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CLOVIS — A state team championship may be out of reach for the Clovis High boys cross country team, but not a trophy with a top-three finish. And not an individual champion, either. Led by junior Jerrick Maldonado and senior T.J. Gregg, the Wildcats are hoping to be in a scramble for one of the next two spots behind defending champion Rio Rancho Cleveland in Saturday’s Class 5A boys meet. The five-kilometer race is set to begin at 12:35 p.m. at Rio Rancho High School. Meantime, the Lady Wildcats have qualified their team for...
CLOVIS — A 26-year-old Clovis man is in custody, charged with an open count of murder following a Thursday night shooting at a home on North Lea Street. Johnny Rae Vigil is accused of killing Jahmall Burge with a handgun owned by Burge. The incident happened about 6:45 p.m. Thursday. It wasn’t immediately clear when or how Vigil was arrested, but District Attorney Andrea Reeb said he was in custody this morning. Police on Thursday night issued a statement reporting Vigil was... Full story
CLOVIS - Police say a 36-year-old man was shot and killed Thursday night in the 1000 block of North Lea Street. The victim is identified as Jahmall Burge. Police are searching for Johnny Ray Vigil, 26, whom they've identified as a "person of interest" in connection with the case. No arrests had been made Thursday nigth. According a police news release: • About 6:45 p.m. Thursday, police received a 911 call from the 1000 block of North Lea Street. The caller relayed that a m... Full story
CLOVIS -- After more than two hours of information, and sometimes heated debate, the Clovis City Commission moved ahead on a raise in property tax rates to fund the interim groundwater portion of the Ute Water Project. By a 6-2 vote, the commission approved a tax hike, and introduction of an ordinance rededicating gross receipts taxes, to provide $15 million of the Eastern New Mexico Water Utility Authority's $20 million share of an interim groundwater pipeline in Curry and Roosevelt counties. The $90 million project, with...
Curry and Roosevelt will be dry counties no more, and there will be a new trustee at Clovis Community College according to results from Tuesday’s general election. All results are considered unofficial until they are canvassed by their respective county boards next week. The final two dry counties in the state both passed three similar questions on alcohol in the unincorporated parts of their counties. A question on allowing the sale, service and consumption of alcohol passed 1,614-947 in Curry County and 654-568 In R...
CHS basketball ticket sales ongoing Clovis High School is selling reserved season tickets for the upcoming basketball season. Season ticket holders from the 2018-19 season have until Tuesday to renew their tickets or inform the CHS athletics office of intent to relinquish their seats. Beginning Wednesday, any remaining tickets will be sold to the public. Tickets are $135 per seat, with a $25 discount for active duty or retired military with a military ID card. The tickets are good for all regular season girls and boys games....
PORTALES — The elite Division I college basketball programs have been revving it up this week, including Kansas, Duke, Michigan State and Kentucky. The Division II ranks are no exception, including Eastern New Mexico. The Greyhound men, after an exhibition at the University of New Mexico today, will play their first regular-season game Saturday against New Mexico Highlands in Durango, Colorado, then play Fort Lewis College on Sunday, also in Durango. ENMU’s women travel to Durango as well, and also play New Mexico Highlands a...
LOVINGTON — Following a tiebreaking match the settle the issue, the Portales Rams will enter the District 4-4A tournament as the No. 2 seed. Goddard grabbed the No. 1 seed Monday night in a neutral-site match at Lovington, topping the Rams 23-25, 26-24, 25-22, 25-27, 15-13. Goddard (17-4) will host the district championship Saturday, while Portales (17-4) hosts the winner of Tuesday evening’s Artesia-Lovington match. The Rams, Rockets and Bulldogs all ended the season with 4-2 district marks. The teams all split their hea...
PORTALES — Onward and upward for the Eastern New Mexico football team. The Greyhounds suffered a somewhat stunning road loss to UT Permian Basin, 48-38, this past Saturday, allowing the Falcons to pick up their first Lone Star Conference victory of the season. So this week it’s indeed onward and certainly upward — as in caliber of opponent — when the Greyhounds play their last home game of 2019. Angelo State visits Portales this coming Saturday, beginning at 6 p.m. And if Eastern New Mexico is going to finish this season...
ODESSA, Texas — It was going Eastern New Mexico’s way. The Greyhounds football team had a two-score advantage over host UT Permian Basin at halftime of Saturday night’s Lone Star Conference game in Odessa. They were only halfway there, but seemed in good shape, on their way to their sixth overall victory and a winning record in LSC play. But a house-on-fire UTPB attack out of the second-half gate found Eastern trailing by the third quarter’s end, and trailing for good as it turned out. The Greyhounds lost 48-38, droppin...
CLOVIS — Clovis’ swim team has already seen competition this season, though the Wildcats officially get going this coming weekend. Last weekend the team competed in a club meet at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. “I’m thrilled with how they swam,” Clovis’ second-year head coach Gordy Westerberg said. He’s even more thrilled with the swim team’s season-opening meet at Lubbock this coming weekend, which is followed by one at Hobbs the following weekend and at Carlsbad the weekend after that. The Wildcats then t...
It was a Saturday of celebration, because Clovis and Portales got a week of relaxation for the first week of the state football playoffs. Both the Wildcats and Rams received No. 2 seeds in their respective brackets. The top four teams in Classes 3A through 6A receive first-round byes this week, and a home game in next week’s quarterfinal round. The Wildcats (7-3) will have a district rematch against either No. 7 La Cueva or No. 10 Eldorado. Portales (9-1) faces either No. 7 s...
ELIDA — It might have been nice to get a rematch of last year’s 6-man state championship, but Elida coach Jereme Woodruff said the Tigers aren’t worried about it. The top-seeded Tigers (9-0) will host a state final in any sport for the first time in school history when they take on district rival Springer-Maxwell (8-1) in a 1 p.m. kickoff on Saturday. “We got the opportunity to play Animas earlier in the season, and we beat them,” Woodruff said. “But we’re just happy to be in the (title) game again.” The Devils reached the ti...
I’m glad I grew up in a time before social media. A lot of my “stupid people tricks” happened outside the scope of cell phones or easy-access cameras. While these stunts may be remembered by family and friends (who are sworn to secrecy), there isn’t any recorded evidence that show such shenanigans took place. And for that, I’m grateful. Looking back over my childhood there are a few events where I question how on earth I managed to survive. Like the time I decided to ride m...
