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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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BASKETBALL Prep District tournaments (Seeds in parentheses) Boys District 4-5A Tuesday’s result (4) Clovis 79, (3) Roswell High 75\ Thursday’s game Clovis at (2) Hobbs, 6 p.m. Saturday’s game Championship Thursday winner at (1) Carlsbad, 6 p.m. District 4-4A Tuesday’s result (3) Roswell Goddard 56, (4) Lovington 51 Thursday’s game Roswell Goddard at (2) Portales, 6 p.m. Saturday’s game Championship Thursday winner at (1) Artesia, 6 p.m. District 6-2A Tuesday’s result (3) Santa Rosa 87, (4) Clayton 59 Thursday’s ga...
Classes were canceled for first- and second-grade students at James Elementary School on Thursday due to partial flooding, according to Portales Municipal Schools Superintendent Johnnie Cain. “Apparently a faucet was inadvertently left running. Have to investigate,” Cain said. All other Portales schools were meeting as scheduled....
Clovis City Commission will be reconsidering fees for parks use at its March 9 regular session. The Clovis Parks, Recreation and Beautification Committee met Tuesday night with one item on the agenda: Discussion and recommendation regarding daily use fees. At the regular session of city commission Feb. 2, commissioners followed a recommendation of the committee to assess an annual fee of $50 per person for parks use. A number of people in the city made their displeasure with the $50 fee known to city government, management...
High winds are "most likely" the cause of power outages in the Clovis area Wednesday. Steady winds of up to 40 mph with gusts over 50 mph were reported by the Clovis automated weather center at the Clovis airport Wednesday. Xcel Energy Electric Outage Map pinpointed outages in the Clovis area affecting customers. The company reported outages in the Amarillo area as well. Xcel Spokesman Wes Reeves said in a statement, "We experienced a fault on a transmission line feeding east Clovis at 2:41 p.m. that interrupted service to...
A new livestock pavilion will be open at the Curry County Fairgrounds before the county fair in August, 2024. At least that’s the plan as Curry County commissioners voted Monday to approve a contract with the state for a $6.5 million grant to build the multipurpose pavilion, County Manager Lance Pyle said. Commissioners also approved the contract for the architect of the project, Formative Architecture of Albuquerque for $652,860. Pyle said Formative must have the design work of the metal building done and ready for the c...
Clovis police are asking for the public's help in finding a man suspected of robbing the Best Western Hotel just off Mabry Drive early in the morning of Feb. 15. Anthony Martinez, 52, has been identified by Clovis police as the suspect in the case. According to a news release from police Capt. Robbie Telles, the robbery was reported at the Best Western Hotel at 201 Schepps Blvd. a little after 2:30 a.m. Feb. 15. Telles reported the Clovis Police Department, Special Operations...
On this date ... 1962: Summer baseball organizers were asking Clovis city officials for improvements at Bell Park. The field once home to the professional Clovis Pioneers baseball teams needed new lighting, water system repairs and dirt on the infield, city commissioners were told. Costs for all improvements were estimated at $1,000 to $1,200. Commissioners asked for an itemized list of costs associated with each repair and said they would consider approval. 1962: A...
LOGAN -- An Iowa man is accused of beating and severely injuring another man with a hammer in a Logan car wash last week. Arthur Raymond Peppers, 63, of Donahue, Iowa, is charged with attempted first-degree murder and tampering with evidence, both felonies. The attempted-murder count is a second-degree felony that can result in up to nine years in prison and a $10,000 fine. According to online court documents, Peppers was apprehended and jailed in Dalhart, Texas. He awaits extradition back to Quay County. Peppers is accused...
I like steeples. I’ve always liked them. The church I grew up attending was an A-frame structure with a fellowship hall attached, and it looked like a church. But a steeple would have improved the building. I like them. And that is one reason I was particularly hurt when our church’s steeple recently decided to consider leaving the church behind, presumably to seek spiritual care and ecclesiastical mooring elsewhere. OK, I will admit that steeples don’t have spirits, but t...
Ours was not a camping family when I was growing up. When high school friends talked about planning weekends to go to “the lake,” I wasn’t even sure where they were going. My dad — who had grown up regularly sleeping outdoors on the ground or in shacks that offered only minimal protection from the elements — always told us he had worked hard his whole life so we wouldn’t have to follow in his footsteps. We stayed in some pretty sketchy motels in our travels, mind you, but we...
PORTALES – Injuries are never timely, but they've come at a bad time for Eastern New Mexico University's women. At the end of the day, that helped bite the Greyhounds in their bid to reach the Lone Star Conference postseason tournament. Sophomore guard Bella Stone went down with a hip injury late in a loss to Lubbock Christian on Feb. 10. She returned on Monday night against Western New Mexico at Greyhound Arena, but the Hounds have been without starters Edecia Beck and Laz Sa...
ELIDA – Elida’s boys clinched the No. 2 seed in this week’s District 4-1A tournament with a 63-43 victory over Gateway Christian on Saturday. On Thursday, the Tigers (10-13, 4-2) will take on the winner of Tuesday’s matchup sending Floyd to Gateway Christian. Thursday’s winner advances to Saturday’s final at top-seeded Dora. Brothers Jose and Seth Jimenez each funneled in 15 points and junior Gage Hartman added 10 for Elida, which opened a 33-17 halftime lead on the Warriors (3-17, 1-5). Senior Hayden Wigley topped Gateway wi...
