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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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PORTALES — Police on Tuesday announced they had obtained arrest warrants on four people in connection to a recent ongoing Portales homicide investigation. Three were in custody that afternoon and the only one still at large was arrested that evening. Court documents describe the April 7 shooting death of Adam “Florida’ Holts as an armed robbery turned deadly, with two young men charged with 1st-degree murder and two other people charged with conspiracy to commit armed robbery. Manuel Silva, 23, and Korbin Baldridge, 19, ...
CLOVIS — A “person of interest” sought last week in relation to a Portales homicide investigation was arrested Sunday afternoon following a vehicle pursuit that meanwhile involved a car crash with a Clovis police officer. Officers commenced a vehicle pursuit around 4 p.m. Sunday from near the intersection of 13th and Lea streets. Manuel Silva Jr, 23, initially stopped driving the black Volkswagen Jetta for police’s emergency lights but “as the Officer approached the vehicle it fled,” according to a Clovis Police Department...
An informed observer could have spotted this showdown a mile away. Democrats took the New Mexico House of Representatives and the Governor’s Office, bolstering the majority they already had in the state Senate. As one mass shooting after another dominated the news, Democrats rolled out gun control measures, ultimately passing a measure that requires background checks for nearly all gun buys. In response, at least 26 New Mexico counties passed “Second Amendment sanctuary” ordinances. A number of sheriffs declared they flat-out...
Booked The following were booked into local jails Friday - Monday: Clovis • Xavier Ransom, 25, failure to pay fines • Ashley Kilmer, 35, possession of a controlled substance, possession of drug paraphernalia, failure to appear at time and place stated in citation • Jeremy Cook, 36, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge • John Davis, 63, extreme cruelty to animals, cruelty to animals, tampering with evidence • Stephan Sanchez-Martinez, 25, failure to appear at time and place stated in citation • Dakota Flowers, 22, failure...
TUCUMCARI — A former Tucumcari fire chief on Tuesday pleaded no contest in district court to five criminal counts — three of them felonies — from a 2017 case in which he was accused of drugging and sexually assaulting a city employee and embezzling city funds. Shane Warner, 42, who now lives in Clovis, agreed in a 10th Judicial District courtroom to plead no contest to assault with intent to commit a violent felony (second- or third-degree criminal sexual penetration), attempt to commit a felony (extortion), felony tampe...
Bands rated ‘superior’ again For the third-straight year, Clovis bands aced the Southeaastern New Mexico Music Educator’s Association band large group music performance assessment, held last week. The Clovis High School concert and wind symphony bands, CHS Freshman Academy symphonic band and symphonic bands from Gattis, Marshall and Yucca middle schools each received “superior” ratings, given to bands that score 90 or higher on a 100-point grading scale during the assessment. Band directors include Bill Allred and Tim Cliff...
ALBUQUERQUE - A Portales student will represent the Land of Enchantment in the 2019 National Spanish Spelling Bee this summer after finishing as the runner up in the New Mexico State Spanish Spelling Bee last weekend. Fernando Gomez Jr., a sixth grader at Lindsay Steiner Elementary, correctly spelled "quirógrafo," a medical term for a type of scan, to take second place in the Spanish spelling bee which featured 33 students from across the state. Jacqueline Duran, a fifth and...
Who wants candy? Kids in Curry and Roosevelt counties are free to have as many sweets as they can find this Saturday as the cities of Clovis and Portales hold their annual free Easter Egg Hunt events. The foraging begins 9 a.m. sharp at Clovis' Guy Leeder Softball Complex on East 14th Street, while Portales' hunt starts at 2 p.m. at the city's softball complex on North Industrial Drive. Clovis is preparing approximately 10,000 eggs for the hunt, open to children 11 and under....
