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A landmark sign ordinance that could pit private property rights against historic preservation received approval for publication at 2020's first meeting Thursday of the Tucumcari City Commission. Thursday's meeting was the first for Paul Villanueva, who defeated incumbent Amy Gutierrez in November's elections to represent District 2. Villanueva was elected to a four-year term. The commission, with District 1 Commissioner Ralph Moya voting "no" on two votes, also reinstated District 3...
Quay County Commissioners on Monday approved an amendment from the New Mexico Department of Transportation that waives the county’s $162,182.37 cost share of a project to replace a 1931 bridge on Old Route 66 east of San Jon. County road superintendent Larry Moore presented the contract from the state’s Local Government Transportation Project that waives the county’s 5% cost to replace Historic Route 66 Bridget No. 1625 that spans Trujillo Creek. The county learned in August it received a $3.08 million grant from the state’s Local Governm...
Several business owners expressed dissatisfaction with the city’s tourism marketer during the Tucumcari Lodgers Tax Advisory Board meeting Wednesday, and the representative of a Colorado firm said she’d be willing to take over those duties if the city declined to renew the marketer’s contact in the coming weeks. The discontent went public during the meeting when Loni Monahan, director of the Mesalands Dinosaur Museum, mentioned during public comments that new billboards touting the museum had increased visitor numbers there by one-third. The c...
Fourteen high-school dual enrollment students from northeastern New Mexico recently completed their first semester in Wind Energy Technology at Mesalands Community College. Their training included climbing the 1.5-megawatt wind turbine adjacent to the college's North American Wind Research and Training Center. The initiative is part of the Northeast New Mexico College and Career Consortium. Last year, the state Legislature approved $103,000 to the High Plains Regional Education Cooperative to...
The Quay County Clerk’s Office is reminding voters and prospective candidates to make sure their registrations are in order before the primary election for Democratic and Republican parties June 2. The New Mexico Secretary of State will issue a proclamation Jan. 27 calling for the primary election. At that time, a candidate’s registration is frozen, and no additional changes can be made. Anyone interested in becoming an electoral candidate should make sure his or her registration is in order before that date. A person who is not registered to...
Mesalands Community College will hold its spring enrollment from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday in the Commons Area, located in Building A on campus. New and returning students are invited to this “one-stop shop” registration event. College faculty and staff will be available to help students through the application and enrollment process. No appointment is necessary. Financial aid is available for those who qualify. For more information, visit fafsa.gov or schedule an appointment with the Financial Aid Office by calling (575) 461-4413, ext. 136...
On this date ... 1970: Dwain Johnston of Tucumcari was named New Mexico State Police’s Officer of the Year. Johnston had been a state trooper since 1959 and stationed in Tucumcari since 1963. Born in Vernon, Texas, he moved to New Mexico at age 14 and became a firefighter at Carlsbad before joining the state police force. A father of three children, he recently retired as scoutmaster of Cub Pack 621. • Three people were hospitalized in fair condition with head and internal injuries at Trigg Memorial Hospital in Tucumcari after the driver, an...
• Saturday — Viva Las Tucumcari. The Tucumcari/Quay County Chamber of Commerce banquet from 6 to 9 p.m. offers plenty of fun and plenty to win between games, a prize raffle and a silent auction. The event also will introduce the first-ever Taste of Tucumcari. Check back for more information as the event approaches. Tickets will be $35 per person and $250 for a table of eight. Contact the chamber at (575) 461-1694 for information about sponsor opportunities. Tucumcari Convention Center. • Monday — Quay County Democratic Party meeting. The organi...
Cancer remains a dreaded diagnosis, but there’s heartening news. America is showing great progress against some of the most deadly forms of the disease, particularly lung cancer and the aggressive skin cancer melanoma. Researchers have reported the largest-ever one-year decline in the U.S. cancer death rate, a drop of 2.2% between 2016 and 2017, according to the American Cancer Society. The rate has fallen resoundingly — nearly 30% — from 1991 to 2017, affecting nearly 3 million lives. Anyone who lost a loved one to cancer in that quart...
I used to work in public relations, even getting myself designated an APR — Accredited Public Relations — that required spending a day taking written tests and a 20-minute oral exam. A public relations what? We preferred the term “practitioner,” but if you said “professional” we would not object. We recognized the thin line between being factual and making our clients look good to specified audiences. I was accredited through the Public Relations Society of America, an honorable trade organization that even has a code of ethics. To PRSA, publi...
Here we are again, about to enter into the abyss of a 30-day legislative session. It’ll be one of the fun ones, when lawmakers will get to spend-spend-spend. It must be refreshing for legislators who, not so long ago, had to cut-cut-cut their way through hard times and a tax-averse governor. Nowadays, state coffers are flush with oil and gas revenues and there’s enough money for increases everywhere, to state agencies all over the place. In a press release from the governor’s office last week, a $7.68 billion budget proposal was annou...
How did you spend your New Year's Day? Whatever the activity was, it probably wasn't as exciting as what two Tucumcari High School cheerleaders did in London. Senior Mariah Ruvalcaba-Vasquez, also the school's cheer captain, and sophomore Alan Jimenez were part of a large group of American cheerleaders called Varsity Spirit that performed at London's New Year's Day Parade in front of an estimated 10,000 people. Ruvalcaba-Vasquez and Jimenez said they qualified to be a part of the London team...
