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A Texas jury required less than an hour to deliver a guilty verdict against a Logan EMT and volunteer firefighter who groped a 17-year-old girl in an Amarillo hotel room in 2021. Brian Cox of Logan was convicted of indecent assault, a misdemeanor, by a Potter County jury on March 16, according to court records. Cox was 38 at the time of the offense. Cox was sentenced to 90 days in the Potter County Jail, along with a 365-day suspended sentence and two years of community supervision. He was booked into the jail the next day. Village of Logan...
The Village of Logan council didn’t have to look far to find a new village administrator. It tapped its police chief, Rodney Paris, as the new leader of village operations. He officially was hired March 2. Paris said in a phone interview he was ready to go a different direction in his career. “I’ve served 26 years in law enforcement, and I was ready for a change but didn’t want to retire,” he said. “I felt like I could do a good job for the people of Logan and the visitors who come to town.” Paris said among his high-priority goals are to...
Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham's public health order regarding coronavirus is scheduled to expire after Friday, more than three years after the pandemic started. "While we're still seeing COVID cases, our preparedness and collaborative work have helped turn a once-in-a-century public health emergency into a manageable situation," she said earlier this month while also urging elderly and immunocompromised people to get vaccinated or their booster shots. COVID-19 killed 70 residents of Quay County...
The Tucumcari City Commission postponed its work session and regular meeting last week after it failed to have a quorum. The work session was rescheduled to 5 p.m. Thursday, March 30, with the regular meeting at 6 p.m., both at city hall. Mayor Ralph Moya and Commissioner Paul Villanueva attended the sessions last Thursday, but commissioners Mike Cherry and Christopher Arias were absent. Arias was in Dallas for job training, and Cherry was recuperating at home following an traffic accident in southern New Mexico the previous weekend. Moya said...
• Saturday — Easter egg hunt at Dunn Park, Tucumcari. This free event from 10 to noon will be for children from kindergarten through fifth grade only. The Pure Elegance Car Club and Tucumcari Disc Golf Club are organizing it. • April 22 — Tucumcari Rotary Club’s Surf and Turf Dinner. The event includes a dinner at the Tucumcari Elks Lodge from 6 to 7:30 p.m. and a dance featuring Limited Edition. Tickets are $40 and are available at go.rallyup.com/trsurfandturf. Proceeds will benefit the Rotary Club’s scholarship and youth leadership...
On this date ... 1972: Tucumcari city fathers had a rude awakening when they learned the sewer project on the city’s west end was not funded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as originally thought. The project was declared eligible for federal-state participation, and an EPA office in Dallas concurred with that assessment after several phone calls and letters. During construction, the mayor requested another $116,413 for the project. The city received a letter back from the EPA saying no funds were available. — The March of Dimes Wal...
Tucumcari schools Wednesday — Breakfast: French toast sticks, syrup cup, assorted cereal, graham crackers, applesauce, orange juice, skim, 1% or strawberry milk; Lunch: Turkey and cheese sandwich, spaghetti and meat sauce, garlic breadstick, seasoned green beans, garden salad, ranch dressing, banana, skim, chocolate skim, 1% or strawberry milk. Thursday — Breakfast: Sausage breakfast pizza, Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal, fresh mixed fruit, orange juice, skim, 1% or strawberry milk; Lunch: Ham and egg chef salad, pepperoni pizza, garden sal...
I suspect most of us have survived and adjusted to what many consider the foolishness of springing our clocks forward for daylight saving time recently. April Fool’s Day is looming this Saturday. At least that only comes once each year, while the clock “foolishness” happens twice. We’ve all likely heard the saying, “Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.” Balaam’s donkey saved him from certain death three times before he accused her of making a fool of him at which time she reminded him she’d been faithful to him throughout...
A Tucumcari resident during the public comment portion of Monday’s Quay County Commission meeting praised county manager Daniel Zamora’s efforts to find funding to build a new Dr. Daniel C. Trigg Memorial Hospital. The county learned earlier this month the New Mexico Legislature did not fulfill its request for up to $30 million to build a new hospital. During the commission’s previous meeting, it approved a request of $32.2 million in federal funds for the project. Joe Szaloy, a licensed physical therapist at the hospital, said the current 60-y...
The New Mexico Department of Agriculture will host a pesticide disposal event from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. April 5 at the Curry County Fairgrounds parking lot, located at Fair Grounds Road in Clovis. This will be the first of three pesticide disposal events to be held throughout the state this year. This event is free and is available to all New Mexico-based businesses and the general public with a need to dispose of unwanted pesticides. All forms of pesticides will be accepted, including, but not limited to, pesticide rinsate and treated seeds. NMDA...
About nine months after Carlson Coffee Co. began offering coffee and baked goods in downtown Tucumcari, its co-owners opened a bakery along the city's Route 66 corridor. The Goodies Go Last bakery opened March 20 in the former Cornerstone's First Edition restaurant building at 711 E. Route 66 Blvd., which Michael and Christy Carlson purchased from previous owner Todd Duplantis. Michael Carlson was asked Thursday what prompted him and his wife to buy the building and launch a bakery business....
No one sells the future more masterfully than the tech industry. According to its proponents, we will all live in the “metaverse,” build our financial infrastructure on “web3” and power our lives with “artificial intelligence.” All three of these terms are mirages that have raked in billions of dollars, despite bite back by reality. Artificial intelligence in particular conjures the notion of thinking machines. But no machine can think, and no software is truly intelligent. The phrase alone may be one of the most successful marketing t...
