Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Sorted by date Results 26 - 38 of 38
STAFF WRITER [email protected] For residents and volunteers, the 63rd annual Turkey Dinner and Bazaar at First United Methodist Church represents an opportunity to bring community members together in Staff photo: Kurt Munz-Raper Volunteers for the 63rd Annual Turkey Dinner and Bazaar at First United Methodist Church served community members a Thanksgiving feast Thursday. fellowship. “Last year we served 25,091 people,” said Shelly Atwood, chairman of the dinner. “Al...
Staff report COMMERCE, Texas — The Eastern New Mexico University women’s soccer team hung on for as long as it could on Thursday before the roof gave way a bit. Despite being outshot 24-5, including 16-4 on goal, it wasn’t until Midwestern State’s Destinee Williamson scored a pair of goals in a span of four minutes late in the second half that the third-seeded Mustangs nailed down a 3-0 victory over sixth-seeded ENMU in a Lone Star Conference tournament quarterfinal match. The Mustangs (12-5-2) advanced to a 4 p.m. semifin...
STAFF WRITER [email protected] At Tuesday night’s Portales City Council meeting, councilors scrutinized a resolution for the city to guarantee the payment of loans that the Eastern New Mexico Water Utility Authority has accumulated. ENMWUA Executive Director Justin Howalt and RBC Capital Markets Municipal Finance Department Director Erik Harrigan attended the meeting to present to councilors a review of the resolution, which will not require action until the council’s Nov. 15 meeting. The resolution, according to Howa... Full story
Managing Editor [email protected] A Curry County commissioner is alleging the county manager, county attorney and commission chairman unnecessarily cost taxpayers at least $236,000 more than four years ago. And he says all three should “absolutely” pay with their jobs. Commissioner Chet Spear leveled the allegations on the heels of a state auditor’s report that faulted the county for an improper land swap in 2012. The report, released this week by the county, stated the county failed to comply with state law by not obtai...
Staff Writer [email protected] During Thursday’s regular meeting the Clovis City Commission granted approval of the city taking over fuel operations at the Clovis Municipal Airport. “At the commission meeting on Aug. 8 the commission approved an agreement in principle with Moby, LLC. at the Clovis Municipal Airport,” City Attorney David Richards said as he introduced the particulars of the transaction. “That agreement generally provided the city would assume control of the sale of fuel at the airport, that the city wo...
Staff report Eastern New Mexico University’s basketball teams kick off the 2016-17 season with a trio of exhibition games this weekend. The men’s team takes on the University of New Mexico in a 7 p.m. tipoff tonight at The Pit in Albuquerque. Meantime, the women face Division I Southern Utah at 4 p.m. today in Cedar Park, Utah, and also take on UNM in a 2 p.m. start at The Pit on Sunday. New Mexico’s men opened their preseason schedule on Wednesday with a 113-57 drubbing of new Lone Star Conference member Western New Mexic...
Staff report Eastern New Mexico University’s basketball teams kick off the 2016-17 season with a trio of exhibition games this weekend. The men’s team takes on the University of New Mexico in a 7 p.m. tipoff tonight at The Pit in Albuquerque. Meantime, the women face Division I Southern Utah at 4 p.m. today in Cedar Park, Utah, and also take on UNM in a 2 p.m. start at The Pit on Sunday. New Mexico’s men opened their preseason schedule on Wednesday with a 113-57 drubbing of new Lone Star Conference member Western New Mexic...
STAFF REPORT The Portales Rams soccer team will be asking themselves “What if” for the foreseeable future as they lost in the Class 1/4A to Bosque 4-2 at the Bernalillo Soccer Complex in Bernalillo, N.M., Thursday afternoon, after having left a lot of lingering doubts on the field. Fifth-seeded Portales (15-4-1) got off to a quick start in the match when Omar Nunez took a cross from Jesus Chavez to put the Rams up 1-0 less than five minutes into the game. The No. 4 seed Bosque (12-7-2) would score the equalizer goal to tie th...
ERROR... Full story
STAFF WRITER [email protected] The Portales Lady Rams will not be the defending district volleyball champions this year as their run at the district title ended Thursday night at home in the Class 4-4A semifinal contest that saw the Moriarty Lady Pintos win in four sets 24-26, 25-11, 25-20, 25-14. Staff photo: Matthew Asher Portales’ Lindsay Blakey, 8, and Janae Hale go for a block in the first set of Thursday’s semifinal match against Moriarty. The Lady Pintos won in four...
ERROR...
STAFF WRITER [email protected] Following last week’s comeback victory over Moriarty, the Portales Rams will conclude their regular season tonight in Roswell when they take on their Class 4-4A rival NMMI Colts at 7 p.m. Staff photo: Matthew Asher Running back Darion Ontiveros looks for room while lineman Jeremie Karngbaye clears the way. Ontiveros leads the team with 1,122 rushing yards and 18 touchdowns. Portales faces NMMI tonight in Roswell at 7 p.m. Portales (8-1, 3-0 d...
Clayton (0-8, 0-3) at Texico (3-0, 3-5)When: 7 p.m. in a District 5-3A game. Last week: Clayton lost to Santa Rosa 53-12. Texico won at Tucumcari 35-8. Last meeting: 2015, the Wolverines won at Clayton 20-6. Of note: The Wolverines, winless coming into district play, have already secured the district championship. At this point, they are likely to get a No. 5 seed and a first-round home game in the Class 3A playoffs. “I think we can compete with anybody right now,” Texico coach Ryan Autrey said. … The Yellowjackets have... Full story
