Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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FOOTBALL Prep summaries Friday Frenship 62, Clovis 0 Clovis 0 0 0 0 — 0 Frenship 14 21 13 14 — 62 Scoring summary First quarter F — Tate Beeles 32 pass from Chad Pharies (Jon Olivarez kick) F — Jeremiah Washington 19 run (Olivares kick) Second quarter F — Taija Smith 4 run (Olivares kick) F — Sterling Inman 11 pass from Pharies (Olivares kick) F — Landon Hutcheson 5 pass from Pharies (Olivarez kick) Third quarter Andrew Braddock 75 pass from Pharies (kick failed) F — Inman 57 pass from Gage Cobb (Olivarez kick) Fourth qu...
CLOVIS - After dropping a long, back-and-forth set to start things off, Portales High steadily began to take control of Tuesday's volleyball match at Rock Staubus Gym. Led by senior middle hitter Kylyie Paden, the Lady Rams took off in Game 2 and never really looked back in a 30-32, 25-13, 25-18, 25-20 triumph over the Lady Wildcats. Paden was a stat-stuffer in the contest, collecting 20 kills, eight blocks, nine digs and six aces for Portales (2-1), which won its second in a...
BOVINA - The Farwell Steers are trying to close the gap between now and the Class 2A playoffs, hopeful they can avoid the injury bug. The Bovina Mustangs, meanwhile, are trying to close the gap between themselves and Farwell. But they couldn't avoid the turnover bug. The visiting Steers converted three first-half Mustang turnovers - including two on Bovina's first five offensive plays - into touchdowns and rolled to a 41-7 victory that was all but over at the half. Led by a 14...
PORTALES - Early on, it looked like Portales High might blow out West Las Vegas. Then the teams settled into a slugfest and it seemed perhaps the last side with the ball would win. The Rams were down by two but in position late to pull out the victory, only to turn it over on downs at the West Las Vegas 32 with two minutes left. The Dons then got a fourth touchdown pass from freshman quarterback J.J. Perea on the final play, capping a spectacular performance in a 46-38 win at...
WOLFFORTH, Texas — Behind a dominant effort from quarterback Chad Pharies, Frenship handed the Clovis Wildcats a historic loss on Friday night. The host Tigers scored on nine of their 10 possessions, including four touchdown passes from Pharies, and limited Clovis to 107 yards in a 62-0 shellacking at Peoples Bank Stadium. The setback was the worst in Wildcats history, topping a 49-0 loss to La Cueva in 2009, and the 0-3 start is the worst for Clovis since the 1998 team started the season 0-5. “I don’t really know what to sa...
Monday • Labor Day • Labor Day cookout for Celebrate Recovery — 4 p.m., Living Word Church, 2101 E. 21st Street, Clovis. Praise and worship, food, fellowship. Free. Information: Bonetta Hutson at 575-218-1914 Tuesday through Friday • Friends of Clovis-Carver Public Library book drive — 9 a.m.-3 p.m., front gate, Clovis Civic Center, 801 Schepps Blvd., Clovis. Donations of gently used books accepted. Information: 575-763-9687 Tuesday • Rural Bookmobile East — 10-10:30 a.m., Causey Fire Station, 116 Main St., Causey. Socia...
On this date ... 1951: Mary Purselley, 18, was raised in Boston. She came to Clovis for the first time this summer after marrying an Air Force private. “(She) had heard tall tales about New Mexico concerning Indians, rattlesnakes and Wild West cowboys,” the lifestyle column Up & Down the Street told Clovis News-Journal readers. “So she was really surprised to find things as civilized here as they are back East.” Mary reported she did have several new experiences on arrival. She attended a steer roping. “She thought the roper...
This summer, three of us were hiking in Alaska’s western Brooks Range when we encountered a pack of eight wolves. We were far from any help when they moved toward us, paused, and then disappeared behind a low ridge. When they re-emerged seconds later, they’d lined up along the crest of the pass we were hiking toward. They looked as if they were poised to attack. Then … nothing happened. Once the wolves figured out what we were, they turned around and vanished. But for those few anxious moments, I tingled with adren...
I come from a family of fighting men. My cousin Adolph was a paratrooper who landed at Normandy on D-Day, and the parachute he used — stained with blood and dirt — was turned into my cousin Helen’s wedding dress. My father spent two years in Thule Greenland, at a godforsaken outpost at the North Pole during (no pun intended) the Cold War. My uncle Louie was a Marine, stationed in Beirut during one of the early crises in the 1950s, and my cousins Alex and Anthony served honor...
It’s been five years since I first speculated in this space about the end of American democracy. In doing so, I felt like a man climbing out on an especially creaky limb. But as hyperpartisanship rose to ever more bizarre extremes, as the misinformation crisis left ever more people babbling angry gobbledygook, as voter suppression resurrected the zombie of Jim Crow and as Donald Trump swore an oath he didn’t mean, that limb began to feel like bedrock. Even so, I struggled wit...
By now, most readers will have heard the name of Marine Lt Col. Stuart Scheller. He is the infantry battalion commander who went on Facebook to demand that senior military and political leaders take responsibility for the collapse in Afghanistan and the debacle at the Kabul airport. Of particular note in his statement was the colossal blunder that resulted in the closing of the air field at Bagram. Scheller went on to say that he was well aware of the consequences he faced as...
Talk about a catastrophic success. The Biden administration wants credit for the Afghanistan evacuation as measured by the sheer number of people it flew out amid a security and humanitarian crisis of its own making. This is the arsonist bragging about how many fires he has put out. Those with memories that stretch past a couple of weeks ago will recall the halcyon days when a mass evacuation at a civilian airport exposed to suicide bombers and other attackers wasn’t, a...
