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CLOVIS — The Clovis High football team needed to approach its preparation for tonight's home game against Goddard with some selective amnesia. There was, after all, part of last Friday's 34-31 overtime loss at Rio Rancho that the Wildcats didn't want to forget — the fact that they went toe-to-toe with the top 6A team in the state. The 'Cats, though, didn't want to dwell on the loss itself and how it came in heartbreaking fashion, resulting in large part from turnovers on the...
CLOVIS — The Clovis volleyball team has learned a lot about itself over the past three weeks, and Thursday night against Roswell, the Wildcats learned some more. Thursday’s lesson was how the Lady ’Cats can show poise when faced with unexpected adversity. They did so by surviving a tough Roswell team, 3-2, winning the fifth set after squandering a 2-0 lead. They’d have preferred a sweep over Roswell, but knowing they didn’t get rattled in the 25-21, 25-20, 20-25, 20-25, 15...
PORTALES — Thanks to late heroics, Eastern New Mexico University’s men’s soccer team is off to a 1-0 start in Heartland Conference play. Nicolai Alstrom scored what turned out to be the game-winner off a free kick from 29 yards out with less than seven minutes to go, as the Greyhounds edged Oklahoma Christian 3-2 Thursday night at Greyhound Stadium. The goal saved the Greyhounds (2-2-1, 1-0) overtime after the visiting Eagles (2-2, 0-1) struck twice in the second half to knot things up. Landon Pope put home a centering pass...
CLOVIS — The Clovis-Carver Public Library is open again, easing its way back into full operation after the deadly shooting that shook the community barely two weeks past. "We are glad to be here. We are blessed to be here," said Margaret Hinchee, the library's director. "It has been difficult, but we are happy to be back." Thursday marked the "soft opening" of the library, free of ceremony, for abbreviated hours the rest of the month. All programming there is suspended u...
PORTALES — Despite a strong second-half effort, the Portales Rams boys soccer team dropped their third-straight game on Thursday evening, falling to the Roswell Coyotes 4-2. Samuel Calvillo and Robert Madrid had two goals apiece for the Coyotes. “We played hard. I think it was a better job today than Tuesday (against Clovis) for sure,” Rams coach Nathan Dodge said. “We played a lot harder and I think we had a lot more shots on goal. Did a lot of good things today.” After goals by Madrid and Calvillo put Roswell (8-5) ahe...
CLOVIS — A pair of freshmen helped carry the Clovis High girls soccer team past Portales in a 3-1 win at home for the Wildcats. Freshman Madison Lynch opened the scoring for Clovis with a free kick goal from about 30 yards out in the final minutes of the first half before adding a penalty kick goal six minutes into the second half. "When you have a player who can put the ball in from those places it's a good thing, especially when she's a freshman because she'll be around f...
ADA, Oklahoma — The Eastern New Mexico women’s soccer team will have to wait another day to earn its first win of the season. Despite a late surge at East Central on Thursday afternoon, the Greyhounds came up short to the Tigers, 2-1. ENMU (0-3-2) cut the lead down to 2-1 in the 65th minute, as Ariel Lopez’ penalty kick goal made her the fifth Greyhound to score this season. However, the Tigers (2-3) managed two goals in the first half, including the go-ahead goal that was thanks to a Greyhound own goal off of a shot defle...
On this date ... 1977: At a regular meeting of the Clovis Chamber of Commerce, chamber President Elwyn Crume led a debate among directors over whether to ask the Clovis City Commission to place a "lodger's tax" on hotel room costs in the city. Crume suggested that funds raised from the proposed tax could be used to "produce a multi-colored brochure to promote the Clovis area," as well as "probably be used in obtaining a new civic center," according to the Clovis News-Journal....
Last week I was going through some magazines and pulled out an issue of the “Smithsonian.” It was an April 2013 edition and as I flipped through the pages, I read an article on the vastness of space. What I read was somewhat mind boggling: “To casual stargazers, space seems to have no boundaries. Yet fans of NASA’s farthest-flung spacecraft can‘t stop talking about how the probe is on the verge of piercing the border surrounding the planets and plunging into the realm bey...
