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An 11-year-old Clovis girl died Tuesday in a single-vehicle crash between Grady and San Jon. Police did not identify the victim. According to a news release from state police: • About 12:40 p.m. on Tuesday, police were called to the scene of a crash involving a 2017 Hyundai four-door passenger car on New Mexico State Road 469. • The car was driven by an 18-year-old Clovis woman and was traveling north on State Road 469. “For reasons still under investigation, the vehicle left the roadway and slid sideways into a power pole,...
TEXICO — An infrastructure bill that should cover the full federal share of the Eastern New Mexico Rural Water System over the next five years was signed into law Monday by President Joe Biden. That’s the good news for the Eastern New Mexico Water Utility Authority, which is working on building the system to supply groundwater from the Ute Reservoir in Quay County to member communities in Curry and Roosevelt counties. The not-so-bad news the authority discussed at its Thursday meeting in Texico is how it needs to stand out...
FOOTBALL Prep New Mexico playoffs (Seeds in parentheses) Class 6A Quarterfinals Nov. 12 results (3) La Cueva 35, (6) Volcano Vista 21 (5) Las Cruces High 35, (4) Centennial 21 (2) Rio Rancho 44, (7) Cibola 20 Nov. 13 result (1) Rio Rancho Cleveland 42, (8) Hobbs 14 Semifinals Friday’s results Cleveland 42, Las Cruces High 24 Rio Rancho 35, La Cueva 34 Championship Saturday's game Rio Rancho at Cleveland, 7 p.m. Class 5A Quarterfinals Nov. 12 results (1) Farmington, 28, (8) Santa Teresa 6 (6) Roswell Goddard 14, Roswell H...
BOVINA — Ropes pulled away steadily on Friday night and the Lady Eagles won a battle of early-season unbeatens with a 72-45 victory over Bovina on Friday night. Nine players scored for the Fillies (4-1), led by senior Alyssa Martinez with 12 points, but Bovina ran into foul trouble as the game went and couldn’t keep up. In the boys contest, Bovina fell to 1-1 for the season as the Mustangs dropped a 44-34 decision to the Eagles. Tuesday boys Bovina 49, Hart 41 — The Mustangs became the first area boys team to play this seaso...
CLOVIS - They graduated all five starters from a scoring-challenged team, so it's pretty obvious what the Clovis High girls basketball team is looking for this season. The Lady Wildcats, who went 5-6 in last spring's COVID-abbreviated campaign, are trying to find any scoring they can as they prepare for Tuesday's season opener at Rio Rancho Cleveland. Still, CHS alum Jeff Reed is relatively optimistic as he begins his 14th year at the helm, and he's ready for the season to...
CLOVIS — Esperanza Tafoya and Marina Sena still have another season to do some damage for the Clovis High softball team. But they already know where their gloves and bats will take them next year. The two signed letters of intent Friday evening at a ceremony held by friends and family at Traci’s Greenhouse — Tafoya to Lamar Community College in Colorado and Sena to University of the Southwest in Hobbs. The two signed their letters in front of family members with cameras in hand, at a table decorated with their uniforms from...
Richardson, Texas — Central Washington University, Simon Fraser University and Western Oregon University will join the Lone Star Conference as affiliate members in football, the league announced Thursday. The decision to invite CWU, SFU and WOU was reached this fall with the teams beginning LSC play in 2022. “We are excited to welcome the Central Washington, Simon Fraser and Western Oregon football programs to the Lone Star Conference,” LSC commissioner Jay Poerner said in a conference releast. “As affiliate members, these th...
PORTALES - Brent Owen's first win as the Eastern New Mexico University men's basketball coach was certainly an up-and-down ride. First, the Greyhounds looked like they would blow out NAIA member Northern New Mexico. Then the Eagles stormed back and took a couple of late leads. In the end, ENMU made enough plays to secure an 87-80 victory in Friday night's home opener at Greyhound Arena. It wasn't pretty, but it was a notch in the win column. "It's way more fun to learn from a...
CLOVIS — The inaugural Clovis High wrestling program gets on the mat for real on Monday. Coach Eric Zottnick and assistants Liz Ledezma and Avery Rasher will lead the team into a 10 a.m. (MST) quad meet at Hereford, also including Pampa (Texas) and Estancia (N.M.). The Wildcats and Lady Wildcats staged an exhibition on Friday at Rock Staubus Gym, and the team traveled to Goddard H.S. in Roswell on Saturday for what was essentially a preseason competition. Not surprisingly, both CHS squads lack experience in the sport. ...
LUBBOCK — Early in the second half, Muleshoe’s hopes of advancing in the Texas Class 3A Division I football playoffs were alive and kicking in Friday’s area-round matchup against defending state champion Jim Ned. Then the Indians took over the game — or more to the point, Xavier Wishert did. The 6-foot-1, 200-pound senior running back/linebacker carried 28 times for 268 yards and scored five touchdowns, including a 99-yard run and another on a pass reception, as Jim Ned (12-0) pulled away to a 49-20 victory. “We played th...
Nine Clovis high school musicians and four Portales High students have been named to the New Mexico All-State Band, according to the New Mexico Music Educators Association. The students auditioned for the state-wide ensemble Nov. 1-5 with both prepared music and sight-reading. Selection was based on scores achieved in the performances, a Clovis Municipal Schools news release said. The Clovis and Portales students will participate in the All-State Conference and Concert Jan. 8 at Eastern New Mexico University's Portales...
