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PORTALES — Portales High School honored Zamorye Cox and Lindsay Blakey Tuesday morning, as they’ll resume their athletic careers at the collegiate level. Cox signed her NLI to play basketball for Eastern New Mexico, while Blakey will resume her volleyball career at New Mexico State next fall. Both players had previously made oral commitments to those programs. A letter of intent is the first action that binds a player to an institution, while an oral commitment can be broken without penalty. Both signed their letters dur...
CLOVIS — Local business leaders, community members and members of the New Mexico state Legislature met at the Clovis Civic Center on Tuesday for the Job Creation Listening Tour where they discussed ideas on how to grow the state economy. Speaker of the New Mexico House of Representatives Brian Egolf, D-Santa Fe, New Mexico Rep. George Dodge, D-Santa Rosa, and New Mexico Rep. Bill McCamley, D-Mesilla Park, were on hand for the discussion, which touched on a wide-rage of economi...
Santa Claus will make an early visit to Portales on Dec. 16 to hand out presents, but he can't do it without a little help. He needs more than just elves: He has volunteers wrapping presents and baking cookies for the children, the Portales Police Department accepting monetary and toy donations, and one lucky officer putting on his suit. It's all part of operation Santa Cop, a free event described as "a way to give needy children or children (ages up to 17) who may not have a...
CLOVIS — Telia Vancleave was 15 when Jessie Clyde "J.C." Tucker was killed at his automobile salvage yard on Sept. 4, 2003, west of Clovis. Deputy District Attorney Brian Stover told jurors on Tuesday that Vancleave witnessed William Hadix, her mother's boyfriend, shoot Tucker, but it took her years to tell the story because she feared Hadix. That's why it took so long for police to charge Hadix with Tucker's slaying. And that, Hadix's attorney Gary Mitchell told jurors, is "...
Everyone likes to be comfortable and avoids discomfort when possible. It’s human nature. Yet your quest for comfort doesn’t give you the right to make everyone else uncomfortable. If you are uncomfortable, change your own situation; don’t demand others make themselves uncomfortable for you. While the world is under no obligation to change to make you happy, it also has no right to impose its own version of what’s best on you. As long as you aren’t harming anyone, you have...
The question being batted around the U.S. Senate these days is whether or not “the greatest deliberating body in the world” would allow Roy Moore to be seated in this august body if he is duly elected by the people of Alabama. Moore is being accused of sexual misconduct with several women, one of whom was 14 at the time of the alleged incident. All of the claims against Moore are alleged to have taken place almost 40 years ago. It is middling strange that the Senate goes int...
DUMAS, Texas — Clovis High’s boys basketball team notched its first milestone of the young season by netting its first win, 65-41, Tuesday night at Dumas High School. Boosted by 21-point second and fourth quarters allowed the Wildcats to bag that first "W," move to 1-1 and bounce back nicely from Saturday’s 75-70 home loss to Rio Rancho. “Always good to get that first win under your belt,” Wildcat coach Scott Robinson said. “It kind of takes that pressure off to get a win. Everybody feels a lot better. Always good to get it....
On this date ... 1972: Funeral services were scheduled for Clifford B. Jones, described in a Clovis News-Journal headline as "Lubbock's Number One Citizen." Jones, 87, helped found Texas Tech University, later serving as its third president. The football stadium at the school was named in his honor, as was a large power generating station near Lubbock. In his lifetime, Jones served as mayor of Lubbock, and also had successful careers as a banker, rancher, educator, and...
HOBBS — The Lady Wildcats expected Tuesday night’s season opener against Hobbs to be a tough draw and boy, were they right. Though they kept it close early, the Lady ’Cats lost by a 72-48 margin to one of the state’s best teams. “It’s a tough road game when it’s the first road game of the season,” Clovis head coach Jeff Reed said. “But I’ve been telling people for a long time, we need to know where we are. So we need to put it in perspective. “I was glad that we didn’t lay down and get blown out by 40 or 50,” Reed added. “I...
