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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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CLOVIS — In light of a social media post threatening schools across the country on Friday, Clovis Municipal Schools conducted instruction for the entire day in its Secure and Teach mode. The post, which was discovered on the TikTok app and did not originate locally, was referred to the Clovis Police Department as a precaution. A Thursday release from the district announcing the plans noted additional police presence at CMS buildings may take place. Clovis Superintendent Renee Russ said Friday afternoon there were no i...
BASKETBALL Prep summaries Tuesday Girls Levelland 41, Portales 32 Portales (6-2) — Taris Rippee 20, Kylyie Paden 3, Teagan Faust 2, Adrianna Garcia 6, Audrey Paden 1. Totals 10 10-18 32. Levelland (16-2) — Jordan Garrett 5, Myka Graf 9, Laci White 10, Emma Kent 5, Carly Tienda 5, Colbi Barnett 5, Emery Smith 2. Totals 13 13-20 41. Portales 2 7 12 11 — 32 Levelland 12 12 5 12 — 41 3-pointers — Portales, Rippee 2. Levelland, Graf, Tienda. Junior varsity — Levelland 49, Portales 24. C team — Levelland 32, Portales 31. Thursday...
CLOVIS - Amid regular staff shortages and a reduced pool of substitute teachers, the Clovis school board agreed Tuesday to add eight more early-out days to the second half of the district instructional calendar. Mitzi Estes, deputy superintendent of academic services and leadership, told the board at its regular meeting the district has 47 teaching openings with 21 at the elementary level. The extra duties the existing teacher slate is taking to cover those shortages, Estes...
LEVELLAND — Playing the sixth-ranked team in Texas Class 4A girls basketball for the second time in 12 days on Tuesday, Portales High couldn’t overcome a slow start as the Loboettes handed them a 49-42 loss. This one, though, was much closer. Down 24-9 at halftime, PHS (6-2) pulled even 31-31 with about three minutes left before the Loboettes (16-2) used free throws down the stretch to pull away. Levelland beat Portales 69-45 in a game played at Denver City on Dec. 3. “I’m glad we got a chance to play them again and gauge our...
CLOVIS — At least to the average person, Nick Sanchez was hardly noticeable in the first half of Thursday’s boys matchup between Artesia and Clovis High at The Rock. Suddenly, though, the Bulldogs’ junior point guard made a lot of noise. Sanchez scored 16 of his team’s 18 third-quarter points and finished with 22 as Artesia rallied for a 53-48 victory over the still-winless Wildcats. Actually, Sanchez got into a bit of a shootout with CHS senior guard Juan Hernandez, who tallied 10 of Clovis’ 13 third-period tallies....
TEXICO - Tucumcari's girls did all they could to try to stay with Farwell in Friday's semifinals of the Citizens Bank tournament. The Lady Blue simply had too much firepower. Farwell broke away from a 10-10 tie with a 22-5 blitz over the final 9 1/2 minutes of the first half, including five 3-pointers, and pulled away to a 64-42 victory over the Lady Rattlers. Farwell (15-1) was set to face Tohatchi, a 57-29 winner over Tatum on Friday, in Saturday night's finale. Eight...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — New Mexico Military Institute’s football team reached its highest heights Friday, the rank of National Junior College Athletic Conference Division I national champion. The second-seeded Broncos led wire to wire at historic War Memorial Stadium, using a 24-0 first half to take down No. 1-ranked Iowa Western 31-13 and capture its first NJCAA title in program history. First-year Broncos head coach Kurt Taufa’asau was named National Coach of the Year while running back Anthony Grant earned Most Valuable Playe...
CLOVIS — So far, so good for the Clovis High Lady Wildcats. Tougher games are ahead, notably in District 4-5A play with Hobbs and Carlsbad, but for now the Lady Cats are feeling pretty good about themselves as they approach the holiday break. Down 5-0 in barely a minute on Friday night, CHS took the lead for good late in the first quarter and steadily increased it until Clovis coach Jeff Reed cleared his bench down the stretch in a 50-39 victory over Cibola at Rock Staubus Gym. Senior guard Yvonne Fuerte scored 13 points a...
Booked The following were booked into local jails (Tuesday-Friday): Clovis • Joseph Lequeux, 32, failure to pay fines • Lester Alexander, 40, probation violation, trafficking, out of state fugitive • Elias Ortiz, 22, bribery of a witness, attempt to commit a felony, to wit: bribery of a witness, conspiracy to commit tampering with evidence • Thomas Nesbit, 33, aggravated battery against a household member, criminal damage to the property of a household member • Jesus Bustamante, 31, larceny • Natanael Solis, 25, probation v...
CLOVIS — The Clovis Music Festival is still six months away, but the 2022 event got a major budget boost on Wednesday. The Clovis Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors, by a voice vote, passed a $65,000 budget increase which organizers plan to use to add a third night to the festival. The festival, which is again separate from Draggin’ Main, is scheduled for June 16-18. The festival still has 38 Special as its June 17 headliner, and organizers are planning a family faith concert June 16 with Danny Gokey and a Latin mus...
CLOVIS — Plains Regional Medical Center is providing a human milk donation and outreach center that will allow lactating mothers to donate excess breast milk to assist other nursing babies, PRMC announced in a news release. The program “provides a safe way for women in our area to donate their breast milk and know that it will be used to provide nourishment for babies who need it,” Kimberly Barnes, women’s care manager at PRMC, said in the news release. Donors can bring milk donations to PRMC to be transported to a facilit...
PORTALES — After a nearly two-hour executive session Wednesday, the Portales City Council left hanging the status of City Manager Sarah Austin. During the executive session, Austin was called into the council's meeting room several times as discussion continued. Following Wednesday's council meeting, Mayor Ron Jackson would not to commit to whether more discussion would be needed before the council votes on Austin's contract. Austin's three-year contract, approved on June 8, includes a six-month probation period. Austin's s...
