Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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ALBUQUERQUE — After winning just eight games in Scott Robinson’s first two seasons as head coach, Clovis High’s boys are looking to put together a resume which could help them come Class 6A state tournament time. The Wildcats jumped over the .500 mark on Saturday, edging La Cueva 54-52 in the fifth-place game of Albuquerque Academy’s Joe Armijo Invitational. Senior guard Taitt Kuchta scored on a 10-foot runner with four seconds left as the Wildcats (4-3), who had alternated wins and losses through six games, posted their firs...
SANTA FE — The Portales Lady Rams dominated an old rival from the get-go on Saturday night, and the Lady Rams claimed the championship of the Capital City Classic. Sophomore Taylee Rippee scorted 13 points and grabbed six rebounds en route to tournament MVP honors as Portales thumped Santa Fe Indian 54-30. The Lady Rams led 15-7 at the quarter. SFIS closed to 24-17 by hitting a pair of 3-point shots as the half was about to expire, but Portales (4-0) quickly assumed control when play resumed. “I feel like the difference in...
RIO RANCHO — Clovis High’s girls hung around for three quarters on Saturday before three games in three days got the best of them. Guard Sydney Candelaria broke loose for 14 of her 31 points in the final quarter as the Eagles beat the Lady Wildcats 66-42 for fifth place in the Mel Otero Invite. Clovis (4-3) trailed just 43-36 at the start of the final stanza, but couldn’t keep up. “We were hanging in there until the fourth quarter, and things sort of fell apart,” CHS coach Jeff Reed said. “They just wore us down.” No o...
Clovis High senior Rohan Angadi is a member of the Wildcat soccer and tennis teams, and one of the school's better students. Angadi is in New York as one of 10 finalists — five boys, five girls — for the annual Wendy's High School Heisman. Daniel Orcutt, a swimmer from Florida, won the boy's award, which was announced on Friday night. South Carolina sprinter Frelicia Tucker won the girl's honor. The award ceremony is scheduled to air at 6:30 p.m. today on ESPN2. Repeat air...
Curry County Retired Educators Ms. Dianne Davis called the meeting to order in President-elect Eileen Massey's absence and introduced today's guest performers, the Clovis High School Chamber Choir, led by Mr. Sean Galloway. The Chamber Choir sang a medley of Christmas songs, very beautifully and professionally executed, and encouraged audience participation on their last number. The performance was a delight for one and all. We invite all retired Curry County teachers to join us at K-Bob's at 11 a.m. for our next meeting on...
Information on hand quilting, making gumball cupcakes and growing and harvesting herbs will be the featured topics on “Creative Living” on Tuesday at 9:30 p.m. and on Thursday at noon. (All times are Mountain.) Marci Baker is a quilter and author, and she’s going to talk about different styles of hand quilting that are available, and explain how to select someone to quilt your piece. In addition, she’ll show samples of quilts that feature different piecing and quilting techniq...
When the weather outside is frightful, grab some fur and flares. That's right. Whether you prefer the real deal or the faux, every fashionista, male or female, is wearing fur from head to toe. There's a price range of fur pieces for everyone this season. Sample a few new and unique styles of your typical winter coats lined with fur. Some designs that you're typically accustomed to wearing are now dazzled with fur too. For instance, bomber jackets draped with fur and even your...
I’m making my list. I might even check it twice. On second thought, no need for all that bother; just post it up on the Internet right away. Lists on the Internet are driving me crazy but somehow I can’t quit clicking on them. I even clicked on one just before writing this column that led me into another list, then another until I was column writing a lot later than I had planned. The worst one this week was a list of the top 100 country songs of all time put out by Rol...
CLOVIS — The heads of at least three local school districts are bristling at the possibility state funding for education will be further reduced next year, paired with the thought of cash balances being tapped to offset declining state revenues. During a meeting Thursday in Santa Fe, the chairman of the Legislative Finance Committee that drafts the state budget said lawmakers would be hard-pressed to leave out cuts to public schools. Sen. John Arthur Smith said lawmakers have to work to reduce deficits linked to a downturn i...
