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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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STAFF REPORT RIO RANCHO — Jake Foster just missed his first qualifying leg of the golf season, Logan Clayton picked up her second and Clovis High’s golf teams each took second behind Cleveland Wednesday at Rio Rancho’s Canyon Club. The four-team boys competition wasn’t much of one, with Cleveland posting four of the top five scores and a score of 316. Clovis, who had Foster finish fourth at 81, was second at 347 and well ahead of Rio Rancho (377) or Deming (384). Cleveland’s Justin Davis and John Gallegos both shot 78, with...
Correspondent Portales students who competed in the Destination Imagination competition in Albuquerque on March 12 have qualified to go to the finals in Knoxville, Tennessee in May. Lindsey-Steiner students Lee Neighbours, Adam Ables, Andrea Weems, Zoe Roy, Emma Mitchell and Rae Ruiz were all members of the team LAZER Squared. Teacher of the Gifted and Talented Program Katrina Prince said that students from the district have been competing in Destination Imagination for at least the past 11 years. For a team to qualify for th... Full story
File photo Oasis State Park, just outside Portales, holds an annual fishing clinic and trout derby each year. This year’s event will be all day Saturday and Sunday and will include cash prizes for tagged fish. STAFF REPORT It’s time to grab your fishing poles for the seventh annual Spring Trout Derby at Oasis State Park this weekend. The event, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, is open to all ages and invites anglers to catch tagged fish that they can turn in for a ca...
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Correspondent With Portales school's spring break coming up next week, students at Lindsey-Steiner Elementary and Portales Junior High School were excited for their wide array of vacation plans. Lilliegh New, 12, is going to California over the break to see her younger sister. Correspondent photo: Rae Arnett Students were hard at work in the gifted and talented class at Lindsey-Steiner Elementary on Wednesday afternoon, but Portales students are gearing up for their spring bre...
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On this date ... 1976: Danny Boone, a seventh-grader at Yucca Junior High School in Clovis, won the Curry County Spelling Bee. Danny spelled “pilfer” and “accent” in the final round, defeating 30 competitors. The bee went 59 rounds before Danny won for the second year in a row. 1956: A Portales woman was packing her things and planning to move away from her husband, who told police he’d had a dream that he killed her. John Ratliff told police “vague stories” about a dream in w... Full story
Today • Floyd Country Jamboree — 7 p.m. at Floyd High School gymnasium. Admission: $7 per person, $5 military with ID. Information: 575-356-8541 • Tween program — 4:30 p.m. at Portales Public Library for ages 9-12. Activity: Nebula Galaxy. Information: 575-356-3940 • Child Find screening — 1 p.m.-3 p.m. at Grady schools. Screenings for infants, toddlers. Information: 575-357-2192 Friday • Floyd Country Jamboree — 7 p.m. at Floyd High School gymnasium. Admission: $7 per person, $5 military with ID. Information: 57...
I have a niece who will be graduating from college soon, and who, like my daughter, is a “millennial,” the collective name of the generation born from the early 1980s through the early 2000s, and often criticized as being self-absorbed, wasteful, even lazy. Betty Williamson A bit of good news After a week with these two millennials in the house (not to mention years of being with them and knowing their peers), I have to say that those criticisms don’t ring true. On the contr...
Staff report Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., will tour three area colleges Thursday and Friday, according to a release from the senator’s office. Thursday morning, Heinrich will tour the North American Wind Research and Training Center at Mesalands Community College in Tucumcari from 11 a.m. to 12:15. He will then travel to Clovis Community College for a tour, followed by a 3:30 p.m.-5 p.m. college affordability roundtable. Heinrich will tour Eastern New Mexico University Friday and hold a 1 p.m.-2:30 p.m. roundtable, then v...
