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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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It’s a long arduous road to a Texas state football championship. And Farwell has taken just one step so far. Friday, the Steers (10-1) will try to take the next one when they play Stratford (6-5) in the Texas 2A D2 Area round at River Road High School not far outside of Amarillo. Kickoff is scheduled for 2 p.m. Central Standard Time. Farwell posted its 10th-straight victory last Friday by routing Van Horn 53-6 at Hobbs High School in the Bi-District round. Now comes a tougher test against a Stratford team that won even bigger...
After 17 years in the same room, at the same desk, in the same chair, I cleaned last week. Oh, I've allowed the cleaning crew to run a vacuum through a few times, and I dusted once, and Kevin Wilson wiped some stuff down that time he borrowed my office, but this was the first time since I moved in that I've actually cleaned out stuff. To be fair, a lot of the drawers and cabinets were stuffed with things that belonged to editors before me - personnel files, resumes,...
CLOVIS - Hark, for bell and kettle season is nigh upon us. Clovis' Salvation Army office is recruiting volunteers to take part in its iconic seasonal fundraiser, ringing the bell and collecting donations in a kettle container outside local businesses between Friday and Christmas Eve. Organizers are hoping the community will turn out with bells on, and they already have 40 or 50 volunteers enlisted from among supporting community entities. You may see them any time from 9 a.m....
PORTALES — So, it’s back to the state 4A semifinals for the Portales football team. But, the Rams managed to reach this point last year and things didn’t turn out so well. It is of course a different year, a somewhat different Portales team, a distinctly different opponent, a noticeably different locale. Last year’s senior-laden Rams team had to go on the road for the semis and play Robertson, who wound up beating them 20-14. Beginning at 1 p.m. this Saturday, Portale...
PORTALES — The NCAA sent a message Sunday that the South Central region is the cream of the Division II cross country crop, with seven teams selected for both the men’s and women’s national championship on Dec. 1. That confidence in the region meant Eastern New Mexico senior Mercy Rotich got an automatic invite. Rotich finished 15th in Saturday’s South Regional championship at Metro State, and looked at that point like she might be on the bubble for an individual invite....
EL PASO, Texas — Eastern New Mexico ended Monday night just five minutes away from pulling off what would have easily been the biggest win of the Tres Segler era, even it it technically wouldn’t have counted in any standings. Instead, Evan Gilyard and Divsion-I Texas-El Paso made just enough plays down the stretch to hold off a huge exhibition upset and claim a 66-59 win Monday Night at the Don Haskins Center. The Greyhounds, who were coming off an 88-60 rout of Jarvis Christi...
ABILENE, Texas — Longtime fans of Eastern New Mexico will fondly remember a time when the Abilene Christian Wildcats were a Lone Star Conference rival and the teams usually had a pair of close battles annually. That was then, this is now. The Wildcats, now in Division-I, certainly played the part Saturday, jumping out to a 24-8 first-quarter advantage en route to a 78-46 rout to hand the Greyhounds their first defeat of the season. Breanna Wright scored 17 points on 5-of-10 s...
There's no need to eat alone this Thanksgiving, not with free community meals prepared to serve hundreds in Portales and Clovis. Two such annual events are entering their 16th or 17th year running, according to their organizers. In both cases the meals run from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., with the Lighthouse Mission planning to serve at least 500 in Clovis while the "Community Outreach" group is preparing to serve as many in Portales' Memorial Building. Veterans of Foreign Wars Post...
Monday • Clovis Parks, Recreation and Beautifcation Committee — 5 p.m., Clovis city hall. Information: 575-769-7870. Dec. 10 • Clovis High Plains Historical Foundation — 5:30 p.m.-6:15 p.m., Ingram Room, Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main St., Clovis. Information: 575-309-9893 To place an item on the meetings calendar, call the newsroom at 575-763-6991 or e-mail: [email protected]...
I’ve been enjoying re-reading Jan Karon’s books set in Mitford, North Carolina, centering on the life and ministry of the community’s Episcopal priest, Father Tim Kavanagh. I like Father Tim. My wife goes further: she says I am Father Tim. My wife is usually right, but she’s wrong on this one. Father Tim is a much better pastor and a much nicer fellow than the preacher my wife lives with. But nonetheless it does me good to spend time with the kind rector, and I’m usually m...
I recently heard about a great program going on at our Clovis High School Freshman Academy. Called, “Educational Methodology,” it is facilitated by CHSFA’s versatile Tiffany Grimes. Grimes has taught technology as well as careers in the past, and this new program aligns perfectly with her past experience as well as her love of helping kids. Grimes carved out some time to describe the program. “Our new program, Educational Methodology, has a full curriculum, and I have 53 stud...
CLOVIS — The Clovis/Curry County Chamber of Commerce is accepting nominations for awards to be given at its 2019 chamber banquet. The banquet is scheduled for Jan. 18 at the Clovis Civic Center. Ticket sales begin Dec. 3. Nominating forms are available either by calling the chamber at 575-763-3435 or by downloading the form at clovisnm.org. The following awards are open for nomination: • Citizen of the year • Chamber volunteer of the year • Business of the year • Heart award • Ken Huey patriot of the year • Ambassador of...
