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It’s basketball time at Eastern New Mexico University. ENMU men’s and women’s squads open the 2023-24 campaign at home this weekend, taking on Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference members Fort Lewis and New Mexico Highlands at Greyhound Arena in the South Central Region crossover event. Four games are scheduled each day, with ENMU’s women playing at 2:30 p.m. and the men at 7:30 p.m. on both Friday and Saturday. The women face Fort Lewis on Friday and Highlands on Saturday while the men’s get Highlands first and then Fort Lewi...
Edith "Faye" Dunn, former resident of Portales N.M. was taken home to be with Jesus on October 25th in Amarillo, Tx. after a long battle with Alzheimer's that robbed her brilliant mind and took away most all of her memories. She was born on August 18, 1936 in Raleigh, North Carolina. She was 87 years old. Faye was a passionate, loving, and unwavering women who was full of a devotion to God and family. She had a gift of helping and educating others, devoting most of her life...
On this date … 1937: Danny Villanueva was born in Tucumcari. The future kicker for the Dallas Cowboys and Los Angeles Rams was the son of an itinerant Methodist preacher assigned to minister to migrant farm workers in the Quay County area. The family moved on to their next assignment, in Phoenix, about a year later. 1946: Snowfall had blanketed more than half of New Mexico as voters headed to the polls. Officials said some Northern New Mexico voters in rural areas might be snowbound and unable to cast ballots. In eastern N...
They are the champions ... again. Clovis High School's marching band, for the 11th consecutive year, won New Mexico's unofficial state championship Saturday at the Zia Marching Band Fiesta in Albuquerque. The Wildcats captured the outstanding musical achievement, outstanding visual effect and highest general effect awards, sweeping the honors among 19 bands. "Not only did they win the awards, but more importantly they performed so well," band Director Bill Allred said. "They...
RICHARDSON, Texas – Eastern New Mexico University’s men were chosen eighth out of 16 teams in the Lone Star Conference preseason basketball poll on Monday. The Greyhounds garnered 377 points in the poll. West Texas A&M had 34 of 45 first-place votes and finished with 703 points. Coach Brent Owen returns seven players from last year’s 17-12 squad (12-10 LSC), including four who earned some level of All-LSC honors. Senior forward Jahcoree Ealy was listed among “players to watch” in the conference. Ealy led the Hounds with 12.7...
ALBUQUERQUE – Clovis High junior Sammy Fuentes posted a time of 17 minutes, 9.24 seconds over five kilometers to place 18th in a field of 154 runners in the Class 5A boys division of Saturday’s Albuquerque Academy cross country race. Rio Rancho, led by individual winner Charlie Vause in 15:32.41, captured team honors with 32 points to 73 for Rio Rancho Cleveland. CHS was 15th out of 20 teams with 459 points while among District 4-5A rivals, Hobbs took seventh place at 199, Carlsbad was 10th at 358 and Roswell High placed 18t...
At the freshly revived Guadalajara Restaurant in Clovis, Mike Mendoza has been called "The King of the Kitchen." So says restaurant management leader John Rink. Mendoza returns the compliment by describing Rink and the restaurant's management team as "one of the best he's seen anywhere." Mendoza, grandson of Guadalajara's founder Librado Casillas, took some time Wednesday afternoon to talk about his life and the new Guadalajara Restaurant, just off the corner of North Prince a...
William A. (Bill) Chapman passed away and went to be with his Heavenly Father on Thursday, October 12, 2023, in Wichita Falls, Texas. Bill was born to Curtis C. and Amy Jones Chapman on the Chapman Farm, Raymond, Illinois, on November 23, 1929. Bill attended Raymond High School where he excelled in Basketball and track. After graduation in 1947, he attended Southern Illinois University where he lettered in track all four years. Bill married LoVina Harper on December 31, 1950,...
