Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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BASKETBALL Prep summaries Girls Tuesday Clovis 56, Roswell Goddard 51 Goddard (0-2) — Alexis Sandoval 17, Ericca Cannon 20, Alexis Hoover 2, Ambrosia Teasyatwho 6, Clara Hatch 6. Totals 19 7-15 51. Clovis (2-1) — Yvonne Fuerte 6, Mya Slade 7, Zarai Lewis 15, Luisa Chavez 5, Ali Thomas 8, Shalanda Lefevre 10, Gizelle Petner 5. Totals 21 12-18 56. Goddard 12 12 17 10 — 51 Clovis 14 10 11 21 — 56 3-pointers — Roswell Goddard, Cannon 3, Sandoval 3. Clovis, Lewis, Petner. Junior varsity — Clovis 60, Roswell Goddard 18. Thursda...
DENVER CITY — It took three games for the Portales Lady Rams to really be tested, and they certainly got that on Friday night from Levelland. Five-foot-4 senior guard Emma Kent nailed a trio of 3-pointers and finished with 21 points to lead the Loboettes to a 69-45 victory, moving Levelland into Saturday’s Denver City Shootout championship tilt. Meantime, the Lady Rams canceled out of their game at Denver City on Saturday, with coach Wade Fraze noting that his squad is already scheduled for the New Mexico Activities Associati...
PORTALES — The way Eastern New Mexico’s men have started their season, West Texas A&M coach Tom Brown said, is a perfect example of just how good the Lone Star Conference is from top to bottom. “They’re going to get some Ws,” Brown said. Just not Thursday, as last year’s NCAA Division II runner-up and this year’s No. 5-ranked team showed why it belonged at the top of the LSC with an 81-63 win in a non-conference matchup on Thursday night at Greyhound Arena. The Buffs (9-1) hit 3-pointers on three of their first five possessi...
PORTALES - Experience is lacking, but first-year Portales High boys basketball coach Randy McBroom is confident the Rams will be competitive in 2021-22. McBroom is replacing his father, Rickie, after nine seasons as his dad's assistant. PHS returns just three players from last spring's COVID-shortened 2-6 season (1-4 District 4-4A), including leading scorer (11.6 ppg) and rebounder (8.1 rpg) Greydon Rigsby, a 6-foot-4 senior post. Still, the younger McBroom remains confident...
PORTALES - For West Texas A&M and former Eastern New Mexico University women's basketball coach Josh Prock, Thursday's non-league matchup between the teams at Greyhound Arena was a tough one. For former ENMU guard and Portales native Zamorye (Cox) Roberts, though, once the ball went up it was just another game. Roberts scored 11 of her team-high 15 points during a game-breaking 18-0 run over a span of 7 1/2 minutes in the final quarter as the Lady Buffs (5-5) pulled away to a...
SANDIA PARK - Friday's game against East Mountain got off to a rough start, but it was smooth sailing from there for Clovis High's girls. Coach Jeff Reed said the Lady Wildcats were assessed a pregame technical for only having four starters marked in the official scorebook, and host East Mountain promptly converted the two free throws before any time came off the clock. It was all Clovis after that. The Lady Cats threw fullcourt pressure at the unsuspecting Class 3A Lady...
SANTA FE — State District Judge Kathleen McGarry Ellenwood sentenced former Rio Arriba County Sheriff James Lujan to three years in prison followed by a year and a half of probation Thursday, a day after a Santa Fe jury convicted him of two felony charges after he helped a man avoid arrest and then directed a deputy not to tell anyone. “While all elected officials have a duty to fulfill the responsibility of their elected office, there are some elected officials such as a judge, a district attorney and a sheriff that are hel...
SANTA FE — The New Mexico Secretary of State’s website is hosting a clearinghouse of voting district information as the New Mexico Legislature begins a special session on Monday to redraw district lines for Congressional, New Mexico Legislature and Public Education Commission seats. The website allows users to work with Geographic Information System data that can match demographic information to standard county maps. The information could be useful to legislators, public bodies, and the public at large, according to a news re...
Booked The following were booked into local jails (Tuesday-Friday): Clovis • Jose Mondragon, 37, driving while license suspended or revoked • Tancie Garrison, 37, failure to pay fines • John Salisbury, 21, battery against a household member, criminal damage to the property of a household member • Juan Sierra, 72, driving while license suspended or revoked, no insurance, failure to register vehicle • Kayla Parks, 34, probation violation • Jason Taylor, 49, failure to pay fines, probation violation • Rex Guss, 19, failure t...
CLOVIS — Weather permitting, the city of Clovis is hopeful to have Thornton Street work complete in connection with its effluent water pipeline project. City Manager Justin Howalt said the city had initially hoped to finish the job in late November, but that hit a snag when a water line break occurred and flooded a trench line. Final paving, Howalt said, could start and end within the week, depending on the weather. The effluent project is water conservation infrastructure that provides non-potable water to schools and m...
CLOVIS — In its last meeting of 2021, Clovis Community College trustees approved a fall graduation list and a sizable local gift that would be bolstered by matching state dollars. By a 5-0 vote, trustees approved a gift of $2 million to the college by the Bonner Family Foundation for the benefit of the college’s nursing program. For CCC to receive the donation, a match of $2 million would be required from the state. Discussions during the meeting and the agenda did not include specifics on how or when the state would pro...
CLOVIS — The Clovis City Commission discussed a sign code ordinance at its meeting on Thursday, voting to approve the introduction of the ordinance. Some changes the commission discussed include increasing the distance between billboards to 1,000 feet instead of 500 feet, reducing the time before an abandoned sign must be removed from six months to three months, and to allow one temporary sign that can be within 10 feet of the front door in the business district and cannot stay out overnight. Mayor Mike Morris said the p...
