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Here is a sampling of police, sheriff and fire call logs: Friday Caller reported: 9:11 a.m.: Criminal damage, 300 block of South Avenue I. 9:50 a.m.: Requested to speak to a deputy regarding a domestic situation, 1800 block of Loma Vista. 10:11 a.m.: Requested to speak to an officer regarding a subject who has taken poison, U.S. 70. 10:21 a.m.: A hit and run traffic accident, 1500 block of South Avenue A. 11 a.m.: Requested an officer, 1500 block of North Main. 12 p.m.: A fight, Brazos and Elgin. 12:04 p.m.: A noise...
RUIDOSO — Portales High's tennis squads got in a good final tuneup on Monday for this weekend's District 4-3 tournament, which they will host at the Bill Wahlman Tennis Center and the Eastern New Mexico University courts. The PHS boys posted three 6-0, 6-0 wins and another by 6-0, 6-1 in routing district rival Ruidoso 9-0, while the girls posted four 6-0, 6-0 shutouts en route to an 8-1 victory over the Lady Warriors. "We played pretty well," PHS girls coach Ann-Marie Bucksath said. "Now we're just gong to keep working for...
Eastern New Mexico University's baseball team made a strong bid on Sunday for a season-ending Lone Star Conference series win over rival West Texas A&M at Greyhound Field. After sweeping a doubleheader from the Buffaloes on Saturday, the Greyhounds pulled to 5-4 when junior third baseman Andres Enriquez blasted his first homer of the season, a leadoff shot in the bottom of the eighth inning. Singles by Colton Sims and Brett Ackerman and a wild pitch by WT's Scott Cone put the go-ahead runs in scoring position with no one...
The Board of Education of Portales Municipal Schools is holding meet and greets for the public with its superintendent candidates. Current Superintendent Randy Fowler will be retiring in June. The following meeting dates will be held at 3 p.m., with the following candidates: Jim Daugherty, current superintendent of Elida schools, will meet with the public May 8. Henry Montano, director of federal programs for Portales schools, will meet with the public May 9. David Van Wettering, Portales schools employee, will meet with the...
The following was took place at the Portales Municipal Schools Board of Education's special meeting Monday night: Federal Program Director Henry Montano gave a report. Montano said federal grants will be cut 5.3 percent or $75,000 for the 2013-2014 school year. The board accepted a donation of a high school diploma, varsity letter and a letterman sweater from the family of former Portales High School student Dolphus Lee Johnston. Johnston graduated from PHS in 1942. The board approved out-of-state travel for the PHS football...
The Roosevelt County Community Development Corp. director is among the six candidates being eyed to replace retiring Portales City Manager Tom Howell. City officials said although they are tightening the scope of nearly 20 candidates to the few selected for interviews, the city will not close the search until the position is filled. The city manager search committee, comprised of the mayor, city councilors and a community member, is reviewing the applicants' resumes and is set to interview them soon. RCCDC Director Doug...
The end of the semester is quickly approaching and the Eastern New Mexico University theater students will be presenting their student-directed, written and acted pieces this week. The End of the Semester Student Showcase runs today through Thursday at the ENMU theater. Victoria Wright, a theater major, has written a piece that another student director will stage. She will also be directing a play written by another student. Jillian Holbert: Portales News-Tribune Eastern New Mexico University student director Rose Kelly...
Wendel Sloan, Clovis Media Inc. columnist and director of media relations at Eastern New Mexico University, won six awards in the statewide 2013 communications contest sponsored by the New Mexico Press Women at an awards banquet Saturday in Albuquerque. Sloan won first place for humorous columns with one about upcoming college graduates needing to be realistic and practice their Dumpster diving, and another about asking an email con artist to send him her bank account and Social Security numbers so that he could wire funds....
Dora school news Upcoming events: Today — Prepay May meals for your students. There are 14 serving days in May. There are to be no lunch charges remaining on lunch accounts by the last day of school. Thursday — elementary track meet at Elida Friday — 2 p.m. Dora baseball hosts Capitan Saturday — district track at Melrose Monday — 5:30 p.m. Coyote Pack meeting...
Today Books N Babies — 10:30 a.m., Portales Public Library. "Puppy Play" will be featured. For ages 0-3. Information: 356-3940. Boot Camp — 5:30 p.m., Portales Recreation Center. $5 per class. Information: 356-8598. Yoga — 7 p.m., Portales Recreation Center. $5 per class. Information: 356-8598. Brass Choir Concert — 7 p.m., Eastern New Mexico University's Buchanan Hall in the Music Building. Information: 562-2377. End of Semester Student Works: Plays, Films and Dance — 7 p.m., Eastern New Mexico University's Studio...
Am I the only one who's worn to a frazzle? You don't even have to know what a frazzle is. If you're worn down to one… you know it! Perhaps it's old age setting in. (And that's a very likely scenario.) Perhaps it's the incessant wind that sweeps over these plains in April. While we'd love to recite something sweet like "April showers bring May flowers," we're more likely to whine "This brown sky is making me cry." While I sit at my computer in my second floor office, listening to the walls creak from the "balmy breezes," wit...