Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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No matter the outcome, college basketball fans will get to see a bit of history when the Virginia Cavaliers and the Texas Tech Red Raiders face off during tonight's men's national championship game. This year marks the first time Texas Tech's men's basketball team has ever advanced past the Elite Eight, though the Lady Raiders won the women's basketball title in 1993. Virginia's men's team had made it to the Final Four twice before -- losing to North Carolina at the Spectrum...
PORTALES - Tough season for Eastern New Mexico's softball team so far. But Friday night, the Greyhounds did battle hard against the nation's ninth-ranked Division II team. Hosting West Texas A&M, the Hounds fell just a bit shy, 10-7, despite a stellar offensive performance at the plate. The Greyhounds totaled 10 hits for the game, while the Lady Buffs recorded nine, but three straight West Texas A&M home runs in the top half of the sixth inning ultimately made the difference...
LOVINGTON — Friday’s Lovington Invite wasn’t all that ‘inviting’ for the Clovis boys golf team, especially down a player due to illness. The Wildcats shot a collective 358, fourth-best out of five teams, while missing Christian Casaus, battling the flu. “He missed three days of practice and thought he might be back and be able to go (Friday),” Clovis boys coach Dale Fullerton said. “Thursday, he couldn’t even make it to picture day.” So the Wildcats forged ahead with Kolt Bennett, Taylor Martin, Chanse Bhakta and Ryan Row...
PORTALES — It’s not too hard to figure out as the middle goes, so go the Portales Rams. During their three games last week, Portales had the following performances from their 4-5-6 hitters: • 7-for-11, with 4 RBIs and four runs scored • 2-for-9, with a grand slam and three runs scored • 1-for-9 with a single and a run. The first two, Portales won — 12-8 over Roswell in the nightcap of Tuesday’s doubleheader and 10-4 over Texico Thursday. The latter, Portales lost in an 11-3 setback. “The middle is huge for us,” Portales coach...
PORTALES - Lightning struck during Eastern New Mexico's home baseball game Friday night. But after the resulting 40-minute delay, the Greyhounds didn't have enough electricity in their bats to rally from a big hole against No. 17 West Texas A&M, and fell 13-3 in eight innings. Making his first collegiate start, redshirt freshman Ethan Coombes began strong as he faced the minimum in the top of the first after recording a flyout and inducing a strikeout and throw-out double...
LOVINGTON — For the second time in a seven-day span, Clovis’ baseball team feasted on Lovington. Last Tuesday, the Wildcats took care of Lovington 8-4 on the road, just a week after beating the same team at home, 9-2. A five-spot in the second inning of last Tuesday’s game proved to be all the ’Cats needed, though they did add two more in the top of the fourth and one more in the seventh. Sophomore pitcher Norbert Archibeque earned his first victory of the season, going the full seven innings, striking out five and walking no...
PORTALES - After playing on the road for so long, most recently losing four straight games to end last weekend's Kristen Griego Tournament, Thursday night brought two bits of good news for Portales' softball team. 1) The Lady Rams finally played their first home game by hosting Clovis. 2) Portales beat the Lady Wildcats, 6-2, to end that four-game losing streak. "We played well," Portales head coach Nathan Dodge said. "Changed some things up and it seemed to work in our favor....
Ask — or at least ask modestly — and it shall be granted. That was one takeaway for eastern New Mexico communities following the governor’s approval Friday of almost $12 million in capital outlay requests within Curry, Roosevelt and Quay Counties. Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed Senate Bill 280, which was approved by both chambers of the state legislature last month. The final version keeps intact each of the capital outlay requests from Clovis, Portales and surrounding communities, including about $2.44 million and $1.2...
BY THE STAFF OF THE NEWS PORTALES — Though the spring semester is far from over, Eastern New Mexico University is prepping for the offseason with various camps. The football program is prepping for a trio of prospect camps and its annual 7-on-7 challenge, the volleyball program has five camps in July and the women’s basketball program has camps in June and August. Football — The prospect camps are open to athletes entering grades 10-12 with an interest in a collegiate football career. Camps will include speed/agility train...
PORTALES - The Portales girls tennis team saw its duals streak snapped at three on Tuesday against Goddard, while the boys moved their winning streak to three in action at the Bill Wahlman Tennis Center. The boys took a 6-3 win over the visiting Rockets to improve to 5-2 on the season, and the girls fell 7-2 to drop to 4-2 overall. Two Portales boys players had 2-0 days, Tyler Underhill and Brett Horton. Underhill took a 6-2, 6-0 win over Phil Roberts in No. 4 singles, and...
