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LOGAN - Powered by sophomore Haden Judd's three individual victories and two runner-up finishes and a lot of team depth, the Logan boys captured the title at the eight-team EPAC Varsity Meet on Saturday. The Logan girls team finished strong, too - second only to district rival Melrose. Judd won the 400-meter dash (52.23 seconds), 110-meter hurdles (0:17.37) and the pole vault (11 feet). He finished runner-up to Texico sprinter Jahvon Askew in the 100-meter dash (0:11.86) and 200-meter dash...
Logan’s defending state-champ baseball team stayed undefeated with a doubleheader sweep — including a no-hitter — over district foe Cimarron on Thursday. Logan improved to 15-0 overall and 6-0 in district play, taking a two-game lead in the district standings over rival Melrose (8-3, 4-2). The Longhorns blanked the Rams in the first game by a 16-0 score in five innings, then fended off a late rally by their foes in a 10-5 victory during the second game. In the first game, Brock Burns earned the no-hit victory, striking out 13 while walki...
The Lady Longhorns notched a doubleheader sweep Friday at San Jon by scores of 21-0 and 27-8. In the first game, Logan’s Marilyn Moreno went 3-for-3 with an inside-the-park grand slam and five RBI. Brookel Smith hit a two-run, inside-the-park homer and totaled four RBI. Charli Fuller struck out five in three innings of relief. In the nightcap, Fuller struck out five and allowed just one hit in a three-inning complete game. She also went 3-for-4 with an RBI and three runs scored. Camryn Cantrell went 2-for-2 with two walks, two RBI, six stolen b...
Two Tucumcari High School golfers broke 100 during the 10-team Alien 8 tournament in Roswell last Tuesday. Kaden Brown shot a 95 on at the par-72 New Mexico Military Institute Golf Course, breaking 100 for the second straight event. That put him in 40th place at the tournament. Teammate Creed Owen also broke 100 by shooting a 99, putting him in 48th place. Logan Lafferty rounded out the Rattler field by shooting a 125. In girls golf, Tucumcari’s Jade Duplantis shot a 120 for 31st place. July Lafferty shot a 122, and MiKayla Klinger shot a 1...
Improvements to Logan Municipal Schools’ security and science labs look likely when the district updates its facility master plan for the next five years. Paul Aguilar of Consolidated School Support Services told the school board during its regular meeting April 10 that initial survey results of teachers, staff and community members indicate they want those upgrades, especially with school security in the wake of mass shootings. Aguilar said the campus is vulnerable to intrusions, especially the front entrance because of the lack of views f...
New Mexico’s governor announced last week the state will begin sending out the newest round of tax rebates in mid-June, putting more than $673 million back into the pockets of New Mexico residents. The state Taxation and Revenue Department will send rebates of $500 to single filers or $1,000 to married taxpayers filing jointly, heads of household and surviving spouses. Any New Mexico resident who filed a 2021 New Mexico Personal Income Tax return and who was not declared as a dependent on another taxpayer’s return will receive the rebates aut...
Logan’s FFA chapter saw five of its teams finish in the top 10 of the recent New Mexico State Career Development Event Competition, including one that won the state title and will advance to nationals in May. Logan’s Land team of April Landsdell, Justin Johnson, Robert Evans and Javida Roberts earned first place at the Las Cruces competition and will compete in Oklahoma next month for the national title. In the land competition, students evaluated a plot of land for its best use, whether it be for farming or grazing. Logan’s Pasture and Range...
The Tucumcari chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution organization presented its annual awards to residents during its regular meeting Friday at the Pow Wow Restaurant. Connie Loveland, executive director of Tucumcari MainStreet, received the DAR chapter’s Community Service Award. Presenters Ann Hall and Janet Garcia read a lengthy list of Loveland’s accomplishments since she took over the city’s MainStreet program in mid-2019, including finding a buyer for the vacant Kmart building that soon will be converted into a Fast TV Netwo...
