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MELROSE — The Melrose Buffaloes won a key battle against rival Fort Sumner in 8-man District 2 on Friday night. It’s entirely possible the teams will meet again down the line. Sophomore quarterback Michael Cardonita threw for four touchdowns and ran for three more, and the Buffs outlasted the Foxes 58-50 in a battle of unbeatens. Melrose (4-0, 1-0 district) scored three unanswered touchdowns in the second half to get a handle on the game, then held on late as the teams combined for more than 1,000 yards of offense. Car...
CLOVIS - Essentially for all but one set, Clovis High's volleyball team gave Roswell Goddard a pretty spirited battle on Tuesday night at The Rock. The Lady Wildcats dominated Game 2 to tie the match, then essentially were dominated by Goddard in the third as the Lady Rockets pulled away for a 25-20, 16-25, 25-15, 25-20 victory. Still, CHS coach Darrel Ray was encouraged with the performance. "We played a great deal better than we did against Lovington," Ray said, referring...
CLOVIS - Clovis High's football team had La Cueva wobbling a bit early on in Friday's Class 6A District 2/5A matchup at Leon Williams Stadium, and thus the Bears weren't able to take advantage of a brisk breeze at their backs. They proved quickly, though, that the wind wasn't really a factor. Junior quarterback Aidan Armenta threw five second-quarter touchdown passes into the wind - four to junior wide receiver Exodus Ayers - and La Cueva quickly blew the game open en route...
CLOVIS — Clovis High played hard on Thursday and, for the most part, held Lovington’s potent offense in check. In the end, the Wildcats were simply going to be hard-pressed to score. Lovington, coming off its first loss of the season two days earlier at Roswell High 4-2, bounced back with a 4-0 victory at Leon Williams Stadium. Senior forward/midfielder Mason Enriquez scored twice in the first half, including less than 2 1/2 minutes into the contest, and Lovington (9-1) added two more goals in the final 10 minutes of the mat...
PORTALES - Eastern New Mexico University's volleyball team started well, but rival Western New Mexico rallied to defeat the Greyhounds 21-25, 25-23, 25-21, 25-17 in Lone Star Conference volleyball on Friday night at Greyhound Arena. The Hounds (1-10, 1-2 LSC) were facing a quick turnaround on Saturday, hosting an early-afternoon league matchup against Texas-Permian Basin. Freshman outside hitter/middle blocker Kayla Villarreal led the Mustangs (2-7, 1-1 LSC) with 13 kills,...
PORTALES - Texas Woman's has had its share of trouble trying to score in the early portion of the season. Eastern New Mexico University, though, has had even more issues. Freshman defender Rayne Islas tallied in the 18th minute on Wednesday, and it was enough for the Pioneers to edge the Greyhounds 1-0 in the Lone Star Conference women's soccer opener for both teams at Greyhound Stadium. TWU (4-0-2 overall), which has scored just six goals this season but allowed only one,...
A toxicology report reveals that a balloon pilot had marijuana and cocaine in his system when his balloon crashed, killing him and four others, including two former Clovis residents. The Federal Aviation Administration report states that the drugs were found in the blood and urine of Nick Meleski, 62. He died after his balloon struck power lines on June 26 and plummeted to the ground near Central and Unser NW in Albuquerque. Also killed in the crash were passengers Martin...
Booked The following were booked into local jails (Tuesday-Friday): Clovis • Brenton Wilde, 51, battery against a household member • Richard Narro, 58, driving while license suspended or revoked • Evelyn Martinez, 32, probation violation • Earl Large, 29, probation violation • Jasmine Reyes, 20, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge • Jose Yzaguirre, 35, driving under the influence of liquor, careless driving • Jesus Cabezuela, 38, failure to appear on a felony charge • Alton Smith, 52, failure to appear on a felony charge...
CLOVIS — A pair of intersections will be impacted through October with the city’s continued work on the effluent reuse pipeline project, according to a city release. K. Barnett and Sons will conduct jack an bore road work under Prince Street and Llano Estacado Boulevard, starting Monday. During the work, which is expected to be complete in the last week of October, the intersection of Llano Estacado and Thornton and the intersection of North Prince and Wilhite will be impacted. Also, through traffic on Thornton and Wil...
The New Mexico Department of Game and Fish, the New Mexico State Game Commission and NGL Energy Partners on Thursday held a ribbon cutting ceremony for the expansion of the Prairie Chicken Wildlife Management Areas. At one time, half of the prairie chicken population lived in western Kansas, Colorado and eastern New Mexico. But due to gas and oil developments, their population has gone down 97% in the last century. They received an endangered status in 2017. At the end of June 2021, the State Game Commission purchased the...
CLOVIS — Clovis Municipal Schools has named Krystal Gutierrez as its new director of health services. Gutierrez began her career in nursing with La Casa Family Health Center in 2013 as the Eastern New Mexico University Clinic Nurse. In July 2016, Krystal began working at Plains Regional Medical Center in the surgical Unit where she also served as a charge nurse and nurse preceptor, and subsequently served as a post-anesthesia care nurse until July. She has been with the district since 2018, when she was hired to be the s...
SANTA FE — The Public Education Department and the Floyd School Board aren’t heading to a hearing this week after all. Judy Robinson, a spokesperson for the PED, told The News a hearing scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday has been taken off the schedule. Instead, the sides are working to find some form of agreement with an Oct. 15 deadline. Robinson said if the parties can’t come to a solution, an Oct. 18 scheduling hearing will provide the framework for a rescheduled public hearing. The board has been suspended since Aug....
On this date ... 1966: A couple of would-be trespassers had bad days at their proverbial offices. Police said someone attempted to break into an empty house at 1008 W. Grand in Clovis but managed only $10 in damages. Entry was not made into the building and the miscreant suffered in the process. “Quantities of blood on the glass of the front door” suggested a cut on the hand. Meanwhile at 1702 W. Grand, the couple who lived there came home from a night of dancing to find a prowler in the house. The man ran from the back door...
CLOVIS — Clovis police on Tuesday arrested a man accused of fleeing on foot from an accident he was involved in while driving to escape a traffic stop. Vincente Torres-Gurrola, 19, was booked Tuesday morning into the Curry County Adult Detention Center. He is being held without bail, pending the outcome of a pretrial detention hearing in district court. According to a criminal complaint filed Wednesday in the Curry County Magistrate Court: • Police noticed Torres-Gurrola at a gas station on the 900 block of Prince Street and...
PORTALES — Following a brief executive session, Portales city councilors voted Tuesday night to accept a settlement with the state that will put just over $75,000 in the city coffers. By a 6-0 vote, councilors followed their 10-minute closed session with approval of the settlement with the New Mexico Tax and Revenue Department. The city was one of 44 municipalities that sued the department over underreported gross receipts taxes between 2010 and 2017. City Attorney Steve Doerr told The News following the meeting the total s...
PORTALES — With “Coming Back to Life” as the homecoming theme at Eastern New Mexico University, the university’s Department of Theatre and Digital Filmmaking is presenting a comedy about a ghost who returns to haunt her novelist husband. The play is “Blithe Spirit,” written in 1941 by Noel Coward. It will be the first live production at ENMU since February 2020, according to Anne Beck, professor of theater and the play’s director. Shows are 7 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, with a 2 p.m. Sunday matinee, at the ENMU Theatre...