ENMU ENMU 36thin master degrees Eastern New Mexico University in Portales has been identified as one of the 50 Most Affordable Small Colleges for a Master’s in Education degree by topeducationdegrees.org. ENMU came in at 36 on the list. The ranking can be found at: http://www.topeducationdegrees.org/rankings/affordable-small-colleges-masters-in-education-2016/ ENMU hosting guest lecturer Eastern New Mexico University is hosting “On Unintended Consequences: The Surprising Impact of Missionary Work Among the Awajun of Eas...
Earlier this week was World Water Day. All of us in New Mexico recognize the vital importance of water. Access to adequate clean and affordable water means that cities in eastern New Mexico can bustle with activity, our farmers and ranchers can grow local food, and Cannon Air Force Base can continue to play a vital role in protecting our national security. Sen. Martin Heinrich We have known for decades that pumping groundwater from the Ogallala Aquifer is unsustainable. Over...
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Staff report Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., will tour three area colleges Thursday and Friday, according to a release from the senator’s office. Thursday morning, Heinrich will tour the North American Wind Research and Training Center at Mesalands Community College in Tucumcari from 11 a.m. to 12:15. He will then travel to Clovis Community College for a tour, followed by a 3:30 p.m.-5 p.m. college affordability roundtable. Heinrich will tour Eastern New Mexico University Friday and hold a 1 p.m.-2:30 p.m. roundtable, then v... Full story
Staff report The city’s public works department will close the section of Sycamore Street between 21st Street and Fairmont court 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Wednesday. Vulcan Construction of Albuquerque will install fiber optic infrastructure for Plateau. Information: 575-769-2376....
Staff Writer [email protected] Two groups of Clovis High School students have been granted approval to travel to Tennessee and the nation’s capital, with one trip earmarked for national competition while the other endeavors to explore the nuances of U.S. citizenship. During Tuesday’s regular meeting Clovis Municipal Schools board members voted to allow a contingent of Clovis High School DECA (Distributive Education Clubs of America) students to travel to Nashville, Tennessee, to compete in the DECA International Car... Full story
Editor [email protected] More than 30 men — no women — have held the title of Clovis police chief since the city was born in 1907. Doug Ford, 50, became the latest earlier this month when he was named to succeed retiring chief Steve Sanders. A few facts, and some stories, about the chiefs through the years: A modern-day standard • Only one Clovis chief has held the job more than 10 years. Nelson Worley was 27 when he accepted the job as Clovis’ top cop in 1945. He lasted just three years that time, but returned in 1973... Full story
Staff report Clovis voters, by nearly a 3-to-1 margin on March 1, said voter identification should be required in municipal elections. Now, the Clovis City Commission will take the first step in deciding how that gets implemented during its 5:15 p.m. meeting today at the North Annex of the Clovis-Carver Public Library. By a 2,036-666 count, or 72.7 percent, Clovis voters said the city’s charter shall include a new section that reads, “The City Commission by Ordinance shall require voter authentication by photo ide... Full story
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File photo Oasis State Park, just outside Portales, holds an annual fishing clinic and trout derby each year. This year’s event will be all day Saturday and Sunday and will include cash prizes for tagged fish. Staff report It’s time for Portales residents to grab their fishing poles again for the seventh annual Spring Trout Derby to be held at Oasis State Park this weekend. The event, which is from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, is open to all ages and invites ang... Full story
Guest columnist Earlier this week was World Water Day. All of us in New Mexico recognize the vital importance of water. Access to adequate clean and affordable water means that cities in eastern New Mexico can bustle with activity, our farmers and ranchers can grow local food, and Cannon Air Force Base can continue to play a vital role in protecting our national security. We have known for decades that pumping groundwater from the Ogallala Aquifer is unsustainable. Over the years, water levels below Clovis, Portales, and surr...
Local columnist I have a niece who will be graduating from college soon, and who, like my daughter, is a “millennial,” the collective name of the generation born from the early 1980s through the early 2000s, and often criticized as being self-absorbed, wasteful, even lazy. After a week with these two millennials in the house (not to mention years of being with them and knowing their peers), I have to say that those criticisms don’t ring true. On the contrary, I find many of these young Americans to be passionate, well-... Full story
