Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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Deputy editor [email protected] The cheapest ticket available to Saturday’s Manny Pacquaio-Floyd Mayweather fight ($1,500) in Las Vegas, Nevada, would buy a pretty solid television and home theater system, with still plenty left over to buy the fight on pay-per-view. link Courtesy photo: Eric Vigil From left, Cory Riegel, Rick Thornton and Lance Thornton look over a car during the 2014 dirt track season at Ned Houk Motor Sports Complex. Dirt track racing is scheduled to b...
Staff Report With more than 1,200 miles of maintained roads to map, Roosevelt County Geographical Information Systems (GIS) technician and flood plain manager Johnny Montiel has a work load that never stops. link Staff photo: Joshua Lucero Roosevelt County Geographical Information Systems technician and flood plain manager Johnny Montiel works at his four-screened computer updating county maps Thursday afternoon. Montiel, who works alone in the county’s GIS and rural a...
The morning reroute... • No traffic on 14th Street from Prince to Main today as the city chipseals pavement from 7 a.m. until about 3 p.m. Cowboy stuff... • Big stuff once...when Las Vegas, New Mexico, was the third largest community in the state...100 years ago. More than 10,000 attended the New Mexico Cowboys’ Reunion. That was then, this is now — Las Vegas is hosting a Cowboys’ Reunion Centennial Celebration the first nine days in August. Features a ranch rodeo and gobs of cowboy art goodies and trinkets. Help honor a v...
MANAGING EDITOR [email protected] Despite a 20 percent increase in range-wide population for the lesser prairie chicken, the local Prairie Chicken Festival has been canceled for the second consecutive year. The festival was held every year in April for 11 years. “Due to the drought-induced dip in prairie chicken numbers, we have not been able to locate enough well-populated, accessible leks (mating grounds) to conduct the festival satisfactorily,” read an email sent from event coordinators to event participants and spo...
Getting gates is no fun, running gates is a lot of work, and doing either in the wind is likely to cause bodily harm to something. Nonetheless, gates are very important and the kind of a gate can make all the difference. link Audra Brown The most well-balanced and always appropriate sort of gate, is a swinging gate. Constructed of otherwise unimpressive pipe, wide enough to fill the gap in the fence without fitting too tight, tall enough to keep all but the most air-inclined...
Carl Dellinger feels fortunate he avoided fighting in an unpopular war that changed a nation. link Dellinger He attended ENMU during a tumultuous time on campus across the nation. "I was in the first year of the lottery system to go to Vietnam. I got number 210 and was not selected," remembers Dellinger, who graduated from ENMU in 1970. "I disagreed with the war but like to believe I would have gone if drafted rather than vacationing in Canada. "I lost several friends to the...
May 1link On this date … 1970: The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the conviction of a Portales doctor convicted of selling amphetamine pep pills. Dr. Donald Munroe and his wife, Marin Munroe, were found guilty in 1968. Mrs. Munroe received a suspended sentence, but Mr. Monroe was sentenced to three months in prison, United Press International reported. 1955: Portales Valley Mills workers discovered the company safe had been cracked the night before while three employees...
I often find myself thinking for long periods of time about how I can possibly make a positive change in the world around me. link Joshua Lucero These thoughts keep me up at night, trying to wrap my head around problems that face our quickly changing world. Being a journalist, I read the news daily and I am always interested in how news stories are able to influence change and start conversations that would have otherwise not have been brought up. Some of the problems I see... Full story
STAFF REPORT Eastern New Mexico University announced Thursday that Gov. Susana Martinez has appointed Dan Patterson to replace late Board of Regents member Brett Leach. Patterson has more than 40 years of experience in education, including in administration. He served as superintendent and deputy superintendent of school districts throughout New Mexico and Colorado, including Moriarty Municipal Schools, Las Cruces Public Schools and Carlsbad Municipal Schools. “We are pleased with Mr. Patterson’s appointment,” said university...
