Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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PORTALES — The Eastern New Mexico University Board of Regents on Friday heard an update from Chancellor Jeff Elwell regarding a potential new recreation and wellness center on the Portales campus. Elwell showed a video that featured an artist’s rendering of the potential 33,000 square foot facility, which included an elevated track, basketball courts, a climbing wall, a weight room, space for fitness classes and a concession stand. Elwell said a survey completed by 744 ENMU students asking would they approve of a $3.33 per...
FARWELL — A Farwell High football team used to seeing its games unfold from ground level, took to the skies Friday against Seagraves, with positive results. Farwell normally bowls opponents over with a lethal rushing attack. Friday, though, Seagraves worked hard to contain that running game, at least somewhat. So quarterback Leefe Actkinson burned the Eagles regularly by throwing the ball, which helped the Steers win their district opener — their fifth straight victory overall — by topping Seagraves 42-0 on a cold drizz...
CLOVIS — After last Tuesday's 4-0 win over Roswell, the Clovis girls soccer team has been able to, as Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers would put it — R-E-L-A-X. The Lady Wildcats' four-goal victory at Leon Williams Stadium kept them unbeaten in District 4-5A at 2-0-1, but also ended the first half of their district slate, meaning they had a week before they had to play another game. They will begin the second half of district competition at home this Tuesday against Car...
Gattis falls to Marshall In the seventh grade football championship game played on Tuesday, the Fighting Cubs lost to the Marshall Kittens 8-0 in a close game. After a scoreless first half, the Cubs gave up a touchdown and two-point conversion in the 3rd quarter but were unable to score in the final quarter. Defensively, the Cubs were led by Jeremiah Johnson, Will Jordan, Jett Stone, Kash Roberts and Javon Jones. Offensive players of the game go to Stone and Roberts. The Cubs finished the season with a 4-2-1 record. The...
CLOVIS — A new senior center for Clovis is still years down the road, but the city is already working to reduce its footprint at the privately owned Baxter-Curren Senior Center. By a unanimous vote, the Commission on Older Adults approved a move of two employees — Senior Services Director Barbara Riggan and an administrative assistant — from Baxter-Curren to the city-owned Friendship Senior Center. The city will continue to keep a program coordinator at Baxter-Curren and p...
PORTALES — The next four road games will determine whether the Eastern New Mexico women's soccer team not only seals a Lone Star Conference tournament spot, but hosts a first-round game. Thanks to Friday's last scheduled home game, the Greyhounds are in the driver's seat to do both of those things. A pair of late goals in each half propelled Eastern to a 2-0 win over Midwestern State and a three-point adrenaline shot into the LSC standings. With the win, the Greyhounds (...
PORTALES — The Dexter Demons, hoping to pull an upset Friday over Class 4A Portales, played their ball-control offense to perfection to open the third quarter, with five first downs and a fourth-down conversion on a touchdown drive that took the half's first seven minutes. The Rams took 58 seconds to counter, and the Demons never recovered. Julian Urioste found Kellan Hightower for a 66-yard touchdown pass, and did most of the remaining work with his feet on a 34-0 close to g... Full story
Another weekend of area football has come and gone with yet another mixed bag of results. Fort Sumner 24, Texico 8 TEXICO — The Wolverines knew they were facing a challenge when hosting unbeaten Fort Sumner/House on Friday. That stated, the Wolves did well to keep it reasonably close against the Foxes on Friday night at Texico High School. The Wolverines trailed only 10-0 at halftime, and were still only down 18-0 heading into the fourth quarter. Ultimately, they lost by 16 and dropped their fourth straight after a 2-2 s...
CLOVIS — It wasn't exactly the bizarro world — where black is white, hello is goodbye, up is down. But it was indeed the reverse results from two nights earlier for the Clovis volleyball team. Thursday, Clovis was swept by District 4-5A opponent Hobbs at Rock Staubus Gymnasium, just 48 hours after sweeping another district foe, Carlsbad, at the same place. The Lady Wildcats showed scrappiness, heart and all that good stuff. But it wasn't enough to prevent them from get...
