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The Tucumcari boys basketball team earned a surprise berth in the Class 3A tournament, but its first-round game Saturday night is no picnic — a trip to Santa Fe to face top-seeded St. Michael’s. Logan earned an eighth-seed in the Class 1A tournament and will host ninth-seeded Legacy Academy on Saturday. Playoff pairings were announced by the New Mexico Activities Association on Sunday afternoon. The 16th-seeded Rattlers (9-16) had been on the bubble for a postseason slot and were ranked 17th most recently by MaxPreps.com. Tucumcari coach Joh...
One bad quarter by the Tucumcari boys basketball team was all that host Ruidoso needed to secure a 57-45 victory on Saturday and a District 3A-4 tournament title. The Rattlers played well in the first period, getting points from all five starters and holding a 13-12 lead against the top-seeded Warriors. But Tucumcari (9-16) scored only one field goal during the second quarter. Meanwhile, Ruidoso (15-9) scored 16 to give it a 28-15 lead at intermission. The Warriors never trailed by double...
The Logan girls basketball team fell to second-seeded Fort Sumner 53-46 in the semifinal of the District A-6 Tournament on Wednesday. The Vixens stormed to a 10-0 lead early and never trailed, though the Lady Longhorns tightened it to a one-point game early in the second half. Lady Longhorns coach Dustin Robertson said his team didn’t lose due to a lack of effort. “Energy, talking and effort were all great again,” he said. “We just didn’t hit the shots like we have the previous few games. No doubt Fort Sumner’s defense had a little something t...
The Logan boys basketball team fell in the semifinals of the district tournament with a 66-51 loss Thursday at second-seeded Melrose. The Longhorns trailed just 26-23 at halftime, but an 8-1 run to start the third period gave the Buffaloes a double-digit lead. Melrose never trailed after that. “We didn’t have a great night shooting the basketball,” Logan coach Kyle Griffiths said. “Was a close game at halftime but struggle to score late.” Mason Wallin led the Longhorns with 14 points, and Brock Burns added 13. Logan, seeded third in the tourn...
A Tucumcari radio disc jockey soon will walk 66 miles on old Route 66 in the Tucumcari area to help raise funds for a local animal shelter. Jose Almeida, better known as DJ Lalo at KTNM and KQAY in Tucumcari, will walk a total of 22 miles east and back from the radio station on Friday, Saturday and Sunday for Paws and Claws Animal Rescue of Quay County. Almeida said he’ll walk 11 miles east on the south Interstate 40 frontage road that is old Route 66, then double back to town each day. He said he hasn’t been walking a lot in preparation, but...
Tucumcari MainStreet has been selected to participated in a new small business resiliency audit and resources pilot program. In partnership with Main Street America and New Mexico MainStreet, Tucumcari MainStreet will create new tools to assist small business owners and identifying and responding to challenges, according to a news release from New Mexico MainStreet. Over the next four to six months, Tucumcari MainStreet will engage five small business owners and entrepreneurs through assessments, on-site focus groups and interviews exploring...
LOGAN -- An Iowa man is accused of beating and severely injuring another man with a hammer in a Logan car wash last week. Arthur Raymond Peppers, 63, of Donahue, Iowa, is charged with attempted first-degree murder and tampering with evidence, both felonies. The attempted-murder count is a second-degree felony that can result in up to nine years in prison and a $10,000 fine. According to online court documents, Peppers was apprehended and jailed in Dalhart, Texas. He awaits extradition back to Quay County. Peppers is accused of beating Justin...
A Tucumcari woman was arrested on a warrant last week after being accused of mailing narcotics to an inmate in the county jail last fall. Ashley Nolan, 40, is charged with distribution of a controlled substance, conspiracy to commit distribution of a controlled substance, bringing contraband into jail and conspiracy to commit bringing contraband onto prison grounds. All are felonies. The distribution charge, the most serious, is a third-degree felony that could lead up to three years in prison and up to a $5,000 fine. According to an affidavit...
