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The New Mexico Racing Commission last week announced a date when it will accept or reject an application from Coronado Partners that wishes to build a casino and horse-racing track in Tucumcari. Commission Chairman Sam Bregman announced at the end of the commission’s meeting Thursday it would make a decision on the license application during its next regular meeting on Oct. 20. Coronado Partners principal and Logan attorney Warren Frost, who attended the meeting Thursday, said he asked the commission whether he could make a presentation on beha...
A Tucumcari police officer on Thursday received a Medal of Valor for his actions in preventing a death or serious injury during a house fire earlier this month. Acting Police Chief Pete Rivera gave Cpl. Justin Garcia the medal during a presentation at the Tucumcari City Commission's regular meeting. The morning of Sept. 17, a fire was reported in the 1500 block of South Fourth Street. Garcia was the first to arrive and was told someone still was in the home. Rivera said Garcia tried to enter...
It was almost like the Fired Up festival never left. Teeming crowds, long lines and general enthusiasm for Tucumcari MainStreet's annual event Saturday at the city's historic railroad plaza mostly belied the three-year hiatus Fired Up took because of restrictions and uncertainties over the COVID-19 pandemic. Connie Loveland, executive director of Tucumcari MainStreet that puts on the festival, noted it wasn't apparent the long layoff had much of an effect. "It's comparable to what we've had...
Quay County’s number of coronavirus cases fell to the single-digit level last week, though an apparent outbreak at Mesalands Community College showed the virus still can cause disruptions. COVID-19 cases totaled seven last week, compared to 10 and 19 during the previous two successive weeks reported by the New Mexico Department of Health. Mesalands was scheduled to hold its regular board of trustees meeting on Sept. 27. However, Margaret Ragland, executive assistant to President Gregg Busch, sent an email Friday evening stating the meeting h...
Note: Events subject to change due to the COVID-19 pandemic. • Thursday — King Ryder Circus. Shows will be at the Tucumcari Convention Center at 4:30 and 7 p.m. Tickets can be purchased at KRCircus.com. Saturday — Free Fun Run. Participate in a 5-kilometer run or walk from Kvols Park in Tucumcari. Registration begins at the park at 7:30 a.m., with the starting gun at 8 a.m. • Oct. 7-8 — Mesalands Community College Grand Canyon Region Intercollegiate Rodeo. The 14th annual event will feature a performance by professional rodeo clown and barre...
The Logan Senior Center offers grab-and-go meals to those who qualify. Those interested should call 575-487-2287 for more information. Tucumcari schools Wednesday — Breakfast: Scrambled eggs with ham, whole-wheat toast, mini bagels with strawberry cream cheese, banana, apple juice, 1% or skim milk; Lunch: Cobb salad, barbecued chicken thighs, garlic mashed potatoes, baked beans, chilled peaches, skim, chocolate skim, 1% or strawberry milk. Thursday — Breakfast: Sausage breakfast pizza, assorted cereal, graham crackers, apple juice, orange jui...
On this date ... 1972: Jacqueline Stout of Grady showed the Junior Sheep Show’s grand champion market lamb at the New Mexico State Fair in Albuquerque out of a record 418 entries. “I was really excited. I only cried once or twice,” she said when she realized her 5-month-old blackfaced mutton named Bill had won the big prize. Rodney Batie of Tucumcari also won first prize at the fair with his pen of three blackfaced lambs. • Fabrific Fabric Centers was advertising turbo acrylics for $1.49 a yard, Velvetex corduroy for $1.69 a yard, polyest...
My wife and I discussed reducing sodium in our diets. While humans need sodium for good health, we usually get more than we need, and too much of even any good thing is not good, except when it comes to God. Anyway, using a salt substitute or light salt was broached and hastily dismissed. I’d never used either product, but my wife and her parents had and quickly decided they had an unfavorable taste. The conversation then took a different direction as my wife asked about Jesus’ statement regarding our major Christian responsibility to be sal...
Call it a birthdate and a born-again date. The Tucumcari/Quay County Chamber of Commerce held a celebratory open house Thursday to commemorate a more than year-long renovation effort and mark the 56th anniversary of the building's groundbreaking. The chamber, which also houses the Tucumcari Visitors Center, displays a golden-colored shovel from Tucumcari Lumber Co. that was used during the groundbreaking ceremony of the facility a 404 W. Route 66 Blvd. on Sept. 22, 1966. More than a...
The K-Bob’s Steakhouse that soon was to reopen in Tucumcari has undergone a name change and a format change. K-Bob’s announced on social media Friday the new name of the restaurant at 200 E. Estrella Ave. will be Stone Ranch Steakhouse. Faye Kolman, chief financial officer and vice president of Albuquerque-based 19twelve Holdings that owns the Tucumcari site, stated in an email Friday her company no longer was involved in K-Bob’s. “We still love them; however, wanted more control over our product and menu,” Kolman wrote. “For example, we...
