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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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This isn’t supposed to be the way Northeastern State’s women win basketball games. A team that usually relies on defense put together its best offensive performance of the season Thursday night to beat Eastern New Mexico University 81-69 in a Lone Star Conference crossover game at Greyhound Arena. The Lady Reds (8-4) used a 14-0 run late in the first half to take control, and pulled away late with the help of 20-of-25 free throw shooting. It was only the third time Northeastern State scored more than 65 points this season. “I...
Portales Ram coach Mark Gallegos knows if his team is to succeed this season, they’re going to have to give a better effort than they did Thursday night at home against Artesia. The Bulldogs sank nine 3-pointers and outscored the Rams 21-12 in the fourth period as Artesia won 67-54. Junior guard Bryan Madrid scored 11 of his game best 22 points in the decisive final quarter for Artesia. “Considering that we were missing three of our top four post players, (we’re) very pleased just to get a win against a tough Portales team,...
Ealy Furniture of 209 Main advertised a 21-inch television set and other merchandise for sale, promising to “take your old furniture as trade-in.” … J. Johnson, former chef at the LaVista Dining Room, announced he’d purchased Miller’s Café,113 W. Grand. Johnson said the café would specialize in tender steaks, southern fried chicken and home-baked pies. … Clovis Postmaster Ed Manson reported the post office completed its “biggest year in history” in 1952, with revenue at $161,679.83 – more than $10,000 ahead of the previo...
United Way of Eastern New Mexico is less than $25,000 shy of its $525,000 goal and has extended its 2006-2007 campaign until Jan. 19 to allow more time for contributions, according to United Way officials. Assistant Director Christine Caldwell said donations and pledges topped $500,000 Thursday, putting the organization at more than 95 percent of its community-wide goal. Caldwell said $437,412 has been raised to date in Curry County and $63,205 in Roosevelt County. She said the additional time will accommodate companies that...
The only police officer in the village of Melrose was involved in a car accident while on duty Thursday night, according to a spokesperson with the state police. No serious injuries were sustained in the collision, according to officials. Melrose Police Marshal Lee Ferguson failed to yield at an intersection and the vehicle he was driving collided with a car driven by Melrose resident Wendell Belcher, 46, according to Lt. Rick Anglada, a spokesperson for the state police. Ferguson was responding to a silent alarm call from... Full story
The following marriage licenses were compiled from court records from Dec. 21 through Jan. 3: • Juan Manuel Dominguez, 55, to Agustina Salas Betancur, 49, both of Roswell. • Vernon Ray Dobbs, 39, to Felicia A. Chavez, 34, both of Clovis. • Jessie Trujillo, 34, to Evangaline Preciado, 46, both of Tucumcari. • Sergio Trejo, 34, to Blanca Rosa Lopez, 19, both of Clovis. • Truman Ross Hohstadt, 20, of Beaufort, S.C., to Stephanie Renee Babbitt, 19, of Clovis. • Robert Eugene Harris, 52, to Laurie Hayward Rowe, 53, both of Madill,...
Hank Baskett’s 89-yard touchdown catch Sunday against the Falcons was the longest scoring play from scrimmage this season, according to the Eagles’ Web site. (AP photo) NEW YORK — Clovis’ Hank Baskett was voted the NFL Rookie of the Week for the second time this season, the league announced Thursday. An undrafted rookie out of the University of New Mexico, Baskett caught seven passes for 177 yards in the Eagles’ 24-17 victory Sunday over the Atlanta Falcons. His best day as a pro included a game-winning 89-yard touchdown...
Investigation reports into an escape and a stabbing last month at the Curry County Detention Center are complete, but officials have so far declined to release them. Curry County Assistant Manager Lance Pyle said a report was completed Wednesday evening and Warden Leslie Johnson has met with Curry County Manager Dick Smith. “Appropriate actions are being taken,” Pyle said. “These are personnel matters, so that’s all I can say.” Smith and Johnson could not be reached for comment on Thursday. The 9th Judicial District Attorney...
