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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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FOOTBALL Prep summary Saturday Class 5A playoffs First round Clovis 0 0 0 7 — 7 Las Cruces High 14 7 14 7 — 42 Scoring summary First quarter LC — Zayke Hawkins 10 run (kick good), 5:46 LC — Dallas Boyd 14 run (kick good), 1:25 Second quarter LC — Elijah Ogas 5 run (kick good), 3:34 Third quarter LC — Hawkins 52 run (kick good), 11:40 LC — Hawkins 32 pass from Boyd (kick good), 3:58 Fourth quarter C — R.J. Nora 2 run (Ki Cox kick), 6:39 LC — Boyd 43 run (kick good), 4:58 Records — Clovis 3-7, Las Cruces High 6-4. Prep play...
TYLER, Texas — Most times, a tie might feel like kissing your sister. For the Eastern New Mexico University women’s soccer team, though, it had to feel more like a victory at the end of a tough season. ENMU wrapped up its 2021 campaign on Saturday, battling Texas-Tyler to a 1-1 Lone Star Conference standoff. It was the Greyhounds’ second tie in 15 matches — both in coming in road conference tilts — after a 2-1 start to the campaign. Outshot all day by the Patriots, ENMU (2-14-2, 0-11-2 LSC) forged in front in the 62nd minu...
Nov. 10 On this date … 1951: Peru State Teachers College scored twice in the fourth quarter, coming from behind to beat Eastern New Mexico University, 19-7. The loss was the first of the season for the Greyhounds. It was also the 'Hounds first loss since the previous season, when they also lost to Peru, 20-13. “The Greyhounds still have a conference championship and a lot of pleasant memories from the highly successful 1951 football season,” the Portales Daily News reported. Three touchdown passes were the difference in th...
When is a win not a win? If we don’t care how we win, we won’t ask the question. If a W is a W is a W, and we don’t care how it finds its way into our life’s “win-loss” column, the question above is nonsensical, not worth the breath it takes to be uttered. A coach, at any level, can win an incredible number of games and still be a loser if he/she cheats to do it. Those Ws won’t mean anything. At least, not anything good. If he turns a blind eye to deplorable conduct by hi...
ENMU choirs on tour PORTALES — The Eastern New Mexico University Chamber and Swanee Singers are touring central New Mexico Nov. 14–17, including performances at Monte Vista Christian Church, the University of New Mexico and several high schools in the Albuquerque and Santa Fe area. “I am so thrilled for the Chamber Singers and Swanee Singers to be touring again, for the first time since 2019,” ENMU Director of Choral Activities Jason Paulk said. “We have two public concerts that I hope our alumni, friends and family wi...
Merchandise being sold CLOVIS — The Clovis Action Team is now selling official merchandise packages featuring the new Clovis community brand, according to a release from the Clovis/Curry County Chamber of Commerce. Businesses can purchase items including shirts, car decals, postcards, shot glasses featuring the “heartfelt connections, endless horizons” branding at wholesale prices. Merchandise packages are available at allinclovis.com. As part of the at-cost purchase agreement, retailers must sell items for the price set b...
PORTALES - Meghan De los Reyes has had quite a journey in her college coaching career. A native of Massachusetts, she's been an assistant coach at Alaska-Anchorage, Southern Oregon and, most recently, Chico State in California. Now she assumes her first head coaching role, leading the Eastern New Mexico University women's program as the Greyhounds try to bounce back from a year of inactivity due to the COVID-19 pandemic. ENMU played three preseason exhibitions, and will open...
MeLROSE - Of all the area teams still playing football this week, Melrose probably had to do the least amount of scouting. That's because the foe, Tatum, is so familiar that the teams were probably ready to meet for the 8-man state championship right after last week's semifinals. Excluding the COVID-shortened 2020-21 campaign, the second-seeded Buffaloes (7-1) will seek their sixth title in seven seasons on Friday night when they take on the top-seeded Coyotes (9-1) in a 7...
