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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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Richard Gomez is concerned about the homeless problem in the Clovis area, and he wants to do something about it. Gomez, co-founder and executive director of Clovis' Lighthouse Mission, said he walked away from Thursday's Clovis City Commission meeting concerned about what he heard. Commissioners unanimously approved an anti-camping ordinance city officials said is aimed at community safety. Gomez said he believes the ordinance "is for good reasons but we need to find a...
Maxwell tournament Friday Maxwell 3, Clovis Christian 0 Clovis Christian 21 23 25 Maxwell 25 25 27 CCS individual statistics Kills – Madisyn Kruckeberg 4, Reece Robb 4. Blocks – Jalisa Raney 1, Robb 1. Digs – Shea Stageberg 8, Robb 7, Hannah McKay 4. Aces – Raney 2, four tied with 1. Assists – McKay 6, Raney 5. Records – Clovis Christian 1-1, Maxwell 1-0. Saturday Clovis Christian 3, Des Moines 0 Clovis Christian 25 25 30 Des Moines 19 17 28 CCS individual statistics Kills – Raney 4, Kruckeberg 3, Robb 1, Stageberg 1. Blocks...
Tommy Firestone, store manager at S&S Supermarket in the Hilltop Shopping Plaza in Clovis, is celebrating 50 years with the store this month. "I started to work for Piggly Wiggly, Aug. 8, 1974. I started as a 'sacker,' a bag boy," Firestone said Monday. The Piggly Wiggly was where S&S Supermarket is now. About two years into his job as a sacker, Firestone was reassigned to stocking merchandise. "That was my senior year of high school. I did that until 1980. I got married that...
In 2023, upon returning to Eastern New Mexico University after a two-year hiatus, head coach Kelley Lee wanted to check out the facility he called home for nearly a decade. So, he grabbed a pair of keys that he meant to return when he left but never did. "I turned the lock and it still worked," said Lee, ENMU's offensive coordinator and head coach from 2012-19. Maybe it was fate those keys remained in the glove box in his truck. Whatever the reason, as Lee enters year two of...
Eastern New Mexico University was recognized nationally and statewide in the Niche.com 2025 Best College Rankings released this week, according to an ENMU news release. Nationally, ENMU is ranked in the top 15% of universities in eight different categories. In New Mexico, ENMU is ranked first or second in nine different categories. ENMU national rankings include: • Best Online College in America for 2025 • #15 of 670 Best Colleges with no Application Fee in America 2025 • #20 of 377 Best Hispanic Serving Institutions in Am...
Booked The following were booked into local jails (Friday - Tuesday): Clovis • Antonio Maes, 41, aggravated battery • Ksundra Ingram, 31, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge • Brittany Barrows, 33, burglary of a vehicle • Martika Pettit, 49, criminal trespass, resisting, evading or obstructing an officer • Eduardo Blanco, 28, probation violation • Jana Fisher, 51, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge • Dylan Thorn, 18, contributing to the delinquency of a minor, driving under the influence of liquor, speeding, ope...
The Clovis-Curry County Chamber of Commerce has named Strickland’s Floral & Gifts as its newest Retail Rockstar. The public is invited to the award presentation at 8:30 a.m. Thursday at Strickland’s location, Sixth and Main streets. Strickland’s, a member of the West Texas - New Mexico Florist Association, was nominated for the award by MediSpa & Body Shop, the previous winner of the award....
Workers have been busy at the Leal’s Mexican Restaurant location on Mabry Drive. “We are finishing up on the remodel,” said restaurant owner Laura Leal. “We hope to possibly be open in about six weeks,” Leal said Monday. “We’re getting all of our equipment in, getting the metal painted, putting on stucco, fixing up the patio.” Leal added the crew is “completing a few things on the inside.” The popular eatery, which has a second location on Prince Street, closed its Mabry Drive location in 2020 after water pipes froze and bur...
On this date ... 1918: Workers were just about finished paving the north end of Clovis’ Main Street, between Fourth and Eighth streets, with bricks that remain today. A Plainview company did the work after a winning bid of $32,846.20, the Clovis News-Journal reported. 1936: A convicted Clovis rapist’s home was destroyed in a fire while he awaited transport to the state penitentiary. Curly Reynolds had lived at 204 Edwards St. in a small adobe house. Neighbors alerted firefighters to the blaze. Reynolds had pleaded guilty to s...
A public records request to the Eastern New Mexico Water Utility Authority revealed an engineering firm’s study that stated treating Ute lake’s water for a pipeline to the Clovis region would be much more complex and costly than was once anticipated. That prompted the Quay County Commission to vote unanimously Monday to instruct County Manager Daniel Zamora to write a letter on its behalf to the authority’s chairman, Clovis Mayor Mike Morris, urging it to cease construction on the nearly 100-mile pipeline. Village of Logan...
FFA members from Portales and Elida came away with the top bids in Friday night's Junior Livestock Auction at the Roosevelt County Fair. Joy Levacy, secretary of the Junior Livestock Auction, said top sale honor went to Trypp Hamilton of Portales High School FFA with his steer bringing in $12,000. Levacy reported second place went to Blayne Bricker of Elida Schools FFA with $10,000 for his market steer. Coming in third was Kyleigh Stephenson, also of Elida Schools FFA, with...
