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A winter storm Friday left hundreds of post-Christmas travelers stranded for hours — many of them overnight — in Tucumcari after authorities closed Interstate 40 west of town. Police shut down a snow-packed I-40 west of Tucumcari just before noon Friday and kept the highway closed until early evening. By then, westbound travelers with nowhere to go had filled the remainder of Tucumcari’s estimated 1,200 motel rooms. For those without a motel room, the First Baptist Church of Tucumcari set up about 200 cots, all of which where filled by Frida...
ALBUQUERQUE — The New Mexico Racing Commission held a special meeting Friday to discuss the state’s potential sixth racetrack license, but did not move any closer to issuing that license. “At this point in time, we’re basically in the same spot as we were previously,” said Izzy Trejo, the commission’s executive director. Friday’s meeting lasted about an hour and 45 minutes; almost all of it in closed session. None of the five groups vying to bring a racetrack to Clovis, Tucumcari or Lordsburg was awarded the license Friday, though Trejo...
Editor’s note: This is the second in a series of three stories summing up 2018 for Quay County. A review of January through April ran in the Dec. 26 edition, and a review of September through December is planned for the Jan. 9 edition. The middle of 2018 proved to be a consequential one for Quay County, starting with the official submission of an application to the New Mexico Racing Commission to build a proposed $80 million horse-racing track and casino in Tucumcari that would create 400 j...
On this date ... 1969: Mr. and Mrs. O.J. Alarcon at 1015 E. McGee St. in Tucumcari won first prize of $15 in the religious category of the city’s annual Christmas Lighting Contest. The newspaper noted most of the other contestants already had taken down their displays. • Cooper’s Market in Tucumcari advertised a 46-ounce can of Del Monte grapefruit juice for 33 cents and Maryland Club coffee for 63 cents a pound. The Safeway grocery in Tucumcari advertised T-bone steaks for $1.09 a pound and round steak for 99 cents a pound, both USDA choic...
• Saturday — Ribbon cutting. City officials and residents will celebrate the new location of Loretta’s Burrito Hut at 10 a.m. at 605 W. Route 66 Blvd., Tucumcari. • Jan. 16-17 — Southwest Beef Symposium. The symposium is an educational event tailored to beef producers, jointly hosted by New Mexico State University’s Cooperative Extension Service and Texas A&M Agrilife Extension Service. It typically includes a market outlook report, business planning, health concerns in cattle, live cattle demonstrations and more. Onsite registration is $95. Re...
The following individuals were booked into the Quay County Detention Center Dec. 23-30: • Dennis Dilbeck, 45, Tucumcari, driving while license suspended or revoked. • Demarco Johnson, 26, Memphis, Tennessee, contempt of court. • David Moses Garcia, 28, Tucumcari, contempt of court. • Hector Ledezma, 23, San Antonio, Texas, contempt of court. • Raymond Urioste, 35, Tucumcari, probation violation and two counts of contempt of court. • Devyn Baca, 21, Tucumcari, reckless driving. • Jesse Ray Lunn, 30, Tucumcari, larceny ($100 or less) and shoplift...
Next week, Quay County voters in the Tucumcari school district will receive in their mailboxes the ballots for the county's first-ever mail-in election. An estimated 4,400 registered voters will receive ballots in the mail about Jan. 8. From there, they can decide whether to renew the school district's two-mill tax for capital improvements. Ballots must be returned by mail or to the Quay County clerk's office at 300 S. Third St. in Tucumcari by Feb. 5. The school district, which will cover the...
The Loretta's Burrito Hut restaurant recently moved from a tiny trailer to another site that's bigger, is open longer, offers more dining options and prompted the hiring of more employees. Just before Christmas, owner Loretta Muller opened at the former Rubee's Diner building at 605 W. Route 66 Blvd. after being tucked in a street corner at 624 S. Third St. for five years. The Tucumcari/Quay County Chamber of Commerce will commemorate the move with a ribbon-cutting at 10 a.m. Saturday. Muller...
Out with the old, in with the new is the theme each New Year’s. Nowhere is that more true than in New Mexico as 2018 ends and 2019 begins. With the beginning of the new year, New Mexico will be getting a new government, fresh with a new governor, new state office holders and new legislators. Democrat Michelle Lujan Grisham took office on Tuesday, taking over for Republican Susana Martinez, who completed her second term on New Year’s Eve. New Mexico could see more change in the coming year than it has in the past eight years. That may or may...
I am writing this on Dec. 28. A new year, 2019, is fast approaching. Outside, it’s snowing, and since I don’t have to go anywhere today, I am joyfully watching the white blanket grow as it covers the lumps and bumps in my ill-kept yard with graceful, drifting curves. This close to the new year, one could say it symbolizes the pure blank page of fresh starts the next year will bring. This column will publish on the second day of 2019, but I’m happy to report on Dec. 28 that I neither contemplate nor intend to make resolutions for 2019. To be su...
The new year is a time for hope. We want to believe in a better year ahead, so we celebrate the possibilities. Here in New Mexico, there are a number of reasons to be optimistic about 2019, especially if you’re a Democrat, the party that now controls all three branches of state government. But politics won’t be the only big news in the year ahead; the economy will also make some headlines. In the upcoming legislative session, the last eight years of divided government will come to an end, which means a plethora of changes are about to occ...
The Quay County Courthouse soon will offer free legal consultations with an attorney by videoconference for anyone who needs it. The videoconference legal clinic will take place from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Jan. 11 in a private room of the second floor of the district courthouse at 303 S. Third St. in Tucumcari, said Marion Payton, court executive officer for the 10th Judicial Circuit Court in Tucumcari. The free legal clinic will be offered on the second Friday of each month. Attorneys from Albuquerque and Santa Fe will answer legal questions and...
Tucumcari schools Wednesday — No school. Thursday — No school. Monday — Breakfast: Apple cinnamon muffin with string cheese, cereal choice with cinnamon goldfish graham cracker, fruit, juice, milk; Lunch: Grilled cheese sandwich, egg and cheese chef salad with whole-grain crackers, tomato soup, Popeye salad with ranch dressing, fruit, milk. Tuesday — Breakfast: Sausage breakfast pizza, bagel with strawberry cream cheese, fruit, juice, milk; Lunch: Tater tot nachos, ham and cheese wrap, pinto beans, Spanish brown rice, romaine lettuce, fresh t...
How much do you know about Tucumcari Mountain? The uniquely shaped mesa just south of Tucumcari remains the most recognizable natural landmark in Quay County and a symbol of the city itself. Tucumcari Mountain is shown on the city's and county's websites and has sold countless postcards over the past century. Native Americans knew about the mesa for several millennia before white settlers arrived. Traiblazers wrote about it during the 18th and 19th centuries. Spanish conquistador Francisco...
These calls were made to the Tucumcari Quay Emergency Management Center Dec. 22-30: Dec. 22 • 8:21 a.m.: Fire in 1000 block of East Smith Avenue, Tucumcari. • 8:28 a.m.: Fire at unspecified address of Quay Road 63, Tucumcari. • 9:44 a.m.: Automobile theft in 6200 block of Quay Road AL, Tucumcari. • 10:12 a.m.: Recovered stolen vehicle in 6200 block of Quay Road AL, Tucumcari. • 10:36 a.m.: Fire at Main and Monroe streets, Tucumcari. • 12:36 p.m.: Breaking and entering in 600 block of East Hines Avenue, Tucumcari. • 3:51 p.m.: Fire at milepost 3...