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Two masked men, one armed with a handgun, robbed a Main Street convenience store in Clovis on Wednesday night, police said. No one was injured but the men took an undisclosed amount of money from the cash register. Police said the robbery happened about 6:50 p.m. at 2812 N. Main, La Plaza convenience store. “Officers spoke with the clerk who told them two masked men came into the store demanding money. … After getting an undisclosed amount of money from the cash register, the men fled from the scene,” police stated in a new...
15: Portales received a Christmas Eve gift from the City Council: Approval of a contract to upgrade the downtown with 13 blocks of concrete paving. The proposed six-inch deep paving was planned to “cover the square, one block on Main Street toward the railroad, and on Main Street to Chestnut Street, Colorado Street from square to railroad property, and two blocks on Colorado Street from Security Bank southeast,” according to the Portales Valley News. The project also promised seven miles of sidewalks “so that the entir...
17 Dear Santa, Please bring me a big wagon, and a ball glove. I am seven years old and in the second grade. Don’ t forget my teacher, Mrs. Williams. With love, Jimmy Slone Dear Santa CIaus, 1 am a little girl seven years old. 1 have been a good girl. Bring me a doll buggy for Christmas. Don’t forget my little brother, four years old. He wants a hammer and some tacks. My teacher is Miss Mullins. Bring me lots of fruit and candy. Your friend, Norma June Morgan 1953 Dear Santa, I want a little bike and a boy doll. I’m four...
Editor's note: Gordon Greaves spent 50 years as a journalist, most of them in Portales, writing the popular By The Way column. He died in 1984. Greaves wrote this column for The Portales Daily News published Dec. 23, 1951. Christmas is for everybody, but the kids make it worthwhile. Our daughter, Becky, who is four fingers and a half of her thumb old, gave explicit instructions on what should go into this Christmas column. It all started when she was looking at pictures of...
James Myers came to Clovis from Pittsburgh by way of Washington, to open one of the city's marijuana dispensaries, Score 420 on North Prince Street, where he is southern New Mexico district director for the statewide business. He took some time out of his schedule Tuesday to tell The News about himself and the importance of the cut of beef known as a tomahawk steak. Q: What brought you to Clovis? A: I was brought here by the Score 420 partners to open the Clovis shop. We were...
To say it hasn’t been a joyous Christmas holiday for me would be an understatement. I have boxes of Christmas decorations in arm’s length of where I get out of the car every night but the only hint within my home that it’s Christmas this year are the Christmas cards I’ve carefully placed on the mantel as I’ve received each of them. It’s my first Christmas without my sweet wife in 42 years and it hurts — a lot. I knew I would miss her, I just had no idea how much. Add to...
CAPITAN – Melrose’s boys and girls easily advanced into semifinal play on Thursday in Capitan’s Smoky Bear Invitational tournament. Both teams beat Reserve, the boys cruising to an 84-21 win while the girls defeated the Lady Mountaineers 51-27. The Buffaloes (7-0), ranked fourth in Class 1A by MaxPreps, and Lady Buffs (6-1), ranked No. 5, were slated to take on Eunice in the semifinal round on Friday, with finals scheduled for Saturday. In boys action, the Buffs got scoring from all 10 players, including five in double digit...
Clovis High senior Zarai Lewis attained a personal milestone on Thursday. As for the Lady Wildcats, they cruised to a pair of victories to reach the finals of the Plateau Holiday tournament at Rock Staubus Gym. Lewis funneled in 14 points and reached the 1,000 mark with a basket early in the second period as CHS crushed Silver 63-18 in a semifinal tilt. The four-year varsity veteran ended the night with 1,007 points. "That's good for a kid," CHS girls coach Jeff Reed said of...
LUBBOCK – Portales High’s girls were able to bounce back on Tuesday from a surprising loss in their previous outing, while the PHS boys tasted defeat for the first time. The Lady Rams broke away from a halftime tie with a 24-10 surge in the third quarter, eventually built their cushion to 21 and went on to a 68-62 victory over Lubbock Christian on Tuesday night. Meantime, the boys rallied from an early deficit to lead at halftime, only to see the Eagles overhaul them in the second half and post a 69-65 victory. Junior gua...
Once upon a time I had a car wreck. This tale is how the car wreck led to my best Christmas ever. It was a stupid car wreck, just me, taking an Appalachian mountain road too fast, flying through the air and landing in a creek. After the wreck, well, I had no car. With no car I lost my travelin' salesman job and after I lost my job I lost my place at a rooming house. And with me living paycheck to paycheck, well, I was just "S.O.L.," which in a family friendly newspaper stands...
When I was in fourth grade, I remember our teacher would make us create letters asking Santa what we wanted for Christmas. As most kids would groan and talk about the various toys they wanted for the holiday, I would always treat my letters with heavy consideration. There was only one thing I ever wanted as a kid and that was to see my dad for Christmas. My dad had joined the Army as an air traffic controller. My mom said he joined about four years after I was born; since...
When I think back on the 23 Christmases I've experienced, so many memories flood my mind. To name a few, the EZ Bake Oven I got from Santa when I was 7, I think? Maybe I was 8. Also, the acoustic guitar when I was 16 is up on the list as well. And of course, when I was 13, my oldest sister Lauren told us she was having a baby by having me open a box that had a pacifier in it as the clue. I, however, really thought I was getting One Direction tickets that year and truly...
