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Organizers of efforts to revitalize Tucumcari’s Five Mile Park introduced a plan that has been more than three years in the making Thursday to the City Commission in a public work session before the regular commission meeting later that evening. The organizers did not ask for money. But Daniel Zamora, the next Quay County manager and organizer of disc golf activities at Five Mile Park since 2017, asked the commission to give the plan official recognition that would qualify the plan for grants from from various sources. The plan would a...
The New Mexico Department of Health announced this morning that starting Monday, April 5, all New Mexicans age 16 and over will be eligible to receive COVID-19 vaccine. Currently, Phases 1A, 1B, and 1C are eligible. Beginning Monday, Phase 2 will be eligible, as well. “President Biden directed states to make all adults eligible for vaccine by May 1. New Mexico will meet that mark nearly a month early,” New Mexico Health Secretary Dr. Tracie Collins said. DOH will continue to prioritize vaccine invitations for Phase 1A, New Mexicans age 75 yea...
Quay County health facilities administered about 250 more doses of COVID-19 vaccine last week as the proportion of residents who had received at least one shot inched towards the one-third mark. According to the New Mexico Department of Health, 29.6% of Quay County residents had received at least one shot through Friday. The percentage of people in the county fully vaccinated rose to 17.5%. The percentage of people registered for the vaccine stood at 27.1%. Guadalupe County remains the most heavily vaccinated in New Mexico, with 51% of its...
A crew from Elkhorn Entertainment tore down sets and camera setups Saturday at Tucumcari's historic railroad depot after wrapping production on eight episodes of the forthcoming "Bands of Enchantment" music television series. After heading back to their respective locations in Los Angeles, Chicago and Detroit, Elkhorn would begin editing the footage from the depot and other locations in Tucumcari so it could air the performances this summer. "It's looking toward June, but it's in review with...
Quay County remained in the turquoise zone — or best rating — in COVID-19 risk assessments last week by the New Mexico Department of Health. The county’s average daily COVID-19 cases per 100,000 people stood at 1.7 from March 9 to March 22, well below the criteria of 8 per 100,000. Its test positivity rate was 1.01%, also well below the benchmark of 5%. Quay County recorded 4.3 daily average cases and a 1.56% test positivity rate during the previous assessment period. Quay County’s turquoise rating for a second consecutive period allows busines...
At Christmastime a couple of years ago, I wrote about Jesus’ virgin birth as a matter of truth stranger than fiction. The Bible clearly states Mary was a virgin, as prophesied long before Jesus was born (Isaiah 7:14; Luke 1:26-35). Although she wasn’t a virgin all her life because Jesus had brothers and sisters, Mary actually remained a virgin until the sacrifice for her purification after childbirth at which time Jesus also was presented to the Lord as a firstborn son to be redeemed, both according to Mosaic Law (Matthew 13:54-56; 1:1...
Quay County recorded two confirmed cases of coronavirus in the past week, continuing a weeks-long plateau in its caseload. The total number of coronavirus cases in Quay County since the pandemic began one year ago rose to 427, with eight deaths, through Sunday. The breakdown of COVID-19 cases by ZIP code was 329 in Tucumcari, 60 in Logan, 10 in House, nine in McAlister, eight in San Jon, four in Nara Visa, three in Grady (part of which extends into Quay County), and three in Bard. A total of 409 people in Quay County have been deemed to have...
On this date ... 1971: Local resident Raymond Crespin was one among hundreds across the nation who resigned from their local draft boards to show their disapproval of Lt. William Calley Jr.’s guilty verdict during his court martial over the My Lai massacre in Vietnam. Tucumcari’s Beverly Currell also called U.S. Rep. Manual Lujan in Washington to voice her dissatisfaction with the verdict. Lujan told her he also was not happy with the jury’s decision. In the same edition, the newspaper published a bulletin stating the jury had sentenced Calle...
