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Quay County Commissioners on Monday approved a fee proposal to finish the final 10% of the design for a new Dr. Daniel C. Trigg Memorial Hospital in Tucumcari. The proposal from Arizona-based Stantec Engineering would cover drawings, permits and bidding to replace the nearly 60-year-old hospital. According to county documents, the total cost would about $1.855 million. County manager Daniel Zamora said he would use $1.1 million in federal American Rescue Act coronavirus relief funds for the...
The Tucumcari Lodgers Tax Advisory Board on Wednesday discussed with the city's tourism marketer possible designs for banners that would be placed on Main Street, First Street and the Route 66 corridor. John Echols, account executive of Gray Digital Media in Amarillo, brought three mockups of potential banners that would be hung from light poles along those streets. Each of the banners mention Route 66's upcoming centennial in 2026. One banner, stating "Celebrating 100 Years" of Route 66, was...
A Tucumcari man will spend nearly five years in prison for his role in a local man’s fatal mauling by a pack of dogs last year. San Miguel County District Judge Abigail Aragon on Dec. 2 sentenced Kristopher Jaquarias Morris, 29, to six years in prison with credit for 134 days served in the Quay County Detention Center after he pleaded guilty to a felony charge of prohibited acts (dangerous dog; death of a person). Aragon classified the conviction as a violent felony, which means Morris must serve 85% of his sentence. Minus credit for his incarc...
On this date ... 1974: About 30 homeowners and 10 business owners along First and Second streets in Tucumcari were part of a 30-day trial project for garbage collection services. Each 3-cubic-yard steel garbage container was being shared by four homes. Each container was expected to last 15 years. The containers were emptied by a 30-yard packer truck with an attachment that hooks on to the container, lifts it, empties it and returns it. The truck could serve up to 800 homes a day. EMCO’s system was one of several garbage-collection options t...
Tucumcari schools Wednesday — Breakfast: Frosted cinnamon rolls, Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal, cinnamon graham cracker, banana, apple juice, 1%, skim or strawberry skim milk; Lunch: Spaghetti with meat sauce, seasoned breadstick, buffalo chicken wrap, seasoned Italian veggies, fresh broccoli, fruit cocktail, 1%, skim, chocolate skim or strawberry skim milk. Thursday — Breakfast: Cherry frudel, Cinnamon Toast Crunch, cinnamon graham cracker, apple, orange juice, 1%, skim or strawberry skim milk; Lunch: Hamburger, French fries, ham and cheese san...
Friday - Quay Community Choir Christmas Cantata. The annual free performance will be at 7 p.m. at the Center Street Methodist Church at 406 E. Center St. Saturday - Mariachi Christmas. The Tucumcari Zia Club is presenting free performances by Dance Divas and Mariachi Euphoria at the Tucumcari High School auditorium. Doors open at 12:30 p.m., with the performances at 1. Dec. 22 - Kids Christmas Choir. The First Baptist Church in Tucumcari is hosting a children's Christmas choir performance at...
L.P. Hartley’s 1953 novel, “The Go-Between,” opens with these words: “The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.” As we approach the end of another calendar year, our tendency is to gaze backward and analyze the time that was, if only briefly. That’s fine. As another writer has said, the unexamined life is not worth living. There’s benefit in going back and “watching the game film” like an old football coach, seeing what we did well and what we need to work on. But I hear a caution in Hartley’s memorable line: You...
The board for Logan Municipal Schools will have two candidates to consider for interim superintendent, including a former superintendent of House Municipal Schools. The candidates are former House superintendent Bonnie Lightfoot of Tucumcari and former Texline principal Ross Perschbacher of Amistad. Candidates were required to apply before noon Dec. 5. Lightfoot was superintendent at House in southern Quay County from 2017 to 2023. In March 2023, the House school board placed Lightfoot on paid administrative leave. Parents there said that was...
Tucumcari MainStreet has received a $1.7 million grant from the New Mexico Economic Development Department and New Mexico MainStreet for Phase 2 of construction on the Great Blocks on MainStreet project. Connie Loveland, executive director of Tucumcari MainStreet, said the grant would be used to create new sidewalks, light poles and landscaping on Main Street between First and Second Streets. Loveland said she was excited to receive the full $1.7 million her organization requested. “We didn’t expect to get quite that much. It was a pleasant sur...
For years, New Mexico has been seriously short of virtually all doctors: primary care, pediatricians, dentists, eye doctors, and other specialists … and all the people who help them take care of patients. It can take months to see a specialist and weeks to see a primary care physician, if you can find one. We are short almost 13,000 healthcare workers to serve our 2.1 million residents. That includes every kind of healthcare worker like EMTs, pharmacists and physical therapists as well as physicians and nurses. This shortage is getting worse a...
If you ask me, the election of 2026 is shaping up to look like 2010, at least at the top of New Mexico’s ticket. In 2010, then-Gov. Bill Richardson was being term limited out after two terms in office. His Democratic Party nominated his lieutenant governor, Diane Denish, who became saddled with Richardson’s growing unpopularity at the time. She lost the election to Republican Susana Martinez, who went on to defeat Denish in the general election with 53% of the vote. Look ahead to 2026 and a similar scenario may be shaping up. Gov. Michelle Luj...
