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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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PNT staff writer [email protected] Grade school students from across Roosevelt County aimed for gridiron glory Saturday as Portales City Sports kicked off their youth tackle football season at the Portales Junior High football field. link Eric Norwood Jr.: Portales News-Tribune Panthers running back Cutter Watson, 9, fights for extra yards as Packers defender Brayden Hoover, 9, makes the tackle. “I was pretty much born a football fan so I’m ready,” said Alex Cleveland, 9,...
PNT senior writer [email protected] Dairymen felt their input wasn’t heard before, but earlier this week the New Mexico Water Quality Control Commission voted to set a hearing in March 2014 to give them a platform to voice their concerns regarding groundwater discharge rules that affect them. link File photo Local dairymen said they are looking forward to an upcoming hearing in March that will allow them to voice their opinions about state groundwater rules placed on t...
The furor of lawsuit threats, animal rights terrorists, gesticulating celebrity actors and ex-politicians traveling the countryside like Barnum and Bailey is finally bringing out those who really have something at stake in the Wild Horse/Domestic Horse slaughter issue. It is easy for a movie star or politician or animal rights advocate to fall under the trance that horses live forever and eventually go to horse heaven, because that is about as deep as they think. Their weak so...
Portales police, sheriff, and fire call logs: Thursday Caller reported: • 10:09 a.m.: Stray dog, 1600 block of East Brazos. • 10:11 a.m.: Cat in a trap, 600 block of East Lime. • 11:00 a.m.: Cat in a trap, 2200 block of South Avenue I. • 11:20 a.m.: Requested animal control for stray kittens, 100 block of South Globe. • 11:32 a.m.: Barking dog, 100 block of North Boston. • 3:22 p.m.: Suspicious activity, 1100 block of West Fir. • 3:52 p.m.: Suspicious activity, 500 block of South Roosevelt Road V. • 4:34 p.m.: Animal pr...
Monday Aerobics — 7:30 a.m., Portales Recreation Center. $5 per class, $25 per month or $75 for one year. Information: 356-8598. Step aerobics — 4 p.m., Portales Recreation Center. $5 per class, $25 per month or $75 for one year. Information: 356-8598. La Escalera Art Guild meeting — 6:30 p.m., Golden Acres Hospitality Room. Information: 607-5054. Tuesday Books N Babies — 10:30 a.m., Portales Public Library. “Autumn Air” will be featured. Open to children ages 0-3. Information: 356-3940. Constitution Day — 12:30-2 p.m., ENMU...
Roosevelt County The Roosevelt County Road Department is working on SRR 6 from SSR L to SRR N, preparing the sub-grade for caliche base. Be cautious in this area, and watch for road construction workers and slow moving heavy equipment. Roosevelt County Road Department is also shredding vegetation in bar ditches and doing routine maintenance throughout the county on a continual basis. For additional information, contact the County Road Department at 575-356-5942....
The Dora Coyotes led start to finish on Saturday and rolled to a 64-22 victory at Vaughn in 6-man football. The win lifted the Coyotes to 2-1 for the season, while the Eagles are also 2-1. “The kids didn’t play bad,” Dora coach Mason McBee said. “We’re still waiting for aboutfour kids to come back, but we played a pretty good game today without them.” The Coyotes have two players nursing ankle injuries, another trying to gain eligibility after transferring and a fourth who has been sitting out due to medical concerns. D...
Portales High’s District 2/1A-3A boys and girls soccer matches scheduled for Saturday against St. Michael’s were postponed due to heavy rains in the Santa Fe area on Friday. Lady Rams coach Sara Vasquez said the teams are working on a makeup date, although it likely will have to be on a weekday with no common Saturday’s available. The PHS girls host Clovis in a 5 p.m. match on Tuesdsay. Both squads are scheduled to host Santa Fe Prep on Saturday....
There’s a song by Alan Jackson that poses a question; whether we’ve heard the song or not, and most of us probably have, the question is one we’ve all asked: What did you do when you were made aware of the events that transpired on Sept. 11, 2001? I was, personally, nowhere that I would have expected to be, six months prior to that. I was recovering from cancer surgery and, just released from the hospital, resting in my parents’ home in western Pennsylvania. My mom came in...
CMI staff link Alejandro Rodriguez A tip to Crime Stoppers has ended with the capture of a murder suspect and fugitive who was the subject of a manhunt in Texas and eastern New Mexico. A deputy at the Parmer County Sheriff's office confirmed Alejandro Rodriguez, 20, was caught Friday by U.S. Marshals at a motel in Potter County. He was in Potter County's jail awaiting transfer to Harris County, Texas, to face murder charges. Rodriguez was named a suspect in the Aug. 28...
CMI sports writer [email protected] link JOSHUA LUCERO: PNT correspondent Greyhound running back Jordan Wells tries to avoid the grasp of Sul Ross junior Earl Hines in the second quarter of the Greyhounds game against the Sul Ross Lobos Friday afternoon at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. Josh Lynn admitted to some concern after his Eastern New Mexico University football team fell behind by two scores against Sul Ross State early in the second quarter of Friday’s m...
Preschool education is a smart investment for the future. That’s true whether it’s made by the federal government, states or parents. U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan brought the federal proposal — Preschool for All — to Santa Fe earlier this week. President Barack Obama suggested $75 billion toward preschool education in his State of the Union address, although it’s hard to predict whether Congress will include it in the final 2014 budget. Republicans don’t like that Obama wants to fund preschool by raising the...
The only times I have considered homicide is when the “wireless generation” continues texting, emailing, Yelping, Instagraming, Facebooking, tweeting, etc., while I’m conversing. If tried by a jury of my rotary-dial peers, I am confident I would be acquitted on the grounds of justifiable irritation-cide. Misti Wall, Clovis High School graduate and communication consultant in Arizona, would disapprove of my High Plains justice, but understands the impulse. “Never underestimate the value of face-to-face communi...
Jay Miller is a quitter. After just 26 years and 7,200 columns, he’s tacked a “Gone Fishing” sign on his Inside the Capitol column. Jock dads put a little football in their sons’ cribs. Jay’s daddy must have left a tiny typewriter. The column has been a New Mexico institution since the 1940s and, as reported by Jay in his farewell, it was written in turn by Charlie Cullen, Fred Buckles, Bob Huber, Carroll Cagle and Fred McCaffrey. Taking over in 1987, Jay had the longest run of all. Jay’s departure is not a good omen for th...