A total of 11 area seniors found their way into postseason all-star basketball games, with rosters announced by the New Mexico High School Coaches Association. The games will be held May 31 and June 1 at Valley and Manzano high schools in Albuquerque. The senior-only games will feature four teams - Northwest, Northeast, Southwest and Southeast - in both small- and large- school classifications for boys and girls. The large-school field includes Classes 4A and 5A, while the...
CLOVIS — The New Mexico Environment Department has scheduled a public meeting this month in Clovis concerning the local water contamination linked last year to firefighting exercises at Cannon Air Force Base. Hosted in conjunction with the state’s Attorney General office and Departments of Health and Agriculture, the meeting will also present more information on recent testing conducted by NMED. Results from tests last month on public water systems on and immediately outside the base were posted online Wednesday, ind...
A career law enforcement officer with ties to Clovis was announced Friday as among “the diverse and high-quality leadership team of New Mexico State Police.” Robert O. Thornton III has been a member of state police since 2000 and most recently served as a major. Across his career he has worked districts across the state including supervising Clovis, Espanola, Las Vegas and Santa Fe. Thornton joins Nick Aragon and Carolyn N. Huynh as deputy chiefs and Tim Johnson as NMSP Chief in the leadership roles filled by Gov. Mic...
CLOVIS — A hearing officer has determined that Clovis Municipal Schools violated federal law based on the Individualized Education Program (IEP) provided to a now-fifth grade special education student. According to Due Process Hearing Officer Nancy Simmons’ conclusions reached in February, the district failed to provide the student a free and appropriate public education, or FAPE, as required by the Disabilities Education Act. That’s because CMS improperly lowered the student’s expectations, and thus failed to impleme...
TEXICO — For Texico’s baseball team, it had been mostly tournament play up until this week. The Wolverines had played six consecutive tournament games — three in Eunice, three in Roswell — and then a regular-season road game against Portales on Thursday, as the run-up to Friday’s home-opening doubleheader against Raton. Finally, some non-tournament action. Finally, any action at Texico’s baseball field. And a newly re-done field it was. According to Texico head coach Ty Thatcher, five figures went into replacing the surface...
PORTALES — The Portales City Council approved an incentive program for the Portales Police Department that will offer certified officers up to $10,000 to join the force for a minimum of three years. “We have been having trouble recruiting certified officers,” Police Chief Pat Gallegos said. “We haven’t had any certified officers come to the police department in over three years.” Gallegos said the program will be funded by year-to-date cost savings from the police department being understaffed, with incentives coming in t...
On this date ... 1994: Muleshoe Police Chief Julian Dominguez talked about his hobby with Clovis News Journal reporter David Molina: Dominguez had about 400 shoulder patches collected from law enforcement agencies “from Abilene to Zimbabwe,” Molina wrote. Dominguez said he began collecting the patches after joining the Muleshoe Police Department as a rookie cop in 1979. His collection included the first patch worn by Muleshoe police, which was created in 1961. Dominguez said most of his patches came from requests he sent by...
CLOVIS — A woman was sentenced Thursday to 14 years in prison after pleading guilty to two felony drug trafficking charges from 2016. Sabrina Martinez, 38, of Clovis, entered a plea of guilty on two counts of trafficking controlled substances, second degree felonies, while two lesser drug charges were dismissed by prosecutors per an agreement. She was arrested Oct. 4, 2016 through an investigation “over the course of the past two years” by the Region V Drug Task Force. An informant told police “Sabrina regularly travels...
CLOVIS - The detour nightmare is over for eastern New Mexico residents, as the Prince Street Overpass is again open to motorists. A release from Manon Arnett of the New Mexico Department of Transportation confirmed the re-opening of the bridge at about 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, following a $2.5 million repair that began in August. With the traffic moving back to Prince Street, there were clear impacts on traffic at Hull and Norris streets - the closest nearby streets that cross...
PORTALES - Forget whatever the next trend is, because you probably won't get your book published in time to take advantage of it. Forget trying to write for Hollywood, because it's just as foreign a planet as the one your sci-fi novel is trying to pitch. The best advice a writer can take, panelists as the Jack Williamson Lectureship Series said? Write the book you'd want to read. Panelists shared that advice and their personal experiences Friday during annual lectureship...
Venezuela is amid a humanitarian crisis. Our Latin American neighbor has suffered through a pinwheeling economy dependent on oil. That and years of authoritarian leadership from former President Hugo Chavez and now his loyalist President Nicolas Maduro have led to widespread hunger and hyperinflation. Reports have depicted Venezuelans rooting through refuse for food, suffering through power outages and enduring a health system near collapse. Weekly salaries might cover the cost of a meal. Faucets are dry, finding clean water...