Tucumcari schools Wednesday — Breakfast: Cheesy scrambled eggs, cocoa puffs, whole wheat toast, cinnamon graham cracker, milk, juice; Lunch: Pulled pork, American harvest salad, diced potatoes, honey wheat roll, romaine lettuce, cherry tomatoes, juice, milk. Thursday — Breakfast: Pork sausage biscuit sandwich, Trix cereal bar, milk, juice; Lunch: Pepperoni pizza, garden salad, fresh broccoli, ranch dressing, frozen vegetable cup or Sunbelievable, juice, milk. Monday — Breakfast: Ham and cheese breakfast bagel, apple cinnamon muffin, strin...
Today, I rise in defense of the idea that God does indeed care who wins the football game. It’s not that God has a favorite team. It’s not that God grants victory to the team that prays the best or has a believer for a coach. Jesus isn’t wearing anyone’s jersey. With all that said, God still cares about wins and losses. The reason they matter is each game involves a whole bunch of people who were made in God’s image. The Bible says that God cares about the smallest details of all of those ima...
These individuals were booked into the Quay County Detention Center from Jan. 6 to Jan. 11: • Steven Clay Bruhn, 39, Layton, Utah, contempt of court. • Frankie Martinez, 22, Tucumcari, battery against a household member and disorderly conduct. • Catherine McCain, 24, Tucumcari, probation violation. • Anthony Nike Ramirez, 22, Tucumcari, contempt of court. • Jesus Robles, 39, Grand Junction, Colorado, making a false report. • Luis Salinas, 39, Logan, probation violation. • Anthony Arthur Molina, 26, Tucumcari, battery on a household mem...
PORTALES - It was a matter of perspective. For the Logan girls basketball team, Saturday night's Eastern Plains Athletic Conference championship game at Greyhound Arena was a stirring comeback, a double overtime victory, an achievement 44 years in the making. For Melrose it was a lost opportunity, a title that slipped away. Logan, down big for most of Saturday's game, rallied to force overtime, then forced another one, and won its first EPAC championship since 1976 by defeating the Lady...
The Tucumcari boys basketball team surprised visiting state-ranked Raton 61-49 on Jan. 7, but Rattlers coach John Span wasn't quite willing to call it an upset. At the same time, Span said he saw an opportunity for his squad against a Tigers team ranked seventh in the Class 3A coaches poll and second in MaxPreps.com with a 9-1 record going to the game at the Snake Pit. Tucumcari was 3-8. "They haven't played the teams that we've played," he said. "I'm not bad-mouthing them, because their record...
The Logan boys basketball team finished fourth in the Plateau EPAC Tournament with a 66-61 loss Saturday to Elida at Eastern New Mexico University's Greyhound Arena in Portales. Longhorns coach Kyle Griffiths said his team was outscored 18-6 in the third quarter, which proved to be a turning point in the game. Logan also missed 15 free throws. Griffiths said his players "have to take advantage of easy opportunities and can't have quarters where we get beat so bad." Wyatt Wright led Logan with 14...
The Tucumcari girls basketball captured the Bean Valley Conference Tournament title for a fifth straight year Saturday by defeating host team Estancia 62-25 in the championship game. The Lady Rattlers (9-3) dominated the tournament, winning by an average margin of nearly 29 points per game while also vanquishing Santa Rosa 72-45 and Mountainair 58-36. All five of Tucumcari's starters - Jasmine Jones, Alexus Lafferty, Ashley Shipley, Reece Goldston and Aaliyah Brown - earned all-tournament...
The Tucumcari wrestling team finished fifth of 12 teams at Saturday’s Spartan Duals at Bernalillo High School and gave its coach optimism for the Rattlers’ upcoming matches against district rivals. Tucumcari 170-pound wrestler Joe Martinez, a runner-up at the state tournament last year, went 5-0 on the weekend. Tucumcari teammates Julian Vargas (138 pounds) and Colt Garcia (182) each went 4-1 during their individual matches. Caleb White went 3-2 on the weekend, as well. Rattlers coach Eddie Encinias said those strong performances enabled his...
The Lady Longhorns used a balanced scoring attack to defeat district rival Fort Sumner 48-33 in the semifinal Friday of the Plateau EPAC Tournament at Greyhound Arena. Jordan Hines led the Logan with 10 points. "We looked OK," Logan coach Glynna Strand said. "Not were we need to but slowly getting there." Fort Sumner, ranked third in Class 1A by MaxPreps.com, fell to 9-4. Logan 46, Tatum 22 Logan overwhelmed defending Class 1A champion Tatum 46-22 in the second round Thursday of the Plateau...
These calls were made to the Tucumcari-Quay Regional Emergency Communications Center from Jan. 6 to Jan. 12: Monday • 9:51 a.m.: Trespassing in 100 block of West Tucumcari Boulevard, Tucumcari. • 12:16 p.m.: Arrest at Second Street and Hines Avenue, Tucumcari. • 12:39 p.m.: Trespassing in 600 block of East McGee Avenue, Tucumcari. • 4:14 p.m.: Search warrant in 1000 block of South Second Street, Tucumcari. • 8:17 p.m.: Theft in 2300 block of South First Street, Tucumcari. • 11:54 p.m.: Domestic violence with no weapon in 3700 block of Quay Road...