CLOVIS — The Christmas spirit is getting a funny twist this week. “Mrs. Bob Cratchit’s Wild Christmas Binge,” a satire of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” written by Christopher Durang, is premiering at Clovis Community College. The play premieres at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the CCC Town Hall and runs through Saturday. The premise, according to the CCC Cultural Arts Series website, is “what if (Charles) Dickens’ Mrs. Cratchit wasn’t so goody-goody, but instead was an angry, stressed-out modern-day American woman who wanted ou...
Wednesday • Planning and Zoning — 3 p.m. at City Hall, Clovis. Information: 575-769-7828 • CCC Board of Trustees — 8 a.m. in room 512 at Clovis Community College. Information: 575-769-4001 Thursday • ENMWUA — 10 a.m. at Memorial Building, Portales. Information: 575-356-8449 This calendar is a daily listing of area public meetings. To place an item on the calendar, call the newsroom at 575-763-6991 or e-mail: [email protected]...
Dec. 11 On this date ... 1966: Olympic pole-vaulter Bob Richards had been guest speaker for the Clovis Chamber of Commerce’s annual banquet. “There isn’t a person that doesn’t have stirrings to be a champion within them,” Richards told the crowd of about 500. Richards represented the United States as a pole vaulter in three Olympic Games — 1948, 1952 and 1956. He was the first athlete to appear on the front of Wheaties boxes, in 1958, and also became a spokesman for Wheaties. In 1984, he made an unsuccessful run for preside...
Today’s family in need: This grandmother is disabled with polio. She has custody of her three grandchildren because the parents are battling addiction. “She collects disability benefits but that barely supports her, let alone the grandchildren,” said Salvation Army Corps Officer Lt. Kelly Berggren. “She is doing her best but could use some help this Christmas.” 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 with toys, food an...
Today • ENMU’s fall commencement — 10 a.m.-noon at Greyhound Arena, Portales. Information: 575-562-1011 Sunday • Causey Community Holiday Luncheon — 1 p.m. at the Causey community building. Turkey, ham, dressing, bread provided. Please bring a side dish. Silent auction to follow. Information: 575-760-0524 Monday • Produce to People — 11 a.m.-1 p.m. at the Memorial Building, Portales. Information: 575-356-1048 ext. 1 • Page Turners book club — 6:30 p.m. at Clovis-Carver Public Library. Book: Fates and Furies. Informati...
It’s Christmas card season. I just got my first from a friend in Washington, and I think I’ve sweet-talked my way into another from an office a few blocks from work. I’m not really one to send out Christmas cards, because that stuff takes planning. Instead, I’m just going to write a few holiday greetings, to people I think need them. Here goes ... Dear people at basketball tournaments this holiday season: There is no such thing as an “over the back” foul on rebounds. It’s not in the rule book, and I’m sorry somebody told y...
I never participate in those Facebook chain posts where it asks you to answer questions like • what’s your age? • have you ever been married or divorced? • what was the last thing you ate? Because honestly, I’ve always thought they were pointless. What does that really tell anyone about you? It doesn’t give people insight into who you are as a person. Then I had this thought the other day: What would give people insight into who I am? These are the things that came to mind: • For about four years of my childhood, I obsessivel...
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Whoever is responsible for paying for the electricity at Charlotte's Spectrum Center should probably consider sitting down before tearing open the next bill. That's because the Trans-Siberian Orchestra came to town on Thursday night. And when the world's most popular progressive-rock band (and largest, at two dozen members) comes to town, it comes with four mixing boards, dozens of full-color lasers, 100-plus speaker boxes, flame modules and pyrotechnic e...
