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Alta Gay Johnson, Elizabeth Zimmerman, Benedicto Lucero
January 29th, 2004
Alta Gay Johnson
Alta Gay Johnson, 65, died in Shreveport, La. Thursday, Jan. 22, 2004. She was born Dec. 2, 1938 in Tucumcari.
Johnson spent most of her adult life in Shreveport, La. where she was a...
Local woman flies radio controlled planes
January 29th, 2004
Vickie Belisle has more airplanes than some small nations. She has 46 of them and all are in her ranch style home east of Tucumcari.
There are planes, some with wingspans of more than nine feet acros...
Homicide investigation continues
January 29th, 2004
According to representatives of area law enforcement agencies, work is continuing in the homicide investigation of the death of Joanie Vance of rural Tucumcari which took place Tuesday evening, Jan. 2...
Snow closes city schools
January 29th, 2004
According to Bill Reentz PhD., Superintendent of Tucumcari Schools, Tucumcari schools failed to open Monday due to hazardous early morning driving conditions. Reentz said he received a call from his t...
Belly dancing set to roll
January 29th, 2004
It is a dance that brings to mind Scheherazade, Salome and even Mata Hari. It is a dance that brings to mind the middle east, of hookas and sitting on pillows on the floor. It is a dance of women in g...
Dems anticipate caucus
January 29th, 2004
According to representatives of the Democratic Party in Quay County, they are looking forward to Tuesday, Feb. 3 which will be the first ever Democratic caucus in New Mexico.
“It’s very important...
San Jon releases honor roll
January 29th, 2004
San Jon Schools released their honor roll for the second nine weeks term.
Second Nine Weeks:
The only Senior receiving straight “A’s” was Katie Pool.
Juniors receiving straight “A’s were El...
Rattlers lose at home
January 29th, 2004
The Tucumcari Rattlers had the “green light” from their coach to shoot three pointers, but too often they came up short as Guymon won 59-42 at the Tucumcari High School Gymnasium, Tuesday night. C...
Ladies lose to Guymon
January 29th, 2004
The Tucumcari Girls team was once again beset by turnovers as they were defeated by Guymon, 66-29 last night at home. Rattlers’ Head Coach Alicia Trujillo said the only cure for her team’s turnove...
Family, friends recall victim
January 26th, 2004
State police officials said last evening they have made no arrests and are not releasing any new information on the death of Joanie Vance, who was found dead in the Sundowner Gallery on First Street T...
Tucumcari releases perfect attendance
January 26th, 2004
Tucumcari Elementary School released their second term perfect attendance lists for preshchool and kindergarten through second grade.
Preschool students with perfect attendance were Samuel Nemrow, Xa...
Logan releases honor roll
January 26th, 2004
Logan Municipal Shools released their honor roll for the second nine weeks term.
Second nine weeks:
Seniors receiving straight “A’s” were Melissa Hampton, Stephen Oglesby, Nichol Rodgers and Br...
Rattlers fall to Clayton
January 26th, 2004
The Tucumcari Rattlers could not overcome Clayton’s size advantage as they lost 75-43 last night.
Clayton had three players over six feet tall. The Rattlers’ Justin Galvan battled the three giant...
Pipline information seen as 'critical'
January 26th, 2004
The Republican Party of Quay County met Tuesday evening in Tucumcari to select delegates to the state Republican Pre-Primary Nominating Convention in Alburquerque on Mar. 6.
Three delegates, “Scoot...
Republicans select Quay Delegates
January 26th, 2004
The Republican Party of Quay County met Tuesday evening in Tucumcari to select delegates to the state Republican Pre-Primary Nominating Convention in Alburquerque on Mar. 6.
Three delegates, “Scoot...
Girls lose to Clayton
January 26th, 2004
The Tucumcari Girls’ Varsity played a solid first half according to head coach Alicia Trujillo, but Clayton surged in the second half to hand the Lady Rattlers a 63-39 loss Friday evening.
Lady Rat...
Listing of events
January 26th, 2004
• Jan 27 - The USDA will be distributing commodities to qualified recipients in Tucumcari at: Wautonomah Hall (behind Circle K), Mountain View apartments, Quay Apartments, and the Quay County Fairg...
Vance, Cordova, Williams-McLarnan, Dudley
January 26th, 2004
Joan Troutman Vance
Joan “Joanie” Troutman Vance, 62, died in Tucumcari Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2004.
Joanie Vance was born August 3, 1941 in Tucumcari. She attended and graduated from the Tucumcari Sc...
Irish singers head to Tucumcari
January 26th, 2004
Tuesday will see the first performance in Tucumcari of this year’s New Mexico Presenters’ Alliance entertainers and according to Quay County Center for the Arts president Judy Hiner, it should be...
