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DEPUTY EDITOR [email protected] CLOVIS — Clovis had an off night against Class 4A Portales, but the visiting Rams played so well it’s hard to tell if an “on” night would have made any difference. Save for an early 5-1 deficit in the first set, Portales set the pace throughout and found ways to pull through each time in nailing down a 25-23, 25-17, 25-20 sweep Tuesday night at Rock Staubus Gymnasium. link Staff photo: Kevin Wilson Portales sophomore Lindsay Blakey, left, a...
Staff photo: Kevin Wilson Portales sophomore Lindsay Blakey, left, and senior Kaycee Stone celebrate a block in Tuesday’s match at Clovis. Portales swept the host Lady Cats.... Full story
Staff photo: Matthew Asher Portales’ Saul Fernandez, center, grimaces after missing a penalty kick in the second half. Lovington edged Portales 3-2....
STAFF WRITER [email protected] The Portales Lady Rams got their first home win of the season Tuesday against the Lovington Lady Wildcats with a 3-2 victory. This was the second time that Portales (2-4) has beaten Lovington (1-7), and by the same three-goal margin as well. Rebekah Christensen scored first for Portales in the fifth minute of the game while Briana Simpson would tie the game for Lovington in the 29th minute of the first half. Then the second half started and th...
Staff photo: Matthew Asher Angelina Gallegos (8) and Lillie Saiz (13) congratulates Audrey Christensen (3) on her first of two goals in the second half of Portales’ 5-2 win over Lovington. Christensen would score her second goal about 90 second later....
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STAFF WRITER [email protected] The Portales boys soccer team is still searching for its first win of the season. This time, the 4A Portales Rams (0-5) played a close game with the 5A Lovington Wildcats (7-2), but lost 3-2 at Portales High. The first 60 minutes of the game was basically a carbon copy between the Wildcats and Rams. Marcos Hernandez scored first for Lovington in the 27th minute. He was answered by Portales’ Christian Martinez in the 37th minute of the half. li... Full story
Staff report ALAMOSA, Colo. — Adams State’s Hope Cruz scored an unassisted goal with just over three minutes left Tuesday night to give the Grizzlies a 1-0 win over Eastern New Mexico University in women’s soccer. It was the first win all-time for ASU over the Greyhounds (0-2-1). Adams State outshot the Greyhounds on goal 5-2. Senior goalkeeper Cristina Escobedo made four saves in net for ENMU, while senior Molly O’Connor had two saves for ASU (2-0-1). The goal was the third of the season for Cruz, a junior forward, and cam... Full story
Staff report ALAMOSA, Colo. — Adams State’s Hope Cruz scored an unassisted goal with just over three minutes left Tuesday night to give the Grizzlies a 1-0 win over Eastern New Mexico University in women’s soccer. It was the first win all-time for ASU over the Greyhounds (0-2-1). Adams State outshot the Greyhounds on goal 5-2. Senior goalkeeper Cristina Escobedo made four saves in net for ENMU, while senior Molly O’Connor had two saves for ASU (2-0-1). The goal was the third of the season for Cruz, a junior forward, and cam...
STAFF WRITER [email protected] A variety of Portales community members and Eastern New Mexico University faculty, staff and students can be found every weekday at noon in the Greyhound Arena, where they meet up for an hour to play basketball. Although the number of participants varies each day, eight members met up in the north gym on Tuesday to play with a group that has been going strong for 20 years. link Staff photo: Jackie Johnson ‘Noon-Time Basketball’ group mem...
MANAGING EDITOR [email protected] United Way has kicked off its annual campaign to ask area residents to support local non-profit organizations. But this year, the organization is putting a more personal spin on its efforts by inviting regional residents and business operators into the various non-profits to see how they operate. “I’ve been at United Way for 13 years, and it doesn’t matter how much I really think I know an organization; when you take the time to walk around inside and talk to them, you always learn...
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Staff writer [email protected] Since the Supreme Court ruled it is unconstitutional to ban same-sex couples from getting married, there has been no shortage of opinion floating around, especially in a Kentucky clerk’s office in which a clerk stood firm on her religious convictions and refused to issue marriage licenses to gay couples. Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis, who was held in contempt of court and jailed, was released on Tuesday and ordered by U.S. District Judge David Bunning to not withhold marriage licenses from g... Full story
Good to hear: Good news from the New Mexico Department of Health: Suicide attempts among New Mexico high school students has decreased by 35 percent over the past decade, from 14.5 percent in 2003 to 9.4 percent in 2013. The DOH report “shows that we have made progress, but there is still a lot of work to do,” said Department of Health Secretary Retta Ward, MPH. “It speaks to the success of continuous prevention efforts to reach children and young adults. It also shows more parents, health care professionals, and educa...
