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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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PORTALES — Last week, the Eastern New Mexico University women's soccer team registered a pair of exceptional performances. Junior goalkeeper Alejandra Camarillo was a key to those performances as the Greyhounds earned back-to-back ties against Lone Star Conference powerhouses West Texas A&M and Midwestern State. For her performance, she was chosen as the LSC Defensive Player of the Week. The honor marked the first time this season Eastern received a weekly award from the confe...
Expect more drama in our schools this year than in the past. Happily, it’s the good kind. Among our 11 elementary schools is the Arts Academy at Bella Vista, an arts-infused K-5 magnet school whose primary focus is “to enhance academic learning through use of arts teaching tools as a learning methodology.” AABV is filled with fine arts activities infused into the regular curriculum, and there is a palpable sense of joy present. At the Arts Academy all students are given the o...
This is the kind of weekend where — if you play your cards right — you can score end-of-season veggies, eat a bratwurst for a good cause, round-up cheap reads, hear breath-taking choral and wind symphony music, nab a bike helmet and even get a free flu shot. The farmers’ markets in Portales and Clovis are winding down their seasons — possibly faster than they’d like to, thanks to the cold blast of air that arrived Tuesday on top of an unseasonably soggy fall — but farmer mark...
Embracing a historic change, the Boy Scouts of America announced Wednesday plans to admit girls into the Cub Scouts starting next year and to establish a new program for older girls using the same curriculum as the Boy Scouts. Under the plan, Cub Scout dens — the smallest unit — will be single-gender, either all-boys or all-girls. The larger Cub Scout packs will have the option to remain single gender or welcome both genders. The program for older girls is expected to sta...
On this date ... 1972: Democrat John Clemmons of Kenna announced the addition of two ranchers to the team aiding in his effort to be elected as state representative for District 63 (Curry, Roosevelt, Lea counties). Charles Good was named as Clemmons' tri-county chairman treasurer, and Wendell Best was named to chair the Roosevelt County campaign. Clemmons had previously selected Mrs. Virgil Hawkins of Melrose to head up his Curry County campaign. 1962: John R. "Jack" Hull was...
CLOVIS — It's already a winning season for the respective marching bands of Clovis and Portales high schools. Both bands emerged victorious from marching contests Saturday in Texas, with CHS band taking first place overall in the Westerner Marching Festival in Lubbock and PHS band taking best in class at the Tumbleweed Marching Festival in Denver City. Saturday's contest marked the first time the CHS band performed its full show in public, said Director Bill Allred. Adding to...
CLOVIS — Hillcrest Park has seen a wide variety of animals since the zoo opened in the 1930s. Now there's a new attraction in the trees, around the golf course and near the dog park outside the zoo. Squirrels have been spotted scurrying around. City officials said the squirrel population at Hillcrest has increased from zero to about a half dozen in the past two years. Clovis Parks and Recreation Director Mark Dayhoff said he's not aware of anyone releasing the nut hunters i...
CLOVIS — The teenager charged with posting mass shooting threats against local schools last month remained in her parents’ custody this week in spite of prosecutorial allegations she violated court orders to stay off social media. District Attorney Andrea Reeb said Wednesday that officials asked the court to arrest the girl, claiming she violated court orders by posting to a Snapchat account days after she was banned from posting. Judge Fred Van Soelen rejected Reeb’s request. He declined comment on his ruling. “I was a l...
CLEVELAND — Didi Gregorius, following in the October footprints left by Derek Jeter, homered twice off Corey Kluber as the New York Yankees beat the Cleveland Indians 5-2 in Game 5 on Wednesday night to complete their comeback from a 2-0 deficit in the Division Series and dethrone the AL champions. These bend-but-don’t-break Yankees staved off elimination for the fourth time in this postseason and advanced to play the Houston Astros in the AL Championship Series starting Friday at Minute Maid Park. The AL West champion Ast...
Booked The following were booked into local jails Tuesday: Clovis • Pedro Ybarra, 25, false imprisonment, aggravated battery on a household member, criminal damage to the property of a household member • Eric Montano-Romero, 20, aggravated driving while under the influence, shoplifting, improper turning at intersection, contempt of court • James Van Winkle, 35, trafficking controlled substances • Samuel Spight, 53, aggravated assault (deadly weapon) • Sonia Lopez, 36, abandonment of a child (no death or great bodily ha...
CLOVIS — School officials were seeking public help Wednesday in identifying an individual they believe responsible for up to $2,000 in property damage Tuesday night at Clovis High School. Security footage shows a young man behind the CHS gymnasium around 11 p.m., wearing a gray hoodie with a center horizontal blue stripe, said CMS Deputy Superintendent of Operations Carrie Bunce. The footage ends with the suspect walking off screen, in the direction of the school’s concession stand. Screen doors installed there less than thr...
PORTALES — A former Portales Municipal Schools Board of Education member’s long record of service was written into the history books Tuesday evening. Portales High School’s new home economics classroom was named the Mary Lou Rowley Family and Consumer Sciences Center after the 28-year board veteran and former teacher. Superintendent Johnnie Cain read a resolution naming the classroom after Rowley because she “has unselfishly supported the program, staff, and students of the Portales Municipal Schools and the Board of Educati...
CLOVIS — Two Clovis residents will be among a group of veterans who depart from Lubbock on Friday bound for Washington, D.C., as part of the 2017 Texas South Plains Honor Flight. Dale Hensley and Earl Robinson, along with about 90 other veterans, will participate in the program that honors military veterans by providing free trips to D.C. to visit war memorials and other sites in the nation’s capital. “Everyone I’ve talked to said it’s a first class operation and they really treat you great,” Hensley said of the Honor Flight...
Tuesday • Cultural and Ethnic Affairs Committee — Noon at City Hall, Clovis. Information: 575-769-7828 • Portales City Council — 6:30 p.m. at City Hall, Portales. Information: 575-356-6662 ext. 1012 • Roosevelt County Commission — 9 a.m. at Roosevelt County Courthouse. Information: 575-356-5307 • Curry County Commission — 9 a.m. at county offices, 417 Gidding Street, Clovis. Information: 575-763-6016 • Friends of the Library — 11:30 a.m. at Clovis-Carver Public Library. Information: 575-769-7840 Wednesday • Finance Committee...
Today • Preschool story-time — 6 p.m. at Portales Public Library. Book: Donut Miss This. Information: 575-356-3940 • Tween program — 4:30 p.m. for ages 9-12 at Portales Public Library. Throwback Thursday: Board games. Information: 575-356-3940 • Preschool Storyhour — 10 a.m. at Clovis-Carver Public Library. Information: 575-763-9680 • Roosevelt County fall job fair — 3 p.m.-7 p.m. at Portales Memorial Building. Information: 575-356-8541 • Contract ready class — 1 p.m.-4 p.m. at Clovis Community College room 101. Register...