I’m not at all comfortable with my new position to the right of Republican leaders on foreign policy. As a child who grew up watching the Vietnam War on the nightly news and fearing it would still be raging when I turned 18, I have always opposed the military adventurism of Republican leaders, whether it was Richard Nixon in Vietnam and Cambodia, Ronald Reagan in Central America or George W. Bush in Iraq. We all knew our roles back then. Republican leaders saw the world as a threat to be neutralized and an economic opportunity to be e...
Everyone in the national media is worrying about whether Donald Trump is going to be arrested in New York. Not me. In a radio interview with San Diego talk show host Mark Larson, I said I didn’t care what was going to happen to Trump. “What I’m really worried about,” I said to my old friend, “is the meeting going on in Moscow between the two most dangerous men in the world – Xi and Putin.” The head despots of Russia and China were having a meet-up in person to get control of half of the world and what was the president of the United States...
LOGAN - In a rematch of the last two Class A baseball championship games, Logan earned a convincing doubleheader sweep Friday against Gateway Christian in the Longhorns' home opener. The Longhorns (3-0) prevailed 13-3 in the opener and 10-0 in the nightcap, with both games shortened by the mercy rule. In the first game, Logan ace Kaeden Stoner struck out 15, walked five, allowed two hits and was credited with only one earned run allowed in six innings. With the bat, Stoner also went 3-for-4 with...
The Tucumcari girls captured the consolation title at the West Las Vegas Softball Tournament with a 20-11 victory over Taos on Saturday. The Lady Rattlers (3-3) won two of three during the tourney, with their only loss to eventual champ Santa Fe Indian School. During the victory Saturday over Taos, the Lady Rattlers seized control of a once-close game with five runs in the fourth inning, five in the fifth and four in the sixth. “The game was just an all-out team effort,” Tucumcari coach CJ Oglesby said. “Super-excited about today’s play....
LOGAN - Haden Judd played a big role in the host Longhorns' team victory Saturday at the 22-team Logan Varsity Meet. Judd won two individual events and finished second in three others to help the Logan boys track team rack up 99 points, finishing well ahead of district rival and runner-up Melrose and its 77 points. Texico finished third with 73 points. The Tucumcari boys finished ninth with 22 points, and San Jon was 14th with four points. In the girls team standings, Melrose took home the team...
Seven Logan High School athletes will compete Friday in the NMAA Powerlifting Championships at Rio Rancho High School after qualifying for the event. These Longhorns qualified in the Class 1A-3A championships in these weight classes: — 148 pounds: Haden Judd and Izaiah Kneitz; — 165 pounds: Christian Kotara; — 181 pounds: Skyler DeLuca; — 220 pounds: Park Strong; — 275 pounds: Mason Wallin. Judd is the highest-rated competitor in his weight class, lifting a total of 950 pounds in the squat, bench press and dead lift. A total of six athletes...
Tucumcari’s baseball team went 1-2 during the West Las Vegas Tournament, including a 23-0 loss Saturday to East Mountain. Rattlers coach George Montano indicated the district-rival Timberwolves hit into a lot of good luck, and his team had a lot of bad luck. “I felt we had a good lineup to play a good ballgame against East Mountain,” he said. “The score looks crazy, but East Mountain hit every single gap that field had, and we couldn’t get an out to save our lives or get our offense going. We had the bases loaded, and once again couldn’t...
Dylan Owen was the top golfer for Tucumcari during the Rattler Invitational last Monday at Tucumcari Municipal Golf Course. Owen shot a 102 on the course and finished third of 12 players on the course that included golfers from Santa Fe Indian and Robertson. Kaden Owen finished sixth, shooting a 112. Logan Lafferty shot a 118 to finish eighth, and Creed Owen was 11th with a score of 149. In girls competition that included players from Santa Fe Indian, Robertson and Texico, Tucumcari’s July Lafferty finished fifth of 10 golfers with a 122 s...
The Logan girls softball team took it on the chin during its season-opening doubleheader Friday, losing at Dora by scores of 17-6 and 17-2. In the first game, Logan pitcher Charli Fuller struck out six and went 1-for-2 at the plate with a double and two walks. Bella Coronado went 2-for-3 with a double and walk and scored a run. “We played good defense in the first game, minus one half-inning,” Logan coach Dustin Robertson said. “A couple of throwing errors turned into a big inning that we were trying to avoid. It was too much to overc...
These calls were made to the Tucumcari-Quay Regional Emergency Communications Center from March 20 to March 26: Monday — 12:26 a.m.: Found property in 900 block of North Second Street, Tucumcari. — 1:06 a.m.: Trespassing in 1100 block of South Fourth Street, Tucumcari. — 4:29 a.m.: Domestic disturbance in 2500 block of South First Street, Tucumcari. — 7:54 a.m.: Vandalism in 700 block of North Second Street, Tucumcari. — 12:17 p.m.: Reckless driving at milepost 321, Interstate 40, Tucumcari. — 4:06 p.m.: Vehicle theft at South Fifth and W...
These individuals were booked into the Quay County Detention Center from March 21 to March 26: — Jesenya Olivas, 20, Portales, contempt of court. — Rodney Hodges, 47, Tucumcari, contempt of court. — Christopher L. Kasavich, 42, Tucumcari, contempt of court. — Marcus Barnes, 48, Dallas, aggravated driving under the influence of intoxicating liquor or any drug (0.16 or above), resisting, evading or obstructing an officer (refusal to stop), open drink container and failure to maintain traffic lane. — Nicholas Anthony Baucon, 37, Los Angeles,...