The Eastern New Mexico News - Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities

Baxter Curren Senior Center 908 Hickory St., Clovis Monday: Closed, 4 p.m. social night Tuesday: 8 a.m.-4 p.m. exercise equipment, 8 a.m. quilting, 9 a.m. pinochle class, 10 a.m. beginning line dance, 1 p.m. pinochle, 6 p.m. musical Wednesday: 8 a.m....

The following books are now available for checkout: Clovis-Carver Public Library American Duchess by Karen Harper travels back to 1895, St Thomas Episcopal Church on New York City's Fifth Avenue, where heiress Consuelo Vanderbilt, just 18, has been...

Monday • Memorial Day • Wreath laying — 9 a.m., Roosevelt County War Memorial, corner of Avenue C and South Main, Portales. Hosted by Roosevelt County veterans. Public invited. Information: 575-607-5970 • Memorial Day Ceremony — 10 a.m.,...

It’s the time of year when high school coaches come and high school coaches go. And there have been plenty of comings and goings at Portales High this spring, which will make the Rams’ varsity coaching landscape look a bit different next season....

PORTALES — The Eastern New Mexico University women’s basketball program made it a half-dozen new additions, with junior college transfer Anasha Hurst joining the fold for 2019-20. The signing of Hurst, a 5-foot-8 guard from Kirkwood Community...

• Portales High’s boys basketball program will run its summer camps Tuesday through Thursday at the PHS gym. Boys entering grades 1-6 will go from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., while boys in grades 7-9 will go from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Registration is $50...

Clovis’ track and field season is over. But the results of it will go on and on and on. The Wildcats’ track and field season officially ended May 18 at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque when the Clovis boys finished second in the state...

KINGSVILLE, Texas — Though Friday and Saturday was time for most people to leave work behind, hit the highways and think about having fun, some Eastern New Mexico track athletes were hard at work. Eastern New Mexico’s 400-meter women’s team...

On this date ... 1969: Clovis police arrested a 45-year-old man and confiscated “various gambling devices” in a “small gambling raid,” the Clovis News-Journal reported. The raid occurred at 320 Upsilon. Police said no one was gambling when...

Tuesday • Clovis Municipal Schools board — 5:30 p.m., Board Room, CMS administration building, 1009 Main St., Clovis. Information: 575-769-4300 • Roosevelt General Hospital Board of Trustees — 5:30 p.m., Fred Anthony Conference Room, RGH,...

CLOVIS — Come this fall, you may notice a few new faces around town surveying Clovis’ roads in search of repair needs. But in all honestly, you probably won’t notice. The Clovis Public Works Committee took in a presentation from...

The following marriage licenses were filed through Thursday at the Curry County Clerk’s Office: • Gary Alex Martinez, 25, and Jasmine Diaz, 24, both of Clovis • Jimmy Ray Patrick Madrid, 30, and Stephanie Marie Marez, 27, both of Clovis ...

One of the few George Carlin albums I don’t own is “A Place for My Stuff.” It’s kind of a surprise because the album’s title track is the one Carlin monologue I think of constantly. “That’s all you need in life, a little place for your...

Few things offend Bernie Sanders as much as people escaping from command-and-control government systems, even minority students whose parents are desperate to get their kids a decent education. The socialist wants to turn George Wallace on his head...

Roswell, New Mexico. 1947. Mention of the place, the year — that’s all it takes. Even those only casually interested in reported UFO phenomena know at least parts of the story that follows. Those for whom the mysteries surrounding UFOs hold more...

Proposed education changes good for NM I would like to profess my support for the recent educational changes initiated and proposed by the governor and New Mexico’s Public Education Department. We finally have leadership in place that are looking...

It’s been a few years since he’s been in the public spotlight, but it seems John Harris can still hit a ball a long way. The 1973 Clovis High School graduate is best known for his professional baseball career, which included three seasons with th...