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LOS LUNAS – It was a day of crooked numbers for Eastern New Mexico University’s softball team on Friday. The Greyhounds put together six innings of three or more runs in routing Colorado State-Pueblo 15-8 and Colorado-Colorado Springs 11-3 in a season-opening South Central Region crossover event, hosted by Western New Mexico. The Hounds were slated to face Fort Lewis and Adams State on Saturday before closing out the three-day event against New Mexico Highlands today. ENMU scored 14 runs in the first three innings aga...
Who is Jennifer Duke? "Jennifer Duke is a work in progress," she said as she sat in her office at Clovis Community College. The college academic advisor shared what she does know about herself with The News on Monday afternoon. Q: Where were you born? A: Concord, Calif. I was born at the base of Devil's Mountain at dawn when the sun and the moon were both on the horizon during a solar eclipse. Q: Where have you been? A: I grew up in Farmington and Clovis; Des Moines, Iowa and...
I’m privileged to have a Bill Vance original bolo tie and I’m not certain how I came to possess it. Just for the record, I did not steal it or find it on the street, but the true story of how it came into my possession is a bit foggy. First let me talk about the tie and then I’ll get to the story. Bill Vance was a gentleman who lived in Portales most of his life and I suspect was not a stranger to much of anyone in town. I knew his family because his youngest daughter Jill...
DORA – Dora’s boys had their hands full with District 4-1A and Roosevelt County rival Floyd on Friday night. Leading by just six points, the Coyotes finally took control in the final stanza, outscoring the Broncos 11-0 for a 48-31 victory. Junior Aaron Combs tallied a personal-bet 21 points and senior Cole Kircher added 13 for Dora (11-7, 3-0 district). Senior Isaias Nieto notched 13 points and senior Drew Essary added 10 for Floyd (7-9, 0-3). In other Friday boys action: Farwell 78, Boys Ranch 16 – At Boys Ranch, the red-h...
ELIDA – Elida's boys put four players in double figures on Tuesday night and the Tigers rolled to a 75-46 District 4-1A victory over Gateway Christian. Senior Seth Jimenez scored 20 points while seniors Gage Hartman and Klayton Nixon and junior Hardy Fraze finished with 10 points apiece for the Tigers (9-10, 2-0 district), who got scoring from 11 players. Elida stretched a 14-9 lead at the quarter to 13 points at halftime and pulled away from there. For the Warriors (6-10, 1...
ROSWELL – It wasn’t pretty, but Portales High’s girls got what they needed to start their District 4-4A slate. Trailing 5-4 early, the Lady Rams held Roswell Goddard to four points the rest of the half, then pulled away in the final stanza for a 49-34 victory over the Lady Rockets on Friday night. The early surge gave PHS (16-5 overall) a 23-9 cushion at halftime, and that proved to be important when Goddard (7-13) pulled to within five points with a strong fourth quarter. Junior guard Myleigh Banda led the Lady Rams, going 9...
Clovis High's girls started off well against Hobbs on Friday night, and the Lady Wildcats had another good stretch which spanned the third and fourth quarters. The rest of the way, it was all Lady Eagles as they cruised to a 72-42 victory in a District 4-5A matchup at Rock Staubus Gym. No doubt, the Lady Cats played hard, but at 17-5 (0-2 district) they've put themselves in a bit of a hole with the next three of four remaining regular-season contests on the road. "We've got...
HOBBS – On paper, this would appear to be the year to get the Hobbs Eagles. Clovis High’s boys weren’t able to do it on Friday night, suffering through a four-point second quarter and eventually dropping a 68-67 decision in District 4-5A action. Junior guard Abraham Pena and sophomore guard Braylon Vega scored 17 points each while 6-foot-10 junior center Parker Henderson added 13 as Hobbs (9-13, 1-1 district) held on late for the win. “We had a 3-point look that missed, and an offensive rebound (basket) cut it to one as time...
Time’s running out for Eastern New Mexico University’s women to make a run at the Lone Star Conference postseason tournament. The Greyhounds certainly took a step in the right direction on Thursday night, though, clamping down on Angelo State in the second half to notch a 60-55 victory over the Rambelles at Greyhound Arena. Senior guard/forward Deja Adrian capped an 18-point night by knocking down four free throws in the final 30 seconds for the Greyhounds (7-12, 3-10 LSC). Junior forward Ishauna Hunter added 17 points, and...
It’s been a while since Eastern New Mexico University’s baseball team has beaten Angelo State. Down to their final out, the Greyhounds tied the second game of Friday’s Lone Star Conference and season-opening doubleheader against the Rams on an RBI triple by junior first baseman Beau Preston, who then scored the game-winner on a wild pitch for a 4-3 victory and a split at Greyhound Field. The Rams, defending NCAA Division II champions and ranked No. 1 in the preseason, came from behind to win the first of the two seven...
Traffic will be closed on Curry Road 16 Monday and Tuesday, according to a Curry County news release. Construction is scheduled to begin at 7 a.m. Monday and continue throughout Tuesday, the release said. Detours will be in place for traffic control....
With about an hour of time — much of it spent reclining, sipping a drink, and eating a snack — each of us has the power to save (get this) up to three human lives. And yet the American Red Cross says only 3% of us Americans donate blood in a typical year. Prior to last month, I was among the 97% who had not donated — well, at least not in a very long time. After my last two tries were failed attempts — once in 2001 and again in 2009 — I had decided that donating blood was...
