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The “Western Days” special-event day Saturday at the Tucumcari Historical Museum will celebrate its 50th anniversary, and it also will serve as a tribute to the man who largely made the museum possible, Herman Moncus. Moncus became the driving force behind the Tucumcari Historical Museum’s founding. A Texas native, his family moved to a homestead in eastern New Mexico when he was an infant. He collected arrowheads and other Native American artifacts from the surrounding mesas. He began work at the Elk Drug Store along U.S. 66 in Tucum...
A Logan man was jailed last week on a felony complaint after he was accused of dragging a woman by the hair, throwing her down a set of stairs and kicking her. Santiago Romero, 24, was booked into the Quay County Detention Center on a complaint of aggravated battery on a household member that caused great bodily harm. The complaint is a third-degree felony can lead up to three years in prison and a $5,000 fine. According to a complaint filed in Tucumcari magistrate court by Logan police officer Wade Strand, the woman told the officer her...
Two suspects from Colorado remained in the county jail after they were accused last week of crashing a car in Tucumcari after a high-speed police chase and shooting at officers as they approached to give first aid. The duo surrendered to police after a two-hour standoff in the upside-down car. Scott Andrew Sherbondy, 36, of Colorado Springs, Colorado, remained jailed in the Quay County Detention Center on complaints of first-degree kidnapping, three counts of aggravated assault upon a peace...
The Quay County Commission on Monday approved a preliminary plat of the proposed Air Park at Ute Lake subdivision near Logan that combines residential housing with individual airplane hangars and two runways. The unanimous approval came with the stipulation that Chad Lydick, a Clovis engineer overseeing the project, submits a cultural properties protection plan for the 160-acre development east of 12 Shores Golf Course. Sid Strebeck of Clovis, along with his son Layne, are developing the...
The New Mexico Racing Commission didn’t give any signals about how it leaned regarding a sixth license during its latest meeting Thursday, but a key member of a group wanting to build a racetrack and casino in Tucumcari cautioned it is too early to be critical about inactivity on the matter. “There was really no discussion about the racetrack, the sixth license,” said Warren Frost, one of the principals at Coronado Partners that wants to build an $80 million racino in Tucumcari. “As far as the commission giving guidance, they didn’t do that....
Disabled Tucumcari resident Derrick Matthews endures muscular dystrophy, diabetes and heart problems that require him to make frequent phone calls to set up appointments with Albuquerque doctors and arrange transportation there. Since late April, making those phone calls has proven impossible or time-consuming because the Tucumcari area lost the Sprint cellular signal required to operate both his cellphones. One is a Boost Mobile phone; the other is an Assurance phone. Both require a Sprint...
Tucumcari baseball coach Dwayne Roberts is leaving to take a position at his high school alma mater as coach of Logan's eight-man football program. Meanwhile, San Jon/Grady retained its six-man football coach, Tucumcari alum Adrian Jones, after advertising an opening for the position several weeks ago. Roberts, who accepted the offer from Logan in mid-April, said he also would serve as an assistant coach there in baseball and boys basketball with head coach Kyle Griffiths. Roberts also was an...
Quay County commissioners heard no objections Monday to a proposed subdivision on the south side of Ute Lake near Logan that combines housing and plane hangars with two airport runways for residents who fly private planes. Air Park at Ute Lake off Lake Ranch Road north of U.S. 54 will contain 59 lots for hangar homes plus 2,600-foot-long grass runway and a 3,600-foot asphalt runway that bisect the subdivision. A public hearing for the proposed subdivision was required during the commission’s regular meeting Monday. Chad Lydick of Clovis, an e...
A Tucumcari man remains at large after being accused of shooting at another man from a moving vehicle. Quay County Crime Stoppers has offered a reward for information leading to his arrest. Jacob Ramirez is charged with two counts of shooting at or from a motor vehicle (no injury) and one count of assault with intent to commit a violent felony (with intent to kill). The two counts of shooting from a vehicle are fourth-degree felonies that can lead up to 18 months in prison and a fine up to $5,000. The assault charge is a third-degree felony...
ALBUQUERQUE - The Logan girls track team continued its season-long dominance, easily winning the Class 1A team title Saturday during the NMAA Track and Field Championships at the UNM Track-Soccer Complex. The Lady Longhorns scored 89 points over the two-day event, almost double over runner-up Fort Sumner's 48 points. Two of its winning relay teams were among those that broke 20 state records over the weekend, despite cold and rainy weather Friday and two lightning delays Saturday. The Logan...
ALBUQUERQUE - Tucumcari senior Seth Martinez added two more first-place medals in the hurdles races Saturday at the NMAA Track and Field Championships at the UNM Track-Soccer Complex, capping his Rattler career with five wins in those events. However, the Rattlers finished a somewhat disappointing fifth place with 39 points in the Class 3A team standings and just a few points away from the runner-up spot. Coach Wayne Ferguson attributed that to a hamstring injury Josh Chavez suffered during the...
The Tucumcari softball team made a comeback bid from a double-digit deficit but fell 17-14 to Hatch Valley in its first-round Class 3A playoff game played over a two-day period at Rattler Field because of rain. On Wednesday, the ninth-seeded Bears (13-10) blasted six home runs to take a 13-2 lead over the eighth-seeded Lady Rattlers (17-5) when umpires suspended the game after four innings because of lightning and heavy rain. When the game resumed Thursday, the Lady Rattlers scored four runs in...
Two occupants of a crashed vehicle were taken into custody without further injury after a two-hour standoff Tuesday afternoon in the wake of a high-speed chase where one of the subjects shot at officers in a north Tucumcari neighborhood. Officers from the Tucumcari Police Department, Quay County Sheriff's Office and New Mexico State Police still were investigating the crash scene Tuesday afternoon after arresting a man and a pregnant woman and taking them to Trigg Memorial Hospital in Tucumcari...