ROSWELL — The Clovis High cross country teams have been pretty good most of the season when at full strength. They weren’t too bad while shorthanded on Saturday. Despite resting three key runners, the Clovis boys took first and the girls second in team competition at the Goddard Pecos Valley Invitational. Jon Fuentes won the meet, finishing the 5K in 16:57, and Clovis took three of the top four finishes and scored 27 points to easily best second-place Carlsbad (60). The boys were racing without Jerrick Maldonado, who is nur...
CLOVIS — Rod Watson said it sounded like a tree falling, and that's not too far from the reality. More like 5-foot wood beams, supporting power lines, ripped "plumb off" of their positions along a two-block stretch on Clovis' west side Friday afternoon, according to Clovis Police Lt. Daron Roach. The culprit was a vehicle transporting a storage container with a crane hoisted high in the air, its driver apparently heedless of the damage that could ensue when the projecting p...
Eastern New Mexico University Softball coach Kira Zeiter will conduct an individual camp on Oct. 20. Individual camp fees are $40 per player. Anybody attending the camp can pay the day of, but are asked to RSVP to [email protected]. A waiver form for the camp is required and available on the softball news section at ENMU Athletics’ website, goeasternathletics.com. Clovis Community College will hold its seventh annual CCC Tennis Open doubles tennis tournament Oct. 19-20. There will be tournaments in men’s, women’s and m...
OKLAHOMA CITY — It was an up-and-down week for the Eastern New Mexico men’s soccer team, but fortunately for the Greyhounds, the week ended in the ‘up’ category. Saturday, Eastern posted a 2-1 road victory against Oklahoma Christian, balancing out a 2-0 road loss to Midwestern State on Thursday. As a result of Saturday’s outcome, the Hounds reached .500 in both overall (6-6-2) and Heartland Conference (4-4-2) play. Freshman Aderi Arthur-Dede scored both Eastern goals in Saturday’s victory, one in the first half, one in the...
HAGERMAN — Texico’s volleyball team went on the road Saturday and stormed to a sweep of Hagerman, 25-17, 25-6, 25-10, improving to 10-5 overall and 2-0 in District 7-2A. Hagerman dropped to 7-8, 1-1 district. Baylee Sours helped pace Texico with 17 assists, 10 digs and a block. Kaitlyn Roderick had 15 kills and four blocks for the Lady Wolverines. Teammate Shabry Boone had six kills and three digs. Texico’s C team won 17-25, 25-15, 15-11. The Lady Wolves will host Pecos on Tuesday at 3 p.m., a game moved back from next Satur...
ALBUQUERQUE — The New Mexico Activities Association Distinguished Service Award is given annually at the NMAA and NMADA Fall Leadership Conference, with a former Eastern New Mexico University student among this year’s honorees. The individuals receiving this award have all contributed significantly toward the good of the Association in one form or another, with Eastern graduate school grad David Campbell, joining Dr. Roberto Carreon and Gary Chavez in being recognized. Campbell was born and raised a Buckeye in Ohio. He pla...
ALBUQUERQUE — The Clovis football team’s second trip to Albuquerque this season did not go as well as the first. The Wildcats, on a modest one-game winning streak, visited Manzano at Albuquerque’s Wilson Field Friday night and were dealt a 19-0 loss, their first District 2/5-6A defeat this year. A week after winning a road game at Sandia 39-0 in their district opener, the ’Cats dropped to 1-1 district, 3-5 overall. They have now lost five of their last six after a 2-0 start. “In the first half we had a couple big plays and...
SANTA ROSA — Veterans who seek medical care through the Raymond G. Murphy Veterans Administration Medical Center in Albuquerque can now get free rides to Albuquerque on Wednesdays, according to a flier from the state Department of Veterans Affairs. The VA is providing the service. The service began Oct. 1, but no one from Santa Rosa has called to use it yet, according to David Flores, director of Guadalupe County’s veterans center. Flores said the ride service can be coupled with arrangements for overnight stays at Her...
