Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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PORTALES - Sometimes you've just got to show everyone what you're capable of, whether that be painting, baking or crocheting. And what better place to do that than the annual county fair. Artists, crafters, hobbyists and more were busy buzzing about the Roosevelt County Fairgrounds on Tuesday morning as they scrambled to get their projects of choice entered and ready to display for the coming week. "It's an opportunity to show the projects and diverse talents of the people in...
PORTALES - Stadium for sale. Inquire within. Eastern New Mexico University is seeking a new owner for its former Greyhound Stadium, one of its oldest and most far-flung assets, as it enters its fourth year of dormancy. Jeff Elwell, chancellor of the ENMU system and president of the Portales campus, said counsel is working on "for sale" advertisements in September. The price? That's up to you, potential buyer. "It's a bid process," Elwell said. "We don't ask." The former...
CLOVIS — As currently formulated, nobody’s expecting either Clovis cross country team to come away with first place at Friday’s Clovis Invitational. But district and state championships aren’t won in August, and for right now just getting the rosters filled out is the early goal for each Wildcat squad. The boys, coming off of last year’s state runnerup finish — the highest in Wildcat program history — expect to make some noise at Friday’s 3:30 p.m. race at Ned Houk Park. But u...
CLOVIS — There’s no way to sugar-coat the weather at Clovis’ Monday-afternoon football practice. It was stinking hot, hovering near triple digits throughout. The Wildcats took precautions, though, with coaches parked under hats that should’ve had their own zip codes, and players getting regular water breaks. Ghastly as the heat was, the ’Cats were out there hoping to stay hot — figuratively, that is — as they try to follow up last Friday’s 42-16 season-opening victory over Ho...
Bill Clinton was president. O.J. Simpson was accused of murder. And Whoopi Goldberg hosted the Academy Awards. Schindler’s List won seven Oscars. For the old-timers among us, 1994 seems like yesterday. But today’s high school seniors, and many of today’s college seniors, weren’t even born yet. In case you missed it, or forgot about it, or weren’t born yet, here’s what happened 25 years ago this week: • U.S. Sen. Pete Domenici, R-New Mexico, was hosting a “big free barbecue” at The Memorial Building in Portales. The pur...
I was not popular in high school. Everyone says this. I now realize that no one — not even the most popular person in high school — self-identifies as popular. Lately I’ve been getting a lot of Facebook friend requests from people I scarcely knew in high school. I have a 40th class reunion coming up next year and I’ve been getting friend requests from people who, I am quite sure, would not have recognized me walking down the hall in high school. In their defense, I was part of a very large class and I think the divisio...
Seventy-five years ago, Bill Vinzant — better known as Billy Glen in those days — was a 10-year-old boy living in Portales, the son of the long-time county extension agent W.G. Vinzant. It was 1944, World War II dominated the headlines, and it was the third consecutive fall without a Roosevelt County Fair, thanks to the ongoing austerity of war. It was also the year that the fairgrounds — which looked a lot different back then — became the temporary home for about 200 German...
Editor's note: Marlowe J. Churchill's family secrets have been largely buried since 1926. His search for truth brought him to Parmer County in 2017 and he recently completed a manuscript detailing the violent death of his great aunt and her eight children, who are buried in Mt. Olivet Cemetery south of Farwell. This is the first of a three-part excerpt from his unpublished book. The series continues Sunday. The "History of Parmer County, Texas," published by the Parmer County...
PORTALES — For the second consecutive week, the Portales Rams will be road warriors, weekend warriors and hopefully road spoilers. St. Michael’s High School is the site for this weekend’s contest, as Portales hopes to secure its fourth 2-0 start in the last five seasons. Kickoff is set for 1:30 p.m. Saturday. The Horsemen are hoping to climb back to .500 after absorbing a 33-19 loss against defending 4A champ Taos. Ram coach Jaime Ramirez said the Taos win was a strong indication the Tigers would be a difficult out shoul...
It’s Week 2 already for some teams. Week 1 for Farwell. The teams in the former category — Texico and Elida — are trying to go 2-0, and each face tough teams standing in their way of doing so. Dexter (1-0) at Texico (1-0), Friday, 7 p.m. A win for the Wolverines would put them at 2-0 for the first time since 2012. That year, they started 8-0. But this year’s team will just worry about getting win No. 2 and go from there. Heading to town for the Texico home opener is Dexter, a defending state 2A championship team that opened...
Nine Allsup’s convenience stores in Texas have been sold to a company in Georgia, according to a report in the Iowa Park (Texas) Leader newspaper. Allsup’s officials at the company’s headquarters in Clovis have not returned multiple calls requesting information. But city officials said Tuesday no applications for new business licenses connected to the potential sale of any Allsup’s store in Clovis have been filed. Allsup’s founder Lonnie Allsup died in 2018, leaving a legacy that includes more than 300 stores, with 3,000 empl...
Booked The following were booked into local jails Saturday-Tuesday: Clovis • Antoinette Massey-Zamora, 32, failure to appear • Erick Rauda, 40, failure to appear • Skyler Price, 23, driving under the influence (first), failure to maintain lane • Judas Gonzales, 47, driving while license suspended or revoked, failure to maintain lane • David Howl, 51, possession of a controlled substance • Dean Brundage, 43, reckless driving • Simon Billegas, 46, resisting, evading or obstructing an officer, failure to comply • Isaiah Gaba...