The new members of the New Mexico Racing Commission held their first meeting Friday and chose officers. But what direction the agency would take regarding a coveted sixth license remains unknown — for now. Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on April 25 appointed five new commissioners to oversee the state’s horseracing industry. The new commission convened a special meeting Friday and had a sixth license on the official agenda, but took no action on that matter after at least two hours in executive session. Warren Frost, one of the principals for Cor...
Organizers of Tucumcari Rawhide Days knew crowds had been rollin', rollin', rollin' through the Quay County Fairgrounds during three previous editions of the festival. Now they have a figure for the total number of people who attended this year's festival Friday and Saturday - 3,200. The festival that pays tribute to the early 1960s Clint Eastwood television western shot near Tucumcari has a more solid number on the crowds it draws instead of "guess-timates" of previous years, as festival...
Thanks to a few surprises and the usual strong performances, the Tucumcari girls track team wound up as district champions during the Class 3A, District 4 meet Friday at New Mexico Military Institute in Roswell. Tucumcari racked up 146 points at the meet, far outpacing runner-up Dexter’s 101. Rounding out the rest were Tularosa’s 96 and NMMI’s 69. The Lady Rattlers will send nine athletes to the state meet Friday and Saturday at the UNM Track-Soccer Complex in Albuquerque. The Tucumcari boys finished third at district and will send eight to th...
The Tucumcari softball team secured a No. 8 seed in the Class 3A state tournament and will host No. 9-seeded Hatch Valley in a first-round game Wednesday. The Bears come into the game with a 12-10 record. The only common opponents for Tucumcari and Hatch Valley were Estancia and East Mountain - all which were wins for the Bears and Lady Rattlers. First pitch for Wednesday's game is 5 p.m. at Rattler Field. The winner of Wednesday's game plays the winner of the Robertson-East Mountain game at...
LOGAN - The Logan girls track team dominated the Class 1A, District 6 meet Saturday like it did other meets this season, sending 11 athletes to this week's state meet in Albuquerque. The Logan boys finished a close second to Fort Sumner and will send 13 athletes to the state meet on Friday and Saturday at the UNM Track-Soccer Complex. The San Jon boys, largely on the strength of Dustin Bryant qualifying for state in three events, finished fourth at the meet. The Lady Longhorns racked up 163...
Editor’s note: The victim and those associated with her are not identified in this story, in line with Quay County Sun poilcy not to identify victims of alleged sexual assault. A former Tucumcari fire chief avoided time behind bars for embezzling city funds and drugging and trying to sexually assault a city employee, but not without hearing scathing statements from the victim and her acquaintances and receiving additional conditions from the judge during sentencing Monday in Tucumcari District Court. Shane Warner, 42, now of Clovis, in a plea d...
The fourth edition of Tucumcari Rawhide Days this weekend has a bunch of new additions - including admission fees for individuals or vehicles that have sparked a lot of talk among locals. Tucumcari's tribute to the 1960s television western "Rawhide" will include a $5 fee for each vehicle coming from Camino del Coronado to park at the Quay County Fairgrounds. For those who park elsewhere and walk to the festival through the gate near the Tucumcari Convention Center, admission will be $1 apiece. R...
The New Mexico Racing Commission on Thursday morning abruptly canceled a planned April 30 special meeting to discuss awarding a sixth horse-racing license. By afternoon, Gov. Michelle Lujan-Grisham appointed a new racing commission. The commission sent out an email Thursday morning, stating the planned April 30 meeting had been canceled “under further notice.” Commission Executive Director Ismael “Izzy” Trejo declined comment when contacted by phone Thursday morning but acknowledged “fast-moving developments” concerning the commission....
The Tucumcari softball team has worked on its hitting, and it showed last week while racking up four victories and averaging 15 runs a game. The Lady Rattlers improved to 14-2 overall during the week and held a solid lead in the Class 3A-District 4/5 standings with a 5-0 record. Tucumcari's 19-8 victory April 23 over winless district foe Sandia Prep proved to be a harbinger for the week. The Lady Rattlers banged out 20 hits during the game, including four home runs. Loren Chavez went 4-for-5...
LOGAN — Logan’s baseball team earned a 3-2 district victory Friday against Grady/San Jon’s ace, and it was an eighth-grader who secured it for the Longhorns. Bronchos junior hurler Chisum Rush, who is leading Class 1A in strikeouts, had a largely typical game against Logan — 12 strikeouts, one walk and five hits allowed in six innings. Rush has 87 strikeouts in 39 1/3 innings this year and an earned-run average around 2.00. But Logan eighth-grader Park Strong largely matched Rush’s performance on the mound — 12 strikeouts, five walks and five h...
Logan Mayor David Babb recently was charged in Tucumcari magistrate court with working as an electrical contractor without a license. According to a criminal complaint filed in early April by the state of New Mexico, Babb on May 25, 2017, violated the Construction Industries Licensing Act and was charged with one count of working as a contractor without a required license, a misdemeanor. If convicted, Babb could be sentenced to 90 days in the county jail or a fine of $300 to $500. Babb, who pleaded not guilty, remains free while his case is...
The New Mexico Racing Commission’s ratification Thursday of a proposed settlement clears the way for it possibly awarding a sixth racetrack license during a special meeting on Tuesday — provided the governor doesn’t fire the commission first. The commission, after a closed executive session during its regular meeting Thursday at its office in Albuquerque, approved the agreement with Hidalgo Downs LLC, one of the license applicants from Lordsburg. A settlement was announced in early April between Hidalgo and the New Mexico attorney gener...