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The woman who shot and killed an alleged burglar at her Clovis home on Aug. 4 told police she believed the man was “her ex, Javier Jimenez” according to police. The information was provided in a police incident report, released last week following an Inspection of Public Records Act request filed by the News. Police said they found Jimenez in a pool of coagulated blood with no pulse after responding to a 911 call in which the woman who lived at 700 Dawn Loop had reported a burglary in progress. The incident report showed Jim... Full story
PORTALES – If nothing else, Portales High's football team was able to compete against an outside opponent on Friday night. And with the thermometer near the 100-degree mark, the Rams may also have gotten a feel for what it might be like in Saturday's 1 p.m. season opener against Highland at Milne Stadium in Albuquerque. "It was really hot, but you can't control what days you play on," senior guard-defensive end Nehemiah Yorfee said. "You just have to go out there and do y...
Some knew Wiley Teel as an Albuquerque school teacher, where he devoted more than three decades of his life. Others knew the Portales native as a cattle rancher, restorer of antique furniture, emergency medical technician and lover of antique cars. He moved back to Roosevelt County in 2000 after retiring as an educator. "We were born and raised in Albuquerque," Teel's son Mike Teel said. "So, I just knew the Albuquerque schoolteacher, Wiley. "He was the hardest working man...
RUIDOSO – Second-year Clovis High football coach Andrew McCraw was happy with several things in Wednesday’s three-way scrimmage with Las Cruces High and Artesia, but one thing stood out. “We came out of it healthy,” McCraw reflected on Thursday. The Wildcats, who were 3-7 last season but made a late run at a possible Class 6A playoff berth, are slated to open the 2023 campaign on Friday against rival Hobbs at Leon Williams Stadium. “Our defense played really well against Las Cruces,” McCraw said. “We got a pick (interception...
On this date ... 1937: Clovis’ zoo had a new fawn. Zookeeper Ivan Hoadley said the baby deer was discovered in the grass on zoo property, presumably the offspring of two of the five adult deer on the grounds. 1945: Due to a drastic feed shortage in the area, many farmers and dairy cattlemen were selling all or part of their herds, cutting milk production by 20 to 30%. 1947: Yeggmen got away with $800 to $900 in cash from the Campbell’s Dairy and Ice Cream Co. plant at 1400 Main in Clovis. Police said a safe containing the mon...
Sawyer Huey is a 10-year-old dachshund and cocker spaniel mix who shows his Clovis' pride by howling to his favorite song "Not Fade Away" by Buddy Holly. His owner, Diana Huey, said she always plays music in the house and that Sawyer will always reach "ear-splitting decibels" when that song comes on. Huey said Sawyer's music taste remains loyal with Buddy Holly as he refuses to sing along to the Rolling Stones version of the same song....
When Alexandria Parrella moved to Clovis after she received orders to be stationed at Cannon Air Force Base a year ago, she said she heard rumors of the city having a large “animal dumping population.” To Parrella’s horror, it seemed the rumors were closer to the truth than what she anticipated. “I was blown away with what I saw physically. The amount of animals every single morning as I’m driving to work that are limping, that are on the side of the road, that are dead or alive and just wandering around. It just blew m...
Col. Calvin Kroeger, a Clovis native, graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and a veteran of deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, was named commander of the Forth Worth District U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) on Aug. 3. The district covers approximately 140,000 square miles and employs over 1,200 personnel, according to a news release from USACE. The district operates and maintains 25 multipurpose reservoirs in six river basins, three hydropower plants and more than 350 recreation areas, which receive...
Eastern New Mexico University's Kappa Sigma fraternity chapter has been awarded a Founders Circle Award as one of the top Fraternity chapters in North America, according to an ENMU press release. The Founders' Circle Award is the benchmark award in the Kappa Sigma fraternity, recognizing outstanding Chapter management, achievement, and program development in all areas of operation. Only 5 of 290 Chapters and Colonies received the Founders' Circle Award within Kappa Sigma in...
Monday *Clovis Astronomy Club – 7 p.m., Room 101, Clovis Community College, 417 Schepps Blvd., Clovis. Use west parking lot entrance. Information: 757-846-7509 Tuesday *Roosevelt County Commission - 9 a.m., Commission Room, Roosevelt County Courthouse, 109 W. First St., Portales. Information: 575-356-5307 Wednesday *Portales City Council special executive session – 4:30 p.m., Council Chambers, Memorial Building, 200 E. 7th St., Portales. Information: 575-356-6662 Thursday *Let’s Talk: Chat with the Portales City Manag...
Fifty years ago right about now, the trees of eastern New Mexico were groaning with a record peach crop. Just reading about it made my mouth water. The Portales News-Tribune from Sunday, Aug. 12, 1973, showed Dora farmer A.W. Stolle cradling a branch loaded with Elberta peaches nearing ripeness. “I just don’t know how the frost missed nipping those buds this year,” Stolle told the paper, “but we sneaked by the late cold spells, and we certainly have a peach crop in the mak...
I remember when I was a kid, an adult or two told me “ain’t” wasn’t a word. “It’s not in the dictionary,” they said. I don’t remember ever looking it up to see if they were right, but I can say it’s in there now, along with who-knows how many other slang words that decorate our great American lexicon. Every year, dictionaries add words and terms — to make them “officially” part of our language, I suppose. And, of course, all our “new words” say something about the twists and turns of our modern culture. For example: “Near...
