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Mesalands Community College stated in a letter to a state senator the financially troubled college was not “at this time” considering the option of becoming a branch of a four-year university. State Sen. George Munoz (D-Gallup) in late July wrote letters to Mesalands, Eastern New Mexico University and New Mexico State University, urging Mesalands to consider a partnership or make the Tucumcari college a branch campus of one of the universities. He requested a response by Aug. 28. Last Monday, Mesalands board of trustees Chairman Richard Pri...
A candidate for Tucumcari City Commission was arrested and jailed Thursday on a battery charge less than 10 days after filing for the office. Tommy Snapp, 52, was booked Thursday afternoon into the Quay County Detention Center after being arrested on a warrant for a misdemeanor battery charge, according to jail records and online court documents. Snapp was scheduled to be arraigned in magistrate court on Friday afternoon. According to court documents, a Tucumcari police officer was requested Wednesday morning to investigate a civil dispute....
Two incumbent Tucumcari city commissioners will face challengers in the Nov. 7 election, including the mayor. Mayor Ralph Moya, who represents District 1, will face three opponents. That includes Tommy Snapp, first in line when the candidate-filing window for area races opened at 9 a.m. last Tuesday, and current Tucumcari school board member Jerry Lopez, the second person to file that morning. The third candidate to file to run against Moya was Maria Carmen Gonzales. District 1 generally...
The principal organizer of Tucumcari's annual Fired Up festival, slated for Saturday, is feeling fired up herself with the addition of a low-rider car show to the event. Steven Roybal, president of the Tucumcari chapter of the Rollerz Only low-rider club, is organizing the car show for this year's Fired Up at the Tucumcari Historic Railroad Plaza. Vehicles will be lined up along closed sections of Main and Second streets downtown. Rollerz Only, founded in 1988, is one of the largest car clubs...
The brilliant man in the video was asked whether he believed in God. He said the amount of suffering he sees in the world makes it hard for him to believe in a God who is good and loving. This is a common argument among skeptics. Suffering is bad, so God must not be good. He’s either too weak to do anything about it or unconcerned with it. For an atheist to make the whole suffering argument, however, is inconsistent with atheism, which can have no objective morality. He doesn’t believe in God, but he’s somehow confident that suffering is bad....
We don’t always end up where we think we’ll be when we start out on our journey. For some, the journey is straightforward. I think about the people in my life who knew what they wanted to do and be, and then set out to make it happen. For others, myself included, there were more twists and turns than the normal straightaway. It isn’t just that plans change, but that we change. Or our situations change. Or we discover what we thought we wanted, just didn’t work for us. Or it just took longer to find our path. Everyone has a special bit of work...
Coronado Partners’ efforts to prod the New Mexico Racing Commission to issue a license for a horse-racing track and casino in Tucumcari aren’t dead yet. Warren Frost, a Logan attorney and principal of Coronado Partners, on Aug. 23 filed a notice to appeal an Albuquerque district judge’s recent ruling in favor of the racing commission. The appeal will be heard by the New Mexico Court of Appeals. No date for the hearing has been set. Frost declined to comment when contacted by email last week. District Judge Nancy Franchini in early August ruled...
On this date ... 1973: The City of Tucumcari was busy preparing for the annual Piñata Festival. Miss Rodeo USA, Sandra Garnett, was scheduled to fly into Tucumcari to participate in Saturday’s festival parade. Friday was set for the festival’s Kids Day at Dunn Park with tricycle races, turtle races, bubblegum blowing contest, piñata mobile races and a bicycle endurance race. The Tucumcari Recreation Center was set to host a beard contest and square dance competition on Friday night. The 1973 Piñata Queen was scheduled to be selected tonigh...
• Saturday — Fired Up Festival. This year’s Tucumcari MainStreet event will feature a care show by dozens of low-riders. The festival in the Tucumcari Historic Railroad Plaza will run from noon to about 9 p.m. It also will include vendors, the annual Odd Lab fire performance and the event-ending fireworks show. • Oct. 7 — Quay County on the Move Fun Run/Walk. This free event that includes a 5-kilometer course, a half course and a short course for the mobility impaired will offer a T-shirt to all finishers and snacks. Register at Kvols Par...