CLOVIS — The Eastern New Mexico Water Utility Authority has known for a few years their project will cost far more than the long-standing $500 million estimate. Early next year, they’ll have a better idea of just how much. The authority board agreed on Thursday for a $58,473.10 contract with CH2M/Jacobs Engineering to provide an updated price tag. The project — which involved creating a delivery system for potable water from the Ute Reservoir in Quay County to authority members in Curry and Roosevelt counties — was estimat...
New Mexico has the third-highest poverty rate in the nation, ahead of only Mississippi and Louisiana, according to the state Department of Workforce Solutions. But, while families throughout the state are struggling, the state government is more than flush. The latest revenue estimate for the state projects that lawmakers will have an additional $1.6 billion to spend when they meet in January for a 30-day budget session. That's money in addition to the $7.4 billion in this year's budget. And, that budget did not include billi...
Christmas is the time when movies of hope and holiday spirit run 24/7 reminding us of what Christmas is about. For me, that means the greatest Christmas movie of all time, “It’s a Wonderful Life.” The protagonist George Bailey faces a life of happiness and hardship, and as we watch George struggle to accept who he is, he also teaches us lessons on life. Greatness is not always defined by visible success. Through most of the movie George makes comments about the lack of importance of the Old Bailey Building & Loan. He wants to...
TIme for fear of God to return to society We have had the 10 Commandments guiding our society for centuries. The 10 are time-tested and reliable as guidelines in the affairs of men. People who fear God gave them honor and added to them the words of Jesus: “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” Societies that live this way can produce the best quality of life and the most successful pursuit of happiness. Then we have people like newspaper columnist Leonard Pitts who advocate a society where people fear nei...
What the progressive culture elite wants, it usually gets. Single-sex bathrooms changing overnight to all-gender or non-gender bathrooms? Done. Illegal immigrants becoming known as undocumented persons? But of course. So, when it was decided in the precincts of fashionable opinion that the term “Latino” would be retired in favor of “Latinx,” one could have been forgiven for thinking this hideous neologism would, like so much else in American life, go from a fringe cause t...
Full disclosure: I’m elderly, have health problems and have taken three shots of the Moderna vaccine. At a time in the distant past, I was required to read, understand and comment on contractual documents. I acquired several hard-earned lessons about language in documentation that have stayed with me to this day. Sentences that contain the words “will” or “shall,” as in, “This product “will” cure migraine headaches” had better be true, provable and reproducible or you “will” b...
Here’s what all winners of Time magazine’s annual honor — Person, Athlete, Entertainer and Heroes of the Year — have in common: They are all successful, but challenged — and even derided — representatives in their fields. And that’s a powerful statement, for it signals a societal shift into how we now measure success. You don’t have to be the super best at it, just genuine. Time magazine last week announced the Person of the Year for 2021 is billionaire Elon Musk, who owns the world’s largest car company, Tesla, as well as...
SANTA FE — As of last Monday, New Mexico ranked 10th among U.S. states in percentage of its eligible population vaccinated against COVID-19 with 63.5% vaccinated As of Thursday, however, Curry and Roosevelt counties lagged behind the state’s rate of vaccination. Curry County reported 50.3% of its eligible population had been fully vaccinated, and Roosevelt County reported only 37.7% of its eligible population had been fully vaccinated, according to information on the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) website. In spi...
CLOVIS — The Clovis City Commission by a unusually slim margin denied a rezoning request that would clear the way for up to three new four-plexes in the Sunset Acres Subdivision. The margin was unusual because the commission voted 5-3 in favor of the zone change. However, a 40% protest rate from adjacent property owners required the zone change meet a 75% vote for passage. In addition to the protest rate, the city’s planning and zoning commission recommended by a 4-3 to reject the zone change. Judy Morrow spoke on behalf of t...
Plains Regional Medical Center Administrator Jorge Cruz talked to The News on Friday regarding the hospital’s current COVID-19 numbers, vaccination and the Omicron variant. As of Friday, PRMC had not recorded an Omicron case. Q: How many COVID-19 patients on average have been in the hospital so far in December? Cruz: Starting in mid-November, that was when we saw an increase. In December, we’re seeing 20 to 25 COVID patients in house (hospitalized), and that’s including the ICU as well. We’ve seen anywhere between four an...
Cannon Air Force Base held its fourth quarterly meeting addressing the matter of groundwater contamination Wednesday evening. A $16.6 million pilot study at the base will involve installation of a small-scale water treatment center at the base's southeast corner to remove perfluorooctane sulfonate and perfluorooctanoic acid, also known as PFOS and PFOA, from groundwater leaving the base. The compounds are used in various consumer and industrial products, and were previously a significant component of firefighting foam used...
CLOVIS — The Clovis Industrial Development Corporation will hold finalist interviews this week to potentially fill its vacant executive director position. Ernie Kos, executive director of the Clovis/Curry County Chamber of Commerce, said the CIDC received about a dozen applications from the nationwide search that ran Oct. 22 through Nov. 30 and pared the field to two finalists. Lee Malloy, president of the CIDC Board of Directors, told The News the board has worked around the idea of having somebody in the position to start t...
CLOVIS — Deputy Police Chief Roy Rice will be elevated to the chief position on an interim basis beginning Jan. 1, according to a city of Clovis news release. Rice, who has been deputy chief since February, will replace Doug Ford, who plans to retire at the end of the year following five years at the top post. Ford was honored by the Clovis City Commission during its Thursday night meeting, as Ford came to the meeting to update the commission on its third time receiving renewed accreditation from the New Mexico Municipal L...