I wish my phones were a little smarter — both the smart phone that lives in my pocket and is too often screwed into my ear, and the landline phone whose cordless babies are strewn all over our house. Both phones are pretty amazing. The one in my pocket will do math calculations, connect to the internet, check my email, give me compass headings and altitude, show me star constellations and planet positions, scan barcodes, analyze wi-fi signals, take and edit pictures, and s...
There are at least a couple of systems that you can use to measure things. Standard or metric, depending on where you spend most of your time or which brands of tractors and equipment you use. I’ll avoid getting into the never-ending debate as to the pros and cons and frustrations of these two main contenders in the eternal battle of measurement-king. (I will admit that a base-10 system does make for easier math. But, I’m personally fond of rational fractions over decimal num...
Clovis n Nicolas Avalos, 20, unlawful taking of a motor vehicle, possession of a stolen vehicle n Trisha Lopez, 38, probation violation n Christopher Padgett, 34, concealing identity, driving while license suspended or revoked n Kattie Young, 33, reckless driving, driving while license suspended or revoked n Robie Long, 43, probation violation n Moses Martinez, 25, failure to appear at time and place stated in citation n Wayne Provolt, 21, contempt of court n Kindra Aarstad, 43, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge,...
CLOVIS — Melissa Ham plans to help pick up Clovis on Saturday. Oh, the treasures she might find in her annual Trek for Trash adventure. The radiologic program director at Clovis Community College said her Radiology Student Association team found a live snake one year. It also ran across a twin-sized mattress and a pillow. But mostly the Trek produces trash - dead animals, newspapers, fast-food sacks, old election signs, cans and beer bottles. That's according to Vicki R...
CLOVIS — It offered a good life at a great price. Guaranteed. It asked Clovis to come see its softer side. And now, after seven decades as one of the city’s larger retailers, Sears is preparing to close its doors by year’s end. Lorrie Casserly, a media coordinator for Eldon W. Gottschalk & Associates, Inc., on Thursday contacted The Eastern New Mexico News regarding a “store closing ad campaign” for the Sears location in Clovis’ North Plains Mall. The ad campaign is scheduled to begin Sept. 22 and run through Dec. 10, Ca... Full story
Today • BINGO! The Winning Musical — 7 p.m. at Clovis Civic Center presented by The Brickstreet Players. Tickets: $15. Information: 575-693-5962 • Freedom Foundation Night at Goobers — 8 p.m.-close. Homes for Vets fundraiser at Goober McCool’s, 1604 S. Ave. D, Portales. Admission: $5. Information: 575-749-3628 Saturday • Trek for Trash — 7:30 a.m.-1 p.m. at Clovis Parks and Recreation Department, 500 Sycamore Street. Information: 575-769-7870 • Jordan World Circus — 7 p.m.-9 p.m. at Curry County Fairgrounds. Tickets: $10-$30....
Tuesday • Clovis Master Water Assurance Plan District 4 meeting — 6 p.m. at Kingswood Methodist Church gym, 2600 North Main Street. Information: 575-769-7828 • Portales City Council — 6:30 p.m. in council chambers at the Memorial Building. Information: 575-356-6662 ext. 1012 • Roosevelt County Commission — 9 a.m. in commission room at county courthouse. Information: 575-356-5307 • Curry County Commission — 9 a.m. at commission room, 417 Gidding Street, Clovis. Information: 575-763-6016 Wednesday • Local Emergency Plannin...
FARWELL — School officials in Farwell took precaution and allowed students in the building early Thursday following a concern near the school hours earlier. Police Chief Larry Kelsay said police received a report of a man with a gun walking near the school about 4 a.m. Thursday. Police soon discovered the man did not have a gun and was only out for a walk. Farwell schools Superintendent Colby Waldrop said students were allowed in the school buildings earlier than usual Thursday as a "precaution." "That's all that h...
PORTALES — The Eastern New Mexico University Board of Regents grilled the director of the New Mexico Risk Management Division on Thursday about withdrawing from its insurance coverage. NMRMD Director Lara White-Davis, along with representatives of the New Mexico Public Schools Insurance Authority, were invited to the board’s meeting to present risk management insurance plans. During White-Davis’ presentation of ENMU’s 2019 allocation, the board communicated that it had expressed a desire to withdraw from the coverage for the...
