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RICHARDSON, Texas - Senior Mercy Rotich from the Eastern New Mexico cross country team took home another piece of hardware on Monday as she was selected the 2018 Lone Star Conference Women's Runner of the Year. Rotich was selected as the recipient of the award based on votes from the league's head coaches. She completed a successful senior campaign that included winning the Lone Star Conference Championship, earning USTFCCCA All-South Central Region accolades and was the only...
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado — The Eastern New Mexico women's basketball team jumped up to fifth in the latest D2SIDA South Central Regional Poll that was released on Monday. The weekly poll, sponsored by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) is voted upon by six sports information directors from the South Central region, three of which are from the Lone Star/Heartland Conferences and three from the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference. Eastern received 30 votes, finishing a vote ahead of Black Hills S...
CLOVIS - Blake Muscato didn't see his only field goal of Saturday's overtime thriller against La Cueva. But he sure heard it. The sophomore guard netted 13 points, with seven coming in the extra frame, as the Clovis Wildcats outlasted La Cueva 72-62 in Saturday's home opener to move back over .500 before heading to this week's Albuquerque Academy Tournament. Senior guard Jacob Moon had team highs of 19 points on 7-of-10 shooting and nine boards as the Wildcats (2-1) chipped...
PORTALES - Eastern New Mexico University is set to graduate its largest class for a fall semester on Saturday with 563 students earning degrees. "It's great, I was delighted," said Jeff Elwell, president of the Portales campus and chancellor of ENMU's three-college system. "We made a priority helping students complete their degrees so if I'm correct last fall we graduated 495 and this 563 is tremendous progress and it means the efforts we're making to help our students get...
It was a great start for the Clovis girls basketball team, but not so great a finish. Coming off Friday night's comeback victory over Cleveland, Clovis took the long journey to Espanola Valley, hoping to make it two in a row. But after a strong defensive first half - one in which the Lady Wildcats held Espanola to just 12 total points - the Lady Sundevils erupted for 36 in the second half and outlasted Clovis 48-41. "The wheels fell off in the second half," Clovis head coach...
When Shelden Breshears was introduced on the air this month as the newest member of the KFDA weather team, it came as no surprise to any of us who have known him since he was a tornado-obsessed kindergartener at Dora Consolidated Schools in 2001. Breshears started working with the Amarillo-based CBS affiliate as an intern in the summer of 2016, and currently produces the 6 p.m. nightly news show. He's been a storm chaser - both at heart and in person - since he was just a tot...
If extraterrestrials were to land in our part of the world seeking intelligent life, I often think they’d return to their mothership reporting that none exists. I do not believe extraterrestrials exist, but on this point, I tend to agree with their nonexistent little selves. We pay for little plastic bottles filled up with water most often from municipal water supplies exotic because they are not ours. Refilling a bottle from our own tap is evidently unbearably difficult. W...
Growing up, he was a sack boy at the Capital Food grocery store in Farwell. He delivered newspapers for a while. The 1966 graduate of Texico High School also worked at Fab-Steel in Clovis, and on several area farms before entering the military as a teenager. Fifty years ago today, Harvie Winkles' family learned of his death on a battlefield in Vietnam, near Da Nang. So today is a good day to remember his too-short life. The State Line Tribune newspaper reported he was a Navy...
PORTALES - Dannah Brown, then Roberts, went to work at J.P. Stone Community Bank in Portales back in the 1960s, hired before she had even finished high school. Now after 52 years, she's ready for retirement. "It's time. There's time for everything and it just came about that it seems like the thing to do," Brown said Monday about her upcoming retirement. The bank is set to honor Brown from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Thursday at its main location, 109 E. Second St., coinciding with...
CLOVIS — Let the sun shine: Clovis City commissioners on Thursday will consider purchasing more than 600 acres of land west of Cannon Air Force Base for the development of solar energy and other resources. The request for approval notes a fiscal impact of $1.25 million from the city’s Economic Development Tax Fund for the purchase of about 633 acres belonging to Mr. and Mrs. Sam Snell, according to documents released on the city website in advance of Thursday evening’s commission meeting. “The City has considered acquiring th...
New Mexicans voted Nov. 6 overwhelmingly (75 percent) in favor of Constitutional Amendment 2, establishing an ethics commission to oversee the foxes in the hen house, aka the Roundhouse. That message can’t get much clearer for those representing us in the state Legislature. A 75 percent affirmation loudly states several things to legislators: • we don’t trust you; • we don’t trust you overseeing yourselves; • we want to know that when an ethical violation occurs, someone holds you accountable, other than your buddy sitti...
In announcing that the Archdiocese of Santa Fe would seek bankruptcy protection, Archbishop John Wester said the action would help ensure fair compensation for sex-abuse victims. His office went on to proclaim in a diocesan letter distributed to the faithful at Mass on Dec. 2 that “for over 25 years, the Archdiocese of Santa Fe has been a leader among its peers in addressing sexual abuse of children by clergy.” Wester is correct on the first point, given the number of potential cases pending and others not yet filed. Victims...
The death of former President George H.W. Bush has been met with as much mourning for the gentlemanly politics he practiced as for the man himself. Bush saved incivility for America’s enemies, launching genuine armed hostilities against Manuel Noriega, the gangster head of Panama, and Saddam Hussein, who tried to spread his cruel despotism into neighboring Kuwait. But in politics, Republican Bush fought hard within reasonable limits, as did the Democrats of that time. What happened between then and now? Why, without the e...
