Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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BASKETBALL Prep summaries Tuesday Boys Canyon Randall 65, Clovis 28 Clovis (2-13) — Luciano Webster 10, Juan Hernandez 10, R.J. Nora 8. Totals 12 3-12 28. Canyon Randall (13-9) — Zak Bol 4, Ayden Rodriguez 11, J.J. Buchanon 7, K.J. Thomas 11, Cody Bessent 2, Caleb Blackwell 8, Brody Wilson 7, Kahn Souktakith 2, Isaiah Kirkman 5, Jedd Phillips 2, Cayden Soto 6. Totals 29 0-0 65. Clovis 11 9 6 2 — 28 Randall 11 19 17 18 — 65 3-pointers — Clovis, Hernandez. Canyon Randall, Thomas 3, Buchanon, Kirkman, Rodriguez, Wilson. J...
BY THE STAFF OF THE NEWS PORTALES - In a game of runs, a commanding 14-point lead through three quarters proved to be just enough for Portales High's boys on Tuesday night. Junior Emmanuel Diahn combined 17 points and nine rebounds as the Rams survived a 22-point fourth quarter by Clovis, holding on for a 60-56 victory over the Wildcats at the Ram Athletic Center. Senior forward Quadale Brown added 10 points and seven caroms for the Rams (7-8), who are in the midst of what...
Clovis schools Monday: No school Tuesday: Breakfast, French toast, milk; Lunch, macaroni and cheese (or cheeseburger, middle/high schools), seasoned green beans, veggie cup, ranch dressing, chilled pineapple, homemade roll, milk Wednesday: Breakfast, banana bread, milk; Lunch, General Tso’s chicken (or bean/cheese burrito, middle/high schools), egg roll, fried rice, steamed carrots, chilled pears, milk Thursday: Breakfast, breakfast pizza, milk; Lunch, pork roast (or corn dog, middle/high schools), mashed potatoes, gravy, s...
Curry County Association of Educational Retirees The association met Jan. 4, with President Eileen Massey introducing area legislators to speak on members of interest to our members. Rep. Martin Zamora said recent redistricting was not a positive change. Sen. Pat Woods informed us of what to expect from upcoming budget process. We are currently flush with money thanks to oil and gas income, but are restricted in how to spend it. Medicaid will stay as is until at least next August. We can expect $3 million to $4 million in...
Information on using a Kinkajou bottle cutter and making a showstopper floral arrangement will be the featured topics on “Creative Living” 9:30 p.m. Tuesday and noon Thursday (all times Mountain). Elena Etcheverry is the founder and ED for Charity Wings, and she is going to show how to use the Kinkajou bottle cutter to make things like wine glasses, votive covers, cups and much more. This is just one of the many home-grown businesses she works with through her non-profit org...
The books listed below are now available for checkout at the Clovis-Carver Public Library. The library is open to the public, but patrons can still visit the online catalog at cloviscarverpl.booksys.net/opac/ccpl or call 575-769-7840 to request a specific item for curbside pickup. “Carved in Stone” by Elizabeth Camden. Kellerman now lives a quiet life as a botanist. She largely ignores her status as heiress to the infamous Blackstone dynasty and hopes to keep her family’s heartbreak and scandal behind her. Patrick O’Neill sur...
For nearly 20 years, Erinn Burch has played an integral part behind the scenes of the Clovis-Portales community. As the executive director of United Way of Eastern New Mexico, Burch brings "our generous community together to support vital local programs and services," - something Burch considers life and community changing. Though she grew up all over as an "Air Force Brat," Burch particularly enjoyed her stint in Bitburg, Germany. She and her husband met while she attended co...
I thought I might take up poetry I thought it might be somewhat fun It can’t be that hard if cowboys do it you see All I need is some good stories and maybe a pun The rhymes at first seem like they’d be tough Just put your words together with love and care Turns out making it rhyme ain’t all that rough If it sounds too corny, wonder if I’ll dare to share This column started out to be about a tumbleweed Turns out I’d done that topic not so long ago I checked it out and found it...
OLTON — Farwell’s girls trailed early on Tuesday night, but it didn’t last long. The Lady Blue erased a one-point deficit at the quarter by outscoring Vega 44-15 over the middle two stanzas en route to a 71-43 District 3-2A win over the Lady Mustangs. Freshman Bella Jaime led four Farwell players in double digits with 18 points, including three of the team’s seven 3-pointers and 5-for-6 from the foul line. Freshman Makylee Baldwin had 12 points, junior Charlie May Trimble 11 and sophomore Chloee Whitten 10 for the Lady Blue (...
ROSWELL — When he took the job as the coach of Clovis High’s first-year wrestling program, Eric Zottneck knew there would be some growing pains for his squads. Tuesday night, the Wildcats took on an established Class 5A program and absorbed some lumps in a 58-15 loss to the Coyotes. “It was a good opportunity for us to see an established program,” Zottneck said. “It was good to see (the Coyotes’) technique and for our guys to experience that.” Clovis picked up a forfeit victory for eighth-grader Nolan Rodriguez at 126 pounds...
BOVINA — Senior Katelyn Ruiz scored 21 points and Vega erased a five-point deficit after the first quarter to beat Bovina 68-46 on Friday night in a District 3-2A girls matchup. Senior Dakota Walker added 12 points for the Lady Longhorns (8-5, 2-1 district), who trailed 17-12 before going on a 44-20 run over the next two stanzas. Three players reached double digits for the Fillies (8-10, 0-2) — Pilly Saenz with 14, Alyssa Marquez with 13 and Destiny Lara with 10. In boys games on Friday night: Vega 58, Bovina 46 — Leading by...
