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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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HOBBS — The Clovis junior varsity football team ended its season a few weeks ago, but most involved with the Wildcats are still upset over the unexpected costs of an Oct. 25 win at Hobbs. The Wildcats entered the locker room jubilant after their 42-22 victory, but soon a large group of players found their stuff was missing. According to a Thursday report from the Hobbs News-Sun, four Hobbs teenagers were alleged to have entered the locker room during the game and stolen more than $4,600 in cash and valuables. The four s... Full story
RIO RANCHO - The Clovis High School boys cross country team was up on the podium at Rio Rancho Stadium Saturday afternoon, happily accepting the red trophy emblematic of its second-place finish in the Class 5A cross country state championships. The Wildcats, who'd finished fourth in 2017, just missing a trophy - after an eighth-place finish in '16 and a 10th-place finish in '15, naturally had their sights set on the first blue trophy in school history. But when repeat...
PORTALES - A group of five former Rams, two of them still in Portales, punched its ticket last week to next year's National Senior Olympics. The quintet of Robert Armijo, Adolph Cordova, Paul Maynes, Ike Montoya and Benny Ortiz, went 5-0 in the 50-to-54 three-on-three basketball field, with competition held last weekend in Albuquerque. They'll be going back to Albuquerque next year, as the city will host the national Senior Olympics as well. They'll be joined by numerous...
Clovis' volleyball team put up a good fight, but the Lady Wildcats' season likely ended with Thursday night's 3-1 loss at Hobbs. Clovis won the first set of Thursday's District 4-5A semifinal match before the Lady Eagles took control and won 22-25, 25-7, 25-13, 25-18. The loss dropped Clovis to 6-14, and head coach Ruth Chavez wasn't expecting a state tournament bid to be coming afterward. She was impressed with her young team's evolution from August to November. "We showed...
PORTALES — Graduate student Kaitlyn Caro, who scored two goals for the Eastern New Mexico women’s soccer team, was named a first-teamer on the CoSIDA Google Cloud Academic All-District regional team, according to a school release. Caro is eligible for the All-American level honor from CoSIDA, which will be announced in December. Caro holds an undergraduate degree in computer science from Texas Woman’s, and is working on a master’s degree in business administration....
It was fun while it lasted. And boy, did it last a while. The Clovis High boys soccer team had its magical season ended Thursday, but it took the No. 1 team in 5A, the No. 1 team on Maxpreps, to do the job. That team, Cleveland High out of Rio Rancho, beat Clovis 4-2 in the state 5A semifinal at the Bernalillo Soccer Complex, ending one of the best Wildcat soccer runs in a while. But Cleveland junior striker Gabriel Legendre was on a run of his own, scoring a hat trick that alone was enough to top the fifth-seeded ’Cats, w...
FARWELL — To say Farwell’s football team will go rolling into the state playoffs might be understating it. Try steamrolling. The area’s last team still playing regular-season games ended its regular season with a 42-8 road rout of Texas 2A Region I District 2 rival Sudan, the Steers’ ninth straight victory. It was one of two regional victories on the weekend, with Melrose destroying fourth-seeded Magdalena 54-12 in the eight-man quarterfinals. Three other area teams weren’t so lucky. The Clovis Wildcats fell 24-21 in a back-a...
STEPHENVILLE, Texas — Eastern New Mexico sophomore Jasmine Gannon pulled a pair of Lone Star Conference volleyball awards, announced Wednesday night at the conference postseason banquet. Gannon, an outside hitter from Texico High School, was placed on the All-LSC first team and joined senior middle blocker Jennifer Martinez on the all-academic team. The all-conference teams are selected by the league’s head coaches. All-academic selections are made by the league’s sports information directors. Eligible players appeared at le...
ALBUQUERQUE — Michael Ranson and Riley Farris hit 3-pointers on consecutive possessions in the closing minutes, and the Fort Lewis Skyhawks got a balanced effort to upend Eastern New Mexico 82-74 Friday night to open the New Mexico Classic. Keven Biggs went 5-for-7 from beyond the arc, and scored 20 points to lead four in double figures for Fort Lewis in a game that featured seven lead changes and the final score as the game’s biggest lead for either team. Farris scored 19 points and had a team-high five rebounds, while Mar...
PORTALES - It wasn't the season Eastern New Mexico's football team hoped for, not by a longshot. But ENMU went out a winner, holding off Western Oregon 19-14 on Saturday, Senior Day at Greyhound Stadium. A big tackle of Western Oregon quarterback Ty Currie, fittingly by fifth-year senior Brad Hardin, ended a Western Oregon drive that had reached the Eastern New Mexico 7 with less than two minutes to go in the fourth quarter. Hardin's stop preserved the victory that landed...