Logan track and field star Haden Judd continued to excel at several events Saturday at the 18-team Fox/Vixen Relays at Fort Sumner. Judd, a sophomore, won the 100-meter dash (0:11.39 seconds), 200-meter dash (0:23.01), 300-meter hurdles (0:40.51) and pole vault (12 feet). Judd also finished third in the triple jump (39-7 1/2). Aydin Kotara also won the 400-meter dash in 0:53.47 for Logan, and he finished third in the 100-meter dash in 12 seconds flat. Logan finished runner-up at the meet, as did the Lady Longhorns. Both of Melrose’s teams w...
Tucumcari’s baseball team still was looking for its first district win since 2018 after a doubleheader loss Saturday against Ruidoso. The Warriors won the first game 11-2, then dominated in the nightcap by a 19-0 score. Ruidoso improved to 8-7 overall and remained in contention for the district title with a 6-3 mark. The Warriors, ranked ninth in Class 3A by MaxPreps.com, were only a half-game or one game behind Sandia Prep, East Mountain and New Mexico Military Institute in the district standings for first place. Tucumcari fell to 4-13, 0-9. T...
Tucumcari's softball team swept a doubleheader last week against Clayton but still was searching for its first district victory of the season after losses to Dexter and Ruidoso. Host Ruidoso conquered the Lady Rattlers 18-8 and 16-6 on Saturday. The Warriors, ranked fourth in Class 3A by MaxPreps.com, improved to 14-5 overall and took control of their district with a 7-0 mark. Dexter is in a distant second in their district at 3-2. Tucumcari fell to 8-7, 0-4. "We just couldn't keep up with...
Logan High School senior Park Strong announced during a recent signing ceremony at the school that he will play baseball at University of the Southwest in Hobbs on a partial scholarship. Strong, a 6-foot, 195-pound catcher, played a key role in the Longhorns winning two consecutive Class 1A baseball championships. The Longhorns also are ranked No. 1 this season, as well. Through last weekend’s games, Strong was second on the team in batting average (.581), on-base percentage (.647), stolen bases (13), hits (25), slugging percentage (.976), d...
The Logan softball team went 2-3 last week after dropping a district doubleheader at home on Friday against Pecos. The Lady Longhorns lost the first game 15-5 and fell in the nightcap by a 20-10 score. In the first game, Broke Smith went 2-for-3 with a double, a triple and two RBI for Logan. Pitcher Charli Fuller struck out five and as a hitter reached base twice, stole three bases and scored twice. Marilyn Moreno went 2-for-3 with a double and three stolen baes. In the second game, Smith went 3-for-4 with two runs scored. Logan fell to 4-9...
In another sign of the easing of the COVID-19 pandemic, the New Mexico Department of Health announced last week it was cutting back on its reports about the disease. Starting last Tuesday, the DOH said epidemiological reports covering COVID-19 would change from bi-weekly to monthly. Also, the agency’s online COVID-19 Data Dashboard will be discontinued and archived on May 11. “These changes reflect the new phase of COVID-19 that we are in today,” DOH Deputy Secretary Laura Parajon said. “We will continue to actively monitor trends related...
Several of New Mexico’s top healthcare services, including Presbyterian Healthcare Services, recently announced they will change their mask policies next week. Presbyterian operates Dr. Dan C. Trigg Memorial Hospital in Tucumcari and a small clinic in Logan. While New Mexico’s public health order expired on March 31, the four health systems are set to implement the masking update on April 16 to ensure there was additional time to protect team members, patients and their families during the current respiratory illness season, according to a joi...
U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and New Mexico U.S. Sen. Ben Ray Lujan announced the agency is spending $40 million to provide high-speed internet access for people in rural areas in New Mexico, including Quay County. The ENMR Telephone Cooperative will receive a $2.6 million grant to create a fiber-to-premises network to provide high-speed internet to residents of Quay, De Baca, Harding, San Miguel, Guadalupe, Union and Socorro counties. ENMR also will make high-speed internet affordable by participating in the FCC’s L...
The defending Class 1A champion Logan baseball team improved to 9-0 on the season after a commanding doubleheader sweep Friday at Clayton. In the first game, Logan scored 14 runs in the third inning en route to a 23-1 victory in five innings. Izaiah Kneitz, Skyler DeLuca and Park Strong each drove in three runs for the Longhorns, with totaled 21 hits and nine doubles. Kneitz and Brock Burns combined on the mound for for seven strikeouts and allowed just two hits and two walks. In the second game, the Longhorns scored a total of 17 runs in the...