“Now the captain, he said to John Henry, ‘I’m gonna bring that steam drill around. I’m gonna bring that steam drill out on these tracks, I’m gonna knock that steel on down, God, God. I’m gonna knock that steel on down.’ “John Henry told his captain, ‘Lord, a man ain’t nothin’ but a man, But before I let that steam drill beat me down, I’m gonna die with a hammer in my hand, Lord, Lord, I’ll die with a hammer in my hand.’” — Lyrics from the folk song “The Ballad of John Henry” as performed by Bruce Springsteen’s “We Shall Ov...
Occasionally I’m asked what I write about. It’s a hard question to answer. Some would say I write about politics, but this isn’t quite right. I don’t care about politics. I want to encourage people to grow beyond politics; to find better ways. Politics seems to be the art of making mountains out of molehills. By “art” I mean in the sense you might call pickpocketing an art; not like the Mona Lisa. Politics is “do unto others before they do unto you.” Life is needlessly complic...
CLOVIS — A Wreaths Across America memorial ceremony is scheduled for 9 a.m. Saturday at Lawn Haven Cemetery, 1601 E. Llano Estacado Blvd., to honor fallen veterans. According to a press release from Clovis Municipal Schools, the Clovis High School Junior ROTC will assist in placing wreaths at the gravesite of local veterans following the ceremony. The 1,600-plus wreaths were sponsored in part by Civil Air Patrol, Boy Scouts of America and Gold Star Moms. The community is invited to attend....
Booked The following were booked into local jails Friday-Monday: Clovis • Tanner Autrey, 25, criminal sexual penetration in the second degree, kidnapping, aggravated battery against a household member • Kerry Crawford, 44, probation violation, failure to appear on a felony charge • Aaron Garcia, 33, receiving stolen property • Roy Tarango, 24, failure to pay fines • Anthony Stubbs, 28, probation violation • Cesar Murillo, 38, battery upon a health care worker, false imprisonment, battery against a household member, dri...
SANTA FE — A more fair shot at an ID: that’s one takeaway from a class action lawsuit settled in August as the state’s Taxation and Revenue Department (TRD) follows through on an agreed-upon public information campaign. On Friday TRD “announced revised regulations that make it easier for all New Mexicans to access New Mexico’s non-REAL ID license, the Driving Authorization Card (DAC), and non-federally compliant ID card,” according to a news release from one of the plaintiff groups in the civil suit filed early this year i...
On this date ... 1929: Legendary cattle rancher, trail blazer and Indian scout Charles Goodnight died at age 93. Goodnight, born in Illinois, told biographers that he took pride in being born at the same time as the Republic of Texas in 1836 and that he "joined" Texas the year before it joined the Union in 1846. The Handbook of Texas reports Goodnight was credited with finding the trail that led to Pete Nocona's Comanche encampment, ultimately resulting in the recapture of...
Some time back we described one of the programs at our middle schools to more effectively connect with students to improve student learning. The program, “Capturing Kids’ Hearts,” uses specific strategies to effectively connect with today’s students. The foundational values the program uses are nothing new: integrity, trustworthiness, honesty, confidentiality, acceptance, joyfulness, loyalty, and service. However, what is new is the manner in which these are explici...
PORTALES - The Portales Municipal Schools Board of Education unanimously approved the purchase of a new activity bus at a price of $174,000 during Tuesday's meeting. Superintendent Johnnie Cain previously told The News that one of the district's buses had a faulty engine and it made more sense to purchase a new bus rather than rebuild the engine. Cain said the new bus would be available within a month, before the spring sports schedule begins in earnest. The board was...
CLOVIS — One thing at a time, then: discussions of adding a Denver route to flights from the Clovis Municipal Airport are on the back-burner for the time-being, officials told The News this week. “We’re still looking at possibly doing that,” said the airport’s manager. “A lot of our efforts and focus have been in getting the defense travel system set up for Cannon Air Force Base to be able to utilize Boutique.” Joshua Matekovic spoke of the recent plane upgrade for Boutique Airlines, which has since June 2014 served Clovis...
Awards from Saturday’s Clovis Spirit Invitational, held at Rock Staubus Gymnasium: Grand champions • Middle school cheer: Yucca • Middle school dance: Gattis • JV/Freshman cheer: CHS Freshman Academy • JV/Freshman dance: CHS Freshman Academy • Varsity cheer: Floyd High School • Varsity dance: Clovis High School By category • Middle school dance, military: Gattis • Middle school dance, open: Marshall • Middle school dance, pom: Gattis • Middle school cheer: Yucca • JV/Freshman pom: CHS Freshman Academy • JV/Freshman hip hop:...
Today • Clovis Planning and Zoning Commission — 3 pm.. Clovis City Hall, 321 Connelly. Information: 575-769-7828. Thursday • Senior Olympics General Meeting — 11 a.m., Friendship Senior Center, 901 W. 13th St., Clovis. Q&A for residents interested in participating. Information: 575-799-6485 • Clovis City Commission — 5:15 p.m., North Annex, Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main St., Clovis. Information: 575-769-7828 Friday • Eastern New Mexico University Regents — 9:30 a.m., Regents Room, ENMU Administration...
Today • Tiny tots — 10 a.m., Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main St., Clovis. Information: 575-769-7840 • Preschool storytime “This is the Polar Express!” pajama party — 10:30 a.m., Portales Public Library, 218 S. Ave. B, Portales. Information: 575-356-3940 • Stitch Addicts stitch group — 1:30 p.m., Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main St., Clovis. Information: 575-763-9687 • Bingo Party — 2 p.m.-4 p.m., Wheatfields Senior Living Community, 4701 N. Prince St., Clovis. Refreshments and snacks available. Informat...
