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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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Today *49th annual Peanut Valley Music and Craft Festival – 11 a.m.-5 p.m., Roosevelt County Fairgrounds, 705 E. Lime St., Portales. Free admission. Arts, crafts, food, music, games, live music, dance performances. Information: 575-356-8541 *Fourth annual chili cook-off and second annual dessert bake-off –noon-3 p.m., Living Word Church, 2101 E. 21st St., Clovis. Free to enter. Bring your best homemade chili and dessert. Information: Bonetta Hutson at 575-763-6796 or 575-218-1914 Monday *Opening day for the Celebrate Rec...
A Fort Sumner double-homicide suspect remains in the DeBaca County jail on his attorney’s advice as the two men prepare for the defendant’s preliminary hearing. Kelby Randolph, 53, was scheduled for his pre-trial detention hearing Friday but it was postponed until Tuesday. The Friday postponement was to allow time for Randolph to be assigned an attorney. On Tuesday, Las Vegas attorney Tomas Benavidez appeared in a Google Meets court session as Randolph’s attorney. The two men conferred offline and when they came back, Benav...
After negotiations between the city of Portales and the Roosevelt County Commission reached a stalemate two weeks ago, the county came up with a new plan as to how to proceed at its Tuesday commission meeting. The city and county have been trying to agree on the terms of a joint powers agreement to co-manage a regional dispatch center. A few weeks ago, the city told the county it did not want to have any more meetings and that the county has its final offer. During the discussion at the meeting, Commissioner Tina Dixon said t...
FOOTBALL Prep summaries Friday District 4-6/4A Portales 42, Albuquerque Academy 7 Portales 14 7 14 7 — 42 Academy 7 0 0 0 — 7 Scoring summary First quarter AA — 3 run (kick good) P — Zach Radloff 3 run (Toby Standifer kick) P — Kaidyn Cordova 5 run (Standifer kick) Second quarter P — Tommy Lopez 66 pass from Paxton Culpepper (Standifer kick) Third quarter P — Zane Mayberry 20 pass from Culpepper (Standifer kick) P — Braden Beck 10 pass from Culpepper (Standifer kick) Fourth quarter P — Culpepper 20 run (Standifer kick)...
TEXICO - You kind of know what's coming from the Jal Panthers. It's a matter of whether or not you can stop it. Texico gave the top-ranked Panthers by far their stiffest test of the season on Friday night, but in the end the Wolverines came up short in a 41-35 District 4-2A loss. Senior running back Jacob Lujan and senior quarterback Alexavier Carreon accounted for all of Jal's offense, each rushing for 191 yards. Lujan scored five of the team's touchdowns, and Carreon had the...
PORTALES — Portales High’s volleyball team faced Texico for the fourth and final time this season on Tuesday, with the Lady Rams notching a 25-15, 21-25, 25-20, 25-22 victory at the Ram Athletic Center. It was their third win over the Class 2A Lady Wolverines. Texico (11-6) has suffered half its losses to Portales, winning in the Lady Rams’ Peyton Chavez Classic on Sept. 25 while losing the home-and-home matches and in a tournament at Moriarty on Sept. 3. Junior Olivia Low had a season-best 14 kills and five blocks for Class...
CLOVIS — Clovis High’s volleyball team got itself back in the District 4-5A race on Thursday night. The Lady Wildcats, who dropped their district opener at home to Carlsbad two nights earlier, were solid most of the way through in dispatching Hobbs 25-20, 25-21, 24-26, 25-19 at Rock Staubus Gym. Clovis led the entire first set and most of the way in the final three in leaving both itself and the Lady Eagles at 10-9 overall and 1-1 in district play — one game behind Carlsbad, which swept Roswell High on Thursday night. “I’d...