CLOVIS — Clovis city commissioners are looking at changing leash laws last altered in 1993, following a review by its animal control task force in February. Changes to the laws for animals running at large would require a leash for dogs, and removing cats from any leash requirements. The commission will meet 5:15 p.m. at the North Annex of the Clovis-Carver Pubilc Library. Current city code, which would not change, defines running at large to be a dog or cat off the property of an owner or not in an enclosed area on the o...
CLOVIS — The Curry County Commission declined to issue a disaster declaration as a result of the March 13 wind storm during Tuesday’s meeting. Dan Heerding, the emergency management director for the city of Clovis, said winds from the “bomb cyclone” reached 74 miles per hour due to an “almost record-breaking” drop in pressure. Commissioner Robert Thornton expressed concerns that a disaster declaration could result in an insurance increase for county residents. Heerding said he did not believe a declaration should impact insu...
ROSWELL — When the Portales tennis teams arrived at Roswell Monday afternoon, they found a pair of Roswell teams winless on the season. When the Rams left, that statement was still correct as both teams controlled their duals — the boys winning 6-3, the girls 7-2. Portales resumes its District 4-4A schedule Thursday at home against Lovington. Monday’s wins bring the boys to a 6-4 record with a 2-1 mark in district, while the girls improved to 7-3 and 2-1 in 4-4A play. Roswell moved to 0-3-1 on the boys side and 0-6 on the g...
They had become commonplace, those red-shirted Sunday charges by Tiger Woods at PGA majors. Used to be, however far back Tiger was coming into Sunday, there was a good chance he’d be at the top by day’s end. Some of the final rounds stand out. There was the 2005 Masters where his ball hung on the lip, seeming to almost mock Tiger, the spectators at Augusta and the television audience, before dropping into the cup. On Sunday of the 2008 U.S. Open, Tiger hobbled around Torrey Pines on a bum knee, somehow finding it in him...
SILVER CITY — Behind a huge hitting series from Emma Gary, the nightmare streak for Eastern New Mexico University softball is over. The Greyhounds posted a Saturday sweep of Western New Mexico, 7-5 and 7-2, to take two of three in the series and end a 17-game skid. Gary went 5-for-6 with four RBIs, including a two-run pinch-hit homer in the sixth inning of Saturday’s opener to keep the Mustangs at bay. She also had RBI singles in the third and seventh innings of the second game. Sister Hanna Gary played a part in both win...
PORTALES - Angelo State bats produced 29 hits on Sunday, and the No. 3 Rams left town with a four-game series sweep despite a late charge from Eastern New Mexico Sunday afternoon. Sunday's 15-2 and 15-10 victories pushed Angelo State (34-7) to a Lone Star Conference best 14-2 mark, and moved its winning streak to nine games. The Greyhounds, outscored 56-15 in the series, dropped to 13-32 overall. Eastern New Mexico, currently on an eight-game skid, remained a game behind...
CLOVIS - It's good to be home. Competition is competition, but the Clovis track and field team has been facing it in far-flung places like Amarillo, Hobbs and elsewhere before finally at least getting closer to home when they took part in and swept Portales' George Love Relays last weekend. Thursday, though, Clovis gets to compete at its own home - Leon Williams Stadium, literally its own backyard - when hosting the Wildcat Relays. Start time is scheduled for 2 p.m. Both the...
ROSWELL — Spring is in full bloom, and with it came the Roswell Spring Classic, held Monday and Tuesday in Roswell. Clovis’ boys and girls, Portales’ boys and Texico’s girls represented the area in the tournament, held at Spring River on Monday, New Mexico Military Institute on Tuesday. And it was a good Tuesday for Portales’ boys, who missed the 326 qualifying score Monday by three strokes before firing a 305 Tuesday. Their two-day total of 631 landed the Rams in third place overall. Portales head coach Matt Hunton th...
