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My name is D'Nieka Hartsfield. I was born and raised in Clovis. I graduated from Clovis High in 2000. I participated in the AFJROTC and CHS band. I studied journalism and business at ENMU Portales. The highlight of my summers growing up was playing softball and attending our annual family reunion in east Texas. My mother is Ethel Mae Perkins, who also grew up in Clovis and father, Freddie Perkins, who is a Vietnam vet, was born in Louisiana and retired at Cannon AFB. I'm a... Full story
Information on recipes from the La Fonda restaurant and double dry embossing will be the featured topics on “Creative Living” on Tuesday at 9:30 p.m. and on Thursday at noon. (All times are Mountain.) John Vollertsen (also known as Chef Johnny Vee) recently contributed to a beautiful coffee table book that celebrates the history of Santa Fe’s historic La Fonda Hotel. He is going to demonstrate three recipes drawn from the era when La Fonda was a proud member of the Harve...
Measles cases have surged in Europe, with experts blaming the rise in infections on a drop in the number of people getting vaccinated. In Minnesota, there was a measles outbreak last year. Now, a medical journal article reports that trolls pushed divisive vaccine safety information on social media over three years the authors studied. The objective wasn’t necessarily to get fewer U.S. parents to vaccinate their kids, but to sow division among Americans. “Weaponized Health Communication” is how the authors of the new Ameri...
Let’s play a quick game of “Choose Your Own Adventure.” Meet Bill. Bill whistled as he drove to his local elementary school on Tuesday morning. Bill didn’t have any kids attending school, but that’s not why he was whistling. It was election day, and he came to perform his civic duty. Bill had read the state voter information guide, and watched some of the candidate forums in his community. He took his voting seriously. Bill planned to vote for the Republican for sheriff and the Democrat for treasurer because he considere...
With the nation set to celebrate Labor Day on Monday, The News asked for residents’ worst workplace experiences. Two stood out: • As he loaded up a fishing hook with bait at Greene Acres Park on Saturday, Gabriel Mundine recalled the three years he spent in Iraq deployed with the U.S. Army. “I went over there trying to win the hearts and minds and bring democracy I guess over there and they basically told me to shovel it, ‘We don’t want it,’” Mundine said. While it was a tough three years that included being hit by an imp...
I have a love/hate relationship with mosquitoes. They love me (apparently, I’m delicious) and I hate them. Weather allowing, we begin each day at Head Acres on the front stoop, coffee in hand, watching the sun rise. The second bit of welcoming the day involves me wrestling dogs away from my coffee cup while my husband Wayne swats at mosquitoes. We like to end the day much the same way: warm beverage in hand, wrestling dogs, swatting mosquitoes. We’ve planted mos...
It’s definitely not your father’s library. Heck, they don’t even want us to call it a library. Eastern New Mexico University officially opened the new Golden Student Success Center this week inside the shell of what many of us have known all our life as the Golden Library. I’ve got to say that I am impressed. Yes, there is still a library in the bowels of this showcase of cutting edge technology and a darned good one for a university the size of ENMU. It just doesn’t...
CLOVIS — When it comes to prosecuting a case involving a child that was victimized or witness to a serious crime, interviewing that child is a delicate and important task. Since the early 1990s, The Oasis Children's Advocate Center (CAC) in Clovis has provided a local safe space and specialists for those interviews. But due to a recent budget shortfall, it may have to close its doors as early as year's end, officials said. Oasis overseers told The News last week that its o... Full story
Almost three years ago, I was in a Portales audience for one of the many local presentations done by Melveta Walker, who has been the director of Eastern New Mexico University’s Golden Library for the last 19 years. Walker was pounding the pavement to let people know about the massive renovations that were in store for the facility that anchors the eastern side of the ENMU campus. Many of those looming changes were due to a factor that didn’t exist even in the imaginations of...
CLOVIS — More than 40 days since a disastrous motorcycle wreck in northern New Mexico, Robert "Bullet Bob" Vilandry is feeling better. "I made it, thanks to everybody in Clovis and my customers and my friends that got me through this with their prayers and their positive thoughts and everything," Vilandry said Friday from Albuquerque in a telephone interview with The News. He was speaking just hours after the removal of wires from his jaw. "And it's so much nicer to be able t... Full story
SANTA ROSA — A California man was killed and two other people were injured early Thursday in a three-vehicle crash on U.S. 84 in Guadalupe County. A 2005 Dodge pickup was traveling north and "for reasons unknown crossed the center line into south traffic colliding head on with a 2018 Kenworth semi-truck," according to New Mexico State Police Public Information Officer Ray Wilson. The driver of the Dodge, Vitaly V. Chriskiy, 43, of Everta, California, was killed in the collision, Wilson said. The driver of the truck, 56, f...
AUSTIN, Texas — The Eastern New Mexico volleyball team started the season 0-4 despite some tight matches, but started the Hilltopper Classic with a pair of five-game wins in the other direction. They couldn’t continue the streak, however, falling to St. Edward’s on Saturday 20-25, 25-18, 25-18, 25-22 to close out the Classic before beginning the Lone Star Conference season. Eastern (2-5) posted an 8-3 burst, highlighted by three kills from sophomore Jasmine Gannon, and after...
