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Tucumcari’s runners all saw improvements in their times during Saturday morning’s Lovington Invitational compared their previous week’s season-opening meet, but it didn’t field a full boys squad at the six-team event. The top runner for the Rattlers was eighth-grader Creed Owen, who finished the three-mile course in 23 minutes, 16 seconds. Tucumcari first-year coach Tim Clark said he didn’t have final results available but said Owen finished out of the top 10 at the event. Other Tucumcari boys runners were Alex Bueno De La O (23:28), Logan Laf...
The Subway restaurant inside the Circle K convenience store at 2624 S. First St. in Tucumcari lost its lease and was scheduled to close at the end of the business day on Tuesday, Sept. 6. Diane Morency, co-owner of the restaurant with her husband Jean for 17 years, said in a telephone interview last week she had the opportunity to look for another location in town but decided to semi-retire instead and concentrate their efforts at their other Subway store in Logan. “I’m on my feet at the store for a lot of hours, and I’m ready to slow down...
New Mexico State Police officers are investigating a teen’s drowning at Ute Lake in Logan. According to a news release, state police were sent at 9:53 a.m. Monday to Ute Lake for a 17-year-old boy who had gone into the water and not resurfaced. The state police dive team spent the day searching, suspended the search as darkness approached and resumed it at 6 a.m. Tuesday. About 8:30 a.m. Tuesday, the boy was found and was pronounced dead by the Office of the Medical Investigator. Because he was younger than 18, state police stated they will n...
Mesalands Community College received word last week it will receive a $2 million endowment for the college’s forthcoming nursing program. Shannon Fries, the college’s director of nursing, told the Mesalands board of trustees during its Aug. 23 meeting she was informed that day about the endowment from the New Mexico Higher Education Department. Mesalands President Gregg Busch smiled broadly during the videoconference meeting as he repeated the sum of $2 million. The endowment will be used for nursing faculty salaries, according to a Mes...
New Mexico State Police officers are investigating a teen’s drowning at Ute Lake in Logan. According to a news release, state police were sent at 9:53 a.m. Monday to Ute Lake for a 17-year-old boy who had gone into the water and not resurfaced. The state police dive team spent the day searching, suspended the search as darkness approached and resumed it at 6 a.m. Tuesday. About 8:30 a.m. Tuesday, the boy was found and was pronounced dead by the Office of the Medical Investigator. Because he was younger than 18, state police stated they will n...
The first meet of the season for Tucumcari High School cross-country runners was a learning experience not just for its athletes, but the coach. Virtually all of the Rattler runners this year are first-time participants in the sport. In addition, this is Tim Clark’s first time coaching such a team, replacing previous coach Gary Hittson after he became an assistant football coach. The Clovis Invitational on Friday wasn’t a meet full of creampuffs, either. “We were running against Carlsbad, Clovis, big schools ... and for our kids, it was their...
The Quay County Health Council announced Monday how it will use its recently received Better Together grant to help young people combat misinformation on social media about vaccines. Better Together is an initiative of the New Mexico Department of Health with funding from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and managed through Momentum Santa Fe. Nine state entities received funding with an emphasis on using unusual and creative ways to encourage routine and COVID-19 vaccinations. In June, the DOH announced the health council...
The New Mexico Racing Commission on Thursday declined to take action on Coronado Partners’ application for a horse-racing license, but there was no urgency to do so because both sides recently agreed to an extension on the decision. Warren Frost, a Logan-based lawyer for Coronado and one of its principals, said Friday his investor group and the racing commission mutually agreed on an extension for a decision on the application. The deadline for the commission to act now is Nov. 2, Frost said. The latest the commission could act on the applicati...
Quay County On the Move is inviting residents to spend an afternoon exploring Tucumcari’s four museums from 1 to 4 p.m. Sept. 17 as part of a scavenger hunt with prizes offered. Participating are the New Mexico Route 66 Museum at 1500 W. Route 66 in the back of the Tucumcari Convention Center, Tucumcari Railroad Museum at 101 E. Railroad Ave., Tucumcari Historical Museum at 416 S. Adams St. and Mesalands Dinosaur Museum at 222 E. Laughlin Ave. Upon arrival at one of the museums, participants should stop by the Quay County On The Move table, r...