With all the Tiger-mania going on this past weekend, it seems fitting to use a golf term with regard to the Clovis and Portales baseball seasons. Right now, they’re at the turn, ready for the back nine. This week is the first for each in district play. Clovis opened District 4-5A competition Tuesday night by hosting Carlsbad, so by the time you read this, the Wildcats will have already tapped in the metaphoric putt on Hole 10. Portales begins its District 4-4A slate with a road game at Artesia on Friday (5 p.m.), the start of...
I saw him just a moment too late, coming down the path. I wasn’t expecting anyone to come down this section of the trail. No one ever did. At least I never saw anyone, which is why I was messing around with the pine cones. OK, I better start at the top. The whole thing started because there was a line of pine cones crossing the trail and it caught my attention. It was just few enough that it could have happened by chance. Did it? I stopped and looked at them. Then, just because I couldn’t help myself, I suppose, I str...
I collect tidbits that interest me from area newspapers. Here are a few from Aprils past: • April 3, 1945: Bill Vance of Portales announced his dog, Buzz, had been poisoned and he would pay $25 reward if someone could identify the perpetrator. Two other dogs had also been recently poisoned in Portales, including “the dog of the little crippled children of the Colby family.” • April 12, 1955: Two Portales service stations were burglarized, but the criminals had little to show...
More than a few writers have talked about the place where joy and sorrow meet. In a moment of deep contentment, someone may say, “I’m so happy I could cry!” And in the moments of deepest and most unutterable joy, we say nothing at all. We don’t live long before we learn that tears are more precious than diamonds, and the best tears are tears of joy. When those joy tears come, we usually don’t analyze them; we live the moment. But if the time comes to talk about such moments,...
On this date ... 1964: Clovis High School’s Richard Osburn had the fastest time in the state for the 180-yard low hurdles: 20.2 seconds. Teammate John Cook had recorded the second-fastest time in the mile run: 4:30. Only Roswell’s Web Loudat (4:18.3) had covered the mile faster among New Mexico schoolboys. In other local sports news: • Causey was preparing to build a new gymnasium after voters approved a $4,880 bond measure by a vote of 54-31. • Walley’s Girls were leading the team events in the Clovis Women’s City Bowlin...
If you are ever around kids, it’s likely you’ve heard about various types of video games. There is a whole complex field of research called “game theory” where mathematical models are studied to determine the various types of reactions to decision-making, physical response, critical thinking, motor skills, and other cognitive processes. There are considerable implications from not only the areas of social sciences, logic, and computer sciences, but also for education. One par...
In case you happened to miss it, a week ago today was Siblings Day. I dug out a childhood photo of my brothers and me on our pony, Peanuts, in honor of the occasion, and it took me on a bumpy trip down memory lane. My brothers and I don’t agree on everything, but we are unanimous on this: If you want to abuse your children, get them a pony. I was too young to remember exactly how Peanuts came into our life. I do know we were not his first family, because by the time he a...
Today • Spring Job Fair — 9 a.m.-3 p.m., New Mexico Workforce Connection, 111 N. Main St., Clovis. Information: 575-762-4571 • Tiny Tots — 10 a.m., Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main St., Clovis. Information: 575-769-7840 • Preschool storytime “Funny Bunny” — 10:30 a.m., Portales Public Library, 218 S. Ave. B, Portales. Information: 575-356-3940 • Build a Healthy Plate presentation — 1 p.m.-3 p.m., Community Services Center, 1100 Community Way, Portales. Dishwashing procedures and safety rules. Presented by Carol...
Today • Eastern Plains Council of Governments — 10 a.m., EPCOG office, 418 N. Main, Clovis. Information: 575-762-7714 Thursday • Curry County Health Council — Noon-1 p.m., Commission Room, Curry County Administration Complex, 417 Gidding St., Clovis. Information: 575-763-6009 • Eastern New Mexico Water Utility Authority — 1 p.m., Texico Fire Station, 120 N. Turner Ave., Texico. Information: 575-935-4262 • Clovis City Commission — 5:15 p.m., North Annex, Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main St., Clovis. Information: 57...
