Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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Petitioners in every state want to secede. They love our country, but not the way we elect presidents. I don't blame them. Who wants a secret basketball-playing Muslim from Kenya, who wants to use the United Nations to impose sharia law, to win by fooling 65.9 million welfare-dependent socialists (and a few college-educated, wine-sipping, pot-smoking, gay-loving, women-libbing, live-and-let-live hippies) into supporting him? Although the poseur — obviously only pretending to love his beautiful wife and daughters to pull his t...
State Rep. Dennis Roch, R-Texico, whose district includes Roosevelt County, says teachers deserve more recognition. Here's a snippet from a recent column submitted to newspapers around the state: In few professions can a person perform at a high level but be held back by time and credentials. In the business world, highly effective leaders are recognized, promoted and paid. For our teachers — who labor with our most precious resource — their students could be achieving at a level beyond any others in the world, and they wou...
Panhandlers clogging traffic on Portales' streets should stop their aggressive behavior. They might get hurt. Plus, they're often seeking handouts from hard-working residents who don't have a dollar to spare. But enacting a new city ordinance, as the Portales City Council is considering, is not necessary. The best way to make these people go away is much simpler: Encourage residents not to give them any money. We understand why Portales Mayor Sharon King and Police Chief Doug Jones want to rid the community of the beggars,...
Class 5A state tournament Clovis 75, West Mesa 56 Class 3A state tournament Portales 62, West Las Vegas 51 Class 2A state tournament Texico 50, Tohatchi 33 Class 1A state tournament Questa 54, Fort Sumner 49 Dora 65, Menaul 18 District 2-B tournament Championship Grady 72, San Jon 45...
A presidential sequestration order will reduce payments to Quay and Roosevelt counties under the U.S. Department of Interior's Payment in Lieu of Taxes (PILT) program. Failure to reach a deal on the national budget and avoid sequestration has resulted in a 5.1 percent reduction in the PILT program, which compensates counties for property taxes not collected on federal land. Quay, Roosevelt and De Baca counties use PILT money for general operations, including fire departments and other local services. Curry County has no...
Earning an extra dollar an hour could mean loosening the pinch in a person's budget but it still no way to live, says Michael Hatch of Portales who's tired of living the paycheck-to-paycheck shuffle. Hatch, 23, makes 33 cents over the state's $7.50 minimum wage as a convenience store employee. Hatch was a minimum wage earner not too long ago, but even at what he makes now, he feels his income limits him from the luxuries of life, and sometimes even the basics. An extra dollar...
Monday Aerobics — 7:30 a.m. Portales Recreation Center. $5 per class. Information: 356-8598. Zumba — 5:15 p.m. Portales Recreation Center. $5 per class. Information: 356-8598. Circuit Training — 5:30 p.m. Portales Recreation Center. $5 per class. Information: 356-8598. Tuesday Boot Camp — 5:30 p.m. Portales Recreation Center. $5 per class. Information: 356-8598. Yoga — 7 p.m. Portales Recreation Center. $5 per class. Information: 356-8598. Wednesday Aerobics — 7:30 a.m. Portales Recreation Center. $5 per class. Information...
Over the years I have heard story after story of accidents related to calving season. I have researched the subject with a couple of guys at the sale barn, a purebred breeder and a retired cow vet. I came up with this list of Safe Calving Habits: - Far and away the most common tale I hear has to do with looping the OB chain around your wrist then looping the other end around the calf's foot. This is called Loop-A-Dope. The scenario is: the mama cow rises or escapes before the baby is delivered and drags you, the midwife,... Full story
Area road construction and closure information for this week: Curry County Curry County grading and renovations continue on Curry Road AI from Curry Road 12 and Curry Road 13 in Melrose this week. Be aware of workers and posted speed limit signs. State and Federal Constructors Inc. has suspended all work on First and Second streets in Portales due to weather.... Full story
State basketball tournanemt (Seeds in parentheses) Boys Round-of-16 All games Saturday Class 5A Cibola 46, Albuquerque High 45 Clovis 75, West Mesa 56 Eldorado 79, Rio Rancho 67 Hobbs 75, Volcano Vista 49 La Cueva 68, Atrisco Heritage 59 Las Cruces High 85, Carlsbad 65 Manzano 68, Valley 65, OT Sandia 61, Alamogordo 42 Class 4A Albuquerque Academy 53, Farmington 43 Bernalillo 82, Artesia 78 Capital 50, Moriarty 39 Espanola Valley 53, Deming 48 Los Lunas 76, Santa Fe High 65 Roswell High 74, Piedra Vista 55 Santa Teresa 57,...
Midwestern State wasted little time finishing off a three-game Lone Star Conference softball series sweep of Eastern New Mexico University on Saturday. Catcher Kim Jerrick and third baseman Kelley Schaefer blasted three-run homers and the 22nd-ranked Mustangs run-ruled ENMU for the third game in a row, winning 10-2 at Zia Softball Field in a game which lasted five innings. MSU (19-4, 3-0 LSC), which entered the day with a .404 team batting average, pounded out 10 hits in the contest. The Mustangs finished the series with 30...
No matter how many points the Portales Rams score, almost never does anyone stand out. PHS put together a dominating first quarter — first half, really — and cruised past West Las Vegas 62-51 on Saturday night at the Ram Athletic Center, yet it wasn't until senior Zach Blaeser converted the first of two free throws with 3:17 left in the game — giving him a team-high 10 points — that anyone reached double figures. CMI correspondent: Joshua Lucero PHS junior Zach Campbell goes up for two points against West Las Vegas senior...
ARTESIA — A six-run rally in the top of the seventh inning Saturday lifted the Belen Eagles to a 12-11 victory over Clovis High in the third-place game of the Artesia Invitational. The Wildcats (2-2) took a 3-0 lead with a three-run second and, except for a brief tie, led the rest of the way until the seventh. They scored four runs in the sixth for an 11-6 advantage. Austin Adams went 3-for-3 for the Cats, who were outhit 13-12 by the Eagles (3-1). Joe Shelley and Jordan Holguin were each 2-for-5 with a double for Clovis. T...
Midwestern State wasted little time finishing off a three-game Lone Star Conference softball series sweep of Eastern New Mexico University on Saturday. Catcher Kim Jerrick and third baseman Kelley Schaefer blasted three-run homers and the 22nd-ranking Mustangs run-ruled ENMU for the third game in a row, winning 10-2 at Zia Softball Field in a game which lasted five innings. MSU (19-4, 3-0 LSC), which entered the day with a .404 team batting average, pounded out 10 hits in the contest. The Mustangs finished the series with 30... Full story