36 annual AG/Home Ec seminar held
January 26th, 2004
The 36th annual Agricultural and Home Economics Seminar took place Thursday at the Tucumcari Convention Center on the west end of Tucumcari and according to the people in charge the event proved to be...
70 students named to Tucumcari High School Honor Roll
January 26th, 2004
Tucumcari High School released their honor roll for the second nine weeks term.
.Second nine weeks:
Seniors receiving straight “A’s” were Jamie Pender and Josette Rey. Juniors receiving straig...
Two walk across America for candidate
January 22nd, 2004
Two young people, one from Ames, Iowa and the other from Ann arbor, Mich. traveled through Tucumcari late last week. That they traveled through Tucumcari was less of note than how and why.
The two, J...
March, services honor Martin Luther King
January 22nd, 2004
On a cold Monday morning, almost 50 people gathered at the southwest corner of Tucumcari’s Northside Park to pay homage to Dr. Martin Luther King by marching a short distance and then attending a br...
'Tucumcari time' confuses editor
January 22nd, 2004
The other day I was talking on the phone to a young man who grew up in Tucumcari and had recently returned home from college. I wanted to arrange a meeting with him so I could take a photograph for a...
Rattlers lose to Santa Rosa
January 22nd, 2004
Friday’s game against Santa Rosa was not decided until the final minutes, but Tucumcari fell short at home, 71-60.
A large, vocal crowd was on hand to watch the heated rivalry between the two I-40 f...
Conservation district sells trees
January 22nd, 2004
Evelyn Massey. District Clerk for the Canadian River Soil and Water Conservation District announced Monday that she is now taking orders for the district’s annual tree sale.
Massy said she has a wid...
Obituaries
January 22nd, 2004
Willie Edna Cone
Willie Edna Cone, 95, died Jan. 14 in Pearland, Texas.
Cone was born Sept. 3, 1908 in Chockie, Okla. She was a retired railroad employee.
She is survi...
Lady Rattlers fall to Santa Rosa
January 22nd, 2004
The Tucumcari Lady Rattlers fell 60-21 Friday to a more experienced Santa Rosa team. Santa Rosa was leading when Whitney Spinks kept her team in the game early by scoring Tucumcari’s first two baske...
Altrusa receives grant
January 22nd, 2004
The Altrusa International Club of Tucumcari, a women’s service and philanthropy organization, received a $1,000 check from the Comcast Foundation on Jan. 7. The check was presented to the organizati...
Economic Development meeting draws big crowd
January 22nd, 2004
The Economic development “visioning session” Tuesday evening did what most in the audience want Tucumcari to achieve. It grew so big, it outgrew its confines.
The original site for the meeting wa...
Phones out in Tucumcari
January 17th, 2004
From 1:30 a.m. Friday, Jan. 16 to roughly 4:10 p.m. the same day, Tucumcari was without land-line based phone service and according to city officials much of the community ground to a halt.
The cause...
commissioners name Turner county manager
January 17th, 2004
Quay County Commissioners have offered the soon to be vacant position of Quay County Manager to a former resident of Tucumcari and he said he is “seriously” considering it.
Chosen from approximat...
Five seniors named to all-state all senior squad
January 17th, 2004
The Tucumcari Rattler Football Team landed five players on the “North squad” of New Mexico’s All-Senior All-Star Football Team.
Named to the all-senior squad on offense were guard A.J. Molinas,...
'Spellink' can be difficult
January 15th, 2004
Now that we are into 2004, I have to admit that the concept of a New Year is confusing for me. I think it comes down to my inability to throw old things away. You should see my collection of earth sho...
Commissioners discuss bridge
January 15th, 2004
Quay County Commissioners say they and their constituents are upset about just how long it is taking the State of New Mexico to respond to the barricaded bridge on old Route 66 over Revuelto Creek bet...
Six named to State All-Stars
January 14th, 2004
The ballots have been counted and Tucumcari has a number of players on the 2003 New Mexico AA All-State Teams.
Seven Tucumcari High School Rattlers made the first teams’ lists, two more made the st...
Trusting in God the best way
January 14th, 2004
“Until the day in which he was taken up, after that he, through the Holy Ghost, had given commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen: To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion b...
Rattler winning streak falls
January 14th, 2004
The Tucumcari Rattlers are no longer undefeated, but it took one of the best teams in the state, Pecos, to beat them, and it was a battle for Pecos squad to hold down the Rattlers.
In fact, the Rattle...
