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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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The De Baca County woman hoping to become New Mexico’s first female sheriff in nearly 50 years has died. Chavez Funeral Home Director Juan Chavez said he spoke with someone at the De Baca County’s Sheriff’s Office early Tuesday night who informed him that Mylessa Denny had died. KOB-TV in Albuquerque reported Denny, 39, was found unresponsive outside of her squad car Tuesday evening in the parking lot of the sheriff's office. The TV station reported the De Baca County deputy was transported to the Clovis hospital where she d...
Staff photo: Tony Bullocks Clovis High senior-to-be Shelby Jones this week committed verbally to play college basketball at Abilene Christian. Jones, a key member of CHS’ 2013 Class 5A state championship squad, averaged 10 points and seven rebounds last season as the Lady Wildcats posted a 29-1 record.... Full story
Staff photo: Kevin Wilson Hector Mellecio splits the defense of Joe Romero, left, and Isac Maes during a pickup soccer game on Tuesday at Yucca Middle School. The players had a pickup-game of 3-on-3 with no goalies and youth nets prior to scrimmages later in the evening.... Full story
link _ Staff writer [email protected] Dominos employees were in for a surprise Tuesday morning when a pickup truck crashed through the front doors of the building shortly before the lunch rush and came to a stop in front of the ordering counter. Susan Guidry, 54, of Clovis, was behind the wheel of the white Ford pickup along with her 29-year-old daughter, 8-year-old granddaughter and 16-month-old grandson. Guidry said she tried to apply the brake several times and even went as far as attempting to put the truck into park... Full story
link _ Staff writer [email protected] The field at Yucca Middle School is green, the kind of green that means either a healthy rain or an astronomical water bill. Flip-flops and casual shoes are traded for cleats, as dozens of Clovis Wildcats hopefuls take the pitch twice a week. Tuesday night was league play night, as it will be on Thursday. Wildcats coach Greg Trujillo mans those, and the Monday/Wednesday/Friday weights and running sessions as well. That’s how the CHS soccer program is spending its July, with a few s...
link ... Sports writer [email protected] Two of the top returning players on the Clovis High girls basketball team now know where they’ll be playing in college. Senior-to-be post Shelby Jones made a verbal commitment to Division I Abilene Christian this week, joining classmate Danni Williams, who earlier this summer committed to Texas A&M. Players cannot sign national letters of intent until November. Jones, a 6-foot post, helped the Lady Wildcats win the state Class 5A championship two years ago and post a 29-1 record l... Full story
Staff report The rainfall from Monday night’s thunderstorm brought Portales to above average in the historical year-to-day, according to Chris Luckett, meteorologist from the National Weather Service in Albuquerque. Portales’ year-to-date rain total is 7.03 inches as of Tuesday said Luckett. “For this month it is a little bit above normal,” Luckett said. Monday’s storms brought 0.83 inches to the Portales area, but Clovis saw 1.05 inches of rain according to Luckett. Portales and the surrounding areas may see more rain toda... Full story
Senior writer [email protected] Roosevelt County commissioners tightened the terms of inmate housing agreements with other counties but failed to take any action at their Tuesday meeting in response to the July 2 escape of an inmate during work detail, the county’s sixth escapee in about a year. Commissioners said they planned to address the escape of Eddy County murder suspect Senovio Mendoza Jr., which left one county employee injured, when they were able to meet. Tuesday they said no action was taken because the i...
link ... Calloway Senior writer [email protected] With gold and chrome-colored shovels in hand, area and state leadership broke ground Tuesday at the construction site for Portales’ new wastewater treatment plant, the largest investment in water infrastructure that the New Mexico Environment Department has made, according to NMED Secretary Ryan Flynn. Construction of the $27 million project will take about a year to complete, but city officials and Flynn threw on hard h...
Today Aerobics — 7:30 a.m., Portales Recreation Center. Information: 356-8598. Kids Tennis Camp — 8 a.m.-8:55 a.m., Portales Rams Tennis courts. For 4-8 year-olds. The camp is free. Information: [email protected] or 760-4151. Kids Tennis Camp — 9 a.m.-9:55 a.m., Portales Rams Tennis courts. For 9-14 year-olds. The camp is free. Information: [email protected] or 760-4151. Preschool Storytime — 10:30 a.m., Portales Public Library. Information: 356-3940. City Pool — 1 p.m.-5 p.m., Portales City Pool. Informati... Full story
Portales police, sheriff, and fire call logs: Caller reported: Monday • 12:16 a.m.: Ambulance requested, 300 block of South Avenue F. • 2:17 a.m.: Fireworks complaint, Boxwood Circle and University Drive. • 3:07 a.m.: Prowlers, 600 block of West 17th Lane. • 7:03 a.m.: Welfare check, 1700 block of North Boston Street. • 7:53 a.m.: Ambulance requested, 700 block of Wylie Cox Circle. • 7:54 a.m.: Fraud, 200 block of West 21st Street. • 8:22 a.m.: Prisoner transport, 1700 block of North Boston Street. • 10:07 a.m.: Animal compla...
link Christina Calloway Staff columnist In the great debate of which domesticated furry friend is the best, I’ve always been a sucker for a pup. I used to beg my mom daily for a dog when I was a child. I wanted to wake up one Christmas morning and see a Lab with a red bow around its neck under the tree. It didn’t exactly play out that way, but we finally wore my mom down in high school when a rescue came to our door. Before then, I resorted to playing with neighborhood dog...
