Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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CLOVIS — OK, here's where it gets really interesting for the Clovis boys soccer team. Not that it wasn't plenty interesting already. A 13-0 record and No. 4 state Maxpreps ranking sure can't be considered dull. But Tuesday night, the Wildcats finally began their District 4-5A schedule when they hosted Carlsbad at Leon Williams Stadium. Which means the 13-0 record isn't all that important now, at least not according to Clovis head coach Greg Trujillo, who says all that m...
CLOVIS — Beyond the terminology, the offenses and the rotation patterns, volleyball isn’t a complicated game. It’s serving, it’s passing and it’s momentum — and you won’t get the third unless you have the first two. Portales created enough momentum to get a win Tuesday night at Clovis, but the host Wildcats built enough of their own to make the Rams earn it in a 25-19, 25-8, 20-25, 22-25, 15-7 victory at Rock Staubus Gymnasium. “I think we kind of got it in our heads we ha...
At a recent Google Classroom training at Mesa Elementary, something interesting happened. Teachers of younger students are normally not excited about using an online collaborative learning environment like this; understandably, because of the challenge of using with very young children. Not the Mesa K-2 teachers; all were very enthusiastic about this resource and immediately saw great possibilities, discussing ways of incorporating with students and parents. One example, in...
Are things always as they seem? My sister received an e-mail last month from a couple in her church. This email incident answers this question with a “No.” The email read: “We are writing this with tears in our eyes. We brought our family over here to London for a short vacation. “Unfortunately, we were mugged at the park of the hotel where we stayed. All our cash and credit cards were stolen off us but luckily for us we still have our passports with us. “We’ve been to the...
One of the finest of many great gifts my mother gave me when I was just a little guy was reading to me. Most of all, she read me Bible stories. Since I wasn’t a declared English major in my youngest days (that came later), and since Mom was smart, she didn’t, when I was little, read the stories straight from the King James or any other Bible version; she read them from a couple of really good Bible story books. I suspect that she also edited and embellished a bit as she wen...
She was barely 20, a third-year college student, paying for that education by working 7 p.m. to 3 a.m. at a 7-Eleven. After the cop pulled her over on her way home that early morning, he asked her to step out of the car. She wondered if he wanted to inspect a broken tail light. Instead, he instructed her to step inside his cruiser. She was concerned, but compliant. He drove her to the edge of town, parked, and started trying to kiss her and tear off her clothes, putting his...
On this date ... 1983: Katherine Davalos Ortega, a 1957 graduate of Eastern New Mexico University, was sworn in as the 38th treasurer of the United States. "She comes from sturdy pioneer stock, brave people who tackled the wilderness when it was a wilderness, of New Mexico," President Ronald Reagan had said when nominating her. "(A)s treasurer ... Katherine will oversee a budget of $340 million and supervise over 5,000 employees. ... I can't think of a better name to have on...
CLOVIS — Despite its proximity to Halloween and the English translation to, "The Day of the Dead," Día de los Muertos is a story of vibrancy, respect and never forgetting loved ones. As it prepares its rendition of Dia de los Muertos for local and national audiences, the Clovis High School Band extends its own story of uniqueness, work and never being satisfied. October marks performance, or competition, season for the CHS band. It was scheduled to open competition Tuesday nig...
Road work set south of Elida ELIDA — The Roosevelt County Road Department is scheduled to begin work Tuesday on South Roosevelt Road AK south from Elida. “Improvements include patching, minor shoulder repair and a rubberized fog seal application,” according to a county news release. The work will be done for 11 miles on South Roosevelt Road AK between South Roosevelt Road 24 and South Roosevelt Road 35. Officials expect the work will be completed by Oct. 11. — The Eastern New Mexico News Fumes raise student concerns ALBUQUE...
PORTALES — The Roosevelt County Commission unanimously voted to extend the sunset date of the Roosevelt General Hospital gross receipts tax by 10 years during Tuesday’s meeting. RGH Chief Executive Officer Kaye Green said by extending the sunset to July 1, 2047, the hospital can explore 20- or 25-year financing to pay for a new $4.5 million emergency department and new operating rooms. Commissioners Matthew Hunton and Shane Lee were absent. In other business at Tuesday’s meeting (all votes 3-0): • Following an approxi...
CLOVIS — What fees get paid and what fees get waived? The Clovis City Commission plans to vote on answers to those questions Thursday night. The commission is set to hear recommendations from its revenue review committee during the 5:15 p.m. meeting at the North Annex of the Clovis-Carver Public Library. The advisory committee is appointed every two years with the purpose of balancing the value its gives citizens versus the money it charges for services and facilities. Members of the committee for 2018 were Mayor Pro Tem J...
CLOVIS — Mingling with the typical pink hues of a New Mexico sky today will be a preponderance of pink apparel among Curry County employees. That was recommended Tuesday in a commission meeting that heard a proclamation declaring October as Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The state’s Department of Health estimates 1,300 women in New Mexico are diagnosed each year with breast cancer and 240 will die; nationwide the Susan G. Komen Foundation estimates more than 266,000 women and 2,500 men will be diagnosed in 2018, even as mor...
Booked The following were booked into local jails Friday-Tuesday: Clovis • Robert Reavis, 47, criminal trespass • Andrew Jaramillo, 35, parole violation • Naomi Garcia, 30, possession of a controlled substance, probation violation, failure to pay fines • Patrick Trujillo, 30, failure to appear on a felony charge • Robert Lange, 49, probation violation • Rogelio Hernandez, 54, driving while license suspended or revoked • Bernard Parson, 54, failure to pay fines • Joann McClendon, 39, failure to enforce compulsory scho...
LUBBOCK — Pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty Peggy Sue will live forever in rock-and-roll history. The woman for whom the song is named passed away Monday in a Lubbock hospital. Peggy Sue Gerron was 78. The original song, by most accounts, was focused on a girl named Cindy Lou, Buddy Holly’s niece. By the time the record was released on Sept. 20, 1957, it was called “Peggy Sue,” a tribute to the girlfriend of Jerry Allison, one of Holly’s bandmates in the Crickets. Gerron and Allison eventually married, then divorced, but Gerro...
PORTALES — A Portales resident was struck and killed by a train between Main Street and Avenue B about 8:30 Monday night. Jose Lucero was 71. Pauline Ornelas, Lucero’s niece, told The News that Lucero was walking to his father’s house, as he does every day. Ornelas said she did not know what Lucero would have been doing on the tracks, hypothesizing that perhaps he had tripped and could not get back up. She said police told her that he was just lying on the tracks when he was hit. Ornelas said Lucero was retired from his w...
