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Tucumcari’s UPS Customer Center closed a few weeks ago — right before residents would begin to ship packages for the holidays — with no nearby alternate from the company. A poster affixed to the UPS facility’s front door at 524 E. Tucumcari Blvd. stated the UPS Customer Center there was permanently closed effective Oct. 31. UPS package deliveries are continuing as normal in the region. The poster stated nearby locations servicing UPS packages could be found at ups.com/dropoff. However, the website could not find a drop-off location for anyone...
The Tucumcari boys basketball team opened its season with a consolation championship Saturday by defeating Maxwell 46-41 at the West Las Vegas/Brian Gallegos Tournament. The Rattlers (2-1) outscored the Bears 16-10 in the third quarter to create some space. “We opened it up in the second half and went to a straight press defense, try to wear them down a little bit,” Tucumcari coach John Span said. “We missed some opportunities, but we gained enough to put them away a little bit.” Kamren Apodaca, a 6-foot-4 freshman, lead Tucumcari with 20 point...
The Lady Rattlers couldn't ask for a better way to start their season. The Tucumcari girls basketball team rampaged through the Lady Lion Classic at Santa Rosa, including a convincing 58-35 victory over the host team Saturday in the title game. Alexus Lafferty, named Most Valuable Player of the tournament, led Tucumcari with 14 points. Sisters Cambree and Caylee Benavidez each added 13 points, and July Lafferty scored 10 points. Kyla Lopez, July Lafferty and Caylee Benavidez also were named to...
The Logan boys basketball team advanced to the finals Saturday at the Dora Tournament but encountered a big roadblock in Dora center Steven Masini. Masini, a 6-foot-5, 220-pound senior center, scored 26 points and grabbed 13 rebounds against the Longhorns during a 49-37 victory, giving the tourney title to the Coyotes (4-0). “Their big man is a load for anyone in the state to guard,” Logan coach Kyle Griffiths said. “If we would have made some open shots, we would have been right there at the end. “Overall, I’m proud of the way we competed...
The Tucumcari boys wrestling team opened its season by going 3-2 in dual matches Saturday at the Los Lunas Duals event. The Rattlers defeated the Los Lunas junior varsity, district foe Del Norte and Bloomfield but lost to big-school powerhouses La Cueva and Atrisco Heritage. Fernando Ureste, wrestling at 114 pounds, won all five of his matches for Tucumcari. Defending state champion Xzander Garcia, competing at 166 pounds, went 4-1 for the Rattlers. First-year Tucumcari coach Tim Clark said 121-pound wrestler Billy Otero was out with the flu. C...
Logan senior linebacker Park Strong helped the Red team to a 29-6 victory Saturday at the Small School Red vs. Green All-Star Football Event. The game, organized by the New Mexico High School Coaches Association, was played at the Bulldog Bowl in Artesia. Logan coach Dwayne Roberts, who attended the game, said Strong made "10 or 12 tackles. He did well, as expected." Roberts said Strong also made two sacks and several other tackles for a loss. "He was in the backfield a lot," he said. Strong...
The Mesalands Community College esports team recently qualified for the playoffs in its very first season. The Stampede made it to the postseason for its play in “Halo: Infinite,” “Super Smash Bros Ultimate” and “Call of Duty: Warzone” video games. All Mesalands players qualified for the playoffs as a starter or substitute. Mesalands was eliminated in the early rounds of the postseason, including losses to top-seeded Hutchinson Community College of Kansas and No. 1 overall seed Shelton State Community College of Alabama. “We are proud of the...
The Logan Municipal School board during a special meeting Nov. 28 officially petitioned the state for a waiver from the required daily money deposits by the school district because of the reduction of a local bank’s hours. New Mexico Bank & Trust on the week of Nov. 21 cut back operations at its Logan branch to two days a week, citing a lack of staff. The Logan branch is scheduled to close permanently at noon Dec. 16. The board voted to petition the New Mexico Public Education Department for a waiver from having to deposit daily any cash the d...
