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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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FOOTBALL Prep playoffs (seeds in parentheses) New Mexico 8-man Quarterfinals Friday’s game (5) Magdalena at (4) Logan, 6 p.m. Saturday’s game (6) Mesilla Valley at (3) Fort Sumner, 1 p.m. Semifinals Nov. 5-6 Magdalena-Logan winner vs. (1) Tatum Mesilla Valley-Fort Sumner winner vs. (2) Melrose Championship game Nov. 12-13 Semifinal winners 6-man Quarterfinals Friday’s results (1) Gateway Christian 53, (8) Elida 0 (4) Roy/Mosquero 37, (5) Clovis Christian 16 (3) Animas 60, (6) Mountainair 28 (2) Ramah 46, (7) Hondo 24 Semifina...
Lubbock legend Mac Davis was remembered by family and friends during a monument dedication last week at the city of Lubbock Cemetery. Davis was a Lubbock native who made a national name for himself as a star of music, stage and screen, writing songs performed by the likes of Elvis Presley - including "In the Ghetto" and "A Little Less Conversation" - and performing a number of his own hits including "Baby, Don't Get Hooked On Me." His entertainment career lasted more than 50...
I’ve just had another cell phone stolen. It’s not really a big deal; it happens at least once a day. I think the thief who keeps stealing it is one guy working alone. I have no idea why he is so persistent and why he bears me such ill will. To be accurate, the miscreant is not actually a thief; he’s more of a prankster. Yes, he does take my cell phone, but he just hides it, moves it, buries it, and seems to take pleasure in wasting my time and driving me nuts as I try to fi...
Booked The following were booked into local jails (Friday-Tuesday): Clovis • Amos Wood, 49, probation violation, failure to pay fines • Selestina Madrid, 26, failure to appear on a felony charge, failure to pay fines • Kayla Solomon, 26, failure to pay fines • Kendra Payton, 45, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge • David Duke, 55, failure to pay fines • Raquel Tafoya, 38, probation violation • Frank Robles, 52, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge • Petra Wolgemuth, 40, probation violation • Andrew Garcia, 30, speed...
LUBBOCK — With Matt Wells' dismissal Monday midway through his third season at Texas Tech, the Red Raiders are back in the market for their fourth football coach in the past decade. Since Tech fired Mike Leach in December 2009, Tommy Tuberville, Kliff Kingsbury and Wells have been unable to restore the program's winning ways. Tech athletics director Kirby Hocutt has enlisted four men to assist in the upcoming search: deputy AD Tony Hernandez, Tech Regents and donors Dusty Womble and Cody Campbell and former Tech and NFL r...
A student at House Municipal Schools talked about shooting up the school and slashed at another student with a pocket knife but did not injure him, according to an incident report filed with the Quay County Sheriff’s Office. Sheriff Russell Shafer said Monday that student was not arrested, but that the case would be referred to juvenile probation officials. It wasn’t clear whether the student was disciplined or still enrolled at the school. Attempts to reach House Superintendent Bonnie Lightfoot for comment were uns...
BOVINA - All is quiet on the New Mexico area small-school football front this weekend. Clovis Christian and Elida were ousted in the first round of the 6-man playoffs last week, while Texico and Melrose have first-round byes in Class 2A and 8-man, respectively. It's not so quiet on the Texas side, however, with all three teams engaging in meaningful contests. Farwell visits Panhandle with the District 1-2A Division I title on the line, while Bovina hosts New Home in its regula...
LAWTON, Okla. - Senior Aminata Kenyawani was ninth individually, helping Eastern New Mexico University's women take fourth place as a team on Saturday in the Lone Star Conference cross country championships, hosted by Cameron University. Kenyawani posted a six-kilometer time of 22 minutes, 42.83 seconds for the Greyhounds, who finished with 106 points to trail Dallas Baptist (35), West Texas A&M (38) and Texas A&M International (96) in a field of 16 full teams. ENMU put all...
CLOVIS — Clovis High’s girls were accorded the No. 10 seed by the New Mexico Activities Association on Sunday in Class 5A state soccer playoffs, and the Lady Wildcats (13-4-1) faced a first-round date on Tuesday at No. 7 Volcano Vista (11-5-1). The winner of that matchup advances to quarterfinal play against second-seeded Carlsbad (18-2), ostensibly at Carlsbad, on Saturday. The Lady Cats handed the Cavegirls their only loss of the season (2-1 in double overtime at Leon Williams Stadium on Sept. 28) before Carlsbad dro...
CLOVIS — It’s conceivable that either Clovis High or Portales High, or both, could still make it to postseason play. But the Wildcats and Rams have work to do, and almost surely will need to pull off road upsets in regular-season finales this week to have a realistic chance. CHS (3-5, 3-2 Class 6A District 2/5), which saw its three-game winning streak end in a 41-14 loss to Sandia on Friday night at Leon Williams Stadium, plays a 7 p.m. game on Thursday against Eldorado (6-3, 3-1) at Albuquerque’s Milne Stadium. Meant...
ODESSA, Texas — Texas-Permian Basin has probably been the surprise team this season in Lone Star Conference football. The Falcons, in just the seventh year of their program, kept themselves in contention for at least a possible share of the LSC title Saturday night, outscoring Eastern New Mexico University 28-0 over a 10-minute stretch spanning the third and fourth quarters to notch a 44-21 victory. Junior quarterback Clayton Roberts threw for 295 and three touchdowns, two to junior wide receiver M.J. Link, as the Falcons (...
