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A proposed code of conduct for Tucumcari city government elected officials and employees Thursday received a nod from the city commission to be published, but with some enforcement provisions removed. The commission gave the amended code of conduct ordinance a “first reading” approval Thursday, which means the proposed ordinance will be published and a public hearing held on it before it receives final commission action. The code as drafted includes requirements that employees and public officials treat their positions as public trust and to...
John Groesbeck last Tuesday marked his one-year anniversary as president of Mesalands Community College. He did nothing special to mark the occasion. Groesbeck, interviewed Thursday in a conference room next to his campus office, said he took a mental note of that date, but that's about it. "I thought about it: 'Well, I made it a year; that's great,'" he said. "I think what I actually did was present a thing at a meeting somewhere. I can't remember exactly. It was a fairly routine day." Instead...
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is looking for opinions on what to do with the long-closed Conchas Lodge on the south side of Conchas Lake. Three proposals would renovate and reopen all or part of the facility, and one would bulldoze it. The corps on July 1 invited the public to participate in a public scoping, or submitting feedback, on the possible future of Conchas Lodge. According to the scoping document, Conchas Lodge was built in 1942 by the Civilian Conservation Corps and has been...
• Friday — St. Anne’s Parish Fiesta Raffle. Each $100 ticket entitles two to attend a Cajun shrimp boil dinner and raffle with a top prize of $5,000. Only 500 tickets will be sold. Tickets may be purchased from K-9 Design Grooming & Boarding, Bob’s Upholstery, Main Street Boutique and La Tiendita. For more information, call (575) 461-2515. 6 p.m. start, with doors opening at 5 p.m. Tucumcari Convention Center. • Saturday — Neon and Route 66 Businesses Past and Present. It's a day of free admission at the Tucumcari Historical Museum. It...
One unfamiliar biblical doctrine is called, “The regulative principle of government.” To boil the idea down, it means that civil governments are not supposed to make it up as they go. Government is not accountable to the church, but it is accountable to God. God has defined what sin is. He has also defined which particular sins should be treated as crimes, and therefore prosecuted by the government. Sins that come with specified punishments attached to them are crimes. Examples include restituti...
The killing of Tejano singer Ernestine Romero in a murder-suicide Thursday in Santa Fe saddened many music fans across New Mexico, including those in Tucumcari anticipating a show at the Knights of Columbus Hall in the fall. The bodies of Romero, 32, and her estranged husband, Jessie Saucedo, were found in a parked SUV near the state Capitol. Police ruled Saucedo shot her twice in the chest with a pistol, then turned the gun on himself. Many people — including Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham and U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Lujan — issued condolences to Rom...
Route 66 and its historic neon signs will be the focus of the Tucumcari Historical Museum’s latest special day Saturday to celebrate its 50th anniversary. “Neon and Route 66 Businesses Past and Present” will include guided bus tours and presentations by two Route 66 experts, along with activities for both adults and children. The museum at 416 S. Adams St. will be open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Baldwin Burr, photo archivist for the New Mexico Historical Society, will give his presentation about Route 66 in New Mexico at 10 a.m. Johnnie Meier...
Tucumcari Senior Center Wednesday — Lasagna, honey glazed carrots, garlic bread, orange, oatmeal cookie. Thursday — Pork ribs, corn, broccoli, wheat bread with margarine, pear cobbler. Friday — Chicken salad, creamy coleslaw, glazed carrots, crackers, cherry cobbler. Monday — Chicken sandwich, celery sticks, tater tots, cottage cheese, peaches. Tuesday — Fidelos con carne, salad and dressing, mixed vegetables, flour tortilla, mandarin orange and pineapple chunks. Logan Senior Center Wednesday — Liver and onions, mashed potatoes, green beans, cu...
A cliche about violent offenders is that someone often will say what a nice, quiet neighbor the person was before the eruption. A new study of mass attacks in America suggests quite the opposite — and that perhaps more of these rampages can be prevented. The U.S. Secret Service National Threat Assessment Center studied 27 incidents in 2018 in which nearly 200 people were killed or injured in public spaces. Researchers found that most attacks were motivated by specific grievances. Two-thirds of offenders had histories of mental health s...
There were two sides to a confrontation that nearly got physical in the White House Rose Garden on Thursday. Big media almost ignored one side. The reporting of this incident, to me, is more evidence that mainstream media should do more to curb their self-righteousness, even if press freedom is under a historic level of threat under President Donald Trump. The mainstream media reported that on Thursday in the Rose Garden a right-wing radio personality named Sebastian Gorka strode over to Playboy reporter Brian Karem and, with video cameras humm...
