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You’ve likely seen the headlines about COVID-19 killing radio hosts and activists who opposed vaccines and masks. Several of those headlines were about Caleb Wallace, a Texan who helped organize a “freedom rally” this summer to protest mask-wearing. Some corners of the internet reacted with ridicule to news of his death last month, sparing no thought to Wallace’s grieving wife and daughters. It’s important that we all resist the impulse to scream, “I told you so!” Yes, it’s maddening to find ourselves swept up in yet another...
FOOTBALL Prep summary Saturday 6-man District 2 Elida 33, Floyd 18 Elida 0 0 14 19 — 33 Floyd 8 10 0 0 — 18 Scoring summary First quarter F — Kason East 45 pass from Ricky Ramirez (Ramirez 2PAT kick good), 1:14 Second quarter F — Ramirez 18 run (2PAT kick failed), 2:07 F — Ramirez FG 27, :54 Third quarter E — Mason Pritchett 60 kickoff return (Seth Jimenez pass from Pritchett), 9:50 E — Dalyn Taylor 15 fumble return (Payton Calloway run), 3:02 Fourth quarter E — Taylor 50 run (PAT failed), 8:40 E — Jesse Woodruff 63 return of...
“Be still, and know that I am God!” says our Father through the psalmist’s words in Psalm 46. And he continues, “I will be honored by every nation. I will be honored throughout the world” (46:10). As usual, I love the way Eugene Peterson captures the feel of this in his Bible paraphrase The Message: “Step out of the traffic! Take a long, loving look at me, your High God, above politics, above everything.” If I’m never still, I’m never fully honoring God as God; I’m trying t...
PORTALES - Freshman midfielder Danielle Gonzales delivered her first collegiate goal in the 58th minute on Sunday, breaking a scoreless tie and propelling Fort Lewis to a 2-0 victory over Eastern New Mexico University in women's soccer at Greyhound Stadium. Junior midfielder Madyson Barela added her third tally of the campaign with just over 14 minutes remaining to give the Skyhawks (2-2) some insurance. Junior Katherine Dunbabin postedd the shutout in goal for Fort Lewis....
ROSWELL — Clovis High’s volleyball team split a pair of matches in Bronze Bracket play in on Saturday in the 16-team Zia Classic, outlasting Silver 17-25, 25-21, 25-23, 14-25, 15-5 in the semifinals before losing to Roswell High 25-19, 25-22, 22-25, 25-19 in the ninth-place clash. The Lady Wildcats (2-6) went 6-8 in games during Friday’s pool play to earn the No. 9 seed coming into Saturday. “Of the two (Saturday matches), we played better (against) Roswell,” Lady Cats coach Darrel Ray said. “We were hustling and flying arou...
Colonial Park Golf Course will host the Birdies and Boos Scramble Oct. 30 to benefit the First Tee nonprofit. Registration is $85 per player and $340 per team in a four-person scramble format, with a 10 a.m. shotgun start. Registration covers green fees, cart rental, range balls, breakfast, lunch and the silent auction. First Tee is a youth development organization that teaches life skills and core values through golf. Sponsorships are available. Information: 575-762-4775....
LAS VEGAS, N.M. — It didn’t take the Portales High girls soccer team long to shake off a recent loss. After seeing a four-match winning streak snapped two days earlier in a 4-1 defeat at Las Vegas Robertson, the Lady Rams returned on Saturday and posted a 4-0 victory over West Las Vegas. Senior forward/midfielder Zoe Roy put PHS (5-3) in front with a goal early in the first half, and the Lady Rams finished it off with three tallies in a span of about 20 minutes during the middle of the second stanza. It was their second win...
PORTALES — Greyhound Stadium will be a busy place this weekend, with Portales hosting St. Pius on the gridiron Friday night and Eastern New Mexico University opening its Lone Star Conference football season at noon Saturday against Texas A&M-Kingsville. It’s even busier just a little bit south of the stadium at Lewis Cooper Arena, where three nightly sessions await rodeo fans as part of ENMU’s College “Daze” Rodeo. The arena will host 7 p.m. sessions Thursday, Friday and Saturday, with hundreds of competitors across th...
PORTALES - After getting blistered by Central Washington in its season opener, Eastern New Mexico University's football team looked like it still had a hangover from that one early in Saturday's clash with Adams State. It took more than a quarter to get on track, but once the Greyhounds did they were off to the races. Freshman quarterback Nate Valencia threw four touchdown passes - three to senior wide-out Justin Manyweather - and the Hounds tallied six unanswered TDs en...
FARWELL — Texico football coach Bob Gilbreath and his Farwell counterpart, Darren Kelley, are quite familiar with each other. Both are graduates of Clovis High, and both played football at Eastern New Mexico University in the late 1980s. They were even roommates for three years at ENMU. From there, they spent several seasons together on the staff of Eric Roanhaus at CHS. Friday night, they meet again, this time on the football field in a 7 p.m. (CDT) kickoff. “We’re about as close to being brothers as anyone could be,” Gilbre...
PORTALES — At first glance, you probably wouldn’t expect a repeat of last spring’s Portales High-St. Pius game, a 6-0 Rams win, when the teams match up again at 7 p.m. on Friday night at Greyhound Stadium. So far this fall, both teams are scoring points and giving them up at a much higher clip. The Sartans (2-2) will bring an offense which has averaged nearly 34 points a game and a defense which is allowing just over 30. Meantime, PHS (0-3) has scored 74 points to date while giving up 106. Still, Rams coach Jamie Ramir...