Travis Tritt is coming to Clovis and it’s going to be great, right? He’s a member of a “Country Club,” you know, and if “The Whiskey Ain’t Workin’” he can run into “T-R-O-U-B-L-E.” A lot of us love his music and it’s great to see our little community attracting Grammy Award-winning entertainers. It’s too bad government is involved. Clovis’ City Commission on Thursday approved $10,000 in lodger’s tax funds to help promote the Tritt concert, which is scheduled Jan. 13 at the Curry County Events Center. Spectra Presents, a...
A relative, who asked me to only use her middle name, Gail, has spent two stints in Texas prisons for cocaine. The first time she was sentenced to two years for $5 worth of cocaine after being busted in Dallas’ Oak Cliff. With good behavior she got out after less than a year. Later, she was busted by the same Oak Cliff cop for the same amount of cocaine — and got 15 years. A large, masculine woman wanted the petite Gail to be her girlfriend. Now 53, Gail, soft-spoken and ten...
PORTALES — One distinct trademark of the Portales Police Department's Santa Cop program each year is everyone leaves happy, according to those who make the program happen. The annual charity event, which provides Christmas presents to children who may not have otherwise had a Christmas, was held Saturday morning at the Memorial Building in Portales. "I heard an 18-year-old young man telling someone that his family has done this program for several years, and there have been y...
PORTALES — For many Eastern New Mexico University graduates, a journey ended Saturday morning at Greyhound Arena. They looked back with fondness at the educational experiences and tight knit, family atmosphere. Officials said 467 students earned degrees this semester. Joe Soliz, graduating with a bachelor of science degree in biology, couldn't bring to mind any specifically difficult moments in his college career, but remarked at how quickly he was finished. "Sometimes you f...
Editor's note: Bo was returned home safely early Sunday morning. Brandon Nichols said a man saw him in an alley near where he'd gone missing. "I bet someone had him ... and turned him back out," Nichols said. Meet Bo. The English bulldog will be 2 years old in April. He's about a foot-and-a-half tall and weighs about 70 pounds. He also stinks. That's why Brandon Nichols named him Bo, or BO, as in body odor. "The gas that comes out of each end of him should never be possible,"...
Clovis Elementary Monday: Breakfast — Breakfast wrap. Lunch — Cheeseburger mac and cheese, garden salad, mini carrots w/ranch, applesauce Tuesday: Breakfast — Cinnamon roll. Lunch — Chicken nuggets, mashed potatoes w/gravy, mixed green salad, chilled mixed fruit, whole wheat roll Wednesday: Breakfast — Pancake sausage on a stick. Lunch — Homemade cheese and bean burrito, salsa, celery sticks w/ranch, chilled pears Thursday: Breakfast — Breakfast pizza. Lunch — Turkey and gravy, mashed potatoes, seasoned green beans, pumpkin...
The following books are available for checkout at: Clovis-Carver Public Library Someone Always Knows by Marcia Muller delivers an intense and intricate plot as Sharon McCone and her husband, Hy manage to successfully merge their investigative and security companies. But while Hy is off on a hush-hush assignment for the government, a former business partner of his shows up leaving McCone to uncover why this shady troublemaker has returned, what is he after, and what does it have to do with what seemed like a simple...
Baxter Curren Senior Center 908 Hickory, Clovis Monday: 8:30 a.m. exercise class, 10 a.m. jewelry pals, 1 p.m. line dance, 1 p.m.-5 p.m. 8-ball pool, 1 p.m. pinochle, 5 p.m. business meeting, 5:30 p.m. potluck, 6 p.m. social night Tuesday: 8 a.m. quilting, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. exercise equipment, noon pinochle, 1 p.m.-5 p.m. 8-ball pool, 6 p.m. musical Wednesday: 8 a.m.-5 p.m. exercise equipment, 10 a.m. sew days, 1 p.m. crafts, 1 p.m.-5 p.m. 8-ball pool Thursday: 8 a.m.-3 p.m. craft sale, 8 a.m. blood pressure, 8 a.m. eggs, gravy...
