Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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BASKETBALL Prep District tournaments (Seeds in parentheses) Boys District 4-5A All games 7 p.m. Tuesday (4) Roswell High at (3) Clovis (n) Thursday Tuesday winner at (2) Carlsbad Saturday Championship Thursday winner at (1) Hobbs District 4-4A Monday Playoff for top seed At Hagerman Artesia 76, Roswell Goddard 73 Tuesday (4) Portales at (3) Lovington (n) Thursday Tuesday winner at (2) Roswell Goddard, 7 p.m. Friday Championship Thursday winner at (1) Artesia, 6 p.m. District 6-2A All games 6 p.m. Tuesday (4) Santa Rosa (3)...
Area members of the New Mexico Legislature came away from the 30-day legislative session that ended Thursday with some reservations along with satisfaction from increased tax revenue contributions. State Rep. Randal Crowder, who represents portions of Clovis and Curry County, said he was pleased that the Eastern New Mexico Rural Water Project, which is designed to deliver water from Ute Lake at Logan to Curry and Roosevelt counties, got two shots in the arm -- a $20 million allocation in a capital outlay bill, and $10...
Filing day for New Mexico’s primary election is two weeks away, but candidates already are lining up for positions. Most of those who have expressed interest in county and state seats are Republicans and at least two races are expected to have competition from within the party. Clovis Magistrate Judge Shaun Burns has plans to run for the 9th Judicial District judge seat occupied by Ben Cross, who was appointed last year by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham and hopes to keep the job. At least three candidates have expressed i...
Do kindergartners still take rest mats with them to school as the term begins each year? It was actually first grade for me when I started public school in Amarillo at San Jacinto Elementary School. I had already completed kindergarten, diploma in hand. That K for “kindergarten” was the private kind my folks paid for because they thought I could do with the “socialization.” School districts had not at that time signed on to pick up their students at the hospital the moment...
Much to my surprise, last week on the snack aisle in the grocery store I encountered a fully stocked shelf of Fritos corn chips. This made me happy for three reasons. First, if you are a Fritos fan — even an occasional one, like me — you are painfully aware that Fritos remain high on the list of items that have been hard to find for the last two years. Many excuses are offered: COVID (of course), labor shortages, supply chain disruptions. Whatever the cause, they’ve been...
PORTALES - With an eight-game losing streak in tow, Eastern New Mexico University's baseball team was in serious need of a lift. On Sunday, the Greyhounds got it, and in a surprising area. Homerless through their first nine games, ENMU swatted three long balls to notch a 9-7 win over Adams State at Greyhound Field and earn a split of the two-game weekend non-conference series. With a brisk wind blowing out to left, freshman left fielder Spencer Roach drove in three runs with...
CANYON — After winning their first postseason game in around 35 years on Tuesday, Bovina’s girls came awfully close to doubling that total on Friday night. The Fillies erased a 12-point, third-quarter deficit to gain a 48-46 advantage in the final minute of regulation, but Clarendon got a basket to tie it and force overtime, then outscored Bovina 13-7 in the extra session to claim a 61-55 victory on Friday night at Randall H.S. The Lady Broncos were slated to face Wellington in a neutral-site round-of-16 game either Mon...
PORTALES — With the District 4-4A regular-season title already clinched, and facing a team they’d beaten a couple of weeks earlier by 34 points, Portales High girls coach Wade Fraze found less than pleased with his team’s outing, especially early. That’s despite the fact that the Lady Rams cruised past Lovington 61-36 on Friday night, locking up a perfect district run. PHS (19-5, 6-0 district) trailed the inexperienced Lady Wildcats 12-10 at the quarter, but behind 14 of senior guard Taris Rippee’s game-high 25 points the Lad...
TUCSON, Ariz. — Colorado Mesa second baseman Myah Arrieta led off the bottom of the seventh with a her first home run of the season, sending the Mavericks past Eastern New Mexico University 2-1 in the Greyhounds’ finale of the D2 Cactus Classic softball tournament. The result left the Hounds at 1-4 for the weekend and 7-7 so far this season. The team returns with a 2 p.m. twin bill against Lone Star Conference foe Lubbock Christian at Greyhound Softball Field on Friday before traveling to LCU for a pair the following day...
CLOVIS - Clovis High's girls are certainly in the 16-team Class 5A state tournament field. They made doubly sure of that on Friday night, converting 23-of-25 fourth-quarter free throws to seal a 66-43 District 4-5A victory over Roswell High at Rock Staubus Gym. Clovis (17-9, 2-4 district), ranked 12th in 5A by MaxPreps, hopes to move up a bit when the New Mexico Activities Association releases state pairings on Sunday. "I think we were in before (Friday's win), but now we're p...
CLOVIS - Elida junior Aiden Yates wasn't quite aware of what he'd accomplished on Saturday night. Yates carried the Tigers in a rematch with Clovis Christian, scoring a personal-best 40 points in a 78-61 victory over the Eagles at the CCS gym. Both teams now get ready to host their district tournament finals this weekend, with aspirations of bigger things down the line when the Class 1A state tournament begins with round-of-16 games on March 5. Yates didn't realize how many...
MELROSE — Third-seeded Melrose cruised into the second round of the boys District 6-1A tournament on Monday night with an 80-26 victory over San Jon. The Buffaloes (18-7) hosted fourth-seeded Logan (9-17), a 79-61 winner at home on Monday over No. 5 Grady (7-19), in a second-round tilt on Tuesday night. The winner travels to second-seeded Fort Sumner (15-4) on Thursday, with that winner playing at top seed Clovis Christian (19-7) in Saturday’s 6 p.m. championship game. Melrose did not play any of its starters in Mon...
