The Eastern New Mexico News - Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities

Booked The following were booked into local jails Tuesday - Thursday: Clovis • Jose Sena, 44, probation violation • Eugene Foster, 42, failure to pay fines • Josette Anaya, 37, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge • James Sanchez, 32,...

CLOVIS — The Clovis Municipal Schools Board of Education on Tuesday will discuss moving from a 260-day calendar to a 238-day calendar for 12-month employees. Superintendent Jody Balch said the change would not affect any employee salaries, it...

Darci Pierce in 1987 kidnapped a woman who was 8 months pregnant. She drove her to a remote area in the East Mountains where she strangled her, cut out her baby with a key, then tried to pass the baby off as her own. Frank Martinez and two other...

SANTA FE — If we didn’t know 60 days ago, we know now: New Mexico is under Democrat control. “I feel like the state of New Mexico turned left,” Rep. Randy Crowder, R-Clovis, said as the state Legislature wrapped up its annual session on...

SANTA FE — A proposal to raise income taxes on high-earning New Mexicans — as part of a broader tax package — won approval in the final minutes of the 2019 legislative session. The last day also included final passage of legislation for a new...

CLOVIS — The Curry County Commission is expected to consider the closure of 2.28 miles of Curry Road 6 during Tuesday’s meeting. Road viewers who met Wednesday recommended the road be closed and a yield sign be placed at the intersection of CR...

CLOVIS — New operators of Clovis’ Colonial Park Golf Course touted an impressive list of credentials during a Tuesday meet-and-greet, with a management company the National Golf Foundation named as one of golf’s top 100 businesses. But...

PORTALES — The city of Portales’ annual loan agreement with the National Museum of the Air Force will go before the city council at Tuesday’s meeting. City Manager Sammy Standefer said the city has hosted the F-111 jet displayed just north of...

SANTA FE — New Mexico lawmakers are sending Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham a proposal that would raise the statewide minimum wage to $12 an hour by 2023. It’s the product of a late-night agreement struck in the final days of the legislative...

ALBUQUERQUE — Portales coach Wade Fraze always tells his players that once you reach the state basketball tournament, the seed is just a number. It doesn’t find open players, it doesn’t pull down rebounds, it doesn’t make free throws. But...

RIO RANCHO — Noah Maxwell had 17 points, and the Fort Sumner Foxes pulled away in the second half to top Maxwell 47-37 Thursday at Santa Ana Star Center to return to the state title round. Jude Segura added 15 for the Foxes (23-8), who will face...

RIO RANCHO — The Melrose Buffaloes are back to defend their Class 1A crown. A familiar foe is waiting for them. A 6 p.m. Saturday matchup against Fort Sumner awaits Melrose following its 58-45 victory over top-seeded Quemado Thursday at the...

ROSWELL — Break up the Lady Wildcats? Well, maybe not just yet. But Clovis’ softball team is playing well and winning as a result. So far this season, the Lady ’Cats are 3-0, already giving them more victories than each of the last two Clovis...

ALBUQUERQUE – Texico’s boys basketball team made a go of it against one of the state’s elite teams. The fourth-seeded Wolverines wanted more than just making a go of it in Friday morning’s State 2A semifinal at The Pit, wanted a return trip...

PORTALES — The Portales baseball season will be like a two-month-long tryout. As sixth-year head coach Dusty Nusser moves players around, sees how they fit, where they can maximize their abilities, he will guarantee few a continuous starting...

PORTALES — The Eastern New Mexico football team is playing on the road this Friday, and it’s only the spring season. The Greyhounds have scheduled a special practice for 6 p.m. Friday at Leon Williams Stadium, on the campus of Clovis High...

Clovis Elementary Monday: Breakfast — French toast. Lunch — Soft taco w/salsa, seasoned pinto beans, seasoned corn. Tuesday: Breakfast — Pancake sausage on a stick. Lunch — French bead pizza, veggie cup w/ranch, chilled fruit. Wednesday:...

Curry County and Area Republican Women The Curry County & Area Republican Women's Group met on Tuesday at K-Bob’s Steakhouse with President Annie Hogland presiding. Sue McDowell gave the invocation and Karen Bair led the Pledge of Alliance. There...

Baxter Curren Senior Center 908 Hickory St., Clovis Monday: 8:30 a.m. exercise class, 10 a.m. jewelry pals, 1 p.m. line dance, 5 p.m. business meeting, 5:30 p.m. potluck, 6 p.m. social night Tuesday: 8 a.m.-4 p.m. exercise equipment, 8 a.m....

The following are available for checkout at: Clovis-Carver Public Library “Summit Lake” by Charlie Donlea steps into North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains to a place that seems too beautiful to be touched by horror. Yet following the brutal...

Jury made wrong decision in case I am writing about the recent jury decision that found Benjamin Pritchett guilty of a years-old supposed sexual assault of a child. Juries make darned wrong decisions sometimes and this case was no exception. I know...

A minimum wage increase was on the way to Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s desk, and this column was due before her expected signature. Every time a wage increase is discussed, I hear the same arguments. • “Minimum wage increases will mean...

It really has come to this: Americans can’t even agree on what time it is. As most of us were springing our clocks forward and feeling like we were robbed of another hour of sleep last weekend, debates on the wisdom or folly of daylight saving...

The same Democrats outraged by Donald Trump’s alleged offenses against the First Amendment passed, as their first priority, a speech-restricting bill opposed by the American Civil Liberties Union. Trump shouldn’t call the media “the enemy of...

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