LAS VEGAS, N.M. – Las Vegas Robertson took Portales High to the limit, but the Lady Rams pulled out a 25-22, 25-18, 16-25, 23-25, 16-14 victory over the Lady Cardinals on Saturday. Sophomore middle hitter Skyler Massey delivered a personal-best 19 kills to go with three aces while senior outside hitter Audrey Paden posted a double-double with 11 kills and 16 digs for PHS (13-3). Paden also had a team-high five aces. The Lady Rams appeared on their way to a relatively easy win after taking the first two sets, but Robertson (...
Eastern New Mexico University will recognize its 2023 Homecoming honorees at the annual ENMU Foundation Breakfast at 8 a.m. Saturday at the Campus Union Ballroom. The annual banquet will present awards from the ENMU Alumni Association, ENMU Foundation, ENMU Educators Hall of Honor, and the ENMU Athletics Hall of Honor. “This is an excellent opportunity to thank those who support ENMU with their time and also to treasure and celebrate those who have achieved so much,” said James Johnston, ENMU chancellor. “These indiv...
Portales High's soccer teams earned wins over Santa Fe-based Academy for Technology & The Classics on Saturday at the PHS pitch. The PHS boys earned their first win of the season, defeating ATC 2-1, while the girls improved to 5-2-1 with a 4-2 triumph. In the boys' tilt, ATC (4-3-1) scored in the fourth minute with sophomore midfielder Luis Gomez doing the honors, but shortly before halftime the Rams (1-5-1) pulled even when junior forward/midfielder Anthony Cordova found the...
ODESSA, Texas – Eastern New Mexico University’s volleyball team earned a split on Friday’s first day of Texas-Permian Basin’s Iceman Invitational, beating Sul Ross State 25-16, 25-17, 25-19 before losing to the host Falcons 25-22, 25-20, 21-25, 25-19. ENMU was slated to wrap up play in the two-day event on Saturday against Minnesota-Crookston and University of the Southwest. The Greyhounds (2-4) made short work of Sul Ross behind a double-double from senior middle blocker Gracelyn Stubbs (10 kills, 15 assists) and strong outi...
ALAMOSA, Colo. – The Eastern New Mexico University women’s soccer team completed its season-opening weekend in Colorado with its second draw, tying Fort Lewis 1-1 on Sunday. Meantime, the ENMU men fell to 1-1 for the season with a 3-1 loss to the Skyhawks. In the women’s tilt, senior forward/midfielder Haley Huff put the Greyhounds on the board midway through the first half, converting from close range on an assist by junior midfielder Abbie Dickens. Fort Lewis, playing its season opener, tied it on a goal by freshman defen...
The books listed below are now available for checkout at the Clovis-Carver Public Library. The library is open to the public, but patrons can still visit the online catalog at cloviscarverpl.booksys.net/opac/ccpl or call 575-769-7840 to request a specific item for curbside pickup. “Tell-Tale Bones” by Carolyn Haines. Private Investigator Sarah Booth Delaney is in Sheriff Coleman Peters’s office, consulting Coleman about cold cases, when Elisa Redd storms in with a case of her own. She wants Coleman to reopen the inves...
Since opening in 1934, it is only on rare occasions and for exemplary reasons that the Eastern New Mexico University Board of Regents has approved renaming a campus facility. There are numerous meeting rooms and halls named to honor graduates or employees – Buchanan Hall, Dallan Sanders Pavilion, and Becky Sharp Auditorium, to name a few. But there have been only two buildings named to honor individuals: The Golden Student Success Center, named for legendary University P...
On this date ... 1945: The victory over Japan as announced by President Truman was celebrated by a group of 15 young people who met at Portales’ West Side Baptist Church. The program consisted of prayers, songs and a testimony. 1946: The third annual water carnival had been scheduled at Hillcrest pool in Clovis. The carnival consisted of 37 swimming and diving competitions in four divisions. A beauty contest wrapped up the evening with 13 girls competing for a $25 prize. T...