Tucumcari Senior Center Wednesday — Meatloaf, mashed potatoes, gravy, mixed vegetables, roll with margarine, iced oatmeal cookie. Thursday — Chicken sandwich, potato salad, whipped Jell-O with fruit. Friday — Salisbury steak with gravy, parsley potatoes, carrots, roll with margarine, lime Jell-O with pineapple. Monday — Chicken and mushrooms, rice, broccoli and carrots, roll, lemon pudding. Tuesday — Swiss steak with tomato and onion, mashed potatoes with gravy, roll, pears. Logan Senior Center Wednesday — Baked pork chop with mushroom gr...
Former New Mexico governor, congressman and diplomat Bill Richardson died Saturday, according to the Richardson Center for Global Engagement. Richardson was 75. According to a statement Saturday from Mickey Bergman, the vice president of the organization, Richardson “passed away peacefully in his sleep last night.” Richardson had a long history in New Mexico politics, including serving two terms as governor. But he also worked on the national and international stage. “He lived his entire life in the service of others — including both his tim...
The Northeast Economic Development Organization-New Mexico is organizing an ACT WorkKeys Assessment on Sept. 22 at the Quay County Extension Office in Tucumcari. The free assessment can determine whether students or jobseekers are workplace-ready and can lead to a National Career Readiness Certificate. The assessments target three areas of work readiness: workplace documents, applied math and graphic literacy. Successful completion of the ACT WorkKeys Assessments can lead to a Bronze, Silver, Gold or Platinum certificate. To learn more or to...
In May 2005, a federal committee charged with reducing the nation’s military installations recommended that Cannon Air Force Base be closed. Local, state and federal lawmakers joined the community to rally behind the base in hopes of saving it. Area residents wrote hundreds of letters and thousands lined the streets of the city when the federal Base Closure and Realignment Committee came to town for a public hearing. If the local efforts had a vocal leader, his name was Bill Richardson. New Mexico’s governor never claimed he saved Cannon, but...
After whipping themselves into a frenzy, conservatives have tried to do a rapid U-turn of their embrace of YouTube sensation Oliver Anthony and his hit song, “Rich Men North of Richmond.” The flip-flop comes after Anthony (real name Christopher Anthony Lunsford) derided Republican politicians, radio hosts, and conservative news outlets for brazenly adopting his song. “It was funny seeing that (Republican) presidential debate,” Anthony said. “I wrote that song about those people.” The tune, which Anthony uploaded to YouTube last month, had...
Seriously folks. Maybe we Republicans better stop banging on Old Joe Biden for the serious cognitive issues he obviously has. Unless we hold the players on our own team responsible for their cognitive issues, we have to stop harping on the obvious mental declines of President Biden, Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania and Diane Feinstein, my home state’s ancient senator. I’m talking of course about the problem of what to do about Sen. Mitch McConnell’s shaky brain. The Republican Senate minority leader had another one of his sad and scary...
The Northeast Economic Development Organization-New Mexico is organizing an ACT WorkKeys Assessment on Sept. 22 at the Quay County Extension Office in Tucumcari. The free assessment can determine whether students or jobseekers are workplace-ready and can lead to a National Career Readiness Certificate. The assessments target three areas of work readiness: workplace documents, applied math and graphic literacy. Successful completion of the ACT WorkKeys Assessments can lead to a Bronze, Silver, Gold or Platinum certificate. To learn more or to...
The Quay County Health Council’s Intimate Partner Violence Task Force is bringing an adult empowerment group to the region. The group is for adults who have experienced trauma or violence during their lifetimes. Participants will work with the facilitators and each other to “let their past empower them to a better today.” This group will meet the first and third Tuesday of each month at VFW Post 2528 at 105 E. Main St. in Tucumcari, with each one-hour session beginning at 1 p.m. Sessions are not sequential, so it is OK if participants miss...
These calls were made to the Tucumcari-Quay Regional Emergency Communications Center from Aug. 28 to Sept. 3: Monday — 9:05 a.m.: Threat in 400 block of East Main Street, Tucumcari. — 2 p.m.: Unattended death in 700 block of West Sunset Avenue, Tucumcari. — 2:32 p.m.: Trespassing in 1800 block of Route 66, Tucumcari. — 4:41 p.m.: Breaking and entering in 1300 block of East Rankin Avenue, Tucumcari. — 6:05 p.m.: Noise complaint at Fox Drive and Sunflower Street, Logan. — 8:16 p.m.: Scam in 800 block of East Hines Avenue, Tucumcari. Tuesday — 1...
