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CANNON AIR FORCE BASE — The holiday season is well under way at Cannon Air Force Base as hundreds of airmen, their families and friends came out for the base’s annual tree lighting and holiday parade on Thursday. Lt. Col. Michael Stone, commander of the Force Support Squadron, which sponsored the event, and Sara Williams, the base’s school liaison officer who also helped coordinate the activities, said they were happy with the turnout. Stone said it was better than last year...
CLOVIS — Roy Valdez of Clovis sunk his first hole-in-one Wednesday at Colonial Park Golf Course. Valdez’ ace came at 2:27 p.m., and was witnessed by Cipriano Griego, Paul Pacheco and Alfred Rubio. He used a Calloway Big Bertha 6 iron and a Calloway Chrome Soft ball on the Par 3 No. 8 from 124 yards out. Valdez has been playing golf for 18 years....
PORTALES - Eastern New Mexico University is looking for feedback from faculty, staff, students, alumni and community members regarding how to proceed with the university's next presidential residence. ENMU put up an online survey earlier in the week to elicit input regarding the timing, financing and needs of a new president's home, which Regent Terry Othick said had already received over 420 responses as of Friday afternoon. He said the search for a new home was sparked by th...
CLOVIS — For Jaden Isler, it seems right coaching boys basketball at Clovis High. Not that Isler didn’t enjoy his time coaching the Elida girls team. What coach wouldn’t like inheriting a team that had won four consecutive state championships, then guiding them to four more in a row? But, Clovis boys basketball owns a special, unique place in Isler’s heart. His father J.D., who has since passed away, coached boys basketball at Clovis for years. And Jaden Isler played there w...
On this date ... 1968: Steed-Todd Funeral Home had moved from Commerce and Gidding streets to Prince and Manana streets. The mortuary, owned by Dexter Todd, had been at the Commerce/Gidding location for 28 years. Todd said the Prince Street location offered adequate parking, modern facilities and a larger chapel. Parking had become a problem at the Commerce/Gidding location, Todd said. The new location had once been home to Chapel of Memories Mortuary. Steed-Todd was one of...
The Melrose boys basketball team will look a bit different than the one that captured a state Class A championship in Albuquerque last March. Losing six seniors tends to give a team quite the makeover. But head coach Kevin Lackey doesn’t expect a freefall. He thinks the Buffaloes can be solid, perhaps even contend for another state crown. “We don’t use the word rebuild at Melrose,” Lackey said Tuesday afternoon, “so we’ll be competitive, no doubt.” Still, those six seniors aren’t going to be easily replaced. Jordan Jasso, B...
CLOVIS — Opening night doesn’t reveal everything about the season that lies ahead, but it can be somewhat of a barometer, giving teams an indication of what they can become. The barometer reading for the Portales and Clovis girls basketball teams in Friday’s season opener at Rock Staubus Gymnasium may bode well for both, as the Lady Wildcats prevailed 46-45 on the first night of the Foxy Drive-In Shootout. The Lady Rams — with a mostly different team than the one that capture...
PORTALES — A trial last week for a Portales man charged with child sex crimes was set again for February after almost two hours of deliberations ended with a hung jury and mistrial. Michael Borden, 39, was charged in March 2017 with first-degree felony criminal sexual penetration of a child under 13 and second-degree criminal sexual contact of a minor in connection with a period between Aug. 1, 2013, and Nov. 18, 2015, in Roosevelt County, according to court records. The trial itself took almost the entirety of Tuesday in J...
PORTALES — Opening the college basketball season is a big deal. Opening the conference schedule, even bigger. Those conference opponents are the company a team will keep for most of the winter. They’re the ones a team needs to beat if a conference title and postseason berth are in the offing. So, starting well in the Lone Star Conference slate by beating Midwestern State 80-64 was huge for the Eastern New Mexico women’s basketball team Thursday night at Greyhound Arena. The G...
CLOVIS - A different type of organ donation is happening in Clovis, and it's bringing a little bit more heavy metal (and wood) to a local church. New parts have arrived for the pipe organ at First United Methodist Church, and when they're installed church members say they will have the largest pipe organ between Albuquerque and Lubbock. The project, paid for by a church member and handled by Church Organ Solutions of Richardson, Texas, is adding two ranks - or 122 pipes - to...
CLOVIS - Members of the city's Senior Center Task Force met Wednesday afternoon to consider architects' latest rendering of schematics for a new senior center. But a vote to proceed will have to wait another week or so for the group to have a quorum. Plans presented for the forthcoming Hillcrest Park Senior Center focus on accessibility and versatility, with a sliding wall in the dining area that can split the space containing 54 six-head tables into a separate section for...
ALBUQUERQUE — Five applicants on Wednesday made their final short presentations, commissioners asked questions and a couple of tribes gave input in the last scheduled meeting before the New Mexico Racing Commission announces its award of the state’s sixth racino license this week. “I think it was a good meeting, and the commissioners were able to ask probing questions to each entity and I think the feedback they received from each applicant was very important to them to continue on processing what they’d heard,” said NMRC...
This isn’t about a sexual predator being allowed to run loose in our schools for many years. Gary Gregor moved from Utah to Santa Fe to McCurdy Charter School to Los Alamos to Española. He cut a wide swath through leaving a trail of broken children. His many sordid actions and subsequent investigations revealed Gregor had co-conspirators in some schools and administrators willing to look the other way, ignore his penchant for little girls and allow him to move from district to district with impunity. This isn’t about the...