Recycling has always been a feel-good issue for the casual environmentalist, but it’s turning out to be even less than that. It’s becoming less practical and affordable. Silver City and Taos are just two New Mexico examples of how solid waste authorities are finding it too costly to recycle — and a big part of the problem, it turns out, is China cleaning up its act. Sierra magazine recently ran a cover story about the condition of our recycling efforts, painting a bleak picture of just how ineffective we’ve been. Have you heard of the Great P...
The Tucumcari Lodgers Tax Advisory Board on Wednesday discussed the need to clarify the city’s oversight of an Albuquerque marketing firm recently rehired to boost area tourism. The city in 2018 hired Griffin and Associates, renamed Sunny505 after a merger earlier this year, for $50,000 a year to market Tucumcari-area tourism. The city last month extended the firm’s contract for another year after the tax board, citing communication snags and other problems, reluctantly recommended doing so. City manager Britt Lusk said the city commission wou...
RICHARDSON, Texas — In the classroom, Eastern New Mexico University athletes have been some of the best in the Lone Star Conference, with six consecutive semesters of placing among the top three in LSC Commissioner’s Honor Roll selections. Wednesday made it seven semesters, as the list released by the LSC office had 131 Greyhounds on the list. Eastern was topped by only Angelo State (144) and Texas A&M-Commerce (139), and ahead of UT Permian Basin (125) and West Texas A&M (119). Logan’s Wyatt Strand was one of 35 selections from the footb...
Seven-year-old Dantez Sena of Tucumcari had been thinking for a while about cutting his 30-inch-long hair for the first time because it was getting in the way of his playing sports. But he decided if he was going to lose those long locks, they would benefit a cancer patient who needed it. Last month, it finally happened. Dantez's parents, Paul and Kayla Sena, took him to Lacy Hastie's salon in Tucumcari for his first-ever haircut. Dantez's hair was tied into a braid to make it easier for Hastie...
A member of the Logan FFA chapter recently won the top prize in a prepared-speech competition at the state convention in Las Cruces. Micah Lightfoot earned first place in the Greenhand prepared speech contest at state. Greenhand members are high-school students who have completed a several FFA criteria. Logan teammates Jodi Vance, Joanie Vance, Rilee Nials and Kyndall Ragland finished fourth in the quiz-team competition. The Vances and Lightfoot also finished in the final eight of the creed...
Fourteen Quay County 4-H members traveled to Las Cruces to compete at the New Mexico State 4-H Conference from July 8 to July 11. They participated in 10 contests, with all receiving ribbons. Here are Quay County's 4-H competitors: The agronomy team finished third. Team members were Kaleb Hayes, Payton Oliver, Eli Oliver and Dyson Clark. The Horse Bowl team finished seventh. Members were Rilee Nials, Jenna Lopez, Emmalee Elebario and Nick Black. The horse judging team finished fifth. Members wer...
These individuals were booked into the Quay County Detention Center from July 8 to July 14: • Michael Lucero, 47, Tucumcari, falsely obtaining services (over $20,000). • Pablo Mares, 34, Tucumcari, aggravated driving under the influence of intoxicating liquor or drug (0.16 or above). • Joseph Robert Martinez, 33, Tucumcari, felony contempt of court. • Michael Bennett, 55, Tucumcari, use of a telephone to terrify, intimidate, threaten, harass, annoy or offend and public nuisance. • Bryan Charles Cassidy, 37, Tucumcari, two counts of contempt...
These calls were made to the Tucumcari-Quay Regional Emergency Communications Center from July 1 to July 14: July 1 • 10:27 a.m.: Arrest in 200 block of East Center Street, Tucumcari. • 11:33 a.m.: Fraud in 200 block of East Center Street, Tucumcari. • 12:50 p.m.: Breaking and entering in 900 block of East Hancock Avenue, Tucumcari. • 2:37 p.m.: Arrest in 200 block of West High Street, Tucumcari. • 8:27 p.m.: Traffic accident with damage in 200 block of East Hancock Avenue, Tucumcari. • 10:16 p.m.: Suicidal person in 700 block of East Aber S...
On this date ... 1969: Apollo 11’s astronauts sped unerringly today on their epic journey to walk on the moon. Russia’s unmanned Luna 15 already is orbiting there in an apparent bold bid to beat the Americans back to Earth with a sample of lunar soil. • A Santa Rosa police officer was charged with involuntary manslaughter after he shot and killed a fleeing prisoner. The 21-year-old inmate from Dayton, Ohio, broke and ran while being transferred from a sheriff’s deputy’s car to a city patrol car. The district attorney said he charged the offic...