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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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Today • 38th annual Custom Classic Softball Tournament — Guy Leeder Softball Complex, 1801 N. 14th St., Clovis. Entry fee: $325 per team. Teams must be registered with United States Specialty Sports Association. Information: http://www.clovisusssa.com or 575-762-8977 • King Ranch Truck & Trailer Team Roping Event — Curry County Events Center, 1900 E. Brady St., Clovis. Information: 575-935-7000 Monday through Wednesday • Vacation Bible School — 9:30-11:30 a.m., Dora Church of Christ, 151 Main St., Dora. “Heroes for God.” Ope...
BASEBALL Prep linescores Class 2A state tournament Tuesday’s quarterfinals Texico 20, Pecos 5 Pecos 140 00 — 5 6 4 Texico 472 7x —20 14 1 Lawrence Ragland, Josh Gonzales (2), name n/a (4) and Dana Benavidez; Anton Goins, Tristan Chavez (4) and David Davalos. W — Goins. L — Ragland. Top hitters — Pecos: Victoriano Quintana 3-3, 2 2Bs, 3 RBIs. Texico: Josh Myers 3-3, 3B, 2 2Bs, 4 runs; Goins 2-2, 2B, 4 RBIs, 4 runs; D. Davalos 2-4, 2 RBIs; Freddy Davalos 2-3, HR, 4 RBIs, 3 runs; Seth Griego 1-3, 2-run HR; Bryson Crow 1-1, 3...
PORTALES - Nate Davis has a simple philosophy for every aspect of college athletics. "Be a good teammate," said Davis, senior associate athletic director at Pittsburg State Wednesday morning on the Eastern New Mexico University campus. Davis is seeking to be the top teammate as one of four candidates for the college's vacant athletic director position. Davis was the second to go through the on-campus interview process. The university last week interviewed former University of...
Editor's note: As we begin to see COVID-19 in our rear-view mirrors, travelers are cautiously returning to the roads. This series offers destination options for eastern New Mexico-area residents looking to get away for a few days. Imagine a world where art comes to life. Portals and exotic adventures open up with a simple touch of imagination. In Santa Fe, this very atmosphere materializes. Meow Wolf's House of Eternal Return is an explorable art and entertainment experience...
ALBUQUERQUE - Texico wobbled a bit on Friday, but the Wolverines were able to right the ship. An early 3-0 lead turned into a 5-3 deficit against Eunice in the Class 2A state championship game at the University of New Mexico's Lobo Field, but Texico scored six runs over the final three frames to pull out a 9-5 victory and claim its fifth consecutive state crown - Class 3A titles from 2016-18 and a 2A championship in 2019 before COVID-19 wiped out spring sports last year....
ALBUQUERQUE - Traise Cain and Kylyie Paden didn't have quite the days they'd hoped for in Friday's Class 4A state track meet at the University of New Mexico's track facility, but they still took in a pretty good haul. Cain accounted for 20 points for Portales High's boys, winning two events, while Paden scored 12 of the Lady Rams' 13 points with a win in pole vault and a second-place finish in high jump. PHS posted 30 points and shared seventh place with Kirtland Central in bo...
TEXICO - There will be a bit of a different look on the sidelines at Texico in the 2021-22 school year, with veteran coaches Richard Luscombe and Ty Thatcher moving on. Luscombe has spent 31 years at the school and has coached a smorgasbord of sports. For the past 10 seasons, he has been Texico's girls basketball coach. "I think the only thing I haven't coached is volleyball," said Luscombe, a native of Dora who turns 60 in September. A 1983 Eastern New Mexico University...
On this date ... 1961: A fight for the body of Billy the Kid had moved “out of the realm of idle chit-chat and into the courts” with the filing of a petition seeking removal of the Kid's body from its grave south of Fort Sumner. Lois Telfer claimed in the court filing she was the Kid's next of kin and wanted his remains moved to “a decent burial place” in Lincoln County. Telfer alleged officials in De Baca County, who were responsible for care of the gravesite, had failed to maintain the cemetery where the Kid was buried...
Booked The following were booked into local jails (Tuesday-Friday): Clovis • Ozieano Torres-Ortiz, 20, criminal damage to property • Gabriel Gutierrez, 22, resisting, evading or obstructing an officer • Raymund Holliday, 32, failure to pay fines • Danny Garcia, 29, failure to appear on a felony charge • Eugenio Ibarra, 39, aggravated assault upon a peace officer • Martavious Daniels, 19, shooting at or from a motor vehicle, contributing to the delinquency of a minor • Perry Merrill, 65, criminal trespass • Lyle Case, 36, prob...
CLOVIS — The city of Clovis has $700,000 to spend on paving roads in residential neighborhoods. At the city Public Works Committee meeting Wednesday, Public Works Director Clint Bunch said each district needs to select some roads that need repaving. Each district will have at least one paving project. Helping in the decision over what roads to prioritize, Bunch said, is a vendor called Roadbotics that drives and photographs every stretch of city road and assesses both overall condition and problem areas. In other business d...
CLOVIS — Friendship Senior Center reopened to 20-seat limited capacity on April 16 and attendance has steadily increased since June 1, Senior Services Director Barbara Riggan said at Thursday’s Senior Services meeting. The center has had 74 seniors attend since June 1, Riggan said. The meal site has had 256 attendees. In other matters discussed at the Thursday meeting: • Committee member Shelley Winn said most activities at the Baxter-Curren Center have resumed with the exception of bingo and dance. An in-person gener...
