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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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FOOTBALL Prep summary Friday Eldorado 28, Clovis 27 Eldorado 0 13 8 7 — 28 Clovis 0 21 0 6 — 27 Scoring summary Second quarter C — Kohen Matus 83 pass from Jett Stone (Kash Roberts kick), 11:00 C — Stone 1 run (Roberts kick), 5:23 E — Johnpaul Ludi 3 run (Cortland Dickman kick), 1:23 C — R.J. Nora 100 kickoff return (Roberts kick), 1:10 E — Joshua Jackson 28 pass from Brandon Olivas (run failed), :24 Third quarter E — Mark Pacheco 17 run (Jackson run), 8:35 Fourth quarter E — Pacheco 23 interception return (Emiliano Morriso...
A little more than a year ago, Ben Salazar of Clovis had a major medical setback and a revelation. Salazar -- long a Clovis-based constituent advocate for U.S. Sen. Tom Udall, D-New Mexico, and currently for U.S Rep. Teresa Leger Fernandez – joined a different constituency for which he now advocates with enthusiasm, the disabled. He walks with the aid of a cane, sometimes with a walker, and a prosthetic rod replaces part of his left leg below the knee and his left foot a...
I’ve never been squeamish at the sight of blood, but the Good Lord has been testing me out on that claim to fame lately. I’ve never had stitches other than for my appendectomy when I was in high school. That didn’t go so well, as I developed an abscess below the surgery incision and had grown something about grapefruit size on my tummy by the time we went to the doctor to see about it. He took matters into his own hands or more precisely a scalpel and opened up the incis...
CLOVIS - Whichever team won Friday night's matchup at Leon Williams Stadium was going to leave feeling pretty good about itself. And whichever team lost? Well, so close and yet so far. With Clovis High and Eldorado matching 0-4 records, the game came down to a missed extra point in the closing moments that allowed the Eagles to escape with a 28-27 victory. Of course, in any tight game there are many swings which could turn the contest either way. At the end of the day, while...
PORTALES — After a good early pre-conference run, Eastern New Mexico University’s volleyball team came up short on Friday night, losing to Oklahoma Christian 25-20, 25-23, 20-25, 25-14 in the Greyhounds’ home opener and the Lone Star Conference lidlifter for both sides at Greyhound Arena. ENMU (9-4), which notched a four-set win over OC (8-4) in the LSC crossover tournament on Sept. 8, tried to make a match of it with a third-set comeback, but the Eagles jumped on top with the first six points of the fourth set before finis...
CLOVIS — Clovis High’s bid to get back on track this week was nearly derailed on Thursday night. With four matches on tap, CHS volleyball coach Darrel Ray was hoping his team could pull off a sweep and get back to the .500 mark. The Lady Wildcats won Tuesday at Lubbock Estacado, but had to scramble until late to notch a 21-25, 25-21, 25-19, 25-18 victory over Lovington at Rock Staubus Gym. On Saturday, the Lady Cats traveled to Albuquerque for matches against host Highland (2-4) and Del Norte (0-6). Ray said Lovington (1-...
PORTALES — Portales High’s volleyball team quickly got off the schneid at home on Tuesday night. After dropping their only previous outing at the Ram Athletic Center against Roswell High on Sept. 5, the Lady Rams bounced back with a 25-19, 25-17, 25-20 sweep of Ruidoso on Tuesday night at the RAC. “It was our first win in our home gym,” second-year PHS coach Jacki Bailey said. “It was nice to bounce back after the loss to Roswell last week.” While the Lady Rams (4-3) were in control most of the way, they did have a bit of a...
Clovis' lakes are popular with area fishermen, but not all fishermen of Greene Acres, Dennis Chavez and Ned Houk lakes are catching fish. Retired resident and regular fisherman Lonnie Grimes said Ned Houk Park pond "used to be one of the best fishing places around, but not now." Grimes said the pond has trash around it, and there are tree branches and weeds. "The water has a terrible smell to it." "Only thing we're catching out of there are turtles and yellow bellies," he said...
On this date ... 1972: Cowgirls from Eastern New Mexico University had won the team trophy at their own rodeo to stay atop the Southwest Region standings after two contests. ENMU, the 1971 National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association champion, scored one first-place award, three third-places, two fifth-places and a sixth place to take team honors. ENMU’s Karen Holleyman of Corona took first place in goat tying. Colynn White of Clovis was third in goat tying while Betty Gayle Cooper of Monument finished fifth. White also f...
The state Supreme Court has come out against proposed reform to the bail system, setting up a potential clash with Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham if she is re-elected in November. During a public safety press conference in January, prior to this year’s legislative session, Lujan Grisham called for changes to make it more likely that those accused of serious crimes would be held in jail prior to their trials. “This legislation asks our court to look seriously at individuals with violent histories before releasing them, sen...
An investigation continues in the death of Arnold Candelaria at the Roosevelt County Detention Center. Roosevelt County manager Amber Hamilton said in a news release Candelaria was found unresponsive at the center after 4 p.m. Tuesday. Emergency services were called for and they arrived on the scene. Before emergency services arrived detention personnel and an on-site medical provider attempted life-saving measures with no success. Deputies with the Roosevelt County sheriff’s department arrived at the detention center and b...
President John F. Kennedy committed America to landing on the moon in a speech on Sept. 12, 1962. It was spring. The calendar said otherwise, yes. But, as has been argued before in this space, Kennedy presided over a season of renewal, a season when optimism was birthright, confidence, high and horizons, endless. “We choose to go to the moon ... and do the other things,” he famously declared, “not because they are easy but because they are hard.” And no one doubted for a m...
