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The Quay County sheriff presented a Life Saving Award to his undersheriff whose quick actions last month likely prevented a woman's death from a heart attack she suffered in the county courthouse. Sheriff Russell Shafer presented the honor to Dennis Garcia during the county commission's regular meeting Monday. Shafer said during his presentation that on Aug. 12, when Garcia was about to head home after a long shift, he received a call for help from the district court's office about a woman who...
New Mexico’s governor on Friday announced $41.5 million in grants from the state’s Law Enforcement Recruiting Fund, including more than $1 million total for police departments in Tucumcari and Logan. The funding awards will be awarded to 29 police departments in New Mexico over the next three years, with full funding of salaries provided the first year, 50% on the second year and 25% on the third year. Funding levels are based on an average officer salary of $75,000 and were awarded based on needs identified by departments in their app...
The City of Tucumcari is down to two operating ambulances after one was totaled last month in an accident, the city manager told commissioners during her regular report Thursday. City manager Paula Chacon said the city’s insurer recently declared the ambulance a total loss after the Aug. 11 accident on Interstate 40 near the Texas border. She said the insurer would give a settlement of $38,000, plus salvage costs, on the 2016 model. Mayor Pro Tem Ralph Moya, who presided over the meeting in place of absent mayor Ruth Ann Litchfield, said an e...
One month after seeing record sales of legal marijuana, Tucumcari did it again. Total sales of recreational and medical marijuana in the city of Tucumcari totaled more than $356,000 in August, edging the previous record of $352,000 in July, according to a news release Wednesday from the Cannabis Control Division of the state’s Regulation and Licensing Department. Total adult-use recreational sales in Tucumcari were nearly $293,000 in August, with more than $63,000 in medicinal marijuana sales. At least seven marijuana dispensaries are o...
On this date ... 1972: Wells Fargo announced a plan to build a $2.5 million to $3 million motel complex just east of the KOA Campground off U.S. 66. Each of the two motel buildings will comprise of 175 to 180 units with a central shopping center and eating facility, banquet rooms, convention rooms and a plastic dome-covered courtyard with a pool and recreational facilities. The motels also have a separate facility for horses and animals, along with a veterinary clinic. Construction was expected to begin in six months. • Tucumcari’s Urban Develo...
Note: Events subject to change due to the COVID-19 pandemic. • Saturday — Free Museum Day. Take part in free admission at the Mesalands Dinosaur Museum, Tucumcari Railroad Museum, Tucumcari Historical Museum and New Mexico Route 66 Museum, all in Tucumcari, from 1 to 4 p.m. • Saturday — Cornhole Tournament at Tucumcari Historical Museum. This event from noon to 6 p.m. is open to all skill levels and offers cash prizes. Entry fee is $15 per person. 416 S. Adams St. • Saturday — Tucumcari Rotary Club Golf Tournament. Proceeds from this event...
The Tucumcari Senior Center and Logan Senior Center also offer grab-and-go meals to those who qualify. Those interested should call the Tucumcari facility at 575-461-2307 or the Logan facility at 575-487-2287 for more information. Tucumcari schools Wednesday — Breakfast: Sausage breakfast pizza, assorted cereal, graham crackers, apple juice, orange juice, skim, 1% or strawberry milk; Lunch: Chef salad, chicken nuggets, breadstick, garlic mashed potatoes, country gravy, broccoli, ranch dressing, red grapes, skim, chocolate skim, 1% or strawberry...
While I have many ideas for my articles, sometimes I check the internet to see what happened on the expected date of publication in the Quay County Sun. I did so this year for Sept. 14, and here’s a sampling of what I found at Brittanica.com, with some comments. Born Sept. 14, 1849, Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov is known for demonstrating the concept of conditioned reflex using a buzzer whenever some dogs were fed, then making the sound without feeding them, causing them to salivate. Christians are to desire God’s word as food for spi...
Quay County had the sixth-worst rate of alcohol-related deaths in New Mexico in 2016-2020, which was double the national average, Quay County Health Council members learned during their regular meeting Thursday. Council member Rachelle Moon, who presented the data, said alcohol-related deaths included liver and kidney diseases attributed to alcohol abuse, plus accidents. The three worst counties in New Mexico for alcohol-related deaths were in the northwest part of the state. She said one in five deaths by working-age adults in New Mexico was...
Quay County’s numbers of new coronavirus cases rose somewhat last week, and a website that tracks community risk of the disease’s spread kept the region at “medium” risk. COVID-19 cases totaled 19 last week, compared to 14 last week and 15 in each of the previous two weeks as reported by the New Mexico Department of Health. According to COVID Act Now website Saturday, Quay County’s rate dropped slightly to 218.1 cases per 100,000 people last week, compared to 230 the previous week. Meanwhile, all the surrounding counties were in low risk of c...
State game officials tranquilized and relocated a black bear found in a tree in Logan near Ute Lake on Thursday morning. Logan Police Chief Rodney Paris said his department first received a call about the bear about 7:15 a.m. Thursday. He said barking dogs in the area prompted the bear to go up into a tree on Schneider Avenue, near the lake. Officials from New Mexico Game & Fish tranquilized the bear and removed it about 11:30 a.m. that day, he said. Game & Fish Sgt. Andrew Teaschner said it was a “good size,” full-grown black bear wei...