PORTALES - Opening night. There isn't much in sports that quite compares to it. And when opening night ends with a victory? Way cooler. The Eastern New Mexico women's basketball team broke the seal on its 2018-19 season in way cool style Friday at Greyhound Arena, with a 66-38 victory over New Mexico Highlands. It was also the first night of the Lone Star/Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Challenge, but being Day 1 of the season was even more important, more special. After a...
Voter turnout New Mexico, 55 percent Curry County, 44.28 percent Roosevelt County, 46.13 percent New Mexico U.S. Senator Martin T. Heinrich (D), 372,203 Gary E. Johnson (L), 106,101 Mick Rich (R), 210,942 U.S. Representative District 2 Xochitl Torres Small (D), 99,632 Yvette Herrell (R), 96,836 District 3 Ben R. Lujan (D), 154,292 Christopher Manning (L), 13,200 Jerald Steve McFall (R), 76,129 Governor/Lieutenant Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham/Howie C. Morales (D), 393,364 Steve Pearce/Michelle Garcia Holmes (R), 295,339...
It appears eastern New Mexico will have two new first-time lawmakers heading to Santa Fe in January, though the race for District 63 state representative may not be officially decided until December. Unofficial results show Republican Martin Zamora defeated Democrat incumbent George Dodge Jr. by 26 votes on Tuesday — 2,980 to 2,954. Secretary of State Communications Director Alex Curtas said that race would go to an automatic recount when the state canvassing board, made up of the SOS, governor and chief justice of the New M...
CLOVIS — The Clovis Community College Board of Trustees heard a review of the college’s financial aid for the previous school year during Wednesday’s meeting. Director of Financial Aid April Chavez said for the 2017-18 school year CCC students received about $5.4 million in financial aid, with the majority coming from nearly $3.7 million in federal Pell Grants awarded to approximately 1,100 students. Also at Wednesday’s meeting (all votes 5-0): n The board approved a revised drug-free workplace and campus policy. Directo...
CLOVIS — The city of Clovis plans to close the outside north-bound lane on the south side of the Hull Street overpass on Thursday. A city news release said the lane will be closed from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. so that test sites can be drilled for the railroad. Information: 505-857-9876...
PORTALES — After an approximately 35-minute executive session following Tuesday’s meeting, the Portales City Council unanimously voted to join several other municipalities in a lawsuit against the state’s Taxation and Revenue Department. City Attorney Randy Knudson said the city is seeking to recover funds it believes should have been paid in the form of gross receipts tax revenue, a maximum of about $400,000. Knudson said Albuquerque, Artesia, Bloomfield, Farmington, Jal and Moriarty have already filed suits and a numbe...
Republican challenger Martin Zamora’s slim lead over Democrat incumbent George Dodge Jr. in the District 63 state representative race increased by one vote following the Curry County Commission and Roosevelt County Commission meetings held Friday to canvass the results of Tuesday’s election. When provisional ballots were hand tallied by county officials during the canvassing process, Zamora added two votes in Roosevelt County and Dodge added one vote in Curry County. Also at the Roosevelt County Commission’s Friday meeti...
CLOVIS — Almost two weeks into the ongoing investigation of a near-fatal shooting in Clovis, police on Wednesday charged a man with seven felonies after they say he fled officers on a moped. Ruben Lopez, 24, of Clovis, was charged with aggravated battery and conspiracy to commit armed robbery, among other charges, following the incident Oct. 26 that hospitalized Leroy Jaramillo with life-threatening injuries, according to court records. Investigators said the shooting took place at Jaramillo’s residence on the 300 block of...
The following marriage licenses were filed through Thursday at the Curry County Clerk’s Office: • Ryan Andrew Herick, 22, to Raquel Annette Martinez, 23, both of Clovis • Shawn Ashley Butler, 50, to Johnnie Suetta Jones ,50, both of Fort Worth • David Anthony Talarico, 48, of Westminster, Colorado, to Danielle Renae Bauchat, 42, of Lubbock • Joe W. Garcia, 55, to Monica Simona Mares, 39, both of Clovis • Alexander Robert Rubio, 38, to Maria De Los Angeles Lopez, 31, both of Clovis • Robert Carl Early, 37, to Knieshia Vict...
On this date ... 1960: Parker Woodul, Portales High School's vocational agriculture teacher since 1938, was named teacher of the year by area service clubs. The Texas A&M graduate and World War II veteran came to Portales from Hagerman. He remained a lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserve. 1952: Mary de Shazo died. Today a Muleshoe elementary school is named in her honor. She was known for wearing a red dress during the first week of school so her students would recognize her...
Booked The following were booked into local jails Tuesday-Thursday: Clovis • Mary Gutierrez, 51, driving while license suspended or revoked, failure to register vehicle • Felicia Richardson, 28, battery against a household member • Mark Sawyer, 49, possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of a controlled substance, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge, probation violation • Abelino Chavez, 56, driving while under the influence • Florencio Moncayo, 36, possession of a controlled substance, possession of drug paraphern...