In California, a historic heat wave has exposed yet again what big idiots the politicians in Sacramento are. To prevent daily rolling blackouts in Beverly Hills like the ones they have in places like Ghana, Gov. Gavin Newsom has asked us to not use electricity between 4 and 9 p.m. The idea is to conserve power – and to prop up the electric grid that Newsom and his environmentalist comrades have been dismantling and neglecting for decades with their harmful green energy p...
The president of the United States is the only member of the executive branch of government who is elected. Constitutionally, he operates as the chief executive officer of the U.S. government and the commander in chief of the U.S. military. The president appoints cabinet secretaries and agency heads and these folk serve at “the pleasure of the president.” Any power these positions may claim flows from the presidency. Over the last several years, there has been a movement fro...
Who’s using the culture war to distract from the economy now? Democrats have long believed -- going back at least to the famous 2005 Thomas Frank book, “What’s the Matter with Kansas?” -- that Republicans cynically deploy cultural issues to divert attention from kitchen-table concerns. If only Democrats, they told themselves, could convince voters that their agenda is the true populism opposed to the GOP’s faux culture-based populism, the spell would be lifted, and the publi...
It’s not news that the newspaper industry has been in financial trouble for years. As most readers know, our newspaper family went from two daily products -- the Clovis News Journal and the Portales News-Tribune -- to a combined daily product in 2016. Then in 2018, that combined Eastern New Mexico News began publishing just twice weekly. Our industry is still evolving to compete with the internet, but our most recent changes have, overall, been something we’re hoping our readers are celebrating with us. In case you have not...
The Portales Municipal School Board on Monday approved a "Safe Return to In-Person Instruction and Continuity of Services" plan for the district, which does not include mandatory masking or testing for COVID-19 for now. The plan, however, must be reviewed every six months in light of possible changes in COVID-19 pandemic conditions, Superintendent Johnnie Cain said. The board on Monday also approved a plan to spend more than $1.1 million in New Mexico public school capital out...
The City of Clovis is hosting a meeting to listen to members of the community’s thoughts, concerns and suggestions and to share information about resources available to them. A number of area residents are concerned about a perceived uptick in crime particularly drive-by shootings and homicides. This meeting, the first in a planned series of neighborhood meetings, will be held at 6 p.m. Tuesday at St. John Baptist Church located at 1214 Gila Street in Clovis. Mayor Mike Morris said he wanted to focus on a dialogue with the re...
The New Mexico Tourism Department (NMTD) has awarded $790,801 to 45 communities through the New Mexico Clean and Beautiful Grant Program for fiscal year 2023. Curry and Roosevelt counties along with Clovis and Portales are set to receive a total of $45,769: $20,055 for Clovis, $12,650 for Portales, $9,064 for Curry County and $4,000 for Roosevelt County. The Clean and Beautiful Grant Program funds projects and initiatives that contribute: end littering, reduce waste, beautify communities, empower youth and increase program ca...
CLOVIS – A Curry County Sheriff’s deputy on Wednesday was formally charged with shoplifting following a Sept. 9 incident at Clovis’ Walmart. Riley Loomis, 47, is accused of failing to scan 24 items into the self-checkout register. The items are valued at $126.95, court records show. Loomis has been ordered to appear in Clovis Magistrate Court at 9:30 a.m. Sept. 30. Police initially issued a non-traffic complaint against Loomis, but “At the request of the city attorney (Jared Morris) on Wednesday, September 14, 2022, I was r...
Curry County Commissioners got details of regular shipments of spent radioactive fuel rods that will be making their way through Curry County starting in mid to late 2026. At their regular Tuesday meeting commissioners heard from Ed Mayer, Program Director from Holtec International, the company that will be handling the twice-a-month rail shipments through Curry and Roosevelt counties on the way to Lea County and a temporary storage facility. Railroad is the only way the shipments will be handled, a train made up of two locom...
The Air Force Civil Engineer Center released a recorded update of the Department of the Air Force’s on-going actions to address per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) identified at Cannon Air Force Base. According to a news release from Cannon Public Affairs the seventh public update is available for viewing at https://www.cannon.af.mil/Environmental/. Some of the highlights of this most recent presentation is the talking about the PFAs investigation history at Cannon, remedial investigation, engineering evaluation, public...
TEXICO -- The case in which Jamye Kushman, 37, and Jamie Sena, 29, each face 23 counts of child abuse has now expanded to include a third suspect, Lora Melancon, 41. Melancon was arrested Sept. 2 and charged with four counts of intentional child abuse with no death or great bodily harm and one count of conspiracy to commit abuse of a child (does not result in death or great bodily harm) in the case involving the home at 236 CR 8.5 in Texico. Melancon got out of jail Sept. 7 on $5,000 bond. Her next court appearance is a...
Ninth Judicial District Attorney Brian Stover on Thursday filed a lawsuit in district court asking his name appear on the November ballot, though he admits he failed to meet the filing deadline. “We did everything we were supposed to do. I was just waiting on paperwork to come back in so I could file it, but then we got busy with a bunch of homicides and other things and the deadline was missed,” Stover said Thursday. After realizing he’d missed the Aug. 30 filing deadline, Stover said he petitioned the Secretary of State’s O...
One of the suspects in the Aug. 14 shooting death of Jesse Villanes-Lerma at an apartment on Sycamore Street in Clovis is expected back in Clovis this weekend. Jimmy Whitlock, 42, was arrested by U.S. marshals in Raleigh, N.C., on Aug. 23. Clovis Police Lt. Trevor Thron said the Curry County Sheriff’s Department had sent a transport deputy to pick up Whitlock. Thron said there is nothing new to report on the apprehension of the second suspect in the homicide, Deionte Fannin, 29, who remains at large. Fannin has an active w...