Note: Events subject to change due to the COVID-19 pandemic. • April 16-18 — Spay and neuter clinic. A low-cost clinic to spay and neuter pets is being sponsored by Quay County Paws and Claws Animal Rescue. The cost for each surgery will be $40. Payment is due when applications are submitted. Applications are available at Best Care Pharmacy, Logan Subway, Tucumcari Subway and the shelter’s website at pawsandclawsanimalrescueofquaycounty.com. The application and payment must be received by mail by April 10 to: Paws and Claws, P.O. Box 143,...
The Tucumcari Senior Center and Logan Senior Center remain closed to the public indefinitely but will deliver meals to those who qualify. Those interested in meal deliveries should call the Tucumcari facility at 461-2307 and the Logan facility at 487-2287 for more information. Tucumcari Senior Center Wednesday — Hawaiian pork, green beans, whole-wheat bread, Jell-O with fruit. Thursday — Beef enchilada, pinto beans, Spanish rice, mandarin orange. Friday — Chicken chow mien, rice, cauliflower, egg roll, almond cookie. Monday — Spaghetti and sau...
The Annex Bar and Grill restaurant in Logan will reopen at 5 p.m. April 1 after being shuttered for a year because of the COVID-19 pandemic. “We’re excited about reopened and getting along with things,” owner Warren Frost said. He said the restaurant at 101 N. U.S. 54 was undergoing a deep cleaning before reopening. “We’ve cut back on our menus quite a bit, but we’ll still have prime rib on Friday night and our Mexican food,” he said. “It’s great to have everybody coming back.” Frost said he was reluctant to reopen until recently because of...
Last year, grocery stores might have run out of toilet paper, but the domestic food supply remained strong. Farmworkers, many of them immigrants who entered the country illegally, harvested fruits and vegetables. They processed meat. They were essential workers. Now they deserve legal protection, and the Farm Workforce Modernization Act would provide it. U.S. Rep. Dan Newhouse, a Republican who represents Central Washington, has joined with Democratic Rep. Zoe Lofgren of California to sponsor the bill. Its core components address the three key...
It is a valid question whether the civil rights bill the New Mexico Legislature passed in the usual flurry of legislation before its March 20 close protects individual rights or serves as a full-employment act for civil rights plaintiffs’ attorneys. Especially concerning is the bill’s end of “qualified immunity” for police officers, which has been a feature of similar bills across the country in the wake of Black Lives Matter activism since the death of George Floyd. Floyd died on May 25 after his neck was pinned to the street under the knee of...
Well, the principled stand Democrats took against Congress trying to overturn duly certified elections lasted all of a month or two. After rightly excoriating their Republican colleagues for challenging on Jan. 6 presidential results certified by the states, House Democrats immediately turned to doing, in effect, the exact same thing in an Iowa congressional district their candidate lost by six votes. Republican Mariannette Miller-Meeks won Iowa’s 2nd Congressional District by the narrowest of margins over Democrat Rita Hart. After a r...
Tucumcari continued to have matchup problems against the other team’s skill players during a 71-24 season-ending football loss Saturday at Raton. The Tigers (2-1) raced to a 35-0 lead in the first quarter, partly because of Rattler turnovers and Raton’s superior speed. “Once they got some space, it was hard to catch them,” assistant coach John Span said of Raton. “They had skill players that made it tough on us.” Head coach Wayne Ferguson was unable to make the trip to Raton because of an illness in his family. Despite the inauspiciou...
LOGAN - Melrose extinguished any remaining hopes that Logan would gain a berth in the Class 1A state volleyball tournament by defeating the Lady Longhorns 25-6, 25-11, 22-25, 25-23 during the regular-season finale Saturday. Logan, which ended the season 6-5 overall and 5-5 in District 6, was a longshot for a postseason bid but had a chance if it had defeated the district-champion Lady Buffaloes and if Clovis Christian had downed Fort Sumner on Saturday. Neither occurred. Melrose (11-1, 10-0)...