SILVER CITY — Member entities of the Grant County Water Commission have a lot of thinking to do regarding their proposed county water distribution project that would tie the county’s largest communities together via pipeline. How any new joint powers agreement is structured will have a big impact on how many dollars will be added to the monthly water bills of each community’s customers. Together with the Southwest New Mexico Council of Governments, the commission’s members — Silver City, Bayard, Santa Clara, Hurley and Grant...
CLOVIS — A man convicted last week in Clovis of shooting a woman in the head last summer faces more than 21 years in prison, according to a news release from the 9th Judicial District Attorney. Joshua Martinez, 34, was convicted of aggravated battery on a household member, a third-degree felony, among other charges, following a jury trial Wednesday in Curry County. The charges stemmed from June 16, 2017, when a woman reported to Clovis police that “she had been shot in the head;” she had surgery and “eventually recover...
CLOVIS — Calling it “easily the most horrific, heinous type of crime,” he’d seen in 20-some years working in the 9th Judicial District, Judge Fred Van Soelen on Tuesday sentenced Lorenzo Martinez to life in prison for the murder last year of Mary Neal. Martinez, 52, was convicted this month of first-degree murder and third-degree criminal sexual penetration for stabbing a woman to death and then assaulting her body before reporting himself to police. For the sex crime conviction he was sentenced to four years, includi...
CLOVIS — The city of Clovis is planning a town hall meeting Wednesday night to discuss an overhaul of its zoning and subdivision codes. The 6 p.m. meeting at the Ingram Room of the Clovis-Carver Public Library follows a 30-day public comment period over work on the Unified Development Ordinance that started in April 2016. The city has worked with Duncan and Associates and Sites Southwest on the changes. Information: Louis Gordon, 575-763-9639....
The following marriage licenses were filed recently at the Curry County Administrative Complex: • Morris Sharp III, 27, to Brittnee Renee Shoemaker, 27, both of Clovis • Joseph Gabriel Mondragon, 28, to Leslie Danielle Rodriguez, 27, both of Clovis • Juan Pablo Rojas Franco, 19, to Nadia Citlali Cano, 18, both of Clovis • Alejandro Valenzuela-Velasquez, 38, to Brenda Leticia Ponce-Mandeoz, 29, both of Clovis • Kem Edwin McCready, 61, of Midland, Texas, to Ginger Gail Garrett, 61, of Clovis • Zachery Tyler Ward, 26, of Bovina,...
PORTALES — Scarce as water may be in eastern New Mexico, there’s an even more pressing need for it currently in the portions of Florida impacted by Hurricane Michael. For a couple of business owners in Portales, that’s reason enough to mobilize. “It doesn’t matter where it comes from,” said Garth Stockard. “Whatever little bit we can do, we’ll do.” Stockard started Thursday in collecting supplies to bring this week to the peninsular coast, where he has a home and heard first-hand from his wife there as to some of the devas...
Booked The following were booked into local jails Tuesday-Thursday: Clovis • Peter Macias, 46, failure to appear on a felony charge • Andashia Anthony, 35, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge • Jesse Truong, 38, bringing contraband into jail, conspiracy to commit bringing contraband onto prison grounds • John Crawford, 29, out of state fugitive • Joseph Lequeux, 28, battery against a household member, criminal damage to property, possession of a controlled substance • Amanda Garcia, 32, breaking and entering • Marc Calb...
CLOVIS — Almost a week since a Clovis police officer shot and killed a man fleeing from a stolen vehicle, state police are still investigating the incident and have not released the name of the officer involved or other key details. “Specific details are still being investigated and will not be made public until all interviews have been conducted,” New Mexico State Police Lt. Elizabeth Armijo said in a message Tuesday. She did not respond to follow up questions Friday from The News. Ninth Judicial District Attorney Andre...
