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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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Traffic at Clovis Regional Airport has nearly tripled in the past five years. Clovis city commissioners on Thursday responded to that growth by greenlighting a new $25.5 million terminal. Commissioners approved a low-bid award to EPX Construction Partners of El Paso, Texas, as the contractor to build the terminal. City Manager Justin Howalt said the city's share of the cost will be about $500,000. The Federal Aviation Administration will fund the rest. The airport saw about...
To put it mildly, the Clovis High boys soccer team came to life in the second half on Tuesday night. Locked in a scoreless tie with New Mexico Military at the intermission, the Wildcats put four goals on the board in the first 10 minutes of the second stanza and cruised to a 5-0 victory over the Colts at Leon Williams Stadium. Sophomore forward/midfielder Rony Enamorado notched a hat trick while senior forward Ihab Mesbah posted two goals and a pair of assists for the Cats...
TEXICO – Senior Alex Fuentes scored four touchdowns and threw for one on Friday night, and Texico held on for a 32-19 victory over Farwell. Fuentes' last touchdown came on a scoop-and-score with under two minutes left after a sack on Steers senior quarterback Jonathan Armstrong, clinching the win for the Wolverines (3-0). Texico led 20-0 in the second stanza, but Armstrong threw touchdown passes of 9 yards to junior Hudson Agee and 17 yards to senior Ryder McElroy and s...
LAS VEGAS, N.M. – Suffice it to say, it was a pleasant bus ride home on Wednesday night for Portales High’s soccer teams. Both squads posted shutout wins, the boys defeating West Las Vegas 2-0 while the girls notched a decisive 5-0 triumph. Goals by senior forward Tony Cordova in the first half and senior forward/midfielder Gabriel Duran in the second were enough for the Rams (4-1) in the boys matchup. Senior defender Elijah Tellez had an assist on Cordova’s goal, while junior midfielder/defender Ediel Aniles assisted on th...
When senior forward Nick Huenig found the back of the net less than two minutes in, it looked like the rout might by on for Eastern New Mexico University's men on Thursday night. Instead, Adams State put up quite a fight and it took a goal by sophomore forward Robin Vandewalle in the closing minutes to secure a 2-0 win in the soccer opener for both teams at newly-named Steve Loy Family Foundation Stadium, formerly Greyhound Stadium. The Grizzlies entered the contest with a...
PUEBLO, Colo. – Eastern New Mexico University’s volleyball team got off to a tough start on Friday, dropping its first two matches of the season in Colorado State-Pueblo’s Steel City Showcase. The Greyhounds were bounced 25-13, 25-18, 18-25, 25-17 by Minnesota-Crookston, then lost to Lake Superior State 25-17, 25-19, 25-20. ENMU was slated to face Cal State East Bay and the host Skyhawks on Saturday to round out the event. Crookston (2-0), which swept East Bay 25-22, 25-21, 25-20 in its opening match of the event, score...
These days, it ain't easy being Stan Hodges, Clovis High School football's first-year head coach. Following a 54-0 loss to Cleveland High School on Friday, the Wildcats are 0-3 and have been outscored 151-8. The last two of those losses have been mercy-rule defeats. After the game, similar to the previous two losses, Hodges maintains it's the grueling, early steps which lay the foundation for the resuscitation of "The Beast from the East." "I know that the best is yet to...
BERNALILLO – Down two quarterbacks at the end, Portales High’s bid for victory came up just a bit short on Friday night. Senior QB Uriel Castro was picked off four times, but threw for two scores – including a 49-yarder to senior running back Nathan Encinias with about five minutes left – and the Spartans claimed a 14-7 victory over the Rams. “It was a tough ballgame,” Rams coach Jaime Ramirez said. “We played great defense all night. It was just two big plays on offense for them (which decided the game).” Castro gave Ber...
A Texas university is launching a new degree dedicated to the art and business of influencing. Beginning this fall, the University of Texas at San Antonio is offering a bachelor's in digital media influencing for aspiring content creators. The program, which is available online and in-person, will cover technical aspects like photo editing and website development, but also audience psychology and data analytics. "We want to take the idea media influencing and bring it into...
On this date ... 1923: Jerry “Bruiser” Nuzum was born in Clovis. The son of Mr. and Mrs. W. N. Nuzum became the first Clovis High School graduate to play in the National Football League. The halfback spent four seasons — 1948-1951 – with the Pittsburgh Steelers. He died in 1997, at age 73. 1952: The Clovis Mattress company was featured in the business review section of the Clovis News-Journal, and noted for having the only felting machine in the city. "The felting machine felts cotton giving you a mattress free from lumps a...
Editor's note: September is National Suicide Prevention Month. In 2021, suicide was the 11th leading cause of death in the U.S., claiming the lives of more than 48,000 people - nearly double the number of homicides. People of all ages, ethnicities and backgrounds choose to end their own lives. That means that people of all ages, ethnicities and backgrounds may be affected by suicide. When learning that a loved one, friend, neighbor, work colleague or child has lost someone to...
New Mexico's attorney general has filed a lawsuit accusing the owners of the social platform Snapchat of promoting illicit sexual material involving children and facilitating "sextortion" and the trafficking of children, drugs and guns. The 164-page complaint against Snap Inc., filed Wednesday in state District Court, accuses the company of violating the state's Unfair Practices Act by designing its product to be addictive to young users, failing to impose significant age-verification mechanisms, promoting harmful content and...