KINGSVILLE, Texas – Senior first baseman Steven Bonuz drove in six runs – five in the first two innings – and Texas A&M-Kingsville routed Eastern New Mexico University 13-3 on Sunday to capture a Lone Star Conference baseball series win over the Greyhounds. The Javelinas (7-6, 6-6 LSC) won for the seventh time in nine games behind a 13-hit attack which included four home runs. Sophomore center fielder Dalton Kramer belted a three-run shot in the seventh, while sophomore designated hitter Jake Chapman and junior catcher Nick...
RIO RANCHO – Clovis High’s wrestlers got a taste of state competition over the weekend at Rio Rancho Events Center. CHS managed only one win in the event, but coach Eric Zottneck said the program is making solid progress. “We had two at the state meet last year,” he said. “I think we’re on the right patch. We just need to continue to grow and get better and recruit for the program.” Seniors Michael Tree at 172 pounds and Semaj Satchel at 195 participated at state last year. They were joined this time around by sophomore Kae...
ALBUQUERQUE – Clovis High's boys had three swimmers medal in four events en route to a fourth-place team finish over the weekend in state swimming competition at Albuquerque Academy. The Wildcats tallied 166 points, trailing Eldorado (275), Academy (246 ½) and Los Alamos (226) in team standings. The previous best team showing for the Cats came in 2015 when they were fifth. Meantime, the CHS girls lost freshman Molly Kidd (illness) before the meet and sophomore J...
CLOVIS – Clovis Christian knocked down a dozen 3-point shots on Monday night and the Eagles posted a 65-51 victory over Grady in the opening round of the District 6-1A tournament. Senior Noah Gershon had three 3s and finished with 19 points for the fourth-seeded Eagles (18-9), while senior O.B. Blanco added four treys and tied a personal best with 17 points. Senior Carter Teune also reached double digits with 11 points for CCS, which played at third-seeded Logan on Tuesday n...
Train wreck. That’s a perfect way to describe the dismal record of the Biden administration. We’ve already seen a series of major disasters at home and abroad. And now we have a literal train wreck in eastern Ohio that is, yet again, exposing how incompetent, laughably dumb and out-of-touch the president and his gang in Washington are. The derailment of the Norfolk Southern freight train in East Palestine, Ohio, on Feb. 3 started out as a small news item from a Trump cor...
PORTALES – With a win at Arkansas-Fort Smith in their previous outing, Eastern New Mexico University’s men locked up a spot in the Lone Star Conference postseason tournament. Meantime, Western New Mexico is still trying to squeeze in. The Mustangs looked like the more motivated team on Monday night, handing the Greyhounds only their second loss in 14 games this season at Greyhound Arena, an 82-73 decision. The teams meet again on Thursday in Silver City in the regular-season finale for both. WNMU (16-11, 10-11 LSC) com...
Let’s face it, when Fox News gives Democrats a B+, you know they really delivered an exceptional performance. That was the grade the rabidly right-wing media network gave President Biden on his State of the Union address. As someone who usually doesn’t watch these annual speeches to the nation, I did buck my previous trend and decided to tune in for this one. Admittedly, I harbored some degree of apprehension wondering if Biden would be up to the task. If they were forced to...
One of Vladimir Putin’s strategies during his brutal, illegal war in Ukraine has been to ensure that Russians only hear one version of reality. His. Last week, the world learned that he’s also applying that tactic to Ukrainian children. The Russian government has put thousands of Ukrainian children into what the Kremlin pitched as “recreation camps,” but in actuality are re-education facilities aimed at Russifying the children with a pro-Moscow lens into Russian culture, history and society, according to a report release...
SANTA FE -- First Judicial District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies has abandoned her attempt to apply a five-year sentencing enhancement to the charges against actor Alec Baldwin and Rust armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed. Both still face a charge of involuntary manslaughter in the shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, who was killed by a bullet from a pistol Baldwin held during an October 2021 rehearsal on a movie set south of Santa Fe. The bullet also struck and wounded director Joel Souza. The change reduces the...
President Joe Biden has nominated former New Mexico U.S. Rep. Xochitl Torres Small to be the second highest-ranking official at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. On its website, the White House announced Torres Small’s appointment to be the next Deputy Secretary of Agriculture. She will replace current Deputy Secretary Jewel Bronaugh. Torres Small, 38, is a resident of Las Cruces. Much of Roosevelt County was in the state’s Second Congressional District until redistricting took place and put much of the county in the Thi...
There are homeless people in Clovis. “People just turn a blind eye to it,” Cherry Gooch said. Gooch has founded “4 All of Us Transitional Improvement Inc.,” a service to help the homeless. “There’s not too many places you don’t see the homeless around town,” she said. Richard Gomez, founder of The Lighthouse Mission, has thoughts on the reasons people become homeless. “People having a hard time, people not wanting to work,” Gomez said. “There are some that do need help and some that do it for a living.” Gomez believ...
Clovis Community College paid investigators $71,392 to look into allegations against its former president. That’s according to records obtained by The Eastern New Mexico News via New Mexico’s Inspection of Public Records Act. College trustees hired Cuddy & McCarthy law firm to investigate alleged misconduct after they received letters and resolutions of “no confidence” against Charles Nwankwo by three college employee groups. Nwankwo resigned on Feb. 6 after trustees placed him on paid administrative leave on Aug. 3. Among e...