Several Tucumcari High School runners took part Saturday in the Class 3A cross-country state championships at Albuquerque Academy. Emmanuel Hernandez finished 37th overall in the 5,000-meter race with a time of 21 minutes, 27.39 seconds. Justin Howey of Cottonwood Classic Prep easily won the state title, defeating the runner-up by more than one minute, with a time of 15:59.28. Cottonwood Classic also won the boys team title in Class 3A with 14 points. Tohatchi was second with 47 points and New Mexico Military Institute third with 52. Dace...
Spiking woes proved to be a detriment for the Lady Rattlers in a 14-25, 17-25, 21-25 loss to New Mexico Military Institute on March 23 during the team's last home match of the abbreviated season. Felicity Lopez led Tucumcari with 12 kills against NMMI. However, she and other Lady Rattlers struggled with their hitting game, committing 18 errors at the net. "We struggled with hitting more than we ordinarily do," Tucumcari coach Dana Benavidez said. "Some games are just like that. We had good...
Tucumcari’s two high-school basketball teams will have little time from the end of the school’s abbreviated football and volleyball seasons before their first games. It would have been even less time for the girls team, except its season-opening game at Robertson was rescheduled from March 30 to April 2. The Tucumcari boys will open their season April 5 at Texico. The Ratters’ and Lady Rattlers’ first home games at the Snake Pit will be against Logan on April 8, with the girls game starting at 5 p.m. and the boys game following. No junior...
Logan fell behind early and never could quite catch up during a 50-34 road loss Saturday to defending state runner-up Tatum in Logan’s season finale of eight-man football action. Miscues by the Longhorns (1-3) put them in a hole during the first quarter. “We had a penalty when we were driving, and then we gave up an interception for a touchdown that put them up 20-0,” Logan coach Dwayne Roberts said. Tatum (3-1) led 38-14 at halftime, but Logan rallied in the third quarter. “We had (the deficit) down to eight in the third quarter, but then th...
After nearly four years, it appears former Logan Municipal Schools teacher and basketball coach Rhyan Daugherty will have his day in a Quay County courtroom in late April with his lawsuit against the district’s superintendent, minus three earlier defendants. A jury trial is scheduled for April 26-30 in Tucumcari district court with 9th Judicial District Judge Donna Mowrer presiding after 10th Judicial District judge Albert Mitchell Jr. recused himself. Daugherty is suing Logan schools superintendent Dennis Roch after he didn’t rehire him in Apr...
Certified family medicine nurse practitioner Tammy Germany recently joined the care team at the Presbyterian Logan Medical Clinic in Logan. “Tammy is a great addition to our team,” said Vickie Gutierrez, hospital chief executive at Dr. Dan C. Trigg Memorial Hospital. “She has experience caring for patients of all ages and is focused on providing patient-centered care, which is very important to us. She also enjoys working in small rural communities and getting to know her patients. We knew she would be a great fit for our Logan commu...
Altrusa International of Tucumcari, Tucumcari Fine Arts League and the Quay County Health Council are hosting an eight-week scavenger hunt for painted rocks beginning Thursday that include gift cards as prizes. These groups have been busy painting and preparing rocks for the event. Batches of rocks will be hidden each week in Tucumcari parks. “We are encouraging families to go for walks around our parks and look for the rocks,” said Brenda Bishop, Quay County Health Council coordinator. “This is a perfect time of year to get outside and be ph...
TUCUMCARI — A Tucumcari man last week received a conditional discharge from jail and 18 months of supervised probation in a plea deal struck regarding his sexual-assault case. Jorge Cosme, 39, pleaded no contest in Tucumcari district court March 23 to a lesser charge of attempted criminal sexual penetration in the third degree. Cosme initially was charged with three counts of criminal sexual penetration by force or coercion, a third-degree felony that could have led up to three years in prison and up to a $5,000 fine. He had been accused of s...
April is Sexual Violence Awareness Month and to celebrate the Quay County Intimate Partner Violence Task Force has planned several activities to mark Sexual Violence Awareness Month in April, including a bystander intervention training on April 6. Have you run across a potentially violent situation and wanted to step in, but refrained because you were not sure what to do? There are many reasons why people choose not to get involved when they see a threatening or uncomfortable situation, especially when there are others present. Some people...