PORTALES - Roosevelt County is admittedly behind on the decennial redistricting required under the U.S. Census process, but county officials don't believe they'll have any issues handling the matter by the Dec. 30 deadline. By a 3-0 vote, commissioners approved a $14,000 agreement with Research and Polling of Albuquerque. County Clerk Mandi Park said both Research and Polling and New Mexico Demographic Research offered similar packages, with a $9,000 option to give...
CLOVIS - The city's busiest intersection had a hot mess on its hands Monday afternoon, with traffic backed up due to a car fire at 21st and Prince. Clovis Fire Department Battalion Chief John Bradley said the department received calls at 2:09 p.m., and arrived shortly after to find a 2016 Corvette engulfed. The fire was knocked out in about 15 minutes, Bradley said. The call that came in to dispatch was for a car explosion, but Bradley said he couldn't confirm if that took...
Ceremonies today and Thursday and a parade on Saturday will highlight Veterans Day observances in Curry and Roosevelt counties. At 1 p.m. Wednesday, a public ceremony will be held for the hanging of a commemorative Vietnam War flag in the Clovis-Carver Public Library’s hallway leading to its North Annex. The flag will be available for public viewing after the ceremony. The library is located at 701 N. Main St., Clovis. More information is available by calling the library at 575-769-7840. At 10 a.m. Thursday, a ceremony h...
CLOVIS — An ad hoc animal control task force quickly came to agreement on one thing Monday night, as it was succinctly put by Justin Howalt. “We’re not going to solve the problem this evening,” Clovis’ city manager said as task force members met for 30 minutes to take a first glance at spay/neuter issues and other pet-related problems the city has faced — some longstanding and some more recent. The task force, which began the meeting with each member introducing themselves and noting what pets they had, was formed prim...
SANTA FE — The bad news in Monday’s COVID-19 case update from the New Mexico Department of Health: Curry County registered 48 new cases between Saturday and Monday. The worse news: The case count wasn’t even in the top 10 across the state, as a total 3,370 new cases were reported Monday. The DOH report included 11 deaths, with none from Curry or Roosevelt counties. Eight counties reported triple-digit COVID-19 cases on Monday, compared to five on the Oct. 2 weekend roundup. The leading counties were Bernalillo with 774 cases...
I have discovered a whole new set of heroes, doing important work; definitely worth sharing. Learning there was an event for our third graders at the Clovis Events Center, next to the fairgrounds, I dropped by to see what was going on. “Farm Safety Day” is offered not only to all of our third graders from across the Clovis Municipal Schools district, but also third graders from around the region: Portales, Dora, Elida, Floyd, Bovina, Friona, Grady, San Jon, Texico, and Clovis Christian School. That’s quite a passel of littl...
There are more than 10 million job openings in America right now. The worker shortage is contributing to goods shortages, rising prices and supply network problems. One solution often proposed now is to raise the minimum wage, but that wouldn’t work. Instead, policymakers should loosen never-needed regulatory barriers to job creation, rein in excessive occupational licensing, lower trade barriers, relax zoning and land-use regulations, and work to keep inflation in check. Minimum-wage advocates argue, correctly, that higher p...
Pretending the Jan. 6 demonstration was an insurrection is silly. An “insurrection,” which didn’t seek to topple any government, which was in support of the sitting president, and where the armed people were all on the other side? Nonsense. On top of this, it infuriates me that anyone could be charged with a crime for entering a building that belongs to the people — not to government — and for protesting there. To treat this as a crime is injustice. Any government pursuing...
The port city of Glasgow in southern Scotland is a happening place right now. So much so that even the governor of a small state feels she must be there. Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham went to Glasgow for the first week of the United Nations’ conference on climate change to represent New Mexico’s interests on the world stage. She hails from a state that’s part of the problem and part of the solution. We’re part of the problem in that we’re a big producer of oil and gas, major emitters of carbon into the atmosphere, and we ca...