Just one COVID-19 case was reported in Quay County last week, according to data kept by the New Mexico Department of Health. That continued a downward trend in February — from three cases last week and six cases two weeks ago. That brought the total number of coronavirus cases in Quay County since the pandemic began in spring 2020 to 2,553 by Friday. According to the COVID Act Now website that tracks the disease, the county’s rate of new cases plummeted to 18.2 cases per 100,000 people last week, compared to 72.7 the previous week. Quay County...
The superintendent of Logan Municipal Schools informed school board members last week of bills in the New Mexico Legislature that may affect school districts, including one that could lengthen the school year. Superintendent Dennis Roch said during the board’s Feb. 13 meeting about House Bill 130, would increase the yearly minimum instruction time from 1,080 to 1,140 hours. However, he said that 60-hour increase can be used for professional development entirely, which has gained support from the state’s superintendents and teacher unions. Ano...
The Logan girls basketball team outscored host Grady 23-9 in the fourth quarter to turn a close district game into a comfortable 55-35 win on Thursday. The Lady Longhorns led just 32-26 after three periods. Desta Rose scored 18 points to lead Logan, and Liz Horner added 13. Grady fell to 10-12 overall and 0-6 in district play. The Lady Longhorns, seeded third in the District 6-A tournament with a 16-10 record and 3-3 in district play, were scheduled to play the Lady Bronchos again Monday in the first round. The winner of that will go to...
The Logan boys basketball team fended off a comeback bid by host Grady on Thursday for a 61-59 victory in its regular-season finale. The win sealed a No. 3 seed for the Longhorns (16-10 overall, 3-5 in district play) for this week’s District 6-A tournament. Logan, which earned a first-round bye, was scheduled on Tuesday to host the winner of Monday’s game between Clovis Christian (17-9, 3-5) and Grady (7-15, 0-8). The winner of that game would go to second-seeded Melrose (20-5, 6-2) at 6 p.m. Thursday. The winner of that contest would go to...
The Mesalands Community College board of trustees appointed an acting interim president Tuesday night, but not without testy opposition from the executive staff who labeled the move as “retaliatory” against them and accused the board of violating its own policies. The board also approved a solvency plan of salary and program cuts for the financially troubled college and moved to implement it immediately. The move clears the way for the New Mexico Department of Higher Education’s proposal of issuing up to $4.7 million in emergency funds for M...
New Mexico State Police is investigating an aggravated battery in Logan that has left the victim in critical condition. Early Tuesday, a victim was found with severe injuries consistent with an aggravated battery at 1006 Martinez St. in Logan. Logan Police Chief Rodney Paris said Tuesday the victim was “covered in blood” but did not give any more details, citing the NMSP investigation. The victim was airlifted to a hospital in Lubbock, Texas, and is in critical condition. This investigation remains active as the New Mexico State Police Inv...
Quay County’s risk of community spread of COVID-19 dropped back to the “low” level after a two-week spike. The COVID Act Now website that tracks the disease on Friday dropped Quay County’s risk of community spread from the “medium” level. It was in the “high” level two weeks ago. According to COVID Act Now, the county’s rate of new cases rose rose to 72.7 cases per 100,000 people last week, compared to 48.5 the previous week. COVID-19 admissions in the Curry-Roosevelt Health Service Area, which fueled COVID Act Now’s downgraded ratings...
Four reports of shots-fired incidents in Tucumcari last Tuesday night led to a brief lockdown of Rattler Gymnasium after a boys basketball game. Interim Tucumcari Police Chief Patricia Lopez said Wednesday that police had identified two possible suspects in shots-fired incidents, but no arrests had been made. Lopez said the shots-fired calls came from throughout the city. She said no injuries or property damage had been reported. One of the shots-fired calls was reported near West Tucumcari Boulevard, prompting a precautionary lockdown of...