In recent years the “left” including most, but not all in the Democratic Party have turned sharply against traditional energy sources. Despite New Mexico’s status as a leading energy state, it has not been exempted from this trend. In fact, while New Mexico has seen an unprecedented oil and gas boom (which has unlocked unprecedented government revenues) New Mexico’s political leadership has become virulently anti-energy. This is true for all five members of its congres...
In news you might have missed, 22-year old Madison Marsh – a second lieutenant in the Air Force and master’s student at the Harvard Kennedy School’s public policy program – was crowned Miss America in Orlando, Fla. Marsh, representing the state of Colorado, is the first active-duty Air Force officer ever to receive the national title. Southerner by birth, born in Fort Smith, Ark., Marsh graduated from the United States Air Force Academy with a degree in physics focusin...
For the last few weeks, U.S. troops stationed in Syria and Iraq have been taking in-coming rocket, missile and drone attacks. News reports claimed that more than 140 attacks on American troops in Iraq and Syria had been carried out with 70 members wounded and no fatalities. The pentagon faced a quandary that although a response of some kind was required, care had to be taken to ensure that the response taken would not escalate the conflict into a full-blown war. Officials...
Schadenfreude is a fabulous word. It means deriving happiness from the pain of others or in literal terms, “joy from damage.” And it’s what I felt watching Joe Biden try and make his grand promises about restoring abortion rights to supporters last month in Virginia. The campaign appearance was supposed to be a victory walk for the president, who is garnering fairly lukewarm support from Democrats. There is no great love for a very old man who is displaying the normal physi...
Our goal at Plains Regional Medical Center is to provide the care that our community needs, right here in Curry County. We continue to expand services to serve our community, such as by recruiting additional clinicians to provide women’s care in obstetrics and gynecology. We also continue to provide emergency and inpatient care in our 100-bed hospital, oncology care in our cancer center and primary and specialty care like cardiology, pediatrics and gastroenterology in our 12 clinics. While we want to keep growing services and...
It is often said there are two kinds of people. What kinds? It depends on the point being made. Yet, it’s usually true, if incomplete. In this case, I’m talking about two kinds of people where liberty is concerned. There are people who are authoritarian and people who are libertarian; those who want everyone else controlled and those who don’t feel any such need. Politics boils down to controlling someone in some way, so most politics is authoritarian. Maybe all politics. Both...
SANTA FE — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday announced two proposed rules “to ensure that certain per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), also known as ‘forever chemicals,’ are classified as hazardous waste under federal law,” according to an EPA news release. The action is in direct response to a petition from Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham to take action on the emerging threat that communities in New Mexico and across the nation face from decades of use of forever chemicals, the release stated. ...
The second suspect in the July 9 slaying of a roofer in Clovis has been arrested. Portales police on Jan. 26 took Cordney Cooper into custody. Cooper, 32, is charged with murder in connection with the shooting death and robbery of Anibal Salguero, 31. Officials said Cooper was arrested in Portales after a citizen had called police claiming to have seen the suspect. FBI Special Agent David De Los Santos said several officers arrived at the scene where Cooper was located. Cooper did not resist arrest, De Los Santos said. In...
Clovis Municipal Schools personnel who receive their paychecks via direct deposit on the 15th and 30th each month didn’t get paid as expected Tuesday morning. “Unfortunately, due to an unforeseen technical glitch at the bank, direct deposits have experienced a slight delay in arriving as promptly as usual,” CMS Superintendent Renee Russ wrote in an email to The News CMS employees were paid later Tuesday, she said. Citizens Bank President Kent Carruthers said an oversight at the bank led to the delay. “We had an employe...
Who says "gossip" never benefited anyone? It helped Eleanor Shuler win her second straight Roosevelt County spelling bee on Jan. 18. That was the winning word for the fifth-grader who competed against nine other spellers at Eastern New Mexico University's Buchanan Hall. After finishing 12th in the state spelling bee a year ago, Eleanor said she's had a fire in her stomach to strive higher this year. "The spelling bee means a lot to me because I've put in a lot of work to get...
Clovis City commissioners voted unanimously Thursday to help a Clovis cannabis business gain access to a $90,000 grant from the state. Vana LLC was granted state Local Economic Development Act funds last year. Clovis City Manager Justin Howalt advised the city’s Economic Incentive Board in November that the city was requested to act as the fiscal agent to distribute the funds over five years because the state does not have a mechanism to provide funds directly to an applicant once approved. Jim Lucero from the Region 6 E...
New Mexico State Rep. Andrea Reeb, R-Clovis, on Wednesday announced the introduction of House Bill 205, a “Women’s Bill of Rights.” HB 205 will codify the common sense understanding of the words “male” and “female” when used in law, according to a news release from New Mexico House Republicans. It’s also intended to help protect “single-sex spaces,” including rape crisis centers, domestic violence shelters, prisons, athletic teams, locker rooms, and sororities, the release stated. Sponsors include Republican Reps. Je...
CLAYTON – Senior Cade Figg paced four Texico players in double figures with 18 points and the Wolverines rallied in the second half to defeat Clayton 71-63 on Thursday in the District 6-2A boys opener for both squads. Freshman Jett Curtis added 13 points, junior Alex Fuentes 12 and senior Daltyn Cain 10 for the Texico (9-10 overall), which trailed by five points at halftime but outscored the Yellowjackets 38-25 over the final two stanzas. Senior Jonoven Hidalgo led all scorers with 22 points for Clayton (10-12), while j...
