Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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MANAGING EDITOR [email protected] The Roosevelt County Detention Center is a work in progress, but it’s getting there, according to County Manager Amber Hamilton. In February, Hamilton hired Contractor Sandra Stewart, who has 20 years experience in the criminal justice system and 10 years in the corrections field, to not only assess where RCDC is at in the process to become state accredited, but also to help them to complete the process. Stewart received media criticism earlier this year when she resigned from her g...
MANAGING EDITOR link Staff photo: Joshua Lucero Brad Mauldin sits on top of Haley Madden during one of the last self-defense classes for the semester to demonstrate how someone might attack on the ground. Mauldin said substance abuse is often a factor in violent situations. [email protected] Eastern New Mexico University Police Chief Brad Mauldin takes the connection between substance abuse and domestic and sexual violence seriously. As a law enforcement officer whose... Full story
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STAFF WRITER [email protected] link Staff photo: Joshua Lucero Portales Fire Department’s Scott Candelaria, far left, spent Thursday afternoon at the Community Services Center filling in senior citizens and care takers on home safety and fire prevention. Keeping homes and senior citizens safe and prepared in the case of a fire was the aim of a class conducted Thursday by the Portales Fire Department. PFD firefighter and paramedic Scott Candelaria explained to seniors a... Full story
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According to an Eastern New Mexico University public service announcement, the following local ENMU students were awarded scholarships from ENMU Athletics at the scholarship awards ceremony on April 21. • Andrew Anaya of Clovis • River Fine of Portales • Kaylee Foster of Portales • Hunter Haley of Portales • Anabel Muniz of Portales • Alix Russell of Clovis • Sarah Stinnett of Portales...
Liberal artists celebrate... • Ribbon cutting and open house 11:30 a.m. today at the newly rebuilt Jack Williamson Liberal Arts Building on the campus of Eastern New Mexico University in Portales. Open to the public. Roosevelt County Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Karl Terry notes it’s “a building that is near and dear to a lot of hearts in our community.” Clovis cowboy... • Legendary Clovis calf roper BJ Pierce is nominated for induction in the Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City. Pierce was International Rodeo Ass...
Today • ENMU Board of Regents meeting — 9:30 a.m. to noon in the Portales administration building. Information: 575-562-2377. Saturday • Eastern New Mexico University commencement — 10 a.m. to noon at Greyhound Arena. Information: 575-562-2377 or http://www.enmu.edu/services/registrar/graduation/directions.html Tuesday • Books and Babies — 10:30 a.m., story time for children ages birth to 3, Portales Public Library. Information: 575-356-3940. • After school at the library — 4:30 p.m., Portales Public Library. Programming for... Full story
The following is the schedule for graduations for Roosevelt County schools: • Eastern New Mexico University: 10 a.m. Saturday at the ENMU Greyhound Arena. • Elida High School: 5 p.m. Saturday in the multi-purpose room at the school. • Portales Junior High: 5:30 p.m. Tuesday at the ENMU Greyhound Arena. • Portales High School: 7 p.m. May 22 at the ENMU Greyhound Arena. • Floyd High School: 1 p.m. May 23, in the Floyd schools old gym. • Dora High School: 3 p.m. May 24, at Dora schools new gym....
Editor’s note: Where are they now is a weekly feature updating the lives of Eastern New Mexico University graduates. Barry Smith has kept busy in retirement. link Smith A resident of Eugene, Oregon, who earned his undergraduate degree at Eastern New Mexico University in 1967, Smith helps maintain the city’s police vehicle fleet as a volunteer and also plays trumpet in several musical groups, including one at the local community college. He also keeps busy with woodworking and...
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Down on the farm link Audra Brown The natural geography and landscape of a place is a defining aspect of identity. In the wide West, it is easy to forget how different topography can be. A recent visit to verdant Alabama demonstrated a definite contrast to eastern New Mexico. The reliance on visual navigation common to the Plains is not the most useful in other lands where trees and hills can hide even the biggest Bass Pro Shops. After turning in at the sign off the highway, a... Full story
DEPUTY EDITOR [email protected] The Portales High track teams used quality and quantity last weekend, as more than five dozen athletes helped Portales roll to its first district track title at least two decades. But going into the University of New Mexico today, Portales is going to have to hope its quality holds up and maybe surpasses expectation for a shot at a trophy in Class 4A. link Staff photo: Kevin Wilson Portales track coach Glenn Johnson talks about positioning... Full story
Let’s start looking into the reasons something has happened instead of just looking at the result and the reaction. link Joshua Lucero There has been a rash of posts online this week concerning flag burning in the wake of more police shootings of unarmed individuals and, as usual, people are quick to condemn. Looking at this issue as an American, the grandson of a veteran, and someone who has cousins who still serve in the military, I was a bit offended. When I thought a...
