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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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TWO GAMES INTO the season, Texico’s defense has proven to been stingy. The two-time defending Class 1A champion Wolverines are just 1-1 so far, but have allowed only seven points while forcing 14 turnovers — eight in a 33-6 win over Smyer, Texas, and six last week against Bovina. MULESHOE’S BRADY BLACK has had a productive start to the season. In two games, the senior running back has rushed for 257 yards and five touchdowns. How important is he to the Mules’ offense? His scores alone account for 30 of Muleshoe’s 48 total...
PORTALES — He won’t be 100 percent, but senior wide receiver Derrick Hunter is scheduled to see his first action of the football season when Eastern New Mexico University meets Southwestern Oklahoma in a 5 p.m. (MDT) kickoff on Saturday in Weatherford, Okla. An All-Lone Star Conference South Division selection last year, Hunter suffered a strained ligament and bruised bone near his right knee in one of the Greyhounds’ first practices last month. First-year coach Mark Ribaudo wants to bring the 6-foot, 180-pounder along slowl...
Jacob Roberts, 20, was Wednesday to a year in jail after agreeing to a plea of involuntary manslaughter in connection with the shooting death of former CHS classmate J.T. Mitchell in March 2004. (Staff photo: Eric Kluth) While memories of a state football championship will forever surround a group of Clovis High athletes, so will a tragedy. Jacob Roberts, 20, was sentenced Wednesday to a year in jail after agreeing to a plea of involuntary manslaughter in connection with the shooting death of former CHS classmate J.T....
The Curry County Commission unanimously passed a meth ordinance Wednesday which will restrict the display and sale of cold and sinus medicine used in the production of methamphetamine. Ninth Judicial District Attorney Matt Chandler and a key member of the Region Five Drug Task Force told the commission meth is affecting every aspect of the community. Chandler said the ordinance would still allow “good people” to acquire enough medicine needed for a cold while keeping large amounts out of “meth cookers” hands. The new ordinan...
WASHINGTON — The military base closings that the Pentagon and a commission have recommended are likely to be approved by President Bush and Congress, leaving communities around the country with little hope that targeted facilities will be spared. Bush is now focused on the hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast rather than on base closures, analysts said. Scrapping the closure process now — after a nine-member commission has completed its review of the Pentagon plan — could leave him open to criticism when his poll numbers alrea...
NEW ORLEANS — Using the unmistakable threat of force, police and soldiers went house to house Wednesday to try to coax the last 10,000 or so stubborn holdouts to leave storm-shattered New Orleans because of the risk of disease from the putrid, sewage-laden floodwaters. “A large group of young armed men armed with M-16s just arrived at my door and told me that I have to leave,” said Patrick McCarty, who owns several buildings and lives in one of them in the city’s Lower Garden District. “While not saying they would arrest yo...
The Clovis Music Festival official T-shirts say “Rave On” and visitors have begun arriving in anticipation of having a “raving” good time. According to Ernie Kos, Chamber of Commerce executive director, the artists slated to perform during the event began arriving in Clovis Wednesday. “It is very exciting,” Kos said. Kos said international guests are booked to arrive on Thursday and Friday. “Visitors who didn’t pre-book hotel rooms are having to be directed to the surrounding areas,” Kos said. “Several will be going to Po...
Clovis is poised to embrace 250 Hurricane Katrina victims, and efforts to provide relief to victims continue, local officials said. Curry County Manager Dick Smith said the county could house victims in the 4-H and arts buildings at the Curry County Fairgrounds. He said that the county is on a “wait-and-see” basis. “We’re ready,” Smith said at Wednesday’s Curry County Commission meeting, although no evacuees are currently slated to arrive. Clovis is fourth on the list of New Mexico cities that volunteered to host victims, sa...