PORTALES — The city of Portales has notified residents that construction work on Kilgore Street at the intersection of Second and Kilgore is complete. The street is now open to traffic....
CLOVIS — ’Tis the season for giving, and ’tis the season for food drives. It’s a pretty safe bet you’ve already seen at least one holiday food drive going on, and it’s a virtual guarantee you’ll see more in the last few months of 2018. But what foods are best to donate? We asked Dianna Sprague, executive director of the Food Bank of Eastern New Mexico, what’s best to give. If you’re giving directly to a food bank or charity, cash is king. “We can purchase things so much more inexpensively than an average person, because we...
CLOVIS - Following an executive session that lasted nearly twice the length of the regular meeting that preceded it, the Curry County Commission moved ahead on purchasing three Main Street properties. By a 4-0 vote - Commissioner Seth Martin was absent - the commission approved purchase of the following three properties and gave County Manager Lance Pyle signatory authority: • 817 Main St.: $46,691 • 819 Main St.: $79,191 • 821 Main St.: $64,191 None of the three prope...
CLOVIS — Clovis High School had a brief lockdown Monday afternoon, and two teens were arrested in an incident that started with a plastic imitation gun. According to a release from the Clovis Police Department, officers were dispatched to CHS about 1 p.m. in reference to a subject with a firearm. School staff advised a parent had reported seeing a male student with a gray and black hooded sweatshirt and a gray backpack and a firearm in his waistband. The report put the school into a Level 1 lockdown, where instruction c...
Unlike those merry characters in the folk song, “Over the River and Through the Woods,” I’ve never once boarded a sleigh and raced through “white and drifted snow” to my grandmother’s house for Thanksgiving. The rambling house where I live grew from a core built by my grandparents long years ago. When my parents married, they built on an end for themselves and the two couples lived together but apart for the next few years. My grandmother died a year or so before I came alon...
PORTALES - Roosevelt County has a new clerk, made official Tuesday with the appointment of Stephanie Hicks and recognition of her predecessor in the county's commission meeting. DeAun Searle was recognized for her years of service, holding the head clerk position since December 2013 and retiring this month. Commissioners in turn voted unanimously to appoint Hicks, her deputy clerk, to the position. The position will be up for election again in 2020. "I love my job and I'm...
On this date ... 1899: Evelina Twilla was an infant, having been born Nov. 19, 1899. She was born in Tennessee, but her family settled in the Field community (west Curry County today) when she was about 8. The pioneer settler wrote about her life’s experiences in 1956, including this tidbit about what teenagers used to do for mischief: “(We) slipped out our mother’s coffee and smoked it,” she wrote. “We smoked cotton leaves, too, after the frost had come.” Twilla married Homer Roach in 1917. Their oldest son was Lee Roach,...
Today • GriefShare grief support group — 6 p.m.-8 p.m., Central Baptist Church, 2501 N. Norris St., Room 203, Clovis. Information: 760-917-3051 or 575-309-4208 • Deadline to enter a float in the Cannon Air Force Base Holiday Parade — 5 p.m. Parade is scheduled for 5 p.m. Nov. 29. Off-base entries require background check to participate. Information: 575-904-6117 Thursday • Portales Community Outreach Thanksgiving meal — 11 a.m-1 p.m., Memorial Building, 200 E. Seventh St., Portales. Deliveries available 10:30 a.m.-12:30...
Booked The following were booked into local jails Friday-Monday: Clovis • Judas Gonzales, 46, parole violation • Marcello Garza, 42, failure to pay fines • Maria Olivas, 33, probation violation • Miguel Galvan, 31, aggravated battery against a household member, possession of a controlled substance, possession of drug paraphernalia • Baynes Hoffman, 18, probation violation • Jerry Aleman, 30, concealing identity, no seat belts, probation violation • Josett Anaya, 36, fraudulent use of a credit card, theft of identity, res...
Picture this: An Arkansas preacher and teacher have six sons who grow up, get married and have children of their own. Then those children grow up and have their own kids. Even the cousins have cousins, and our extended families grow and grow … and so it goes. That’s my family. I’m one of those six sons. We’re scattered all over now, but every year this loud and large family finds its way back to our Ozark Mountain heritage for an epic Thanksgiving reunion. We take over a lodge on a secluded mountaintop, pack in plenty...
It’s not easy to find much we can be collectively thankful for in these divisive political times. So we’ll toss out a few issues that we think we can mostly agree on this holiday week: • While we’re not all thankful eastern New Mexico could soon be home to a racetrack/casino, surely we’re all thankful our economy is healthy enough that four private investor groups are competing for that opportunity. A feasibility study completed for the New Mexico Racing Commission found that Clovis could bring in as much as $66.2 million i...
In those moments when my skepticism falters, the recent midterm elections threaten to give me a little hope. It doesn’t last long. A Congress divided between Republicans and Democrats brings the promise of sweet gridlock, but they always seem to find a way to work together more than is healthy. I am naturally skeptical of those using theft and aggression against the individuals who comprise society — even when they call the theft and aggression “government” or “the law.” As...
