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  • Local scoreboard -- March 13

    Updated Mar 13, 2022

    BASKETBALL State tournaments (Seeds in parentheses) Boys CLASS 5A Wednesday’s quarterfinals (1) Las Cruces High 74, (9) Sandia 49 (5) Atrisco Heritage 64, (4) Hobbs 57 (3) La Cueva 66, (6) Los Lunas 49 2) Volcano Vista 69, (10) Carlsbad 30 Friday’s semifinals At The Pit, Albuquerque Volcano Vista 58, La Cueva 49 Las Cruces High 50, Atrisco Heritage 45 Saturday’s championship At The Pit, Albuquerque Volcano Vista 66, Las Cruces High 55, OT CLASS 4A Wednesday’s quarterfinals (1) Highland 83, (8) Artesia 71 (4) St. Pius 53, (5)...

  • Senior calendar - March 13

    Updated Mar 12, 2022

    Baxter-Curren Activity Center 908 Hickory, Clovis 575-762-3631 Monday: 8:30 a.m. Exercise; 10 a.m. Jewelry Pals; 1 p.m. Line dance; 5 p.m. Game night. Tuesday: 8 a.m.-2 p.m. Quilting; 1 p.m. Ladies afternoon Wednesday: 8:30 a.m. Exercise; 9 a.m. Sew Days; 1 p.m. Needle Gang Thursday: 8 a.m. breakfast $5; 8:45 a.m. Executive board meeting; 1 p.m. Bingo. Friday: 8:30 a.m. Exercise; 10 a.m., Needle Gang; 1 p.m. Line Dance; 1 p.m. Pinochle; 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. Dance, $6 per person. Saturday: 4 p.m. Game Night. Friendship Senior...

  • On the shelves - March 13

    Updated Mar 12, 2022

    The books listed below are now available for checkout at the Clovis-Carver Public Library. The library is open to the public, but patrons can still visit the online catalog at cloviscarverpl.booksys.net/opac/ccpl or call 575-769-7840 to request a specific item for curbside pickup. “Observations By Gaslight” by Lyndsay Faye. Learn of the case that cemented the lasting friendship between Holmes and Inspector Lestrade, and of the tragic crime that haunted the Yarder into joining the police force. And witness Stanley Hop...

  • Spring break adventures more than I can handle these days

    Karl Terry, Local columnist|Updated Mar 12, 2022

    Many of you have already started something you call spring break. If so, you’re probably younger than me. I remember a time when I looked forward to this time of year because I had somewhere to go, something to do, and adventure to discover. Today I’ve got nowhere to go, too much boring stuff to do and just getting myself to work some days is more adventure than I can handle. It was a long time before I experienced a spring break on the beach but we had some great trips to...

  • School menus - March 13

    Updated Mar 12, 2022

    Clovis Monday: Breakfast: Breakfast round. Lunch: General Tso, egg roll and fried rice, steamed carrots and broccoli, chilled pears, or (grades 6 to 12) spicy chicken sandwich. Tuesday: Breakfast: Sausage and egg biscuit. Lunch: Spaghetti and meatballs, garden salad and ranch, chilled fresh fruit, cheesy bread stick, or (grades 6 to 12) cheeseburger on a bun. Wednesday: No school. Thursday: Breakfast: Mini-berry French toast. Lunch: Chicken noodle soup, toasted cheese sandwich, mini carrots and celery, ranch dressing, orange...

  • Area meetings - March 13

    Updated Mar 12, 2022

    Monday • City of Clovis Water Policy Advisory Committee – 8:30 a.m., North Annex, Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main St., Clovis. Information: 575-763-9654 • High Plains Historical Foundation – 5:30 p.m., Old Post Office, corner of Thornton and Fourth Streets, Clovis. Information: 575-309-9893 • Eastern New Mexico Water Utility Authority- Cash Flow and Finance Plan Informational Workshop. 6:00 pm at the Clovis Carver Library-North Annex, located at 701 North Main Street, Tuesday • Portales City Council – 6:30 p.m., Co...

  • In tribute: Local lawman Sandy Loomis 'relentless but fair'

    Grant McGee, The Staff of The News|Updated Mar 12, 2022

    They worked in law enforcement together for 25 years. Mike Reeves gets emotional when he talks about his friend, Sandy Loomis. "I don't mind if you tell people that," Reeves said. "Asking about Sandy makes me miss him." "Sandy Loomis was one of the finest men and the finest lawman I have ever known," Reeves said. "There was no Sandy Loomis the man, the myth, the legend. He was the man, the legend, no myth." Loomis died Feb. 5, just a little over two weeks away from his 68th...

  • Grand jury indicts former Roosevelt County deputy

    the Staff of The News|Updated Mar 12, 2022

    PORTALES — A grand jury on Friday indicted Chris McCasland, a former Roosevelt County Sheriff’s deputy, on felony child abuse charges. The grand jury handed down the indictment in Ninth Judicial District Court in Portales. McCasland, was charged on March 1 with child abuse not causing great bodily injury, a third-degree felony, in Roosevelt County Magistrate Court. On Feb. 14, New Mexico State Police Agent Justin Tiemann charged in arrest affidavit, McCasland struck his 7-year-old son repeatedly while McCasland was dri...

  • In tribute: Carolyn Muffley: 'Very caring and very organized'

    Steve Hansen, The Staff of The News|Updated Mar 12, 2022

    Carolyn Muffley was the kind of leader who labored behind the scenes to make everything work at home as well as in her community involvements. Muffley and her husband Russell owned and operated the Muffley Funeral Home in Clovis from 1978 until Russell passed away in April 2019, their daughter Wendy Cronk said, and Carolyn kept her hand in managing the funeral home full-time, then part-time until her death on Feb. 11. The funeral home has since been purchased by the Beacon...