New Mexico Gas Company personnel were busy Thursday answering calls around Clovis about the smell of gas. “We had a high volume of leak calls,” said Tim Korte, communications manager for New Mexico Gas Co. “Typically we might have five or six calls a day. Thursday we had 92. We had people working until 10 p.m. Thursday.” Korte said the source of the increased number of gas smells was “what we call upstream of the Clovis service area.” He declined to be specific but said the odorant calls came from all over the city. Korte...
Today through Wednesday *High Plains Humane Society low cost spay and neuter clinic – in Clovis by appointment only. Dogs $100; cats $50. Limited appointments; first come, first served. Information or to submit an application: email to [email protected] Today *2024 Fiesta – 10 a.m.-5 p.m., St. Helen Catholic Church, 1600 S. Ave. O, Portales. Fun, games, food, raffles, live music. Information: 575-356-4241 Monday *Women United Luncheon — 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m., Clovis Civic Center, 801 Schepps Blvd., Clovis. Program by Tara Vande...
Clovis Community College’s Board of Trustees learned what acts are scheduled for the upcoming season of the college’s Cultural Arts Series at their regular monthly meeting Wednesday. Cultural Arts Series Director Christy Mendoza outlined seven acts that will be performing in town through April: n Sept. 21 it’s “The World Famous Popovich Comedy Pet Theater.” n Oct. 17 Sugar Skull, a musical production about Dia de los Muertos comes to town. n Nov. 7 it’s Sweet Jazz, which Mendoza described as “some of the best jazz in the s...
One can only wonder about JD Vance’s peculiar and freakish obsession with people who do not have children. The Ohio senator and Republican vice presidential candidate has disturbingly targeted women who are absent of biological offspring as “childless cat ladies” (apparently being an adoptive parent or stepparent does not qualify) and perversely stated child-free Americans are “more sociopathic” than Americans with kids and make the U.S. “less mentally stable.” As Vance sees...
Never in my life as a political observer have I ever associated “joy” with a candidacy for any office, much less the presidency. But it’s not the word so much as it is the sentiment the Harris-Walz campaign is trying to tap into — an upbeat view of our future. It’s something that’s been lacking for some time now, although there are still folks out there who see America’s future in a positive light. I recently read a piece by Matthew Yglesias, a “techno-optimist” and blogger/journalist who contends there are many reasons to lo...
As I watched the Kennedy siblings close ranks against Robert F. Kennedy Jr. because of his support for Donald Trump, it reminded me of the fragility of human bonds. Over the past eight years, since Trump burst onto the political scene, I’ve witnessed the crumbling of so many relationships, including marriages and childhood friendships, based upon an absolute inability to deal with difference and dissent. I know very few conservatives who have disowned liberal friends. The o...
When a reporter recently asked Presidential Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre if she could name a single accomplishment that she could attribute to Vice President Kamala Harris, Jean-Pierre stalled, stuttered and stammered before coming up with the response that Biden-Harris was a “team effort” and should be viewed that way. Shortly after that exchange, Kamala took steps to distance herself from the Biden half of the team. This became blatantly obvious when former First Lad...
Our state is facing a water crisis, and we need our elected officials to act quickly to help solve it. As the executive director of the Ogallala Land & Water Conservancy, I see every day how important water is, especially in eastern New Mexico, which is home to the largest amount of agriculture statewide. Here, we are ground zero for water challenges, but also for local solutions being carried out by community partnerships, collective action and collaboration. We know all too well the dangers of letting our sole finite...
Anyone who is on the side of censorship and punishing people for their speech is not on the right side. It doesn’t matter if they are a government, a corporation, or an individual. It doesn’t matter if they are a crooked Brazilian judge, a U.S. presidential candidate, or a probable android running a “book” of faces. Banning speech, especially for political reasons, is inexcusable. Freedom of speech is non-negotiable, but this matters less when it’s speech you like hearing a...
I learned last week there is an organization called the National Coffee Association. Each spring it releases a “National Coffee Data Trends (NCDT) report,” as it did earlier this year. In skimming the highlights from its press release, I discovered that I’m among the 67% of Americans who drink coffee on a daily basis, which they claim is “more than any other beverage, including tap or bottled water.” Coffee wasn’t a regular part of our family life when I was growing up....
State officials on Thursday issued a news release recommending horse owners vaccinate their animals to protect them from West Nile Virus and Eastern and Western Equine Encephalitis. “The New Mexico Department of Agriculture – in cooperation with the New Mexico Department of Health and the New Mexico Livestock Board – make the recommendation after NMHealth confirmed a West Nile Virus infection in a resident of Union County,” the release stated. “Horses, as well as humans, become infected after being bitten by many different...
Editor's note: This is one in a continuing series of interviews with local officials and community leaders. Chris Moyer is the new city manager in Portales. Q: Tell us about your background. Where are you from and how did you land in Portales? A: I am from Limerick, Pa., about 35 miles outside of Philadelphia. The Air Force took me all over the globe and then brought me to the area at the end of my 24 years. I liked the town, I liked the people, so I decided to stay. Q: Your...
U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich and his Republican challenger, Nella Domenici, are turning up the heat and going on the attack in their TV ads in the final stretch of election season. While TV ads reach a wide audience, they don’t come cheap. Heinrich has spent more than $1 million across broadcast and cable. Domenici has spent more than $2 million in broadcast, cable and streaming ads, including coordinated expenditures with the National Republican Senate Committee. Heinrich’s most recent ad, which accuses Domenici of sup...
