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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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CLOVIS — Tires and shoes and diapers, oh my! These are just some of the items participants in the annual Trek for Trash cleaned up off the streets of Clovis on Saturday. Seven teams combined to fill 226 trash bags and Clovis Community College defended its crown by finishing first for the fifth straight year. CCC collected 78 bags, winning a pot of gold (candy). The Trek for Trash offered Clovis residents with a fun way to spend their Saturday morning while cleaning up their c...
Finding good help nowadays is seemingly getting tougher and tougher. Now I’m certainly not saying that there aren’t good people out there. To the contrary: I know there are great potential employees out there who can help any business become better. It just seems like it’s getting more difficult to find them. I’ve had numerous conversations with current business owners and managers in the area in recent weeks, and the theme tends to be quite similar. They all have opening... Full story
I’ve always wanted to write a book. I’ve written parts of several books, but never an entire book all by myself. I have some ideas: “Just Play Catch with Jay” I was a terrible athlete growing up. But I loved sports, especially baseball. I could easily fill a book with inspirational stories about my heroic, um, efforts at playing ball. I can’t remember if my Fireballs were playing the Ginners or the Motor Men, but I remember clearly the time I struck out the side as a little league baseball player. I fanned the first two... Full story
I don’t want to say something, because I don’t want to jinx this. How many times have you heard that phrase? Maybe you’re making great time on a long drive. Perhaps your team just went up two points with 10 seconds to play. You don’t brag, because you know the jinx awaits. You know if you say something, you’ll come up on slow drivers that decide they’re taking every lane in front of you. You don’t brag, because Stephen Curry is on the other team and his shooting range just about covers a ZIP code. In 2011, when the Texas Ran... Full story
CLOVIS — On Friday, our newspaper published audio recordings of 911 calls placed to Clovis Police dispatchers during the horrific shootings at our city library on Aug. 28. As one might expect, those calls were emotional and haunting. Readers responded with myriad opinions, as they did with our decision to publish court records connected to the deadly shootings and arrest of 16-year-old Nathaniel Jouett weeks earlier. We have been praised, criticized and analyzed, which is appropriate. Some readers thanked us for doing our j... Full story
SANTA FE — Two red cards, playing the first half with only 10 players and the second half with only nine, plus a dominant St. Michael’s team led to a 5-1 loss for the Portales girls soccer team on Saturday at St. Michael’s High School. Portales head coach Ruben Tellez said via text that he planned to appeal the red cards to the New Mexico Activities Association. The first one came at the 36-minute mark of the first half, where Tellez said a Rams player slipped and touched the ball, which the referee ruled as intentional. The...
PORTALES — Midwestern State's men's soccer team is No. 8 in the country for plenty of reasons. They're most of the reasons the Greyhounds are now even in the Heartland Conference. The Mustangs handled business Saturday at Greyhound Stadium, holding the host Greyhounds to just one shot on goal in a 4-0 win to push their record to 6-0 on the year. Four different players scored for Midwestern State (6-0, 2-0 Heartland) and backup goalkeeper Richard Goss posted his third s...
CARLSBAD — Outside of 6A powerhouse Hobbs, there hasn’t been a team in New Mexico the Clovis High boys cross country team faced and came away with defeat. The same proved true of Texas teams, as Clovis had three of the top 12 runners in the Ron Singleton Invitational’s 62-runner field Saturday morning at Carlsbad. The Wildcats got a third-place finish from John Fuentes (17:21), seventh from Jose Salas (17:44) and 12th from Jerrick Maldonado (18:04) to finish in a comfortable second place with 55 points to Lovington’s 87. Hob...
BETHANY, Oklahoma — Shelby Bell found the perfect time to score her first goal of the season, tapping in a rebound with five minutes left to give Eastern New Mexico its first win of the season, 3-2 over Southern Nazarene Saturday at Wes Harmon Field. Ariel Lopez and Naomi Abeyta scored first-half goals for the Greyhounds (1-3-2), who looked like they’d see yet one more overtime period when Brianna Evans notched her third goal of the year on a penalty kick with 24:24 remaining in the second half. ENMU had come into Sat...
PORTALES — Potential can be a scary word, but for those who possess a lot of it, the sky is the limit. Portales senior Lindsay Blakey has it on the volleyball court, and along with a coaching connection has landed a spot with Division I New Mexico State. Blakey verbally committed to the Aggies, who are coached by Mike Jordan — a friend of Portales coach Charity Gomez. "When Mike came down (to visit), he was like, 'Hey, I would like her to come to our Elite Camp at Sta...
COMMERCE, Texas — The Texas A&M-Commerce footbALL team didn’t need long to show why they’re the class of the Lone Star Conference, but Luis Perez had gave Eastern New Mexico quite a reminder in the second quarter. With the host Lions already up 13-3 after one quarter, Perez unloaded for four of his five touchdown passes on the day, and Texas A&M-Commerce posted 445 yards of offense in a 51-22 blasting of the Greyhounds on Saturday afternoon at a packed Memorial Stadium. Darrion Landry caught seven passes for 112 yards for t...
SANTA FE — The old saying, "Football is a game of inches," could certainly apply to the Portales Rams on Saturday afternoon at St. Michael's. Unfortunately for the Rams, they came up just inches short at two crucial moments in the fourth quarter. The result: St. Michael's inched away with a 21-20 victory. After a Tyrese Dawson 5-yard touchdown run with 1:20 left in the game closed the gap to within a point, Dawson was slow to get up. He went down awkwardly as he was tackled i...
