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Clovis Municipal Schools are reporting Secure and Move mode at Gattis, Marshall and Yucca Middle Schools has been lifted following an investigation by law enforcement which has concluded threats posted to social media are unsubstantiated. At approximately 10 a.m. Friday, Gattis, Marshall and Yucca Middle Schools were placed in ‘Secure and Move’ due to a threat posted on social media. Though the Secure and Move has been lifted, a law enforcement presence will be continued on the middle school campuses for the remainder of the...
Eastern New Mexico University on Sunday will formally announce five finalists for its chancellor/president position. The finalists are: • Bruno Hicks, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Dalton State College • James Johnston, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Midwestern State University • Gary Ligouri, Founding Dean, College of Health Sciences, University of Rhode Island • Larry Sanderson, Vice President of Institutional Research and Accreditation, New Mexico Junior College • James Williams, Senior...
MONMOUTH, Ore. — After a long scoring drive early, little went right on either side of the ball for Eastern New Mexico University’s football team on Saturday. Senior running backs Omari Land and Andrew Valladares each ran for two touchdowns and Western Oregon dominated the middle two stanzas en route to a 46-7 Lone Star Conference victory. Land finished with 105 rushing yards on 15 carries, including TD runs of 7 yards in the first quarter and 20 in the second, while Valladares notched a pair of 5-yard scoring runs. “We keep...
A news release from Clovis Municipal Schools reports shortly after 12:30 p.m. Thursday, "secure and teach" was lifted at Marshall Middle School. The decision to initiate secure and teach was made after a report that a safety concern had been observed on campus. The campus was secured immediately and law enforcement responded to conduct an investigation. Ultimately the report was determined to be unsubstantiated and the campus was cleared to resume regular instruction. Meal service and additional activities continued as...
Clovis City Commission will soon vote on whether or not to adopt an ordinance that draws a line in the sand between the city and the state over abortion rights: The ordinance attempts to ban abortion clinics in Clovis. Laura Wight, a Clovis resident, heads up a social media group of individuals who believe health care decisions should be between patient and doctor. The group, Eastern New Mexico Rising, she said, is a non-partisan progressive group, a non-political group “focused on social justice issues.” The group opposes th...
FOOTBALL Prep standings New Mexico All Times MDT District 5-6A Dist. All W-L W-L Los Lunas 3-0 5-4 Clovis 3-0 3-6 Santa Fe Capital 1-2 4-5 Albuquerque High 1-3 2-7 Santa Fe High 0-3 1-8 Thursday’s result Clovis 40, Santa Fe Capital 6. Friday’s result Albuquerque High 28, Santa Fe High 0. Thursday’s game Manzano at Albuquerque High, 7 p.m. Friday’s games Clovis at Los Lunas, 7 p.m.; Santa Fe Capital at Santa Fe High, 7 p.m. Regular season ends District 4-6/4A Dist. All W-L W-L Portales 2-0 8-1 Lovington 2-0 3-6 Albuque...
“When the time had fully come, God sent his Son” — Galatians 4:4 Ten words in English. Thirteen in Greek. Packed full of enough wonder to fill the universe. I’m baffled by even the first phrase, and that’s the easier part. A quick Internet search for “discerning the times” (it has a religious/biblical connotation) turned up a few good articles on plotting a wise course in our lives and culture. I should also report that the majority of articles the search brought up di...
Booked The following were booked into local jails (Friday - Tuesday): Clovis • Isaac Castillo, 35, failure to pay fines • Gerardo Marquez, 38, possession of a controlled substance, second degree murder • Shane Medina, 37, arson, assault with intent to commit a violent felony • Richard Gonzales, 36, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge • Ruben Stickel, 35, probation violation • Alden Begay, 28, battery against a household member, resisting, evading or obstructing an officer • Stanley Burgess, 53, driving under foreign...
PORTALES — The scoring struggles continued for the Eastern New Mexico University men’s soccer team on Saturday, but if nothing else the Greyhounds made rival West Texas A&M work for the win. Senior midfielder Kenny Brown found the back of the net in the 71st minute to break a scoreless tie, and the Buffaloes went on to a 2-0 Lone Star Conference victory at Greyhound Stadium. It was the fifth loss in a row for the Hounds (4-8-1, 1-6-0 LSC), all by shutout, since they edged then No. 8 Midwestern State 1-0 at home on Oct. 5 to e...
RICHARDSON, Texas — Eastern New Mexico University’s women were picked 10th while the men came in 15th in preseason Lone Star Conference basketball polls released on Monday by the league office. Seventeen LSC schools have basketball, with Dallas Baptist competing on the men’s side and Texas Woman’s on the women’s side only. While the polls reflect 1-through-16 finishes, the conference will actually have two eight-team divisions, with each squad playing home-and-home against division foes and once against each team on the ot...
There are any number of examples to illustrate the gross ineptitude and coaching malpractice of the Texas Tech defense over the last dozen years. All speak to the horror show that was a Saturday staple. There were the six different defensive coordinators in seven years, lowlighted by Matt Wallerstedt’s midseason firing in 2014, canned because his off-the-field issues were somehow worse than his on-field issues. Mike Smith, his interim replacement, later accused Wallerstedt o...
FORT SUMNER — Melrose’s fast start faded on Friday night and Fort Sumner rallied for a 34-24 victory in the deciding game of 8-man District 3 football. Fort Sumner (8-0, 4-0 district) earned the No. 2 seed on Sunday in the eight-team, 8-man playoffs, and will host Clayton in a quarterfinal game on Friday night. Meantime, the Buffaloes (6-4, 3-1) claimed the No. 3 seed and welcome sixth-seeded Logan at 6 p.m. on Friday. If both higher seeds win as expected, a rematch would take place in next week’s semifinals at Fort Sumne...