Quay County’s new cases of coronavirus appear to have declined to a low and stable level, prompting a lowering of the risk of its spread by a prominent website that tracks the disease. The county’s COVID-19 cases totaled 15 last week, compared to 15 during the previous week reported by the New Mexico Department of Health. That’s a far cry from early August, when the county experienced 67 cases in one week, the highest it had been since the Delta variant ravaged the region last year. In response to the subsequent drop-off and apparent stabi...
A Nevada teen died in a one-vehicle accident Thursday on Interstate 40 east of San Jon. According to a news release from New Mexico State Police, officers responded to a rollover accident on eastbound I-40 at about 12:15 p.m. Thursday. The initial investigation indicated a 2005 Nissan Xterra sport utility vehicle was going east on I-40 with six people inside, including the driver. For unknown reasons, the driver lost control, and the vehicle rolled over. Two of the five passengers were thrown from the vehicle. One of them, 18-year-old Kejuan...
As quickly as coronavirus cases rose in early August, they dropped last week. Quay County COVID-19 cases totaled 15 last week, compared to 67 during the previous week reported by the New Mexico Department of Health when the area briefly became the state’s hotspot for the disease. In response to the drop-off, the COVID Act Now website on Friday upgraded Quay County from “high” to “medium” risk of community spread of the disease. Neighboring counties of Curry, Roosevelt, De Baca, San Miguel, Harding and Union were in the low-risk zone. Guadalupe...
The Quay County Health Council has scheduled two training sessions on how to use Narcan, a drug that can reverse potentially fatal overdoses of fentanyl, Oxycodone and other opioids. The first session will be at 12:15 p.m. Sept. 1 at the Tucumcari Railroad Depot. The second will be 5:30 p.m. Sept. 13 at the Quay County Extension Service Office at 216 E. Center St. through the side door. The council also is offering the training via Zoom videoconference. Those who want to watch by Zoom should call the council at (575) 815-4575 for the link. Trai...
Jal came into its home-opening game ranked second in the Class 2A coaches poll, and it largely justified it during a 65-0 drubbing Thursday of a young and inexperienced Tucumcari team. The game ended at halftime due to the mercy rule. The Panthers ran only 11 offensive plays but scored touchdowns on six. Jacob Lujan scored three rushing touchdowns, and quarterback Alexavier Carreon ran for two TDs and threw for another. The besieged Rattlers committed seven turnovers, logged only one first down (on a Jal penalty) and moved the ball past...
Logan’s defense scored four touchdowns on interception returns during a 74-0 season-opening rout Saturday of host Alamo Navajo in eight-man football action. The game near Magdalena ended at halftime due to the mercy rule. The Longhorns, ranked sixth in the state in eight-man football in the most recent coaches poll, romped to a 44-0 lead after just one quarter. Logan head coach Dwayne Roberts said his team played well but admitted Alamo Navajo was overmatched. “You couldn’t tell a whole lot,” he said. “We were a lot better team. The kids all...
New Tucumcari cross country coach Tim Clark apparently made a successful pitch to the boys in his high school to participate in the sport. The gist is, if you go out for cross country, it will get you in better shape for other sports. As a result, the Rattlers will take seven runners on its boys team when it opens its season at the Clovis Invitational on Friday afternoon at Ned Houk Park. Clark took over for previous coach Gary Hittson when he was tapped as an assistant football coach under new THS head coach Donnie Garcia. Last season,...
Quay County coronavirus cases spiked again Quay County, with 67 confirmed infections reported by the state’s Department of Health the week as the region became a hotspot for the disease. According to the COVID Act Now website that tracks the pandemic, Quay County totaled almost 500 cases per 100,000 people last week – the worst rate in New Mexico. That outpaced the second-worst county, McKinley, by a sizable margin. Last week’s infection numbers more than doubled, compared to 26 cases the previous week. Last week’s total also surpassed a spike...
