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If you're a pickleball player there's a new place on the Eastern New Mexico University campus where you can "get your game on." The grand opening of the new pickleball courts at ENMU is scheduled for 4 p.m. Wednesday with a ribbon-cutting ceremony hosted by the Roosevelt County Chamber of Commerce. The pickleball courts, located at the ENMU Vetville Recreation Area, were created this spring when two old ENMU tennis courts were renovated into eight pickleball courts, allowing u...
Shots heard in the vicinity of Tenth and Main streets Saturday night brought Clovis’ Draggin’ Main’s “Saturday Night Cruise” event to an early close. Clovis Police Capt. Roman Romero said in an email that there were no injuries from the incident. Officers were called to the scene, where they went on foot pursuit after the suspects. According to the email the officers were unable to positively identify the suspects or make an arrest. Romero said there were no other notable issues with the Draggin’ Main events. Officers we...
I’m not a regular follower of sports, but 50 years ago this month I became a rabid horse-racing fan for at least a season. Perhaps you did, too. It was the spring of 1973 when a thoroughbred superstar named Secretariat blazed into the headlines. He’d go on to win the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness, and the Belmont Stakes that year — setting records in all three that still stand — and capturing the first Triple Crown of horse racing in 25 years. My brothers and I grew up in a...
Longtime area basketball coach Jimmy Joe Robinson passed away at the age of 87 last weekend, and the news has affected many locals that knew and loved him. According to his obituary, Robinson began his career as a coach and teacher at La Casita Elementary in Clovis where he taught 6th grade and coached football, basketball, gymnastics, and track. He then went on to teach other grades and coach other sports at various schools, but it was his coaching career at Clovis High Schoo...
On this date ... 1945: Pvt. Edward Estep, who had been a prisoner of war for 43 days, was at home in Rogers with his wife and young daughter. Estep said he “got along with the Germans pretty well while he was captured but food was scarce,” The Portales Daily News reported. He was recaptured by American forces. 1945: A Bethel boy was killed when he fell off the hood of the tractor his brother was driving and was struck by a rear wheel. Clarence Dwayne Synder, 7, was riding hom...
Curry Residents Senior Meals Association 901 W. 13th St. Clovis Monday: Barbecued country-style rib, baked potato, broccoli, cookie. Tuesday: Chile relleno with queso, Spanish rice, pinto beans, chips and salsa, cake. Wednesday: Meatloaf, mashed potatoes, mixed vegetables, roll with margarine, applesauce. Thursday: Parmesan chicken, green beans, corn with peppers and chile, breadstick, cookie. Friday: Beef enchiladas, Spanish rice, pinto beans, chips and salsa, Jell-O. Baxter-Curren Activity Center 908 Hickory, Clovis...
The books listed below are now available for checkout at the Clovis-Carver Public Library. The library is open to the public, but patrons can still visit the online catalog at cloviscarverpl.booksys.net/opac/ccpl or call 575-769-7840 to request a specific item for curbside pickup. “The Belly of the Whale” by Tenise Cook. This book was given in memorial of Bonita Gail Hill. As a young farm girl, Bonnie, lives through tragedy when her younger brother dies in a fire. Just as Jonah from the Bible did, she learns how to con...
