Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Sorted by date Results 1 - 23 of 23
Clovis High School students will attend in Remote Learning Mode on Friday due to staff and substitute shortages created by COVID-19 and the quarantine of close-contacts, according to a Clovis Municipal Schools release. In-person instruction is expected to resume Monday. According to the release: ● Chromebooks & Class Materials – Students will be instructed to take Chromebooks and other learning materials home with them when school dismisses Thursday. ● Attendance & Assignments – Students are expected to log in to Google Class...
VOLLEYBALL Prep summaries Saturday Moriarty Invitational Green Bracket Quarterfinals Texico 3, Hot Springs 2 Texico 17 25 25 25 15 Hot Springs 25 23 27 13 9 Texico individual statistics Kills — Cassidy Haakma, Jalissa Harrison 12, Skyler Schaap 7. Blocks — Harrison 2, Schaap 2, Emma Whalen 1. Digs — Avery Pipkin 18, Jackie Posada 6, Catelyn Breshears 5, Haakma 5. Aces — Breshears 4, Haakma 3, Schaap 3, three tied with 1. Assists — Breshears 25. Records — Texico 3-0, Hot Springs 2-3. Portales 3, Cottonwood Classical 0...
A pair of local events — one a longstanding tradition, the other a new event — are scheduled to mark the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. On Friday in Portales, the James Polk Stone Community Bank will have a community event in the bank’s parking lot at 109 E. Second St. The event is schedule to begin at 7:30 a.m. Matt Rush will precede over the ceremony and Eastern New Mexico University music student Dominique Barrera will sing during the ceremony. Members of area fire departments and law enfor...
An independent oil producer from Roswell and members of the Concerned Citizens for New Mexico group have filed petitions in New Mexico district courts seeking to have citizens' grand juries convened to hear allegations of state constitutional violations by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham. It's an action they call “drastic” but a necessary “citizens' remedy” to address executive overreach. A spokeswoman for the Governor's Office said the office does not comment on pending litigation, but also noted that courts have upheld the gov...
It’s so good to be back. I’m sitting in a rocking chair on the front porch of the Red River Community House, Red River, New Mexico. It’s a Sunday evening, Labor Day weekend. This morning I sang and preached at the RRCH. Usually we’d do a concert in the afternoon, but COVID-19 resurgence concerns made that probably unwise this year. I’m just glad to be back at all. No surprise, Labor Day weekend 2020 was pretty much completely canceled. I’ve tried to look back a bit. If my...
CLOVIS — Saturday’s girls soccer matchup between Clovis High and Alamogordo at Leon Williams Stadium was postponed due to light rain and lightning. Lady Wildcats coach Ray Rodriguez said the schools hope to be able to reschedule. Also, the Lady Cats were slated to play at Manzano on Friday and at Sandia on Saturday this week. The Sandia match remains on the slate for Saturday, but the Friday tilt against Manzano has been moved to 3 p.m. on Monday, Rodriguez said. Lovington 6, Clovis 0 (boys, Saturday) — Three players score...
Junior Coffey, who broke racial barriers as a star running back for the Washington Huskies and played in the NFL before spending decades as a thoroughbred trainer, died Aug. 30 from congestive heart failure in Federal Way, Wash. He was 79. “He was a very kind person with a ready smile, and people were drawn to him because he always had a laugh,” said Kathy Coffey, Junior’s wife for 55 years. Coffey was born in Kyle, Texas, and grew up in Dimmitt, in the Texas Panhandle. He had not played sports before high school but was t...
PORTALES — Junior forward Saige Stock converted a goal off sophomore defender Taya Starnes’ free kick nearly 58 minutes in, Colorado Christian’s only shot on goal of the match, and it was enough to give the Cougars a 1-0 win over Eastern New Mexico University in a women’s soccer match on Sunday at Greyhound Stadium. ENMU (1-1), playing the second of five consecutive matches against Colorado-based Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference schools to begin the season, dominated much of the way. The Greyhounds, though, were unable...
PORTALES - Even though his team scored 38 points last Friday, Portales High football coach Jaime Ramirez said there's plenty of blame to go around for the Rams' 0-2 start. None of the three platoons - offense, defense or special teams - is without fault as PHS prepares to host Valencia in a 7 p.m. matchup on Friday at Greyhound Stadium. "We're just making a lot of mistakes everywhere," Ramirez said. "If we can improve on that, I think we can put together a pretty good year....
MORIARTY — Jacki Bailey made quite the return to her old stomping grounds on Saturday. The first-year Portales High volleyball coach guided the Lady Rams to the championship in the Green Bracket tournament of the Moriarty Invitational, beating Albuquerque Academy 25-17, 27-25, 25-14 in the finals. The 16-team event was divided into separate eight-team tournaments — Green and White. Texico finished fourth in the Green Bracket after losing to PHS in the semifinals, while Clovis High placed seventh in the White Bracket. Sen...
CLOVIS — Six area high school football games were originally scheduled for Friday night, but two of them have recently been moved. Melrose’s 5 p.m. Friday home game against Pine Hill will now be played 5 p.m. on Thursday, while Texico’s home contest against Olton has been reset from Friday night to 10 a.m. on Saturday. Both were switched because of scheduling conflicts for referees. Texico (1-1) was idle last week after Friday’s tilt in Roswell against New Mexico Military was canceled. Meantime, Olton (1-1) lost at home to...
