Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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FOOTBALL Prep standings District 5-6A Dist. All W-L W-L Santa Fe Capital 0-0 3-3 Los Lunas 0-0 2-4 Albuquerque High 0-0 1-4 Santa Fe High 0-0 1-4 Clovis 0-0 0-6 Thursday’s result Atrisco Heritage 44, Santa Fe Capital 21. Friday’s result Roswell High 49, Clovis 0. Saturday’s results Cibola 36, Los Lunas 30; La Cueva 48, Albuquerque High 8. Friday’s games Clovis at Albuquerque High, 7 p.m.; Los Lunas at Santa Fe Capital, 7 p.m.; Lovington at Santa Fe High, 7 p.m. District 4-6/4A Dist. All W-L W-L Portales 0-0 6-0 Albuque...
PORTALES — Two people have resigned from the Eastern New Mexico University presidential search committee, according to a member of ENMU’s Board of Regents. Regent Phillip Bustos said one member left due to illness and one left because that person “did not agree with the process.” Bustos would not identify the two individuals. The presidential search committee is made up of ENMU faculty, staff, students, alumni and community members. The committee originally consisted of 18 people, university officials said. Their mission...
Eastern New Mexico University this week is putting on the play, "Wait Until Dark," by Frederick Knott. The performances will be at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Friday and Saturday and at 2 p.m. on Sunday at the University Theatre Center, said Jon Barr, the chairman of ENMU's Department of Theatre and Digital Filmmaking. The play was adapted into a movie starring actress Audrey Hepburn in the 1960s, Barr said. The main character, Susy, is a blind woman who lives in an apartment in New...
One of Curry County's ranch families received the honor of being named New Mexico Ranch Family of the Year: The Blackburns of Blackburn Farms. Settled in the northeastern corner of Curry County, Blackburn Farms began in 1913 when the family started raising cattle, wheat, sorghum, cattle feed. The late CJ Blackburn was the teller of the origin history where his father, grandmother and uncles worked to establish their homestead in Broadview. As a boy, CJ was very involved in...
Texas Tech staggered Texas with a fourth-quarter comeback. The Red Raiders were on the verge of a win but somehow the Longhorns tied the score and now the game was in overtime. Texas got a quick touchdown. As for Tech, it was a fourth-down interception. Game over. But enough about 2020, which was a 63-56 Longhorn win. Actually, that loss is relevant – almost as much as Saturday’s 37-34 overtime win was for Tech over these same Longhorns. If the Red Raiders make one play in...
AMARILLO — Clovis High junior Sammy Fuentes captured boys individual honors in Saturday’s Badger Run cross country meet, hosted by Amarillo College. Fuentes posted a 3.2-mile time of 17 minutes, 35.28 seconds for the Wildcats, who finished eighth in the nine-team field with 202 points. Frenship took team honors with 34 points, while Dumas was second at 63. CHS cross country coach Liz Ledezma said was fifth with about 800 meters left, but began passing the leaders at that point and actually won going away. In girls com...
PORTALES - Portales High and Texico gave it a run on Saturday, but nobody could take down the Pojoaque Elkettes in the Peyton Chavez Invitational volleyball tournament at the Ram Athletic Center. Pojoaque breezed through pool play matches on Friday, with Portales coming in second and Texico third to reach Saturday's championship round-robin. There, the Elkettes (10-2) swept the Lady Rams 25-21, 25-22, 25-17 and the Lady Wolverines 25-7, 25-20, 25-14 to capture the title in the...
MELROSE — The Melrose Buffaloes needed a little spark on Friday night, and they certainly got one from senior Jaryn Bruce. Leading Tatum just 8-0 at halftime, Bruce forced and recovered a fumble, returning it 36 yards for a touchdown, then blocked a punt and carried it in from 2 yards out as the Buffs (3-3) eventually thumped the Coyotes 38-6. It was a rematch of last year’s 8-man state championship at Tatum, which the Coyotes won 22-14. Sophomore quarterback Josiah Roybal ran 6 yards for a second-quarter tally, and fre...
CLOVIS - To say it's been a rough start to the 2022 football season for Clovis High's football team would be putting it mildly. Still, there's some light at the end of the tunnel as the Wildcats (0-6) get ready to start District 5-6A play on Friday at Albuquerque High. None of the five district teams comes in with a winning record - Santa Fe Capital posted the best pre-district mark at 3-3. Meantime, the Cats endured a tough one-point loss to Eldorado on Sept. 17 before...
PORTALES - In any sport, if you can't score, it's hard to win. For a long time now, the Eastern New Mexico University women's soccer team has had to deal with that against Angelo State, and it was no different on Saturday as the 25th-ranked Rambelles made a first-half goal stand up for a 1-0 Lone Star Conference victory at Greyhound Stadium. ENMU is now 3-24-1 all-time against Angelo, and has lost 13 in a row by a combined 27-3 tally. That said, the last three and six of the...
Clovis Police have identified the dead man found Monday evening at Hillcrest Park. John Viscaino, 48, was apparently discovered by a passerby in the park Monday just before 6:35 p.m. Clovis Police captain Roman Romero reports in a news release the caller told Clovis dispatch a description of a man in Hillcrest Park at the 1200 block of North Sycamore Street. The caller said the man was not breathing. Police Officers and Emergency Medical Services responded to the area. When they located the man in the park police and EMS...
KINGSVILLE, Texas — It was another long night for Eastern New Mexico University’s football team. It may not get a whole lot easier for a while. Texas A&M-Kingsville scored 33 unanswered points and handed the Greyhounds their third consecutive loss, a 43-10 Lone Star Conference thumping on Saturday night. Since beating New Mexico Highlands in their season opener on Sept. 1, the Hounds (1-3, 0-2 LSC) have faced preseason conference favorite Midwestern State, FCS (formerly Division I-AA) foe and ex-LSC rival Tarleton State and...