Staff report Cannon Air Force Base has identified a service member killed Monday in a utility task vehicle accident at Melrose Air Force Range. Staff Sgt. Jordan Lewis, a flight engineer with the 20th Special Operations Squadron, died Tuesday afternoon of head trauma at University Medical Center in Lubbock, according to a release from the base’s public affairs office. Lewis was airlifted to UMC in critical condition. The office previously reported the airlift was to Covenant Medical Center, also in Lubbock. Lewis is s...
Staff photo: Kevin Wilson Portales track coach Glenn Johnson talks about positioning in the exchange zone on a relay with Taryn Kizer, center, and Abree Aldaz....
Typos are the bain of my existence. link Curtis Shelburne Better make that bane. The word comes from Middle and Old English, and has to do with “a cause of misery or death.” Its roots indicate “murderer,” “destroyer.” Bain, I’m told, is a French word for bath. And, yes, a cold bain is a bane. Of course, a sentence such as my first in this column would not be so much a typo as a simple mistake in usage. Or, worse, a blind spot in English skill and knowledge. Or, more sinister...
Staff report The bad news for Portales? The Rams open Friday play at the state softball tournament in the loser’s bracket they hoped to avoid. The good news? Without a stellar Thursday from junior Kiersten Ramirez, third-seeded Portales might not be worrying about Friday’s games all. Following a 4-3, eight-inning loss to Hope Christian Thursday morning, Portales (19-8) remained alive in the double-elimination tournament by holding off St. Michael’s 1-0 behind a Ramirez one-hitter. “We did not hit the ball like we’ve b...
STAFF WRITER [email protected] A few local churches in Portales are changing up their traditional vacation Bible school plans this summer. Third and Kilgore Church of Christ will be incorporating the vacation Bible school style of teaching they usually do into their regular Sunday morning Bible classes for eight or nine weeks in June and July. Jeanie Terry, a Bible class teacher at the church who has helped coordinate vacation Bible school throughout the years, said the change is due to busy schedules. “Schedules for t...
Staff report Dating back to Portales coach Dusty Nusser’s time as an assistant, the Portales Rams had great luck at La Cueva High School, the site of their Class 4A state quarterfinal Thursday. Their opponent, the Bloomfield Bobcats, had the recent history of playoff success, dating back to their 2013 first-round win over the Rams. The Bobcats’ streak held up, as Bloomfield had a 2-0 lead five batters in and never looked back in an 11-1 victory. “From the get-go, it was bad. Second inning, we had a leadoff single, then Omar...
Repercussions from the walkout by Native actors who were extras on an Adam Sandler movie filming in New Mexico aren’t over. While making “The Ridiculous 6,” a made-for-Netflix send-off of “The Magnificent Seven,” the broad attempts at humor proved offensive to some in the cast. Rather than continue to act in a film that showed a female character urinating while smoking a peace pipe or another female character roused by white men pouring alcohol on her, the extras in the film walked off. Since that happened in late April, th...
If you were sitting alone in your own home, would you seek permission to read one of your books? Or to write one? Would you be concerned with whether you are allowed to scratch an itch? link Kent McManigal Would you wonder if you need a license to watch TV? Don’t laugh — TV licensing is a reality in Great Britain and many other places. Might you call an inspector for a permit before you make a sandwich? As long as you weren’t violating anyone’s person or private property would you feel guilty about sipping a glass of tea? So... Full story
I have written about New Mexico’s Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) tests that caused such a stir recently. link Rube Render Turns out the Texas End Of Course (EOC) testing for high school seniors ran into a similar buzz saw for the class of 2015. About 28,000 seniors were in danger of not receiving their diplomas because they had not passed all five of the tests required for graduation. These tests measured skills in algebra, biology, Eng...
link Barry Smith Editor’s note: Where are they now is a weekly feature updating the lives of Eastern New Mexico University graduates. Barry Smith has kept busy in retirement. A resident of Eugene, Oregon, who earned his undergraduate degree at Eastern New Mexico University in 1967, Smith helps maintain the city’s police vehicle fleet as a volunteer and also plays trumpet in several musical groups, including one at the local community college. He also keeps busy with woodworkin...
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