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Quay County Clerk Ellen White told Quay County commissioners during their regular meeting Monday a new state law that allows same-day voter registration during elections will add “expensive” extra staffing to her office. Statutes that go into effect during primary elections in 2020 require live internet feeds at all voting precincts to check voters’ credentials. White said the new rules would necessitate more certified staff and equipment. White said prospective voters would have to provide photo identification and a second proof of resid...
Those awaiting a decision on a sixth horse-racing license in New Mexico will be waiting for a while longer. A settlement announced Wednesday of a lawsuit that had held up a license announcement for months was thrown into uncertainty when license applicants from Tucumcari and Clovis objected to the agreement in an Albuquerque courtroom Thursday. Because of the objections, the judge won’t make a decision on the settlement for several more weeks. Warren Frost, one of the principals for Coronado Partners that wants to build an $80 million horse-rac...
Elena Gutierrez, a freshman at Tucumcari High School, advanced to national finals from the recent Family, Career and Community Leaders of America state competition in Albuquerque. Elena competed in the Sports Nutrition category during the FCCLA event and earned first place. She created a seven-day nutritional profile for a fictitious athlete's needs. She used some of her experiences as a volleyball, basketball and track athlete to help create the profile. Elena earned a silver-medal score of 83...
The reopening of Joe’s Back in the Day Diner slated for May is delayed indefinitely. The restaurant’s owner, Joseph Ysco, announced on Facebook on Saturday night: “Unfortunately due to unforeseen circumstances, Joe’s Back in the Day will not be reopening after all! … God willing it will happen in the near future but not as soon as I expected.” Joe’s Back in the Day, at 321 E. Route 66 Blvd., served Mexican and American dishes. It closed two years ago when Ysco had to undergo surgery and suffered complications that included balance probl...
• Friday-Sunday — Spay-Neuter Clinic. Applications are available at Bob’s Budget Pharmacy. Register your animal for this event now at 511 S. Second St., Tucumcari. • Saturday — “The Early Days.” This program by the Tucumcari Historical Museum will focus on the area’s history before English-speaking white settlers arrived. Children’s activities and historic presentations will include fossils, petroglyphs, Native Americans and Spanish colonials. Tucumcari Historical Museum, 416 S. Adams St. • Saturday-Sunday — American Bass Anglers. Ute Lake Stat...
Tucumcari schools Wednesday — Breakfast: Sausage and cheese breakfast bagel sandwich, bagel with strawberry cream cheese, fruit, milk, juice; Lunch: Diced chicken and gravy with honey-wheat roll, ham and cheese sandwich, mashed potatoes, baby carrots, fruit, milk. Thursday — Breakfast: Trix cereal bar, cereal choice with cinnamon goldfish graham cracker, fruit, juice, milk; Lunch: Pepperoni pizza, garden salad, cauliflower, fruit, milk. Monday — Breakfast: Blueberry muffin and string cheese, cereal choice with cinnamon goldfish graham crack...
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz has called for an investigation into why the Federal Aviation Administration certified the Boeing 737 Max and whether the agency is getting too close to the corporations it regulates. The Texas Republican is right. After two of the new 737 Max airplanes crashed, aviation regulators around the world grounded the planes. The FAA took longer to do so, and Cruz said at a speech to the Texas Lyceum that’s a concern. Cruz held hearings on the state of aviation safety in his role as chairman of the Senate subcommittee on aviation a...
Another decade, another bubble, and then another recession, beginning either this year or next. At least that’s what some Wall Street wizards are saying. One, Robert Kessler, recently appeared on a show called Wealthtrack on PBS, which advises high rollers who rise early on Sundays about ways to preserve or grow their riches. Kessler sees a bubble getting ready to pop in low-grade corporate debt, which could be accompanied by a long fall. Consumer spending rallies usually pull ailing economies back to health, but Kessler doesn’t see that hap...
There’s nothing like a good outing to bring a family together. If you want to go on a leisurely drive to somewhere for a daytime adventure, with some wide-eyed young’uns in tow, you certainly don’t have to leave New Mexico. Space requires only a mention of a few, but you can easily google any and all that grab your attention. Northeast When we lived in Las Vegas, the largest town in this quadrant of the state, we discovered that a drive away from the mountains could turn up some real gems. Mills Canyon up in the high plains near Roy is one o...
Police in Kentucky arrested the former owner and operator of the now-closed Tucumcari Donuts after he was accused of stealing $26,000 worth of doughnut-making and restaurant equipment from the business. Officers booked Chhaya Yun, 35, of Tucumcari on March 31 into the Scott County Detention Center in Georgetown, Kentucky, on a Quay County warrant of felony larceny. Yun, also known as Alex Yun, is awaiting extradition. Yun’s larceny complaint is a second-degree felony that could lead up to nine years in prison and a $10,000 fine. No attorney w...
Fielding and mental errors continued to plague the Tucumcari baseball team during doubleheader losses to Mora and Dexter last week. On Saturday, coach Dwayne Roberts also dealt with a short-handed varsity roster during 18-1 and 16-2 home losses to district foe Dexter (7-5). Four Tucumcari starters missed the game for varying reasons. That included No. 2 starting pitcher and third baseman Alijah Jimenez, who drew an in-school suspension and would have to sit the next four district games. With...
