Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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BASKETBALL Prep summary Monday Boys Clovis 64, Lovington 26 Lovington (4-1) — Diego Garcia 3, Juanm Arroyo 9, Zadrick Betancourt 3, Mika Pando 3, Anson Marquez 2, Kayle Covington 6. Totals 10 1-2 26. Clovis (2-0) — Keilyn Parker 24, Manny Gutierrez 2, Champ Gooden 11, Josh Wimbish 8, Marvin Cox 6, Jaydon Levenshown 6, R.J. Nora 4, J.J. Jones 3. Totals 25 8-13 64. Lovington 5 8 4 9 — 26 Clovis 12 11 26 15 — 64 3-pointers — Lovington, Arroyo 2, Betancourt, Garcia, Pando. Clovis, Wimbish 2, Jones, Parker. Total fouls — Lovingt...
LAS VEGAS, Nev. — Three-time world champion Caleb Smidt has taken the lead in tie-down roping competition at the National Finals Rodeo. Smidt, from Bellville, Texas, came into the NFR in fourth place, almost $54,000 in prize money behind leader Shad Mayfield of Clovis. But Smidt has recorded five straight top-4 finishes to open the series, while Mayfield had placed in the money only once going into Tuesday night’s competition. Through Monday, Smidt was in first place with $259,081 prize money for the season. Mayfield was sec...
PORTALES - The big lineup, with 6-foot-7 seniors Jadyn Fletcher and Dayton DeLozier, wasn't working as well as Hereford boys coach Marquez Loftis had hoped on Saturday, so he went to a smaller unit and applied aggressive defensive pressure. That move seemed to work as the Whitefaces pulled away down the stretch to beat Portales High 53-42 in the Rams' season opener at the RAC. The teams took turns exchanging runs into the fourth quarter, but Hereford (4-2) stretched a...
In 1850, which was before she wrote her classic “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote a story for Christmas. One of her characters describes the difficulty of buying gifts, Christmas presents: “Oh, dear! Christmas is coming in a fortnight, and I have got to think up presents for everybody! Dear me, it’s so tedious! Everybody has got everything that can be thought of.” She then recalls the early years of her life when “presents did not fly about as they do now....
Christmas was simpler when I was a little kid. Maybe it was just that my wishes were simpler back then. I didn’t wish for world peace so much as I just believed it already existed. And I didn’t wish that people would get along, because in my rosy little world, they did. Cue a 1970s “I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing” moment here. I also believed in the magic of Christmas. Still do. I believe that rather than name-calling and fighting, we need to remember that we belong to...
CLOVIS — The Gattis boys basketball team dropped three games to open its season, losing to Yucca 41-10, Texico 48-7 and Marshall 29-24. Leading scorers for the Cubs were Victor Moreno with four points against Yucca, Timothy Gonzales-Galvan with six against Texico and Moreno, Peyton Kerby and Beau Clements with six each agains Marshall. The next game for Gattis will be 5:30 p.m. on Monday at Yucca....
SAN ANTONIO — In a back-and-forth battle, St. Mary’s had the final run of the game and the Rattlers pulled away to a 76-66 victory over Eastern New Mexico University in Lone Star Conference men’s basketball on Saturday. Meantime, the ENMU women completed a weekend road sweep with a 72-65 victory in the first half of the twin bill. Freshman forward Jose Murillo’s rebound basket with 5:49 left capped a 6-0 run and gave the Greyhounds (5-3, 0-2 LSC) a 59-58 advantage, but the Rattlers promptly scored the next 10 points to take c...
ALBUQUERQUE — Clovis High’s wrestling teams participated in the Southwest Shootout at Rio Rancho H.S. over the weekend, with the boys going 2-6-1 in dual matches while the girls competed in a bracket tournament, with no team scores kept. The Wildcats defeated Rio Rancho Cleveland 45-30 and Albuquerque High 42-34, tied Los Alamos 36-36, and lost to El Paso Eastwood 66-9, the Volcano Vista junior varsity 51-24, Rio Rancho 69-6, Manzano 37-24, Carlsbad 42-36 and El Paso Pebble Hills 60-18. Non-forfeit individual match winners fo...
