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PORTALES - Over the past few campaigns, the Portales High football team has seen a number of games it was in position to win get away late. In Friday night's season opener at Greyhound Stadium, the Rams were bound and determined not to do it again, keeping Highland at arm's length most of the way before nailing down a 31-16 victory over the Hornets. Senior running back Emmanuel Diahn rushed for 163 yards and four touchdowns, while sophomore quarterback Paxton Culpepper went...
Booked The following were booked into local jails (Tuesday - Friday): Clovis * Jeremiah Span, 28, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge * Samuel Daniels, 51, possession of a controlled substance * Larry Lucero, 56, failure to comply with specific requirements * Jose Santos-Mercia, 22, out of state fugitive * Veronica Alvarez, 21, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge * Amber Rodriguez, 43, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge * Joeann McClendon, 43, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge * Tevyn Driever, 25, escape or...
Clovis Monday: Breakfast: Mini maple waffles. Lunch: Cheeseburger, seasoned fries, veggie cup and ranch, chilled peaches, or (grades 6 to 12) spicy chicken with fries or pizza. Tuesday: Breakfast: Breakfast bread. Lunch: Chicken and bacon cheese wrap, pasata salad, celery sticks and ranch, sidekicks, or (grades 6 to 12) corxn dog or cheeseburger and fries. Wednesday: Breakfast: Homemade breakfast burrito. Lunch: Mac and cheese, seasoned green beans, veggie cup and ranch, chilled fresh apple, whole wheat roll, or (grades 6 to...
Curry Residents Senior Meals Association 901 W. 13th St. Clovis Monday: Cheeseburger, green chile, lettuce, tomato, onion, pickles, tater tots, diced pears. Tuesday: Chicken tenders, mashed potatoes, gravy, fried okra, roll with butter, oatmeal cookie. Wednesday: Chicken salad, potato salad, cucumber salad, crackers, cookie. Thursday: Frito pie (beef, beans, chili and cheese), salad, spiced apple. Friday: Baked chicken, baked potato, mixed veggies, roll with butter, cake. Friendship Senior Center 901 W. 13th St., Clovis...
On this date ... 1957: John Burroughs, a Portales peanut processor, announced his candidacy for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in 1958. He pledged a “businessman’s administration” if elected. Burroughs, 50, was the first man from either major political party to announce for the governor’s seat. Burroughs, who entered politics a year earlier when he won a seat in the state House, said he spent four months talking to people in various parts of the state about a possible gubernatorial run. “Many of them seem to feel o...
The books listed below are now available for checkout at the Clovis-Carver Public Library. The library is open to the public, but patrons can still visit the online catalog at cloviscarverpl.booksys.net/opac/ccpl or call 575-769-7840 to request a specific item for curbside pickup. “The Justice Rider” by James Clay. Raffe Driscoll is a killer and thief who is falsely known as a saintly avenger who aids the poor. An unscrupulous newspaper man has bestowed the title of “Justice Rider” on the vicious hoodlum in a move to accrue...
RICHARDSON, Texas — Lone Star Conference preseason polls in volleyball and men’s and women’s soccer, released earlier this month, weren’t particularly kind to Eastern New Mexico University. The Greyhounds were picked for last place in both soccer polls — with 10 teams for the men and 13 for the women — while ENMU was 13th out of 17 teams in volleyball. Coaches and various representatives across the league participated in the voting. Volleyball — West Texas A&M earned the top spot in the poll after posting a 26-5 record i...
Around these parts, if we’re not complaining about the lack of rain, we’re grousing about the weeds. My grandmother said of her father when he was looking for land in this country that he wanted two things — a place with shallow water and a place without Johnson grass. I’m not sure he was successful long-term on either account. I guess I officially switched gripes last week. On the way out to check the rain gauge, I found myself ankle deep in a patch of goat heads. Some of you...
Democrats in the state Legislature went to a lot of trouble to gerrymander the 2nd Congressional District, and now their colleagues in Washington, D.C., are squandering it. After rejecting all of the proposed maps of an independent redistricting commission, Democrats passed a map offered by Sen. Joseph Cervantes of Las Cruces that breaks up the Republican stronghold in southeast New Mexico that had always dominated past elections in the 2nd Congressional District. Republicans have won all but two elections since the state...
Concerns about what a number of Clovis residents believe is a rising crime rate was a topic of discussion at Thursday’s regular session of the Clovis city commission. Clovis chief of police Roy Rice presented what he called an “update in crime statistics” for the city in response to social media talk and voiced concerns about a “crime problem” in Clovis. Rice said there has been an increase in violent crime and youth crime. He said property crimes are decreasing, sexual assaults and robberies are down. One type of incident th...
“There’s a choice we’re making. We’re saving our own lives.” — from “We Are The World” Yes, this is early. That ritual where the columnist assigns the year a theme doesn’t usually begin until December. But the view from this pew is that, where 2022 is concerned, said theme is already clear. In recent days, this has begun to feel very much like The Year (Bleep) Got Real. Sixteen years after Al Gore implored us to face “An Inconvenient Truth” and we didn’t, we have seen...
If you weren’t fearful of government before, you should be scared to death by now. This is the United States of America. Not Venezuela. Or is it? Never in our history have we gone after a former president the way the partisans running the Biden administration’s FBI and Department of Justice just went after Donald Trump. We’re not some fake democracy in the Third World where the ruling political party gets to use government power to punish its opponents – or at least we were...