Eastern New Mexico University's men made short work of Crownpoint-based Navajo Tech on Tuesday morning, blowing out the Skyhawks 104-69 at Greyhound Arena. Six-foot-9 sophomore forward Jose Murrillo shot 13-of-16 from the floor en route to a personal-best 28 points in just 21 minutes for the Greyhounds (8-2), who have won six consecutive games. Murrillo also had seven rebounds, four assists and three blocks, the latter moving him into fifth place on the school's all-time...
A coaching move helped win Clovis High's game on Thursday against Navajo Prep. And it wasn't even authored by Wildcats coach Josh Mattox. After taking the lead on a layup by senior guard Keilyn Parker with 13 seconds left, Mattox, at the suggestion of senior guard Manny Gutierrez during a timeout, inserted 6-foot-2 junior J.J. Saiz for him when play resumed. It paid off when Saiz was able to get enough of the ball to force a held ball as Eagles senior Jude Thomas tried to go...
A man was shot Wednesday morning at the Calibers Shooters Sports Center off U.S. 60 east of Cannon Air Force Base, Curry County Sheriff Michael Brockett said. Brockett said the man was hospitalized in Lubbock in “extremely critical condition” but was still alive Thursday night. The incident occurred about 10:30 a.m. Wednesday inside the firing range of the building. There were no witnesses, the sheriff said. The victim was the only person in the firing-range portion of the building when the incident occurred, he said. The...
The Roosevelt County Courthouse may soon see renovations after receiving funding from the Roosevelt County Commission. Court Executive Officer Kevin Spear along with District Judge Donna Mowrer presented the request to the commission on Tuesday. Spear said the commission would have to match a $1 million project with $500,000 in order for the court to get funding from the Administrative Office of Courts. Mowrer said the court doesn’t have the funding unless the county can assist. Commissioners voted 5-0 to approve the $...
The Clovis Police Department and the Curry County Sheriff’s Office will split a $23,000 Edward Byrne Justice Assistance Grant. The Clovis City Commission unanimously approved the measure Thursday night. The grant will provide more body and dash cameras for law officers as well as provide software to protect private information in security footage, officials said. Commissioners also on Thursday unanimously approved an ordinance that authorizes the execution and delivery of a water project fund loan/grant agreement. Mayor M...
The Department of Health and Human Services last week announced over $1 million in funding for La Casa Family Health Center’s Portales Clinic, according to information from U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M. The funding comes from a program “that provides equitable health care to the nation’s highest-need communities, wrote Heinrich’s Deputy Communications Director Caty Payette in an email. “We’re confident this funding will help to address health care shortages in New Mexico and make sure families can access the care they n...
Back in the 1990s, as a father of young children and a journalist committed to honest reporting, I became concerned with the whole Santa Claus “lie” that I was perpetuating with my own little girls. So I asked my father how he handled the whole myth about Santa. After all, I don’t remember ever thinking of Dad as a liar when it came to such matters, nor do I remember a day when I went from being a believer to a humbug, so I figured Dad must have done it right. For me while growing up, Christmas was all about Jesus’ birthda...
Around this time of year, I start seeing posts on social media about how Jesus was a refugee, an asylum seeker, an immigrant, etc. It’s based upon a version of the Nativity story, where the Holy Family was forced to “flee” to Bethlehem to avoid persecution. This is at best a “whisper down the lane” misinterpretation of the Christ child’s birth, and at worst an attempt by modern day activists and rhetoricians to frame Jesus as a liberal icon who represents modern day victims...
Last summer I wrote a column praising the United States Senate for finally passing a bill to compensate those in southern New Mexico who suffered illness and death following exposure to the world’s first atomic blast at Trinity site. I ended the column with this: “That’s the good news. The bad news is that the bill now moves to the House, which seems much more interested in exploring the cocaine-fueled antics of Hunter Biden than doing anything to help the people they serve.” Now, the House has stripped funding in the def...
Today is Christmas Eve. Now that I am middle-aged, I have a tendency to reflect on Christmas days that have happened instead of Christmas days that will happen. I am blessed to be able to live with minimal assistance and to have my family around me when I need help. What follows are some Christmas memories. The chapel at St. Anthony’s, where my sister, little brother and I spent our early years, was decorated the same way every year. There were two large trees, one on each sid...
You rake your leaves and wake up the next morning only to see more on your lawn. You look to your neighbor’s lawn and realize their leaves have found their way onto your lawn. You say to yourself, “If only they would rake their leaves, my yard would be fine.” How do we approach this situation? Do we let our frustration boil up? Do we talk to them about it? Do we simply stop talking to our neighbor altogether? Or do we offer to rake our neighbor’s yard? I prefer the last option. After all, I am a product of the 1970s, the tim...
Just about the most valuable gift any human can give another is to fully respect the other person’s liberty. As long as they aren’t harming anyone else’s life, liberty, or property you don’t interfere. Live and let live. You can do this for those you love and for those you only tolerate. You can even give this gift to people you don’t like at all; people whose way of life or politics is disgusting to you, as long as they aren’t victimizing anyone. The hardest part is being ho...
Curry County commissioners on Tuesday named Sam Kelley as the new county assessor. The vote was 3-2 with Commissioners Seth Martin and Brad Bender opposing. The position became available after the abrupt resignation of former Assessor Randa Jesko two months ago. Commissioners also unanimously appointed Michael Brockett acting sheriff following the death of Mike Reeves early this month. Brockett had been Reeves’ chief deputy and will be acting sheriff until after November’s election. Commission Chairman Robert Thornton sai...