Monday *City of Clovis Parks, Recreation, and Beautification Committee – 5:30 p.m., North Annex, Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main, Clovis. Information: 575-763-9654 Tuesday *Portales City Council - 6:30 p.m., Memorial Building, 200 E. 7th St., Portales. Information: 575-356-6662 Wednesday *City of Clovis Finance Committee – 2 p.m., Clovis City Hall small conference room, 321 N. Connelly, Clovis. Information: 575-763-9654 Thursday *Curry County Health Council – 12-1 p.m., in-person at Curry County Admin...
Booked The following were booked into local jails (Tuesday - Friday): Clovis • Gregorio Tefoya, 28, shoplifting • Christopher Ramirez, 42, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge • Joel Chavarria, 52, failure to pay fines • Christopher Cline, 25, aggravated stalking • Tyler Perez, 28, probation violation • Vanity Garcia, 31, criminal trespass • Chris DeSantiago, 39, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge • Jesse Aldaco, 43, failure to appear on a felony charge, out of state fugitive • Otis Smith, 29, probation violati...
It’s been two years since a Muleshoe woman was shot and killed hours after she may have witnessed another shooting. Bernadette Vaughn still wants justice for her friend, Jaime Edgmon. “She was a very fun person to be around, a very kind person,” Vaughn said last week on the eve of the anniversary of Edgmon’s death around sunrise on Oct. 13, 2020. Her body was left in an open area near a dairy southwest of Portales off NM 467. Police said Edgmon, 41, had been with Keith Cordova, then 22, and Francisco Bustamante, then 24, tha...
On this date ... 1972: Rumors of bomb scares at Eastern New Mexico University had been “greatly exaggerated,” according to the head of the college’s security force. George Reynolds said ENMU had received only one recent bomb threat. That one had been phoned in to one of the women’s dormitories and, after a search, was “proved fruitless.” Jeane Dixon, an American psychic, had made a prediction there would be “mass murder” on a campus in west Texas or eastern New Mexico. Rey...
Enrollment in Portales Municipal Schools in 2022 is down by about 100 from pre-COVID-19 pandemic levels, Superintendent Johnnie Cain told the district board Tuesday in his monthly report, but the enrollment decline from 2021’s enrollment is only about 40. Cain said small enrollments in sixth and seventh grade are not being compensated by new kindergarten enrollments. “I don’t know why that happened,” Cain said of the drop in kindergarten enrollment. In the past two weeks, he said enrollment had dropped by 15, due to withdra...
It was the “National Weekend of Bigots.” At least, that’s what Ana Navarro called it Monday on “The View.” It was as good a description as any for the soul-draining drumbeat of hate that dominated weekend headlines. You had the Black rapper Ye, nee Kanye West, on Twitter threatening to go “death con 3 On JEWISH PEOPLE” who, he complained, have “toyed with me and tried to black ball anyone who opposes” their “agenda.” Then there was Marjorie Taylor Greene, a white congr...
During the next few weeks, voters will get their first chance to weigh in on the recent rulings by our new Supreme Court, with its 6-3 conservative majority. The unelected and unaccountable justices are not likely to notice or care. They will be too busy reshaping our nation’s laws to fit their religious and political preferences. After ending 50 years of women’s reproductive rights, neutering the Environmental Protection Agency, overturning local gun laws and forcing states to fund religious schools in last year’s sessi...
In past political climates, such an October surprise would be grounds for a serious acknowledgment or resignation by a politician from a race for public office. Unfortunately, we are in the post-Trump era of politics, where a Twilight Zone political theater of the deviant and bizarre has become the norm. Over the past few days, a continual drip of bombshells have roiled Herschel Walker’s senatorial campaign. The Republican senate candidate from Georgia has faced a nonstop o...
Can someone please tell me where anything good is happening in the U.S.? Everywhere you look, America the Beautiful has been turned ugly, weak and troubled. The economy is on the road to a recession – or even worse. Inflation is stuck at over 8 percent a year – with no end in sight. The stock market is spiraling to hell. Interest rates on mortgages have more than doubled in six months. Gas prices are again zooming toward $7 a gallon in California. The prices of lettuce, gro...