Does Attorney General Merrick Garland know that he is investigating the man most likely to be the opponent of the president he serves? Does he realize that the intense political pressure campaign that he’s under to indict that man has been plainly visible to everyone? Does he care? If we can’t know where Garland is ultimately heading in his probe of Jan. 6 and the documents seized from Mar-a-Lago, all indications are that he is preparing the ground for an indictment of Don...
HOBBS — It wasn’t exactly the start that Andrew McCraw was looking for as Clovis High’s new football coach — and that’s putting it mildly. Hobbs’ Kaden Trevino returned the opening kickoff 89 yards to the house, and the Eagles never looked back from there in blowing out the Wildcats 46-7 in Friday night’s season opener for both teams. “It’s not what we wanted, for sure,” McCraw said. “But it’s a bunch of fixable mistakes that hurt us. We’ve got to get those things worked out by next week.” The Eagles didn’t post huge off...
On Aug. 8, headlines across the country reported things like: “Police: 4th Muslim man Killed in Albuquerque over Past 9 Months” The media proclaimed: “Shock and disbelief enveloped Albuquerque as it grappled with the fact that a city with a reputation for welcoming and embracing immigrants from around the world and that celebrates ethnic and cultural diversity like few others has given rise to a possible serial killer or killers targeting Muslims. “As the weekend closed the de...
Charlie Corn was at his booth in the Curry County Fairground’s Commercial Building on Wednesday night when a teenage girl appeared, frantically running down the aisle. “She was crying and screaming and couldn’t breathe,” Corn said. “The first thing I did was try to look at her, to see if there was any blood or if maybe she’d been shot. She was extremely scared.” Moments later, a second teen girl appeared in the building. “Same kind of thing. She was hysterical, panicking,” Corn said. Then a man began rushing from boot...
Some residents said they had concerns after hearing Portales City staff proposed a 30 percent increase in residential water rates per year for five years at the recent council meeting. The city had scheduled a special council meeting for Friday to provide more information to residents, but it was cancelled due to a lack of a quorum, said City Manager Sarah Austin. The city plans to address this at its next council meeting on Wednesday. The proposed rate increase is across the board and would include residential, commercial...
Twelve area governments including Curry County, Roosevelt County, the city of Portales along with other counties and municipalities are to each receive a share of just over $12.78 million in transportation project funds. The funding comes after a Thursday meeting of the state transportation commission in Farmington. According to a news release from the Eastern Plains Council of Governments (EPCOG) the project fund will grant money up to 95% of project costs. Local entities must provide the remaining 5% match to assist with...
A Roosevelt County octogenarian died Thursday around noon, allegedly struck by a vehicle as she was in front of her house. An investigation report from the New Mexico State Police reports Virginia Poe, 82, was checking her mailbox just off the road at her home in the 1400 block of Roosevelt Road 5. Her 88-year-old neighbor, who state police did not identify, was driving a 2001 GMC pickup and pulling an empty flatbed trailer. The neighbor stopped along the roadway to talk to Poe. After the conversation, the man drove onto...
For New Mexico Public Education Department Secretary Kurt Steinhaus, visits to schools in Elida and Floyd on Thursday were sort of a homecoming, since both school districts are in Roosevelt County, where Steinhaus grew up and got his bachelor's degree. In fact, he said as he toured Floyd Schools' elementary classrooms Schools building Thursday with Superintendent Damon Terry, his mother-in-law Pat Glasscock once taught in the Floyd School. Steinhaus grew up in Portales and rec...
PORTALES -- The Roosevelt County Fair has been happening annually since 1906. So says the fair’s Facebook page. For 2022, it all starts Tuesday. There’s a pork chop breakfast that day from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m. at the Jake Lopez building. Fair board president Sheila Hays said the fair will feature carnival rides and games from Wright’s Amusements, fair food, livestock shows, home art exhibits, kids events and more. Wednesday there is a “Night of Worship” on “the slab” at the fairgrounds. There will also be a roping event startin...
The cities of Clovis, Lovington and Roswell have all had water rate increases in recent years, but the city of Portales has not had one for more than 10 years. At its Aug. 9 meeting, the Portales City Council was asked to approve a 30 percent increase in water rates each year for five consecutive years for residential and commercial users. The council voted to postpone the item and asked the staff to revise its numbers before bringing the matter back for consideration. City Manager Sarah Austin said in an email on Friday: “Th...
CLOVIS -- Police on Thursday identified a second suspect wanted in connection with the shooting death of Jessie Villanes-Lerma, 16, last Sunday night. Deionte Fannin, 29, of Clovis has been identified as 42-year-old Jimmy Whitlock’s accomplice, according to a news release from Clovis Police Lt. Trevor Thron. Whitlock and Fannin were both at large going into the weekend, officials said. Both Whitlock and Fannin have active warrants for their arrest in connection to the s...
CLOVIS — Maureen Bell was in a show barn at the Curry County Fair on Wednesday night, watching area youth with their lambs. “I don’t think I’ve ever been more afraid in my life,” she said. “You hear someone say ‘live shooter’ and see everyone running … total chaos ensues. “I saw parents screaming for their children, kids screaming for their parents, spouses screaming for spouses …” Police said they found no evidence of gunshots at the fair that night, but mayhem followed rep... Full story
Bionca Martinez, 24, of Portales bonded out Thursday night from the Roosevelt County Detention Center after being charged with homicide by vehicle in the death of Laura Fernandez, 35, of Portales Tuesday night. According to an arrest affidavit completed by Portales police detective sergeant Nikolas Sanchez, Martinez, driving a Nissan Altima, ran a stop sign at the intersection of South Avenue D and West 18th Street in Portales and rammed a Ford Focus being driven by Fernandez about 11:15 p.m. Tuesday. When police and...