CLOVIS - A minority woman-owned firm based in Clovis is one of the first two firms in New Mexico to be licensed to grow and manufacture cannabis products, according to a news release from the New Mexico Cannabis Control Division of the New Mexico Regulation and Licensing Department. The company is called Vana, LLC. Its founder and chief executive Parin Kumar, who lives in Albuquerque, said she chose Clovis as the location for the venture because it is a "rural community in...
In its first visit to Pauley Pavilion in nearly three years, Oregon upset No. 3 UCLA to earn Dana Altman his 700th career win as a head coach. Jacob Young scored 19 of his season-high 23 points in the second half and overtime to lead the Ducks to an 84-81 win over the host Bruins on Thursday night in Los Angeles. "When he gets it rolling, he gets downhill and he's shifty," Altman said. "Then he pulled up and hit a couple, which really puts a lot of pressure on. He got to the...
ALBUQUERQUE — Cibola limited Clovis High’s boys to 15 second-half points on Friday night and the Cougars pulled away to a 54-39 victory over the Wildcats. CHS (2-15) trailed just 25-24 at halftime, but scored only five points in the third stanza as Cibola (6-8) built its lead to seven. “You’d better be good defensively if you’re only going to score 39 points,” Cats coach Jaden Isler said. “We got in foul trouble again with the bigs in the post, and they kind of took advantage of us when we had to go small.” Six-foot-7 seni...
TYLER, Texas — Scoring points was again a hard thing to come by on Thursday night for Eastern New Mexico University’s basketball teams. Both ENMU squads were held below 30 percent from the floor as Texas-Tyler swept the Lone Star Conference twin bill, winning the women’s matchup 67-53 and the men’s contest 80-51. In the women’s tilt, 6-foot-1 freshman Lovisa Hevinder, a native of Stockholm, Sweden, went 6-for-9 from 3-point distance and the Patriots finished 10-for-22 from long range while holding the Greyhounds (5-5, 1-3...
Local state legislators will join others from across New Mexico at the state capitol on Tuesday, with 30 days of mostly budget-related lawmaking and assurances state tax revenues will be high due to increased oil and gas severance tax revenues and continued federal COVID-19 relief. According to a report from the Legislative Finance Committee, a Legislature committee that meets between sessions, recurring revenues for fiscal year 2023, which began on July 1, are estimated at $9 billion, about $1.6 billion, or 21.5% higher than...
While the toolkit definitely has its drawbacks, the takeaway so far with Wednesday changes to the Public Education Department's COVID-19 mitigation toolbook is an optimistic one among area school leaders. The PED announced new guidance with the surge of the Omicron variant that mostly matches guidance provided Dec. 27 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and adopted for the general New Mexico population on Jan. 6. Quarantines are reduced from 10 days to five for students and staff who have been exposed to...
Dear white conservatives, When you’re right, you’re right. And you are definitely right about that quote from Martin Luther King. When he stood at the temple of Lincoln in 1963 and declared his dream “that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character,” he surely spoke a word for the ages. Your fondness for that word has not gone unnoticed. How could it? You invoke that li...
Two news-worthy incidents that occurred this month, while similar in nature, were reported very differently. One item was the first anniversary of what the news media and many others have always referred to as “the deadly Insurrection on the U.S. Capitol.” One specific headline I saw read, “We're lucky more people weren't killed.” While it is a fact that five people died that day, only one person was killed. That person was an unarmed Air Force veteran, shot by a Capitol...
The old legal maxim is that everything which is not forbidden is permitted. Many public-health experts apparently have their own version of this rule — whatever is not forbidden must be mandated. It was less than three months ago that the Food and Drug Administration approved the COVID-19 vaccine for children on an emergency basis, and already there are debates whether schools should mandate it and jurisdictions prohibit unvaccinated kids from engaging in activities. C...
When my sister texted to tell me that Sidney Poitier had passed away, I started crying. All I could do was conjure up the black and white image of a beloved movie, “A Patch of Blue,” the film that made me fall in love with Poitier. It’s a powerful movie that carries as strong a message about anti-racism as “Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner,” without its political posturing and preachiness. It’s a simple story, about a young blind woman with an abusive mother and a loving but al...
Monday is Martin Luther King Jr. Day. On this holiday, we celebrate one of the great civil rights leaders of the 20th century. The Rev. King challenged Americans to uphold the Declaration of Independence's promise “that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” The quiz below, from the Ashbrook Center at Ashland University, provides an opportunity for you to test your knowledge of King and his efforts to...
To our Portales readers: This news is delivered with regret and a considerable amount of frustration: Effective immediately, we will no longer be able to deliver The Eastern New Mexico News to your homes in Portales. Instead, Portales subscribers will receive the paper via the U.S. Postal Service. Wednesday papers will be in your mailbox most Wednesdays; Sunday papers will arrive Mondays, except for holidays, when delivery will be Tuesdays. Complete editions will continue to be posted on our website - easternewmexiconews.com...
Chamber of Commerce banquets scheduled for next weekend have been moved to March, with both chambers citing COVID-19 concerns. On Tuesday afternoon, the Roosevelt County Chamber of Commerce announced it would move its banquet from Jan. 20 to March 3. The following day, the Clovis-Curry County Chamber of Commerce followed suit, pushing its Jan. 21 banquet to March 4. In releases from each chamber, reasons cited included the recent rise in COVID-19 cases, plus new requirements in the Jan. 7 public health order changing seating...
CLOVIS — The Curry County Commission didn’t have a special meeting after all, following a commissioner’s inadvertent vote against a policy ratification he intended to support. The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled against Occupational Safety and Health Administration requirements of vaccinations or weekly COVID-19 testing for employers of 100 or more people, removing the commission’s need to revisit the policy ratification. Curry County Manager Lance Pyle amended policy earlier this month to align with the OSHA requirements, an...