LUBBOCK - With no experience as a college football head coach or coordinator, Joey McGuire appeared to be a long shot to take over at Texas Tech after the dismissal of Matt Wells. He appeared to be a long shot until the Tech search committee interviewed him, that is. McGuire, who led Cedar Hill High School to three state championships before joining the staff at Baylor for the past five seasons, on Monday was named the Red Raiders' next head coach. "We are excited for this...
PORTALES — The night before Eastern New Mexico University’s football team was to leave for the Houston area and a game against North American University on Saturday, first-year Greyhounds coach Tye Hiatt received some devastating news. His older brother, Calvin, 43, was killed Wednesday night in an accident near the family’s home town of Vale, Oregon, in the eastern part of the state. Calvin Hiatt died when a trailer hauling a bull for sale for his father, a cattle rancher, came loose and forced the truck he was driving to ov...
PORTALES — First-year Eastern New Mexico University men’s basketball coach Brent Owen made no bones about the fact that the Greyhounds were picked for 14th place in the 17-team Lone Star Conference preseason poll. “That’s definitely locker room material,” Owen said Monday as the Hounds prepare to open the 2021-22 campaign against Fort Lewis on Saturday and New Mexico Highlands on Sunday, both set for 1 p.m., in the LSC/RMAC Conference Challenge at The Pit in Albuquerque. “That’s where they think we’re at, and it’s up to us t...
LUBBOCK — Clovis High’s swimmers opened the 2021-22 season with top-five team finishes over the weekend in the Lubbock Fall Invitational. The Wildcats were fourth in the 31-school competition with 288 points, trailing Lubbock High (603), Andrews (443) and Lubbock Coronado (316). Meantime, the Lady Wildcats garnered third place with 307 points, behind only Coronado (644) and Lubbock High (619). “We were pretty excited about both teams’ finishes,” Gordy Westerberg, who serves as a co-coach for the team with Vincent de Maio,...
FARWELL — The Farwell Steers have drawn a tough first-round opponent in the Texas Class 2A Division I playoffs — the two-time defending state runnerup Post Antelopes. Perhaps fortunately, though, Post was hit by graduation and isn’t quite the same squad this season. The Antelopes bring a 4-6 record and the No. 3 seed from District 2 into Friday’s 7 p.m. (CST) matchup at Levelland. Still, Steers coach Darren Kelley said his squad figures to have its work cut out. “We’ll have to play well,” he said. “They’re big, and they’ve go...
LAS CRUCES — Clovis High had its chances, especially early, in Saturday’s Class 5A first-round playoff game against Las Cruces High. In the end, the Bulldawgs were just too much. Cruces, seeded fifth in the 12-team bracket, scored early and often and ended the 12th-seeded Wildcats season with a 42-7 victory. The Bulldawgs (6-4) will stay right there at the Field of Dreams, facing intracity rival and fourth-seeded Centennial (9-1) in a 2 p.m. quarterfinal kickoff on Saturday. Cruces scored on its first two possessions bef...
Two of Roosevelt County’s last surviving World War II veterans are expected to receive special recognition at Thursday’s 10:30 a.m. Veterans Day observance at the Portales Memorial Building. Alfredo Bachicha Jr., and Clarence Thompson both had somehow “slipped through the net” when other WWII veterans were previously honored, according to Mike Woolley, a retired Air Force colonel and lifetime member of the American Legion, which hosts the annual event. Bachicha and numerou...
Booked The following were booked into local jails (Friday-Tuesday): Clovis • Billy McElroy, 68, failure to appear at time and place stated in citation • Keon Jackson, 27, probation violation, failure to appear on a felony charge, possession of a controlled substance • Weston Casey, 33, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge, failure to pay fines, failure to appear on a felony charge • Thomas Ferguson, 36, embezzlement, possession of a controlled substance, receiving stolen property • Tranell Pleasant, 32, trafficki...