Ahmaud Arbery is not here, but he heard the verdicts. He knows, in that place where his restless soul resides, that his death has been avenged. An overwhelming white jury in Georgia found that three white men had stalked a Black man for no legitimate reason, gunned him down and then tried to justify their actions under the false argument of “enforcing the law.” That is weighty, that is substantial, and that matters. Others will tie this to race, and only the most jaded or igno...
Rising inflation and an insecure minerals supply chain are threatening to disrupt the development of green energy technologies and hamper the production of renewables and electric cars. Some energy experts are warning that deeply constrained supplies of energy transition metals, like lithium and nickel or even copper, could derail the deployment of emissions-free energy and transportation technologies and hamstring our efforts to prevent the worst effects from climate change. That alarming warning is worth pondering in the...
Why would they do this? That question rises inevitably from a new wave of so-called flash-mob robberies, thieves by the dozens invading retail stores to simply take what they want. It’s happened in California, Illinois, Minnesota and Maryland. Retailers ranging from Nordstrom to 7-Eleven have been hit. For some, the search for answers will be an invitation to uncork pet theories about poverty, permissiveness or punishment. But none of those things is unique to this era. T...
Nike’s latest TV ad is another slick paean to individual empowerment and prevailing despite the naysayers. Centered around Memphis Grizzlies star Ja Morant, the commercial features various people doubting that Morant can keep up his stellar play, to which someone always cheekily replies, “Says who?” Yes, Nike believes anything is possible — so long as it doesn’t involve doing anything to cross one of the world’s most hideously repressive regimes. The grotesque hypocrisy o...
Recently, a shooting on a movie set in New Mexico was described as a gun going off accidently. The story indicated that a well-known actor was involved and that the actor had been practicing a type of fast draw on the set when the following occurred (I paraphrase): the actor drew the gun twice. The first time nothing happened. As he drew the gun a second time, the gun went off. The gun did it. The headline in a Milwaukee newspaper recently read, “A person plowed their SUV t...
Tuesday marks the 80th anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor. More than 350 Japanese fighter planes attacked the U.S. Naval base at 7:48 a.m. on Dec. 7, 1941, killing more than 2,000 Americans, leaving another 1,000-plus injured, and forcing the nation to enter into World War II. President Franklin D. Roosevelt called it “a date which will live in infamy.” It’s a date still to pause and remember all those who sacrificed for freedom. Among them: Dick Shumate of Portales an...
CLOVIS - A construction contract for renovations on the Curry County Courthouse for about $8.3 million received unanimous approval Thursday from the Curry County Commission in a special meeting. But the vote was not without reservations. The commission awarded the contract to SDV Construction of Albuquerque and set a deadline of 14 months to complete the project. County Manager Lance Pyle told the commission the county would be able to cover the cost without raising taxes,...
Today • Christmas Cantata — 10:45 a.m., First Baptist Church, 100 S. Ave. C, Portales. Open to all. Information: 575-356-6761 Monday • Rural Bookmobile East in Grady — 10-11:30 a.m., Grady Post Office, 406 W. Main St., Grady. Social distancing is requested; only two individuals in Bookmobile at a time, not counting staff and up to one household member; patrons encouraged to limit time inside. Information: 575-461-1206 or 575-403-7103 • Rural Bookmobile East — 2-2:30 p.m., St. Vrain. Social distancing is requested;...
SANTA FE — An amended emergency public health order issued Thursday by the state of New Mexico will require many workers vaccinated against COVID-19 to receive a booster shot when eligible. The move comes following a recommendation from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this week that all vaccinated adults should receive a booster dose either six months after completing a Pfizer or Moderna series and two months after a Johnson & Johnson shot. “The recent emergence of the Omicron variant further emphasizes the imp...
Tuesday • Roosevelt County Commission — 9 a.m., Commission Room, Roosevelt County Courthouse, 109 W. First St., Portales. Livestream available on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1bHckYttNQnmm6ymJhWaXQ and a recording of the meeting will be saved as a public video and linked from the county website, https://www.rooseveltcounty.com, following the public meeting. Information: 575-356-5307 • Clovis Civil Aviation Board — 5:30 p.m., North Annex, Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main, Clovis. Information: James H...
CLOVIS — A one-time Curry County Detention Center inmate who claims a partial booking fee was taken from him illegally has filed a suit against Curry County and Mark Gallegos, the jail’s administrator, on behalf of all jail inmates who were charged the fee without a hearing before or after the fee was taken. Perry Furgason, the former inmate, filed the class-action suit in Ninth Judicial District Court on Nov. 24 and is represented by Eric Dixon, a Portales attorney. The complaint alleges the fee is illegal, since it is tak...
LAS VEGAS, Nevada - On his second night at the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo, Shad Mayfield lived up to his "Money" nickname. Mayfield, the defending tie-down roping world champion, recovered from a tough first night to grab a win in the second round of the 10-night event. The 7.2 second run earned Mayfield the night's top prize of $26,997, well ahead of Cory Solomon (7.8 seconds, $21,336 payout). The win pushed Mayfield, fourth in tie-down standings entering the evening, in...
New Mexico state legislators who represent Curry, Roosevelt, Quay and De Baca county districts will be scrutinizing changes in Congressional and state legislative district boundaries starting Monday, as the legislature decides in a special session how those lines will change starting in 2022. Redistricting every 10 years is required by state and federal law to accommodate changes in population between the 2010 U.S. Census and the 2020 federal count of population. Between the 2010 and 2020 census counts, Curry County was the...