PORTALES — Size and strength matter in basketball. But Zamorye Cox proves heart does too. “I think a lot of it is you can’t control everything, but a lot of it is how hard you work,” Cox said. “If you give it your heart and give it your all, you can make a difference. You do have to work with your team and it is a team sport, but you can really make a difference, no matter what.” A mix of everything has helped the 5-foot-5 Portales senior land a shot at the next level, as Cox verbally committed to Eastern New Mexico Universit...
CLOVIS — One thing nearly as certain as death and taxes is a new effort, with each new presidential administration, to overhaul the existing tax code. The work so far of President Donald Trump is no exception, with details of a new tax framework from his administration and congressional Republicans reported to be released at the end of the month. Trump indicated in a recent bipartisan gathering that he desired a tax bill that would benefit the middle class and not give any extra gains to the wealthy, according to The New York...
DENVER — Long before tourists started converging here to sample freshly legalized marijuana in the form of gummy bears and chocolate brownies, thousands of Coloradans were cultivating the medicinal plants for their own consumption and to share with ailing friends. Now that the Trump administration is pledging to closely monitor states where the federally outlawed substance has been legalized, regulators here, and in Oregon and Washington, are trying to tame what has proven to be an unruly crop of home growers. The biggest c...
Would you let your significant other dress you for a week? That's what one woman did when she decided to do a styling experiment surrendering a week of outfits to her husband's whims. She said at first it sounded like torture, but credits his experience with a stylish mother and sisters for raising her confidence in the experiment. Also, she has been with her husband for 11 years so he has a pretty good idea of her taste in style. When shopping his wife's closet to find an...
Information on Scrappy Applique, making positive choices, and getting creative with wall décor will be the featured topics on “Creative Living” on Tuesday at 9:30 p.m. and on Thursday at noon. (All times are Mountain.) Author, designer and teacher Shannon Brinkley will demonstrate a raw-edge applique technique where you collage fabric scraps to create your applique piece. It is called Scrappy Applique, and has many uses as Brinkley will show. She’s from Austin, Texas. Judi M...
Jesus Nanez was born in Fullerton, California. His father's brother lived in New Mexico and in 1987, Jesus's father moved his family to Clovis. He is the oldest of one brother and two sisters. He graduated from Clovis High in 2000 and enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in December of 2000. He graduated from boot camp in March of 2001. Nanez served four years active duty. He is the father of Jesus Nanez, Jr.,14, also known as Baby J, and one daughter, Alexis Nanez, 11....
In a state where nearly every fiber of our political being has long been partisan, Pete Domenici stayed above it all. I always scratched my head at how such a legendary man, a man who spent 36 years in Washington, could have stayed so approachable and down-to-earth. He really did go to Washington to work for the regular man and woman and he never forgot them. More incredibly, in a time when Republicans never won statewide races in New Mexico, he literally creamed all takers wh...
On this date ... 1957: Mountain States Telephone Co. had a large advertisement in the Clovis News-Journal introducing the concept of “7 turns of the dial on every Clovis call.” All Clovis telephone numbers started with the letters “P” and “O,” followed by a five-digit phone number. “There’s an easy way to say and remember the new numbers,” the ad said. “For example, POrter 3-7665. If you were to give this number to the operator or repeat it to a friend, try breaking it up like this: POrter three — seven-six — six-five....
Random thoughts: I’ve been in Dallas recently helping extended family stretched a bit thin. After escorting a great-nephew to kindergarten and back several days, I am convinced teachers deserve huge raises. Simply lining the kids up was infinitely more difficult than herding cats. However, the kids could teach us about interacting. About 50 percent were black, 30 percent Hispanic and 20 percent white — but they seemed oblivious to who they playfully pushed. After school, I t...
Baxter Curren Senior Center 908 Hickory, Clovis Monday: 8:30 a.m. exercise class, 10 a.m. jewelry pals, noon pinochle, 1 p.m. line dance, 5 p.m. social night Tuesday: 8 a.m. quilting, noon pinochle 101, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. exercise equipment, 6 p.m. trivia mania Wednesday: 8 a.m.-4 p.m. exercise equipment, 8:30 a.m. exercise class, 10 a.m. sewing, 1 p.m. crafts, 6 p.m. ladies night Thursday: 8 a.m. blood pressure, 8 a.m. eggs, gravy and biscuits $4, 8:45 a.m. board meeting, 8:45 a.m. pinochle 101, 1 p.m. bingo, 6 p.m. railroad...
Clovis Elementary Monday: Breakfast — Pancake sausage on a stick. Lunch — Oriental chicken, rice, garden salad, mini carrots w/ranch, seasonal fresh fruit. Tuesday: Breakfast — Cinnamon roll. Lunch — Sloppy Joe on bun, baked fries, veggie cup w/ranch, sidekicks. Wednesday: Breakfast — French toast. Lunch — Soft taco w/salsa, seasoned pinto beans, seasoned corn, orange smiles. Thursday: Breakfast — Bean and cheese burrito. Lunch — Pig in a blanket, garden salad w/ranch, seasoned green beans, seasonal fresh fruit, cookie....
Tuesday • Science Museum Family Night — 6 p.m.-8 p.m. at Clovis Community College’s Interactive Science Museum, 500 Trades Road east of main campus off of Seventh Street. Admission: Free. Information: 575-769-4909 • Books n Babies — 10:30 a.m. storytime for children age 0-3 at Portales Public Library. Theme: ABCs. Information: 575-356-3940 • Afterschool STEAM — 4:30 p.m. for grades K-6 at Portales Public Library. Activity: K’Nex Engineering Part 2. Information: 575-356-3940 Wednesday • Preschool story-time — 10:30 a.m. at P...
Monday • Clovis Schools Board — 5:30 p.m. at 1009 Main Street. Special meeting. Information: 575-769-4320 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 commi...