On this date ... 1975: Ten of Clovis’ 12 elementary schools were offering kindergarten programs and some city elementary schools were “overloaded,” the Clovis News-Journal reported. “Pupil-teacher ratios are above average at the sixth grade at Cameo and the fourth grades at Lockwood, Ranchvale and Zia,” according to the newspaper. But overall, enrollment in the Clovis public schools was down 154 students from the operational budget’s projected 8,717. 1970: Rich Haman, Brad...
STAFF WRITER [email protected] The originally scheduled 9 a.m. meeting of Roosevelt County assessors was postponed until 3 p.m. when the group requested a recess to review all the numbers regarding the formal adoption of the 2015 tax rates as set by the county commissioner. County assessor George Beggs met with commissioners to discuss the information the department of finance and administration sent. The assessor’s office received the rate notice from the state on Friday and needed to review the report for discrepancies.... Full story
Today • Preschool Storytime —10:30 a.m. at Portales Public Library. Information: 575-356-3940 • Tween Program — 4:30 p.m. at Portales Public Library. Crafting activity for ages 9-12. Information: 575-356-3940 • Saxophonist/Pianist Duo — 7 p.m. at ENMU’s Buchanan Hall. Admission: Free. Information: 575-562-2471 Thursday • Senior class — 2 p.m.-4 p.m. at CSC Senior Meal Site. Topic: Remaining in your home with vision loss. Information: 575-356-8576 • Preschool Storytime —6 p.m. at Portales Public Library. Information: 575-356-...
Siempre pensé que yo era una persona que no se preocupaba por nada. Tuve una mini crisis hace unas cuantas semanas, todo se veía bien y tranquillo así que pronto supe que se aproximaba una crisis y me tomo de sorpresa. La esperaba y no se puede tener una cenal de madurez o una suponen sacudir tu mundo solo te dan una estrujadita. Retrocediendo a 20 anos atrás eran los pequeños golpes que estremecían mi mundo estos días parecen que no hay modo de evitar las cosa que roban...
I use to worry that I didn’t worry enough. I had a mini crisis a couple of weeks ago. Things were going rather smooth and so I knew a crisis was around the corner. It caught me unexpected. I expected that. It’s either a sign of maturity or insanity — take your pick — when things that are supposed to shake your whole world just give you a little jolt. Flash back 20 years and it was the little jolts that seemed to shake up my world. These days it seems to be the little avoidab... Full story
Staff writer [email protected] Since the Supreme Court ruled it is unconstitutional to ban same-sex couples from getting married, there has been no shortage of opinion floating around, especially in a Kentucky clerk’s office in which a clerk stood firm on her religious convictions and refused to issue marriage licenses to gay couples. Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis, who was held in contempt of court and jailed, was released on Tuesday and ordered by U.S. District Judge David Bunning to not withhold marriage licenses from g... Full story
“I’m clear we have a long way to go.” — U.S. Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham, D-N.M., on the Affordable Care Act Five years into the 2,409-page Affordable Care Act, many New Mexicans are still asking where the “affordable” is. As well as the “care.” The controversial act, also known as Obamacare, provided for expanded Medicaid enrollment, established premium subsidies, removed lifetime caps on what an insurer will spend and allowed parents to keep children on their plan until age 26. It was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court i... Full story
“I’m clear we have a long way to go.” — U.S. Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham, D-N.M., on the Affordable Care Act Five years into the 2,409-page Affordable Care Act, many New Mexicans are still asking where the “affordable” is. As well as the “care.” The controversial act, also known as Obamacare, provided for expanded Medicaid enrollment, established premium subsidies, removed lifetime caps on what an insurer will spend and allowed parents to keep children on their plan until age 26. It was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court i...
Did you know that New Mexico has a “space trail?” link Tom McDonald It includes more than 50 specific locations around the state and spans the ages — from a mountaintop called Wizard’s Roost in Lincoln County, where prehistoric New Mexicans aligned stones to the summer and winter solstices, to the Socorro County’s Magdalena Ridge Observatory, one of many modern-day astronomical observatories around the state. You can find New Mexico Space Trail maps at a couple of choice locat... Full story