Tonya Garner:Freedom Newspapers The Clovis Music Festival official T-shirts say “Rave On” and visitors have begun arriving in anticipation of having a “raving” good time. According to Ernie Kos, Chamber of Commerce executive director, the artists slated to perform during the event began arriving in Clovis Wednesday. “It is very exciting,” Kos said. Kos said international guests are booked to arrive on Thursday and Friday. “Visitors who didn’t pre-book hotel rooms are having to be directed to the surrounding areas,” Kos sai...
Beverly Pinkert, 67 Services: 10 a.m. Saturday at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Portales. Beverly Pinkert, 67, of Portales, died Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2005, at Roosevelt General Hospital in Portales. She was born March 24, 1938 in Pendleton, Ore., to Annabelle and Harvey Exum. Pinkert grew up in Oregon, and graduated from Athena High School. She married Ed Pinkert on June 2, 1956. They moved to Farmington not long after they were married. In 1958 they came to Portales to make their home. She worked at Hometown Food, Roosevelt Coun...
Kevin Wilson: PNT Managing Editor Late in June, Jene Evans was doing yardwork at her home south of Kenna when a hum changed everything. “I kept hearing this humming noise, the way electricity lines will hum. It just got louder and more intense,” Evans said. “The air was just black with bees where my patio angles off.” A few weeks later, a neighbor brought her a newspaper article that said Africanized honey bees have been confirmed in Roosevelt County. A few phone calls and visits later confirmed her house was home to nearly...
Tony Parra: PNT Staff Writer The Eastern New Mexico University Board of Regents on Wednesday gave a Texas firm the go-ahead on plans for a privatized housing project east of Eddy Hall. The proposal calls for 96 units with 270 beds in four apartment complexes located behind Eddy Hall and extending east to South Avenue I. Eastern New Mexico University Steven Gamble said replacing two of the school’s dorms would be more cost-effecient than trying to refurbish the aging buildings. Rafael Figueroa, president of Collegiate D...
Tony Parra: PNT Staff Writer In the wake of a Hurricane Katrina, Portales residents will take time to remember those who were killed in another tragedy — Sept. 11, 2001. There will be a city-wide memorial held at 7:30 a.m. on Friday at the Portales National Bank parking lot. On Sept. 11, 2001, terrorists hijacked four U.S. planes and crashed them into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field, killing almost 3,000. Amy Carter of Portales will sing the National Anthem and the Portales High School choir w...
Editor’s note: World War II officially ended Sept. 2, 1945, when the Japanese signed surrender terms. We’re honoring the war’s area veterans over the next several months with these brief profiles. James L. Brazell Date of birth: Sept. 21, 1925 Dates of Service: April 1944 to March, 1946 Hometown: Portales Lives in: Clovis Theater or location of service: Europe: Germany, Austria, Holland, Yugoslavia Branch:Army Rank: Private 1st Class Unit and specialty: 8th Armored Divis...
Knight Ridder Newspapers NEW ORLEANS — As floodwaters slowly receded Tuesday, more bodies surfaced and many more are expected, even as a new tropical threat lurked offshore. However, some shafts of light split the grim Gulf Coast reality. First, the shadow: A storm developing just off Florida’s east coast could strike as a hurricane by this weekend, threatening to further tax a nation already overwhelmed by disaster. Next, the light: Officials in New Orleans and some other affected areas said water finally began to flow out...
They’ve played common opponents and they’ve even been in the same tournament. But Tuesday night, the Clovis and Portales volleyball teams finally played each other. And the Lady Rams have every intention of filing away the come-from-behind 13-25, 18-25, 25-16, 25-21, 17-15 victory at Rock Staubus Gym for a whole year. Since no second match is scheduled this year in Portales, Clovis (3-3) will have to turn to other goals than beating its smaller southern rival. “It’s the first time we’ve beaten Clovis since 2000. It is a big...
Leonard Pitts, Jr. Does it really matter? The city is flooded, people are homeless and hungry and scared and dead. Shouldn’t this be a time for giving money and saying prayers? Should we really care about the color of the people looting in the hurricane zone? Or that Louisiana is a red state? Or that some of the dead are gay? Apparently, that kind of thing matters to some of us. It matters, for instance, to a black man who posted a note in an online forum saying he is e...
