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Editor's note: The following candidates are running for the four-year term of county commissioner for District 1. Candidates for the seat include incumbent Robert Lopez and Sue Dowell. Candidates were asked the same questions and asked to keep their responses to 100 words or less. The primary election is June 5. Absentee and early voting runs through June 2. Robert Lopez Age: 48 Occupation: Farmer Robert Lopez Please list previous or current elected offices or other organizations you feel prepare you for a commission seat: I am currently a Quay... Full story
Editor's note: The following candidates are running for the four-year term of county commissioner for District 1. Candidates for the seat include incumbent Robert Lopez and Sue Dowell. Candidates were asked the same questions and asked to keep their responses to 100 words or less. The primary election is June 5. Absentee and early voting runs through June 2. Sue Dowell Age: Declined to answer Occupation: Retired teacher Sue Dowell Please list previous or current elected offices or other organizations you feel prepare you for a commission seat:...
Editor's note: The following candidates are running for the four-year term of county commissioner for District 2. Candidates for the seat include Mike Cherry and Ernest Dominguez Candidates were asked the same questions and asked to keep their responses to 100 words or less. The primary election is June 5. Absentee and Early voting ends June 2. Ernest F. Dominguez Jr. Age: 62 Occupation: Retired Ernest Dominguez Jr. Please list previous or current elected offices or other organizations you feel prepare you for a commission seat: I have never... Full story
Editor's note: The following candidates are running for the four-year term of county commissioner for District 2. Candidates for the seat include Mike Cherry and Ernest Dominguez Candidates were asked the same questions and asked to keep their responses to 100 words or less. The primary election is June 5. Absentee and Early voting ends June 2. Mike W. Cherry Age: 64 Occupation: Fire chief, city of Tucumcari Mike Cherry Please list previous or current elected offices or other organizations you feel prepare you for a commission seat: I have not... Full story
President's citation At the end of each spring semester, the President's Citation is announced as official recognition of exceptional academic achievement. To be eligible, students must maintain a cumulative grade point average of 3.75 or better, successfully complete 30 or more credits in the fall and spring semesters, have no grade below a "C" in the given year and have no outstanding incomplete grades for the given year. Recipients of the President's Citation for the 2011-2012 academic year are: Rebecca Alden Bryan Cassidy Jacob Geller Thoma...
It was encouraging this week to see that most of New Mexico's Public Regulation Commission disagreed with its chairman, Pat Lyons of Clovis, who wanted to ban a man from attending and speaking to the group. Martin de la Garza often gives rambling, long-winded, accusatory testimony at PRC meetings. He was fired in 2009 for accepting $5,000 from the owner of a water utility the PRC regulates. Rightfully so, the agency rejected de la Garza's hard-to-swallow claim he was merely doing a favor for the owner and not taking a bribe, and that he had... Full story
Engagements Salois-Hennig Joseph and Eleanor Salois of Granbury, Texas. are proud to announce the forthcoming marriage of their daughter, Amee' Jeanette Salois of Granbury, to Samuel James Hennig of Lubbock, Texas. The future groom is the son of Marvin and Ann Hennig of Tucumcari. The bride-elect is a May graduate of the University of Arkansas with Bachelor degrees in Physics and English, She is employed by IDA in Tucson, Ariz. The future groom is a 2004 graduate of Tucumcari High School and graduated from Eastern New Mexico University with a...
Mesalands Community College will be offering three field classes in paleontology this summer on June 11-15, June 25-29 and July 9-13. Officially listed by the College as GEOL 120 Paleontology Field Discovery (4 credit hours), the class provides a week-long experience of excavating fossils and processing them in the Mesalands Dinosaur Museum. Students in this class will search for and learn to excavate dinosaur-age vertebrates in the Quay County area. Basic laboratory methods will be studied in the natural science laboratories at the Dinosaur...
Gov. Susana Martinez is scheduled to be at the Tucumcari Convention Center at 6:30 tonight, according to a news release from the Tucumcari/Quay County Chamber of Commerce. No agenda or reason for Martinez's visit was provided by the chamber release. A phone call to the governor's spokesman was not returned....
This is a special time for the graduating seniors in our town and county. It is both a happy and a frightening time, one filled with decisions and much planning. For some of us in this over-the-hill group, it was and remains one of the major highlights of our lives. One minute, we were high school students, and the next, we were entering the adult world. Although I had the opportunities to go through several commencement exercises, that one from THS was the most exciting and most emotional. I was not eager to graduate because I had so loved... Full story
"He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love". 1 John 4:8 In an experiment to find a substitute for milk I bought soy milk. I couldn't stand the taste of it so it was given to the cats. The first cat started lapping on it and stopped suddenly with her tongue going in and out like she was trying to get rid of the taste. None of the other cats liked it either, but I laughed and laughed at their reaction. They knew the taste of real milk and weren't about to settle for anything less. Despite the claims of the product, my taste buds knew th...
Even when it was time for closing statements, Pat Woods and Angie Spears were willing to open attacks on each other at the KTQM political forum. The two-hour forum, aired by Zia Broadcasting from the KTQM studio south of Clovis, featured the two Republican candidates for state Senate District 7 and 14 others candidates for six county or state positions in the June 5 primary. Moderator Grant McGee goes over pre-forum particulars Tuesday night at the KTQM candidate forum. McGee has handled the duties since 1999, except for two years when he had f...
MELROSE — The first phase of the Ute water pipeline is expected to begin in mid-July despite a federal lawsuit and two civil lawsuits seeking to halt the project. The Eastern New Mexico Water Utility Authority approved a recommendation Tuesday to begin construction on the pipeline that would carry water from the Ute Reservoir in Quay County to Eastern New Mexico Water Utility Authority members in Curry and Roosevelt counties. Authority Chairwoman Gayla Brumfield said Tuesday the water authority has hired a Santa Fe attorney to handle l... Full story