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Graveside services for Victoria Mickey Pinkston will be 10:00 am Wednesday, November 1, 2023 at Terry County Memorial Cemetery with Rev. Chris Seaton officiating. Mickey was born to William and Parlee Starnes in New Home, on November 3, 1932. She passed away at her home in Brownfield on October 10, 2023. She was a tiny, vibrant woman who made friends everywhere she went. She played the piano and the spoons (bluegrass style), painted, did magnificent counted cross-stitch, and...
Editor's note: This is one in a continuing series of interviews with candidates in the Nov. 7 elections. Catherine Cobb is challenging incumbent Paul Cordova for the Clovis School Board District 3 position. Catherine Cobb Q: What made you decide to run for the school board? A: I'm a mother of two young men right now. They actually went to school K-12 at Clovis Municipal Schools, and I also was a student K-12 in the school system. For me, it was volunteering, being there for them. I saw a lot; I knew a lot. I volunteered a...
Mary Ellen Standefer, age 88, of Houston, Texas, passed away on October 7, 2023, surrounded by her loving family. She was born in Howard County, Texas, and was the daughter of James Everett Nichols and Vera Pauline Troutt. Mary was a dedicated business owner and operated Mary's Beauty Shop in Portales, New Mexico for many years. She was known for her exceptional skills and warm personality, making her salon a beloved place in the community. Mary was preceded in death by her...
Clovis Veterinary Hospital has begun offering “after hours emergency services,” according to a posting on its social media page. “We are excited to announce that CVH is now offering after hours emergency services for large and small animals,” reads the posting. Emergency hours were listed as Tuesdays and Thursdays from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. CVH has weekend hours every other weekend and on those weekends emergency hours are Saturdays from noon to 5 p.m. CVH is located at 2201 W. Seventh St., Clovis....
The Portales Walmart was named “Business of the Month” for October by the Roosevelt County Chamber of Commerce. It was chosen after a large, destructive fire Sept. 3 at the Clovis Walmart. Associates from both stores were thrown together that morning so the Portales store could serve customers from both communities. The situation was somewhat more complicated because the Portales store was in the middle of its first major remodel in decades, according to a Chamber news release. Associates are adjusting to the temporary sit...
As part of Portales Country Club’s 75th anniversary, the club offered 75-cent greens fees Saturday. The club was open to the public and hosted a ribbon cutting, a putting contest and offered food, according to PCC webmaster and bar supervisor Kelsey Prince. Prince’s grandfather, H. G. Prince, helped open the club in 1948. Kelsey Prince said Saturday’s event was the last celebratory event of the club’s 75th anniversary....
On this date ... 1930: The biggest single rise in the Pecos in 16 years occurred at Fort Sumner when the river hiked 10 feet and carried out three spans of a De Baca County bridge. Up to 5 inches of rain fell across eastern New Mexico and central-eastern New Mexico, causing the floods. Two farm houses were reported washed away and three “orchestra boys” found their vehicle submerged in nearly 6 feet of water near Melrose as they drove to perform in Fort Sumner. No deaths were reported in the storm. 1930: Piggly Wiggly, loc...
Booked The following were booked into local jails (Friday - Tuesday): Clovis • Jason Bennett, 44, no drivers license, improper turning at intersection, failure to obey traffic control devices, embezzlement, larceny • Dustin Gallegos, 30, criminal trespass • Lawrence Kolek, 41, larceny, possession of a firearm or destructive device by a felon, resisting, evading or obstructing an officer, possession of burglary tools, criminal damage to property • Damien Apodaca, 31, probation violation • Vernon Newberry, 64, breaking...
A state district judge has ruled that while Democratic lawmakers may have worked to dilute Republican voting power in one of the state's three congressional districts, their efforts did not rise to the level of "of an egregious gerrymander." The ruling by Ninth Judicial District Judge Fred T. Van Soelen of Clovis struck a blow to the plaintiffs in the case, including the Republican Party of New Mexico, who sued in January 2022. The GOP argued the Democratic-majority Legislature purposefully redrew the map for the 2nd...
The question is not, what if this offensive game plan had been in place at the start of the season? Those are losses under the bridge. The question is, can this balanced Texas Tech offense and solid defense lead to a turnaround season? The plan that was on display the week before – a 21-point win over Houston – was front and center again on Saturday in a 39-14 win at Baylor. Pound the football with Tahj Brooks, and use the threat of a new-found run game to pass less fre...
We’d not often put it this way, but I’m afraid that most of us live way too much of our lives afraid. When you boil down what bothers us—reduce it to its essence—at the bottom is almost aways fear. Analyze it even further, and at the root of most of our fear is this: we’re afraid we won’t have enough. And then what will become of us? In John 6, Jesus and his disciples have just sailed across the Sea of Galilee and landed, probably, near Bethsaida. What they’re looking for i...
FRIONA – The Portales High volleyball team stepped across the state line to challenge itself on Saturday, coming away with a split to see its seven-match winning streak come to an end. In the opener, the Lady Rams (12-3) whacked overmatched Amarillo Highland Park 25-16, 25-16, 25-14 before host Friona handed them a 25-22, 23-25, 25-22, 25-12 setback. “Friona has a really good team,” PHS coach Bailey Greenwalt said. “They have five really good hitters, so it was good for us to play them. There’s a lot to learn from that loss...
