant public hearing – 10 a.m., Hillcrest Senior Life Center, 1704 E. Seventh St., Clovis. Community members invited to hear about past CDBG program activities and discuss needs and sugge...
On this date ... 1930: Four Roosevelt County prisoners sawed and dug their way to freedom about 2 a.m. The men — three being held for violating liquor laws and one on a robbery charge — used a hacksaw that had been smuggled into the jail to help with their escape. Two of the men were seen going south down the Santa Fe Railway tracks, according to a witness. At least one of the escapees remained free for more than a year. Henry Jones was captured in December 1931 near Dallas. Bob Kinney was captured Aug. 12 in Plainview. Rep...
SANTA FE — Get those résumés ready. In the next year, more than 100 new positions will be created in the New Mexico State Legislature, after the approval of a $6 million appropriation to hire year-round legislative aides. The Legislative Council voted 10-0 to approve an associated measure. The positions are expected to pay between $60,000 and $75,000. Each legislator eventually will be able to hire an aide, who will help with scheduling and other work throughout the year, and work out of new district offices. Incumbents run...
SANTA FE — Policymakers are scattered around the state in their hometowns as they await a special session next month and the 60-day legislative session next year. But that doesn’t mean work isn’t being done. The lawmakers still meet on a regular basis during the interim, when a full legislative session isn’t ongoing. On Monday, legislative staff briefed the Legislative Council on what interim committee meetings have on their agendas. Staff quickly zipped through reports on 18 committees, touching on everything from public saf...
A DeBaca County man, convicted in April in the shooting deaths of his friend and friend’s wife in his home in Fort Sumner, has been sentenced to 22 years in prison. Kelby Randolph, 55, was sentenced Friday by Judge Waylon Counts for the double homicide of Arizonans Brian Beaver, 48, and his wife Rachelle Beaver, 38, in October 2022. Counts sentenced Randolph to 15 years in prison on each count of second-degree murder with a year added to each count on a firearm enhancement. Counts suspended 10 years of the 32-year sentence s...
The poultry show at this year’s Roosevelt County Fair has been canceled. The news came in a posting on the fair’s website: “After long and thoughtful discussion and at the recommendation of the New Mexico State Veterinarian’s office, the Roosevelt County Fair Board has made the difficult decision to cancel the 2024 Poultry Show. We look forward to seeing you in 2025.” The Roosevelt County Fair is scheduled Aug. 20-25. “They have an issue with all fowl right now, and we didn’t want to add insult to injury. We’re just tr...
Editor’s note: This is one in a continuing series of interviews with local officials. Annie Hogland is the Curry County clerk. Q: You were recently named the president for New Mexico Counties. What does that position entail? A: My job is to be an advocate for good county government and help guide the collaborative efforts of all 33 counties in their mission. Q: Do most of the state’s 33 counties have similar issues? What are most county officials spending their time addressing? A: Each county is unique with its own dem...
The Xcel Energy Foundation announced it is awarding $346,000 to 38 nonprofits in New Mexico and Texas. Xcel spokesman Wes Reeves wrote in an e-mail that area nonprofits that received funds from the Foundation include the Eastern New Mexico University Foundation, Hartley House and the New Mexico Farm and Livestock Bureau Foundation. “We have traditionally not publicized amounts for the grants,” Reeves wrote. According to an Xcel news release the funds were awarded in recognition of the “good work community groups are perfo...
Red Lobster Corp. is proposing to close about 100 of its locations nationwide in the wake of a bankruptcy filed in May. The Clovis location is not on a list of Red Lobsters proposed for closure published earlier this month in Newsweek magazine. No New Mexico Red Lobster restaurants are on the closure list. In Texas, 15 of the restaurants are listed for possible closure including one on 50th Street in Lubbock....
Area residents have been noticing west-facing storefronts emerging in the former Dillard’s location at Clovis’ North Plains Mall. “Marshall’s and Ulta are working hard to be open by fall,” mall General Manager Leeann Glen said. Glen said the openings in the building will be the new storefronts. “And there’s lots of work going on behind the ‘fake’ walls inside,” Glen said. Glen would not say whether other stores will also be moving into the former Dillard’s location. In a North Plains Mall Facebook post Thursday, it was writ...
Curry County is set to unveil its revamped DWI program at the Judge Reuben E. Nieves Courtyard at 9:15 a.m. today. The courtyard is at the corner of East Eighth and North Main streets. The revamping, set to take place with the 2025 fiscal year, features a new campaign slogan and a slew of new tools -- all of it aimed at decreasing the amount of incidents stemming from driving while intoxicated, alcohol-related domestic violence and underage drinking, according to Brittany Carlock, the manager of the DWI program. “I don’t wan...
Imagine you are a summer camp counselor for children ages kindergarten through fifth grade, and a forest fire breaks out. Stressful? Katlynn Cooke, a 20-year-old Clovis native and a student at Eastern New Mexico University, was ready for it. She has worked at Bonita Camp – located between Capitan and Ruidoso -- for three summers. She's seen wildfires before. "I have never been in a place where I've had to evacuate but I stay pretty educated on the dangers," Cooke said. This t...
I’ve always found it interesting that some townfolk think it’s just fine to point their pistol, rifle, shotgun in the air and squeeze off a shot or two of live ammo seemingly without a care in the world as to where that bullet or those shotgun pellets might land. I mean, when I was a kid I was curious about where would what went up come down. But I used a slingshot. How close would it land near me? I’d drop a marble in my trusty slingshot, pull the thing back, aim it straight up in the air and let ’er fly. I think the clo...
RUIDOSO — While the investigation into the South Fork and Salt fires’ origin continues, some full-time Ruidoso and Ruidoso Downs residents came back on Monday to look at their properties. Don Spencer, however, said in a Monday phone interview that the search and rescue operations prevented his return. He already knows his house burned down. “This is at a disaster level most folks haven’t been around,” he said. Officials have said two people died in the fires that began June 17. As of Monday, 29 people were listed as missin...
