Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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PORTALES - Members of the Portales Municipal Schools Board of Education and other PMS staff toured the recently renovated Portales Junior High School cafeteria prior to Monday night's board meeting. Michael Rael, project manager for Nick Griego & Sons, highlighted the changes to the cooking area, which included new flooring, ceiling, dishwasher, restrooms and kitchen equipment in what he called "a complete gut and renovation of the interior." Superintendent Johnnie Cain said...
I recently read a well-written obituary by James R. Hagerty in The Wall Street Journal. The story focused on a woman who so loved to be in the spotlight that her former husband — she had four and divorced four — simply said, “To say that (she) loved publicity would be a massive understatement. She lived for publicity.” Hagerty wrote, “More than 30 years before she died, she had her own tombstone engraved,” noting on it that “her father was a prominent neurologist a...
Despite the exclusion of Clovis and Portales from the 5A and 4A brackets, the eastern side of the state is still pretty well represented when the state volleyball tournament starts on Thursday. Texico is the second seed in Class 2A, and more than half the Class 1A field comes from local districts. The tournament begins Thursday with pool play and first-round matches throughout Rio Rancho at the Santa Ana Star Center, Rio Rancho High and Cleveland High. Friday’s quarterfinal r...
FCCLA members attend conference ARTESIA — About 25 Clovis High School Family, Career and Community Leaders of America members attended the Career Technical Student Organization Leadership Conference in Artesia last month, according to sophomore Heidy Alonso, vice-president of public relations for Clovis FCCLA. Alonso said five or six New Mexico school districts attended the Oct. 30 conference, which was aimed to help FCCLA students “improve our chapters, become better leaders and improve our communities.” Finance direc...
CLOVIS — Clovis High’s head football coach Cal Fullerton thought last Saturday’s 24-21 season-ending loss to Las Cruces was a microcosm of the season. For a while, it was hard to tell which direction the Wildcats were headed, how things would turn out. It got rough in the middle, but the ’Cats kept playing hard. Saturday, Las Cruces took a 14-0 lead on Clovis. “I thought our kids could’ve thrown the towel in right then,” Fullerton said. But it was 14-14 before halftime. The...
This is the season of fall festivals and dressing up as scary or funny characters for Halloween. However, another holiday taking place this time of year is El Día de los Muertos; originally known as Día de Muertos, it translates to Day of the Dead. In learning about this holiday, celebrated at several of our schools, the commonly recurring thread was, “It’s not Halloween, and it’s not scary.” Originally celebrated at the beginning of summer — and we’re talking a few hundred y...
PORTALES — There’s a lot of travel this week in the Class 4A playoffs. Round-trip, the road teams in this weekend’s quarterfinals will travel 1,856 miles — a little more than the distance from Albuquerque to Toronto — and that includes just 46 miles in Friday’s Bloomfield-Kirtland Central matchup. Aztec, Grants and Lovington aren’t so lucky, traveling to St. Pius X, Portales and Taos, respectively, for Saturday matchups. The Grants Pirates will likely be two hours into th...
PORTALES - From the German prison camps of the "Great War" to the nebulous contours of the "War on Terror," Portales this year celebrated the range of military service among Roosevelt County sons and daughters for the centennial of the 1918 Armistice that first defined Veterans Day. "To forget our veterans is not only a shame, but it is the surest way to lead us into war and the eventual downfall of our great nation," said Cannon Air Force Base's 27th Special Operations...
