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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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PORTALES — A Tyrese Dawson fourth-quarter interception, coupled with a late Julian Tellez field goal, sealed the deal for the Portales Rams in their 24-15 District 4-4A football victory over Ruidoso Friday night. Leading 21-15 with just over seven minutes remaining, the Rams faced a third and 8 from their own 19-yard line, when backup quarterback Julian Urioste took a jet sweep and raced past the first down marker, but fumbled towards the end of the play. Ruidoso recovered t...
On this date ... 1962: Local school children were looking forward to a highly anticipated break as area teachers were scheduled to leave mid-week for the annual meeting of the New Mexico Educators’ Association in Albuquerque. The statewide meeting of teachers and administrators was expected to draw 10,000 to Albuquerque, while giving students a mini-vacation with early release on Wednesday and no school on Thursday and Friday. 1957: An estimated 1,200 people attended two nights of open house at the new building of the P...
PORTALES — Preparation for the 45th annual Peanut Valley Festival has begun, and the 44th iteration isn't even underway yet. "The vendor sign-up process for next year will start before this festival ends. We'll be giving out sign-ups for the next year. That part of the planning and everything is already going," said Roosevelt County Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Karl Terry. The festival will take place from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. today and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, and f...
CLOVIS — To hammer out a joint powers agreement, Curry County has sent two of its commissioners to the table, and asked the city of Clovis to do the same. The main problem, city commissioners said at their Thursday evening meeting, would come with the inevitable deadlocks over how they’d share costs on issues like sanitation, the county jail or the city’s first responders. “What’s the tiebreaker?” Commissioner Tom Martin asked. The commissioners felt the same, agreeing to appoint two commissioners and entertain negotiating op...
CLOVIS — The teenager charged this month with sending threatening messages over social media was ordered Friday back into the Curry County Juvenile Detention Center as she awaits a jury trial next month. The 16-year old was found in violation of conditions of release imposed at an Oct. 5 detention hearing. Following that hearing, she was released into the custody of her mother with a court order to avoid all computer, telephones and other communication devices. Clovis Police arrested her this month following an i...
CLOVIS — If you've ever considered becoming a high school sports official, now would be a good time to start as New Mexico faces a shortage of refs. Varsity football regional assignor David Briseno said he has just two referee crews in the Hobbs, Lovington, Carlsbad and Artesia area when he used to have as many as seven crews in those communities. Basketball referee and New Mexico Officials Association member Drew Hatley said weekly meetings during the basketball season t...
SANTA FE — For the first time in over a month, Clovis High’s football team can go to sleep on a Friday night as the winning team. With Friday's 42-6 rout of Santa Fe at Ivan Head Stadium, the Wildcats snapped their losing streak at three, improved to 4-4, and won their first road game of the season. From the time senior running back Seth Lopez broke loose for a 79-yard touchdown run just inside the seven-minute mark of the first quarter, the Wildcats were off and running. And they kept running ... and running ... and run...
DENTON, Texas — The Eastern New Mexico University woman’s soccer team traveled on the road Friday to face Texas Woman’s. With the Greyhounds trailing 1-0, Ariel Lopez notched the equalizer. Neither team scored in the sudden-death overtime sessions and the Greyhounds posted their fifth tie of the year. The Greyhounds (3-7-5, 2-4-3) fell to a quick 1-0 deficit as Haley Ward scored the first point in the 18th minute for Texas Woman’s (4-7-4, 1-5-3). Throughout the remainder of the first half and a large majority of the second, b...
Tuesday • Clovis Municipal Schools Board — 5:30 p.m. at central office board room. Information: 575-769-4300 Thursday • ENM Water Utility Authority — 1 p.m. at 104 W. Main Street, Grady. Information: 575-935-4262 Friday • Economic Incentive Board — 7:30 a.m. at city hall, Clovis. Information: 575-769-7828 This calendar is a daily listing of area public meetings. To place an item on the calendar, call the newsroom at 575-763-6991 or e-mail: [email protected]...
Today • Flu shot clinic — 10 a.m.-2 p.m. at North Plains Mall. No charge, but bring insurance cards. Information: 575-649-0754 • Halloween Howwwl softball tournament — Midnight-midnight at Guy Leeder Softball Complex, 14th Street, Clovis. Information: Clovis Softball Association on Facebook • Trick or Treat Street — 2 p.m.-5 p.m. at Curry County Events Center. Costumes encouraged. Free admission, but accepting canned foods for food bank. Information: 575-935-7000 • Peanut Valley Festival — 9 a.m.-6 p.m. at Roosevelt Count...
PORTALES — Clovis High and CHS Freshman Academy choirs earned awards at the Southeastern New Mexico Music Educators Association’s Vocal Solo and Ensemble Festival on Thursday at Eastern New Mexico University. CHS soloists Colby Coiner and Lauren Martin and Freshman Academy soloist Mililani Woznik were chosen as “Outstanding” at the event. CHS’ Coquelicott, Xanadu, Falu Mixed and Amaranth Ensembles also earned “Outstanding” honors, along with the Freshman Academy’s Mixed Ensemble. CHS also had 36 first division solois...