Understand first that I did not grow up around violence. My father was basically a pacifist, a Methodist minister all his adult life, though he did have a temper, and six sons. We never got beatings, but we did get our share of spankings. At school, we would get “licks” — you’d be called up to the front of the class, told to bend over and the teacher would pull out a paddle and slap your buttocks with it two, three or more times, depending on the severity of your crime and the teacher’s level of frustration. For the boys,...
Last Friday night was the first home football game of the season. Still inspired by our new superintendent’s exhortation to “remember how great we are,” with a view to re-igniting our Wildcat pride, we renewed our reserved seating football tickets. Wow … how fortunate we did; Friday night was quite an experience. A new “voice of the Wildcats” took the helm: Loran Hill, Yucca Middle School principal, long serving in many CMS sports relieved “Chief” Bill Gaedke after a dedicat...
The better you understand something, the easier it is to notice when you’re being lied to. Plus, the less likely it is you’ll be fooled by the lies. When I’m watching a movie and I see someone on screen starting a fire by randomly hitting rocks together and suddenly their campfire logs burst into flame I always think, “That’s not how it works!” Anyone who tries to light a fire this way isn’t going to end up with a fire unless someone else builds one for them. The same thin...
TEXICO — An aging school building can cause a lot of problems in the classroom, whether it’s flickering lights distracting students or an old swamp cooler kicking on and drowning out the teacher’s lecture. Texico Municipal School District will look at a slew of energy-efficient upgrades across its combined campus this year thanks to a renovation by Yearout Energy that finishes this month. The renovation project began in October 2018 and is roughly 95 percent complete with just a few odd projects to finish. The renovation is t...
Harry Reid is starting to make sense. I was afraid this day would come. Perhaps it’s an indication of the Apocalypse or, at the very least, that multiple blows to the head, received during my less-than-stellar amateur athletic career, have finally caught up with me. It’s amazing what a politician will say when he isn’t running for anything or trying to hold onto power. This is one among many reasons I favor term limits, which are about as realistic as an Uber to Mars. Nevertheless, the former Senate Democratic leader has c...
PORTALES - What better way to welcome folks to the annual county fair than with a home-style meal of pork chops, scrambled eggs, biscuits and gravy served up on opening morning? The Portales 4-H Club held its annual Pork Chop Breakfast early Tuesday to raise money for its yearly events while welcoming visitors to the 2019 Roosevelt County Fair. The Portales Future Farmers of America also had a booth set up to sell raffle tickets to help fund their $8,000 trip to national...
CLOVIS - The earliest the city will start breaking ground on a new senior center looks to be 2021. That estimate is assuming it jumps through every procedural hoop to get on the state's general obligation bond project list for the 2020 election and that voters give the go-ahead. Still, its senior center task force spent an hour Monday morning picking out materials for its vision at Hillcrest Park during a plan and design meeting at Clovis City Hall. Four members of the...
Parent night event to be held Clovis Municipal Schools is offering a preschool parent night Thursday at Clovis High School The event will be 6 p.m. at the CHS lecture hall. The parent night is for families of all 3- and 4-year-old preschool students in the district. Information will be available about the preschool program, the school year and the process for volunteering. Information: 575-769-4300 Algebra help being offered The Clovis High School Freshman Academy is offering algebra help for its students. Students can come...
On this date ... 1959: The Clovis Community Theatre Association was preparing for its presentation of “The Wizard of Oz.” Cast members included Nancijane Goodwin, Cheri Burton, Bill McCleskey, Micheale Nieves, Mike McGinnis and Mary Mitchell. Marshall Auditorium was the site of the performance. Pages Past is compiled by David Stevens. Contact him at: [email protected]...
Tuesday • Curry County Commission — 9 a.m., Commission Chambers, Curry County Administration Complex, 417 Gidding St., Clovis. Information: 575-763-6016 • City of Clovis Civil Aviation Board — 5:30 p.m., Clovis Municipal Airport Terminal Conference Room, 459 CR 11.5, Texico. Information: 575-769-7890 • City of Clovis Lodgers’ Tax Advisory Board — 5:30 p.m., Clovis City Hall assembly room, 321 N. Connelly, Clovis. Information: 575-763-9654 • Portales City Council — 6:30 p.m., Memorial Building, 200 E. 7th St., Portales. Inform...
Roosevelt County Fair schedule Daily ticket prices: Adults $6 Tuesday-Thursday, $8 Friday-Saturday, Children $4, Ages 4 and younger free, Seniors free on Thursday until 2 p.m. Season passes: Adults $25, Children (5-17) $15, Youth exhibitors $5. Today (Special Needs Day) • 9 a.m. — All steers and breeding beef must be on fairgrounds • 10 a.m. — Weigh steers and breeding beef • 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. — Home Arts Building and Youth Building open to public • 1 p.m. — Goat Show and Special Needs Goat Show (Events Center) • 5 p.m...
Editor’s note: Marlowe J. Churchill is a great nephew of Susie Hassell, one of the region’s most infamous crime victims. His search for truth about his family’s story will be published in a three-part series beginning today. Traffic was backed up at the railroad crossing that connects Farwell and Texico, two tiny towns that once competed for the wages of cowboys anxious to take a load off of their saddles more than 100 years ago. More saloons and prostitutes than any place within 100 miles, visitors were promised long ago....
PORTALES - The Roosevelt County Fairgrounds were bustling Monday morning as lazy pigs were prodded to washing pens, thirsty goats fought to get watered first and all other manner of barnyard critters were corralled into temporary homes. Exhibitors will be busy all week keeping their animals groomed, fed and healthy for their respective competitions and the Junior Livestock Sale this Friday. "We're going to be busy, but I think there's going to be a pretty big turnout for...