Have you ever been caught “red-handed?” The expression harkens back at least to the Middle Ages. If a peasant were caught killing a deer in the forest of his lord or king, he was said to have been caught “red-handed” with the blood of the deer probably literally still on his hands. The penalty was severe. Jesus and his apostles had just arrived in Capernaum when he surprised them with a question that caught them “red-handed.” “What were you arguing about on the road?” “Huh, Lo...
Clovis High's boys resorted to their new-old formula Saturday – two goals from senior forward Ihab Mesbah plus a stingy defense. That resulted in a 2-0 victory for the Wildcats at Leon Williams Stadium. Mesbah scored early in the first half off an assist from freshman midfielder/defender Ryan Worley, then all but iced it away after he took a long pass ahead from senior goalkeeper Angel Avila, fought off a Lovington defender on the left side and fired one into the right c...
The tectonic plates of college football have shifted and an earthquake of change will begin to shake up the game when the 2024 season begins in earnest Thursday with 21 major college games followed by 74 more over the following four days. A 12-team playoff will determine the national champion. It sounds like fun. The champions of the major Power 4 conferences, plus seven at-large teams and the top Group of 5 team (non-Power 4) will make up the postseason party. The first four...
The Portales High boys soccer team struggled last fall in Dustin Harden's first season as coach. They're off to a better start this time around after turning back Ruidoso 1-0 on Saturday in their season opener at the PHS pitch. Senior Gabriel Duran broke a scoreless tie in the 54th minute, converting a through ball from just inside the 18-yard box, and the Rams managed to hold off the Warriors (1-2) down the stretch. Both teams had scoring opportunities inside the box, but...
Sammy Fuentes won, but to him it sure didn't feel like it. The Clovis High senior was awarded first place in Saturday's season-opening Clovis Invitational cross country meet at Ned Houk Park after Lovington junior Ethan Castellanos, who had a healthy lead at the time, was disqualified for cutting the course. "I feel like it didn't go good at all," said Fuentes, who was clocked in a time of 17 minutes, 31.11 seconds over the five-kilometer course. "The other guy (Castellanos)...
Clovis High’s volleyball team managed to earn a winning record in Cristy Hill’s first year at the helm. Now the Lady Wildcats are looking to move up in District 4-5A play and trying to garner a Class 5A state tournament berth. Hill lost four seniors to graduation last year, but thinks the Lady Wildcats (12-11, 2-4 district last year) will be able to challenge their district rivals. “We’re in the mix with everybody,” said Hill, whose team opens with a 3 p.m. matchup against Santa Fe High on Saturday at Rock Staubus Gymnasium...
FARMINGTON – The Farmington Scorpions were certainly rude hosts in Stan Hodges’ first game as Clovis High’s football coach. In a contest moved back from Friday night due to inclement weather and lightning, the Wildcats marched the opening kickoff downfield for a score and a quick 8-0 advantage. It was all downhill after that, though, as Farmington cruised to a 47-8 victory. “They had a lot of good players,” Hodges said after the game. “They played hard and they played well. They just executed more than we did.” It doesn’t fi...
In her speech accepting the Democratic presidential nomination Thursday, Vice President Kamala Harris offered a withering indictment of her opponent. Donald J. Trump, she rightly observed, is in many ways “an unserious man,” but the consequences of returning him to the White House “are extremely serious.” She asked her audience to “consider the power he will have, especially after the U.S. Supreme Court just ruled that he would be immune from criminal prosecution. Just imagine Donald Trump with no guardrails …” She introduce...
Thank goodness the Democrat Party’s magic act in Chicago is finally over. For four days we had to watch the liberal media drool over Kamala Harris and her unimpressive VP choice, Tim Walz, like they were the greatest team of presidential candidates since JFK picked LBJ in 1960. We’ve had to listen to a parade of angry Democrats bigshots complain about what a broken, unfair and unfree place America has become and how Harris is going to fix everything and restore democracy. We...
Donald Trump’s campaign is in a fierce tailspin as his failed attacks on Kamala Harris haven’t been able to slow down her growing popularity. “It’s very clear the former president is unraveling. He’s having a complete meltdown,” Ashley Etienne, a former Joe Biden staffer and political advisor, said during a recent segment on Anderson Cooper’s CNN show. “Kamala Harris has got him a chokehold that is really driving him to the point of insanity, and really driving his cam...
Tate Turnbough, the Roosevelt County delegate for the Democratic National Convention, said the United Center in Chicago was shaking – literally – when Vice President Kamala Harris gave her acceptance speech as the party's presidential candidate on Thursday. "It was unreal," Turnbough said. Turnbough said he's among Democrats across the nation – and in eastern New Mexico – experiencing a renewed enthusiasm since Joe Biden announced he would not seek a second term and Harris...
I was standing in my kitchen the other day and I chuckled, remembering being sent home from work a few years ago. I’ve been sent home from work two times in my life: The first time was from a new car dealership in Phoenix, the second time from a call center in Pensacola, Fla. Not fired, just sent home for the day. It’s not like I was a teenager or wise-guy college student or something. The new car dealership was a high-pressure sales gig in The Valley of The Sun. One Saturday I thought I had my “car salesman’s hustle...