The Tucumcari and Logan girls track teams tied for second place Saturday at the 20-team Mario Martinez Qualifier meet at Fort Sumner. Melrose won the meet with 62 points, edging Tucumcari and Logan’s total of 60 apiece. Rounding out the rest of the totals for the girl teams were Artesia JV 54, Pecos 47, Estancia 42, Hagerman 33, Fort Sumner 32, Santa Rosa 20, Clovis JV 16, Dora 13, Lake Arthur 4, Texico 3, San Jon 2 and Clovis Christian 1. Elida, Floyd, Grady, House and Mora did not score. The first-place performers for Tucumcari were S...
Against an all-state pitcher, the Tucumcari girls softball team couldn't afford many mistakes Thursday against (Las Vegas) Robertson. As a result, five errors by the Lady Rattlers loomed large - especially in a four-run second inning - during a 10-0 loss to the Cardinals (8-7). It was Tucumcari's first loss of the season (4-1). Robertson pitcher Mckayla Encinias stifled Tucumcari's offense to one hit - a single by Melanie Jones. Encinias struck out nine and walked three. The Cardinals banged...
Several Quay County athletes earned all-state basketball honors last week from the New Mexico High School Coaches Association, including two from Tucumcari’s girls team. Tucumcari junior point guard Ashley Shipley earned first-team honors in Class 3A, along with (Las Vegas) Robertson’s Alianza Darley, Tessa Ortiz and Jazmyne Jenkins and Navajo Prep’s Aiona Johnson. Tucumcari senior guard Kalani French made Class 3A’s second team, along with Santa Fe Indian’s Leanna Lewis and Franki Maestas-Chavez, Robertson’s Jayden Jenkins, St. Michaels’ Joely...
Lord John Acton (1834-1902) famously wrote, “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” We’ve come to accept it as an axiom, an obvious truth no one disputes. (I would make an exception for God here: he has absolute power and is eternally incorruptible. I’m happy to apply Acton’s axiom to all humanity.) I think his statement is a reasonable summary of Biblical teaching. I only wish that my fellow Christians believed it. Honestly, though, they don’t. Modern evangelicalism is...
The Tucumcari Historical Museum on Saturday will host the first of four special events to mark its 50th anniversary. Saturday’s event, called “The Early Days,” will delve into Quay County’s earliest history, including fossils, petroglyphs, Native Americans and Spanish colonials. Gates open at 9 a.m. The museum closes at 3 p.m. The event opens with a flag ceremony at 9:30 a.m. with Mesalands Community College student Jessica Paddock singing the national anthem in her native Navajo language. Among those giving demonstrations will be silvers...
These calls were made to the Tucumcari-Quay Regional Emergency Communications Center from April 1 to April 7: Monday • 10:33 a.m.: Fraud in 200 block of East Center Street, Tucumcari. • 11:16 a.m.: Assault in 200 block of East Center Street, Tucumcari. • 1:03 p.m.: Fraud in 2300 block of South First Street, Tucumcari. • 1:04 p.m.: Traffic accident with damage at 11th Street and Tucumcari Boulevard, Tucumcari. • 1:31 p.m.: Suicidal person in 100 block of West Center Street, Tucumcari. • 7:06 p.m.: Disturbance in 600 block of East Aber Street...
These individuals were booked into the Quay County Detention Center from April 1 to April 7: • Unique Glover, 21, Mint Hill, North Carolina, concealing identity, no driver’s license and speeding. • Larry Baca, 62, Clovis, knowingly leaving the scene of an accident (great bodily harm or death), resisting, evading or obstructing an officer, failure to give information and render aid and two counts of reckless driving. • William Fugett, 48, Tucumcari, warrant from other counties or states. • Arthur Martinez, 55, Tucumcari, shoplifting ($100 or...
Quay County sheriff’s deputies booked a Clovis man into the county jail after they accused him of being involved in an injury accident on Highway 209 south of Tucumcari and walking from the scene. Larry Lee Baca, 62, was jailed April 2 on complaints of two counts of reckless driving, resisting, evading or obstructing an officer, duty to give information and render aid and leaving the scene of an accident. The leaving-the-scene count is a third-degree felony that can lead up to three years in prison and a $5,000 fine. Baca was released from t...
Several members of the Tucumcari Lodgers’ Tax Board on Wednesday expressed dissatisfaction with the design of new tourism billboards west of the city. Members said they liked the design for the “Tucumcari Tonite” billboard with images of neon. However, they said other billboards along Interstate 40 west of Tucumcari that show the disc-golf course, area lakes and the dinosaur museum are difficult to read and don’t clearly indicate the attractions are in or near Tucumcari. City Manager Britt Lusk noted the billboards’ image designer, the Sunny...
On this date ... 1969: The city of Tucumcari will have a new set of city commissioners and other officials tomorrow when the Tucumcari Camp Fire Girls take over city government for the day. Teresa Mares will receive the gavel from Mayor Kenneth Schlientz in a special ceremony at city hall at 9 a.m. New officials will have lunch (Dutch treat) at Del’s at 11:45. Carol Ann Williams will be mistress of ceremonies, and entertaining the group with their singing will be Karen Hennig and Ellyn Hamilton. Following the luncheon will be a city c...