The board for Logan Municipal Schools approved a resolution and lease-purchase agreement of $335,000 worth of education technology equipment after a brief special meeting on Aug. 8. Participating in the videoconference during the special meeting were representatives from Cuddy & McCarthy of Santa Fe, the board’s legal firm, and the district’s financial adviser, RBC Capital Markets of Albuquerque. Both guided the board through approving an Educational Technology Note as described by the Education Technology Equipment Act. Logan sup...
A Dexter man died in a one-vehicle crash Saturday near the intersection of U.S. 54 and Airport Road northeast of Tucumcari. According to a report from New Mexico State Police, the rollover accident killed Earl D. Kemmer, 71, of Dexter at 4:55 p.m. Saturday. State police stated in a news release that Kemmer’s Jeep Wrangler was traveling north on Airport Road at a high rate of speed when, for reasons unknown, the vehicle left the roadway, went airborne across the highway and rolled. Kemmer, who was not wearing a seat belt at the time, was t...
The Quay County Fair in Tucumcari resumes this week as it has for more than a century in Tucumcari, but this will be the third straight year it will lack a carnival. The fair on the city’s west side didn’t have a carnival in 2020 and 2021 due to COVID-19 restrictions, and other fair events also were curtailed during that time. Justin Knight, vice president of the fair board, said the fair’s previous carnival vendor, Arizona-based Sun Valley Rides, usually plans its schedule a year in advance. “We did not get him booked,” Knight said. “We could...
Quay County and New Mexico last week each displayed signs of a slowdown with the latest surge of coronavirus cases. Quay County recorded 26 confirmed cases of COVID-19 last week. That compares to 30 cases reported during the previous week. It was the fifth consecutive week more than 25 cases were reported in the county. The COVID Act Now website on Friday lowered Quay County’s community risk of spread of the disease from to “medium” after it had been lodged in the “high” risk area for several weeks. Neighboring San Miguel, De Baca, Harding and...
The Tucumcari City Commission during a special meeting last week approved a contract for legal services with an attorney who helped make corrections with the city’s cannabis ordinance earlier this year. During the Aug. 1 meeting, City Clerk Angelica Gray said an evaluation committee looked over the lone proposal from Santa Fe attorney Jared Najjar in the city’s request for legal services. She said the committee determined it scored 90.8 out of 100 in its grading criteria. The commission unanimously approved the recommendation of the committee,...
Cannabis sales hit record level of more than $40 million in July in New Mexico, and Tucumcari saw record numbers, as well. A news release Thursday from a spokeswoman for Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham stated July sales numbers surpassed every previous month since legal recreational marijuana sales began on April 1. It stated New Mexico’s adult-use cannabis sales totaled nearly $23.5 million in July, with medical marijuana sale at $16.8 million that month. Tucumcari’s sales in July totaled over $352,000, also a record. About $297,500 of that came i...
A total of 56 4-H members from more than a dozen New Mexico counties, including Quay County, participated on July 29-30 in the Quay County 4-H Rodeo at the Quay County Fairgrounds in Tucumcari. Prizes, provided through donations from Quay County businesses, ranged from saddles for the overall top winners, All-Around buckles for the runners-up, and buckles for event winners in each age division. Points earned qualify participants for the state rodeo finals in September. Listed are the winners in each division: Novice Division — Goat tying, M...
Nearly 50 people attended the annual Field Day last week at the New Mexico State University Rex E. Kirksey Agricultural Science Center in northeast Tucumcari despite temperatures that reached 102 degrees. The Field Day provides ag producers a chance to catch up on the center's latest research projects. Attendees boarded wagons for a hay ride to hear presentations about ongoing projects that are irrigated with treated wastewater from the Tucumcari wastewater treatment plant, plus other topics....