Girls lose to Des Moines
January 14th, 2004
When a young team goes against the best in the state, they cannot expect to escape without any scars and one of the scars might be a loss, and that’s what happened to the Lady Rattlers Saturday nigh...
Trusting in God the best way
January 14th, 2004
“Until the day in which he was taken up, after that he, through the Holy Ghost, had given commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen: To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion b...
Obituaries 1-14
January 14th, 2004
Mae B. Taylor
Mae B. Taylor, 87, died in Dan Trigg Memorial Hospital on Sunday, Jan. 11, 2004.
Mae Taylor was born Nov. 8, 1918 in Baker City, Ore.
She has been a resident of Tucumcari since 1961, mo...
Mae B. Taylor 1-14
January 14th, 2004
Mae B. Taylor, 87, died in Dan Trigg Memorial Hospital on Sunday, Jan. 11, 2004.
Mae Taylor was born Nov. 8, 1918 in Baker City, Ore.
She has been a resident of Tucumcari since 1961, moving to Tucumc...
Skull collection donated to college
January 14th, 2004
Ron and Lisa Jones of Tucumcari have donated a collection of 37 skulls from a wide variety of animals from Quay County, northern New Mexico and south Texas to Mesalands Community College.
“Well,”...
San Jon School to receive trees
January 14th, 2004
The San Jon School District will be getting a small forest of trees in conjunction with a special program provided by the New Mexico Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department.
The NMEMNRD’s...
Rattlers return to court
January 9th, 2004
Both the boys and girls are playing basketball as the season begins in earnest following the Christmas holidays.
The boys’ team which is now ranked third in the AA rankings in New Mexico, will head...
First Baptist Church celebrates 100
January 9th, 2004
Tucumcari’s First Baptist Church turned 100 on Sunday and they had a party with all the trimmings to celebrate it at the church’s fellowship hall.
Tucumcari’s oldest protestant church commemora...
Obits Jan. 7
January 9th, 2004
Gerald Raymond Robinson
Gerald Raymond Robinson died January 1, 2004 in Albuquerque.
Gerald was born in Riverhead, N.Y., December 23, 1954.
He joined the U.S. Air Force in 1973 after graduating fro...
Police Blotter Jan. 7
January 9th, 2004
The following are samples of calls received by Tucumcari police within the last week. According to the reports:
Jan. 6
• About 4 a.m. a 48-year-old male was arrested at the 400 block of East Turner...
Democratic support rally to be held
January 9th, 2004
Members of the public will have a chance to find out specifically what all the Democratic presidential candidates have to say on Friday, Jan. 9 at the Tucumcari Convention Center.
According to Andi B...
Instructor selected for national seminar
January 9th, 2004
Charles Ynfante, Instructor of Humanities at Mesalands Community College has been selected as one of 20 instructors who have been invited to participate in the 2004 Jack and Anita Hess Faculty Seminar...
Semester kicks off on good note
January 9th, 2004
The second semester of school has begun for Tucumcari Schools and according to those in charge, everything seems to be rolling along well.
“So far, so good,” said Tucumcari High School Principal...
Ministerial Alliance to build three large crosses
January 2nd, 2004
Jim Witcher of the Ministerial Alliance officially announced last week that the alliance would begin work on building three large crosses at the east end of Tucumcari as symbols of Christianity to bot...
Local student teacher recognized
January 2nd, 2004
A student teacher from Tucumcari, Maria Christina Martinez, has been named one of New Mexico Highlands University three Outstanding Student Teachers for fall Semester.
According to representatives of...
City gets money for new truck
January 2nd, 2004
The Tucumcari Fire Department is getting a new fire truck by way of a grant from the New Mexico governor’s office, and members of the fire department are elated about it.
“We are very happy about...
MLK march planed
January 2nd, 2004
As part of the commemoration of Dr. Martin Luther King Day on Monday Jan. 19, Tucumcari area residents will be holding a march to salute the Nobel Peace Prize winner.
According to Deacon Paul Bell of...
Cedar decorations mean great deal
January 2nd, 2004
As we enter this new year, we need to take a few minutes to thank two local ladies for the gift they gave to Quay County and the travelers along Highway 209. Mrs. Bert Waterman and Mrs. Dorothy Kings...
You can't miss it
January 2nd, 2004
I have never like the words, “You can’t miss it,” but I have learned to really, really hate them lately.
Recently, I had found it necessary to interview a fellow who lived out of town a ways. I...
Obits, jan 3
January 2nd, 2004
Pauline Martinez
Pauline Martinez, 64 died on December 26, 2003.
She is survived by one son Anthony Martinez; six daughters Margaret Martinez, Mildred Camacho and husband Luis, Rosie Martinez, Jeanet...