Portales City Council Here are three things you should know about Tuesday’s Portales City Council meeting: • Council approved Mayor Sharon King to sign a cooperative agreement with the New Mexico Department of Transportation for fiscal year 2014-2015’s local government road fund. John DeSha, public works director, said Portales was awarded, $56,197, which the city will match by 25 percent. The city’s match is $18,732. DeSha said the city will repair 18th Street from U.S. 70 to Avenue O by performing pavement rehabil...
Staff report Eastern New Mexico University quarterback Jeremy Buurma is one of 182 college football players nominated for the 1014 Allstate American Football Coaches Association Good Works team. Buurma, a Las Cruces High graduate who will be a redshirt junior in the fall, was recognized for community service accomplishments including organizing and instructing a four-week youth football camp for Portales City Sports, raising money for St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital through the Up ’Til Dawn program and volunteering with youth...
Staff report Eastern New Mexico University quarterback Jeremy Buurma is one of 182 college football players nominated for the 1014 Allstate American Football Coaches Association Good Works team. Buurma, a Las Cruces High graduate who will be a redshirt junior in the fall, was recognized for community service accomplishments including organizing and instructing a four-week youth football camp for Portales City Sports, raising money for St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital through the Up ’Til Dawn program and volunteering with youth...
No wonder there is joy on Wall Street, where the Dow Jones industrial average has traded above 17,000 for the first time. On Main Street, however, the mood is not yet joyous. Issued on the stock market’s last trading day before the Fourth of July, a stronger-than-expected U.S. jobs report calmed worries about the economic recovery. To be sure, there was good news in the numbers. Robust hiring in June helped to drive the unemployment rate down to 6.1 percent, the lowest since September 2008 when the Great Recession burst t... Full story
No wonder there is joy on Wall Street, where the Dow Jones industrial average has traded above 17,000 for the first time. On Main Street, however, the mood is not yet joyous. Issued on the stock market’s last trading day before the Fourth of July, a stronger-than-expected U.S. jobs report calmed worries about the economic recovery. To be sure, there was good news in the numbers. Robust hiring in June helped to drive the unemployment rate down to 6.1 percent, the lowest since September 2008 when the Great Recession burst t...
link Tom Philpott Military Update The Defense Health Agency, relying on medical laboratory experts and existing authority to conduct medical “demonstrations,” will restore TRICARE coverage this month for up to 40 genetic tests used in patient care. Many of these laboratory-developed tests — also called molecular pathology tests — are viewed as medically necessary. But TRICARE had stopped reimbursing for more than 100 such tests in January 2013, believing it lacked authori... Full story
Staff report As Event Coordinator Selmus Price ties up the loose ends for the 2014 Ethnic Fair, set to take place at 11 a.m. Saturday at Hillcrest Park, there’s one final step that only community members can complete. Clovisites must make it known if they intend to participate in one — or several — of the fair’s events. During the Cultural/Ethnic Affairs Committee meeting Tuesday afternoon at Clovis Community College, Price noted that the last day to turn in an entry form to participate in the fair’s talent show is today. Th...
link Tom Philpott Military Update The Defense Health Agency, relying on medical laboratory experts and existing authority to conduct medical “demonstrations,” will restore TRICARE coverage this month for up to 40 genetic tests used in patient care. Many of these laboratory-developed tests — also called molecular pathology tests — are viewed as medically necessary. But TRICARE had stopped reimbursing for more than 100 such tests in January 2013, believing it lacked authority to pay for them when such tests are ordered by civi... Full story
link Kevin Wilson Staff columnist Getting on the Internet every morning is a little wierder this week, and many of us couldn’t be happier. Monday saw the world premiere of the video for “Tacky,” the first song on “Weird” Al Yankovic’s new album, “Mandatory Fun” and a parody of the Pharell Williams “Happy” song that is upbeat but sometimes induces head scratching. Mr. Williams, what does a room without a roof feel like? I’d say incomplete, poorly engineered, or target...
link Kevin Wilson Staff columnist Getting on the Internet every morning is a little wierder this week, and many of us couldn’t be happier. Monday saw the world premiere of the video for “Tacky,” the first song on “Weird” Al Yankovic’s new album, “Mandatory Fun” and a parody of the Pharell Williams “Happy” song that is upbeat but sometimes induces head scratching. Mr. Williams, what does a room without a roof feel like? I’d say incomplete, poorly engineered, or target...
link _ 27th Special Operations Wing Public Affairs The Community Center at Cannon Air Force Base is more than the base’s home for opportunities to get creative, relax and meet with friends — it’s a gathering space for like-minded people. For one weekend, that space expanded all the way out to Albuquerque. Early on Saturday, June 28, several regulars of the Community Center packed into a van on a Community Center-sponsored trip to the Albuquerque Comic Expo. ACE, a conve...