PORTALES — About 360 miles separate the campuses of Adams State College and Eastern New Mexico University, who are on tap to face each other in their second game of the 2021 season on Saturday. Geographically, that’s much closer than the Central Washington team that dealt the Greyhounds a dominant 62-24 season-opening loss. Situation-wise, the Grizzlies and Greyhounds are much closer to each other as well heading into the 6 pm. kickoff. “Looking at Adams State, they’re probably suffering the same things as we are. I think t...
On this date … 1961: R.O. Peterson, president of the Roosevelt County Fair Board, said it was a necessity. Admission was required for the first time to keep the fair going, he explained to the Portales News-Tribune. It wasn’t much - 50 cents per day for adults and 25 cents per day for children. An additional quarter was needed to park on the fair grounds. Peterson made it clear everybody had to pay. “There will be no ‘passes’ for anybody, Peterson told the newspaper. And that included fair board officials, “all of whom ser...
It’s been 20 years since the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, and what have we learned? We learned that then-President George W. Bush was right when he told us it would be a long war against the terrorists who attacked us. We’ve just now concluded our “longest war,” in Afghanistan, and we’d still be there if we were determined to “win” whatever that war became after Osama bin Laden was killed one country over, in Pakistan. We also learned how easy it is to lose sight of our objective, to root out and destro...
In three days, we will mark the 20th anniversary of the attack on the World Trade Center that killed more than 3,000 Americans who were peacefully going about their business. As the nation watched in horror, two airliners flown by suicide bombers deliberately crashed into the towers over Manhattan and we kept up with news accounts of massive, frantic rescue efforts for hours until both towers collapsed, sending dust and debris cascading over Manhattan. The attack launched the U.S. into a war on terror that since then has cont...
A couple of centuries ago, a smart fellow known as Voltaire pointed out, “Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” This is a timeless truth. It explains why a disturbing number of people in the year 2021 are calling for segregation, imposed poverty, or even concentration camps — they prefer to use euphemisms — for their neighbors who are, for whatever reason, unvaccinated against COVID-19. If this isn’t a willingness to commit an atrocity,...
The U.S. Postal Service raised postage rates Aug. 29, after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit denied a petition by the National Newspaper Association, News Media Alliance and others to put a hold on it. The court simply issued a statement that the petition was denied, without providing any reasoning for the decision, according to a news release. NNA and others had argued that the Postal Regulatory Commission’s decision to authorize the increase by the USPS was flawed and that the rate increase s...
Booked The following were booked into local jails (Friday-Tuesday): Clovis • Jose Castillo-Cobos, 39, aggravated battery • Robert Martinez, 31, failure to pay fines • Victor Castillo, 54, sexual exploitation of children • Patrick Martinez, 34, battery against a household member, aggravated assault against a household member • Alejandra Avila, 32, probation violation • Milinda Gallegos, 19, tampering with evidence, fraudulent transfer of a credit card • Vanessa Garza, 26, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge • Willie Johnso...
GRADY — Citing an increase of positive cases among staff and students, Grady Municipal Schools announced Monday it would shift to remote learning for the week. Superintendent Elnabeth Grau told The News the district hates not having in-person learning, but it was a call that had to be made. “It seemed like the cases were escalating,” Grau said. “We needed to let it run its course and get out of the building for a few days. Since this was a short week (with Labor Day), it seemed like the best call to make. We have to look at...
According to the School Nutrition Association (SNA), “today’s school lunches meet strict nutrition standards, including limits on calories, sodium, and unhealthy fats.” They report that 30 million students enjoy healthy lunches every school day, which include: at least three quarters of a cup of vegetables; a half cup of fruit; and entrées including whole grains and lean protein. With rigidly enforced high standards, especially combined with the challenges presented by not on...
Clovis saw a slight population increase over the last 10 years, but for the most part eastern New Mexico saw population declines over the last 10 years, according to U.S. Census data from the 2020 surveys. The data, available at census.gov, shows Clovis’ population went from 37,775 on April 1, 2010 to 38,567 on April 1, 2020. The Clovis growth offset population declines throughout the rest of Curry County’s. The county went from 48,376 residents in 2010 to 48,430 in 2020. Portales and Roosevelt County saw population dec...
If you lived in eastern New Mexico prior to 1971 and had pets or livestock, there's a decent chance you remember the veterinarian known as Doc Black. Or maybe, like our family, you called him Ol' Doc Black. His name came up in a conversation a few weeks ago, and it set me to trying to learn more about him. The first challenge was finding out his first name. Turns out I wasn't the only person who didn't know right away - to so many here, he was simply Doc. Thanks to a post on...
PORTALES — The Roosevelt County Commission engaged in trash talk Tuesday morning, as solutions are being sought to combat illegal dumping. Commissioners did not make any policy changes regarding laws or penalties on the practice, but acknowledged more needs to be done when residents simply drop off trash on county roads instead of using the convenience center operated by the city of Portales. Laveta Patterson, who lives south of Portales, said there has been a rash of illegal dumping over the last several months, and i...