Tristan Largent takes a 3-point shot over the outstretched arm of Northeastern State sophomore Ben Rovenstine in the second half of Thursday’s Lone Star Conference crossover game at Greyhound Arena. (CNJ staff photo: Kevin Wilson) PORTALES — Northeastern State wasn’t having much luck getting second chances with its admittedly-poor offensive rebounding. Instead, the Redmen took their chances from the 3-point line and ran away in the second half. Steve Neal had 17 points to lead four Redmen in double figures, and North...
Portales Police used tape and patrol cars to block off the street by mid-afternoon and by nightfall the PPD mobile crime trailer was parked at the scene. (Freedom Newspapers: Karl Terry) Portales police are investigating the death of a 6-year-old Portales boy. Emergency personnel found him unresponsive and not breathing about 10 a.m. Thursday in a bedroom of his home at 727 N. Ave. M. Portales Police Capt. Lonnie Berry said there was no apparent medical history to explain the death of Lorenzo A. Cabral Jr. and no outward...
Grady’s Brian Blackburn blocks a shot by Logan’s Kevin Morrison during a boys consolation matchup on Thursday in the EPAC basketball tournament at Texico. Logan defeated the Bronchos 71-41. (CNJ staff photo: Rick White) At Texico Boys Thursday Consolation games Game 15: Floyd 61, House 30 Game 16: Logan 71, Grady 41 Game 18: Fort Sumner 57, Melrose 38 (5th place) Friday Game 20: Grady (2-9) vs. House (3-8), 9th place, 12:45 p.m., high school gym Game 23: San Jon (5-4) vs. Elida (12-2), semifinals, 6 p.m., high school gym Gam...
Sen. Clint Harden, R-Clovis The city of Clovis will snag roughly the same amount of capital outlay money in the upcoming legislative session as it did in the last one, according to a local legislator. Even the amount of money appropriated to Clovis but vetoed by the governor should remain comparable, Sen. Clint Harden, R-Clovis, said Thursday during a lunch between local legislators and city of Clovis officials. In 2006, Curry County walked away with $15.8 million in capital outlay funds. About half of the 45 Curry County...
ENMU's Elizabeth Richards applies defensive pressure Northeastern State’s Jezzal Quintana during Thursday night’s Lone Star Conference women’s crossover game at Greyhound Arena. (CNJ staff photo: Andy DeLisle) PORTALES — This isn’t supposed to be the way Northeastern State’s women win basketball games. A team that usually relies on defense put together its best offensive performance of the season Thursday night to beat Eastern New Mexico University 81-69 in a Lone Star Conference crossover game at Greyhound Arena. The... Full story
It didn’t take the Clovis High boys basketball team long to get back on track. Three nights after losing a 97-95 overtime heartbreaker to Rio Rancho in the finals of the Milk Cow Classic at Rock Staubus Gym, the Wildcats improved to 11-1 with Tuesday’s 61-49 win at Amarillo High. The Cats hit the road for a 7 p.m. game today against Moriarty, then host Roswell Goddard at 7 p.m. on Saturday at The Rock. CHS boys coach J.D. Isler said he wasn’t concerned about his team bouncing back from the loss, although the Cats started a bi... Full story
Editor’s note: Since the holidays, Amos has been feeling the drudgeries of life under the church pew. He enumerates his complaints and decides to do something about it. Amos is a church mouse, who types by hopping on the computer keyboard, but he can’t operate the capital shift, and he shuns punctuation marks — except hyphens and dashes. i ve said it before boss but life ain t easy under a cushionless church pew either the church custodian gets sloppy with the mop water and floods my little hole-in-the-wall home or marce... Full story
The word “values” can be used in two ways. First, it can denote money or worth attached to something. For instance, there are used car values, commercial property values, housing values and values of expensive and rare art. Then the word “values” can be used to designate significant personal beliefs. We think of family values, traditional values, personal core values and common sense values. Advice on both these kinds of values abounds. There are scores of books at any boo...
