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Three Eastern New Mexico University baseball players, the most in program history, were named to the Daktronics All-South Central teams Thursday. Senior Peter Creamer was named to the first team as a designated hitter, while senior outfielder Luis Quinones and junior utility player Colton Sims grabbed second-team spots. Creamer led the Lone Star Conference with a .422 average and led the Greyhounds with 36 RBIs. Quinones hit .375 with nine doubles, two homers and a triple on the season, and ended his career third on the ENMU...
Our house will be 5O years old in June. I guess you could say we are the antiques of 18th Street. We thought we were building our house in the country. It was just a pasture all around us then. Our boys had lots of room to kick footballs and bat baseballs. At night the howls of coyotes seemed mighty close. Other visitors liked to come too. Skunks, snakes, a bat, a wolf and even a monkey wanted to visit. The boys tried to catch them all. In those 50 years, we've had to replace the roof three times, fix the plumbing more times...
Today Aerobics — 7:30 a.m., Portales Recreation Center. $5 per class. Information: 356-8598. Sunday Portales High School baccalaureate — 6 p.m., PHS Auditorium. Information: 356-7000. Monday Aerobics — 7:30 a.m., Portales Recreation Center. $5 per class. Information: 356-8598. Portales Junior High School awards assembly — 6 p.m., PJHS back gymnasium. Information: 356-7000. Zumba — 5:15 p.m., Portales Recreation Center. $5 per class. Information: 356-8598. Circuit Training — 5:30 p.m., Portales Recreation Center. $5 per clas...
I like the newly released film "Gangster Squad," which I watched two weekends ago. With all the gunfire and violence, it's probably not one you want to rent for the kids to watch but it makes for a great movie after they've gone to bed. The violence was not too extreme even there was gunfire. The movie, based in 1949, tells the story of a secret squad of police officers who fight to take down Los Angeles mob boss Mickey Cohen. The movie is based on real events. A coworker disagreed with me on the movie being good, because it...
The senior high school students of Dora, Elida, Floyd, Faith Triumphant and Portales will leap into the next phase of their lives when they graduate next week. Here are what some graduates have to say about their last few days in school: Jasi Roberts has been attending Dora since she was in kindergarten and will now be graduating in a class of 22 students. Jasi Roberts Roberts played volleyball, basketball, baseball and ran track in addition to participating in the Future Farmers of America and 4-H. Roberts plans to attend... Full story
A person of few words, Sarah Walker's action speaks volumes about her passion to help others. Walker, a special need student at Dora High School, spearheaded her second food drive at Dora schools, collecting 380 pounds of non-perishable goods in four days for the Food Bank of Eastern New Mexico. Walker, 21, has Angelman syndrome, a neuro-genetic disorder that causes developmental delays, particularly in her speech. But those who know her say her disorder has never held her back from doing what she does best, helping those in...
RIO RANCHO — To an outsider, it looks like the Portales softball team has a penchant for sabotage. The best way to explain the Lady Rams this time of year is as follows: They have a flair for the dramatic, and they take a liking to having to save themselves from the predicaments they create. Portales got the Las Vegas treatment on Thursday at Rio Rancho High School, facing West Las Vegas after subduing Las Vegas Robertson 10-0 in their first quarterfinal game of the Class 3A state softball championships. The Lady Rams' f...
Sen. Tom Udall is preparing to take a needed run at cleaning up the horse racing industry by creating a national standard for the use of performance-enhancing drugs in races with interstate simulcast wagering. The Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act would set up a basic framework and then turn over drafting the rules and enforcing them to the United States Anti Doping Agency, an independent organization that polices U.S. Olympic athletes and promotes clean sports competition. The racing industry would bear the costs of...
Humans have always created tools to give them more power than would be available with bare hands. Hammers, can openers, computers, and guns are tools. The state — what most people mean when they talk about the government — is also a tool. Any tool can be used in ways that could be said to be good and bad. However, only one tool — the state — can't be adequately aimed and can never be used without creating victims. Some people compare my desire for the end of the state with the demands of anti-gun advocates for the end of...
Here is a sampling of police, sheriff and fire calls for: Wednesday Caller reported: - 1:33 a.m.: Residential alarm activation, 1700 block of Bingham Stratton. - 6:22 a.m.: Officer requested, 1100 block of Dallas Avenue. - 7:47 a.m.: Animal problem, 800 block of South Main Street. - 8:23 a.m.: Burglary, 900 block of A Avenue. - 10:06 a.m.: Officer requested, 2200 block of South Roosevelt Road. - 1:44 p.m.: Criminal damage, 1000 block of West 14th Lane. - 1:46 p.m.: Warrant service, 1700 block of North Boston Avenue. - 2:42...
SANTA FE — Irrigators, municipalities and industry in parts of drought-stricken eastern New Mexico will be required to install meters on their underground wells to measure water use under a plan by the state's top water manager. State Engineer Scott Verhines said meters must be installed by January in the Fort Sumner Underground Water Basin, which is within a larger area that relies on surface water from the Pecos River. No meters will be necessary for household wells or small wells supplying water for livestock. The m...
