Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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FOOTBALL Prep 6-man All-District 2 Offense Clovis Christian: Noah Gershon, Jaden Martinez, Carter Teune. Elida: Jesse Woodruff, Mason Pritchett. Floyd: Ricky Ramirez. Gateway Christian: Jace Worley, Hurley Breedyk, Haden Wigley, Luke Tipton, Caleb Bogle, Barton Pieratt. Defense Clovis Christian: Noah Gershon, Jaden Martinez, Carter Teune. Elida: Jesse Woodruff, Payton Calloway. Floyd: Ricky Ramirez. Gateway Christian: Jace Worley, Hurley Breedyk, Hayden Wigley, Ethaniel Wigley, Caleb Bogle, Barton Pieratt. Honorable mention...
BOVINA — Texas area girls prep basketball teams continued their solid starts to the season over the weekend, with Bovina and Muleshoe improving to 3-0 while Farwell posted its second win in two starts. After giving up 21 second-quarter points, Bovina found itself trailing 30-24 at halftime at home on Saturday. Then the Fillies stormed back with a 27-7 third-quarter surge to down Anton 63-44. Junior Alyssa Martinez led Bovina with 14 points, while also reaching double digits for the Fillies were Makaylah Luna with 11 and P...
DALLAS — West Texas A&M’s Hannah Kelley-Lusk added more Lone Star Conference accolades to her resume Thursday, taking the conference’s player of the year and forward of the year awards. The 46 all-conference student-athletes were selected by LSC head coaches with total selections based on each team’s division finish, while individual awards were selected by division following a vote of the league’s head coaches. Regular-season champion Dallas Baptist posted nine total selections, including five first-team choices and two m...
PORTALES — Results were mixed over the weekend as Eastern New Mexico University’s basketball teams opened the 2021-22 season in the LSC/RMAC Conference Challenge. ENMU’s women won both of their contests at Western New Mexico University in Silver City, while the men dropped a pair of hard-fought decisions at The Pit on the campus of the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. Both teams have new coaches this season — Meghan De los Reyes for the women, Brent Owen for the men. The women, who thumped Fort Lewis 76-57 on Friday,...
PORTALES — With a spot in the Lone Star Conference tournament on the line, Eastern New Mexico University’s volleyball team took care of business on Saturday with a 27-25, 25-18, 25-18 victory over Texas Woman’s at Greyhound Arena. ENMU (7-18, 7-10 LSC) won for the sixth time in nine matches. The Greyhounds earned the No. 11 seed in the tourney — the top 12 of 18 teams in the conference qualify — and they get a rematch of Friday’s five-set home loss to Dallas Baptist, this time on the Lady Patriots’ home floor. The top four...
HOBBS — Clovis High’s swimmers posted team sweeps on Saturday in Hobbs’ 14-team Tori Invite. The Wildcats finished with 125 points to 108 for Hobbs on the boys’ side, while the Lady Wildcats scored 129 points and ran away with girls competition, 53 points ahead of runnerup Las Cruces. “I didn’t ease up on them as far as training goes this past week, so the fact that we were able to win on both sides was a huge surprise,” CHS co-coach Gordy Westerberg said. “Our young swimmers are getting better every week.” CHS squads are bac...
RIO RANCHO - Melrose captured its second Class 1A volleyball championship in seven months on Saturday with a 25-13, 25-17, 26-24 victory over Gateway Christian at Rio Rancho Events Center. Melrose also downed Gateway Christian in the 1A championship match in April during a season delayed and compressed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The top-seeded Lady Buffs, who finished this season with a 25-1 record, didn't lose a set during the tournament that also included wins over...
COMMERCE, Texas — Eastern New Mexico University’s football team was battling Texas A&M-Commerce on relatively even terms early Saturday — maybe even outplaying the Lions to some extent. Then a 73-yard fumble return for a score by Commerce junior defensive back Cedric Wilcox III three minutes into the second stanza broke the scoring ice, and the Greyhounds were fighting uphill from there. Commerce, a charter member of the Lone Star Conference, ended its stay in football in the LSC and in NCAA Division II on Saturday with a 30-...
MULESHOE — Muleshoe’s football team has put together a four-game winning streak to get above the .500 mark. Now the Mules (6-5), whose late-season run lifted them to second place in Texas Class 3A Division I District 2 and before beating Brownfield 21-17 last Thursday in the bi-district round, face a tall order in their bid to stay alive in the postseason — an area-round date with defending champion and second-ranked Jim Ned (11-0) at 3:30 p.m. (CST) on Friday at Lubbock’s Lowery Field. Mules coach Jason Richards knows his te...
On this date … 1961: Portales consumers were cutting back on cigarette purchases … maybe. The Portales News-Tribune reported tax on cigarette sales had been dropping dramatically in recent months. If the city tax revenues were reflective of cigarette sales, “10,000 fewer packs of cigarettes are being smoked each month in Portales,” the paper reported. The state had recently increased cigarette taxes by 3 cents per pack, which may have inspired smokers to cut back, the paper r...
Booked The following were booked into local jails (Friday-Tuesday): Clovis • Eduardo Garay-Salomon, 21, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge • Brian Sizemore, 37, escape or attempt to escape from peace officer, resisting, evading or obstructing an officer, probation violaton • Isaiah Carver, 28, resisting, evading or obstructing an officer • Cesar Chacon-Rascon, 22, aggravated battery • Charles Kirven, 35, driving while license suspended or revoked • Olegario Morales, 23, failure to pay fines • Stacy Chacon, 36, aggravate...
CLOVIS — The New Mexico Economic Development Department officially announced a Local Economic Development Act infrastructure grant to the City of Clovis to extend its water system to the Clovis Regional Airport. The $2.135 million grant — announced in a Friday release from the department — has been discussed over the last few months in public meetings, including the Clovis City Commission and the Eastern New Mexico Water Utility Authority. The airport currently operates its own water system, and the grant would extend the s...