I have lost track of the number of times I've started journals or resolved to keep a diary - if nothing else, at least a bare-bones occasional record of events and important dates. After a week or two - at best a few months - it gets set aside and forgotten. In conversations with others, I find this is a common human experience. That makes the story I am going to tell you even more remarkable. At the age of 94, Jean Grissom is making entries in her 17th five-year diary. I'll...
Since this pandemic has upset the economic applecart and challenged the actual value of work, maybe we should consider some radical new ideas about how to compensate people. So, after being influenced by a week of workaday pleasures with a granddaughter, whose eyes are just beginning to see the magnificence of life on earth — let’s make up a utopia, where everyone lives off the generosity of each other. Instead of stimulus checks, let’s give out gratuity checks, the catch being we can only spend them on tips and bonus...
Weeks after President Joe Biden announced his decree that roughly 80 million workers would need to get the COVID-19 vaccine or weekly testing, many details of that order are still unknown. Business groups are rightly pushing back against an undefined, invasive mandate that could exacerbate an already tight labor market. After months of being told what they could and couldn’t do by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, Michigan companies are seeking to normalize their operations and tackle the workforce shortages so many employers are facing...
I am a fan of education. If there were such a thing as public education, I’d be a supporter. Unfortunately, what exists instead is “public schooling.". By “public,” they mean government controlled, and by “schooling” they mean indoctrination. Schooling is not the same as education, but its opposite. I oppose socialist, tax-funded government indoctrination and the compulsory day-prisons for children where it occurs. It’s no wonder socialist and Marxist ideas sneak in to t...
LAS CRUCES — The Las Cruces High School Showcase Band’s day competing in the Zia Marching Band Fiesta on Saturday started on an extremely sour note. Band officials awoke in the morning to find someone stole a Penske box truck holding more than $200,000 of equipment, instruments and speakers from a hotel parking lot in Albuquerque ahead of the performance. “As soon as we heard the news, everything froze and our hearts dropped,” said Lorraine Leachman, LCHS Showcase Band fundraising chair, in a news release. But thanks to the a...
On this date … 1971: Helen Stark, Portales High School's business education teacher for 28 years, had been named the school district's teacher of the year. The award had been presented annually since 1956, when it went to Debra Smith. Stark, whose teaching duties included classes for typing and shorthand, had come to Portales from her native Missouri. “She has good rapport with both students and faculty and when her students leave Portales High School they go out well-founded in typing and shorthand,” said PHS Princ...
ENMU student center featured PORTALES — Eastern New Mexico University’s Golden Student Success Center was one of 75 facilities featured by Endeavor Business Media as an outstanding learning environment. The magazine featuring EBM’s American School and University 2021 Education Awards Showcase is available online at www.schooldesigns.com. Judging criteria includes spaces designed for student wellness and well-being, green spaces, features that improve security and maintenance, and faciilties that incorporate natural light...
SANTA FE — The New Mexico Transportation Department is participating in Pedestrian Safety Month, with Sunday’s Halloween activities a focal point. “Halloween evening is one of the most dangerous times for pedestrians, especially children but trick-or-treaters aren’t the only ones who need to watch out,” said Transportation Secretary Mike Sandoval. “Drivers and walkers bear dual responsibility for pedestrian safety, and that is true all year long.” According to a New Mexico Department of Transportation release, the Governor...
CLOVIS — Clovis Municipal Schools has alerted parents of third-graders who took a field trip to the Curry County Events Center on Friday. According to the ParentLink email acquired by The News, students attending a farm safety day at the events center received a gift bag. A first-aid kid in the bag included over-the-counter pain relief medication, antiseptic wipes, bandages, wound cream, and other items intended for emergency use. The district warned in the Sunday afternoon email that over-the-counter medication can cause h...
ALBUQUERQUE — Election workers and officials in Curry and Roosevelt counties have been spared the kind of threats that have plagued their colleagues nationwide, leading to a federal pledge to investigate and prosecute such threats, according to both county clerks. “It has not been a big concern” in Roosevelt County, Mandi Park, the Roosevelt County Clerk, said on Friday. There have been no threats to poll workers or any elected officials, she added, but she said she was aware that such threats have occurred in the state...
A total of 29 child care centers in Curry and Roosevelt counties received grant funds totaling $5.6 million as part of $157 million allocated to the New Mexico Early Childhood Education and Care Department (ECECD) in federal American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds. In Curry County, 24 child care centers, including two on Cannon Air Force Base, received nearly $4.9 million in grant funds, according to information provided by ECECD, and in Roosevelt County, five child care centers received a total of $738,675, according to...
Be it the COVID-19 pandemic, a strong challenge from Organ Mountain or just generally a target on their backs, nothing seems to beat the Clovis High marching band. The band won the Zia Marching Fiesta for the ninth consecutive time Saturday, edging Organ Mountain 88.55 to 88.4 in the final round. After losing the 2020 competition season to the pandemic, Clovis came back with its baseball-themed "Home Run" show and took the title, along with outstanding musical effect and outst...
SANTA FE — Infection rates of COVID-19 are not dropping throughout the state, as the New Mexico Department of Health confirmed 2,335 new cases around the state over the weekend. The state also announced 15 deaths, bringing the total past the 5,000 mark to 5,002. Acting Health Secretary David Scrase noted most of the state's hospitalizations and deaths are among the unvaccinated. Of the 1,039 COVID-related deaths reported between Feb. 1 and Oct. 11, 967 were not vaccinated. “This means that nearly 1,000 people in New Mex...
SANTA FE — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will move forward with a nationally significant rule to change how per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are managed and cleaned up under federal law, according to a release from Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s office. The EPA sent a response letter Tuesday to a June petition from the governor, detailing its intention to list several PFAS chemicals as hazardous constituents under the federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). The letter was included in the...
