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The following were actions taken during the Roosevelt County Commission meeting Tuesday in the county courthouse: • Commissioners heard reports from department heads and elected officials. Assessor George Beggs presented commissioners with a hard copy of his office’s Property Evaluation Plan, which he is required by state law to present each year to ensure the office stays up to date. The plan highlights improvements of property added to valuation records during the year, additions of new property to valuation records dur...
You might not be aware of it, but April was National Poetry Month. Poets.org reports it was “inaugurated by the Academy of American Poets in 1996 and has become the largest literary celebration in the world with schools, publishers, libraries, booksellers, and poets celebrating poetry's vital place in our culture.” Schools across the nation celebrated with a wide range of associated events and activities. For example, “Poem in Your Pocket Day” involves students selecti...
CLOVIS — Inclement weather extended Clovis' season by a few days. The La Cueva Bears ended it all the same. La Cueva wrapped up a perfect regular season Wednesday, topping Clovis 17-0 and 16-3 at Lady Wildcat Field. The Bears (23-0, 10-0) are expected to receive the top seed in Class 6A when brackets are announced Sunday. The Lady Wildcats (2-24, 2-8) committed seven errors over four innings in the opener, and an 18-hit game from La Cueva only added to the struggles. "The o...
ALBUQUERQUE — Clovis’ lone tennis entry in the Class 6A tennis tournament bowed out Wednesday, with Piedra Vista’s Josie Howard and Meg Mullins topping Madison Credle and Mya Grimes at the Jerry Cline Tennis Complex. Scores were 6-2, 7-6 (7-2) in favor of Hoawrd and Mullins. Howard and Mullins will face the Sandia combo of Courtenay Leonard and Arianna Lumanog in an 8 a.m. quarterfinal. Leonard and Lumanog, seeded second in the field, defeated Las Cruces’ Taylor Watson and Juliana Cervantes 6-0, 6-2....
TEXICO — The Texico High baseball team started slow, but still found a way to finish fast. The top-seeded Wolverines opened defense of their Class 3A title with little problem, dispatching an overmatched Loving squad 16-0 Wednesday at Wolverine Field. The third inning was the turning point for Texico (23-3), which moves on to a 10 a.m. Wednesday quarterfinal against Tularosa at Sue V. Cleveland High School in Rio Rancho. The ninth-seeded Bobcats defeated Pecos 17-3 on the r...
RICHARDSON, Texas — Texas A&M-Commerce’s Turner Pool and Angelo State’s Kami Norton were named Lone Star Conference Academic Athletes of the Year on Wednesday when league officials announced the LSC’s annual academic awards for men’s and women’s outdoor track and field. Joing the academic athletes of the year were Eastern New Mexico’s Ezra Bagwell and Scott Wesselink from the men’s side and Coley Norcross from the women. The award is Bagwell’s second of the year, having earned a place on the LSC’s All-Academic indoor...
PORTALES — Two energy companies hosted a full house Tuesday evening as public officials, business leaders and other residents piled into the Yam Theatre to ask questions about what will soon be the largest wind farm in New Mexico. Sagamore Wind Project, a 522-megawatt wind farm, is on its way to Roosevelt County as of 2020. Chicago-based Invenergy has been working on the project the last several years, according to Director of Renewable Development Krista Jo Mann, and has a...
May 4 On this date ... 1962: Linda Deering, a freshman secretarial science major from Portales, was crowned 1962 Rodeo Queen at Eastern New Mexico University. Students selected her from a field of 13 candidates. The 27th annual Ag Club Rodeo was scheduled to open at 7:30 p.m. on this date. 1957: Russell Hardwick, a pioneer theater owner and longtime civic leader, died after a lengthy illness. He was 64. Hardwick, who lived at 612 Gidding St. in Clovis, started his career in theater as an usher and projectionist in Roswell....
Today • Community Awareness Subcommittee — Noon at Emergency Management conference room at city hall, Clovis. Information: 575-763-9485 • Clovis City Commission — 5:15 p.m. in north annex at Clovis-Carver Public Library. Information: 575-763-9654 • Friends of the Library meeting — Noon in the Portales library meeting room, 218 S. Avenue B. Retired Portales educator De Anna Davis, who is the regional director for Building Communities that Support Children Reading, will present the program. Information: 575-356-3940. Monday • C...