On this date … 1971: Eastern New Mexico University students elected fellow students to university senate and board of activities positions. Student government advisor Dallan Sanders reported John McKissack of Roswell won the treasurer's race over Cathy Overdorf while Bill Piatt was named student attorney. Sanders said the Executive Council, comprised of the president, vice president and director of activities, had been elected prior to the spring semester. Gary Blakeley of Portales was student body president. Sanders said a...
Perhaps you’ve noticed that old people like to remember the “good old days” even when they weren’t so good. It’s a nostalgic tendency to think that, as tough as things were, we got through them so it must have been good for us. You might remember the old Saturday Night Live skit of the old man exaggerating his old-days experiences with the conclusion, “That’s the way it was, and we liked it,” when, it reality, that’s not the way it was, and often we didn’t like it. History, on the other hand, shouldn’t be written that way. It...
Even though Roosevelt County’s wettest recorded year happened 20 years before I was born, I rarely empty my rain gauge without thinking of 1941. I grew up on the stories — you may have as well. At our place it was known as “40 inches in ’41.” It was the year our grandparents and great-grandparents were kept busy planting, replanting, and emptying those rain gauges until the rains finally turned off late in the fall. The official precipitation for Portales for 1941 was 43.61...
You may have picked up subtle clues that my opinion of politicians is exactly as low as my opinion of freelance thieves, bullies, and vandals. It’s impossible for me to dislike them more than I already do. Still, I admit some politicians are undeniably worse than others. My measure of how good or bad a politician is depends entirely on whether they force me to notice them. The more I notice them, the worse I consider them to be. Any politician who isn’t completely inv...
We have always provided additional help via tutoring and a wide variety of intervention programs for those students needing it. During the past year and a half, that academic help has expanded even more than usual, given the challenges students experienced during the past year. One of our most successful programs was our CMS Summer Academy held this past summer. We had an amazing turnout, with over 600 students enrolling in this program. Ordinarily, the grades covered in a...
CLOVIS — The Clovis Police Department is warning local businesses of a new scam, with four businesses reporting some level of attempt. According to a CPD release, scammers convince a business’ employee that they are from the corporate office, or in one case the Fire Marshal’s Office. The scammer then convinced employees to remove money from the cash register and send it in the form of a money order or place the funding in a bitcoin machine for electronic delivery. The department advises employees to contact their corpo...
Booked The following were booked into local jails (Friday-Tuesday): Clovis • Chandler Lucero-Hutchinson, 26, probation violation (two counts), failure to appear • Isaac Lucero, 18, probation violation • Brady Chase, 24, no proof of insurance • Raquel Trevino, 41, shoplifting • Martin Rivera, 30, probation violation • Eric Nunez, 23, driving while under the influence, no proof of insurance • Rex Guss, 18, failure to pay fines • Caleb Peterson, 24, failure to pay fines • Kendra Payton, 45, failure to appear • Caysie Johnson,...
CLOVIS — The city of Clovis has begun accepting applications for its vacant District 1 seat on the Clovis City Commission. Applications will be accepted until 5 p.m. Oct. 1 at the city manager’s office or via email at [email protected], and are available at cityofclovis.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/4089_001.pdf. Application questions cover interest in the position, challenges the city has faced and will face, short- and long-term solutions for water supply challenges and a ranking of city priorities. Applicants sho...
CLOVIS — The Clovis 88101 ZIP code wasn’t the leader among the state for new COVID-19 infections over the weekend. But it was close. The New Mexico Department of Health confirmed 1,786 new cases of COVID-19 between Saturday and Monday, including 78 in Curry County and 15 in Roosevelt County. Of the Curry County cases, 68 came from the 88101 ZIP code. That was third in the state, behind the 70 from both Albuquerque (87121) and Hobbs (88240). Four of the top six ZIP codes for new cases came from the Southeast region that inc...
CLOVIS — Four, if not all five, of Curry County's commission districts will see some level of upheaval by the end of the year, as the Census-driven process of redistricting is starting to take shape. Commissioners heard a first presentation on the matter during Tuesday's commission meeting, where John Sharp of Research and Polling said the plan is to have three different redistricting plans for commissioners to approve by Dec. 31. Sharp said the ideal population for each district is 9,686, representing one-fifth of the t...
PORTALES — With a small crowd cheering them on, and a few concerns levied, Portales school board members on Monday decided to join a lawsuit against the Public Education Department. By a 5-0 vote, board members agreed to join in the suit the Gallup-McKinley School District filed last October that challenges the authority of the PED. In a separate vote, it capped its financial contribution for the lawsuit to $1,000. The complaint argues, in part, for local control of measures related to mitigating the spread of COVID-19. M...
PORTALES - A Portales man is in jail, accused of fatally stabbing his cousin Saturday night. Jesse Lujan, 33, is in the Roosevelt County Detention Center with a first-degree murder charge in the death of Roy Courtney Lujan, 41. Jesse Lujan also faces two charges of tampering with evidence for allegedly discarding the knife used in the stabbing and clothing he was wearing at the time of the attack. The suspect made his first appearance Monday afternoon in Roosevelt County...
CLOVIS — Eastern New Mexico residents with business — or pleasure — in Dallas-Fort Worth will have another travel option this fall. Starting Nov. 1, the Clovis Regional Airport will offer passenger service to the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport. A news release from the city of Clovis states tickets will go on sale Oct. 1. The Clovis airport, through Denver Air Connection, will continue to provide direct flights to Denver as well, the release said. “DAC currently provides 12 non-stop round trips per week to the Den...
CLOVIS — Part of the eastbound lane of Brady Street will be closed through Friday for the installation of fiber optic lines for Plateau Telecommunications. Elite Communication of Los Lunas is handling the work, which began Monday between Sycamore and Tennessee streets. Motorists are asked to pay attention to signage in the work area. Information: Elite Communications, 505-295-8000....