CLOVIS — A Clovis man was found guilty Tuesday of five felony counts, including four of aggravated assault of a peace officer, according to a release from the district attorney's office. Sentencing is still pending for Eugenio Ibarra, 38, after he was found guilty in a one-day trial. Ibarra was arrested last July following a pursuit in the early morning hours. The release said Ibarra drove in the direction of several law enforcement vehicles during the 4 a.m. pursuit. He was also convicted of a charge of aggravated fleeing o...
One wonders sometimes if the Democrats really get it. As needed voting-rights reform goes down in flames because some of them thought it more important to defend the filibuster than the ballot, there arises an uneasy conviction that the party does not quite grasp the gravity of the moment, the urgency of the emergency. The filibuster is a vital safeguard, yes. So was the crow’s nest on Titanic. But once the ship plowed into that iceberg, its importance was sharply diminished,...
Education funding needs more sources Educators statewide appreciate the hard work and success of the oil and gas workers that help fund our K-12 schools and higher education, too. Unfortunately, this has also had negative consequences for students as school funding has risen and fallen along with that industry's fortunes. For educators, relying on extractive industries has deeper problems than the instability it brings. Making matters worse, as the world reduces its burning of fossil fuels, this means a long-term decline of o...
After nearly 16 months of COVID-19 and related policies, New Mexico is finally reopening on Thursday. Recently, New Mexico Education Secretary Ryan Stewart who spent most of the pandemic in Philadelphia “leading” his department remotely, wrote what I can only describe as a delusional defense of New Mexico schools’ response to COVID 19. The article discusses at length his Department’s efforts to get staff vaccinated and keep staff and students “safe” during the pandemic, b...
WANTED: Trained security professionals to deal with elevated levels of crime and mayhem at risk to their own life and limb, while getting called racist oppressors and potentially thrown under the bus by elected officials. This has become the de facto employment notice for police around the country, and, unsurprisingly, cops and prospective cops don’t find it particularly enticing. Why would they? America’s cities are feeling the effects of a yearslong experiment in what wou...
I rise today in support of leakers. Here’s to Daniel Ellsberg, a former Marine who was working as a private-sector military analyst in 1971 when he leaked the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret study on U.S. activities in Vietnam dating back to the Truman administration. It revealed a decades-long history of lies to the American public by both military and civilian leaders, including their denials at the time of bombing raids beyond Vietnam’s borders. The 7,000-page document could not be smuggled out on a thumb drive in 1971. It...
Critical race theory is the hottest topic on the planet, even if most of us aren’t exactly sure what it means. What’s important to understand about CRT is that politicians of all stripes are determined to indoctrinate public school students so they might grow up to vote like them. What’s most important to understand is that if your child’s school is teaching the kids what to think instead of how to think, you need to get them out of that school. As for the CRT definition, we can mostly agree it explores how racism is embedde...
Monday • City of Clovis Parks, Recreation, and Beautification Committee — 5:30 p.m., tour of the Roy S. Walker Recreation Center, 316 W. Second St., Clovis. Information: 575-763-9654 Tuesday • Curry County Commission — 9 a.m., Commission Chambers, Curry County Administration Complex, 417 Gidding St., Clovis. Access restricted to those on the agenda. Public invited to view the meeting at www.currycounty.org. Contact Lance Pyle at [email protected] prior to the meeting with comments or questions to be addressed in the mee...
CLOVIS — A Clovis parent told the Clovis Municipal Schools Board of Education he and other parents would like the board to take stances on various issues at its Tuesday meeting. Josh Parkin, a parent of three students in the Clovis system, said in the meeting’s open forum section he would like the board to use a future meeting to discuss topics like mask wearing and critical race theory, “because we would like to see where the board stands on that.” Parkin said he attended a recent Public Education Department meeting on upco...
CLOVIS — The Clovis City Commission listened to presentations Tuesday related to a grant program that would help pay for the creation of easements that would encumber the bulk of local farmers’ water rights with the ultimate goal of conserving water. By entering into conservation easements with local farmers, who would otherwise use the water to irrigate crops, the city would hope to conserve drinking water for future generations, the presenters discussed. Former Clovis Mayor David Lansford said he has been working on thi...
PORTALES — With no noted opposition, and no change in annual dues, the Portales City Council decided Tuesday night to continue services with the Eastern Plains Council of Governments. Executive Director Sandy Chancey said the council provides various services for the $2,964 annual fee, and that a resolution authorizing services is intentionally broad because the council wants to provide service first without being tied down to a resolution’s boundaries. “We’re still providing the same services,” Chancey said, “but in t...
CLOVIS - The Clovis Soap Box Derby was bound to feature some new racers following a one-year hiatus. But Saturday's slow runs down Sycamore Street overwhelmingly went to the newest crop of racers. Jeremiah Vigil, 14, led a field of first-time racers to claim a berth in the All-American Soap Box Derby. Vigil, who will be an eighth-grader at Marshall Middle School, beat out 16 other racers in the double-elimination format and held off runner-up D.J. Padilla and third-place finis...
CLOVIS - The Custom Classic is a longstanding conglomeration of double-elimination softball tournaments at Guy Leeder Softball Complex. That's the techincal definition. But a stroll through the complex Friday night often felt more like a family reunion. The tournament made its return Friday after a one-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Tournament organizer Roger Jackson said this year's tournament fielded only three fewer teams than the 2019 version. He predicted the...
CANNON AIR FORCE BASE - Col. Robert Masaitis could have never predicted what he'd see when he first took command at Cannon Air Force Base in 2019. On Friday he left with pride and appreciation for an assignment he called the honor of his career, as he handed the reins of the 27th Special Operations Command Wing to Col. Terence G. Taylor. The News covered the ceremony virtually. Air Force Special Operations Commander Lt. Gen. Jim Slife credited the 27th for ability to focus on...
