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Growing up, we were taught to always do the right thing, no matter how difficult. We were taught that if we succeeded in something but did so by being dishonest or causing harm to another person or their reputation, we failed, and our credibility took a hit. Dad didn’t take himself too seriously, but he was very serious about being a dad. He taught us to treat people with respect, to try to find the good in everything, and everyone. He taught us to forgive, to love, to b...
Queen Elizabeth II, Great Britain’s monarch across two millennia and a witness to tumultuous times for the world, her nation and the Royal Family, died Thursday. She was 96 and held the longest reign of any ruler in British history with 70 years as queen. “The Queen died peacefully at Balmoral this afternoon,” Buckingham Palace said in a statement. “The King and The Queen Consort will remain at Balmoral this evening and will return to London tomorrow.” Elizabeth ascended...
Two defendants facing multiple felony counts of child abuse will be tried in Ninth Judicial District Court and remain in custody until trial. Preliminary hearings Friday that included video clips depicting acts that led to felony allegations against both defendants, Jamye Kushman, 37, and Jamie Sena, 29, of Texico, resulted in their cases being bound over for trial in district court and both remaining incarcerated at the Curry County Adult Detention Center until their trial...
A Curry County deputy was seriously injured in a Chaves County wreck Tuesday Curry County sheriff Wesley Waller reports Tuesday at approximately 4:20 p.m., Curry County Court deputy Amy Jo McKenna was injured in a single-vehicle crash on US 70 in Chaves County. Waller said McKenna was assisting with a court-ordered medical transport to a facility in Roswell. McKenna, along with the patient and two emergency medical services personnel were traveling from Clovis to Roswell in an ambulance operated by the Texico Volunteer Fire...
We come from a long line of outlaws, woolly-mammoth slayers and rock-and-roll rabble rousers. But we've evolved since those early days. We like the wholesome life of slow-pitch softball and peanut butter shakes now. OK. Truth is, we're kind of complicated and still connected to our roots, when early day promoters called this region the "wonder of the West" because of its wide-open spaces and freedom to roam. We can be rough and rowdy, always ready for some football and the...
FOOTBALL Prep standings District 5-6A Dist. All W-L W-L Los Lunas 0-0 2-1 Santa Fe Capital 0-0 2-1 Albuquerque High 0-0 1-1 Clovis 0-0 0-3 Santa Fe High 0-0 0-3 Thursday’s results Canyon Randall 35, Clovis 10; Sandia 34, Albuquerque High 21. Friday’s results Farmington 26, Los Lunas 11; Santa Fe Capital 42, Los Alamos 14. Saturday's result St. Michael's 47, Santa Fe High 0. Friday’s games Clovis at Carlsbad, 7 p.m.; Silver at Santa Fe High, 7 p.m.; West Mesa at Albuquerque High, 7 p.m.; Santa Fe Capital at Alamogordo, 7 p.m...
The New Mexico Supreme Court last week issued an opinion that states:“People have a constitutional right to walk or wade on the streambed of water flowing over privately owned land when they fish or engage in other recreation.” “Walking and wading on the privately owned beds beneath public water is reasonably necessary for the enjoyment of many forms of fishing and recreation,” the Court wrote, as stated in the court’spress release. “Having said that, we stress that the public may neither trespass on privately owned land...
Booked The following were booked into local jails (Friday - Tuesday): Clovis * Joaquin San Juan, 28, harassment * Nicholas Salazar, 22, probation violation * Lora Melancon, 41, child abuse – intentional, conspiracy to commit child abuse – intentional * Chandler Lucero-Hutchinson, 27, larceny * Deametrious Bagwell, 23, criminal sexual penetration in the third degree * Ryan Mares, 26, failure to pay fines * Jamond McClendon, 38, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge, failure to appear on a felony charge, failure to pay fin...
BOLIVAR, Mo. — Eastern New Mexico University used an own goal in the 79th minute to pull out a 1-1 tie against Southwest Baptist in men’s soccer action on Monday. There was no scoring in the match until Jonathan Prudencio found the back of the net for the Bearcats in the 74th minute. Several minutes later, a Bearcats defender tried to clear the ball out of his zone, but his header attempt deflected into his own net. Both teams had chances in the remaining time, but neither was able to tally. ENMU (1-2-1) posted a 10-7 adv...
The Son of God. Utterly exhausted. Mind-boggling. And directly tied to the most amazing truth in the universe. God is not an impersonal “force.” He is not a Creator who creates, sets in motion, and backs away. In the Grand Miracle, as C. S. Lewis has called the Incarnation, God sends his “only begotten Son” into this fallen world. A virgin’s womb. A manger. A divine rescue. Jesus Christ will teach and heal and show us the Father as only the Son could. One amazing day, he w...
SEAGRAVES, Texas — Senior running back Darian DeLaRosa caught a 5-yard scoring pass from senior quarterback Daniel Herrera with 1:09 left, then added a 2-point conversion run to lift Bovina past Seagraves 26-20 on Friday night. It was the second touchdown of the game for DeLaRosa, who went in from 3 yards out midway through the second period to pull the Mustangs (1-1) to within 14-12. Herrera connected with junior Miguel Lopez early in the third period to give Bovina the lead, but Jerry Simantal’s second score of the gam...
MORIARTY — Portales High overcame a five-point deficit late in Game 4 and rallied past Texico 18-25, 13-25, 25-10, 27-25, 15-11 on Saturday in the fifth-place match of a 16-team invitational hosted by Moriarty H.S. The teams were divided into four, four-team pools on Friday, with the top two in each advancing to the Gold Bracket and the bottom two in each to the Silver Bracket. The Lady Rams and Lady Wolverines were both 4-2 in games to finish second in their respective pools. Meantime, Clovis High went 2-4 in pool play to g...