CLOVIS - That Portales High is playing for a district football championship this week isn't all that surprising, and the Rams haven't disappointed. For Clovis High, though, the Wildcats entered District 5-6A play winless in six games. But they've strung together three victories - two of them lopsided - heading into Friday's battle for the district title, and possibly a Class 6A playoff berth, at Los Lunas (5-4, 3-0). First-year Wildcats coach Andrew McCraw has a fairly simple...
CLOVIS — Clovis High’s soccer girls have notched a berth in the Class 5A state tournament — and a home match, no less. The Lady Wildcats (16-4) earned the No. 8 seed in the 12-team 5A playoffs, which were to begin on Tuesday night. CHS was to take on ninth-seeded La Cueva (14-6) at Leon Williams Stadium. The top four seeds in the event were accorded first-round byes. Tuesday’s winner here was to advance to a quarterfinal clash at top-seeded Rio Rancho Cleveland this weekend. Despite losing a tiebreaker with Hobbs for the Dis...
Clovis Community College will be getting a grant for $27,000 to help students in need with food. The money comes from a portion of $900,000 New Mexico Higher Education Department (NMHED) has awarded to colleges and universities across the state to ensure that students have adequate food and nutrition to succeed in school, according to a news release from the NMHED. The agency’s Student Food Security Grants were awarded to Clovis Community College’s “CCC Campus Cabinet” and 14 other campus-based student food security project...
For 86 years there has been at least one member of the Morgan family selling real estate in Portales, but come Monday, that will no longer be true. Hubert Morgan, Jr. — known to many as “Scoot” — holds the last family license and it expires at the end of the month. “I’m done,” he said. “I’ve enjoyed it. I’m not tired of it. I just can’t keep up.” Morgan, who turned 80 in September, said he didn’t grow up intending to be a Realtor, but he’d been around it all of his life....
I was disappointed to learn that filmmakers plan to resume production on “Rust,” and urge state regulators to keep a much closer eye on that set this time. I can’t imagine why anybody would want to see the film now, other than for morbid curiosity. Every time there is a scene where an actor pretends to get shot, viewers will know that a real person was shot and killed during filming. Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was shot by the film’s star and producer, Alec Baldwin, who believed he was firing a prop gun loaded with bl...
It might surprise you to learn this, but I don’t like change. Well, that’s not completely accurate: I don’t like pointless change. I have tolerated uncomfortable situations simply to avoid the pain of going through a change I couldn’t see as improving anything. However, if something is broken and I can see a solution, I want to change it. This is why I try to save people from their addiction to political government and all its various manifestations, such as police, taxatio...
Earlier this month, the New Mexico 30 by 30 Committee, an advisory group that is working on Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham’s 2021 executive order to conserve New Mexico lands, announced a request for public feedback on definitions of conserved lands. The goal is to conserve 30 percent of all lands in New Mexico by 2030, with an additional 20 percent of lands designated as climate stabilization areas, as stated on the www.emnrd.nm.gov website. “These definitions are important because they will help with baseline ass...
PORTALES — A Portales man, in an agreement in federal court, has pleaded guilty to production of child pornography. Augustin Gallegos, 37, faces 18 to 23 years in prison when he is sentenced in January, according to a news release from U.S. Attorney for the District of New Mexico Alexander M.M. Uballez. Gallegos must also register as a sex offender. Court records show from about March 2018 to May 2019 Gallegos “knowingly persuaded, induced, enticed and coerced a child, identified as Jane Doe, approximately nine years old,” to...
Portales – Eastern New Mexico University has been awarded $749,976 over three years as the lead institution on a grant from the Department of Energy. The grant is for research on the use of carbonyl as an infrared reporter for probing the nature of charges in donor-acceptor type conjugated molecules. According to a news release from ENMU, Juchao Yan of Eastern New Mexico University, the principal investigator, who is a professor of Chemistry, and the Chair of Department of Physical Sciences heads the team with two c...
It’s been 30 months since Jeff Elwell officially and mysteriously resigned as chancellor at Eastern New Mexico University. The search for his long-term successor has been just as mysterious with allegations of impropriety coming from a regent early in the process. And last week it became stranger still. Five “finalists” for the job were selected by a search committee, but taxpayers still don’t know who they are. Secret keeping at ENMU in 1988 helped lead to a new state l...
The border towns of Texico and Farwell are seeing new businesses built and proposed, based partly on laws that went into effect this year that make once-forbidden consumable products legal for sale and use. In May, voters in Farwell approved alcoholic beverage sales inside city limits. Since then, four businesses have obtained liquor sales licenses from the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission for sites in Parmer County: Lowe's grocery, Allsup's convenience store, Annie and...
Halloween, Oct 31, is on a Monday this year. A check with local authorities such as Clovis Police Chief Roy Rice indicates it’s understood Monday night is the night for trick-or-treating. There are also a number of Halloween activities planned leading up to Monday. Friday from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. the Roosevelt County Chamber of Commerce is inviting people to join them in downtown Portales for what they are calling “safe trick-or-treating” with businesses getting together for the event. Saturday at the Curry County Event...
The city of Clovis has agreed to lease about 642 acres of land south of U.S. 60 off of Curry Road 9 to a large solar farm developer. The property is adjacent to the city landfill, said Hillel Halberstam, managing member of SynerGen Solar, a solar development company headquartered in Baltimore, Md. Clovis, LLC is the wholly owned subsidiary the company created for this project. “(SynerGen Solar) is focused on developing community solar and utility-scale solar projects in the mid-Atlantic and other select states n...
