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STAFF REPORT Portales police confirmed Thursday that a Lubbock man remains in intensive care after a vehicle accident which resulted from a Portales police chase. Jerry Nale, 18, who was the driver of the vehicle, was air lifted to the Intensive Care Unit of the Covenant Medical Center in Lubbock Tuesday, along with a 16-year-old female, who later died from injuries sustained in the crash. A 14-year-old male was released to relatives after being treated for minor injuries. At 1 a.m. Tuesday, Portales police officers... Full story
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Sports writer [email protected] Frenship baseball coach Chad Reynolds remembered Clovis High played the Tigers tough in a 5-4 loss last year at Wolfforth, Texas, so he expected more of the same in Thursday’s rematch at Bell Park. link Staff photo: Tony Bullocks Clovis High senior Keaton Greenwalt has the ball waiting for the tag on Frenship’s Landon Everett to complete a 3-6 double play in the second inning of Thursday’s baseball game at Bell Park. The Tigers scored four... Full story
Staff report MORIARTY —Clovis High’s softball team hit its way past Moriarty in the first game of Thursday’s doubleheader. In the second game, the Lady Wildcats simply couldn’t get the big hit. Senior Mariah Chavez hit a leadoff home run to start a game-breaking four-run sixth in Clovis’ 13-7 first game win, but the Lady Cats stranded 12 runners in Game 2 in absorbing an 11-3 setback from the Pintos. Moriarty (12-4) pounded out 31 hits in the two games, but couldn’t fully recover after the Lady Cats (5-8) put four runs o... Full story
Lion Baseball Classic At Santa Rosa Quarterfinals Dexter 6, Melrose 0 Melrose 000 000 0 — 0 4 2 Dexter 000 501 x — 6 7 1 Wyatt Williams, Chris Fisher (6) and Braden Hemminger; Dominic Lomeli and Izak Aguilar. W — Lomeli. L — Williams. Top hitters — Dexter: Sergio Ramirez 1-3, 2-run 2B, run; Jonathan Munoz 2-3, RBI, 2 runs. Records — Melrose 2-1, Dexter 9-2. Floyd round-robin Floyd 7, Grady 0 Grady 000 000 0 — 0 2 2 Floyd 301 102 x — 7 12 1 Lucas Whitehead, Jayden Garrett (6) and Chance Shaw; Jose Torres, Edgardo Chavez... Full story
MANAGING EDITOR [email protected] TEXICO — Six and a half innings in, every bounce seemed to go the way of the Portales Rams. Then the 8-9 hitters got on for Texico, and suddenly the bounces went the other way. The final bounce came at 7:10 p.m. at Wolverine Field, as sophomore Nathan Phipps’ high chopper up the middle scored two runs and capped a four-run seventh for a theft of a 6-5 victory over Portales on Thursday night. Rafael Maldonado, who picked up the win wit...
Staff photo: Kevin Wilson Portales shortstop Emilio Lovato turns the 6-3 double play well ahead of Texico baserunner Cole Rohrbach’s breakup slide attempt in the sixth inning of Thursday’s game at Wolverine Field in Texico. Lovato went 2-for-3 with three runs scored in the 6-5 setback.... Full story
Staff photo: Kevin Wilson Texico first baseman Nathan Phipps blocks the path of Portales baserunner Josiah Lucero in the second inning of Thursday’s game at Wolverine Field. Phipps went 2-for-4 and hit the game-winning single in Texico’s 6-5 win over the Rams....
MANAGING EDITOR [email protected] TEXICO — Six and a half innings in, every bounce seemed to go the way of the Portales Rams. Then the 8-9 hitters got on for Texico, and suddenly the bounces went the other way. The final bounce came at 7:10 p.m. at Wolverine Field, as sophomore Nathan Phipps’ high chopper up the middle scored two runs and capped a four-run seventh for a theft of a 6-5 victory over Portales on Thursday night. Rafael Maldonado, who picked up the win with fiv... Full story
STAFF REPORT Portales senior Bailey Rowley qualified for the state golf meet in May. Her Ram teammates are close to joining her there. Rowley finished in a tie for second at the Great 8 in Ruidoso Thursday, shooting an 81 for her third qualifying leg. Portales shot a 394 to pick up its second of three necessary team legs, with a 94 from Jenae Hale, a 107 from Kambrey Blakey and 112 from Kaitlynne Underbrink. For the boys, Andrew Underbrink finished third with a 78 and notched his first qualifying leg of the season. Portales...
Correspondent Eastern New Mexico University's annual Career Fair on Thursday afternoon had around 75 students attend within the first two hours, according to ENMU's Career Counselor Jacquelyn Campbell. "We are trying to turn student success into career success," said Campbell. Staff photo: Alisa Boswell Tom Cordova, left, senior recruiter for Los Alamos National Laboratory, talks to Eastern New Mexico University students Krysten Finney, center, a biology major, and Makayla Gor... Full story
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MANAGING EDITOR [email protected] Be careful for strange occurrences in the home or office, or if you see a shocking news report. It’s not just any other Friday. We’re one-quarter done with 2016, and the second quarter starts with April 1, also known as April Fools’ Day. The pranking day has been popular since 1700, though its exact origins are questioned. According to the History Channel, “Some historians speculate that April Fools’ Day dates back to 1582, when France switched from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian...