STAFF REPORT Repairs for a gas leak on 18th Street were complete by 6 p.m. Wednesday, according to New Mexico Gas Company Area Manager Danny Deckard, who said the leak was small. “No guests or customer service people were in danger,” he said of the incident, which entailed TLC contractors hitting the line while building the city’s wastewater pipeline, a project that has been underway for weeks now. Decker said the evacuation of residents in the neighborhood where the leak occurred was just a precaution. He said the only... Full story
Saturday • ENMU choir’s Spring Concert — 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Buchanan Hall in the music building. Free and open to the public. Information: 575-562-2377. • Prehistoric New Mexico Open House — 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Blackwater Draw ‘Clovis Site.’ Activities, demonstrations start approximately 10 a.m. Free, open to the public. Information: 575-356-8541. • Roosevelt County Extension Club meeting — 10:30 a.m., McAlister Room. Information: 575-356-4417. Tuesday • Books and Babies — 10:30 a.m., story time for children ages birth t...
Staff Writer [email protected] Just as churches have elders, the Salvation Army has soldiers, according to Clovis Salvation Army commander Lt. Kelly Berggren. And the local army of soldiers is growing. This past weekend, the Clovis Salvation Army added three new soldiers to the organization, bringing the total number to seven. George Hostler, Rosalinda Hostler, and Marcia Sisco joined Linda Thrower, Sharon Fleury, Joseph Green, and Lily Green in the soldier group Sunday at the Salvation Army. Lt. Natalia Berggren said it...
I came across a quote recently: link Patti Dobson "Gossip can be entertaining; occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew" — Vanna Bonta. It reminded me of something that one of my all-time favorite professors, Bill Sheridan, told me: "Never believe your own press, good or bad. You're never as great as you think you are because there's always room to improve; and, you're never as bad as others say you are or make you out to be." My first c...
STAFF WRITER [email protected] A funding program created by the Southern Baptist Convention helps new churches get on their feet. “Our role is to find local churches that are wanting to create a partnership and we bring the financial piece to it,” said Joseph Bunce, executive director of the Baptist Convention of New Mexico. “The church is already planted, but we respond to a request when it’s needed. We try to provide the fuel and resources to make their dream a reality.” Bunce said the Southern Baptist Convention, whic...
link Staff photo: Joshua Lucero Ram senior Ed Banda slides into second after an error made by the Eunice Cardinals’ second baseman Thursday evening during the Rams’ game at Ram baseball field. Derek Major STAFF WRITER [email protected] The Portales baseball team moved its winning streak to six games, sweeping Eunice by identical 6-2 scores in non-district play on Thursday behind complete-game pitching efforts from Grant Wagner and Rey Ornelas at Ram Field. In Game 1, the...
When the attorney general of the state of New Mexico is asked for a legal opinion, or to seek redress in a civil matter, or to look into prosecution of an alleged wrongdoing, you expect that office to carry out its duties irrespective of party lines. Ditto when the state auditor is doing the work of that office to ensure public money is being used as intended and that all is accounted for. These are offices that should by definition inspire confidence fueled in part by a sense of impartiality. They are supposed to be... Full story
I am amazed when otherwise intelligent people believe they couldn't find a way to provide necessary infrastructure and services without committing taxation against their neighbors. link Kent McManigal It makes me wonder how many abolitionists were accused of hating farms and cotton by those who couldn't imagine how fields could be worked in the absence of slaves. For anything currently financed through taxation I can think of several ways it could be financed voluntarily. If I can, you can too. The more knowledgeable you are... Full story
Gazprom, a Russian energy company, is generally conceded to be the largest extractor of natural gas in the world. link Rube Render The company provides Europe with about 30 percent of their natural gas. The Russian government currently holds a majority stake in Gazprom and they wield this power diplomatically and strategically when dealing with their European colleagues. Generally, as fall turns to winter on the continent, any country involved in a dispute with the Russian...
link Amos the Church Mouse Illustrated by Gary Mitchell Editor’s note: Amos is a churchmouse, who types by hopping on the computer keyboard, but he can’t operate the capital shift, and he shuns punctuation marks – except dashes and hyphens. amos all tangled up boss in case you re wondering why there s kool-aid and coffee stains all over this week s column it s because marcellus that mangy malevolent cat has been running amuck lately he s been a holy terror - well maybe not s... Full story
Staff Writer [email protected] At the Clovis High School Spring Showcase, unexpected surprises unfolded behind classroom doors all around the school. In the theater room, students were showing off their impressive improvisational acting skills. With the roll of the dice, students would transition from acting out encountering a dog in the ocean to getting lost in the desert, and even incorporated audience participation in giving them “last lines” to build an act around. Sen...
