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While the city of Tucumcari’s general fund ended the year with a deficit of about $575,000, the city as a whole managed, with revenues of nearly $12.7 million, to finish the fiscal year that ended June 30 with a positive balance of $1,236,331, the Tucumcari City Commission learned Thursday during a special meeting. The good news about the general fund’s budget deficit is it is more than $200,000 less than the $775,519 deficit with which the city started fiscal year 2019, which began July 1, 2018, and ended June 30, the commission learned. Cit...
Quay County teems with dinosaur bones beneath its soil, and it's up to volunteers at Mesalands Community College's Dinosaur Museum to get them out of the ground. Axel Hungerbuehler, curator and the college's natural sciences faculty member, organized the latest five-day "dinosaur dig" last week. About 10 people - ranging from a 16-year-old dinosaur buff to Mesalands students to a veteran schoolteacher - took part in the paleontology fieldwork. The dig site lies in southern Quay County where the...
The Quay County Commission on Monday unanimously approved a final budget that anticipates $13.47 million in spending in fiscal year 2019-2020. That’s more than a 50 percent anticipated increase from the just-completed fiscal year in which county finance director Cheryl Simpson said the county spent $8.87 million. Simpson said after the meeting the spending increase can be attributed to a state-approved remodeling and renovation project for the Quay County Detention Center plus large road-improvement projects also greenlighted by the state ...
• Friday-Saturday — Quay County Rodeo. Concessions will be available beginning at 4:30 p.m. each day. The rodeo begins at 5 p.m. Schedule includes rough stock, barrels, poles, goat roping and roping events. Admission is $4 for adults and $2 for children, with programs costing $1 each. Quay County Fairgrounds. • Saturday — Open mic night. This event welcomes artists of all types. Whether you make music, tell jokes, or write poems, pre-register with The Gallery Etc. to reserve your slot. Event is free, but donations are appreciated. The Gallery...
I often quote sayings from Disney’s “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” such as the dwarfs’ response to Snow White’s question about when they last had washed their hands, which was, “Recently.” I also like Grumpy’s response to Bashful’s question, “What are wicked wiles?” which was, “I don’t know, but I’m agin ‘em!” While Grumpy was referring to the behavior of even angelic-appearing females being poison, he was on target about being against wicked wiles. Satan and his minions appear as angels of light (truth), whether or not they know they’r...
Texas-based AimBank is acquiring FNB New Mexico, including its banks in Tucumcari and Logan. AimBank announced in a news release earlier this month it had “entered into a definite agreement” to acquire FNB New Mexico, which also has banks in Santa Rosa, Clayton and Dalhart, Texas, and $254 million in total assets. AimBank owns 18 banks primarily in West Texas and the Texas Panhandle, with $1.4 billion in assets. Garrett Baker, senior vice president at FNB New Mexico, stated in an email Wednesday the merger would lead to no job losses for his...
Johnnie Meier asked someone to plug in the electrical cord to an old Phillips 66 wall clock, festooned with neon letters, he'd brought with him and laid on a table. Within seconds, a bright red glow erupted from the clock's glass neon tubing, causing a spontaneous "ahh" from about two dozen people watching Meier's neon-lighting workshop Saturday at the Tucumcari Historical Museum's annex. Later that day, Meier acknowledged that reaction to neon lighting was common. "It's got a glow that...
We want to join the many voices rightly celebrating one of the greatest moments in our history. How hard it must have been to even imagine that journey 50 years ago that saw America reach out and touch something so distant, mysterious and powerful. The iconic images of the moon landing that returned to us became instant symbols of our ability as a people and a culture to make real what we could only imagine. Not even the confines of the planet itself were enough to contain American, and human, ingenuity and will. We want to celebrate that...
A July 16 column by the New York Times’ Thomas L. Friedman favors some moderate ideas he thinks the Democratic party should adopt even as it lists leftward. I agree. Friedman and I share a belief that Americans tend to settle toward the center even as the Republican and Democratic parties gravitate toward extremes. Friedman and I also concur that people mostly miss good jobs. Yes unemployment is down, but, as Friedman points out, “the wealth of the top 1 percent equals that of the bottom 90 percent.” At the same time, the type of job that...
We are about a year away from legalizing recreational marijuana in New Mexico. Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has already set the wheels in motion for its passage at the Roundhouse next year, and if the state is ready with the regulations, it could conceivably become legal on July 1, when a lot of new laws take effect. That’s my prediction — legal pot will be selling in New Mexico by this time next year. Whether legalized marijuana will hit the streets next year or the year after, it’s coming, and probably sooner rather than later. Lujan Grish...
