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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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PORTALES — Eastern New Mexico University athletics officials said competition was tight for its annual Greatest Greyhound awards. Still, the winners aren’t exactly a surprise, as All-Americans Lauren Frye and Kamal Cass were also selected for the athletic department’s highest honor. Cass, who led the Lone Star Conference in rushing with 1,191 yards and 14 touchdowns, was named the conference’s offensive back of the year and became ENMU’s first American Football Coaches Association All-American since 2004. He is the third-str...
PORTALES — Eastern New Mexico University is beginning its Greyhound Club membership drive and sales of season tickets for football and basketball. All 2016-17 Greyhound Club members have first choice in seat renewals and season ticket purchases, and all remaining tickets will be available after Aug. 1. The football home opener is Aug. 31 against Southwest Baptist, while the volleyball home opener is Sept. 15 against Texas A&M-Kingsville. Information: 575-562-2153....
CLOVIS - The Curry County Detention Center's population has risen 20 percent since the implementation of new bond procedures, officials said Tuesday. CCDC Administrator Mark Gallegos, the usual inmate average for the detention center is 220 per day. But on Monday, logs showed the inmate count was at 265. Gallegos said it's attributed to procedures intended to decrease jail populations. "Usually, the majority of people would bail out immediately," Gallegos said. "What we are...
CLOVIS — The Civil Aviation Board tabled action on a proposed lease agreement for T-hangars at the Clovis Municipal Airport after numerous local pilots voiced their concerns Tuesday evening at the board’s regular meeting. Most of those pilots took issue with the lease’s language on aircraft condition and storage accessibility. The requirement that airplanes kept in a privately leased hangar be “airworthy” or “must be made airworthy within 4 months” was an issue for pilots and airplane owners who said certain essential mec...
On this date ... 1972: A late-afternoon storm slammed the region, wrecking two trailer homes and sending one woman to the hospital for treatment of shock. More than an inch of rain and "a considerable amount of pea-sized hail accompanied the wind," the Clovis News-Journal reported. The trailers were on opposite sides of State Road 18, about two miles north of Clovis. Mrs. Tim Martin, 19, was alone in her trailer when the storm hit. She was pinned under a couch when her home...
CLOVIS — The Clovis police and fire departments are out for blood — for donation. The fifth annual Battle of the Badges is a two-day blood drive scheduled July 25-26 hosted by the Clovis Fire Department at 320 Mitchell Street. The Battle involves voting for your favorite department to see who can get the most votes. “The fire department and police officers always donate and we see them on the beds picking at each other but we need community members to donate, too,” said United Blood Service Senior Donor Recruitment Represe...
PORTALES — Members of the Portales Municipal Schools Board of Education on Tuesday tightened requirements for junior high and high school students to attend honors and dual credit classes. Superintendent Johnnie Cain expressed a need to “increase the rigor across the district,” and he recommended limiting advanced classes to students with a score of four or five on the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers test. “A four is what the state considers to be proficient right now, and within two years,...
This fishing report, provided by Bill Dunn and New Mexico Department of Game & Fish, has been generated from the best information available from area officers and anglers. Conditions encountered after the report is compiled may differ, as stream, lake and weather conditions alter fish and angler activities. Northwest Abiquiu Lake — Fishing was fair using curly tail grubs, tubes, crank baits, wooly buggers, crawdad imitation flies and night crawlers for smallmouth bass. Fishing for walleye was fair for anglers using l...
Americans have always been proud we live in a country where anybody can grow up to become president. Barack Obama is an excellent example: A biracial kid raised by his white grandparents of modest means who became leader of the free world. Agree or disagree with his politics, Obama was an outstanding role model when it came to civility and manners. Agree or disagree with his politics, you certainly can’t say that about the current resident of the White House. Donald Trump shocked the world with his election last November a...
According to Wikipedia, “A conflict of interest exists if the circumstances are reasonably believed (on the basis of past experience and objective evidence) to create a risk that a decision may be unduly influenced by other, secondary interests, and not on whether a particular individual is actually influenced by a secondary interest.” Reading this carefully tells me that the appearance of a conflict of interest is, de facto, a conflict of interest. According to the King Jam...
Contrary to enlightened opinion, I believe there are only two genders, male and female — with the occasional rare fluke of nature resulting in what used to be called a hermaphrodite. I don’t believe in the grab bag of genders that seems so trendy these days, nor do I believe in the validity of choosing non-binary gender identities, apart from those occasional rarities I mentioned above. I believe in biology. Yes, it’s a shameful confession, revealing one of my terrible short...