MELROSE — More than two decades ago, Jimmy Joe Robinson had a coaching vacancy on his boys' basketball team at Melrose. Robinson, who'd won two titles at Melrose, needed an assistant and eventual successor. There was only one catch; the person hired had to coach the football team, too. Fair to say it's worked out pretty well for Dickie Roybal. Now, 21 years, nine titles and 186 wins later, Roybal is hanging it up as a football coach for the Buffaloes. Roybal, who will stay o...
PORTALES — The Rams avoided a late Muleshoe rally in their girls basketball season opener Tuesday night, and came out with a 48-43 victory at the Ram Athletic Center. Portales (1-0) led by as many as 14 at one point in the fourth quarter, only to see Muleshoe pull within three in the final two minutes. The Rams, however, managed to hold off the late surge. “It looked like a first game for us,” Rams coach Wade Fraze said. “We saw spurts where things worked like they should, we looked pretty decent. And then, we saw spurts...
Booked The following were booked into local jails through Tuesday: Clovis • John Montes, 25, probation violation • James Pacheco, 40, probation violation • Angela Gardner-Wilson, 46, shoplifting • Deann Ritch, 44, possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of marijuana, failure to appear at time and place stated in citation, theft of identity, forgery, fraud • Minnie Hernandez, 43, probation violation • Omar Millirans, 32, felony possession of a controlled substance • Stephanie Cerda, 28, felony possession of a controlled...
CLOVIS — The Clovis/Curry County Chamber of Commerce is accepting nominations for its annual awards, according to a chamber press release. Nominations will be accepted until 5 p.m. on Dec. 29 and the nomination form can be found on the chamber’s website at: www.clovisnm.org Forms can also be requested by calling 575-763-3435. The awards include 2017 Citizen of the Year, Chamber Volunteer of the Year, Business of the Year, Heart Award, Ken Huey Patriot Award, Ambassador of the Year, Young Professional of the Year and the Lif...
TUCUMCARI — A former faculty member of Mesalands Community College has pleaded guilty to fourth-degree felony charges of child solicitation by electronic communication device and contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Robert Moreau, 51, a former fine arts instructor at Mesalands, signed a plea agreement on Nov. 1 before 10th Judicial District Judge Ablert J. Mitchell. The two charges involved a then-minor student who said Moreau had sexual encounters with him in exchange for money and alcohol. Moreau agreed to a three-ye...
Today’s family in need: This family has four children: Two boys, 2 and 7, and two girls, 5 and 9. The mother raises the children while the dad goes anywhere he can find employment, according to Salvation Army Lt. Kelly Berggren. “They come to our social service office for food and have asked for help this Christmas,” Berggren said. “They would appreciate any help they can get.” About the Empty Stocking Fund: The fund is a joint venture of the Salvation Army and The Eastern New Mexico News. The fund helps low-income families...
Thursday • Curry County DWI Task Force — 4 p.m. at Curry County Administration Complex. Information: 575-763-6016. Friday • Water Policy Advisory Committee — 7:30 a.m. at City Hall, Clovis. Information: 575-769-7828 Tuesday • Portales City Council — 6:30 p.m. in council chambers at the Memorial Building. Information: 575-356-6662 ext. 1012 • Roosevelt County Commission — 9 a.m. in commission room at the county courthouse. Information: 575-356-5307 • Curry County Commission — 9 a.m. at the county administration buil...
Today • Tween program — 4:30 p.m. for ages 9-12 at Portales Public Library. Activity: Xbox one free play. Information: 575-356-3940 • Preschool storytime — 10:30 a.m. at Portales Public Library. Story: “Coloriffic.” Information: 575-356-3940 • Stitch Addicts — 6:30 p.m. at Clovis-Carver Public Library. Lesson: Crochet tree skirt. Information: 575-763-9687 Thursday • Teen program — 4:30 p.m. for ages 13-18 at Portales Public Library. Activity: Superhero wall art. Information: 575-356-3940 • Page Turners book club — 6:30 p.m....
Some conspiracy-minded educators who sit on the state Legislature’s Education Study Committee seem to think it’s their job to rewrite the U.S. history exam administered to New Mexico students at the end of the school year. Matt Montaño, the state Public Education Department’s deputy secretary for teaching and learning, was grilled by committee members earlier this month about what’s not on this year’s standardized U.S. history exam, which assesses students’ proficiency in the subject. He explained a number of test questio...
