Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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BASKETBALL Prep summary Monday District 4-5A Boys Carlsbad 53, Clovis 49 Carlsbad (18-7, 5-0) – Evan Campos 11, Samuel Gee 6, Jeremiah Munoz 6, Dylan Palmer 2, Xavier Rueda 11, Tylen Gonzales 17. Totals 19 9-19 53. Clovis (10-14, 0-5) – Brian Weiss 11, Keilyn Parker 5, Manuel Gutierrez 3, Champ Gooden 7, Marvin Cox 8, Jaydon Levenshown 4, R.J. Nora 11. Totals 19 4-8 49. Carlsbad 12 11 16 14 – 53 Clovis 16 10 8 15 – 49 3-pointers – Carlsbad, Rueda 3, Campos, Gee, Munoz. Clovis, Weiss 3, Cox, Gutierrez, Levenshown, Parker. T...
PORTALES – Two teams were looking to bounce back after getting swept in season-opening Lone Star Conference baseball series. In the end, it was the Greyhounds who were doing the bouncing. Sophomore second baseman Demetrio Archuleta delivered a two-run single and senior center fielder Camden Matthews added a two-run triple, keying a six-run sixth that lifted Eastern New Mexico University to an 8-6 win over Texas A&M International on Sunday at Greyhound Field and a 3-1 series w...
PORTALES – Eastern New Mexico University's women nearly pulled off an impressive weekend home sweep over two of the Lone Star Conference's better teams. They weren't quite able to do it, following up Thursday's 68-62 win over West Texas A&M with a narrow 66-61 setback against Lubbock Christian on Saturday at Greyhound Arena. Still, the Greyhounds (12-11, 9-9 LSC) hold down the No. 7 spot in the upcoming LSC tournament, and if they can take care of business over the final t...
LEVELLAND – Farwell put 12 players in the scoring column, including five in double figures, and the Lady Blue cruised past Hale Center 87-36 on Monday night in a Class 2A bi-district girls contest. Farwell (28-5) led 23-8 after one quarter and scored at least 19 points in each of the remaining stanzas to advance to a 5:30 p.m. (CST) area round game on Thursday against Wellington (22-9), which routed Sanford-Fritch on Monday. Junior Chloee Whitten scored a season-best 19 points for Farwell, while senior Charlie Trimble a...
CANYON, Texas – It was a good weekend for the Eastern New Mexico University softball team in the West Texas A&M Invitational. ENMU posted a 4-1 record, completing its outing in the event with a pair of wins on Sunday over Fort Lewis, beating the Skyhawks 8-0 in the first game and 3-2 in the finale. The Greyhounds (8-4) rallied past New Mexico Highlands in their opener on Friday, then edged Colorado Mesa before losing to the Cowgirls in Saturday tilts. Senior Brook Leger improved to 6-0 for the season with a five-inning, f...
PORTALES – Things didn't look good toward the end of Saturday's Lone Star Conference men's matchup between Eastern New Mexico University and Lubbock Christian at Greyhound Arena. The last couple of minutes seemed like an eternity as the Greyhounds, who saw a 12-point lead early in the second half dissipate, tried to scramble back. Then suddenly, Blazej Czerniewicz had the game in his hands. Trailing by two points, junior forward Jahcoree Ealy went hard to the basket and was f...
LAS CRUCES – Clovis High qualified four boys for state wrestling competition over the weekend in a regional meet hosted by Las Cruces High. CHS will send five wrestlers, including freshman Sunnay Ward at 165 pounds for the girls, to this weekend’s state meet in Rio Rancho. Ward qualified the previous weekend in girls regionals at Del Norte H.S. in Albuquerque. The top seven in each weight class advanced to state. For the Wildcats, senior Semaj Satchel posted the top finish, coming in sixth at 215 pounds after losing to sen...