Today • Teen program — 4:30 p.m. at Portales Public Library for ages 13-18. Activity: Block out poetry. Information: 575-356-3940 • Preschool storytime — 6 p.m. at Portales Public Library. Activity: Cinco de Mayo. Information: 575-356-3940 • Carson & Barnes Circus — 4:30 p.m., 7:30 p.m. at Curry County Events Center. Tickets: $18 adult, $12 child at the door. Information: 575-935-7000 • Andres Labastida senior recital — 7 p.m. in Buchanan Hall at ENMU. Admission: Free. Information: 575-562-1011 • Create your Business Web...
CLOVIS — Clovis Community College officials are awaiting a ruling on a court battle between the state’s legislative and executive branches, with CCC President Becky Rowley optimistic regardless of the ruling. The New Mexico Legislature contends in the suit — which the New Mexico Supreme Court will hear May 15 — that Gov. Susana Martinez overstepped her authority by zeroing out higher education funding in the upcoming state budget. “The lawsuit essentially states,” Rowley told the college’s board of trustees Tuesday, “tha...
CLOVIS — Senior citizens in Curry County may lose their daily noon-time meal if the Clovis City Commission cannot provide urgent assistance to the Curry Residents’ Senior Meal Association. State and federal funding for the CRSMA is drying up, according to Board President Kim Kimmerle. “There is $14 in the bank, and we can’t survive,” he said. “The city is very, very supportive of us.” If the city of Clovis cannot assist the program, it will close, effective Monday. According to Kimmerle, federal funding for the program stopp...
Editor's note: This is one in a series profiling local educators each week. Clovis Community College art instructor Carolyn Lindsey received the Faculty Outstanding Employee Award at the university's campus professional day in March, an honor she credits in part to a work environment that fosters creative learning. "Higher education nowadays has a lot of money issues, and I think with all these different problems going on, CCC is a good place to work. The administration and...
PORTALES — Despite another rough year with budgeting for the next fiscal year, Roosevelt County Commissioners heard good news from their third quarterly report for the current fiscal year at their Tuesday meeting. Michael Steininger with the Department of Finance and Administration, who has been working with Roosevelt County since it first discovered a $1.3 million deficit in 2015, told commissioners Tuesday that two years ago, the general fund was almost $600,000 in the red. A year ago in April, the county had $2.6 m...
The following is a list of area high school and college graduations: High schools Elida: 6 p.m. May 12, Elida High School Gymnasium Clovis Christian: 2 p.m. May 13, Living Stones Nazarene Church Faith Triumphant: 7 p.m. May 13, Faith Triumphant School Fort Sumner: 6 p.m. May 19, Fort Sumner High gymnasium Clovis: 6 p.m. May 19, Curry County Events Center Texico: 2 p.m. May 20, Texico Sports Arena Dora: 3 p.m. May 20, Guy Luscombe Gymnasium Melrose: 7 p.m. May 20, Melrose High Gymnasium Grady: 5 p.m. May 21, Grady High School...
Clovis schools warns of scam CLOVIS — Clovis Municipal Schools is warning citizens emails that appear to be from district employees are part of a worldwide phishing scam using the Google Docs service. The district advises deleting any email from a @clovis-schools.org address that states the employee “has shared a document on Google Docs with you.” The district release said it is working with Google to resolve the issue. Retiree speaker at library meeting PORTALES — Retired Portales educator DeAnna Davis, regional directo...
The following is a sampling of calls for Portales police, fire and sheriff: Tuesday • 12:07 p.m.: Fraud, walk in • 12:38 p.m.: Ambulance requested, 1500 block South Avenue A • 1:31 p.m.: Fire/regular response, 1300 block South Roosevelt Road 6 • 3:12 p.m.: Theft report, mile marker 5 on New Mexico 467 • 4:51 p.m.: Burglary report, 100 block • 5:39 p.m.: Ambulance requested, 100 block South Avenue A • 6:32 p.m.: Remove subject, 1600 block East Spruce Street • 7:48 p.m.: Larceny, 900 block West 17th Lane, report taken Wednesday...
The following is a sampling of calls received by dispatchers for the Clovis police, Curry County sheriff and area fire stations: Tuesday • 7:42 a.m.: Driving on streets laned for traffic, 3900 block of Lew Wallace Drive • 8:56 a.m.: Failure to comply with conditions of release, 200 block of North Pile Street • 9:51 a.m.: Failure to appear, 200 block of North Pile Street • 8:30 p.m.: Leaving scene of crash, 2800 block of Mabry Drive • 9:23 p.m.: Burglary, aggravated, 2400 block of Flagstone Drive • 9:36 p.m.: Contempt of...