Sen. Martin Heinrich is in his first term as the junior senator for New Mexico. The former representative won the seat vacated by the 2012 retirement of Jeff Bingaman. Heinrich visited the Clovis News Journal for an approximate 25-minute conversation on Friday. The conversation has been edited for length and clarity and split into two sections. Thursday’s and today’s section covers the Supreme Court, the election season and various policy. The first part, which ran Wed... Full story
On this date ... 1976: Christmas lights were hung on Clovis’ Main Street, and it wasn’t an April Fool’s Day joke. The Christmas Lighting Committee of the Clovis Chamber of Commerce decided to give the city a preview of some of its newly arrived decorations. The committee also took the opportunity to remind residents they needed more money to pay for the decorations. Cost for 16 new decorations had been estimated at $3,760. 1971: A decorated Vietnam veteran and an Easte...
On the animal intelligence spectrum, cattle fall somewhere above deer and somewhere below horses. Within this range of intelligence, the individual cow can vary from dumb enough to get stuck in a fence to smart enough to always be going the wrong direction when it’s time to gather the herd. In my experience, smarter cows are a little more ornery, harder to catch, but are bottom-line a better investment. Audra Brown Down on the Farm What are the properties of a profitable cow?... Full story
This past week, I saw my first robin. What else — besides the face-blasting winds — marks the arrival of spring? Like other garden-philes, I began my mental planting shortly after the new year. I had visions of a faerie garden tucked into a corner of the yard, a new mosaic bird bath, and a tiled raised veggie bed, just a few of a hundred things I’d like to do at Head Acres this year. Patti Dobson And then, regret hit. I realized that, like so many spring seasons before this, I...
Today • Travis Sherwood faculty concert — 7 p.m. in Buchanan Hall at the ENMU Music Building. Free admission. Information: 575-562-1011 • ‘Surprising Impact of Missionary Work’ lecture — 7 p.m. in Arts and Anthropology Building at ENMU. Admission: Free. Information: 575-562-2206 Saturday • Great American Clean-up — 9 a.m.-1 p.m. starting at Portales City Park. Help clean up trash in the community. Information: Veda Urioste at 575-356-6662 • Facebook business workshop — 2-5 p.m. at the Yam Theatre. Eric Spellman, president...
“Holiness is not for wimps and the cross is not negotiable, sweetheart. It’s a requirement.” How is that for feisty faith? For spirituality with spunk? These are the words of Mother Angelica, as she was known by millions of people across the globe, the trademark personality of EWTN, the largest religious media organization on the planet according to Raymond Arroyo, news director for EWTN (Eternal Word Television Network). I was heart-struck when I heard Mother Angelica, 92, d... Full story
It’s curious that seven district court judges would take a pass on hearing the criminal case against a former northern New Mexico state senator — and all but one did so without stating a reason for bailing. Judges in the Santa Fe-based 1st Judicial District who recused themselves from former Democratic state Sen. Phil Griego’s corruption case include Glenn Ellington, Mary Marlowe Sommer, Jennifer Attrep, Matthew Wilson, Sylvia LaMar, Raymond Ortiz and Francis Mathew. Mathew, in addition to checking the box “other good cause...
Buffets are nice. You get to choose what you like from all the glorious possibilities offered, picking and choosing your favorites. If you see something you find disgusting, skip it and move on to the next item. Kent McManigal No single buffet can possibly offer everything, but no one can tell the buffets what to offer. Consider them all together and your dining choices are practically unlimited. Some people think of liberty as a buffet, but they want to be in control of...
I graduated from high school when I was 17 years old and started work at the then-minimum wage of $1.25 an hour. The furnished room I rented cost $8 a week and the bathroom was down the hall. Rube Render In the 21st century, where all things can be fixed by government fiat, California has moved to pass legislation raising the minimum wage to $10.50 an hour next year, and then gradually raising it to $15 an hour. Santa Fe never saw a California labor law it couldn’t love. Fifte...
Managing Editor [email protected] Be careful for strange occurrences in the home or office, or if you see a shocking news report. It’s not just any other Friday. We’re one-quarter done with 2016, and the second quarter starts with April 1, also known as April Fools’ Day. The pranking day has been popular since 1700, though its exact origins are questioned. According to the History Channel, “Some historians speculate that April Fools’ Day dates back to 1582, when France switched from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian...
Staff Writer [email protected] Supporters in favor of keeping Ranchvale Elementary School open recently capped a letter writing campaign imploring state officials to render a decision that would keep the venue in the Clovis Municipal Schools fold. During February’s regular meeting, CMS board members unanimously passed a motion to no longer offer educational services at the school site, citing safety, water and overall structural concerns of the building. The motion referenced a provision that called for closing R...
Staff photo: Alisa Boswell Tom Cordova, left, senior recruiter for Los Alamos National Laboratory, talks to Eastern New Mexico University students Krysten Finney, center, a biology major, and Makayla Gordon, a business major during the ENMU Job Fair Thursday afternoon. Correspondent Eastern New Mexico University’s annual Career Fair on Thursday afternoon had around 75 students attend within the first two hours, according to ENMU’s Career Counselor Jacquelyn Campbell. “We...