The score may have been close for a long time, but it was clear the Hobbs Lady Eagles were in the catbird seat most of the way in Saturday’s District 4-5A girls soccer match against Clovis High at Leon Williams. Junior forward/midfielder Brianna Baker converted a tough-angle shot late in the first half, and senior forward Hannah Davila tacked on two late tallies for a 3-0 victory over CHS. Hobbs (8-6-2, 2-0 district) outshot the Lady Cats 9-2 on goal and had a 4-1 edge in corner kicks. Most of the contest was played in C...
ELIDA – The Elida Tigers got a touchdown apiece from four players on Friday and turned back Roosevelt County and 6-man District 2 rival Dora 28-18. Sophomore Cason Norman scored on a 17-yard run and senior Klayton Nixon returned a kickoff 50 yards for a touchdown to take the Tigers (4-3, 1-2 district) to a 14-6 lead at the quarter. Senior Mikael Mulloy caught a 14-yard pass from sophomore Hayden Rubio in the third frame, then senior Seth Jimenez iced the game on a 2-yard TD r...
After a week off to help heal some bruises, Portales High’s football team is ready to take on the District 4-4A portion of its schedule. “It definitely allowed us to get healed up,” Rams coach Jaime Ramirez said of the break. If rankings mean anything – and sometimes they’re tenuous at best at the prep level – it should be a challenging stretch. All four district teams had last weekend off, and all are ranked in the top seven in Class 4A by MaxPreps. The Rams (7-0), now third behind Bloomfield (7-0) and district rival Lovin...
Reserves led the way on Saturday night as junior forward Nick Huenig's hat trick, Eastern New Mexico University's first in eight years, helped the Greyhounds upend 16th-ranked St. Mary's 4-2 in Lone Star Conference men's soccer action at Greyhound Stadium. Huenig, from Lichtenberg, Germany, authored just the fifth hat trick in the 20-year history of the program and first since Ryan McManus accomplished the feat against Southern Nazarene on Halloween 2015 at Bethany, Okla. It...
ELLENSBURG, Wash. – Eastern New Mexico University’s football team went toe-to-toe with Central Washington on Saturday night. For the third week in a row, however, the Greyhounds came up short. CWU ran off the final six-plus minutes of the game and held off ENMU 38-35 in Lone Star Conference play, keeping the Wildcats (4-2, 4-0 LSC) in the conference lead by one-half game over the Hounds’ next opponent, Texas-Permian Basin (5-1, 3-0). ENMU (3-3, 1-3) has dropped its last three contests by a grand total of 15 points. “It w...
Autumn rolled in a little over two weeks ago. I think of change when autumn comes to pass. Then I remember a song of change, "Turn, Turn, Turn," a song written by Pete Seeger and given the folk-rock treatment by the folk-rock band, The Byrds. If you don't know the lyrics to "Turn, Turn, Turn" it's pretty simple ... they’re in “The Good Book,” in the book of Ecclesiastes .. .chapter 3, verses 1 through 8: "There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: “A time to be born and a time to die, ...
OK, my fellow Republicans, you got rid of Speaker Kevin McCarthy. Eight of you joined with every Democrat in the House of Representatives – the only part of the federal government we control – to vote McCarthy out, 216-210. In the process you threw the House into chaos, killed any hope of passing important bills anytime soon and made yourselves the laughing stock of the political world. OK, so you made history. Now what’s your plan? And where is it? What? You have no plan?...
When the revolution in higher education finally arrives, how will we know? I have a simple metric: When universities change how they measure faculty work time. Using this yardstick, the U.S. system remains far from a fundamental transformation. It is no accident that former college president Brian Rosenberg titled his new book, "‘Whatever It Is, I’m Against It’: Resistance to Change in Higher Education." Some background: Faculty at Tier 1 research universities (which includes my own employer, George Mason University) typic...
Oct. 3 will go down in American history as the first time a speaker of the House was expelled from Congress by his own peers. Kevin McCarthy, a man consumed of blind personal ambition and self-interest, was shown the exit door by his congressional colleagues. Eight Republicans – Andy Biggs, Ken Buck, Tim Burchett, Eli Crane, Matt Gaetz, Bob Good, Nancy Mace and Matt Rosendale – joined all Democrats (who were unanimous) in voting out McCarthy. The American public witnessed Rep...
Judged from its music performance to its general effect, the Clovis High School Wildcat Band finished in third place in the Bands of America’s regional championship Saturday in Flagstaff, Ariz. The marching band compiled a score of 84.925, only 0.125 from second place, said Clovis High School Band Director Bill Allred. He said the performance was one of the most memorable the CHS band has put together in the 28 years he’s worked with the group. “It was just an emotional performance. They connected with the crowd so wonde...
Editor's note: This is one in a continuing series of interviews with candidates in the Nov. 7 elections. Brent Small is running against incumbent Inez Rodriguez for the Portales School Board District 2 position. Brent Small Q: What made you decide to run for the school board? A: I have two small children who are enrolled in Portales Municipal Schools. They’re in the first grade and pre-K. So, just my involvement with that and seeing the need to have a school board that's active and informed and has children in school, I t...