The movie “Oppenheimer” draws attention to the events at Trinity Site on July 16, 1945, and in the days leading up to the detonation of the world’s first atomic bomb. And then the scene shifts. But for those living downwind from the blast, the damage and devastation to their lives and health caused by exposure to radioactive fallout was just the beginning, and would play out in the decades to come. Nobody died that day in the blast, but there were deaths. Much more slow and painful deaths, most involving cancer. Ameri...
Conservatives are often hesitant to criticize other conservatives. Florida issued its guidelines for teaching history last month, including a set of standards that covered the issue of slavery in grades 6 through 8. It’s likely that what happened next would have been a big yawn for most folks, until Kamala Harris pointed it out in one of the few speeches she’s ever given in coherent English. The vice president referenced a section of the new guidelines that read as fol...
A good idea is a good idea even if it comes from the worst person on Earth. Good ideas can come from both the political right and left; conservatives and liberals, Republicans and Democrats. When anyone on either side has a good idea I’m happy to agree with them. I’m just as eager to disagree with the bad ideas either side offers. Respecting everyone’s equal and identical rights, no matter who they are, is the best idea humans have ever had. Both political sides wade caref...
For the presidential election held in 2016, Donald Trump formally announced his candidacy on June 16, 2015. This suggests that if you are a serious candidate for the 2024 election, you may be running a tad late. The Democrats have two announced candidates, sitting President Joe Biden and Kennedy family scion, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. There any number of potential candidates sniffing around in case Joe stumbles (politically, not literally) in his quest for the nomination....
The answer is yes. I am ready for some football. The high school season starts this week. I started liking football in 1967 when the first game I can clearly remember played out on my granddad’s color TV set – the Dallas Cowboys played the Green Bay Packers in the “Ice Bowl.” The temperature was 15 degrees below zero. Most fans considered it pro football’s championship game, though the Super Bowl was still to be played. My granddad was for the Cowboys because … Tom Landry, I think. Everybody in Texas loved the Cowboys coa...
Adding the federal Economic Development Administration (EDA) as an economic development partner seemed to be the idea of the day Wednesday as the Eastern Plains Council of Governments (EPCOG) held its regular meeting in Clovis. The meeting's guest speaker, Jorge Ayala, regional director for EDA's Austin, Texas, Regional Office spoke to EPCOG about why to him it is important for the council to work towards being a partner with EDA. "It may not always be an EDA funded project...
It’s called “A Fair to be Reckoned With,” and it all starts on Tuesday. The Curry County Fair starts Tuesday and will be packed with fun things to do, according to K.C. Messick, general manager of the Curry County Events Center and Fairgrounds. Messick said he’s excited for this year’s main event and all of the hard work that went into making it happen. Safety has been a concern since an incident at last year’s fair that involved an altercation among some young people at the fair on Aug. 17, 2022, fair officials said at the...
When President Joe Biden landed in Albuquerque on a visit to New Mexico Wednesday, he received a hand-delivered letter from New Mexico U.S. Congress members encouraging the president to support Cannon Air Force Base, according to a press release from the Congress members. On Aug. 2, the Air Force officially announced its intention to transfer a squadron of MC 130J armed cargo planes and up to 350 personnel to Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Ariz., in 2027. The transferred squadron would become part of the 492nd Power...
When was the last time Clovis High School won a state football championship? The 2001 Clovis Wildcats, coached by Eric Roanhaus, went 13-0 and claimed the Class 5A state title. Clovis beat Mayfield, 17-10, in the championship game that year. The Wildcats played in the state championship game in 2004, 2005 and 2007, but lost those contests to La Cueva, Mayfield and Mayfield, respectively. In its history, Clovis has won 13 New Mexico Activities Association football championships -- 1960, 1973, 1977, 1978, 1981, 1982, 1983,...
Kids ranging in age from three to 10 raced around the tents at the Java Loft parking lot in Clovis, participating in all the activities the Plains Regional Medical Center's "Back-to-School Bash" had to offer on Wednesday afternoon. While enjoying the family-friendly entertainment, prizes and games, parents were able to ask PRMC staff questions about the kinds of services the medical center provides. Chief Nurse Executive at PRMC Wendi Hulett said that families were encouraged...
A state senator is urging Eastern New Mexico University and financially troubled Mesalands Community College to consider a partnership or make the Tucumcari school a branch campus of ENMU. One area lawmaker said he would oppose such a partnership or merger of Mesalands. The presidents of both educational institutions said they are open-minded to Sen. George Munoz’s proposal. Munoz, D-Gallup, in late July wrote separate letters to the ENMU board of regents and the Mesalands board of trustees. The Quay County Sun obtained t...
Editor's note: This is one in a continuing series of state-of-the-entity interviews with local officials. Tina Dziuk is the executive director for Clovis Economic Development (CED). Q: How exactly is Clovis Economic Development funded? How is it governed? Who decides how the money is spent? A: Our organization is primarily funded through memberships, grants, and our contract with the city of Clovis. CED is governed by a board of directors who is responsible for approving the b...
A confidential informant, a pair of “multi-colored shoes” and an apparent jailhouse confession have led to charges against a Portales man accused of breaking into a city of Portales drop box. Adolfo Madrid, 29, faces charges of larceny over $20,000 and tampering with evidence after he was linked to cash and checks taken from the drop box. The checks included one for more than $49,000 from Eastern New Mexico University to pay a water bill, records show. Portales City Manager Sarah Austin said no residential billing con...