DENTON, Texas — Eastern New Mexico University’s volleyball team continued its solid early start over the weekend, winning three of four matches in the Denton Volleyfest, hosted by Texas Woman’s, to improve to 6-3 for the season. ENMU downed Northwestern Oklahoma 25-20, 25-21, 25-9 and rallied past Ouachita Baptist 13-25, 15-25, 25-15, 25-19, 15-8 on Friday, then defeated East Central 25-15, 25-19, 25-21 and lost to Missouri Southern 25-23, 25-18, 25-13 on Saturday. Friday — ENMU controlled Northwestern Oklahoma most of the...
LAS CRUCES - After cruising to six consecutive wins, the Clovis High girls soccer team expected to be tested over the weekend. The Lady Wildcats got the anticipated test, and came out with a split, losing on Friday to Las Cruces High 3-1 before avenging a season-opening setback with a 2-1 victory over Organ Mountain. "I was happy with how we responded, especially after losing such a tough game on Friday," CHS girls coach Ray Rodriguez said. "The girls wanted to avenge their...
The opponent was Houston Baptist – the university, not a church. It was two years ago, and the delayed 2020 college football season under the cloud of COVID was tepidly beginning. This was almost ideal for Texas Tech, opening against a lower-division opponent which had been playing football for just seven years and won only five games in the previous three. What should have been an opening night stroll was anything but that. HBU rolled up a humbling 600 yards and the Red R...
PORTALES — It figures the Eastern New Mexico University football team might be running into a bunch of angry Mustangs this week. Midwestern State, ranked 24th in NCAA Division II coming into the campaign, was summarily thumped by visiting Colorado State-Pueblo 59-27 on Saturday in its season opener at Wichita Falls, Texas. The Mustangs will provide ENMU’s opening home competition in a 6 p.m. kickoff on Saturday at Greyhound Stadium in what will also be the Lone Star Conference opener for both squads. The ThunderWolves rac...
PORTALES — So far, so good for the Portales High football team this season. The Rams expect to face a strong challenge this week when they travel to Valencia for a 7 p.m. kickoff on Friday night. Portales (3-0) passed its first road test with flying colors on last week, blowing out West Las Vegas 55-30. Valencia (1-1), which is coming off a bye, handed the Rams a 32-22 setback last year at Greyhound Stadium. “Defensively, they’re fast and aggressive,” Rams coach Jaime Ramirez said of the Jaguars. “Offensively, they run a lot...
The governor is leading in her bid for re-election, as are other Democrats running statewide races. New Mexicans see crime and inflation as the biggest issues facing the state, and they want judges to have more authority to keep violent crime suspects in jail. They also want more gun control, not less, and believe abortion should be legal in New Mexico with certain restrictions. That and more can be gleaned from the latest polling done by Research & Polling Inc. from the Albuquerque Journal. Any surprises there? Certainly...
Do you only care about some things because you’ve been manipulated into caring? There are many things you can’t change about the world. Caring too much about those is going to make your life worse. You could lose your mind obsessing over things you can’t control, even if they are important. Should anyone care that the president gave a more dark and divisive speech than usual? Will caring about it accomplish anything? Are there other things you’re being told to care about, but...
Some would say the 20th century ended at Y2K — midnight on Jan. 1, 2000. Others would say that, as a historical phenomenon, it extended until the shock of Sept. 11, 2001. And others still might cite the Great Recession or even the election of Donald Trump as the real end of the long 20th century. Whichever one you subscribe to, Aug. 30, 2022, should be considered the end of the end — the death of the last personal link to the defining world conflict of the latter half of the 20th century. It is the day Mikhail Gorbachev, the...
On this date… 1972: Paul Davis, owner of Davis Mercantile in Milnesand and a volunteer working to elect Pete Domenici for his first term as a United States Senator from New Mexico, must have been puzzled. The Domenici campaign had scheduled a 15-minute visit to the tiny community in south Roosevelt County for some handshaking and to “tour the village.” But the driver of Domenici’s “travel-trailer-camper” said he didn’t even realize he’d completely missed Milnesand until...
The 27th Special Operations Wing recently activated the 27th Special Operations Group Detachment 1. The new MC-130J flying unit fulfills the wing’s commitment to implement a Force Generation model in support of the Air Force Special Operations Command’s strategic guidance. The AFSOC FORGEN model provides airmen and their families the deployment and training predictability to ensure readiness, continue to develop the force, and maintain resiliency, according to a news release from the Cannon AFB public affairs department. U.S....
We have one of those weekends on the way that perfectly explains why I love living in eastern New Mexico: a glorious jumble of activities with something for all ages and plenty of diverse interests. Here are a few of the highlights. The action kicks off Thursday at 7 p.m. with a free showing of “Clifford, the Big Red Dog” in one of Portales’ newest venues, 311 Entertainment, easy to find since it’s handily located at 311 South Main Street. The showing is scheduled to be on t...
The official groundbreaking for Clovis' new Hillcrest Senior Life Center is scheduled for 2 p.m. Thursday at the new facility's location at 1704 E. Seventh St. Funding for the new center, valued at $7.66 million not including $660,000 for new kitchen equipment, was made possible by area voters approving "Bond A" in the November 2020 election. The 2020 Capital Projects General Obligation Bond Act authorized the issuance and sale of senior citizen facility construction,...
New Mexico lawmakers in recent years have passed laws expanding background check requirements for firearm purchases and allowing guns to be seized from individuals deemed to pose a threat to themselves or others. But with the state’s firearm violence rate still high, many voters want lawmakers to enact additional gun control measures. Specifically, 72% of voters surveyed in a recent Albuquerque Journal Poll said they support increasing the minimum age to buy an AR-15 style semi-automatic rifle from 18 to 21, while 73% said t...
