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Language will be added to Tucumcari zoning laws to accommodate growing, processing and retail sales of marijuana products for recreation, the Tucumcari City Commission decided in a special meeting on Thursday. While commissioners did not specify the wording, the commission decided to keep current city zones in place, especially commercial, agricultural and zones, but to add language that applies directly to cannabis-based production and sales. The commission also decided to include mixed-use zoning that would allow a business owner to live on...
Did Route 66 once run through Tucumcari's Main Street? It's a question a television producer aims to answer in the coming weeks that could have long-term implications for tourism and grant funding for downtown's historic buildings. Mike Lee, producer and creator of the Fast TV Network, said while making a funding pitch at a May meeting of a city Lodgers Tax Board meeting it was his belief Main Street once carried Route 66 and vowed to prove it with an upcoming episode of his channel's "Legends...
The general manager of the Tucumcari Farmers Market said two recent developments likely will boost the market - the lifting of many coronavirus restrictions on July 1 and a law regarding baked goods that took effect the same day. The Tucumcari Farmers Market will open its season at 10 a.m. Saturday when Sandra Groves rings the bell under the shade trees at Wailes Park in east Tucumcari. The market will run each Saturday from 10 a.m. to noon and each Tuesday from 5:30 to 7 p.m. through Oct. 16....
Over this past weekend, Americans celebrated that, for 245 years, we’ve been free of governmental tyranny. Throughout our history, we’ve continued to fight against one form of tyranny or another, either against another country or ourselves, the latter of which led to the greatest trauma because almost as many Americans died during the Civil War (the one against ourselves) than all others combined. After nearly every war, though, the wounds have been allowed to heal and the opposing nations have become our allies. While significant progress has...
A Tucumcari native has fulfilled his dream of acquiring the city’s oldest restaurant after working there as a young teenager. Chase Waters, 30, closed the deal Wednesday on Del’s Restaurant, which has operated on Route 66 since 1956. He celebrated the acquisition the next day with a ceremonial ribbon-cutting organized by the Tucumcari/Quay County Chamber of Commerce. Waters also moved to Tucumcari last week from Amarillo. The previous owners, sisters Yvette Peacock and Yvonne Braziel, had owned the restaurant for more than 26 years. Yve...
Dr. Tracie Collins, who has served as New Mexico health secretary for eight months, will return to academic life at the end of July. Collins last fall accepted Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s request she serve the state in an official capacity and lead the Department of Health through the COVID-19 pandemic, with the understanding she might elect to return to her previous career as an academic after overseeing the agency’s COVID-19 vaccination efforts. “I am grateful to my colleagues at the Department of Health and to the governor for her faith in...
Note: Events subject to change due to the COVID-19 pandemic. • July 16 — Fired Up Friday. The Quay County Health Council will host a chalk art contest. Food trucks will operated from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. or until the food runs out. Tucumcari Historic Railroad Plaza at Second and Main streets. • Aug. 5-7 — Rattler Reunion. The committee plans to hold annual events for Tucumcari High School alumni, including at the traditional site of the Tucumcari Convention Center. The 2021 Rattler Reunion hosts will be the Classes of 1990 and 1991. The Golden...
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 or the Logan facility at 487-2287 for more information. Tucumcari Senior Center Wednesday — Beef fajita, pinto beans with green chile, salsa, flour tortillas, oatmeal cookie. Thursday — Hidden chicken, mashed potatoes and gravy, broccoli with cheese, bread, yellow cake with icing. Friday — Steak and stuff, spinach, Parme...
On this date ... 1971: Jazz legend Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong died of an apparent heart attack at age 71 after his wife Lucille found him collapsed at his home, according to a United Press International report. Services were being prepared in New York City, where other musical giants such as Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Pearl Bailey, Count Basie, Guy Lombardo and Bing Crosby were scheduled to be honorary pallbearers. President Richard Nixon sent his condolences. • Larry Havrill was name the city of Tucumcari’s new director of industr...
SANTA FE — New Mexico state officials on Friday announced a support program that will provide New Mexicans currently receiving unemployment benefits supplemental payments for returning to the state’s workforce. The program, which starts this week, will provide up to $1,000 to unemployment claimants who secure a job and remain employed through Aug. 28. The nine-week program will be funded by federal stimulus dollars. “The state will continue doing what it can to help workers and businesses get back on their feet,” said Gov. Michelle Lujan G...
In the mid-2000s, I spent two years as senior military assistant to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, acting essentially as his military gatekeeper and translating his orders to the U.S. military via the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Before joining his team, I had been a Navy one-star admiral and commander of Enterprise Carrier Strike Group, in charge of 10,000 sailors and a dozen ships in combat in the Arabian Gulf. I mention that because my duties suddenly shifted from a pinnacle of command at sea to overseeing administrative misery: making...
It’s Friday and it has been raining in Tucumcari for three days straight. While I would have welcomed the thrill and sense of risk that comes with a thunderstorm, the rain we’ve been getting for three days is more of what we need, a few days of steady drizzle, enough to soak into the ground and rescue withering crops and replenish the Canadian River. The benefit to me is that the weeds in my weedy yard are easier to pull. The Canadian River replenishes Conchas and Ute lakes. This summer Conchas Lake has looked like a smaller version of the ema...
It’s been a hard time for the American Revolution. It’s been smeared by The New York Times 1619 project as a fight to preserve slavery. Juneteenth, a worthy event in its own right, is considered by some as a candidate to replace July 4, marking a supposedly more palatable and less flawed Independence Day. Statues of leaders of the Revolution have been vandalized and torn down. This is wrongheaded, ungrateful and destructive. Ours is the greatest revolution the world has ever known. It succeeded where so many others have failed, delivered a sev...
A Tucumcari woman recently was honored for her 50 years of membership with Altrusa International of Tucumcari and remains its only active charter member. Pat Clark was honored last month for her half-century in the Tucumcari chapter. They gave her a certificate signed by Altrusa's governor, cake and a gift watch during a surprise ceremony that included a "This is Your Life" presentation. "I think they told more (about my life) than they needed to," Clark said about the presentation, laughing....
Quay County on Friday was about to enter its second week without a reported case of COVID-19 as the state lifted its health restrictions the previous day. The county's last confirmed coronavirus case was reported on June 21. The county's overall case total remained at 537, with 11 deaths, since the pandemic began last spring. The breakdown of COVID-19 cases by ZIP code in Quay County through Friday was 373 in Tucumcari, 106 in Logan, 24 in San Jon, 11 in House, nine in McAlister, five in Nara Visa, five in Grady (part of which extends into...
SANTA FE — New Mexico courts will phase more proceedings to in-person from now through July 19, though various public health precautions will still be taken to mitigate the spread of COVID-19, following a New Mexico Supreme Court order. Except for jury trials, courts have conducted most proceedings since last year using audio-visual conferencing to eliminate the need for attorneys and litigants to enter a courthouse. "State courts safely remained open throughout the COVID-19 pandemic to ensure critical justice services were available to New Mex...
These individuals were booked into the Quay County Detention Center from June 28 to July 2: • Scott Cain Garcia, 22, Tucumcari, contempt of court. • Jeremie Jack Oglesby, 39, Tucumcari, contempt of court. • Amber Osborn, 29, Logan, contempt of court. • Alejandro David Quintana, 23, Tucumcari, aggravated battery (no great bodily harm). • Jazmin Trujillo, 28, no address listed, warrant from other counties or states. • Victoria P. Dailey, 35, no address listed, speeding (31-35 mph over) and aggravated fleeing a law enforcement officer. • Heaven Ni...