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Temperatures hovered near zero. Visibility was about the same. Actor Jimmy Stewart was flying the first plane he'd ever owned from Kansas City to Los Angeles when he had to set it down at Tucumcari. "Clouds and snow and fog and ice," Stewart told reporters when asked why his flight was delayed. Tucumcari is a good place to sit and wait for celebrities, thanks mostly to its location along historic Route 66. Paul McCartney, William Shatner, Red Skelton, Danny Thomas and Morgan...
CLOVIS — A high school basketball season is a slog, a long march toward what each team hopes is a state-playoff destination. Clovis’ girls basketball team continued its march on Saturday night with a victory over Lovington at Rock Staubus Gymnasium. The Lady Wildcats were able to transform a tie game at halftime into a 47-39 victory, which was huge because the outcome left them still four games under .500 with the regular season more than half over. Every win is huge for them from now on. “It was ugly, but I’ll take an ugly...
I first saw a flyer advertising the “Roosevelt County Homesteaders Club” more than a year ago, and I was intrigued. My curiosity heightened when I learned it was a group of mostly young women with a commitment to exploring the skills our grandparents and great-grandparents relied upon: gardening, food preservation, raising chickens, and so on. I finally found a chance to sit in on one of their monthly gatherings last week. It was pure joy. Meredith Eaton is president of the...
CLOVIS — The Clovis City Commission will consider a few changes to the retirement plans for city employees at Thursday’s meeting. According to the agenda for the 5:15 p.m. meeting at the North Annex of the Clovis-Carver Public Library, changes would allow employees to borrow against their 457 deferred compensation plan and determine new ways for employees to make their 3% bi-weekly contribution. Changes are also proposed to the vesting terms for employees. Current city employees receive 30% vesting after three years of ser...
Schools announce choice for position Clovis Municipal Schools has announced that Deborah Westbrook will be its new deputy director of child nutrition and wellbeing. Westbrook, who is currently principal at Lockwood Elementary, has been with the district since 2006. She replaces Paul Klein, who retired from the position. The official start date for Westbrook will be Monday. The district anticipates replacing Westbrook’s principal position soon, but expects some overlap in the transition phase. Education Digest is compiled b...
New management at events center The Curry County Events Center has a new general manager aboard, according to a release from management company Spectra. Kadee Hande began her position Jan. 13. She comes to Curry County with a dozen years of industry experience. “I am thrilled to be joining the Spectra team at Curry County Events Center, and to roll my sleeves up and get started in this great community,” Hande said in a release. “As we kickoff this new year, we’ll take a look at enhancing the venue’s big-name events, l...
CLOVIS — A Lubbock man will face a second-degree murder charge on allegations he fatally shot a Clovis man in November. Steven Hogues, 34, was indicted Friday by a Curry County grand jury for the second-degree murder charge, plus a charge of firearm possession by a felon. Hogues was initially facing an open count of murder in the Curry County Magistrate Court before it was superceded by the grand jury indictment. Hogues, arrested Nov. 23 in Amarillo without incident, is accused of shooting William Romero of Clovis the day b...
CLOVIS — The Eastern New Mexico Water Utility Authority will consider several annual contracts and a pair of easement agreements in its regular meeting Thursday afternoon. The meeting is scheduled for 3 p.m. at the authority’s office at the Sitterly Professional Center at 801 Pile in Clovis. Four annual contracts will be on the agenda — one with Thompson Consulting for state activities, one with Capitol Consultants for federal activities, one with Harmon, Barnett and Morris for legal services and one with MJR Maintenance for...
SANTA FE — Curry County Manager Lance Pyle on Tuesday was named vice chair for the New Mexico County Insurance Authority board of directors, according to a release from New Mexico Counties. Board member duties began following the Tuesday election at the NMC legislative conference, and continue until the next annual membership meeting in January 2021. Other officers elected are chair Ron Lethgo, chief deputy assessor for Chaves County; and board representative Jim Fambro, a member of the Taos County Commission. The a...
Today • City of Clovis Public Works Committee — 8:30 a.m., Clovis City Hall assembly room, 321 N. Connelly, Clovis. Information: 575-763-9654 Thursday • Eastern New Mexico University Regents — 10 a.m., main conference room, Hilton Santa Fe, 100 Sandoval St., Santa Fe. Information: 575-562-2121 • Eastern New Mexico Water Utility Authority — 3 p.m., ENMWUA Offices, Sitterly Professional Center, 801 Pile Street, Clovis. Information: 575-935-4262 • Clovis City Commission — 5:15 p.m., North Annex, Clovis-Carver Public Library,...
On this date ... 1970: Clovis animal control officers had been instructed that their jobs no longer required them to chase and apprehend animals running at large. Instead, they had been issued tranquilizer guns. “A shot from the tranquilizer gun will put an animal to sleep without inflicting permanent damage,” the Clovis News-Journal reported. City officials had been receiving “a great number of complaints” about dogs running at large, the paper reported. “(C)ertain discrepancies” within the law had been resolved and dog own...
In the high-stakes world of spelling bees, Friday is Super Bowl time for eastern New Mexico as local elementary and middle school students compete for the title of county spelling champion in both Curry and Roosevelt counties. The Curry County spelling bee is set for 8:30 a.m. in the Town Hall at Clovis Community College, 417 Schepps Blvd., Clovis, according to director Linda D’Amour. Retired educator Carol Nash will be calling the words. Roosevelt County spellers are scheduled to begin competition at 1 p.m. in the Becky S...
PORTALES - To honor one of the nation's greatest civil rights leaders, roughly 500 students, teachers, city officials and Portales community members marched down the streets of the city Monday evening to honor Martin Luther King Jr. After marching from the Memorial Building to the Campus Union Building at Eastern New Mexico University, members of the march met in the CUB Ballroom for entertainment and awards. After a combined performance by the Portales High School and ENMU...