CLOVIS – Even without their full roster, Carlsbad’s boys were able to stay on track Monday night in their bid for a District 4-5A regular-season title. They have 6-foot-7 senior post Tylen Gonzales to thank for that, as much as anybody. Missing eight players from their roster, including four of their top six, the Cavemen were able to eke out a 53-49 victory over Clovis High and set up a showdown at Hobbs on Friday night for the top spot. If Carlsbad (18-7, 5-0 district) wins, the Cavemen have the top seed in next wee...
On this date ... 1935: Police were searching for “Slick” Darnell who had escaped from the Farwell jail. Parmer County Deputy Sheriff J.C. Wilkinson said Darnell had fashioned a key from the metal top of a refuse can and used it to manipulate locking devices in the jail. He was being held on a robbery charge, to which he had pleaded guilty. 1953: A Clovis City Council meeting created an uproar with a discussion to change parking in downtown Clovis from diagonal to parallel to...
I was sick and missed school for a day or two in second grade when the teacher taught about Roman numerals. I’ve done my makeup work since then, but I’m still a bit weak on the subject, which means that I am sometimes a bit slow in finding the right chapter in excellent old Bible commentaries and in Super Bowls. Super Bowl LVII (that would be 57) was played Sunday, but I mistakenly called it Super Bowl 52 (that would be LII) a couple of times before the game started. By the...
My friend Janet, who knows I love both words and birds, texted me an interesting “word of the day” last week: “seatherny.” Pronounced “seth-er-nee,” it is purportedly “the serenity one feels when listening to the chirping of birds.” Whether or not this is a real word (it appears in plenty of online memes, but I’ve failed to find it in a more legitimate source like, say, a dictionary), there is no question that one does feel serene when listening to birds. Or at least I do. Th...
Zane Brothers is looking forward to this year's "Draggin' Main" event. One of the guests will be from a classic 1960s television show. "This is our tenth year," Brothers told The News Monday. Brothers is a board member of the event's organizing committee. The event's co-founder, Gene Porter, described "Draggin' Main"as an "all things related to cars" event. "It's a non-discriminatory motor event," Porter said. " Cars, bikes, trucks, tractors, cheap, expensive, unfinished, fini...
Three teenage boys, lifelong friends, died of apparent carbon monoxide poisoning using a propane heater inside a closed garage in Edgewood east of Albuquerque the weekend of Feb. 4. The three teens who attended Moriarty High School had reportedly spent numerous nights at the Edgewood house before according to a story in the Albuquerque Journal. “We haven’t had any deaths in Clovis from this,” Clovis Fire Department Chief Mike Nolen said about carbon monoxide poisoning. “We get calls from people concerned because they’re not f...
Arrangements for selling $3.5 million in general obligation bonds to support Portales Municipal Schools were finalized Monday in a unanimous 4-0 vote of the school board. Board president Rod Savage did not attend Monday’s meeting. The bonds were approved by voters in a 2021 election, when voters approved $7 million in general obligation bonding for the district. The first $3.5 million in bonds were deployed in 2022. Regina Gaysina, director of the municipal finance department in Albuquerque of RBC Capital, the financial a...
Since 2020, the Portales Fire Department has lost 34 personnel to turnover, according to Fire and EMS Chief T.J. Cathey. He said he believes employees leave because of pay and burnout. “We’ve had a hard time getting applicants for a long time now,” Cathey said. But, he said, it isn’t just their department. The entire city is having a hard time getting applicants to fill positions. “I think it also had something to do with the pandemic,” he said. Of course, during the pandemic when everyone was encouraged to stay home, Cathe...
A number of Clovis and Portales businesspeople don’t believe the area has the organized shoplifting problem Albuquerque and Santa Fe have. “It’s not really on my radar,” Karl Terry, Executive Director of the Roosevelt County Chamber of Commerce said. “But I’ve heard this organized shoplifting is getting to be bigger business than the illegal drug trade,” Terry said. “It’s alarming.” District 64 Representative Andrea Reeb is a cosponsor of the Organized Retail Crime Bill (House Bill 55). She joins Representatives Bill Rehm, Jo...
