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A week of anticipation culminated into the tossing of caps by more than 50 graduates Friday night at the Snake Pit. "I am ready to be done with it," said Tucumcari High School senior Zach Martinez as he waited for the start of the commencement ceremony. As family, friends and guests filled the bleachers at the Snake Pit, the soon-to-be graduates were nervously waiting in the hallway to make their grand entrance. "I am nervous being one of the first ones to march out," said Santiago Alires....
The U.S. Department of Energy announced Tuesday it is abandoning a test meant to determine whether nuclear waste can be buried far underground. That’s because of changes in budget priorities, the agency said. But the plan’s critics and supporters, at least in Quay County, all say the battle is far from over. The Trump administration sent Congress a federal spending plan that seeks $120 million to revive the mothballed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository. The repository was closed in 2012 after heavy opposition by former Democratic Sen. Har...
In one week, the unique four-day music celebration of Route 66 and classic Americana, "Rockabilly on the Route," will return to Tucumcari for a fifth and final time. Event producers Simon Cantlon and Ungelbah Davila of Pink Flamingo Productions began the festival five years ago with the goal to celebrate America's definitive musical legacy and classic Americana while raising funds to benefit Tucumcari's New Mexico Route 66 Museum. Cantlon and Davila have said they are ending the event to pursue...
Following an executive session, Quay County commissioners voted 2-1 on Monday to hire a consulting firm and to draft a letter to the U.S. Department of Energy opposing the borehole project. Commission Chair Franklin McCasland and District 1 Commissioner Sue Dowell authorized the hiring of EA Engineering, Science and Technology Inc. of Albuquerque as the county’s National Environmental Policy Act consulting firm. County Manager Richard Primrose and County Attorney Warren Front were appointed to work with the firm to ensure the county’s int...
May 1972 • Larry Ingram of Tucumcari was elected as a director of the Tucumcari Chamber of Commerce. The position was left vacant after Mayor King Aitken resigned. • Horace Wood was appointed as the new superintendent of Tucumcari schools and Don Herron was appointed as the new assistant superintendent. • New Mexico State Police Officer Gilbert Hunnicutt and Tucumcari Police Officer Kenneth King were presented with plaques naming them as police officers of the year. The two officers were honored at the annual Elks Club Law Enforcement Dinne...
Making a dream come true often requires drudgery. On Monday, Logan residents Glenn Lubera, his son, Jared, and friend Justin Osborne spent the morning offloading hundreds of boxes from a 40-foot container propped up on the loading dock of Tucumcari's old broom factory on the northeast side of town. The boxes held enough handles and heads for brooms and shovels to produce the first 2,700 units of Lubera's inventions, the 3D Shovel and 3D Broom. Lubera wants to get them assembled and distributed...
Thursday • City Commission: 6 p.m., Tucumcari City Hall • Housing Authority Board: 5 p.m., Tucumcari City Hall June 1-4 • Rockabilly on the Route: All day, Tucumcari Convention Center Service clubs • Altrusa Club of Tucumcari: Noon, first and third Wednesday of each month, Pow Wow Restaurant, 801 W. Route 66. Call 575-461-1377. Support groups • Alcoholics Anonymous unity group: 7 p.m. Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays, 1704 S. Fourth St. • Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous: 7 p.m., Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays, 17...
The following are the menus for the Tucumcari and Logan senior centers for today through May 31: Coffee, tea and milk served daily Logan Thursday: Green chili hamburger, onion rings, pork and beans, almond cookie Friday: Green chili chicken enchiladas, pinto beans, Spanish rice, strawberries, ice cream Monday: Closed in observance of Memorial Day Tuesday: Taco, Spanish rice, salsa corn, Jell-O Wednesday: Pork roast, mashed potatoes with gravy, cabbage, bread, margarine, chocolate pudding Tucumcari Thursday: Chicken pot pie, green beans with...
The following individuals were booked into the Quay County Detention Center from May 13 through May 19: • Michael Armijo, 27, warrant • David Chavez, 24, driving under the influence of liquor • Lewis Johnson, 53, warrant • Javier Ureste, 21, aggravated driving under the influence of liquor • Samitra Hurd, 25, warrant • Timothy Perry, 47, warrant • Steven Carabajal, 60, trafficking by manufacturing • Ashley Eagle, 29, battery against a household member • Doreen Lopez, 54, batter against a household member • Christina Pohl, 21, possession of a...
A Capital Improvements 2-Mill Tax Question was approved by voters on May 16 during a special election of the Logan Municipal Schools District. There were 209 voters, which was 20 percent of the 1,018 registered voters in the Logan School District, who participated in the special election, said Ellen White, Quay County clerk. White said the tax question passed 146 to 62 with a special election cost of $4,804. She said the same tax question had failed to pass during the regular school board election on Feb. 7 due to having a tied vote of 38 for...
Some sanity was injected into the political hysteria engulfing Washington, D.C., last week when Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein selected former FBI Director Robert Mueller as special counsel to lead an investigation into whether the Trump campaign collaborated with Russia during the 2016 presidential election. Mueller, a career lawman who has wide bipartisan respect, has the knowledge, legal authority and temperament needed to determine exactly what the Russians did, if anything, to seek to sway the 2016 elections or whether, as Trump...
Tara Swart, a brain scientist with business savvy, has officially told journalists they don’t treat themselves right. Further, she says, because of their self-neglect, journalists score lower than average in “executive functions,” that include “abilities to regulate their emotions, suppress biases, solve complex problems, switch between tasks, and think creatively and flexibly,” according to the Business Insider, an online business publication. Swart is a senior lecturer in the Sloan management school’s executive education division at the Mass...
Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was fond of saying there are known knowns, known unknowns and unknown unknowns. It’s time to review some known knowns about the 2016 presidential election and its aftermath. The Democrat Party chose to nominate a candidate who was under FBI investigation for committing a federal crime, mishandling of classified information. The major news media chose to accept the candidate’s claim that she was not under criminal investigation but rather und...
The state Legislature reconvenes today in Santa Fe for another attempt to balance the budget — and this time, lawmakers hope, with a little more harmony and a little less second-guessing. A few of the legislators serving the communities of Clovis and Portales are in favor of reducing government spending over raising taxes, as is Gov. Susana Martinez, but it’s still hard to say how or exactly when it will be worked out. “Quite frankly, nobody knows,” said Rep. Bob Wooley, R-Roswell. “I know that the governor’s office and legislative financial c...