At last I’ve seen a political debate where a candidate who swerved to be elusive instead revealed herself with double talk. The dishonor belongs to Democratic Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham. Her least favorite topic is the opaque $150,000 settlement she made with a former aide who accused her of sexual harassment. “We provided absolute disclosure about this issue and provided that information directly to individuals,” Lujan Grisham said during her debate Wednesday night with Republican challenger Mark Ronchetti. That was a mou...
A number of cities have established some sort of safe enclave by resolution or public signage from the local governing body of these cities that purports to show how warm and caring these communities are for groups of people that they consider down-trodden or ill used by society in general. Usually, these resolutions or signs have no mechanism for enforcement, nor do they carry any penalties should a citizen disregard the dictates of the declarations. An example of one such...
Clovis Fire Chief Mike Nolen has a problem. He wants to fill vacancies for positions for firefighters in his department and the response has been slow. "The fire department is in a big hiring situation now," Nolen said. "In a department of 91, I am short 11 people." In his office Thursday, Nolen said he lost four people as they became recent retirees. "We (firefighters) suffer as much as anyone else in the United States when it comes to personnel shortages," Nolen said. Nolen...
Curry County Sheriff Wesley Waller told county commissioners at their regular meeting Tuesday there was no gunfire at the county fairgrounds during a shooting scare August 17 at the county fair. "We could not substantiate that at all," Waller said when he was asked if there was an active shooter at the fairgrounds that night. Waller came in to speak to the matter as events center and fairgrounds general manager K.C. Messick gave his county fair report to county commissioners....
Teresa Leger Fernandez Teresa Leger Fernandez is the incum- bent U.S. Representative in Congress for New Mexico’s Third Congressional District. Leger Fernandez, a Democrat, is seeking her second term in the House of Representatives. Q: Why are you the candidate to vote for? A: I listen and then deliver. I secured $177 million for the Eastern New Mexico Rural Water System Project, pushed U.S. Department of Agriculture to compensate dairy farmers for PFAS contamination, and brought $600,000 to Roosevelt General Hospital. If I...
Although many teachers retired during the COVID-19 pandemic, the state announced last week it has decreased the number of its unfilled teacher positions by 34 percent, according to a release by the Department of Higher Education. This year New Mexico increased its teachers’ salaries and funding for forgiveness tuition debt, which has had an effect on bringing more people into the teaching profession, according to the release. “Under the leadership of Gov. Lujan Grisham, we have seen historic investments in education inc...
ALBUQUERQUE — Sophomore quarterback Paxton Culpepper threw for three touchdowns and ran for another on Friday, helping Portales High open its District 4-4A football slate with a 42-7 rout of Albuquerque Academy. The Rams (7-1 overall) moved into prime position in district play with their final two games at Greyhound Stadium against Bernalillo on Friday night and Lovington on Oct. 28. “Being 1-0 in district is way better than being 0-1,” Rams coach Jaime Ramirez said. “It sets us up in a good position.” The Chargers (5-3) for...
Clovis city commissioners talked about tabling a “sanctuary city for the unborn” ordinance but in the end approved introduction of the ordinance unanimously. Thursday’s action sets the anti-abortion clinic ordinance up for consideration and a vote. After the meeting, Mayor Mike Morris outlined a timetable for the ordinance. “Assuming we can meet the publishing requirements, we will have it back Nov. 3 for consideration for final adoption,” Morris said. Thursday night’s crowd for the special meeting with the single agen...
A majority of almost 12,000 unionized railroad workers voted to reject a tentative labor agreement brokered in part last month by President Joe Biden, the first dismissal by members of a dozen labor groups that must accept the deal or risk a strike. More than 6,600 members of the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees voted against the tentative agreement compared to 5,100 votes in favor, the division of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters said in a statement Monday. The vote results in a “status quo” period in wh...
