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Staff report The Portales boys tennis squad ran into a buzzsaw on Thursday. Meantime, the short-handed PHS girls nearly pulled out a win in the teams’ District 3/1A-3A tennis opener. link Tony Bullocks: Staff photo Portales eighth-grader Ethan Self, teaming with sophomore Aaron Swisher-Hernandez, hits a return against New Mexico Miltary at No. 5 doubles during Thursday’s District 3-1A/3A boys dual on Thursday at the Bill Wahlman Tennis Complex. The visiting Colts took a 9-0...
Portales police, sheriff, and fire call logs: Caller reported: Wednesday • 12:11 a.m.: Officer requested, location unknown. • 6:47 a.m.: Fire/regular response, location unknown. • 7:52 a.m.: Ambulance requested, 300 block of South Roosevelt Road R 1/2. • 7:55 a.m.: Motor vehicle accident hit and run, 100 block of West First Street. • 8:06 a.m.: Prisoner transport, 100 block of Airport Road. • 8:34 a.m.: Standby all other, 800 block of West University Drive. • 8:38 a.m.: Prisoner transport, 100 block of Airport Road. • 9:36...
Correspondent A story about a man-eating plant was not the first choice for the latest Portales High School musical production, according to senior Amy Carter. But when the subject arose, the vote was unanimous, Carter said. When debating over what musical to perform, other production titles came up, such as “Little Foxes,” before the conversation turned to the famous story of “Little Shop of Horrors.” With the 15-student cast members revving up for their first performance tonight at the high school, the Portales News-Tribune...
Patti Dobson link Patti Dobson Religion columnist I overhead an interesting conversation during my morning coffee run. The gist of it — that Justin Bieber is a hero because he gave a court official “what for” during a recent deposition. Not my definition of hero. Frankly, I take umbrage with anyone who engages in disrespectful, entitled, and mean-spirited behavior. I have a different definition of hero. My dad, Tom Dobson, is my hero. He is an Air Force veteran, and serve...
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Staff writer [email protected] There will plenty of eggs to find for any child through sixth grade at Portales Calvary Baptist Church’s annual Easter Egg Hunt. But the event is being held at a different location than usual. The hunt starts at 1 p.m. Saturday at the New Mexico Baptist Children’s Home. The church’s Easter Egg Hunt is usually done at the Roosevelt County Fairground, but this year there was a scheduling conflict. Brad Morgan, pastor at the Portales Calvary Baptist Church, is coordinating the event with 60 vo...
Today Aerobics — 7:30 a.m., Portales Recreation Center. Information: 356-8598. Step aerobics — 4 p.m., Portales Recreation Center. Information: 356-8598. Faculty Vocal Recital — 7 p.m., Eastern New Mexico University’s Buchanan Hall in the Music Building. Information: 562-2377. Little Shop of Horrors — 7 p.m., Portales High School Auditorium. Information: 356-7015. Saturday Car Wash Fundraiser — 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., True Value parking lot. Money donated will go towards helping new born baby, Reagan Herring, who is fighting le...
link Alisa Boswell Columnist After finding a VHS player last week, I got to fulfill my longing to watch “My Fair Lady,” the Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison musical rendition of George Bernard Shaw's play, “Pygmalion.” Yes, I still own VHS tapes and that is one of them. Harrison was truly the perfect choice for the role of the arrogant Prof. Henry Higgins just as Hepburn was superb as his leading lady, Eliza Doolittle. As terrible as he is to Eliza, some of the funnies...
Senior writer [email protected] Two Portales High School seniors aren’t sweating their college choices at all. Jarret Faust and Jennifer Salomon, both honor students, already have their minds made up on where they plan to spend the next four years after graduation. The National Honor Society students were asked questions about their decision: link Jarrett Faust The achievers Jarret Faust played basketball and baseball all four years and gave football a try his senior y...
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Portales police, sheriff, and fire call logs: Caller reported: Tuesday • 1:51 a.m.: Ambulance requested, 1100 block of North Avenue A. • 7:55 a.m.: Prisoner transport, 100 block of Airport Road. • 8:44 a.m.: Prisoner transport, 100 block of Airport Road. • 9:41 a.m.: Warrant service, 100 block of West First Street. • 9:49 a.m.: Deputy requested, 1700 block of North Boston Street. • 9:58 a.m.: Follow up requested, 300 block of South Avenue J. • 10:07 a.m.: Warrant service, 1700 block of North Boston Street. • 10:26 a.m.: Wel...
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Editor’s note: The “Meet the” series profiles the people behind groups, organizations and businesses in the community. link Lillian Bowe: Staff photo Yolanda Sanchez, secretary at Lindsey-Steiner Elementary and the school’s Relay for Life coach, works on the flyers for selling popcorn. Sanchez has been conducting several fundraisers to help her team raise money. By Lillian Bowe Staff writer [email protected] It’s been a big part of her life for the last decade, but the P... Full story
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The Eastern New Mexico University women’s basketball staff will conduct summer camps in June at Greyhound Arena Zias coach Joshua Prock said team camps are slated for June 17-19 for Classes B-3A, and from June 19-21 for Classes 4-5A. Individual camps will be from June 23-26. Girls entering grades 1-7 will go from 9 a.m.-noon each day, while girls entering grades 8-12 go from 1-4 p.m. For the individual camps, the cost to a family is $100 per player, or $80 per player with two or more. For ENMU employees, the cost is $60 p... Full story
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Local columnist Government at every level throughout America needs to obey the U.S. Constitution — the highest law of the land — to the letter. All federal, state and local governments need to tightly control and regulate who is allowed to enter our country, and make sure those allowed in are complying with all the immigration laws the Constitution establishes in order to make sure our borders are secure. Their papers must be in order, or else! But, there is at least one pro...
Washington, D.C., bureaucrats are arguing whether New Mexico should lose $34 million in federal special education funding because it didn’t spend as much on those students in 2011 as it did in 2009. Ditto for 2012. To be clear, this is a dollars-out-the-door equation with spending, not results, as the bottom line. The feds don’t care that a state with around 2 million people spends around $500 million in combined federal and state funds annually on special education — roughly a 20-80 split. They don’t care that New Mexico... Full story
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Staff writer [email protected] On a coast-to-coast trip covering about 80 miles per day, a group of cyclists are set to arrive in Portales today to share information on world health. Ride for World Health is a cycling team and nonprofit that undertakes a 3,200-mile cycling journey every year from San Diego to Washington DC. The cyclists will give a presentation at 2 p.m. today at Eastern New Mexico University Campus Union Building’s Sandia Room. The free presentation will explore issues such as global surgery, warning s... Full story
Staff writer [email protected] KENW Executive Producer Kristen Garcia came into the newsroom Wednesday with a broadcast planned, but things started changing fast. News of bull rider Irvyng Urquijo’s death was suddenly the top story and Garcia, 22, immediately had to get her news team on the job. “I have to change our whole rundown of the show as this new story will be the lead story. It is a little crazy changing everything, but I love it. That is why I wanted to do broadcast journalism,” said Garcia, who has been worki... Full story