CLOVIS - It was just a little above freezing in Clovis at 9 a.m. Monday - 36 degrees, to be exact. But there was no better time, and O.G. Potter Park no better place, to take an important walk. People from a spectrum of races and ages gathered there, and eventually at St. John Baptist Church, to honor Martin Luther King Jr. and discuss his body of work and the vision still not completely fulfilled. After a few quick words in King's honor, the crowd of about 60 people began...
CLOVIS — Volcano Vista is the kind of boys basketball team Clovis will have to beat in the state tournament if the Wildcats want to get far. So, Saturday night’s 58-48 victory over Volcano at Rock Staubus Gymnasium – a game Clovis led from start to finish – seemed like a pretty big one, seemed like it boded well for Clovis’ state-playoff aspirations. Maybe it did. But, in head coach Jaden Isler’s mind, every regular-season victory is important, every one bodes well for hi...
LUBBOCK — Seniors Ivar Moinat and Mary Rotich highlighted performances on Saturday’s second day of Texas Tech’s season-opening Corky Classic. Moinat finished second in the men’s 800 with a time of 1 minute, 54.93 seconds, while Rotich finished third in the women’s mile at 5:31.06. Also on Saturday, Jessie Madrid was sixth in the men’s 3,000 in 9:07.76. On Friday, Moinat finished second in the 400 in 50.01 seconds, slightly more than a second off his personal best time of 48.81 set last year. For the women, senior Bryanna Wil...
MORIARTY — It was a tough day to play basketball on Saturday. Earlier in the week, two brothers who were in the Moriarty basketball program — one a varsity member, the other a freshman — were killed in an automobile accident. The Pintos were slated to travel to Portales on Friday and the Lady Pintos on Saturday, but the site was switched to accommodate Moriarty. Portales won both games by nearly identical scores — 57-44 for the boys, 58-43 for the girls. “I think our kids did a good job of showing respect to the family an...
PORTALES — Eastern New Mexico’s basketball teams, both coming off frustrating losses to Angelo State Saturday, hope they’ll find some resiliency on the other side of Texas. The Lone Star Conference slate continues for the Greyhounds, who travel for a Thursday doubleheader at Texas A&M-International and another twin bill Saturday at Texas A&M-Kingsville. Both teams are 5-5 in LSC play and 2-4 in division play, but they’re polar opposites in overall records with the women 1...
PORTALES — Eastern New Mexico University’s men were close to keeping their recent charge going over the weekend. For the second time in three days, though, the Greyhounds fell a bit short as Angelo State used a late 14-2 run to fuel a 74-70 Lone Star Conference victory on Saturday at Greyhound Arena. ENMU (5-10, 5-5 LSC) had won five of seven after an 0-6 start before dropping a 62-60 decision to Lubbock Christian at home on Thursday. In this one, the Hounds trailed for much of the first half, then rallied to take a 38-...
RICHARDSON, Texas — Texas A&M-Kingsville is favored to defend its title in a larger Lone Star Conference, and Eastern New Mexico is expected to be on the outside looking in on the playoff race. The Javelinas, who finished as Division II runnerup last season, took 32 of the 42 first-place votes in a poll of coaches, sports information directors and media representatives released Monday by the conference office. The remaining first-place votes largely went to LSC veteran schools — seven to Texas A&M-Commerce and one each to...
RESERVE — Melrose’s basketball teams completed a sweep of the championships on Saturday in Reserve’s Mountaineer Invitational. All of the games for both were relatively lopsided, except for the boys final in which the Buffaloes turned back Maxwell 49-41. Meantime, the Lady Buffs coasted to a 58-29 title-game victory over Mountainair. Tristan Sena led the Melrose boys in the finale with 17 points, while Dylan Valentine added 12. The Buffs (14-1) were up 12-10 after one period, and increased the margin slightly at each of th...
This was the greeting offered to me recently by a cherished (and dare I say?) old friend who is one of my respected predecessors in my present (for almost 35 years) pulpit: “Well, you got old, too. I give up.” In his Gospel, St. Luke tells us that when the angel Gabriel appeared to Mary and “greeted” her, Mary was “deeply troubled and wondered what manner of greeting this might be” (1:29). The Bible writers almost never waste words in describing events, but my suspicion i...
Volunteer opportunities abound in eastern New Mexico. Look for this guide each month to describe some of them, or go online anytime at www.VolunteerENM.org to find current listings. To place an item on the volunteer page, call the newsroom at 575-763-6991 or e-mail: [email protected] Arise volunteers needed Arise Sexual Assault Services is seeking volunteers to be victim advocates for eastern New Mexico. Volunteers would staff the 24/7 hotline and respond to sexual assault cases in person. A 40-hour training session for...
I ride the bus to school and back, and it has a record for being the worst behaved bus in the school. I sit in the back with the “bad kids” because my best friend sits there. I do like sitting there. I have gotten in trouble several times on the bus for being next to kids being bad. The worst thing they’ve done was throw things off the bus and try to hit cars. The only time they were successful was when they through a plastic bottle and it hit a car behind us. Our bus driver writes everyone up for doing that, but even thoug...
I spent the weekend in New York City. I hadn’t been to New York in quite a while. I was performing at a theater conference and so was traveling alone, without my husband, Peter. New York intimidates me — as all big cities do. I am not a nervous traveler, generally, but I keep my possessions close at hand and my eyes open — which is why I noticed the young man in the black athletic shirt on the subway. I was taking the subway for the first time in a long time and, so far, I was doing pretty well. OK, I did choke when I got t...
