Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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CLOVIS — OK, so maybe five years ago wasn't that long ago. Unless you are a student at Highland Elementary School in Clovis. Then it was nearly a lifetime ago. Students got a taste of what life was like at their school when they were toddlers as a time capsule was opened during an assembly Wednesday morning. Third-grade teacher Debbie Bracken and her students buried the capsule in 2013 under a pair of rose bushes located in front of their classroom at the old Highland s...
CLOVIS — Tuesday's volleyball match was perhaps a glimpse into the future for an improving Clovis team. But it also signaled the present, displaying a young team that still hasn't quite yet arrived. In their regular-season finale at Rock Staubus Gymnasium, the Lady Wildcats looked able to hang with a quality Roswell team, grabbing the lead in each set. But, they ultimately lost all three and were swept 25-18, 25-20, 25-23. Somewhat deceptive numbers, because Clovis competed t...
LOVINGTON — The Portales Rams have certainly earned a week off. But with the way they're playing, they might not need the break. Jalen Allen and Kellan Hightower both scored a pair of touchdowns, and the Rams dominated Lovington 48-6 to claim the District 3/4-4A title Friday night at Wildcat Stadium. During its current five-game streak, Portales (7-3, 3-0) has not been held below 46, has not allowed more than 14 and has outscored its competition 244-27 with a running clock in the second half of each contest. "Honestly, we d...
CLOVIS — In college basketball, they call it the Elite Eight. But even calling it something as ordinary as the quarterfinals is still pretty cool. Especially for a fifth-seeded Clovis boys soccer team that qualified for the state 5A quarters with Saturday's 3-0 first-round victory over 12th-seeded Santa Fe at blustery Leon Williams Stadium. Most especially for a Wildcats program that didn't even reach states last year. Now the 'Cats are one of those elite 5A teams, those l...
PORTALES — Don’t blame the Portales High volleyball team if it's feeling a little bit of deja vu in this week’s District 4-4A tournament. The Rams, coming off a Tuesday home match with Lovington and a Thursday matchup at Artesia, enter the tournament with a Tuesday home match against Lovington and potentially a Thursday semifinal against Artesia — depending on how the next few days develop. Portales (7-13) finished third in 4-4A following their sweep over Lovington and their three-set loss against the Bulldogs. Artesia...
CLOVIS — It was a pretty nice haul for the Clovis cross country program. — Hosting Friday’s District 4-5A championship meet at Ned Houk Park, the Clovis boys took first, outdistancing second-place Hobbs by 29 points. — Wildcats senior Jon Fuentes won the individual boys title, his first district crown. — Fellow Wildcats Jerrick Maldonado and T.J. Gregg captured second and third, respectively. From one to three, Clovis finished a mere three seconds apart. — Junior Annalysse H...
CANYON, Texas — Eastern New Mexico senior Mercy Rotich took an easy victory two weeks ago in the Lone Star Conference preview race. Saturday’s LSC championship held true to the teaser. Rotich again took first place in Saturday’s meet, crossing the finish line in 21:54.2 to become ENMU’s first woman’s LSC champ. With three of the meet’s top nine finishers, the Greyhounds scored 87 points to finish third in team standings behind Midwestern State (57) and Tarleton State (68). Teammates Evaline Cheptoo and Mason Swanson clo...
FARWELL — The Steers kept rolling along Friday night, winning their eighth in a row by routing Bovina 41-16 in Texas 2A Region I District 2 action. Farwell improved to 8-1 overall, 4-0 district with the resounding victory. Patrick Pena led the way for the Steers, rushing for 218 yards on 25 carries (8.7 yards per carry), which fueled the team’s 381-yard ground attack. Farwell wound up with 30 first downs on the night. Heading into the second quarter, the Steers led only 7-0 on the strength of Ricardo Ortega’s 10-yard touch...
WACO, Texas — Eastern New Mexico may have fallen short of the Heartland Conference men’s soccer playoffs, but it isn’t leaving the season emptyhanded. In their final season with the Heartland as a soccer-only school, the Greyhounds got their first three postseason team selections in program history. Sophomore midfielder Gabriel Peres was named to the first team, while freshmen forwards Aderi Arthur-Dede and Julian Trapp received second- and third-team honors, respectively, acc...
CANYON, Texas — Midfielder Samantha Fabela received first-team honors, and five Greyhounds in all received designation Thursday night on the All-Lone Star Conference teams. Grad student Bailey Bosley was a second-teamer and the conference’s newcomer of the year, while sisters Hayden and Keyara Zuniga received second team and honorable mention, respectively. Sophomore Caitlyn Schmidt made the LSC’s All-Academic Team. The awards were given at Thursday’s banquet, traditi...
CLOVIS — The Clovis High football team was close, oh so close, to earning one more game at Leon Williams Stadium. In Friday’s regular-season finale at that very stadium, the Wildcats dominated offensively and defensively throughout the first half, appeared ready to break the game open and get a first-round state playoff home game as their reward. But the ’Cats didn’t capitalize on most of their first-half opportunities, let the Bears hang around. And La Cueva did just enough...
CANYON, Texas — Julia Tucker’s first goal of her career at Eastern New Mexico wasn’t the most noteworthy of tallies, coming three weeks ago in the closing seconds of a 2-0 win where Midwestern State never seriously threatened. Her second goal is a much different story. The junior midfielder beat her defender to a centering pass that skipped past goaltender Courtney Dippel, and buried it into the right side of the net to clinch the biggest win in the Greyhound program histo...
