Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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Today *Clovis-Carver Public Library Page Turners book club — 10 a.m., Ingram Room, Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main, Clovis. Information: 575-763-9687 *Tiny Tots storytime: Earth Day – 10 a.m., Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main St., Clovis. Information: 575-769-7840 *Preschool storytime: “Ladybug, Ladybug” — 10:30 a.m., Portales Public Library, 218 S. Ave. B, Portales. Information: 575-356-3940 *Teens and Tweens: Tell a Story Day: Storytelling Relays – 4:30 p.m., Portales Public Library, 218 S. Ave. B, Por...
MELROSE – Logan broke open a tight game with a five-run sixth on Monday and the Longhorns defeated Melrose 11-4. The game was a battle between the top two teams in District 3-1A and in Class 1A. Logan (13-2, 4-0) came in ranked second in 1A while the Buffaloes (8-4, 3-1) were first. Sophomore Mason Wallin went 3-for-5 with a home run, four RBIs and two runs scored for the Longhorns, while senior Kaeden Stoner was also 3-for-5, driving in two and scoring once. Meantime, sophomore Mitchell Wall added a solo home run for Logan....
When Patsy Acuff of Clovis was growing up, she remembers there was always a trunk in the back of her grandmother's closet in Portales - a trunk that she, her siblings, and their cousins were taught to never touch or talk about. The trunk contained the belongings left behind when Homer Mitchell left Portales in 1943 to join the United States Army. Mitchell - who was Acuff's uncle and the son of Gussie and Roy Mitchell of Portales - was killed in action in Pachten Forest near...
Today *ENMU Department of Theatre and Digital Filmmaking presents the comedy “Dearly Departed” –2 p.m., Studio Theatre, University Theatre Center, ENMU, Portales. Off-Broadway comedy written by David Bottrell and Jessie Jones; directed by Leonard Madrid. General admission $10, senior citizens (60 and up) $7; active-duty military $7; free to ENMU students with valid ID. Purchase in advance at www.enmu.edu/theatrelive or at the door. Information: 575-562-2711 *At the Movies with the Clovis Community Band – 3 p.m., Town Hall, C...
LOVINGTON – Clovis High’s boys had four scores in the 80s on Thursday en route to a fifth-place finish in the Lovington Invite golf tournament. Lovington shot 321 and edged Artesia by two strokes for team honors. Carlsbad was third at 341, followed by New Mexico Military 344, CHS 348 and Hobbs 350. Senior Jett Stone led the Wildcats at 44-41 – 85, followed by senior Jacob Rowley 44-43 – 87 and sophomore Gavin Anderon at 45-42 – 87, freshman Jakob Stone 47-42 – 89 and eighth-grader Zak Spearman 49-45 – 94. Clovis Christ...
ROSWELL – Clovis High’s girls outlasted Artesia to take third place in the seven-team Roswell Goddard Invite on Thursday, played at Spring River Golf Course. Sophomore Kylie Sprinkle led the Lady Wildcats, shooting 48-45 – 93, followed by junior Kayleigh Maldonado 49-47 – 96, senior Emilee Spears 53-54 – 107 and junior Jordan Archuleta 61-58 – 119. Lovington took team honors at 370, followed by Goddard 386, CHS 415, Artesia 420, Hobbs 531, Portales 444 and Gateway Christian 473. Individual medalist honors went to Lovington’s...
SNYDER, Texas – Eastern New Mexico University’s women finished sixth while the men were 10th in the Western Texas College rodeo. Junior Shacie Marr earned all-around honors on the women’s side, taking fifth after a 7.1-second run in Saturday’s short go while partnering with junior Justin McCormick in team roping to claim fifth place in the short go. She just missed making it to the finals in barrel racing, her time of 14.15 coming up .04 seconds short of qualifying. For the men, junior Blasé Steffen partnered with Ranger’s...
Two High School seniors from Portales and Elida are among 23 New Mexico high school seniors named Daniels Scholars. Kaylynn Belew who attends Portales High School and Jeremiah Woodruff who goes to Elida High have secured up to $100,000 in college funding toward an undergraduate degree. Belew is one of Portales High School’s senior students. Belew has been taking courses at Eastern New Mexico University according to her aunt, Woody Rebrovich. She is expected to graduate with honors from PHS. Belew plans to attend Angelo State...