More than 50 years ago – on Aug. 16, 1970 – the Fort Sumner State Monument was dedicated. Its focus was on the U.S. Army fort, which, according to media coverage at the time: “is best known as the residence-in-exile of thousands of Navajo Indians subdued in 1864 by Col. Kit Carson and brought to Fort Sumner after the march from their western New Mexico-eastern Arizona homeland.” While military leaders “had envisioned the post as a place where the Indians could learn the white...
RICHARDSON, Texas – Defending Lone Star Conference football champion Angelo State has been tabbed to repeat its crown in a vote of league coaches and sports information directors, plus media members. The Rams (12-1 overall and 9-0 in the LSC in 2022) collected 241 points and 25 of 27 first-place ballots, according to the poll released by the conference office. Last season, ASU reached the NCAA Division II national quarterfinals before it was eliminated. Eastern New Mexico University, with Kelley Lee returning to the helm t...
The Portales Municipal School District has filed a response to a federal lawsuit by a former teacher who claims she was forced to resign her teaching job due to pressure from district officials. The response does not go into detail but denies the claims of Kelly Cradock, a former Portales High School teacher, who sued the school district in federal court after she claims to have been forced to resign for teaching the book “The Hate U Give” to her freshman honors English class. Cradock’s lawsuit, filed June 16, named as defen...
It was the second tournament for the Clovis Bassmasters club and the second time the high schoolers and middle schoolers picked up top honors. The Clovis club, an affiliate of New Mexico Bass Nation, took to Ute Lake Sunday for their second state qualifier and finished with first-place wins in the high and junior high school divisions, according to a news release from Clovis Municipal Schools. Autumn Kinglsey and Nicole Patton took first place in the high school division along with bringing in the biggest bass in their...
A former Portales teacher is suing the school district after she claims to have been forced to resign for teaching the book “The Hate U Give” to her freshman honors English class. The teacher, Kelly Cradock, was employed by Portales Municipal Schools from August 2020 to February 2022. “Mrs. Cradock’s first amendment rights were violated, her rights under the New Mexico Human Rights Act were violated,” Cradock’s attorney Kristina Martinez said. Portales schools Superintendent Johnnie Cain declined to comment on the lawsuit. A...
Editor's note: This is one in a continuing series of interviews with local officials. Johnnie Cain is the superintendent for Portales Municipal Schools. Q: The Legislature made up some new rules for public schools' classroom time that go into effect this school year. What's changing at Portales Municipal Schools? A: The biggest thing we're going to do for adding classroom time is we're going to go 30 minutes extra a day. So, you know, we'll go from 8 to 3:30, instead of 8:05 t...
It was Clovis High School's fishing club's first tournament and they came back with first-place honors. Colter Williams of the Clovis Bassmasters, an affiliate of New Mexico Bass Nation, caught the biggest bass of the tournament at Ute Lake with a weight of 4 pounds, 9 ounces, according to a report from Lonnie Hendren of Clovis Municipal Schools. Hendren reported all boaters were on the water by 5 a.m. Saturday and launched a half-hour later. The news release reports the...
Longtime area basketball coach Jimmy Joe Robinson passed away at the age of 87 last weekend, and the news has affected many locals that knew and loved him. According to his obituary, Robinson began his career as a coach and teacher at La Casita Elementary in Clovis where he taught 6th grade and coached football, basketball, gymnastics, and track. He then went on to teach other grades and coach other sports at various schools, but it was his coaching career at Clovis High Schoo...
I've been to a lot of funerals and memorial services. It comes with the territory when you live in a small community for a long time. The one for World War II veteran Thomas Vernon "Louie" Long held Thursday on a picture-perfect morning at the Portales Cemetery was one I'll never forget. For one thing, it was performed with full military honors, a moving ritual infused with tradition, beauty, respect, and precision that never fails to bring a lump to my throat. But what...