Quay County’s road supervisor told county commissioners on Monday he decided to close access to Airport Road from U.S. 54 northeast of Tucumcari while the notorious intersection undergoes construction for safety improvements. Larry Moore said he was prompted to close access to the road last Wednesday after he and several others in a vehicle experienced a near-accident there. The intersection has been the site of numerous crashes in recent years, prompting pleas to the state from county commissioners to do something about it. Airport Road, k...
Russian President Vladimir Putin has raised anew the possibility he might use nuclear weapons against Ukraine to prevail in a conflict going sideways. The smart money says he won’t, because doing so — or otherwise expanding the conflict drastically — wouldn’t make a bad situation any better. Yet the smart money might not have predicted the choices that set Putin down this path in the first place. Much of Putin’s televised speech last week was a repetition of the familiar. He again blamed the U.S., the North Atlantic Treaty Organizat...
Politics divides. If you distrust your neighbor because of political differences, it’s not your neighbor -- or you -- who’s at fault. It’s politics. Some would have you believe we are at war with each other, but your neighbors aren’t the enemy, even if they follow the enemy. Or if you do. Don’t let politics make you hate each other -- that would be a tragedy. I’ve heard people claim “everything is political.” This is not a healthy way of looking at life -- it’s not even a smart claim. Things are only political if someone makes them politi...
If you ask me, a big reason why democracy in America is in trouble is because of the way we’ve set it up. First, there’s our Electoral College for electing presidents. By using state electors for selecting the overall winner through an antiquated Electoral College, instead of the majority of all voters, a lot of votes end up not mattering. For example, if you’ve been a Trump supporter in New Mexico, your vote for president in 2020 didn’t count toward the final tally that gave Biden the election. All of this state’s five electoral votes wen...
LOGAN - The Lady Longhorns secured bragging rights over the Lady Rattlers this season, but players from both teams likely will be talking to their children and grandchildren about that wild second set of Saturday's non-district clash. Logan (7-5) prevailed in the three-set match for its second victory over Tucumcari this season. But what had spectators buzzing was a topsy-turvy second set the Lady Longhorns ultimately won by a 34-32 score. Sets, which require a two-point margin of victory,...
A disastrous sequence of five touchdowns allowed in a seven-minute span Friday spoiled Tucumcari's annual Homecoming game during a 56-0 loss to Robertson at Rattler Stadium. The game ended midway through the fourth quarter due to the mercy rule, but the Cardinals (3-2) had all but won the game against the Rattlers (0-6) before the first period ended. Tucumcari was hampered by five turnovers and only 29 yards of offense. The Rattlers' coaches knew their young team faced a tough task before...
The Logan football team had little trouble controlling host Dulce during a 60-6 Longhorns non-district victory Friday in eight-man football action. The game ended at halftime due to the mercy rule. Logan led 46-6 after one quarter. The Longhorns improved to 5-1 overall. The Hawks fell to 1-3. Logan coach Dwayne Roberts hadn’t compiled stats when contacted by phone Saturday but estimated that quarterback Kaeden Stoner threw for up to 300 yards against the Hawks. Those who scored TDs for the Longhorns were Stoner, Christian Kotara, Brock Burns, D...
The Tucumcari Public Schools board last week approved a base quote of $3.31 million from a contractor to redevelop the high-school baseball and softball fields, though superintendent Aaron McKinney said he would continue to look for ways to reduce costs for the over-budget project. The winning bidder was Weil Construction of Albuquerque with its base quote of $3,316,382, which provided additional bids of $433,082 for new lighting, $23,142 for grass turf and $51,285 for demolition of the current lighting system. The other bidder was Jaynes...
These individuals were booked into the Quay County Detention Center from Sept. 23 to Sept. 25: — Johnny Pacheco, 44, Tucumcari, contempt of court. — Elias Delgado, 21, Tucumcari, contempt of court. — Daniella Jean Pacheco, 32, Tucumcari, contempt of court. — Dianna Marcella Yanquen, 32, no address listed, disorderly conduct and resisting, evading or obstructing an officer. — David Royce Shivers, 37, Logan, criminal damage to property (under $1,000). No individuals were released from the Quay County Detention Center from Sept. 23 to Sept. 25....
These calls were made to the Tucumcari-Quay Regional Emergency Communications Center from Sept. 19 to Sept. 25: Monday — 1:04 a.m.: Breaking and entering in 700 block of West Sunset Avenue, Tucumcari. — 10:10 a.m.: Property damage in unlisted block of Five Mile Park Road, Tucumcari. — 1:31 p.m.: Reckless driving in 31200 block of U.S. 54, Tucumcari. — 2:14 p.m.: Domestic disturbance in 700 block of South Monroe Street, Tucumcari. — 2:49 p.m.: Property damage in 1300 block of West Tucumcari Boulevard, Tucumcari. — 3:18 p.m.: Found property in...