ROSWELL – Senior Jett Stone shared medalist honors with a round of three-over-par 39-36 – 75 on Tuesday, helping Clovis High’s boys to a share of third place with New Mexico Military at 339 in Roswell High’s seven-team Coyote Classic golf tournament, played at NMMI’s course. Meantime, sophomore Kylie Sprinkle was fourth overall at 47-41 – 88, helping the Lady Wildcats tie for third with Hobbs at 417. Stone shared first place with Gateway Christian’s Troy Oswald. Artesia won the boys’ division at 319, followed by Roswell Godda...
A Clovis High School senior is one of 23 New Mexico high school seniors to be named a Daniels Scholar. According to a news release from Clovis Municipal Schools, Rebekah Warren was awarded up to $100,000 in college funding toward an undergraduate degree. Warren is one of CHS’s Early College High School students. With that designation she is on track to graduate from Clovis Community College with an Associate of Applied Science - Paralegal and an Associate of General Studies according to the release. Warren is expected to grad...
On this date ... 1946: Harold “Skinny” Holland had purchased Jack’s Body Works from Jack Calkins. The Clovis auto body shop was located at 512 W. Seventh St. ‘“Skinny,’ as he is known to the people in this area, is considered one of the most skilled and proficient men of his trade,” The Clovis News-Journal reported. 1949: Cricket Coogler, an 18-year-old Las Cruces waitress, went missing. She was later found dead, raped and run over by a car. Pittsburgh Steelers football player...
AMARILLO – Clovis High’s boys finished 10th in a field of 17 teams over the weekend in the Amarillo Relays track meet. Senior Jeremiah Johnson and junior Sammy Fuentes each posted a second-place finish in the meet, with Johnson going an even 50 feet in shot put for a state-qualifying mark on Friday and Fuentes completing the 1,600 in a time of 4 minutes, 34.17 seconds on Saturday. Meantime, Fuentes accounted for the other points for the Cats with a fourth-place finish in Friday’s 3,200 with a time of 10:03.13. Amarillo High...
Five boys and three girls have been chosen for various all-state basketball honors by the New Mexico High School Coaches Association. For the boys, Texico senior Cade Figg was a first-team selection in Class 2A, while Clovis High senior Marvin Cox, Portales High junior Paxton Culpeper in Class 4A and Melrose junior Brayden Eldridge in Class 1A were accorded second-team status. Also, Buffaloes junior Josiah Roybal was an honorable mention pick in 1A. Girls honorees, all in Class 1A, were seniors Graci Odom of Melrose and...
On this date ... 1940: Coach Rock Staubus’ Clovis High School football team had scheduled nine games but wanted three more to complete “one of the stiffest schedules arranged for a local team in several gridiron years,” the Clovis News-Journal reported. Teams on the schedule already included Clayton, Raton, Portales, Carlsbad and St. Michael’s College of Santa Fe. The season was slated to begin Sept. 13, but no opponent had been lined up yet. 1950: Johnny Reynolds of Dora wa...
PORTALES – Four members of the Portales High Lady Rams basketball team have been chosen for All-District 4-4A first-team honors. Named to the 12-player squad were senior guard Audrey Paden, junior guards Myleigh Banda and Angel Ornelas and junior forward Evannie Fulfer. Portales finished the season with a 20-9 record after losing to Gallup 66-56 last week in the Class 4A state quarterfinals at The Pit in Albuquerque. Other first-teamers were seniors Lorin Wagner and Kymber Beltran, junior Hattie Harrison and sophomore J...
CARLSBAD – Clovis High’s boys earned a split of dual matches on Friday in Carlsbad’s six-team Claire Higgins Invitational. Saturday’s second day of competition was rained out. The Wildcats and Lady Wildcats were slated to face Artesia and Roswell High, respectively. Carlsbad and Hobbs tied for boys team honors with three points each, while the Cats and Artesia both finished with two points and Las Vegas Robertson and Roswell High scored a point apiece. The Cats defeated Robertson 6-3 while losing to Carlsbad 8-1. Clovis went...