An attempt to crack down on methamphetamine production has begun with the passing of an ordinance limiting the sale of pseudophedrine-based cold and sinus products in Portales and Roosevelt County. Commissioners in Curry County and Clovis will vote on the ordinance proposed by 9th Judicial District Attorney Matt Chandler in the next two days. The ordinance aims to reduce methamphetamine production in the area by placing the powder and hard-pill forms of pseudophedrine used in meth production behind counters or glass in the st...
Dale Fullerton The lessons for our students don’t end with the final bell of the day if they’re involved in co-curricular activities. In fact, the learning experiences that come from participation in drama, music, speech, athletics and the like promote lifetime values that cannot always be learned in the classroom. Responsibility, respect, fairness, caring, trustworthiness and citizenship are lifetime values taught through athletics, and these are the principles of good sportsmanship. With them, the spirit of competition thr...
Katherine Null, left, and Irene Tucker, are trying to organize a gas boycott in Clovis on Saturday to fight back against the oil industry. (Staff photo: Eric Kluth) A stack of hand-written fliers and the Internet their arsenal, neighbors Irene Tucker and Katherine Null are fighting rising gas prices. The Clovis residents have distributed more than 60 fliers throughout the county urging vehicle owners to refrain from purchasing gas Saturday. Tucker and Null said the grass-roots, anti-oil company movement gained momentum on the...
We are saddened at the loss of economist Jude Wanniski, who on Aug. 29 died suddenly of a heart attack at age 69 in New Jersey. A journalist, he started out in the 1960s with the Las Vegas Review-Journal and the now-defunct National Observer. In 1972, he became an editorial writer at The Wall Street Journal, a perch from which he advanced his free-market ideas with enthusiasm. In 1978 he formed his own economic consulting firm, Polyconomics, which he headed until his death. Using the term he coined, “supply-side economics,” W...
TEXICO — A pair of teams expected to make a run for the Class 2A state volleyball team hooked up for a battle Tuesday night. And, no surprise here, it took five games to decide things between host Texico and Estancia. In the end, the Lady Bears took a 25-16, 16-25, 25-23, 11-25, 15-9 victory. Texico began the year ranked second in the Albuquerque Journal coaches poll while Estancia was No. 4. The teams have met frequently over the past two seasons, usually with the match going the distance. “We really started working hol...
West Texas A&M defender Kenneth Christensen tries to hold off ENMU forward Jonathan Holman in the first half of Tuesday’s game in Portales. (Freedom Newspapers: Kevin Wilson) PORTALES — West Texas A&M quickly took the suspense out of the match. The Buffaloes tallied three minutes into the contest and did all of their scoring in the first half to beat Eastern New Mexico University’s men 3-0 in Tuesday’s Southwest Soccer Conference opener for both teams at the ENMU pitch. WT, playing its season opener, was held to a scorele...
With six children to teach and another on the way, Yvonne Elswick has gone through plenty of struggles as a mother and a parent who homeschools her children. The recent eastern New Mexico transplant was happy to find out the same independence she had in Denver also exists in New Mexico. Elswick and her 13-year-old daughter Rebekah found that out Tuesday afternoon at an informational session by Homeschooling PACT, held at the Portales Public Library. The organization, which has been in existence for 16 years, is a collection...
LUBBOCK — Kenee Carter and Meagan Kamplain each collected 11 kills Tuesday night as Lubbock Christian cruised past Eastern New Mexico University 30-19, 30-22, 30-19 in women’s college volleyball. Setter Noelle Christensen added 18 assists for the Chaparrals (7-2). The Zias (0-3), who led only briefly early in the third game, were led by 11 kills from senior middle blocker Lindsay Schiely. Freshman Rhea Wortman and senior Kristi Britain both had nine kills and 12 digs. Lubbock Christian 3, ENMU 0 ENMU 19 22 19 Lubbock Chr...
