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A private plane touched down in the grass during a landing at Clovis Regional Airport Sunday afternoon starting a grass fire that was quickly extinguished. Clovis Regional Airport director James Harris said neither the pilot nor his two passengers were injured. Clovis city manager Justin Howalt said the plane was towed off the runway and is in an airport hangar. He said the Federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation Safety Board have been notified. Harris said the pilot reported as he was approaching for a...
Prep standings UPDATE 4-6/4A New Mexico All Times MDT District 5-6A Dist. All W-L W-L Los Lunas 1-0 3-4 Clovis 1-0 1-6 Santa Fe High 0-0 1-5 Santa Fe Capital 0-1 3-4 Albuquerque High 0-1 1-5 Friday’s results Clovis 31, Albuquerque High 28; Los Lunas 44, Santa Fe Capital 21; Lovington 55, Santa Fe High 8. Friday’s games Santa Fe High at Clovis, 7 p.m.; Albuquerque High at Los Lunas, 7 p.m. District 4-6/4A Dist. All W-L W-L Portales 0-0 6-1 Albuquerque Academy 0-0 5-2 Bernalillo 0-0 2-4 Lovington 0-0 1-6 Friday’s result Lovin...
Booked The following were booked into local jails (Friday - Tuesday): Clovis * Angelita Rodriguez, 39, criminal trespass * Michelle Chavez-Romero, 30, burglary of a vehicle, larceny, aggravated fleeing a law enforcement officer, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge * Angel Garcia, 23, probation violation * Isaiah Moreno, 21, failure to pay fines * Jesus Cabezuela, 39, failure to appear on a felony charge * Ruben Garcia, 55, failure to pay fines, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge * Miguel Carrasquedo, 38, failure to...
I need to hire a kid. STAT! I had the bright idea to get smart watches for us after seeing a news story about a woman whose watch alerted her to a dangerous medical condition. The watch detected an unusual heart rhythm and periods of an alarmingly high pulse rate. She ended up in an ER, and then ICU where doctors were able to address an undiagnosed heart condition. The same story talked about the different types of “things” a smart watch would show, like stress levels, ste...
It was in winter, the Apostle John writes (John 10), “at the time of Hanukkah,” when Jesus was at Jerusalem and in the Temple. “Surrounded” by some really religious folks who demanded that he tell them “plainly” whether or not he was the Messiah, he did. Well, what he really said was, “I’ve already told you, and you didn’t believe me.” But he went on to say some amazing things that all lead to one answer: Yes. One thing you’ve gotta give Jesus’ detractors here is that...
When little kids grow up, most want to be a police officer or firefighter, maybe a cowboy. They never want to be an accountant. That’s much too dull. When the Texas Tech football program grows up, the Red Raiders should aspire to be accountants. If football programs were job titles, the Kansas State Wildcats are the accountants of the Big 12. The Wildcats have long been organized, efficient, and detailed. They are substance over style, grit over glitter. In short, they have be...
GRADY — Dora sophomore Aaron Combs returned two kickoffs for touchdowns, including the opening kickoff, and the Coyotes got off to a fast start before holding off Grady 51-42 on Friday in a 6-man District 2 clash. Combs also had touchdown runs of 50 and 2 yards as Dora (5-1, 2-0 district) opened leads of 14-0 and 25-7 before the Bronchos (2-4, 0-3) staged a late comeback. Senior Lane Faver connected with senior Conner Rooney for a 35-yard TD pass for the Coyotes, and Rooney also scored on a 1-yard run. Junior Cole Kircher a...
CLOVIS — The Gattis seventh-grade football team improved to 3-3 on Monday by beating the Yucca Chaps 42-8. Abel Chavira led the Cubs with more than 300 yards on the ground, including touchdown runs of 65, 35, 55, 50 and 70 yards. Erik Merino added the other TD on a 30-yard run, while Irving Mendoza booted all six extra points. Defensively, Mendoza forced and recovered a fumble, while Merino and Payton Kerby each had a fumble recovering and Andrew Fenstermaker posted a pass interception. The Cubs return to action next T...
HOBBS — For the most part, wins over rival Hobbs have been tough to come by lately for the Clovis High girls soccer team. On Saturday, though, the Lady Wildcats picked up a big one by holding on for a 2-1 victory over the Lady Eagles and taking firm control of the District 4-5A race. Hobbs (5-8-3, 1-1-1 district) may be going through a bit of a down season, but second-year Clovis coach Ray Rodriguez noted his squad wasn’t exactly at full strength for the match due to recent injury and illness. “We had like five girls getti...
PORTALES — After the opening set on Saturday, it looked like it was “here we go again” for Eastern New Mexico University’s volleyball team. The Greyhounds hit St. Edward’s with a 9-1 surge to start the match, then saw Game 1 slip away late. But they recovered to post a 23-25, 25-17, 28-26, 25-18 Lone Star Conference victory over the Austin-based Hilltoppers at Greyhound Arena, and end their six-match LSC losing streak. Junior outside hitter Mikaela Garvin posted 21 kills while freshman setter Kayla Ison had season-be...
In a week when a hurricane has been dominating the news, I've been spending time learning about some hurricanes in our own back yard. Eight of them, if you're counting. The ones I am talking about are members of the renowned Norteño band, Los Huracanes del Norte, which is headquartered in a striking Spanish colonial-style compound on US 70 seven miles northeast of Portales. Jose Guadalupe Garcia, who goes by Lupillo or Lupe, graciously spent an afternoon recently telling me mo...
TEXICO — Second-year Portales High volleyball coach Jacki Bailey believes her relatively inexperienced squad is starting to find its footing. On Saturday, the Lady Rams turned the tables on an earlier five-set loss to Texico in PHS’ Peyton Chavez Invitational by storming back to top the Lady Wolverines 14-25, 25-12, 25-15, 25-22. The teams met again in Portales next Tuesday. “The last two (matches) we’ve played a lot cleaner,” Bailey said. “We lost big in the first game, but we weren’t rattled and we played solid the las...