Responding to calls from stranded drivers with broken-down cars is a regular feature of the job for New Mexico State Police. But Officer Justin Hare, who was shot and killed while on duty Friday morning, was known for taking that task to the next level. "If he saw a car or a pickup on the side of the highway, he was always stopping to try to help them," said Jason Goen, a Tucumcari mechanic and tow truck driver who regularly worked alongside Hare for years. "When you call out... Full story
PITTSBURG, Kan. – Eastern New Mexico senior Timothy Frederick finished in the top eight in two sprints on Saturday in the NCAA Division II national indoor track meet, hosted by Pittsburg State. Frederick, from La Brea, Trinidad and Tobago, gave the Greyhounds eight team points by finishing fourth in the 400 at 47.66 seconds and sixth in the 200 at 21.46. He earned first-team All-American honors and gave ENMU 22nd place out of 68 schools with athletes competing in the meet. Last year, he placed 12th in the national indoor m...
FRISCO, Texas – Eastern New Mexico University senior guard Greg Johnson earned men’s first-team All-Lone Star Conference recognition in a banquet on Wednesday night prior to the start of the LSC tournament. Johnson, from Little Rock, Ark., helped the Greyhounds win 19 regular-season games, averaging 17.8 ppg and 2.7 assists per contests. He has scored 30 or more points four times. Named LSC offensive player of the week twice during the campaign, Johnson shot 51 percent from 3-point range (60-of-118) and also posted 99 reb...
ALBUQUERQUE – Clovis High’s girls took third place in the season-opening, seven-team Statewide Opener tennis tournament last weekend, co-hosted by Albuquerque Academy and Farmington at Jerry Cline Tennis Center. The Lady Wildcats were a distant third – they had nine team points to trail Farmington (56) and Academy (54). In singles, junior Madita Ewert went 3-1 and finished ninth in the 16-person bracket at No. 1, junior Hansini Lingala was 2-2 and finished 13 at No. 2, sophomore Gigi Greer also went 2-2 and ended up 10th,...
Eastern New Mexico University's softball team kept its hot start going over the weekend, capping a three-game Lone Star Conference series sweep of St. Edward's with a 15-5 drubbing of the Hilltoppers at Greyhound Softball Field. ENMU, playing its first home games, came into the weekend just 4-18 all-time against the Hilltoppers, but now sport a 4-2 record against them in their own park after their first sweep of St. Ed's. ENMU (13-4, 6-3 LSC) pounded out 12 hits in Sunday's...
CANYON, Texas – Eastern New Mexico University’s men took a 2-0 lead in the second minute of Thursday’s Lone Star Conference matchup against top-ranked West Texas A&M. It was all downhill from there. WT scored the game’s next 11 points and never looked back, rolling to a 93-68 victory over the Greyhounds and dropping ENMU to 0-3 on its four-game road stretch. With the win, the Buffaloes (23-1, 18-0 LSC) ran their winning streak to 20 dating to an 80-79 home loss to Metro State on Nov. 16. ENMU (14-9, 10-7), which lost to WT 8...
Amber Campbell, a former Tucumcari resident, was among eight people named Saturday to the Class of 2023 for the New Mexico Sports Hall of Fame. Campbell, 42, who said she gained her love for sports as a child in Tucumcari, was a USA Olympian in 2008, 2012 and 2016 in the hammer throw. At Coastal Carolina University, she was a five-time NCAA All-American in the weight throw, hammer throw, shot put and discus. She won 11 national track titles and was a two-time Pan American Games medalist. At Tucumcari, she qualified as an...
FORT SUMNER – Melrose held Fort Sumner to eight first-half points and the Lady Buffs, ranked third in Class 1A by MaxPreps, posted a 47-34 win over the second-ranked Vixens in a District 6-1A clash. Sophomore Skyler Wicker led Melrose (18-3, 2-1 district) with 14 points while senior Graci Odom added 12 on four of the Lady Buffs’ nine 3-pointers. Melrose led 24-8 at the intermission, fought off a third-quarter rally by the Vixens (17-5, 3-1) and pulled away with an 18-point fourth quarter. Junior cousins Emmarie and All...
Editor’s note: This is one in a continuing series of interviews with local officials. Mandy Carpenter of Clovis Municipal Schools was recently named administrator of the year by the New Mexico School Personnel Association during its annual conference in Albuquerque. Q: Did the New Mexico School Personnel Association tell you how you came to be its administrator of the year? A: This was a nomination process by my fellow colleagues from across the state of New Mexico. Q: Talk about some of the initiatives or projects y...