Is America safer after its 20-year war on terrorism in Afghanistan has resulted in the Taliban’s victory? The answer, like the war itself, is muddled. The lack of resolution should cause considerable discomfort to Americans who lived through the trauma of 9/11 and cheered the U.S. military’s quick routing of al-Qaida and its Taliban hosts in 2001. After the World Trade Center’s collapse, Americans had every right to believe President George W. Bush’s declaration from atop the wreckage that the United States would make th...
SANTA FE — Two local magistrate judges were among 15 appointed for the New Mexico Magistrate Judges Association’s board, according to an association release. Clovis judge Shawn Burns and Portales Judge Christopher Mitchell were selected for one-year terms during the association’s annual conference held in August. Colfax County Magistrate Court Judge Warren Walton of Raton was elected president, Eddy County Magistrate Court Judge Jimmie “Chuck” Foster in Artesia was elected vice-president, and past association president...
PORTALES — Three Portales residents are accused of various charges in connection with a Tuesday shooting in Roosevelt County. Dancee Gephart, 29, Kevin Rogers, 35, and Benny Preston, 39, are each charged with at least two counts of aggravated battery, conspiracy to commit aggravated battery and false imprisonment. Preston has a third aggravated battery charge, while Rogers has an additional charge of unlawful taking of a motor vehicle. Gephart made her first appearance Thursday afternoon at Roosevelt County Magistrate C...
CLOVIS — Police said Tuesday night they had identified the vehicle and the driver involved in a Sunday night hit-and-run that led to the death of a Clovis woman. Martha Castillo, 68, died at the scene of the Sunday night hit-and-run on the 2900 block of Thornton Street. A Clovis Police Department release did not disclose the driver’s identity or state whether anybody had been arrested. A message sent Friday to the CPD regarding the case was not immediately returned. District Attorney Andrea Reeb told The News she would hav...
PORTALES — The Roosevelt County Road Department will close Sundale Valley Road 7 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesday to install drainage culverts. The department will try to finish the work as fast as possible, but are asking motorists to plan alternate routes as needed. For information, contact the road department at 575-356-5942 or the administration office at 575-356-5307....
CLOVIS — The Clovis Community College Board of Trustees will be operating as a four-person unit for the foreseeable future, with the resignation of longtime District 2 representative Arnold Martinez. Trustees briefly discussed the resignation at their Wednesday meeting, and thanked Martinez for his long service. Martinez, who was serving as board secretary, resigned Aug. 16. According to a letter he sent to President Charles Nwankwo, Martinez is relocating and will no longer be in the district. “It has been a great and wor...
CLOVIS — The Clovis 88101 ZIP code was the highest in the state for COVID-19 infections Friday, according to a report from the New Mexico Department of Health. The 55 total cases in Curry County, 51 in the 88101 ZIP code, were part of a day with 914 new cases announced along with eight new deaths. Roosevelt County confirmed 28 new cases on Friday, all in the 88130 ZIP code, which was seventh in the state. Of the top 10 ZIP codes for COVID-19 infections Friday, six were in the Southeast region that includes Curry and R...
Now that the United States has withdrawn its military forces from Afghanistan, the men and women who served in Afghanistan have time to reflect about their time there and what it meant to them. Two airmen stationed at Cannon Air Force Base — 9th Special Operations Squadron Commander Lt. Col. David Robertson and 16th Special Operations Squadron Commander Lt. Col. Paul Andrews — spoke on Thursday with The News about their experience serving in Afghanistan. Citing national security issues, Cannon personnel declined comment on...
The shake, rattle and roll experience of traveling between Texico and Farwell may soon become a little smoother. Work to repair railroad tracks separating the state line on U.S. 84/70 is scheduled to begin at the end of this week. An email to New Mexico state Rep. Randal Crowder, R-Clovis, from David Harris, transit and rail division director for New Mexico Department of Transportation, reports that plans include: • removing the existing crossing surface and related track mate...
CLOVIS — Chase Gentry never stopped working, whether it was providing for a small family, putting himself through college or putting eastern New Mexico on the economic map. But those who knew him best said he usually found a way to be your friend above all. The longtime executive director of the Clovis Industrial Development Corporation left plenty of signs of his work, from the downtown shops in Portales to the Southwest Cheese plant on the edge of Curry County to the windmills that populate the farmlands of Grady. G...
CLOVIS — A Clovis man accused of kidnapping and aggravated battery against a household member was arrested Tuesday morning in the 3100 block of La Luz Road. Sean Omey, 26, is alleged to have battered a woman on the morning of Aug. 28 before taking the woman's 1-year-old child, then leaving that child in an abandoned car hours later. Omey was being held Tuesday in the Curry County Adult Detention Center. According to a police news release: • About 3:55 a.m. Aug. 28, police were...
WASHINGTON — For the first time since 1973, a state law banning most abortions has taken effect. A Texas law that would drastically limit the availability of abortions in defiance of Roe vs. Wade took effect early Wednesday, as the Supreme Court took no action on pending appeals. The so-called Texas Heartbeat Act would make it illegal for doctors to perform an abortion after about the sixth week of pregnancy, and it would authorize anyone to sue the physician for violating t...
Booked The following were booked into local jails (Tuesday-Friday): Clovis • Otis Smith, 28, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge • Luis Gutierrez, 46, receiving/transferring stolen motor vehicles, tampering with evidence • Yanick Soriano-Rosas, 18, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge • Roynardo Yazzie, 36, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge • Selina Martinez, 40, failure to pay fines • Marc Pate, 31, driving while license suspended or revoked • Danielle Parks, 23, failure to pay fines • Tancie Garrison, 36, f...
