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Mark Lake, interim executive director for Tucumcari MainStreet, assured Tucumcari city commissioners during their regular meeting Thursday that ongoing MainStreet projects are continuing as planned despite a recent change in leadership. Lake was named interim director after the MainStreet board fired its executive director, Gail Houser, in February. Lake said Doug Quarles, Tucumcari's best-known muralist, has nearly completed a work on a breezeway wall on Main Street downtown. He also noted...
No one except William Barr and Robert Mueller, to our knowledge, has seen the Mueller report. We have seen Barr’s ultra–brief summary. Why, then, is everybody making stupendous leaps to conclusions about what’s in it? If they asked, and they won’t, here’s the advice I would give to principals in the whole sticky issue: President Trump: Remember George W. Bush standing on the deck of the U.S. Abraham Lincoln with that huge “Mission Accomplished” banner behind him when our Mideast troubles were just beginning. Nothing has ended. Barr says the...
Republican state Sen. Pat Woods of Broadview is supporting proposed constitutional amendments sponsored by Las Cruces Democrats Rep. Jeff Steinborn and Sen. William Soules requiring elections for some university regents now appointed by the governor. The amendments proposed in House joint resolutions would require elections board of regents members at the University of New Mexico and New Mexico State University. It was also require candidates for appointed regent positions to be vetted through a legislative commission. The bill wouldn't affect...
If you're a coach, the only thing better than having a strong team this year is getting them back next year. This year is one of those great next years for Eddie Encinias, coach of the Tucumcari Rattlers wrestling squad. His returnees include Agustin Sandoval, a state champ at 145 pounds, and two returning third-place state finishers in Dillon Wood, 126 pounds, and Rudy Vallejo, 220 pounds. All three are seniors. Encinias also places high hopes on senior Mario Chavez, 195 pounds, who was injured in a state semi-final match last year. "I expect...
Combine semi-truck flatbeds, fire trucks, farm and service vehicles and jeeps with sheets of mini-lights, Santa Claus and a lot of kids. Add a heavy dose of imagination and you get Tucumcari's annual Parade of Lights, which wound its way through Tucumcari on the evening of Dec. 8. QCS correspondent: James Lout Santa shouted holiday greetings from a cherry-picker bucket perched over the cab of the Tucumcari Fire Department's ladder truck. A total of 16 entries, ranging from the Mesalands Dinosaur Museum's flatbed-mounted mini-light T-Rex to a...
When the national Pearl Harbor Association disbanded a couple years ago, it hit Logan's Bobby Casados hard. Casados, a veteran active in Logan American Legion Post 77, took matters into his own hands. Howard Robertson tells one of his World War II stories as Bobby Casados looks on. On Friday, the 71st anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Casados saw his dedication pay off at the Legion Post. Attention turned at mid-day to remembering the attack on the U.S. Pacific Fleet that thrust the U.S. into World War II, described by...
From 80 to 100 kids called her "Mom" and her husband Mike was "Dad." "I don't want to see the word 'adoptive,'" Mike Day said. "They were our kids." That's how about 200 stunned and mourning children, former wards, friends and neighbors remembered Sue Day at a memorial service Tuesday for Sue and her daughter Sheri Day Folts, held in the County Fair Barn in Tucumcari. Sue Day, 76, and Folts, 49, were slain in their home on Nov. 26. Their son, 14-year-old Tony Day, is being held in connection to their deaths. The mood at Tuesday's service...
After weeks worth of debate, and the threat of a negative referendum election, Quay County commissioners voted Monday to repeal an animal ordinance. The vote was 2-1, with commissioners Robert Lopez and Bill Curry voting for the repeal and Commissioner Brad Bryant voting in dissent. The ordinance would have - Allowed law enforcement and prosecutors to impose penalties on pet owners who allowed their animals to let them run wild or to abandon them. - Required persons who own seven to 10 non-neutred pets to purchase an annual multi-annual $25...