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Feb 16: Former Police Chief arrested New Mexico State Police arrested recently retired Tucumcari Police Chief Jason Braziel on Feb. 15 after an incident on the previous day, charging him with resisting and evading arrest and tampering with evidence. Braziel was released on a $3,000 cash bond later that day. He was also charged with reckless driving, leaving the scene of an accident involving damage to a vehicle and failure to give immediate notice of accident. Braziel surrendered himself to...
Determined Nara Visa residents in 2017 successfully marshaled opposition to a proposed three-mile-deep borehole to test a way to dispose of highly radioactive nuclear waste until the project was abandoned in late May. Their efforts, and parallel opposition efforts in three other locations nationwide proposed for test boreholes, persisted until the DOE's abandoned the idea. The boreholes were to be drilled to test the feasibility of the deep borehole concept as a possible final storage solution...
Tucumcari’s nuisance law, which seeks to enforce yard and building standards in a city riddled with abandoned, deteriorating buildings and weed-choked lots, survived opposition in 2017 that included an attempt to recall all city commissioners. Keith Hayes, 74, owner of Hayes Trucking and Concrete, responded to the city’s attempt to enforce the ordinance on some of his properties by seeking a recall of all the sitting commissioners. He succeeded in obtaining enough signatures to force a recall election for three of the commissioners, coming shor...
There are a lot of reasons bird enthusiasts brave the December cold to count birds every year - to contribute to national understanding of species and populations and to commune with other birders among them - but it's a rare coup when, in doing so, they discover something new. Yet that's exactly what happened in Clovis when a small group of birders set out early one morning a couple of weeks ago. During the 18th Annual Audubon Christmas Bird Count in Clovis, participants spent the day combing t...
It’s doubtful that people with extreme views on either side of the Mexican gray wolf recovery plan will be satisfied, but a recent decision by the state Game Commission to approve the new federal wolf recovery plan strikes a blow for reason and compromise. The state in recent years, with the support of ranchers and over the objections of some environmental and wildlife groups, has been locked in a legal struggle seeking to block expanded recovery efforts put forward by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. There were some good reasons for that r...
As I write this column, I have just finished assembling the Quay County Sun’s “year in review” stories. The two major, long-term stories were about protests. Both were underdog stories. One started as one man against a city, the other was about a rural community taking a stand against two corporations and a major department of the federal government. In the first case, the underdog seems to have lost. He was not alone in his fight against the city, however, since he got enough signatures on petitions to launch a recall election against three...
Let me stipulate that I believe if someone is found guilty of rape or pedophilia they should spend a substantial amount of time in prison. We are a nation of laws and for the most part we hold to the precept that all men are considered innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. The longest, most expensive criminal trial in U.S. history was the McMartin pre-school case. More than 300 counts of child abuse were alleged against the operators of a child care center in Los Angeles. The timeline...
TEXICO — The recent past indicates the Texico Wolverines would be a favorite to win the Eastern Plains Athletic Conference boys tournament Saturday, with titles in six of the last eight seasons. So does the present. The Wolverines, now 11-0 after winning their own tournament last week, go in as the top seed for the tournament entering its 61st year of featuring small-school basketball battles. The Texico girls enter as the No. 1 seed in the girls tournament, which runs Wednesday and Thursday at Texico High School before heading to Eastern N...
The Tucumcari Rattlers will try to shake of the Christmas break with two tough road games, said head coach John Span. The Rattlers came out of the break at 6-5 following their 1-2 finish of the Texico Wolverines Basketball tournament. “It has been tough with two of our starters down,” Span said. “We have had to rely on two younger players to fill the void.” Span said the younger players still lack confidence, though as they continue to play they are getting comfortable shooting the ball. He said the entire team has responded well to the nee...
Back in my Navy days, my chaplain used to say that Matthew 7:22-23 was the scariest passage in the whole Bible. I have tried, without success, to find a scarier one. Here it is in the King James translation. This is Jesus speaking: “Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.” This pro...
Here is a timeline of significant events reported in the Quay County Sun in 2017: Jan. 11: McCasland repeats as commission chair The Quay County Commission on Jan. 9 re-elected District III Commissioner Franklin McCasland to chair the commission through 2017. The commission also heard a report from Dan. C. Trigg Memorial Hospital Administrator Don Weidemann and Craig Cosner. The hospital plans to add services from a gastroenterologist, who specializes in digestive system issues, to replace Dr....