The problem with young people today is no one teaches them history. If they knew what the East German government did to their Olympic women athletes in the 1970s and 1980s, for instance, they might understand why it’s not fair for transgender men to compete against women in sports like swimming, tennis and surfing. It’s ancient news now, but before the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, East Germany was arguably the most evil communist country in Western Europe. It wasn’t just the l...
Term limits can be incredibly liberating, as former Republican Gov. Gary Johnson demonstrated when he professed his love for marijuana shortly after winning reelection in 1998. Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has the twin advantages of not having to run again, and going into her second term with financial resources that are beyond the wildest dreams of her predecessors. The state exceeded revenue estimates by $3.6 billion during the last fiscal year. The proposed $9.44 billion budget now under consideration is up by $4 billion...
What appeared to be an unfinished, abandoned house sustained damage in a suspicious fire on Sunrise Boulevard in south Clovis Monday morning. “It was a home that looked like a barn,” Clovis Fire Department Chief Mike Nolen said. “It was two stories. The upper floor and roof were completely damaged.” Nolen described the blaze as suspicious in origin. He said the Clovis Fire Department is investigating the fire because no one was living there. Nolen said three of the city’s fire stations sent personnel and equipment to the bl...
A petition some hoped would overturn Clovis’ anti-abortion ordinance has likely failed. Organizers fell 31 signatures short of the required number to force an election, city officials announced last week. While those who oppose the ordinance were frustrated, many were also surprised to learn their names and addresses will soon be made public. Prior to the City Commission passing the ordinance, this space warned of big government run amok. Not only will the controversial d...
It will be one year this April since the Women's Medical Center (WMC) in Clovis announced its permanent closing. The announcement came after clinic administrators reported they tried every effort to recruit OB/Gyn physicians, but ultimately failed. They officially closed their doors last June. WMC served the area for 35 years, treating patients in Curry, Roosevelt, DeBaca and Quay counties. Almost one year later, how are women in eastern New Mexico receiving the care they...
A woman hit by a car last week died Friday in a Lubbock hospital, police said. Lisa Gutierrez-Ruiz, 43, was hit just after 9 p.m. the night of Feb. 6 near the intersection of Seventh and Jones streets in Clovis, police Capt. Roman Romero said. The driver of the vehicle, 16, was on scene when police arrived and assisted in the investigation, Romero said. The investigation continues, but no charges had been filed in connection with the case as of Tuesday. According to the report from the Clovis Police Department, the vehicle...
Clovis City commissioners on Feb. 2 voted to approve a plan for the city’s Parks and Recreation Department that will charge annual membership fees -- $50 per person. This has not set well with some area residents, according to Parks and Recreation Director Russell Hooper. “I’ve received several emails, several phone calls,” Hooper said. “I’ve seen the social media postings.” Hooper said many of those who have called him are saying the city is targeting people and groups. “People are calling, arguing for their group, their le...
The U.S. military had never shot down an object in American airspace before taking out a Chinese balloon off South Carolina earlier this month. Now it’s becoming a near-daily occurrence. The sudden spate of U.S. jets blasting unidentified objects of mysterious origin from the skies has provoked so much befuddlement — not to mention panic — that Pentagon officials were forced to field questions about the issue Sunday night, just as Americans were tuning into the second quarter of the Super Bowl. One reporter even asked if it w...
The New Mexico State University men's basketball season is officially over as the troubled program deals with an internal hazing incident that had sexual overtones, according to a police report. Just before 4 p.m. Sunday, NMSU chancellor Dan Arvizu issued a statement declaring the cancellation of the remainder of the team's games pending an investigation into allegations of hazing among Aggies players. "This action is clearly needed, especially after receiving additional facts and reviewing investigation reports related to...