These individuals were booked into the Quay County Detention Center from Aug. 28 to Aug. 31: — Justin Daniel Martinez, 36, Tucumcari, contempt of court. — Matthew Trujillo, 22, Tucumcari, two counts of aggravated battery (deadly weapon). These individuals were released from the Quay County Detention Center from Aug. 28 to Aug. 31: — Anthony Gallegos, 42, Roswell, appearance bond. — Jason Randall Bogin, 36, no address listed, court ordered. — Anthony Lawrence, 44, Logan, transfer to Department of Corrections. — Gabriel Anthony Perez, 24,...
These are results from the poultry and rabbit shows at the Quay County Fair. Rabbit and poultry results Junior Egg Layer Class 1 1. Lily Nials; 2. MiKayla Klinger; 3. Ashton Smith; 4. Payson Nials Class 2 1. MiKayla Klinger; 2. Ashton Smith; 3. Keira Black; 4. Alicia Quintana; 5. Keira Black; 6. Lucia Benavidez Class 3 1. Lily Nials; 2. Addelynn Quintana; 3. Aubrey Reed; 4. Aubrey Reed; 5. Alicia Quintana Class 4 1. Payson Nials; 2. Payson Nials; 3. Addelynn Quintana; 4. Alicia Quintana Class 5 1. Ashton Smith; 2. Carter Smith; 3. Addelynn...
Tucumcari’s head football coach said his players still were coping with the death of a teammate, which prompted the cancellation of a non-district home game Friday against McCurdy. Javion Martinez, a freshman running back and linebacker on the Rattlers squad, died unexpectedly at his home on Aug. 26. Funeral arrangements were pending; a service at Rattler Gymnasium tentatively was planned. In addition to the football game, several other Tucumcari Public Schools sports events were canceled or postponed. The Rattlers’ next football game is a non-...
Menaul scored 18 unanswered points in the second half to surge to a 24-6 non-district victory over visiting Logan in eight-man football action Friday. The Longhorns committed six turnovers during the game, compared to one for the Panthers. Logan lost three fumbles, two onside kicks and one interception. Menial committed one turnover. “You can’t have as many turnovers as we had and expect to come out on top,” Logan coach Dwayne Roberts said. With the game tied 6-6 after intermission, Logan drove to Menaul’s 6-yard line but lost possess...
Logan's volleyball team on Saturday captured its second tournament title in as many weeks - this time, defeating host Tucumcari in the championship match. The Lady Longhorns overcame an opening-set loss to prevail 17-25, 25-13, 25-14, 25-19 in the finals of the eight-team Tucumcari Invitational. Logan (6-0) also won their Lady Longhorn Volleyball Tournament the previous weekend. Kaylee Williams, the tournament's Most Valuable Player, made a team-high 13 kills and added four aces for Logan. Teamm...
Alex Bueno De La O was Tucumcari High School’s top runner at the season-opening Clovis Invitational cross-country meet Friday, finishing 22nd overall. The junior finished the 5,000-meter course at Ned Houk Park in 20 minutes, 50.24 seconds at the seven-team event. Tucumcari was the smallest-enrollment school at the race. With other Rattler runners, freshman Bryan Carreon Reyes of Tucumcari finished 27th (21:38.04), junior Julian Flores, 38th (24:06.90), sophomore JT Turpin, 44th (27:13.52) and freshman Paxton Smith, 46th (29:41.62). T...
The San Jon volleyball team prevailed Thursday in a five-set battle at non-district foe Dora, equaling the number of wins the Lady Coyotes compiled all of last season. Down 2-1 in sets, San Jon rallied and eventually emerged victorious 19-25, 27-25, 21-25, 25-10, 15-8. San Jon improved to 3-1 overall, matching the number of wins from last season’s 3-19 campaign. Later, during the Tucumcari Invitational tournament, San Jon earned to more wins to surpass last year’s total. (See other story in this edition.) San Jon coach Bobby Kandel said his...