A total of 47 students from three area schools were selected as part of the 2022 All-State Choir Ensemble by the New Mexico Music Educations Association following auditions last month, according to an NMMEA release. Students prepared a solo and audition piece, as well as sight-read in front of an adjudicator. Selection was based on the student's overall score from the auditions. The students won’t have to go far to perform, with the NMMEA all-state conference and concert Jan. 8 at Eastern New Mexico University. Selections i...
CLOVIS — Farewell Angelina, a trio of female country music singer-songwriters will perform for the grand opening of the Norman & Vi Petty Performing Arts Center at 7 p.m. Sunday. The performance is a part of the Clovis Community College Cultural Arts Series. Ticket are available for $25 each, and can be obtained by calling 575-69-4031. The Performing Arts Center is located at 206 Main St., Clovis. Other events in the series include: • A Mariachi Christmas, scheduled for 3 p.m. Dec. 12 at the Marshall Middle School Aud...
SANTA FE — The state continued to report more COVID-19 cases from one weekend to the next, with Monday’s report detailing 3,712 new infections between Friday and Monday. The state total includes 22 additional deaths from COVID-19, with none from Curry or Roosevelt counties. Curry County had 51 new cases, and did not reach the top 10 ZIP codes for cases. Roosevelt County reported six cases. The report marks the second-straight weekend of rising case counts, following the Nov. 1 report of 2,630 and the Nov. 8 report of 3,3...
Forget what the polls say. President Biden is getting things done. Some on the left say his accomplishments are too little too late, while others on the right cry socialism and foul play. But let the record show that, so far, Biden’s been an effective leader. In less than a year, he has managed the pandemic and a massive vaccine rollout — not as well as some would have hoped but far more competently than his predecessor. If you ask someone like me — a card-carrying, fully vaccinated recipient of some impressive science — you...
It’s popular to paint the other political side as evil. The people probably aren’t, but their ideas and actions may be. Remember — you are “the other side” to them. Evil isn’t just whatever you don’t like. That would be too easy. Evil is any action that violates someone who isn’t currently violating the life, liberty, or property of another; an act that harms someone who doesn’t deserve to be harmed at this moment. Philip Zimbardo, who became famous for his 1971 Stanford pri...
COVID-19 is a plague on humanity, but it hasn’t been that kind to the planet either. Our efforts to avoid infection led to an unavoidable increase in single-use plastic. Just how much more we are only now starting to grasp. This month a team of researchers from Nanjing University’s School of Atmospheric Sciences in China and UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography published an estimate based on scientific modeling, that 8 million tons of pandemic-related plastic was produced globally as of August. Furth...
TUCUMCARI — A Tucumcari man faces eight felony criminal charges after he was accused of shooting at city police officers Thursday following an attempted traffic stop. Records show the man ordered the driver to keep evading police while children were inside the vehicle. No one was hurt during the confrontation and subsequent arrest. According to online court documents, Lawrence P. Rivas, 26, faces these felony charges: • First-degree kidnapping; • Abuse of a child not resulting in death or great bodily harm; • Two counts...
Although none of us would like to repeat 2020, we did gain some valuable skills in having to learn how to effectively function in a variety of new ways, both in face-to-face (socially distanced) situations as well as in virtual environments. Our technology skills and knowledge blossomed overnight in just about every arena, including our Employee Services Department (formerly known as Human Resources). After returning to a more or less normal working situation, many...
CLOVIS — Local municipalities have partnered to host the inaugural Curry/Roosevelt Counties of Eastern New Mexico Alzheimer’s Walk. The walk is scheduled for 10 a.m.-noon Saturday at the Curry County Events Center. Walkers are asked to wear purple at the event, and encourage others to join. The New Mexico chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association will be offering Alzheimer’s flowers for those walking in honor of somebody or to show support for someone living with Alzheimer’s disease or care taking for somebody with the disea...
CLOVIS - Saturday night, the Days Inn on Mabry Drive played host to a crowd of roughly 200 people at the eighth annual Festival of Trees. The event included an array of appetizers, drinks, desserts, and of course - an auction of beautifully decorated Christmas trees and wreaths. The festival was in support of one important cause - raising money for the Hartley House. Since 1979, the Hartley House has provided help to victims of domestic violence in Curry, Roosevelt and Quay co...
Without a doubt, one of the most entertaining things I did in the last year was serving as a member of the “season selection committee” for Eastern New Mexico University’s Department of Theatre. I bring that up this week because you may have heard the name of the Eastern’s newest production that opens Thursday — “Gruesome Playground Injuries” — and wondered, “Umm, excuse me, what?” I will begin by saying right up front that this show is not for everyone. I will also tell you...
PORTALES - Eastern New Mexico University's Theatre and Digital Filmmaking Department is hoping some dark comedy can be a little relatable to their audiences this weekend. The play, "Gruesome Playground Injuries" by playwright Rajiv Joseph, will be performed in the University Theatre Center at 7 p.m. nightly, Thursday through Saturday and at 2 p.m. on Sunday. Director Ricky Quintana, an instructor at the ENMU Theater Department, said: "It's a dark comedy. We do have laughter in...
Thanksgiving food baskets will be handed out on Friday at the Curry County Events Center that will include a turkey, pie, potatoes and other holiday meal items. Also, on Thanksgiving Day, meals will be served free of charge at the Lighthouse Mission in Clovis and the Memorial Building in Portales. Friday’s distribution of 400 food baskets will begin at 2:30 p.m. at the events center on a first come, first served basis, according to a Curry County government news release. The Curry County Health Council and Mental Health R...