The New Mexico Legislature has finally passed a rule banning guns in the state Capitol building. Now, it needs to provide that same common-sense protection for local school boards and city councils. The Legislative Council Committee, which includes leaders from both parties and chambers and meets each month when the Legislature is not in session, passed the new rule on an 8-5 vote, with all Republicans in opposition. Past attempts to ban firearms at the Roundhouse through legislation have failed, following contentious...
The Nazis are coming. That, to a distressing extent, is the crux of the argument being mounted by some of those who refuse to obey vaccine mandates. Last Sunday, a group of them even showed up at the Bronx office of New York State Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz with yellow Stars of David affixed to their clothes. For those who don’t know: Beginning in 1939, the Nazis required Jews to wear such stars with the word “Jew” written inside on their clothing for easy ident...
Biden hasn’t been ‘getting things done’ Regarding Tom McDonald’s editorial Wednesday that praised Joe Biden for “getting things done:” Only a person ignorant of America’s founding principles and destiny would applaud Biden’s Afghanistan pull out. This nation has been a bulwark of freedom and justice that has offered refuge to many millions of oppressed peoples throughout the world. In our 20 years in Afghanistan we introduced a society with equal education and much improved treatment for women. By 2021 there were more than...
Joe Biden was never exactly a colossus bestriding the Earth, but he’s been getting smaller by the day. A recent Washington Post poll suggested his presidency is, for now, a smoking political crater. It had him at a 41% approval rating, despite the passage of his long-sought infrastructure bill that was supposed to buoy him and his party. Even more striking, the survey found that Republicans lead Democrats on the generic congressional ballot by 10 points, 51% to 41%, an u...
According to Wikipedia, “Abraham Harold Maslow was an American psychologist who was best known for creating Maslow's hierarchy of needs, a theory of psychological health predicated on fulfilling innate human needs in priority, culminating in self-actualization.” Maslow's pyramid contains five levels and each level must be met or realized prior to advancing to the next level, in order to reach level five, “self-actualization.” The levels, from the bottom up, are: Physiological,...
The last time state lawmakers were tasked with drawing new maps for the state House and Senate, it took more than a year of fiercely partisan wrangling, four trials and $5.6 million of litigation costs billed to taxpayers. The final House map crafted by a state District Court judge in 2012 and approved by the New Mexico Supreme Court pitted two incumbent Democrats against each other and two incumbent Republicans against each other for seats in the N.M. House of Representatives. The map, drawn by retired District Judge James...
On this date ... 1961: Police in Roswell had gone searching Bottomless Lakes for a car stolen in Roswell. Instead, they found one reported missing from Portales five months earlier. A 1954 Cadillac was recovered from Figure Eight Lake in Bottomless Lakes Park by state police skindivers, officials said. Correspondence found in the glove compartment identified it as the missing Portales vehicle. The car was reported missing June 12 by Charles McCubbins of Portales, who said it...
PORTALES — The Portales City Council chose a redistricting plan for the city Tuesday that leaves cleaner boundary lines for each district and adds a few blocks to the city’s Ward A from each of three surrounding districts to achieve population equity. The city made its choice from three options that were presented in a public hearing that preceded the council’s regular meeting on Tuesday. After Brad Morrison of consulting firm Research and Polling, Inc., presented the options his firm developed for the city’s redistr...
CLOVIS — Clovis school board members met for an hour in executive session regarding the contract for Superintendent Renee Russ. It only took a few minutes in open session to show they were pleased with her work. By a 4-0 vote, board members provided Russ with a contract extension to June 30, 2025, with a 5% raise. Board member Shawn Hamilton said the board appreciated the work Russ did and the raise is intended to reward Russ and make sure the salary is competitive with similar-sized school districts. Russ, who began as super...
CLOVIS — After an admission that no choice would please everybody, and a discussion that illustrated just that, Clovis city commissioners on Thursday adopted a redistricting plan to take effect next year. The commission by a 6-2 vote picked Plan A, one of six options created by Research and Polling to satisfy the city’s requirement to create four commission districts that were roughly equal in population determined by the 2020 Census. Essentially, the plans found different ways to move population from Districts 1 and 4 to...
PORTALES — Eastern New Mexico University’s regents got a touch of good news, along with a dose of uncertainty, on various building projects during their Friday meeting. Vice President for Business Affairs Scott Smart told regents design is complete on Roosevelt Hall renovations, and he’s hoping to get construction documents in late February to set up March bidding and May construction. He did say construction price increases could wreak havoc on the budget, and that he plans to see what additional help the state could provi...
CLOVIS - When the curtain opens tonight for country music trio Farewell Angelina at the Norman & Vi Petty Performing Arts Center in downtown Clovis, still disguised as the Mesa Theater, it will culminate a 20-year effort to bring live performance back to the historic venue. The theater was donated in 2003 to Clovis Community College by Lyle Walker, Kenneth Broad, Julian Bivins and the estate of Vi Petty, who with her husband Norman, operated the famous Norman Petty studio in...
PORTALES — Eastern New Mexico University, like any college, has had its challenges over the last two years. In a discussion-only matter, the college’s regents on Friday first looked at a likely hike in tuition and fees for the 2022-23 school year. Regents were floated a 5% increase, which would be an increase of about $162 per semester for a full-time student, with a request to act in the Dec. 10 meeting so the college would have solid numbers to tell potential students and their families. The board plans to discuss the mat...
TEXICO - Traffic was disrupted much of Thursday afternoon, and some of Thursday evening, as a semi hauling cattle overturned just south of Texico. No people were injured in the incident, but Curry County Sheriff Wesley Waller estimated 40 animals died out of the total haul of 101 calves. The sheriff's office was assisted by the New Mexico State Police and Department of Transportation, along with state livestock inspectors and private citizens. According to Waller: • A d...