ALBUQUERQUE — Freshman Julia Spears earned a sixth-place finish in the 500 freestyle, keying Clovis High’s girls to a 16th-place team standing in state swimming competition on Saturday at Albuquerque Academy. Spears swam a personal-best time of five minutes, 25.11 seconds in the event to earn the only medal of the day for the Lady Wildcats, who scored in a total of six events. Host Academy ran away with team honors, scoring 308 1/2 points to 246 for runnerup Eldorado. Los Alamos was third with 238 in a 29-team field. The Lad...
Booked The following were booked into local jails (Friday - Tuesday): Clovis • Justin McCarty, 33, battery against a household member, false imprisonment • Dominic Carver, 30, probation violation • Victor Quintanilla, 30, first degree murder, conspiracy to commit armed robbery • Isabel Martinez, 32, attempt to commit a felony, to wit: child abuse – intentional • Walter Powell, 66, aggravated driving while under the influence of intoxicating liquor or any drug, failure to maintain traffic lane • John Feldmann, 51, failure to c...
CLOVIS -- A suspect in the October 2021 shooting death of Ivan Luevano appeared in Clovis’ magistrate court this week for arraignment. Assistant District Attorney Brian Stover reported that a motion to hold Victor Quintanilla on preventative detention will be filed this week or early next week. The case against Quintanilla is scheduled to be heard by a grand jury soon. Stover said attorney Brett Carter has been assigned to prosecute Quintanilla. Another man wanted for murder in the death of Luevano, David Valdez, was r...
CLOVIS -- A principal has been hired for the Clovis Municipal School Disrict’s proposed Student Support Campus, which is designed to assist students who would benefit from an alternative learning environment, according to a news release from the district. Brenda Benfield, a special education teacher and administrator in Clovis schools since 1999, has accepted the position, the news release stated. From 1999 to 2008, Benfield taught fifth and sixth grade at James Bickley Elementary School. In 2008, she transferred to C...
Kathleen M. Rodgers, a Clovis native, has been named as a finalist to receive an award from The New Mexico Press Women. According to a press release from the organization, Rodgers’ book, “The Flying Cutterbucks,” is in the finalist category along with two other books by New Mexico authors for the New Mexico Press Women’s 2022 Zia Book Award. Rodgers now resides in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. The two other finalists are Micki R. Petit and Lynne Hinton. The winner will be announced at the New Mexico Press Women annual meeting...
On this date ... 1932: The Clovis Armory had been filled to capacity for the American Legion’s first George Washington Day celebration. “Officers of the Dean Lucas Post considered the affair a successful adventure,” the Clovis Evening News Journal reported. The celebration, as reported in today’s newspaper, began with a square dance, which ended in an old fiddlers’ contest won by Uncle Billy Vaughn of Clovis. “The floor was crowded for the round dance, which continued u...
Throughout history the older generation has thought the younger generations are weak, frivolous, and self-centered. Just as that older generation’s elders thought the same of it, and so on to the beginnings of our species. It’s time to break the cycle with some reality. Young people are not much different from generation to generation. You and I were just as foolish when we were young, as were our grandparents. Only the details of our foolishness differed. We grew up and fou...
Last week ended with big New Mexico news, several times over. The governor surprised the state by lifting the mask mandate. The speaker of the House announced he is voluntarily stepping down. And the 30-day legislative session ended with a mixed bag in the 11th hour of legislative wrangling at the Roundhouse. All in an election year that is still stacked to favor of the Democratic Party of New Mexico. In historic terms, you can’t call it an overly productive legislative session that adjourned last week. The Albuquerque Journa...
Easier to vote and harder to cheat: that was the refrain Texas heard from Republican state lawmakers when they passed their sweeping election bill last year. Yet for some of the state’s most vulnerable voters, casting a ballot in the 2022 primary election has been anything but easy, and state officials are to blame. In Texas, only citizens age 65 or older and disabled or absentee voters in certain circumstances are allowed to vote by mail. One of the new requirements this year is that citizens who vote by mail provide an i...
You may remember this week beginning in almost springlike fashion with birdsong in the air and morning lows right around 40 degrees. As you may tell, that is not the case this morning. As forecasted by The National Weather Service in Albuquerque, a strong cold front has moved across the region dropping lows to the single-digit range. Daytime highs are forecast to be in the upper-30s to mid-40s. Xcel Energy spokesman Wes Reeves reports strong winds may cause power outages and wildfires in the company’s New Mexico/Texas s...
Parents and guardians will be aware of many of the safety practices in our schools. They will have read documentation, heard information, listened to talks and/or received news about safety features and measures at their child’s school. Fact is, the idea of safety in our schools has changed considerably over the years. Between the long-ago days of my own childhood, when the “iron curtain” was feared, and we were told to “duck and cover” (under our school desks) and today’s c...
Hello, my name is Rob Sharpe. I’m the new editor of The Eastern New Mexico News. You may not recognize the name Rob Sharpe from around town. Not many folks call me Rob or know me by that name. Uncle Sam has me on file by that name as do the folks in Santa Fe. My brother and sister call me Rob, but my grown kids don’t. They call me Dad. And The Lady of the House calls me “Sweetie” or “Hey there.” A number of bicycle enthusiasts around town know me as “Bike Dude.” And some folks for their own reasons have called me names...
A solar array project that could provide all the electricity needs for Eastern New Mexico University in Portales received a go-ahead Friday from the ENMU Board of Regents. On a 3-1 vote, the board approved an agreement with Affordable Solar, an Albuquerque based solar energy company, under which the university would finance, construct and operate a 5-megawatt solar array that Affordable Solar would design and build. That’s according to a memo to the board from Scott Smart, ENMU’s vice president of business affairs. The cos...