Maybe you’ve read my brother Don’s column, something I run weekly in my Guadalupe County News because, well, he loaned me money. That’s why we call his weekly column “The One Percenter,” because that’s about how much of my newspaper he “owns,” although we are now locked in a pitched battle over an additional 1%, which he thinks he has earned by bringing in “at least a million” readers, a figure he arrived at using a mathematical formula he made up. Who says numbers don’t lie? Fortunately, my brother doesn’t make his livi...
Brace yourself. Election season is picking up momentum, and citizens can expect at least another month’s worth of robocalls from campaign phone banks and blaring TV ads. You may have also found another alarming symptom of midterm fever: mysterious mailers warning that you may not be properly registered to vote. If they look suspicious to you — you are right. Two of these official-looking letters landed in my post office box, warning, “Someone at this address may not be registered to vote.” For a citizen who is passion...
It’s easy to focus on our problems; on what’s going wrong. It’s harder to notice what’s not going wrong right now. It’s good to find a balance between the two. I’m thankful we didn’t have a devastating hurricane blow through this area last week. I’m also glad we aren’t in the middle of a violent war, trying to defend our homes from the military of an invading government from a neighboring country. Not everyone in the world can say the same. Shouldn’t we be grateful for the pr...
As COVD-19 cases seem to decline around the state and in Curry and Roosevelt counties, the New Mexico Occupational Health and Safety Bureau (OHSB) is easing up on rules that require a business to report a positive COVID-19 test within four hours, according to an news release from the New Mexico Environment Department, which includes the OHSB. Based on guidance from the federal Centers for Disease Control and the New Mexico Department of Health, the OHSB said a policy change that went into effect on Thursday indicates OHSB...
CLOVIS – The executive director of the United Way of Eastern New Mexico (UWENM) on Friday is scheduled to give a presentationat the White House in Washington, D.C., on the benefits to 375 eastern New Mexico families of $88,503 in federal COVID-19 relief funds through the UWENM since 2020. Erinn Burch, UWENM's executive director, stated in a news release that she will be among local elected officials and community leaders from New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada and Colorado a...
The Clovis High School Wildcat Band came in First Place Regional Grand Champions last weekend at the Bands of America Regionals held at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff. Band Director Bill Allred said the band won outstanding music, outstanding visual, outstanding general effect and were the Class 3A Champions for their preliminary performances. The top 12 bands moved from the preliminaries on to the finals, Allred said. The band again swept all the outstanding awards...
Roosevelt County War Memorial paver orders are being accepted by The Roosevelt County War Memorial Committee. According to a news release from the committee walkway paver orders are being accepted for placement in time for Veterans Day next month. Orders placed before noon Nov. 4 can be included. The walkway portion of the memorial honors all local veterans, while the monument stones themselves honor the county’s war dead. The news release says the pavers are $125 each and include five lines of up to 20 characters per l...
SANTA FE – Livestock theft is to be prosecuted for each occurrence of theft rather than a separate charge for each animal allegedly stolen, the state Supreme Court ruled in an opinion released Monday. According to a news release from the Administrative Office of the Courts, in a unanimous opinion, the state’s highest court provided the legal reasoning for a decision it announced from the bench earlier this year in a consolidated appeal involving cases awaiting trial for allegedly stealing cattle in Otero County. The Cou...
An Arizona man and his wife were shot to death Sunday at the Fort Sumner home where they'd been visiting, officials said. The victims were identified as Brian Beaver, 48, and Rachelle Beaver, 38, according to DeBaca County Sheriff Robert Roybal. Roybal said Kelby Randolph, 53, of Fort Sumner is in the DeBaca County jail, being held without bail and charged with two counts of murder in the first degree. Roybal said Randolph called the county dispatch center on the...
Portales schools will receive about $1.1 million in public school capital outlay funding as part of an appropriation to schools statewide in Senate Bill 212. Clovis Municipal Schools received $3.1 million, as reported in Sunday’s edition of The News. Some of the smaller school districts received substantially less funding. Brandon Hays, superintendent of Dora Consolidated Schools, said they will receive $100,000, which he said was the least amount any school will receive. Hays and several of the other area school s...
PORTALES -- A device that would help diagnose and measure progress in brain response related to speech and hearing leads a list of projects for which Eastern New Mexico University may seek legislative funding over the next year. The “brain computer interface” device that leads the list is estimated to cost about $397,000, according to documents ENMU’s interim chief financial officer Tony Major submitted Friday to the university’s board of regents. The full list of “potential projects” would cost nearly $7.8 million, ac...
PORTALES - This wasn't the way Eastern New Mexico University hoped to celebrate its Homecoming. Central Washington blew out to a 28-0 lead before the midway point of the second quarter on Saturday night and handed the Greyhounds their fourth consecutive loss, a 45-17 Lone Star Conference shellacking at Greyhound Stadium. Sophomore running back Tre'Jon Henderson rushed for 152 yards and three touchdowns as the Ellensburg, Wash.-based Wildcats rolled up 476 total yards in the...
ALBUQUERQUE — Valley stopped Portales High’s potential game-winning 2-point conversion with under two minutes left on Saturday and the Vikings hung on for a 48-47 victory, handing the Class 4A top-ranked Rams their first loss in seven games. Sophomore quarterback Paxton Culpepper pulled the Rams to within a point with 35-yard scoring pass to junior Andrew Ontiveros with about 90 seconds left. The Rams opted for a 2PAT try to take the lead, but Culpepper was tripped up and ruled down as he tried to pitch the ball to a tea...