Tucumcari senior Alexus Lafferty broke her own school record in the javelin throw Thursday at the 12-team George Love Invitational in Portales. Lafferty hurled the javelin a distance of 111 feet, 9 inches, breaking her old mark of 108 feet, 1 inch that she set last year. She tied for first place at the meet with Yolanda Granados of Eunice. Other Lady Rattlers who scored team points were: — Haisley Huffman, sixth in the 100-meter dash (0:13.83) and fifth in the long jump (15-5); — 1,600-meter sprint medley relay team, sixth (5:09.14). In boy...
The Logan softball team earned its first victories of the season with a doubleheader sweep Friday at San Jon. The Lady Longhorns (2-6) prevailed by scores of 21-4 and 24-2. In the first game for Logan, Charli Fuller went 3-for-5 hitting with two RBI and three runs scored. In the pitcher’s circle, she struck out three and allowed for hits for the win. Alexis Nixon went 3-for-4 with four stolen bases and three runs scored. Jayden Garcia also went 3-for-4 with a double and an inside-the-park grand slam. In the second game, Camryn Cantrell drew thr...
Kaden Brown was the top golfer for Tucumcari High School during the eight-team Lovington Invitational on Thursday. Brown shot a 97 at the par-71 Lovington Country Club course and finished 41st overall. He was the only Rattler to break 100 on the day. Other Tucumcari golfers at the event were: — Dylan Owen, who shot a 123 and finished 47th; — Logan Lafferty, who shot a 143 and finished 48th; — Creed Owen, who shot a 144 and finished 49th. The Rattlers finished eighth in the team standings at the event. Other schools competing were Carls...
William Sandoval, a Tucumcari High School graduate, recently received the Airman of the Year award from the Silver Knights AMU Guardians of Flight. Sandoval, a senior airman, is stationed at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington state as part of the 62nd Aircraft Wing. In his five years in the Air Force, Sandoval has been deployed twice to the Persian Gulf with missions in Iraq and Syria....
Two days after Kix on 66 in Tucumcari reopened last week, the restaurant was on the verge of running out of food. “We’ve been so busy, I had to call in an emergency truckload,” co-owner Donna Halfhill said Friday morning. “It stressed the heck out of me, but we’re all good. We definitely wouldn’t have had enough to get through the weekend.” Halfhill and her husband Todd closed on the purchase of Kicks on 66 at 1102 E. Route 66 Blvd. in late January. Todd Duplantis owned the restaurant since early 2019 after he acquired it from Yvonne Brazie...
A Quay County woman’s 2021 lawsuit against Lowe’s Market in Tucumcari after she said she tripped and was injured there was dismissed last month after both parties reached a compromise and settlement. Mallory Wolff of the Dathan Weems Law Firm of Albuquerque that represented Georgia Griego stated in her March 22 motion to dismiss with prejudice that Griego and the store’s owner “have compromised and settled their differences, and Plaintiff no longer wishes to prosecute this case.” A dismissal with prejudice means the ruling is final and canno...
In another sign the coronavirus pandemic likely was winding down, masks and physical distancing were no longer be required as of March 31 for any person inside a New Mexico courtroom or jury assembly area, the state’s Supreme Court announced last week. Also, jurors no longer need to answer health screening questions to enter a courthouse. Courts will continue to make masks available to any juror who chooses to wear one, but they are not required. The state’s judiciary lifted its remaining health related COVID-19 protocols in recognition of cha...
The New Mexico Department of Agriculture is accepting grant applications for its Healthy Soil Program from April 11 through May 17. Eligible entities are defined in the 2019 Healthy Soil Act as “local governmental [entities] with proven land management capacity to support healthy soil” and include pueblos, tribes, and nations; acequias; land grants; soil and water conservation districts; and New Mexico State University’s Cooperative Extension Service. NMDA also will accept grant applications from other local governmental entities that manag...