Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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From his new gilded perch atop the Coliseum, with the city of Los Angeles suddenly at his fingertips, Lincoln Riley surveyed the scene he now presided over in stunned disbelief. Over one shoulder, the Hollywood sign stretched across the distant Santa Monica Mountains. Over the other, downtown skyscrapers sprouted from the sprawling landscape. Close by, trumpets sounded and Song Girls swayed. It was a surreal picture for a coach who'd spent the vast majority of his life in West...
BASKETBALL Prep summary Saturday Girls Clovis 47, Valencia 34 Valencia (0-2) — Jadyn Montoya 9, Sonja Lopez 3, Elena Lucero 6, Azalia Malizia 8, Zoe Brown 8. Totals 13 3-9 34. Clovis (1-1) — Yvonne Fuerte 6, Paige Harris 5, Mya Slade 1, Zarai Lewis 16, Luisa Chavez 9, Ali Thomas 3, Shalanda Lefevre 7. Totals 16 13-22 47. Valencia 7 3 8 16 — 34 Clovis 12 13 6 16 — 47 3-pointers — Valencia, Brown 2, Malizia 2, Lopez. Clovis, Chavez. Lefevre. Total fouls — Valencia 17, Clovis 9. Fouled out — Brown. Junior varsity — Clovis 38,...
I had a Charlie moment over Thanksgiving. Chef Charlie Broz was my go-to guy for all things “meat” (really, all things cooking). If I had a cooking question, I’d either shoot him an email or walk over to his kitchen. I’d get a story and suggestions with a side of humor. I’d also get snacks. Because it was just the two of us this year, I’d decided to do away with roasting a whole turkey. I had the great idea to whip up a batch of dressing, plop the turkey wings and drumsticks...
I guess I’d better confess. Before I do, may I just say that I thought I could live with the guilt? I tried to convince myself that the transgression was not particularly serious. But now I feel unfaithful. I feel dirty. Like I need a shower. It was Monday afternoon. I’m never at my best on Mondays. I was tired. I was out of town. Temptation is always harder to resist when you’re weary and miles from home. Those are, of course, poor excuses. Want more? I’ve got plenty....
PORTALES - If recent history is any indicator, things could be lining up favorably this season for the Portales High girls basketball team. Under coach Wade Fraze, beginning his ninth season at the helm, PHS captured Class 4A state championships in 2014 and 2018. Both times, the Lady Rams had six seniors on the roster. This year? You guessed it - six seniors, most of whom have considerable experience. Four were starters during last spring's COVID-shortened 10-2 campaign,...
ROSWELL — Malik Phillips and the New Mexico Military Broncos have spent the season trying to prove people wrong. Now they’re looking for two more wins in a bid to claim the title in the National Junior College Athletic Association’s inaugural playoff event. Phillips, a Clovis High grad, is the Broncos’ leading receiver and their main kickoff returner. NMMI (10-1, 7-1 Southwest Junior College Conference) is seeded second and hosts third seed Northwest Mississippi (9-2) in a 2 p.m. semifinal clash on Sunday at the Wool Bowl. ...
CANYON, Texas — Finally, Eastern New Mexico University’s men showed they can play defense. Facing a team ranked 24th nationally in one Division II poll, the Greyhounds held Oklahoma Baptist in check for the most part in claiming a 70-66 victory over the Bison on Saturday night to gain a split in West Texas A&M’s Pak-A-Sak Thanksgiving Classic. The Hounds will be in New Mexico this week for a pair of games, hosting Lone Star Conference rival WT in a non-league outing at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at Greyhound Arena and then takin...
CLOVIS — With a relatively inexperienced squad, this may be a season where few leads are safe for the Clovis High girls basketball team. Saturday may have been an example of that. Fortunately for the Lady Wildcats, their cushion was big enough that when the struggles came they were able to close the deal in a 47-34 victory over Valencia in their home opener at Rock Staubus Gym. The Lady Cats (1-1) trailed once and were tied once in the first five minutes, but eventually built a 17-point lead early in the final stanza. V...
The calendar says December but Mother Nature sure isn’t doing her part to put us in the holiday spirit. However, not to worry. That mild weather means there will be another opportunity to do some volunteer work to spiff up veterans’ grave markers at the Portales Cemetery, and as for that holiday spirit stuff, well, break out your Santa hats, because a merry weekend is coming at us like a runaway reindeer. A new Little Miss Merry Christmas will soon be crowned, Eastern New Mex...
Have you been hearing about the metaverse? What is the metaverse? It’s “virtual reality” taken to another level. Like experiencing the internet as though it’s the world you live in — to see and hear it all around you as if it’s physically real. Imagine the best video game you’ve ever seen, but so much better you have a hard time believing your character isn’t actually you, doing all the things your character is doing, surrounded by other people’s characters experiencing the sa...
Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. I grew up on them. They were the first thing I learned to make in the kitchen. That and a glass of milk. Microwaves hadn’t been invented yet. Playing basketball on a dirt patch in our back yard. That’s where I learned to dribble and shoot with one hand. And football in our front yard. When no one else was around, I’d take the hike from an imaginary center, drop back and throw to the trees, believing that I was the star quarterback for the Arkansas Razorbacks, the only college team that...
Ahmaud Arbery’s killing in February 2020 sounded at first like a horrific flashback to an earlier era in which white men killed Black men for appearing in places they were neither expected nor welcome, and then were coddled instead of arrested and prosecuted by the local police. It brought to mind the distant memory of Emmett Till and more recent one of Trayvon Martin. It seemed a bit more modern when finally, more than two months later, amid mounting public outrage and state pressure, Gregory McMichael, Travis McMichael a...
CLOVIS — The Clovis Salvation Army has put out an appeal for volunteers to be bell-ringers at SA kettle stands throughout the city. Miguel Ibarra, who with his wife Maria Ibarra operates the Salvation Army field officer in Clovis, said the SA’s annual appeal was later than usual this year for personal reasons, but as of last Thursday, the local SA is welcoming individuals and groups willing to stand by red SA kettles and ring bells to entice passersby to drop donations of cash or checks into the kettles. The need for don...
On this date … 1946: Three Dora school teachers, en route to an education conference in Albuquerque, had been hospitalized after their DeSoto crashed into another car on wet pavement on the Clovis highway. Jessie Lott, the car’s driver, was in Clovis’ Memorial Hospital recovering from two fractured ribs and a spine injury. Irene Wall suffered a fractured pelvic bone and was recovering at her father’s home in Portales. Audra Morrison was recovering at her sister’s home in Rogers; she suffered no broken bones and was expected...
CLOVIS - Monday marked one year since Tchicaya "Caya" Williams was killed in a drive-by shooting at her family's apartment. Her family, growing frustrated no arrests have been made on the case, spent an hour in front of the Clovis Police Department on Monday seeking answers. "No one's been arrested," said Franzes Williams, Caya's mother. "I haven't heard anything from them. They keep telling me, 'Be patient.' It's been a year. How much longer can I be patient?" In a May update...
MELROSE — The Melrose Medical Clinic is likely to resume operations after more than a year of vacancy, if Curry County and Presbyterian Health Services (PHS) can reach an agreement on terms to reopen the facility. County Manager Lance Pyle said if the parties reach agreement, the Melrose-based clinic would again start serving a wide-ranging rural area that extends as far west as Fort Sumner in De Baca County and into southern Quay County. Plains Regional Medical Center Administrator Jorge Cruz confirmed the negotiations in a...
SANTA FE — In one of its larger reports, the New Mexico Department of Health reported 4,991 new cases of COVID-19 in the state on Monday. The report, however, included five days of reports with the Thanksgiving holiday, compared to the normal Monday reports that only include three days of case reports. Numbers in Curry and Roosevelt county compared favorable to the rest of the state, with Curry reporting 85 cases and Roosevelt County reporting 28. Also, none of the 45 deaths reported over the five-day period were from either...
CLOVIS — When it came to a review of the city’s animal shelter and animal control policies, its task force never veered from a simple concept over 90 minutes. Free is a very good price. With that in mind, the task force unanimously recommended a partnership with the Best Friends Animal Network to take place in the next few months. Final approval will go to the Clovis City Commission, with Dec. 16 the earliest the commission would consider such an item. Any memorandum of understanding with Best Friends, City Manager Jus...
Clovis and Portales are planning traditional Christmas light parades this weekend — in other words, the parades will pass by viewers, rather than the reverse. Both cities last year hosted “static parades,” in which viewers drove by the line of floats and other entries in their own cars in effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19. The result was long lines of traffic and a yearning for a return to normal. So this year, the parades will move as parades usually do. The Roosevelt County Chamber of Commerce is organizing Porta...
Booked The following were booked into local jails (Tuesday-Friday): Clovis • Jett Sours, 32, criminal trespass • Marcus Lewis, 20, failure to appear on a felony charge • Kourtney Correll, 27, trafficking controlled substances, possession of a controlled substance • Nazario Ortega, 38, probation violation • Derek Hall, 38, burglary of a vehicle, resisting, evading or obstructing an officer, larceny • Jorge Gonzales, 27, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge • Jeovani Sevilla, 18, battery against a household member, conce...