DORA — Senior Steven Masini scored 26 points and Dora’s boys won their own J.P. Stone Invitational for the first time on Saturday night with a 49-37 victory over Logan. The Coyotes (4-0) jumped out to a 12-2 lead at the quarter, only to see the Longhorns (2-1) pull to within a point at halftime. Dora then went on a 15-4 run in the third quarter and played Logan even over the final eight minutes. Senior Conner Rooney added eight points for the Coyotes. Logan’s leading scorer was junior Brock Burns with 10 points. Also on Sa...
LUBBOCK — Sophomore Makylee Baldwin poured in a personal-best 24 points on Saturday as Farwell trounced Hermleigh 82-43 in a neutral-court game played at Lubbock Christian’s Rip Griffin Center. Farwell (4-3) led 16-6 at the quarter, then blew the Lady Cardinals’ doors off with a 25-point third period. Senior Charlie Trimble added 18 points and sophomore Bella Jaime 11 for the Lady Blue. For Class 1A Hermleigh (4-2), Lynzie Atkison tallied 10 points. In area girls tournaments over the weekend: Adrian (Texas) tournament — Bov...
CLOVIS - It's certainly early, but so far Clovis High's boys have looked like world-beaters. After two games, both at home, the Wildcats have outscored their opponents by a combined 136-59. This weekend, they figure to their first challenges of the campaign in the Joe Armijo Invitational at Albuquerque Academy. Junior guard Keilyn Parker nearly outscored the opposition by himself, finishing with 24 points in a 64-26 domination of Lovington on Monday night at Rock Staubus Gym....
As we plunge into the hustle and bustle of holiday events and the annual procuring of gifts, I’m happy to remind you of one issue you don’t need to fret about: The challenge of successfully completing a long-distance call on Christmas Day. Drop back a few decades (OK, maybe several decades) and it was a different story. In December of 1965, in fact, Mountain States Telephone Company took the precaution of asking the Portales News-Tribune to share the concern with its readers,...
Every time I go back to my home country, I pine for the good old days of my youth. I was born in Ozark, Ark., where the Arkansas River Valley meets the Ozark Mountains, and graduated high school upstream in Fort Smith. In between, I also grew up in other small Arkansas cities and towns, as the son of an itinerant minister. In the mid-1970s, I left Arkansas, and started bouncing around, mostly between Tennessee, Kentucky and Arkansas. By the 1980s, I “settled down” in my native state, back to be close to family, and started a...
Back in 2001, precious few Americans could have explained what Houston-based Enron did as a company and how it got so spectacularly wealthy. When it filed for a record-breaking bankruptcy, Americans got schooled fast about not putting their trust and money behind swaggering, fast-talking con artists. But fools and their money regrouped over the years, and along came FTX, a $32 billion cryptocurrency exchange that repeated many of Enron’s mistakes and yielded the same abysmal results. We suspect that a lot of investors who l...
Governments don’t respect rights. Your rights don’t change when you cross a line; not a state line or a national border. Rights are the same everywhere. Only the ways in which your rights are violated differ by location. Rights don’t change over time or due to majority opinion, either. If something is a violation of your rights today, it was a violation no matter how far back in history you go and it would remain a violation into the distant future. No matter what else chang...
A toddler is recuperating in a Lubbock hospital after being struck by a car that suddenly lurched from its parking spot at Clovis’ Lighthouse Mission. According to Clovis Police Lieutenant Trevor Thron, Leonidas Aguirre-Corrasles, 2, was injured Thursday around 2:40 p.m. when the child was pinned underneath a Volkswagen driven by a 70-year-old man. According to the Clovis Police Department report officers responded to The Lighthouse Mission at 407 L Casillas Blvd. on the report of a crash involving a vehicle and a child. C...