Eight members of the Tucumcari High School boys wrestling team qualified for this weekend's state tournament. Five Rattlers initially made the cut Saturday during the two-day, 19-team Region 2-4A Championships at Socorro. The top seven from each weight class earned an automatic berth. Tucumcari's five initial qualifiers: - Fernando Ureste (31-7), who finished a team-best third in the 114-pound weight class and went 4-1 on the day. His only loss was a 7-0 decision to Silver's Kade Aguirre in the...
The Logan boys basketball team led much of the first half, but state-ranked Fort Sumner outscored the Longhorns 45-21 in the second half to prevail 70-47 in a district matchup Saturday. The Longhorns grabbed leads of 6-0 and 11-6 early against the Foxes and maintained a 26-25 advantage at intermission. The Foxes began to take control with an 8-0 run to start the second half and led 50-37 after the third period. Another Fort Sumner scoring run in the fourth quarter gave the Foxes a 20-point lead. “We played a great first half, but we came out a...
The Logan girls basketball team saw an early lead wither away during a 54-41 district loss Saturday at Fort Sumner. The Lady Longhorns took a 15-11 lead in the first quarter and 21-19 in the second. But the Vixens surged to a 29-24 advantage by halftime and expanded it to 44-27 late in the third period. “Shots were not falling through,” Logan coach Dustin Robertson said. “We shot the basketball terribly. Part of that is, no doubt, because of Fort Sumner’s great defense. “We had spurts in the game that we played really well. But we’ve got...
A Tucumcari teen who died in a Jeep accident last month at Five Mile Park was hanging out the vehicle’s window and wasn’t belted into his passenger-side seat when the crash occurred. The driver had been making tight circles, known as doing doughnuts or drifting, when the vehicle overturned onto its side. Those details were revealed in a recently completed and partially redacted Tucumcari Police Department report compiled by Detective Reyes Gonzales, which the Quay County Sun obtained Friday through an open-records request. Interim police chi...
Pieces of wire brush found in mashed potatoes during lunch Wednesday at Tucumcari Public Schools prompted the district to pull the product off its shelves and alert the manufacturer. Superintendent Aaron McKinney, in a social media post Wednesday to parents, said the pieces of wire brush were V-shaped and about 1 inch long. “We have no report of any students ingesting the wire brushes at this time, but all products have been pulled from the shelves,” he wrote. McKinney said Friday he knew of only a couple of instances where the wire brush pie...
The Mesalands Community College board of trustees during a special meeting Thursday night approved an insolvency plan that imposes progressively deeper pay cuts for higher-earning employees and cuts some programs for the financially distressed college. The board also approved a request of $4.7 million in state emergency funding to carry Mesalands through the end of the fiscal year in June after officials recently learned the college had only enough money to cover one more payroll period. The insolvency plan initially proposed a 2% pay cut for...
Two Tucumcari people have been criminally charged in the death of another resident who was attacked and killed last week by a pack of dogs and face a court date Friday. Mary Montoya, 50, and Kristopher Morris, 27, both of the 400 block of West High Street, each was charged with involuntary manslaughter and a dangerous dog (death of a person). They were booked into the Quay County Detention Center on Wednesday. They are scheduled to appear in magistrate court at 1 p.m. Friday. The dangerous-dog charge is a third-degree felony that can lead up...
Four reports of shots-fired incidents in Tucumcari on Tuesday night led to a brief lockdown of Rattler Gymnasium after a boys basketball game and officers searching to find the suspects. Interim Tucumcari Police Chief Patricia Lopez said Wednesday that police had identified two possible suspects in shots-fired incidents, but no arrests had been made. Tucumcari Police still were investigating. Lopez said the shots-fired calls came from throughout the city. She said no injuries or property damage had been reported. One of the shots-fired calls...
Former Tucumcari police chief Pete Rivera says he holds no hard feelings from his firing last month. Rivera said in a phone interview last week he was relieved to no longer be in law enforcement. “Out of the 35 years in that work, it’s time for me to relax,” he said. Rivera said the city did not provide a reason for his termination on Jan. 26. He said he was still on his six-month probationary period in his employment as police chief. As a result, the city was not required to give a reason for his firing. “Everything’s good; I’m happy,” Rivera...