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Jeff Ruby’s restaurants are the kinds of places people go to spend an evening with friends and sometimes bump into someone famous. Ruby, a longtime Cincinnati restaurateur, works hard to maintain his company’s reputation for fine steaks and seafood and providing a great place for customers to relax and enjoy themselves. So it’s easy for some to understand why he got upset recently when an excited customer told him O.J. Simpson and his entourage were in the dining room. It wasn’t the first time Simpson had dined in one of... Full story
LOS LUNAS — Despite scoring runs at an average of more than one per inning, there was a time on Wednesday when things didn’t look so good for Elida in the Class 1A state baseball quarterfinals. But the Tigers rebounded from a two-run deficit and moved into the today’s semis with a 9-6 victory over Questa. In a seesaw game, Elida (13-7) finally took the lead for good in the bottom of the fifth, scoring three times to erase a 6-5 deficit. The rally started with Ever Varela’s one-out single to left. Questa pitcher Cruz Chavez...
ALBUQUERQUE — The Portales Rams, seeded fifth in the Class 3A state baseball tournament, thought they were a better team than fourth seed Bloomfield, and in Wednesday’s quarterfinals, they proved it. The Rams erased a 7-3 deficit after three innings and rallied for an 8-7 win at La Cueva High School, advancing to a 9 a.m. semifinal on Friday against top-seeded Cobre, a 13-12 winner over Lovington, at UNM Lobo Field. It’s the second consecutive year the Rams have reached the 3A semifinals. Senior Mario Salazar went the distanc...
ALBUQUERQUE — Texico didn’t put together much offense on Wednesday, but the Wolverines bunched most of what they got into one inning. A five-run fourth held up, and junior right-hander Casey Crist fanned Santa Rosa’s Bryan Campos with the bases loaded to end the game as Texico held on for a 5-4 win over the Lions in a Class 2A state quarterfinal game at Eldorado High School. Crist, who walked five and struck out four, had a no-hitter for 5 1/3 innings and carried a one-hitter into the seventh. The sixth-seeded Wolve...
The Concerned Citizens for Curry County are sponsoring an anti-ethanol plant rally today outside the venue for the Clovis City Commission meeting. The rally will begin at 5:15 p.m. outside the North Annex of the Clovis-Carver Public Library, according to a news release from the group. Its purpose is to bring attention to what the group said is growing opposition to the construction of a 108-million-gallon-a-year ethanol plant west of Clovis by the ConAgra Trade Group. The group will also address commissioners during the open...
ALBUQUERQUE — The fifth-seeded Portales Rams thought they were a better team than the fourth-seeded Bloomfield Bobcats and in the Class 3A state baseball quarterfinals Wednesday, they proved it. The Rams came from behind for an 8-7 win to advance to the state semifinals for the second consecutive year. The Rams were outscored 7-3 in the first three innings, but went on their own 5-0 run in the last four innings. “We just talked to our kids during those innings and said the things that most coaches say to try to get your kid...
A Cannon Air Force Base homicide victim may have been the mistaken target of retaliation against a witness in an unrelated homicide trial, defense attorneys allege. An Article 32 hearing that began Wednesday at the base is the second in the case against Airman Basic Edward Novak II. He is charged with the Oct. 28, 2004, death of his 20-year-old wife, Kimberly Novak, found dead in the military housing they shared. An agent formerly with the Office of Special Investigations at...
LOS LUNAS — Despite scoring runs at an average of more than one per inning, there was a time on Wednesday when things didn’t look so good for Elida in the Class 1A state baseball quarterfinals. But the Tigers rebounded from a three-run deficit and moved into today’s semis with a 9-6 victory over Questa. In a seesaw game, Elida (13-7) finally took the lead for good in the bottom of the fifth, scoring three times to erase a 6-5 deficit. The rally started with Ever Varela’s one-out single to left. Questa pitcher Cruz Chavez...
CNJ staff photo: Andy DeLisle Neil McMullin is the general manager for the Clovis Civic Center. He says most of his days are spent behind his desk booking clients, but during large events he usually ends up helping out in the kitchen. The Clovis Civic Center is holding a birthday breakfast Friday, and everyone is invited. The pancake party is a thank you for the community’s support, according to the center’s general manager Neil McMullin. Built at a cost by the city of $6 million, the facility had its first event April 19,... Full story
Tradition once again returns to Portales as the 78th annual winding of the Maypole is set to take place tonight in the Portales High School Gymnasium. “This is the only school left in the nation that still does it,” said coordinator and PHS teacher Marilyn Stratton. The PHS gym has been turned into a fairyland decorated in white lights and colors of pastel blue and lavender, as chosen by the Maypole queen Lourdes Gutierrez. The gym becomes even more beautiful as the 32 couples step onto the floor and take their positions to... Full story
The Portales High School chapter of Family, Career and Community Leaders of America have accomplished another milestone during the past year. In April, FCCLA teacher Debbie Stenstrom traveled to Albuquerque with a group of six students, to compete in the state contest. During the competition, all of the students qualified to attend the national conference in California, Stenstrom said. “We had 100 percent of our kids qualify,” Stenstrom said. “We had a good group of kids.” During the state competition, the students competed i... Full story
A Cannon Air Force Base homicide victim may have been the mistaken target of retaliation against a witness in an unrelated homicide trial, defense attorneys allege. An Article 32 hearing that began Wednesday at the base is the second in the case against Airman Basic Edward Novak II. He is charged with the Oct. 28, 2004, death of his 20-year-old wife, Kimberly Novak, found dead in the military housing they shared. An agent formerly with the Office of Special Investigations at Cannon testified Wednesday that he placed Naomi... Full story
The Upward Bound Program at Eastern New Mexico University in Portales has been re-funded for five years, according to an ENMU news release. The Department of Education approved a grant of $348,146 for each year, totaling more than $1.7 million. Susan Cramp, director of the Upward Bound Program at Eastern, said, “The program, now in its 40th year at ENMU-Portales, has assisted about 3,000 to 4,000 area high school students.” Funded by the Department of Education, Upward Bound helps high school students from low-income families...
Gattis Junior High School teacher Dennis Padilla has been chosen as the Clovis News Journal Newspapers in Education teacher of the year. “I’m ecstatic about being chosen,” Padilla said, “but at the same time I’m humbled because there were so many others who were deserving.” Nominated by their principals, the teacher of the year is chosen based on curriculum usage and creative modification of the material, said Lynn Berry, NIE coordinator. Padilla said he has been in education for the past eight years, the last four at Gattis... Full story
CNJ staff photo: Andy DeLisle Janet Barnard, a music teacher at the Arts Academy at Bella Vista, sits next to third-grader Jordan Castillo while she plays an instrument. Barnard is retiring after 27 years of teaching at Clovis elementary schools. Long before research demonstrated the “Mozart effect” — the relationship between exposure to music and academic success — Janet Barnard was developing ways to use music as a learning tool. “It’s kind of strange, but I just always believed in that idea, that you could teach socia...
The Concerned Citizens for Curry County are sponsoring an anti-ethanol plant rally today outside the venue for the Clovis City Commission meeting. The rally will begin at 5:15 p.m. outside the North Annex of the Clovis-Carver Public Library, according to a news release from the group. Its purpose is to bring attention to what the group said is growing opposition to the construction of a 108-million-gallon-a-year ethanol plant west of Clovis by the ConAgra Trade Group. The group will also address commissioners during the open...
