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CLOVIS — Dozens of city employees packed into Clovis City Hall on Friday, upset they weren’t paid as usual and that payroll problems have been ongoing for months. Fire Chief Mike Nolen said city emergency workers — fire, medical and police — are providing services without interruption, but that some sanitation workers said they were going home until the payroll issues were resolved. The city landfill was closed Friday morning, forcing the city of Portales to also close i...
PORTALES — City workers are repairing two water lines this morning, but neither is expected to result in widespread outages. Some brief outages are possible. Portales City Clerk Joan Martinez-Terry said part of Third Street will be closed briefly to repair one line, while workers are also working on a fire hydrant line at U.S. 70 and Avenue R. A city news release read, “Please watch for equipment and men working in the area of the repair work....
Speaking to a crowd of first-responders and citizens early Wednesday, David Stone asked those gathered to reflect on the 18 years that have passed since the deadly terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. "Can you believe it's passed that quickly?" said the long-time president of Portales' James Polk Stone Community Bank, where the group assembled for the annual remembrance ceremony. "This was not the first attack on America, but it certainly was a terrible one." It is a...
CLOVIS — A police chase ended Wednesday morning with a stolen vehicle crashing into a Clovis apartment complex, witnesses said. A police spokesman said no one was injured. A Muleshoe man, Ismael Zach Martinez, 34, was arrested and in custody at the Curry County Adult Detention Center early Wednesday afternoon. The vehicle’s owner, Amber Wagley, said she was asleep when a friend called to say her 1993 Mitsubishi Expo LRV had been stolen and was being chased by police. Wag...
PORTALES — At the rate it was going Sunday, Eastern New Mexico’s men’s soccer team would soon have worry about being the nationally-ranked team trying to avoid an upset and not the team trying to score the upset. That’s now reality. The Greyhounds, fresh off two wins over ranked opponents, Lund themselves No. 17 in the latest United States Soccer Coaches Association poll. They blanked No. 3 Fort Hays State Sunday at Greyhound Stadium. Goals from Joaquin Borruel and Gabriel...
PORTALES — Eastern New Mexico’s football team survived its first challenge by outlasting Missouri S&T 35-28 in last Saturday’s season opener. Now the next challenge — beat Colorado Mesa in Week 2 after a 10 1/2-hour road trip to Grand Junction. While pulling out the Missouri S&T game in the fourth quarter was impressive, stirring even, that was in the cozy confines of Greyhound Stadium. Now it’s time for the Hounds’ first trek of 2019. “It’s maybe our longest one this year,...
PORTALES — Saturday night brought one of those football games, the kind where teams are like boxers matching punch for punch. The kind you just know will come down to the last few punches of the final round. So it was for Missouri S&T and Eastern New Mexico in the season opener for both teams at Greyhound Stadium — blow for blow, punch for punch, strike for strike. Ultimately, Eastern landed the knockout punches, a 1-2 combo of Johnny Smith’s six-yard touchdown run with 4:51...
PORTALES — At least one person thinks Eastern New Mexico University is the No. 25 football team in Division II. Fortunately for the Greyhounds, that person is one of 32 people who cast ballots for American Football Coaches Association poll. The Greyhounds received one point in the poll, released Monday by the AFCA. The Green and Silver are one of five Lone Star Conference squads appearing in the first poll of the regular season. Tarleton State is ranked fourth, Texas A&M-Commerce 12th, Midwestern State 16th. West Texas A&M re...
SaN MARCOS, Calif. — After a Friday that included a split at the Cal State San Marcos Cougar Classic, the Eastern New Mexico volleyball team had a more difficult Saturday, falling in a pair of games to close out the tournament. The Greyhounds fell in a sweep to Bentley in the morning (25-22, 25-18, 25-18), then suffered a four-set loss in the evening to the tournament host Cougars (25-14, 25-21, 19-25, 25-20). The opening weekend effort put the Greyhounds at 1-3 on the season heading into this weekend’s Pioneer/Patriot Inv...
PORTALES — A pool for the next athletic director at Eastern New Mexico University started at 38 candidates. It was pared down to three finalists in August. Now it’s at zero, as the school is going back to the drawing board. Jeff Elwell, ENMU system chancellor and Portales campus president, said Tuesday the college will not hire any of its finalists and do another national search. The three finalists were Michael Scarano, associate athletic director at California Baptist; John Lewis, Bluefield State athletic director; and Cas...
PORTALES — With wins over 3A schools Hope Christian, St. Michael’s and West Las Vegas by a combined count of 117-25, it’s quite clear the Portales Rams have had many of their strengths featured so far this season. Now comes the matchup with a bigger school, and the expectation is the Class 5A Goddard Rockets might expose some of Portales’ yet-undiscovered weaknesses. The Rockets lead the all-time series 26-12-2, with last season’s 28-0 win at the Wool Bowl the 11th-straight victory since the Rams scored a 14-13 victory i...
