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PORTALES - Mother Nature may have pushed the Portales fireworks celebration out the door a little quicker than anticipated, but no other issues were seen as the community celebrated Independence Day with a 15-minute fireworks show Sunday at the Industrial Park softball complex. Karl Terry, executive director of the Roosevelt County Chamber of Commerce, said official crowd counts aren't taken, but the population felt slightly bigger than prior years with a delay in the Clovis...
Booked The following were booked into local jails (Friday-Tuesday): Clovis • William McClain, 31, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge • Joseph Ruiz, 21, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge • Randy Armstrong, 36, failure to maintain traffic lane, aggravated driving while under the influence of intoxicating liquor or any drug, tampering with evidence • Joshua Frohnhofer, 31, child abuse-negligently cause, criminal damage to the property of a household member, battery against a household member • Amanda Rodarte,...
On this date … 1941: A. B. Cares of Pep had lost about 25 acres of broom corn to heavy rainfall. Overnight rainfall had measured 3 inches. Cares, described by the Portales Daily News as “one of the best dry land farmers in the country,” said he planned to plant cane or hegaria in the next few days. “It will likely be cane for hegaria won't make a good stand if another rain comes shortly after it is planted,” the newspaper reported. 1941: Sam McCarson of Portales had returned home after a successful fishing trip to Seymour,...
Today is one of those days where “adulting” seems overrated. Loads of chores, loads of tasks, loads of laundry. The list is never-ending. It would be a lot more fun to ditch the list, and head into a blankie fort. We're weighed down by things we have to do, things we think we have to do, and all the things we'd like to forget we have to do. And when the to-do list overwhelms us, we beat ourselves up for not getting everything done. Rather than whittling away at my to-dos, I d...
Some things never change. Most things, in fact. “In times like these,” said one wise man, “it helps to remember that there have always been times like these.” Yes, and people, too. While no one is absolutely one or the other, people here will always be by default basically cold people or warm people, institution people or “people” people, and, at heart, grace people or “law” people. I remember a Bible study at our church when we found ourselves discussing Jesus' “Parable...
PORTALES — Eastern New Mexico has been selected as a Best for Vets College for 2021 by Military Times, according to a school release. The school was one of 366 in the country to receive the recognition. “ENMU is very proud of our faculty, staff and students who have served our country or are currently serving, and we are delighted to be selected for this designation,” ENMU President Patrice Caldwell said in the release. “Veterans are an asset to our classrooms, our community and our nation. We are honored to serve them....
PORTALES — Amanda Fefel will join Eastern New Mexico University later this month to become the 12th coach in the history of the Greyhound softball program, the school announced in a Tuesday morning release. Fefel spent the last two seasons as an assistant and pitching coach at Division I Appalachian State. “I am honored and thankful to President (Patrice) Caldwell and Interim Athletic Director Matthew Grawrock for giving me the opportunity to lead the Greyhound softball program,” said Fefel. “I look forward to establi...
CLOVIS — Curry County Manager Lance Pyle has been appointed to the board of directors for the New Mexico Retiree Healthcare Authority, and will be the representative for New Mexico Counties. Pyle, who has been county manager since 2007 and a Curry County employee since 1998, also serves as NMC’s Insurance Authority Pool Board chairman and as vice president for the Eastern New Mexico University Board of Regents. “We are very excited that County Manager Pyle will be the new county representative on the Retiree Healthcare Autho...
If you happen to spy a 1968 red Pontiac GTO draggin’ Main Street in Clovis this weekend, or see it pulling through the drive-up window at Taco Box, take a look inside. In this season of reunions, two former Clovis High School friends and classmates are having one of their own after not seeing each other in person for almost 40 years. They plan to do it in style. Kathleen Rodgers was Kathleen Doran in 1974 when she met Michelle Williams on the staff of Clovis High School’s stud...
Today’s topic is sin. I’ll try not to get preachy about it. There’s a long list of habit-forming vices that Americans have enjoyed, condemned, regulated and even outlawed over time, but today we’ll consider four in particular — tobacco, alcohol, marijuana and gambling. Our U.S. government has spent a lot of time and effort trying to control each, with some of the biggest changes having occurred over the last half-century. Used to be, a lot of communities relegated drinking, pot smoking and betting to the shadows, while cig...
The article in last week’s paper about the problem of restroom vandalism in Clovis city parks struck a chord with me. I’ve seen the results myself. I realize the people who vandalize park restrooms aren’t the kind of people who read newspapers. Nor much of anything else for that matter. I’m going to express my contempt for those reprehensible creatures anyway. The most useless thing in the world is a park without restroom facilities. If you’re going to have a park, you need...
In the mid-2000s, I spent two years as senior military assistant to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, acting essentially as his military gatekeeper and translating his orders to the U.S. military via the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Before joining his team, I had been a Navy one-star admiral and commander of Enterprise Carrier Strike Group, in charge of 10,000 sailors and a dozen ships in combat in the Arabian Gulf. I mention that because my duties suddenly shifted from a pinnacle of command at sea to overseeing administrative...
A unique recognition in place for many years now in our district had a record number of recipients among this year's graduating seniors: the Bilingual Seal was awarded to 61 students. The Bilingual Seal is given to students meeting all the requirements for this unique honor. As described in the information, “this prestigious seal … the culmination of study in a foreign language and English … signifying the student is proficient in listening, speaking, reading, and writi...
CLOVIS - Augustin Herrera of San Antonio said he saw the white car coming at the Clovis house he was staying in on Sunday afternoon from two neighboring yards away. "He went through that fence," he said, pointing at one in the second yard from the house, "then this one," the fence for the yard where he was staying. "Then he hit the house." The car drove straight through an exterior wall of the house where Herrera and his wife were staying on the 400 block of Davis Avenue, and...
Wind and rain over the Independence Day weekend caused only minor damage in Curry and Roosevelt counties, according to county officials. Winds on Sunday gusted up to to 51 mph about 10 p.m. in Clovis, according to Dwight Koehn, a hydro-meteorological technician with the National Weather Service's Albuquerque office. In Portales, high winds began just after the city's Fourth of July fireworks display, which city officials started 45 minutes earlier than scheduled in...
PORTALES — Wade Fraze addressed Roosevelt County commissioners Tuesday morning in a meeting room that was limited to a few other citizens, commissioners and county employees. And that was exactly the problem. Fraze, a teacher at Portales High School, came to the podium on behalf of a group of citizens requesting the commission move its 9 a.m. meetings to 6 p.m. The News covered the meeting virtually. Fraze said 9 a.m. meetings aren’t realistic for those who want to take part in the process, whether that’s attending or runni...