CLOVIS — The Clovis High girls soccer team spent plenty of time in the runup to Saturday’s first-round playoff game practicing penalty kicks, hoping it would somehow pay off for an upset over Eldorado. The Eagles barely made sure Clovis didn’t get that chance. Angel Vargas scored in the 99th minute during the second sudden-death overtime period, and the Eagles avoided the penalty kick round to take a 1-0 victory at the Albuquerque Public Schools Soccer Complex. Eldorado (14-6) moves on to a 2 p.m Wednesday quarterfinal at th...
PORTALES — Six weeks ago, things were better than nearly anybody with Eastern New Mexico volleyball could or should expect. Despite a devastating knee injury that shelved offensive standout Sarah Tuioti-Mariner, the Greyhounds were riding a three-match winning streak and had sole possession of fourth place in the Lone Star Conference. Since then, it’s been a struggle. A pair of five-set losses Friday and Saturday at Greyhound Stadium marked a season-ending stretch of 11 losses in 13 matches, and the Greyhounds (9-19, 7-1...
Voting locations Curry County Election day Tuesday (voters may use any location regardless of their precinct) • Colonial Golf Course clubhouse • Youth Recreation Building • Pleasant Hill Fire Department • Melrose City Hall • Roy Walker Recreation Center • Farmer’s Electric Cooperative • Texico Community Center • Grady Senior Citizens Center Roosevelt County Election day Tuesday (voters may use any location regardless of their precinct) • Dora Senior Center • Elida Community Center • Floyd Community Center • Jake Lopez Com...
On this date ... 1968: Veteran big league baseball player Vern Stephens, who was born in the Quay County community of McAlister, died of a heart attack at age 48. The Society for American Baseball Research reports he was born "prematurely" in McAlister while his parents were moving from Arkansas to California. After graduating from Long Beach Polytechnic High School in 1937, Stephens played baseball for a year at Long Beach Junior College. He signed with the St. Louis Browns...
Seven full-time volunteers will soon be coming to Curry and Roosevelt counties as the United Way of Eastern New Mexico was recently approved to bring in individuals as part of a national service program offered by AmeriCorps. VISTA, or Volunteers in Service to America, is a poverty-fighting initiative that since 1965 has put volunteers in organizations around the country. “They’re very special people because this is a volunteer position and yet it’s full-time work,” said UWENM Executive Director Erinn Burch. Burch said th...
CLOVIS — Compared to most government entities and private businesses, city of Clovis employees are getting a pretty good deal with their employer covering 90 percent of their health insurance premiums. The deal’s going to be even better for the rest of 2018, as the city commission voted 7-0 Thursday to use part of a United Healthcare rebate to cover employees’ November and December premium costs. The city has 379 employees with about two-thirds of them — 252 total — opted into the city’s insurance coverage. Due to those em...
CLOVIS — A trio of financial matters top the agenda for Wednesday’s meeting of the Clovis Community College Board of Trustees. The board will hear the quarterly financial report for the first quarter of fiscal year 2019 before voting on the financial actions report to be sent to the state’s Public Education Department, a typical item at the board’s November meeting. The board will also hear a report regarding financial aid at the college for the 2017-18 school year. The board is also expected to take action on a drug-fr...
It’s that time of year again for New Mexico residents looking to purchase health insurance coverage through the New Mexico Health Insurance Exchange, also known as beWellnm, for the upcoming year. Open enrollment began on Thursday and will run until Dec. 15. To receive coverage for 2019, you are required to sign up by Dec. 15. For help enrolling, contact a local broker or counselor or call 833-862-3935. A list of qualified brokers and counselors for each county can be found at: www.bewellnm.com/free-enrollment-help In a...
PORTALES — The Portales City Council is expected to vote to reject the bids it received to build a new fire station when it meets Tuesday. City Manager Sammy Standefer said all of the bids came in over budget — by 10 percent according to the agenda — and that if the bids are rejected the city would put the project out to bid again. The meeting, scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Tuesday in the council chambers at the Memorial Building, will be followed by an executive session to discuss threatened or pending litigation and the purch...
CLOVIS — A man convicted of a domestic violence shooting last year in Clovis was sentenced Wednesday to more than 20 years in prison. Joshua Martinez, 34, of Clovis, was convicted Oct. 10 of third-degree felony aggravated battery on a household member with a deadly weapon. That and other charges — felon in possession of a firearm, possession of marijuana — stemmed from June 16, 2017, when a woman said Martinez had shot her in the head. That woman underwent surgery and “eventually recovered,” from gunshot wounds, according...
PORTALES — Portales police on Friday morning arrested a person threatening “an unknown school in Portales” the night before, according to a news release from Portales Municipal Schools Superintendent Johnnie Cain. Police “determined the threat was not credible” but still had school staff on alert and “were closely monitoring the campus” on Friday. Cain said the suspect was not armed “and presented no threat to the school,” but that “teachers and staff will remain alert as always.” Police did not respond to questions about th...
CLOVIS — An Albuquerque man was convicted Thursday of sexually assaulting a Clovis woman during a house visit last year as a door-to-door vacuum salesman. Brandon Barron, 29, faces up to three years in prison, according to a news release from the 9th Judicial District Attorney. A Curry County jury found him guilty of third-degree felony criminal sexual penetration after 30 minutes of deliberation. The victim reported to police in March 2017 “that a Kirby Vacuum salesman had sexually assaulted her in her home over a per...