The next four years are going to be especially tough for MSNBC’s Joy Reid. The always angry host of “The ReidOut” has spent the last four years ranting about Donald Trump and the danger he poses to democracy – and he wasn’t even in power. She’s already politically insane. She regularly calls Trump a gangster and a Putin puppet. I can’t imagine how she’ll deal with the next four years as Trump and his salvage team try to get America on the road to being great again. Reid is so blinded by Trump hate that she – like so many humorless Democrats and...
The Logan boys basketball team breezed to the championship of the J.P. Stone Tournament in Dora with three victories, including a 72-29 blasting of Roy-Mosquero on Saturday in the final. The Longhorns (3-0) jumped to a 15-1 lead against the Blue and led 46-8 at halftime. Logan’s superior size — namely 6-foot-7 Hayden Bruhn and 6-foot-5 Mason Wallin — made Roy-Mosquero change its shots near the basket, hampering its offense. Bruhn scored 28 points to lead the Longhorns, including a dunk in the second quarter. Wallin added 17 points. Jace Jacks...
The Tucumcari boys basketball team captured the consolation bracket title with a 59-36 victory Saturday over Cottonwood Classical Prep at the West Las Vegas Brian Gallegos Memorial tournament. Luis Archuleta scored 36 points to lead the Rattlers (2-1), whose only loss during the tourney was a 59-53 decision to Thoreau in the opening round Thursday. Archuleta and Daymion Urioste each were named to the all-tournament team for THS. Tucumcari, leading only 25-22 at intermission, seized control with a 34-14 second half. Jermy Jones added eight...
The Logan girls basketball team made it to the finals Saturday of the J.P. Stone Tournament at Dora, only to find a perennially tough Roy-Mosquero squad standing in its way. The Lady Blue used a 16-1 scoring run in the first and second periods to seize control over the Lady Longhorns during a 58-39 victory. Logan had trailed 11-10 late in the first period when Roy-Mosquero began its big run. The Lady Blue led 36-21 at halftime. Logan never got closer than 12 points the rest of the way. Desta Rose led the Lady Longhorns (2-1) with 12 points....
The Tucumcari girls basketball squad stormed to a 56-21 victory Saturday over Academy for Technology and the Classics to secure a fifth-place finish and consolation bracket title at the West Las Vegas Brian Gallegos Memorial tournament. The Lady Rattlers (2-1) jumped out to an 18-4 lead after one quarter, 35-13 at halftime and 53-14 after three quarters. Caylee Benavidez scored 24 points to lead the Lady Rattlers, while younger sister Cambree added 10 points. Kyla Lopez totaled 11 points and 11 rebounds. “We had a strong first two quarters, a...
Tucumcari wrestler Josh Pacheco won all five his matches during a rugged season-opening Tom Torres Duals on Saturday at Los Lunas. The Rattlers squad won two of five dual matches during the 14-team event. In early pool play, Tucumcari lost to Atrisco Heritage 58-12 and was edged by Organ Mountain 35-34. In seeded matches, Tucumcari downed Sandia 36-33, swamped Bernalillo 60-17 and lost to Valencia 48-30 to secure second place in its bracket. Former Tucumcari wrestling coach Eddie Encinias came out of semi-retirement to guide the boys squad...
The Tucumcari City Commission on Thursday approved a nearly $2 million construction agreement for a new fuel farm at Tucumcari Municipal Airport. Project manager Ralph Lopez urged approval of the pact, or else about $1 million in state funding for it would be rescinded in about five months. Lopez said the city is short about $55,000 to cover the total cost of $1.97 million. He said the New Mexico Department of Transportation has pledged to cover that shortfall. The commissioners’ approval of the contract is contingent on the state coming up w...
These individuals were booked into the Quay County Detention Center from Dec. 2 to Dec. 7: — Patsy R. Rains, 66, Tucumcari, two counts of contempt of court. — Manuel Isidro Trujillo, 51, Logan, felony contempt of court. — Jazmine Lyn Holweg, 27, Tucumcari, contempt of court. — Jose Adame, 44, Albuquerque, felony contempt of court. — Matthew Braziel, 37, Tucumcari, felony contempt of court. — Desorey Nichol Borg, 32, Albuquerque, failure to appear on a felony charge. — Celia Marie Portillo, 38, Tucumcari, failure to appear on misdemeanor c...
These calls were made to the Tucumcari-Quay Regional Emergency Communications Center from Dec. 2 to Dec. 8: Dec. 2 - 1:05 a.m.: Accident with injuries at milepost 335, Interstate 40, Tucumcari. - 2:08 p.m.: Disturbance in 400 block of U.S. 54, Logan. - 4:54 p.m.: Animal bite in 600 block of Lake Road, Logan. Dec. 3 - 7:41 a.m.: Arrest warrant in 100 block of North Third Street, Logan. - 8:45 a.m.: Arrest warrant in 100 block of West Center Street, Tucumcari. - 1:42 p.m.: Fraud in 4200 block of Q...