The Logan girls basketball team won two games after dropping its season-opener against a Texas squad at the Dora Tournament. The Lady Longhorns closed the tourney with a 52-10 pasting of Cloudcroft on Saturday. Hailee Robertson led Logan with 17 points, and teammate Lizzy Horner added nine. “Overall, I thought the girls did a good job this weekend,” Logan first-year coach Dustin Robertson said. “Everyone received some much needed experience that I hope helps their confidence grow. “We did have moments where our inexperience showed up, but the...
The Quay County Health Council recently received a $3,000 grant from the Union Pacific Community Ties Giving Program to help it upgrade its videoconferencing technology. Health council coordinator Brenda Bishop stated in an email the organization will use the money to buy an Owl Labs videoconferencing system and projector so meeting attendees can see presentations with the room’s lights on. The grant also will be used to buy a new sound system. “This makes the hybrid meeting better on both ends,” she stated. A news release from the counc...
The New Mexico Department of Health urges pet and livestock owners in De Baca County and surrounding area to vaccinate their animals against rabies after a cat tested positive for rabies last week. It was the first cat that tested positive for rabies in De Baca County based on records that go back to 1966. “This positive rabies test in a cat shows the importance of keeping pets, horses and valuable livestock up-to-date on rabies vaccinations,” said Dr. Chad Smelser, deputy state epidemiologist. “Domestic animals can come into contact with...
Quay County’s number of confirmed coronavirus cases went back down again last week after a spike during the previous period. The number of COVID-19 cases in the county last week totaled seven by Wednesday, compared to 14 in the previous week. Two other weeks in early November also totaled seven cases each. The New Mexico Department of Health did not report data on Thursday or Friday because of the Thanksgiving holiday. According to the COVID Act Now website, Quay County’s rate of new cases dropped somewhat to 121.2 cases per 100,000 people las...
The recent opening of Sunset Avenue Boutique women's clothing store in Tucumcari fulfills a dream the owner held since she was a girl. "I've always wanted a store since I was 10 years old," owner and operator Breanna Driscoll said during an interview last week, less than a week after the boutique's soft opening on Nov. 18. "I used to spend a lot of summers at my grandma's house in Schulenburg, Texas, another small town a lot like this. "I always wanted to do this, and this seemed like a good...
A Texas man filed a lawsuit earlier this month against a Tucumcari travel center after he said he was injured when an air pump hose exploded in his hand. Mikhail Franklin of El Paso filed the suit on Nov. 7 in Tucumcari district court against Pilot Travel Centers LLC, which owns and operates the Flying J Travel Center on South Mountain Road in Tucumcari. The lawsuit states Franklin was at the Flying J on July 25, 2021, when he attempted to use an air pump machine that “unexpectedly exploded in his grasp without warning.” It stated there was...
Two Tucumcari High School football players earned all-district honors in District 4. Senior offensive guard and middle linebacker Xzander Garcia and junior offensive guard and linebacker Antonio Gonzales were the top vote-getters from the Rattlers program for first-team honors in the district, which included Ruidoso, Dexter, Hope Christian and New Mexico Military Institute. Tucumcari’s Jordan Rincones, a sophomore running back and linebacker, and Daymion Urioste, a freshman running back and outside linebacker, each earned second-team honors i...
About a month before Logan’s only bank is scheduled to close, it reduced its hours of service to only two days a week. Starting this week, New Mexico Bank & Trust will open its Logan branch along U.S. 54 only on Tuesdays and Thursdays, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. both days. Those hours will apply both to lobby and drive-through services. Shauna Shannon, vice president of marketing for New Mexico Bank & Trust, cited the lack of staff to open the Logan branch on more days before it closes for good on Dec. 16. “Currently, we only have one employee off...
