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Tucumcari city commissioners during a work session Thursday discussed with Monarch Properties officials how to improve security at the troubled Quay Apartments, including possibly letting a city police officer live there for free. Tucumcari Police Chief Patti Lopez said she didn't have data on the number of police calls at Quay Apartments but confirmed it was a problem area for crime. "We go there a lot," she said. 'It's bad right now over there." Commissioner CJ Oglesby said the Quay...
The suspect in a shooting Saturday in Tucumcari has been identified, and he is still at large. According to a news release Sunday from New Mexico State Police, the shooter was identified as Alex Gutierrez, 24, of Albuquerque. An arrest warrant was issued for Gutierrez on charges of first-degree attempted murder, kidnapping and three counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. About 12:20 p.m. Saturday, the New Mexico State Police Investigations Bureau was requested to investigate a...
A person was hospitalized after being shot in northwest Tucumcari about noon Saturday. Tucumcari Police Chief Patti Lopez said the shooting occurred in the 600 block of West High Street. Dispatchers received several calls of shots fired in that area. The victim was taken to the emergency room of Trigg Memorial Hospital in Tucumcari, then transferred to an Amarillo hospital due to the seriousness of the injuries, she said. Lopez said the crime scene had been secured, but no arrests have been...
The former Republican candidate for Quay County treasurer and former deputy treasurer was charged today with felony charges of fraud and tampering with a public record. An arrest warrant was issued Friday for Albenita Rene Rael, 50, of Tucumcari. She was not in custody at the Quay County Detention Center as of Friday afternoon. Both charges are fourth-degree felonies that can lead up to 18 months in prison and up to a $5,000 fine. According to the criminal complaint filed by New Mexico State Police, Rael twice removed a property she owned from...
GiGi Parker, a regent for the Tucumcari chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution dressed in 18th-century garb, speaks Thursday after the DAR officers from all over the state helped unveil a Revolutionary War Patriots marker at the Tucumcari Convention Center. The marker is the first of four in New Mexico to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 2026....
The Mesalands Community College board of trustees approved a total of $1.88 million in funding requests to the New Mexico Higher Education Department for the college’s rodeo, wind, nursing and commercial driver’s license programs. The board heard details on the Research and Public Service Project funding application during a special meeting on Sept. 10. The college faced a Sept. 15 deadline to submit the application. The funding request for fiscal-year 2026 includes $212,900 in rodeo program recurring funds, $116,200 in wind-energy program rec...
With a festival name like Fired Up, a little heat is assumed. But the heat was a little too much on Saturday. Hot weather probably depressed crowd sizes at the 13th edition of the Tucumcari downtown festival, especially in the afternoon when temperatures reached 97 degrees and remained in the 90s until the early evening. According to Weatherspark.com, that was nearly 10 degrees hotter than the Tucumcari norm for mid-September. Connie Loveland, executive director of Tucumcari MainStreet that...
The board for Logan Municipal Schools last Monday appointed Taylor Smith to fill a vacancy due to a recent resignation. Smith replaces Cole Wallin, who stepped down on Aug. 5 due to what he described as new work responsibilities. Wallin was unopposed during his election in November 2023. Smith would serve through 2025. According a resume he submitted to the board, Smith is a real estate broker at Ute Lake Premier Properties, an insurance agent and current president of the Logan-Ute Lake Chamber of Commerce’s board of directors. The board interv...
My Bible tells me that God exists outside of time. God created time. God works in and through time, but time does not affect God. Scripture says of Jesus that “his goings forth have been from of old, from eternity.” It says in another place that a thousand years are like a day to him. The Lord’s experience of time is necessarily different than ours because he is the one who created it, the one who owns and controls it. On the other hand, here we are, stuck on earth, clicking through moments one second after another. We can’t speed it up when...