Labor Day weekend brought a busy slate of local football action, with Friday-night losses for Texico and Farwell beginning the weekend and a Saturday-afternoon victory for Melrose ending it. Melrose 54, Ramah 0 MOUNTAINAIR — For the Buffaloes, it was like no time had elapsed at all since last November 25. The main difference of course was the team turnover that resulted in several new key players and even a new head coach, Caleb King. But program-wise, not much changed. A little more than nine months ago, Melrose locked d...
LOS ALAMOS — Saturday afternoon probably felt a little bit like Christmas Eve for the Clovis Wildcats, waiting and waiting for their 6 p.m. title game to start at the Louie Cernicek Tournament. The Wildcats eventually found a few ways to pass the time, and found a way past Alamogordo 3-1 to claim the championship and move to 6-0. “It feels good,” Clovis coach Greg Trujillo said of the start, the best since he took over the Clovis program. “The guys deserve the credit.” Elias O...
Gattis tops Yucca in opener In the first game of the season, the Gattis Fighting Cubs defeated the Yucca Chapparals 35-6. Leading the offensive charge was Jett Stone with three touchdowns. Kash Roberts had two touchdowns and kicked three PATs. Capping off the scoring was Blake Curtis who ran in a 2-point conversion for the second team offense. Great blocking by the line who created gaping holes for the running backs. Offensive players of the game goes to Stone and Roberts. Defensively, the Cubs were lead by Jeremiah Johnson,...
Baxter Curren Senior Center 908 Hickory St., Clovis Monday: Closed Tuesday: 8 a.m. quilting, 9 a.m. pinochle class, noon pinochle 101, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. exercise equipment, 10 a.m. beginning line dance, 1 p.m. crafters, 6 p.m. trivia mania Wednesday: 8 a.m.-4 p.m. exercise equipment, 8:30 a.m. exercise class, 10 a.m. sew days, 10 a.m. sew days, 1 p.m. phase 10 Thursday: 8 a.m. blood pressure, 8 a.m. eggs, gravy and biscuits $4, 9 a.m. pinochle 101, 1 p.m. bingo Friday: 8 a.m.-4 p.m. exercise equipment, 8:30 a.m. exercise class,...
Clovis Elementary Monday: Closed Tuesday: Breakfast — Pancake sausage on a stick. Lunch — Popcorn chicken, mashed potatoes w/gravy, baby carrots, pasta salad, chilled mixed fruit. Wednesday: Breakfast —Bean and cheese burrito. Lunch — Macho nachos, seasoned pinto beans, garden salad w/ranch, fresh fruit. Thursday: Breakfast — Maple waffle. Lunch — Meaty mac and cheese, steamed broccoli, chilled peaches, whole wheat roll. Friday: Breakfast — French toast. Lunch — Cheese fajita quesadilla w/salsa, seasoned pinto beans, mini car...
A storm that reminded one resident of a classic 1939 film quickly swept through eastern New Mexico on Saturday. It left large puddles, blown over trees and some soggy shoes in its wake. The third annual sidewalk sale in Clovis had been scheduled to run until 5 p.m. but was cut short by the rain and a large amount of sand being blown around by high winds. "Everything was wonderful until about 3 (when) it blew in," organizer Shane Grah said. "It was almost an immediate change....
Tuesday • Books and babies — 10:30 a.m. for ages 0-3 at Portales Public Library. Information: 575-356-3940 • Afterschool STEAM — 4:30 p.m. for grades K-6 at Portales Public Library. Information: 575-356-3940 Wednesday • Preschool Storytime — 10:30 a.m. at Portales Public Library. Information: 575-356-3940 • Teen & Tween program — 4:30 p.m. for ages 9-18 at Portales Public Library. Information: 575-356-3940 Thursday • Prescription Drug Misuse Town Hall — 5:30 p.m.-7 p.m. at Clovis Community College Auditorium. Curry C...
On this date ... 1976: A depressed cattle market was blamed for the temporary closure of the Anderson-Skaggs feed lot in Roosevelt County. Manager Dale Skaggs said cattle would be shipped to the company’s lot at Smyer, Texas. Skaggs said the beef market had not been stable since a price freeze in 1973 that “interfered with the natural pricing mechanisms,” the Clovis News-Journal reported. 1947: The new James Bickley Elementary School opened in Clovis. It was named for a veteran educator who left his hospital bed to have...
PORTALES — A pair of own goals sank Portales in Saturday afternoon’s boys soccer home match with Ruidoso. The second own goal, which occurred in the 69th minute, turned out to be the difference, in a 3-2 Warriors win. “To be honest, we just lack a lot of discipline. I felt like that’s what really killed us,” first-year Rams coach Juan Mendez said. “We kept getting yellow cards, and then we got that red card. I feel like one of the big things right now is discipline...
Registration begins Monday for Clovis Girls Athletic Association’s upcoming basketball season. The season will begin Oct. 13, with boys and girls divisions in grades 3-6. Players can register 9 a.m.-4 p.m. weekdays at 1520 Mitchell St., or 6 p.m.-7 pm. Sept. 10 and Sept. 17 at Spencer Park’s softball fields. Registration is $60 per player, cash only, and due at the time of registration. Any registrations after Sept. 21 are subject to a $10 late fee. The association is also seeking coaches and sponsors for the season. Inf...