On this date … 1957: More than 6,000 people had visited the Roosevelt County Museum in the past nine months, Eastern New Mexico University officials reported. Curator James Rowan said visitors had come from 29 states and several foreign countries. “Visitors will find the museum open seven days a week between the hours of 2 and 4 p.m.,” the Clovis News-Journal reported. “From Monday through Friday, the building is normally open from 8 a.m. to until 5 p.m.” Rowan said some of the exhibits on the university campus were “uni...
If you ask me, a big reason why democracy in America is in trouble is because of the way we’ve set it up. First, there’s our Electoral College for electing presidents. By using state electors for selecting the overall winner through an antiquated Electoral College, instead of the majority of all voters, a lot of votes end up not mattering. For example, if you’ve been a Trump supporter in New Mexico, your vote for president in 2020 didn’t count toward the final tally that gave Biden the election. All of this state’s five elec...
Politics divides. If you distrust your neighbor because of political differences, it’s not your neighbor -- or you -- who’s at fault. It’s politics. Some would have you believe we are at war with each other, but your neighbors aren’t the enemy, even if they follow the enemy. Or if you do. Don’t let politics make you hate each other -- that would be a tragedy. I’ve heard people claim “everything is political.” This is not a healthy way of looking at life -- it’s not even a...
Russian President Vladimir Putin has raised anew the possibility he might use nuclear weapons against Ukraine to prevail in a conflict going sideways. The smart money says he won’t, because doing so — or otherwise expanding the conflict drastically — wouldn’t make a bad situation any better. Yet the smart money might not have predicted the choices that set Putin down this path in the first place. Much of Putin’s televised speech last week was a repetition of the familiar. He again blamed the U.S., the North Atlantic...
Aircraft displays and a competitive car show will dominate Clovis Municipal Airport Saturday as the airport hosts its annual Wings and Wheels event. Wings and Wheels, which drew about 2,000 visitors in 2021, will be held at the airport from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday. For the general public, admission is free. Car show entries and aircraft displays, however must register in advance at the flyclovisnm.com website, according to James Harris, airport manager. Last year, Harris...
PORTALES — Eastern New Mexico University celebrates its 88th Homecoming this week. According to a news release from John Houser with ENMU’s Marketing and Communications department, this year’s Homecoming theme is “There’s No Place Like ENMU.” Houser writes the theme is meant to evoke “the magical Land of Oz” as the campus welcomes home alumni from “far and wide.” Festivities began Monday with “Coffee with the President” that morning and a “Song Fest” that evening at the Campus Union Ballroom. An ENMU alumni art exhibition...
CLOVIS – A Curry County Sheriff’s deputy accused of shoplifting on Sept. 9 has waived arraignment, court records show. Riley Loomis, 47, was scheduled to appear in court on Friday but chose to waive his first court appearance. He is accused of failing to scan 24 items into the self-checkout register at Clovis’ Walmart. The items are valued at $126.95, court records show. Dan Lindsey, Loomis’ attorney, said he does not know when a new court date might be set. Judge Shaun Burns and prosecutor Brian Stover have recused themsel...
PORTALES — Eastern New Mexico University (ENMU) has been named a veteran-friendly school by three organizations for 2022. According to a news release from ENMU’s Marketing and Communications department, U.S. Veterans Magazine listed ENMU as a top veteran-friendly school in its annual Best of the Best rankings of companies, supplier diversity programs, government and law enforcement agencies and schools across the nation, while Military Times magazine listed ENMU in its Best for Vets ranking. Additionally, Veteran.com lis...
Members of regional 4H and FFA clubs from around eastern New Mexico had positions in the Junior Livestock Show at the New Mexico State Fair, September 10 through 20. Curry County 4H and FFAers were represented as a review of the results from the New Mexico State Fair website showed Kody White of Texico with the reserve champion Hereford steer. Libby Modisette of Clovis with market Heifer Junior Market lambs making the sale were Kaya New of Texico - Dorset class. In the Fine Wool cross -Levi Dunlap of Clovis. For hair sheep...
As Eastern New Mexico University welcomes its alumni family to Portales for homecoming this weekend, I find myself remembering my own days as a Greyhound. They included -- from day one -- memorable encounters with the one and only Dallan Sanders, often at his beautiful home just south of campus. Sanders was the director of housing when I arrived in 1979, one of the first and friendliest faces new students met as we straggled onto campus. The home he shared with his wife,...
The city of Portales and Roosevelt County are trying to come to an agreement on how to jointly operate and fund a countywide emergency services dispatch center. At the county commission meeting on Tuesday, commissioners discussed the two government’s differences. The county wants a governing board that gives control over the dispatch center to the county as well as the city. The city wants the deputy police chief to control the dispatch center, but the deputy police chief will listen to recommendations from a board on w...
A state district judge has ruled against the city of Rio Rancho and in favor of The Santa Fe New Mexican and the New Mexico Foundation for Open Government in a legal dispute over public records, saying reasons the city gave for withholding records pertaining to the December shooting death of a Santa Fe police officer's child were invalid. The records at the center of the case involved the December death of the 2-year-old son of Santa Fe Police Department officer Jonathan Harmon. An investigation revealed 2-year-old Lincoln...
Taxpayers didn't waste any time telling Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham how they felt about her plan to spend $10 million to build a clinic near the Texas border in Las Cruces that would provide abortion services and other reproductive health care. Within hours of announcing she was designating the funding from her capital outlay money in the upcoming legislative session, the governor started to receive emails from New Mexicans who were incensed by the decision, according to documents obtained under a public records request....