Bill and Karen Banks moved from Oregon so Bill could become pastor of the Central Christian Church. (Staff photo: Andy DeLisle) Bill Banks is a mail-order preacher. Or at least that’s the tongue-in-cheek story he tells about how he came to be the new pastor of Central Christian Church. Actually, he was hired by phone. The 53-year-old said he sought a pastorship in New Mexico because “his wife needed to dry out.” Actually, his wife, Karen, suffers from reactive airway disease and fibromyalgia, and needed to move from Orego... Full story
Northeastern State wasn’t having much luck getting second chances with their admittedly-poor offensive rebounding. Instead, they took their chances from the 3-point line and ran away in the second half. Steve Neal had 17 to lead four Redmen in double figures, and Northeastern State hit four of its six second-half 3-pointers during a 21-8 run en route to a 63-58 win in a Lone Star Conference crossover game. Ben Rovenstine scored all 15 of his points in the second half for the Redmen (4-7), including 12 during the pivotal r...
Years ago when my oldest brother and his wife left for 20 years of mission work in Malawi, Africa, I was barely a pup. I was too small to remember much of the early time of their service there, but I well remember that then and always, whenever our family gathered, we sang. I learned many good songs at church as I was growing up. Lots of them were great songs in every way. Many were beautiful and rich with meaning. Some were pretty but so-so. Some were toe-tappers with great...
I was rather surprised to overhear recently a comment to the effect that “we do not celebrate Christmas because it is not in the Bible.” The comment was made on the morning of Dec. 24. Today, as most liturgical churches celebrate Epiphany, it seems like a good time to share some thoughts on the comment and its implications. First, a disclaimer is needed to remind us we live in a country where a central tenet is freedom of religion. Whether to celebrate a religious holiday or not, and how to do so, is a matter of personal cho...
Folks in these parts aren’t real familiar with deep snow, toboggans and holiday omelets, and that’s probably a good thing. But I’m recalling the now famous Great Toboggan and Omelet Debacle of 1945, an unparalleled event in the annals of winter sports, although it was heralded by some as the high water mark of cretindom. It began when my friend Smooth Heine, who was already legendary for killing a militant skunk with his sister’s clarinet, came across an old toboggan in his father’s barn. Snow that night had fallen on the Co...
Editor’s note: This is the first part of a two-part column. The second part will be published Jan. 14. Back on Sunday, Nov. 5, I wrote a column about the 1924 Clovis Schools All-Band, made up of elementary, junior and senior students, and listed some of the students in a photo of this band conducted by Verdi Croft on the front steps of CHS. I was writing about Selecta “Midget” Cumpton, the band’s mascot. One of the students was 16-year-old Otis Kelley. That same day my column was published Kelley sent me an e-mail from Al...
There is a lot of pressure to celebrate New Year’s Eve. When I lived in New York City, I went to parties and made it to Times Square to see the ball drop. It was cold and my toes were frozen by the time I left. I’m not even sure I technically had fun, but with all the noise and confetti, it sure seemed like it. New Year’s Eve was always full of great memories. In fact, my best New Year’s was the first one with my husband. We had only recently met, both of us visiting mutual friends in England, and celebrated all togethe...
Friends bring sunshine and sparkle into our lives. Friends stick by us through “thick and thin.” It has been said that friends are like postage stamps. They “see us through, even if they have to take a licking.” Let’s make one of our New Year’s resolutions to be that of making a new friend. ”A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother” (Proverbs 18:24). Friends, whether young or old and all the way in between are such great blessings. Make friends with ne...
Winds gusting to 60 mph ripped through Clovis, breaking numerous windows and glass doors downtown. … Carl Scott was pastor at Central Baptist Church, while Herbert Bergstrom was pastor at Parkland Baptist. E. Leonard Gillingham of Kingswood Methodist was president of the Curry County Ministerial Alliance. … Steve Carlson of Clovis was preparing to perform a trumpet solo at the Third Annual John Philip Sousa Memorial Concert at Marshall Auditorium. … The “Saturday Specials” at Doc Stewart Chevrolet-Buick included a 1959 Ramb... Full story
