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The growing Tucumcari Farmers Market opens for the season Saturday with at least two new vendors and activities for children and adults. Organizers for the market at Wailes Park will ring the bell at 10 a.m. to signal to vendors they can begin transactions. Customers are allowed to inspect merchandise at 9:30 a.m. and get in line at booths where they want to buy before the starting bell. The market Saturday will stay open until noon, but manager Sandra Groves said potential customers shouldn’t delay in getting there promptly. Based on past e...
A Tucumcari woman was jailed last week following a seven-count complaint, including three felonies, where she was accused of kicking two police officers and an emergency-room technician. Maria Eleana Apodaca, 35, was booked on two counts of battery upon a police officer, battery on a healthcare worker, assault on a healthcare worker, assault upon a peace officer via threat or menacing conduct, resisting, evading or obstructing an officer and disorderly conduct. The counts of battery on a peace officer and battery on a healthcare worker are four...
• Saturday — Tucumcari Farmers Market. Get the freshest locally grown produce at the Tucumcari farmers market from 10 am to noon. EBT credits are applicable. The farmers market also is from 5:30 to 7 p.m. each Tuesday and each Saturday morning through the summer and fall. Wailes Park, 1600 E. Tucumcari Blvd., Tucumcari. • Saturday — Skyliners concert. Doors open at 7 p.m., with the show from 8 p.m. to midnight. Tickets are $10 per person and are available at Rubee’s Diner in Tucumcari. Tucumcari Columbus Club, 204 E. Main St. • Monday — Quay Co...
Tucumcari Senior Center Wednesday — Beef fajita, pinto beans with green chile, salsa, flour tortilla, oatmeal cookie, peaches. Thursday — Hidden chicken legs, mashed potatoes and gravy, broccoli with cheese, bread, yellow cake with icing. Friday — Round steak with mushroom gravy, cauliflower pepper salad, tossed salad with dressing, potluck roll with margarine, sugar cookie. Monday — Roast beef, scalloped potatoes, greens, tossed salad with dressing, biscuit and margarine, chocolate chip cookie. Tuesday — Barbecued chicken thighs, creamy co...
On the morning of the Fourth of July, American flags were cut apart and burned in Tucumcari. But it wasn't an act of desecration or protest. It was part of a biennial flag-retirement ceremony by the Tucumcari chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Typical protocol of properly disposing a faded or tattered U.S. flag requires it to be folded, laid on a bonfire and burned. The DAR takes it several steps further by cutting apart the flag's stars and stripes before burning them....
A divided Quay County Commission on Monday voted 2-1 to approve a new contract with a Curry County-based lobbyist that would pay the firm $1,000 monthly instead of an annual deal. District I Commissioner Susan Dowell voted against the contract for Clovis-based Clinton D. Harden & Associates in part because she was unsure whether Harden, a former state senator, had spoken in favor of any of three Clovis applicants bidding for a sixth horse-racing license from the New Mexico Racing Commission. Coronado Partners also is seeking such a license for...
Here’s one for ya: How many aircraft technicians does it take to change a light bulb? I don’t know, but here’s what actually happened recently. We had flights booked since March to send our grandson to visit his mother and for me to attend a conference and spend a few days away with my wife. About two months after booking the flights, our flight was cancelled, and we had to reschedule. Not a problem, but it threw us two hours later arriving. The morning of our flights, I was texted the second leg of our rescheduled flight was cancelled. The t...
It’s been a bumper crop of sorts in recent years for New Mexico as far as tax revenue goes. State coffers have swelled to epic proportions — revenues are expected to reach $7.5 billion for fiscal 2020 — thanks in large part to the ongoing oil and gas boom in the Permian Basin that spreads from west Texas into southeast New Mexico. Add on top of that a slate of new taxes that went into effect this month, levying extra charges on items including cars, cigarettes and online goods from national retailers. Needless to say, we’re in the midst o...
The July 4 temblor that rattled Southern California and even Las Vegas, Nevada, shook up some memories for me. The last time Southern California had a quake that measured as high as 6.4 on the Richter scale was about 20 years ago, and I was living there for that one. It registered 7.1, a big one, and occurred at 2:45 a.m. on Oct. 16, 1999. Its epicenter, for which quakes are named, was at Hector Mine, an abandoned quarry in the middle of California’s desolate high desert. It rumbled all over all over Southern California and even in Nevada, b...
I took advantage of a long holiday weekend to travel up to the Continental Divide, where I camped and explored some of the highest points in Colorado. “Civilization” came to me through the radio, particularly National Public Radio. Like New Mexico, Colorado has NPR-member public radio stations all over the state, so I was never far from reception. I would be bordering on insanity if I had been listening all the time, but there was a lot of drive time between here and the Divide, so I tuned in — in between stops at some of the most spect...
On this date ... 1969: In Cape Kennedy, Florida, a leak was discovered in the Apollo 11 booster rocket today, and troubleshooters climbed into its huge oxygen tank to fix it for the start of the lunar landing countdown tonight. • In Saigon, the U.S. Command said today 153 Americans were killed in action in Vietnam last week during the lull in battle - the fewest GI's slain in any week for months. • Gibson's Discount Center in Tucumcari was advertising Vaseline hair tonic for $1.07 per 10-...
These individuals were booked into the Quay County Detention Center from July 1 to July 4: • William Fugett, 49, Tucumcari, charge not listed. • Michael Romero, 40, Tucumcari, municipal charge (not listed). • Maria Helena Apodaca, 35, Tucumcari, two counts of battery upon a police officer, battery upon a health care worker, assault upon a police officer, assault upon a health care worker (battery), resisting, evading or obstructing an officer and disorderly conduct. • Vanessa Linda Savana Sisneros, 38, Santa Rosa, larceny (over $500 but not...
Three teenagers who hail from Quay County schools will participate in next week’s National High School Finals Rodeo in Rock Springs, Wyoming. Amanda Kanapilly, a junior at Logan High School, will compete in the reined cow horse and girls cutting competitions at the 71st annual event. She’s competed at the NHSFR thee times and finished tied for seventh in the nation last year in the reined cow horse average. Another Logan athlete, Gage Bruhn, will compete in the shooting rifle and shooting trap competition. Dylan Reed, a recent graduate at House...