PORTALES -- A murder trial scheduled to begin Monday in connection with a 2020 shooting death of a Muleshoe woman has been postponed. The defense attorney for Keith Cordova told the court she was surprised to see “important, time-sensitive information pertaining to Defendant’s case” on Nov. 1 and needed additional time to consult with her client. Court records do not specify the reason for the surprise. Judge Donna Mowrer granted the request for a continuance from attorney Marie Legrand Miller. A new trial date was not immedi...
LAS CRUCES — A Texico student came in first against competitors from across the state recently in a discussion meet hosted by New Mexico Farm & Livestock Bureau’s Young Farmers and Ranchers program. Held during the NMF&LB’s 105th Annual Meeting, the meet was the culmination of regional discussion meets and a qualifier round before narrowing down to the final four contestants. According to a news release from NMF&LB, Remington Hunt from Texico placed first. Second place went to Wylie Schwebach from Moriarty, third was Brade...
The Cannon Air Force Civil Engineer Center is taking questions from the public which will be submitted to answer in a video to be released on Dec. 14, according to a press release. The inquiries and answers will provide a recorded update on the Department of the Air Force’s on-going actions to address per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) identified at Cannon Air Force Base, the release states. In the video, environmental project managers from the Air Force Civil Engineer Center will update the status of the program a...
PORTALES - Eastern New Mexico University’s Greyhound Arena will host Fall Commencement with 487 candidates for graduation, Saturday at 10 a.m. According to a news release from the university, the Fall Commencement address will be given by Jayson Evaniuck, Assistant Professor of Education Foundations and Secondary Education at ENMU. Saturday’s in-person graduation will feature 265 candidates scheduled to walk during the proceedings. “Eastern continues to provide its students with a quality education and the State of New Mexic...
PORTALES -- Eastern New Mexico University has been hosting centuries-old documents since August, but the Remnant Trust exhibit called the "Evolution of Personal Freedom" is moving on after Friday. The traveling exhibit is a collection of original historic writings with three categories in relation to free thought: The United States government, religion, and philosophy. Some of the writings include Alexander Hamilton's report on "The Subjects of Manufacturers" from Dec. 5, 1791...
New Mexico is "swimming in money," so it's a good year to ask for funding from the state. That was the word from area lawmakers who spoke at Tuesday's Clovis-Curry County Chamber of Commerce Legislative Breakfast. "This is a good time to go on with projects," Rep. Martin Zamora, R-Santa Rosa, told the crowd. He said the state will have about $2 billion more to work with than a year ago when the Legislature convenes for a 60-day session on Jan. 17. "This year the state is...
Roosevelt and Curry counties are in severe to extreme drought but these conditions have improved since summer, according to the National Weather Service. “It was really bad in the early part of the summer – it was in the worst category of exceptional drought,” said Brian Guyer, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Albuquerque. “Since 2011, we have seen more frequent to extreme drought and there have been periods when drought remained,” Guyer said. “More than half of that time, it’s been in drought.” He said drou...
PORTALES – The Roosevelt County Commission on Monday voted 3-1 to approve a notice of intent for an ordinance that would allow private citizens to sue anyone who mails or ships materials and equipment for abortion into the county, in accordance with a federal obscenity statute. Commissioner Dennis Lopez cast the “no” vote on the notice of intent, and Commissioners Paul Grider, Rod Savage and Commission Chair Shane Lee voted in favor. Commissioner Tina Dixon did not attend Monday’s meeting. The notice of intent means the ord...
Steve Pearce will lead New Mexico Republicans for a third term. The State Central Committee on Saturday selected Pearce over three other candidates, according to a news release from the Republican Party of New Mexico. Pearce received 55.2% of the votes, defeating Sarah Jane Allen (20.7%), Robert Aragon (10.4%) and Rodney Tahe (0.5%), the news release stated. Pearce, a former congressman and state representative who has been state Republican Party chairman since losing the 2018 gubernatorial race, had faced criticism from...