Mesalands Community College President Gregg Busch announced last week that Jim Morgan, chief operations manager and a key figure in developing its wind-energy program, will retire on Dec. 31 after 23 years. On Busch’s nomination after the announcement, the board of trustees unanimously voted during its Nov. 15 meeting to grant Morgan chair emeritus status, which retains him staff privileges at the college. Busch said Morgan also would return as a contractor to help Mesalands on several projects. “He will be sorely missed,” Busch said. Board...
Three Tucumcari High School volleyball players earned first-team honors from District 4’s all-district teams announced last week. The top Lady Rattlers were junior outside hitter Haisley Huffman, sophomore setter Caylee Benavidez and senior libero Alexus Lafferty. Benavidez led the Lady Rattlers in assists (489) and kills (241), plus was second in digs (216) and third in blocks (23). It was the second time she earned all-district honors. Lafferty, a four-year starter, led the team in digs (384), serve receptions (707) and serving aces (92). S...
Tucumcari's Alexus Lafferty closed her high-school volleyball career Saturday by helping the Small School Green Team All-Stars defeat the Red Team All-Stars in an annual exhibition of the state's top seniors. Lafferty, a libero, "served a few aces and did really good," said her THS coach, Dana Benavidez. The Green team downed the Red team in five sets. Benavidez and several of Lafferty's Lady Rattler teammates attended the game. The Red vs. Green All-Star Volleyball Event, organized by the New...
Three Logan players and one San Jon player made it to the first team in District 6 volleyball honors announced last week. For the Lady Longhorns, junior outside hitter Kaylee Williams, junior middle hitter Natalie Bongers and junior defensive specialist Bella Coronado each earned first-team honors. Logan finished 18-9 overall, second in its rugged district and earned a berth to the Class 1A state tournament, falling one match short of making it to the semifinals. San Jon junior Sarah Archuleta was the only Lady Coyote to earn first-team...
Two players from Logan's football team earned first-team honors when District 3 announced its all-district selections in eight-man football last week. Senior offensive lineman Park Strong made the first team in two spots - as a lineman on offense and as a linebacker on defense. Brock Burns was the other first-team pick for the Longhorns, at the defensive end position. Strong, a senior, averaged a team-high 11.1 tackles per game and tied a team high with 24 tackles for a loss. Burns, a junior,...
Quay County’s number of confirmed coronavirus cases doubled last week, while infections and hospitalizations continued to increase in New Mexico. The number of COVID-19 cases in the county last week totaled 14, compared to seven in each of the previous two weeks. The county’s weekly cases had dropped to as low as two as recently as early October. According to the COVID Act Now website, Quay County’s rate of new cases rose to 145.4 cases per 100,000 people last week, from 92.9 the previous week. Despite the increase, the website listed the c...
Tucumcari officials came up with a rough plan of action Thursday to begin restoration of murals throughout the city. Any sort of plan for the long-closed Princess Theatre in downtown will be a lot more complex - and expensive. Scott Crotzer, director of the Tucumcari/Quay County Chamber of Commerce, organized two meetings Thursday regarding the murals and the theater with Emily Bates, tourism development coordinator for the state. Doug Quarles, who has painted most of the 30-plus murals in town,...
New Mexico State Police last week identified a Clovis man as the second person killed in a car-train accident that occurred on Nov. 4 between Tucumcari and Logan. Abraham Riquiac-Gonzalez, 30, of Clovis, was the driver of the Toyota Camry car that was struck by a Union Pacific train at a County Road Ad crossing, just off U.S. 54, according to an email Friday from a state police public information officer. State police three days after the accident identified Pedro Jimon, 38, also of Clovis, as a passenger in the car. The Camry was going north...
Tucumcari senior Alexus Lafferty was named to the Small School Green All-Star volleyball team by the New Mexico High School Coaches Association. Lafferty, a libero who was a four-year starter for the Lady Rattlers, totaled 426 digs, 707 serve receptions and 94 serving aces this season. The Lady Rattlers finished 16-9 this season and qualified for the state tournament for the third time in four years. The Red vs. Green All-Star Volleyball Event is scheduled for noon Nov. 19 at West Mesa High School in Albuquerque. Other players on the Green Team...