Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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Eastern Plains Athletic Conference tournament (Seeds in parentheses) Boys Wednesday At Melrose H.S. Game 1: Logan (4) 68, Fort Sumner (5) 54 Game 2: Tatum (8) 73, Clovis Christian (9) 63 Game 3: Melrose (3) 67, Grady (6) 50 Game 4: Dora (7) 59, Floyd (10) 30 Thursday At Melrose H.S. Game 7: Fort Sumner 79, Clovis Christian 53 Game 5: Tatum 57, Texico (1) 55, OT Game 8: Grady 70, Floyd 50 Game 6: Elida (2) 66, Dora 42 Friday At Greyhound Arena, Portales Game 9: Clovis Christian vs. Floyd, 9 a.m. Game 10: Melrose vs. Elida,...
SANTA FE — The New Mexico Department of Health reported Thursday that a 1-year-old boy in Roosevelt County was the state’s first pediatric influenza death of the 2019-20 flu season. The release did not otherwise identify the child. Since the beginning of the flu season in October, the department reports 52 pneumonia and influenza-related deaths. The department warns that the flu has still not reached peak activity, and that the percent of visits to outpatient medical clinics for flu-like symptoms was higher and earlier than t...
Five candidates, two of them current Clovis city commissioners and one a former city manager, are running for the open mayor’s position. Following Tuesday’s signup day, Clovis’ municipal election will feature six races out of six contested, while Portales will have three of its four councilors running unopposed for re-election. Municipal elections are scheduled for March 3, with early voting starting Feb. 4. A total of 20 candidates are running in the Clovis municipal election — five for mayor, seven for District 1 and two...
There is something eternally hopeful about hanging up a fresh calendar. Or nine. I recently completed that time-honored annual tradition of trading out all of last year’s calendars for current models. The newest one from the Roosevelt County Electric Cooperative hangs front and center above my computer. The artwork on it — a lovely rendering of the Rogers community school as it looked in the 1940s — takes me right back to seeing the original in progress when I met Arch artis...
Here is a Jan. 8, 2020, news release from PBR.com/GlobalCup: PUEBLO, Colo. – Ahead of the 2020 WinStar World Casino and Resort PBR Global Cup USA, presented by Monster Energy, the final riders set to defend home soil as members of Team USA Eagles and Wolves at the event akin to the "Olympics of bull riding" have been announced. The fourth edition of the PBR Global Cup, the only nation vs. nation bull riding competition, will make its second stop at AT&T Stadium in A...
President Donald Trump said Wednesday that the United States would impose harsh new economic sanctions on Iran and stood prepared to use America’s military prowess to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, but the president also called on nations to work together to embrace peace. “As long as I’m president of the United States, Iran will never be allowed to have a nuclear weapon,” said Trump, whose withdrawal from the 2015 nuclear agreement negotiated between Iran and the Obama administration has sparked almost two yea... Full story
My husband Peter asked what I thought about the link he’d sent me as we prepared to head home from the holidays. “The funeral home?” I asked. “Yeah, that one.” “I thought it was a joke.” “No, it’s right on our way.” “We’re going to spend the night in a funeral home?” “It’s very inexpensive!” I suddenly felt like I was in the opening scene of every horror film I’d ever watched. Peter wanted us to spend the night in a historic funeral home on our way home. The funeral home had been converted into an Airbnb. It was both right...
As I write this week’s column, can I just admit from the outset that I’m not sure I should be writing this week’s column? At least, not on this topic. I could easily come off as grouchy and pessimistic, depressed and depressing. Better to keep my mouth shut. But I’ll give it a shot. Writing, that is. I’m not disciplined enough to shut up. You see, just a few days ago we blew right into and right past the eighth day of Christmas, better known as New Year’s Day. Personally, I ca...
Just 21, newly married, he wasn't quite 6-foot tall and he wasn't close to 150 pounds. Lane Frost loved riding bulls. The Pro Rodeo official media guide in 1985 gave us a glimpse of his passion for the sport. "My dad was still competing when I was about three," he told promoters for the guide. "Mom says I'd always fight to stay awake for the bull riding. And if we'd leave before that, I would really throw a fit." Frost finished eighth among bull riders in the 1984 National...
On a wall of the Quay County Clerk's office hangs a 1964 map of ghost towns in New Mexico. The New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources compiled the map, of which copies are available from the office for a fee. In Quay County, the map shows about 20 ghost towns that might be unfamiliar even to longtime residents - towns with names such as Tipton, Revuelto, Canode, Adberg, Ard and Hanley. It turns out the map far underestimated the number of defunct settlements in Quay...
Today • Tiny Tots — 10 a.m., Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main St., Clovis. Information: 575-769-7840 • Stitch Addicts stitch group — 1:30-3 p.m., Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main St., Clovis. Information: 575-763-9687 • Rural Bookmobile East — 1:45-3 p.m., Elida City Hall, 704 Clark St., Elida. Information: 575-461-1824 Thursday • Preschool storytime — 10 a.m., Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main St., Clovis. Information: 575-769-7840 • Blood drive — 2-6 p.m., Bloodmobile, Kingswood United Me...