In a functioning Florida Legislature, state Rep. Randy Fine, R-Palm Bay, would be an outlier. In this Florida Legislature, he’s dangerously mainstream. Like Republicans in other states, Florida lawmakers claim that public education’s main problem is not a shortage of teachers and bus drivers or helping students who fell behind during the pandemic. No, the problem is school districts forcing an LGTBQ agenda on children and parents. The Florida Legislature passed the so-called “don’t say gay” bill (HB 1557) to address that imaginary problem....
According to a recent poll, a majority of New Mexico voters approve of stiffer anti-gun legislation. This is why the U.S. Constitution exists, and why America was established as a republic, not a democracy: to protect individual rights from majority opinion. It places human rights beyond the reach of politics. You don’t get to vote on liberty. Whether or not this works in practice could be the subject for another conversation. Invariably, the anti-gun faction claims that “in spite of” all the legislation they’ve imposed, the crime rate remains...
In case you haven’t noticed, nuclear power is back in the headlines these days. Even here in New Mexico, where there are no nuclear power plants, it’s an issue. Not only do we have the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), where radioactive waste is stored deep underground in the southeastern corner of the state, federal regulators are considering another facility that would store up to 100,000 metric tons of high-level radioactive nuclear waste, which would be transported in from nuclear reactors around the nation. This one is called a “Co...
Tucumcari High School athletes paid tribute to a fallen Dalhart football player last week, and players for the Rattlers football team will wear the player's No. 22 affixed to the back of their helmets the rest of the season. Yahir Cancino, a sophomore on the junior varsity football team at Dalhart High School in Texas, suffered a head injury during a game on Sept. 1. He died of his injury a day later in a Lubbock hospital. Dalhart canceled all sports events the weekend after Cancino's death. Not...
The Tucumcari High School volleyball team racked up two more non-district victories last week, giving it its best start in recent memory and earning a top-10 ranking in the state. The Lady Rattlers downed Raton 25-11, 25-13, 15-25, 25-15 on Thursday and defeated West Las Vegas 27-25, 25-20, 25-21 two days before. Tucumcari improved to 7-2 and rose to third in the latest Class 3A rankings by MaxPreps.com. In the coaches poll released Thursday, Tucumcari tied with Thoreau for the No. 7. Unbeaten...
Turnovers — especially in the fourth quarter — doomed Logan during a 32-20 loss Friday at non-district foe Magdalena during eight-man football action. The Longhorns, ranked fifth in the latest coaches poll, suffered their first loss of the season and fell to 3-1. Magdalena, ranked sixth, improved to 3-1. Kaeden Stoner scored two touchdowns for Logan, and teammate Bill DeLuca added another TD. Both teams battled to a 20-20 tie early in the fourth quarter before the Steers broke through. “We had a few too many turnovers in the whole game,...
The Tucumcari High School football team didn’t have much of an answer for Raton star running back Cayden Walton during a 58-8 loss Friday at the Tigers’ home stadium. Walton, a senior, ran for 254 yards and four touchdowns in just 10 carries on Friday. Walton already has amassed more than 1,000 yards rushing and 17 touchdowns in just four games this season for the unbeaten Tigers. Tucumcari coach Donnie Garcia said Walton, whom he said is fifth in the nation in rushing, was a handful for his defenders. “He is very, very intelligent on when...
Changing up their schedule, the Tucumcari cross-country program headed east and participated Saturday at the sprawling Amarillo ISD Invitational meet. The Rattlers had been scheduled to go south to compete at New Mexico Military Institute in Roswell, but Tucumcari coach Tim Clark reconsidered for another meet that was closer. Clark said up to 30 teams participated in the Amarillo meet. “It was packed,” he said. Creed Owen was the top runner for the Rattlers, finishing the 5-kilometer course in 21 minutes, 22.86 seconds for a 75th place in the...
The Tucumcari City Commission on Thursday voted to authorize the use more than $6,700 in lodgers tax executive funds to buy a replacement air conditioner and heat pump for the Tucumcari / Quay County Chamber of Commerce building one day after the city’s lodgers tax board expressed reluctance to do so. Members of the Tucumcari Lodgers Tax Advisory Board were sympathetic to the chamber director’s request but refrained from recommending the purchase until the chamber’s contract with the city could be examined. Scott Crotzer, executive direc...
These individuals were booked into the Quay County Detention Center from Sept. 2 to Sept. 9: — Dominick Michael Ortiz, 28, Tucumcari, two counts of contempt of court. — Adam Apodaca, 24, Tucumcari, aggravated driving while under the influence of intoxicating liquor or any drug (0.16 or above). — Benny Sisneros, 57, Santa Rosa, criminal trespass (unposted). — Jessica Vest, 29, Logan, contempt of court. — Ricardo Rodriguez Ibarra, 47, Glendale, Arizona, reckless driving. — Alejandro David Quintana, 24, Tucumcari, contempt of court. — Emilio E....
These calls were made to the Tucumcari-Quay Regional Emergency Communications Center from Sept. 5 to Sept. 11: Monday — 1:48 a.m.: Theft in 1900 block of South Mountain Road, Tucumcari. — 9:47 a.m.: Drowning in 100 block of Sioux Road, Logan. — 10:48 a.m.: Scam in 100 block of South U.S. 54, Logan. — 12:06 p.m.: Theft in 1200 block of South Fourth Street, Tucumcari. — 2:35 p.m.: Assault and battery in 200 block of West High Street, Tucumcari. — 5:32 p.m.: Arrest warrant at South Seventh Street and West Dehoney Avenue, Tucumcari. Tuesday — 9...