The Eastern New Mexico University cross-country and track and field programs officially signed 23 student-athletes to compete during the 2019-2020 season, including former state-champion hurdler Seth Martinez of Tucumcari. According to a news release last week from the university, the Greyhounds will have 17 incoming freshmen, including Martinez. "I am excited to be having this group join the Greyhound family," ENMU cross country and track coach Jeff Kavalunas stated in the news release. "We hav...
Gage Bruhn of Logan High School finished ninth in trapshooting and 13th in the light rifle event nationally during last week's National High School Finals Rodeo in Rock Springs, Wyoming. Bruhn, who will be a senior this fall, scored 95 of 100 points in the trapshooting competition Thursday and secured his ninth-place finish by scoring 10-of-10 in the tiebreaker. Van Dalton of Utah scored a 99 in the preliminary rounds and tallied consecutive perfect-10s in two tiebreakers to win the national tit...
About 75 young athletes will show their cowboy and cowgirl skills Friday and Saturday during the annual Quay County 4-H Rodeo at the Quay County Fairgrounds arena. Rodeo performances begin at 5 p.m. nightly with the singing of the national anthem by local vocalists, plus a color guard. Rodeo events include barrel racing, pole bending, breakaway roping, team roping, steer riding and bull riding. Saddles will be given to all-around winners in the senior, junior and novice divisions, plus belt buckles for the winners of each event. Several...
Among the items the Tucumcari school board approved in its consent agenda during its regular meeting July 15 was a first reading of policy advisory on administering medicine to students, including medical marijuana. Board members had little discussion about the policy changes, but the board’s packet of documents contained the full text, including the proposed medical-marijuana rules. One of the changes requires not a physician to give medication and medical marijuana, but an “authorized health care professional.” Written permission from a par...
The closed ALCO building on Tucumcari's west side now will be called the Tucumcari Business Hub, and two prospective companies recently toured the facility with an eye at possibly renting space there, Mesalands Community College's president said during the board of trustees meeting July 16. College President John Groesbeck said two Albuquerque companies recently looked at possibly renting the 40,000-square-foot former retail building. When asked after the meeting to elaborate about the two prosp...
New Mexico State University researchers will give updates on their ongoing agricultural efficiency projects during their annual field day Aug. 8 at the university's Agricultural Science Center at Tucumcari. "We invite everyone to join us and learn about the updates we will present on projects ranging from beef cattle to special mixtures we're developing for increased forage yields and nutritive value," said Leonard Lauriault, superintendent and forage crop management specialist at the center....
25: Apollo 11’s astronauts, their footprints stamped forever in history, splashed down today in the South Pacific to make good America’s commitment to walk on the moon in the 1960s. A grinning President Richard Nixon led the welcoming committee aboard the USS Hornet aircraft carrier 1,000 miles southwest of Honolulu. Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin A. Aldrin blazed back through the atmosphere after nearly 1 million miles in space. • Rattler Yell Belles returned from the NCA Cheerleading Clinic in Albuquerque. Those attending the c...
These calls were made to the Tucumcari-Quay Regional Emergency Communications Center from July 15 to July 21: Monday • 7:55 a.m.: Arrest warrant in 2000 block of South Mountain Road, Tucumcari. • 12:47 p.m.: Theft in 500 block of South Sixth Street, Tucumcari. • 1:45 p.m.: Breaking and entering in 1700 block of South Fourth Street, Tucumcari. • 5:28 p.m.: Arrest warrant at Sixth Street and Campbell Avenue, Tucumcari. • 7:21 p.m.: Theft (fuel drive-off) in 2300 block of South First Street, Tucumcari. • 7:36 p.m.: Threat in 1900 block of So...
These individuals were booked into the Quay County Detention Center from July 15 to July 21: • Jorey Harrison, 31, Tucumcari, charge not listed. • Joanna Delores Ingram, 45, Tucumcari, warrant from other counties or states. • Antonio Andre Sandoval, 31, Tucumcari, contempt of court. • Donna Lee Stroud, 48, Tucumcari, contempt of court. • Santiago Lucio, 35, Farwell, Texas, charge not listed. • William Christopher McClain, 29, Clovis, contempt of court. • Jessica Hyslop, 27, Tucumcari, criminal trespass (unposted) and battery. • Mariah Meier, 2...