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CLOVIS — The Clovis Municipal Schools Board of Education recognized the Clovis High marching band for strong finishes in recent competitions at the board's regular monthly meeting on Tuesday. CMS Director of Music Education Brandon Boerio told the board about the band's results this year including a second-place finish at the Bands of America Regional Championship and winning the Grand Champion award at the Zia Marching Festival, the de facto state championship, for the fifth straight year. Band President Adilene R...
PORTALES — Fans of former Melrose standout Cade Barnard will get to see him play in New Mexico one more time. Barnard’s new school, Seminole, will be the home team in Thursday’s Texas Class 4A Division II Bi-District Championship, set for 6 p.m. MST at Greyhound Stadium. The Indians bring a 9-1 record into the contest against Dalhart, which enters the contest at 3-7 overall. The Wolves made the playoffs despite a losing overall and district (1-3) record because 4A-2 Region I District 1 receives four representatives in the p...
How different the news of recent weeks would be if more people understood their rights and responsibilities. Some say people who care about rights are trying to downplay responsibilities. For anyone who actually understands what rights are, nothing could be farther from the truth. A right is anything you can do without crossing the equal and identical rights of others. If it violates someone or their property, or obligates others to provide you with something at their...
Of all the many “tell all” books I have ever seen advertised, the only one I can think of that comes close to actually “telling all” is Donna Brazile’s “Hacks.” I haven’t read the book yet, but the reviews and pre-issue extracts have convinced me that I will do my part to ensure that the book remains on the New York Times best seller list. What follows is a partial list of those Brazile throws under the bus in her latest book. Barack Obama’s neglect left the party broke and i...
CLOVIS — Fitting that Teya Morris is going from Wildcat to Falcon. A Wildcat is a formidable creature that can't be taken lightly. But a Falcon gets to leave the ground, soar high through the air. That's essentially what teenagers do when they leave home for college, what high school athletes do when they step up to college athletics. And it's what Morris will do next year when she moves on from Clovis High's girls basketball team — the Lady Wildcats — to play Division II wo...
CLOVIS — It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas outside the Curry County Courthouse. Construction of the large Christmas tree displayed in front of the courthouse each year began Tuesday afternoon and is expected to be completed later today. High Plains Historical Foundation President Patsy Delk said the foundation assisted in the decorating of the tree for the first time this year, providing new ornaments in order to "refresh" the look of the tree. "The centennial garden...
On this date ... 1977: The newly elected officers of the Curry County Farmers Union had written a letter to United States President Jimmy Carter asserting that wheat and feed grain prices were too low to be fair to producers. Haney Tate was the new president of the local agriculture group, Doug Reid was vice president, and Bill Patton was secretary-treasurer. They were elected at the Farmers Union annual banquet. American wheat was selling for about $2 a bushel at the time,...
ODESSA, Texas — A body found in a shallow grave in Ector County, Texas, in October has been identified as Fred Hardy McNeal, 26, of Portales. Ector County Sheriff Mike Griffis identified McNeal at a news conference Monday. The Sheriff’s Department said in a news release McNeal was last seen by family in August and described him as “a transient known to hang out in West Odessa.” Messages to family and friends were not immediately returned on Tuesday, but a spokesman for the Odessa funeral home handling services said McNeal...
PORTALES — The Eastern New Mexico Greyhound volleyball team has overcome the obvious growing pains of youth and inexperience during its 2017 campaign to qualify for this year’s Lone Star Conference Tournament. The No. 8 Greyhounds (12-18, 9-11 LSC) will face host team and No. 1-seed Tarleton State tonight at 7:30, in the first round of the LSC’s single-elimination tournament. For the Hounds, it will be the second time in five days that they’ll face the TexAnns (26-5, 18-2) — the conference’s top team and the No. 15 team in Di...
CARLSBAD — Both Clovis swim teams fared well in Saturday’s Carlsbad Invitational, but it was the girls who stood out the most, taking home first place. The Lady Wildcats’ championship point total was 235, far ahead of second-place Hobbs (113). Carlsbad (77), Pedro Vista (52), Farmington (32) and Artesia (25) rounded out the girls participants. “They swam well,” Clovis head coach Vincent DeMaio said of his girls team. “We were actually a lot faster last weekend in Lubbock. ... Lubbock just outweighs us — they have 90 kids...
Booked The following were booked into local jails Monday: Clovis • Michael Sherrod, 28, failure to appear at time and place stated in citation • Denise Apodaca, 42, probation violation • Bryan Seybold, 31, failure to appear at time and place stated in citation • Tamara Aranda, 56, probation violation • Miguel Garcia, 20, probation violation • Tricia Lesly, 37, failure to pay fines, driving on suspended or revoked license • Jimmie Thomas, 64, failure to appear on a felony charge, failure to comply with specific requirements...
PORTALES — Two activists who had previously presented to the Portales Municipal Schools Board of Education plans to change educational priorities in New Mexico reported Monday that their project has stalled. Larry Smith and Bill Calton of the Roosevelt County Republican Party told the board in September that they had been working with local legislators to draft a resolution to establish a state school board and a state superintendent of public instruction. Since then, however, the project has experienced a “lack of mov...
PORTALES — The Eastern New Mexico University Board of Regents on Tuesday tentatively approved a proposal to increase oversight at its branch campuses, but not without concern from officials at ENMU Roswell. The action was recommended by the Legislative Finance Committee in a recent report, and expands the positions of chief information officer, human resource director, and vice president of business affairs — held by Clark Elswick, Benito Gonzales, and Scott Smart, respectively — to encompass the entire ENMU system, inclu...
Today • Chamber Board of Directors — 11:30 a.m. at Clovis Chamber of Commerce. Information: 575-763-3435 • Local Emergency Planning Committee — 1 p.m. at City Hall, Clovis. Information: 575-769-7828 Thursday • Clovis City Commission — 5:15 p.m. in North Annex at Clovis-Carver Public Library. Information: 575-769-7828 • Curry County Commission — 9 a.m. special meeting in commission chambers at county administration building. Information: 575-763-6016 This calendar is a daily listing of area public meetings. To place an item o...
Today • Teen game day — 4:30 p.m. for ages 13-18 at Portales Public Library. Activity: Xbox One free play. Information: 575-356-3940 • Preschool storytime — 10:30 a.m. at Portales Public Library. Story: “Thanks and Giving.” Information: 575-356-3940 • Stitch Addicts — 6:30 p.m. at Clovis-Carver Public Library. Lesson: Crochet tree skirt. Information: 575-763-9687 • Gothic Science Fiction and Noir movie — 7:30 p.m. in room JWLA 112 at Eastern New Mexico University. Movie: “Sleep Dealer.” Information: 575-562-1011 • Fall Jaz...
The pathologist determined the preliminary cause of death to be failure to thrive due to extreme malnutrition. The 6-year-old boy weighed approximately 17 pounds when his father brought him to the hospital on Nov. 3, already deceased. According to charts from the World Health Organization, the average weight for a 6-year-old boy is around 50 pounds. A normal weight for an infant between the ages of 6 months and one year is 17 pounds. The boy, identified as “Liam” on social media and “L.M.R.” in law enforcement records...