On this date ... 1974: Alice King, the first lady of New Mexico, attended a luncheon in Tucumcari hosted by the Quay County Democratic Women as part of the organization’s monthly “Women in Politics” series. King told the gathering that she added a sculpture and table of horseshoes made by Tucumcari resident Vernon Stanton when she oversaw the refurbishing of the governor’s mansion. She and Gov. Bruce King have visited almost every community in New Mexico at lease once since he took office. “Our door is always open,” she said. Kim Bowen, rece...
Tucumcari schools Wednesday — Breakfast: Apple spiced muffins, blueberry overnight oats, string cheese, fresh pear, apple juice, 1%, skim or strawberry skim milk; Lunch: Chicken patty sandwich, buffalo chicken wrap, potato wedge fries, seasoned peas, fresh broccoli, fruit cocktail, 1%, skim, chocolate skim or strawberry skim milk. Thursday — Breakfast: Whole-grain donut ring, Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal, cinnamon graham cracker, banana, apple juice, 1%, skim or strawberry skim milk; Lunch: Cheeseburger, ham and cheese sandwich, fresh baby car...
Sept. 28 — Quay County On the Move annual fun run / walk. The free event departs from Kvols Park at 8 a.m., with registration from 7:15 to 7:45 a.m. All finishers receive a T-shirt. Sept. 28 — Law Enforcement Appreciation Spaghetti Dinner. The Republican Party of Quay County event will be at 6 p.m. at the Quay County Fairgrounds in Tucumcari and include a dessert auction. Half of the proceeds will go to the family of fallen New Mexico State Police officer Justin Hare. For ticket information, call TJ Riddle at (575) 403-7274 or Marcy Willis at...
The Arch Hurley Conservancy District board of directors voted 4-1 last Tuesday to not allocate any more water for the fall growing season and officially set criteria to close its canals from Conchas Lake for the year. The action sparked grumbling from five farmers who wanted more water to grow hay, winter wheat or other crops. “Y’all are going to break a bunch of people,” one said. Before the board’s action, they generally voiced wishes for a small water allocation this fall but to also leave some water in the lake for next spring. Board m...
When New Mexico’s rural hospitals called for help, our entire state came together – hospitals statewide, the governor’s office, NM Health Care Authority and legislators from both sides of the aisle -- to pass the 2024 Health Care Delivery and Access Act. New Mexico is at a pivotal moment as we struggle to address healthcare challenges facing our hardworking families especially when it comes to access to healthcare. Almost half of our residents are enrolled in Medicaid and, frankly, the Medicaid reimbursement rates to pay our doctors, nurse...
What is old is new again, at least in the world of politics. Recently, Fox News host Jesse Watters made a quip questioning the veracity of Barack Obama’s birth certificate during a live edition of The Five. Regardless of whether he was being intellectually dishonest or not, Watters presented the topic of Obama’s birth certificate as somehow fraught with political intrigue and announced he would be dispatching his producer to find out the truth. “That’s why we’ll be sending Johnny to Hawaii to get the truth about the birth certifica...
Trump or Harris? The pundits and so-called political experts in the liberal and conservative media are still arguing over who won last week’s presidential debate. They’ll never agree. And they’re all so biased and partisan, they can’t be trusted to be honest anyway. But both sides did seem to agree on one thing – ABC News was the biggest loser. By far. Whatever shred of legitimacy ABC’s news-gathering operation had left, which wasn’t much, it was destroyed in full public view during the Trump-Harris debate. For 90 minutes millions of p...
LOGAN - With a 25-21, 25-16, 25-20 win on Saturday, the Lady Longhorns avenged an earlier volleyball loss this season to the Lady Rattlers, but it was a somewhat hollow one. That's because Tucumcari (8-2) was without one of its top hitters, senior July Lafferty, after she suffered a sprained ankle early in the Mora match on Thursday. Lafferty still was on crutches Saturday, and THS coach Dana Benavidez estimated she will be out for one to two weeks. Tucumcari's Big Three of Lafferty, sophomore C...
Logan started slow but finished strong with a 53-0 district victory Friday over visiting Dora in six-man football action. Haden Judd led the Longhorns (4-0) with 116 yards rushing and four touchdowns on just nine carries. Quarterback Aydin Kotara completed 11 of 18 passes for 156 yards and four touchdowns and one interception. Logan coach Dwayne Roberts acknowledged his team’s slow start during a scoreless first quarter, but he indicated he wasn’t too worried about it. “Our defense is pretty stout,” he explained. “Once we made some adjustmen...
The Falcons were just too much. Loving's front line largely dominated Tucumcari during a 44-3 Rattlers loss Friday in front of a Homecoming crowd of more than 1,000 at Rattler Stadium. The Rattlers (0-4) totaled barely 100 yards in offense and turned the ball over three times on interceptions. Loving defenders made 12 tackles for loss and besieged Tucumcari starting quarterback Nick Goen, who scored his team's only points on a 21-yard field goal in the second quarter. "We had a good week in...
Two of Tucumcari’s top runners shaved a full minute off their previous-best times Saturday during the Rattlers’ eighth-place finish at the Badger Run cross-country meet at Amarillo West College. Alex Bueno De La O finished 19th overall in a time of 17 minutes, 30.7 seconds over the 5,000-meter course. Fernando Ureste finished 20th with a time of 17:35.34. THS coach Tim Clark said he was happy with the pair’s faster times and noted Ureste was leading his teammate during the first half of the race. Other Tucumcari runners were Patric Szaloy (31st...
PORTALES — Portales City Council on Sept. 10 voted unanimously to stay with the Ute Water Pipeline Project despite an attempt by Logan attorney Warren Frost to dissuade City Council members from doing so. Frost was given 10 minutes to give a presentation to the council on why the pipeline project should be immediately halted. “All planning was based on Ute lake water could use conventional processing. It was discovered water quality has deteriorated,” Frost said. Frost alleged in his presentation the Eastern New Mexico Water Utility Autho...
Tucumcari Public Schools faced the prospect of having the state Public Education Department chief choose its next District 1 representative if it cannot break a deadlock between two candidates. The four board members during a special meeting last Monday split their votes between Carlos Romero and Andrea Madrid after they interviewed them and a third applicant, Carmen Maria Gonzalez. The board was scheduled to vote on the candidates again during its next regular meeting on Sept. 16 and possibly if a special meeting on Sept. 23. (The Sept. 16...
These individuals were booked into the Quay County Detention Center from Sept. 9 to Sept. 13: — Megan Nelson, 25, Keams Canyon, Arizona, aggravated driving while under the influence of intoxicating liquor or any drug (refusal) and speeding (over 11-15 mph). — Jeff Frank, 24, Mower County, Minnesota, warrant from other counties or states. — Steven Anthony Carabajal, 67, Tucumcari, felony contempt of court. — Jorge Luis Hernandez-Galan, 33, Fort Worth, Texas, possession of a stolen vehicle and conspiracy to commit possession of a stolen vehicle...
These calls were made to the Tucumcari-Quay Regional Emergency Communications Center from Sept. 9 to Sept. 15: Sept. 9 — 12:50 a.m.: Narcotics in 2600 block of South First Street, Tucumcari. — 9:30 a.m.: Loitering in 100 block of West Tucumcari Boulevard, Tucumcari. — 11:01 a.m.: Arrest warrant in 200 block of West Aber Street, Tucumcari. — 2:07 p.m.: Arrest in 200 block of West Aber Street, Tucumcari. — 2:26 p.m.: Scam in 200 block of East Center Street, Tucumcari. — 5:04 p.m.: Threat in 1400 block of West Sunburst Drive, Tucumcari....
The Bank of Clovis has been working on expanding in the region, but in a way you may not recognize. The banks don't bear the name "Bank of Clovis." They are the Bank of Clayton, the Bank of Logan and soon there will be a Bank of Tucumcari and the Bank of Des Moines, all divisions of The Bank of Clovis. Bank of Clovis President Randy Harris came up with the idea with the first bank he opened. "The first one was the Bank of Clovis. Look, the bottom line is rural communities on the east side of...