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(Note: A paragraph was accidentally deleted in an earlier online version of this story. The paragraph has been restored.) More than 180 people attended a Route 66 documentary screening Thursday night at Tucumcari’s Odeon Theatre that served as a fundraiser to help restore the theater’s façade and neon lighting. The charity screening was one of the events scheduled around the three-day fall quarterly meeting of New Mexico MainStreet. It was the first time since 2011 — when city’s railroad...
Two of the three positions for the House school board on the Nov. 5 ballot are contested with challengers facing off against incumbents in both races. William “Clint” Runyan, Position 4, is facing opposition from Wendy Green-Grigsby and Phillip Runyan, Position 5, is being challenged by Dyron Gray. William Noland is unopposed for Position 3. The remaining two board positions are not up for balloting in this elections. The terms for Calvin Downey (Position 1) and Rachelle Moon (Position 2) will expire in 2021. The candidates seem to agree tha...
Two of the three open seats for the Logan school board are contested for the Nov. 5 election, with three candidates for each. Toby Jon Willis, Edward L. Johnson and Kyle Don Perez are competing against each other for Position 1. Johnson, 35, is self-employed. Perez, 35, is a rancher. Willis, 43, is a Ricoh service technician and owner of Autumn Blessings Assisted Living. In Position 3, Kene Terry, Susan Acosta and incumbent Bryan Roach will battle for the seat. Acosta, 51, is self-employed. Terry, 37, is the owner of Friday T-shirts. Laurie...
Mama T’s restaurant of Logan has set a tentative reopening date of early December in the historic Whiskey: The Road to Ruin building. Mama T’s general manager Brian Cox said Friday during a telephone interview a firm date for the reopening would be announced later. Mama T’s, citing a need to increase its seating area, announced in January it would move from 120 U.S. 54 in Logan to the former Eagles lodge down the road. Cox said the new edition of Mama T’s would serve its usual menu of breakfast items, American food and barbecue, plus Mexican...
• Friday — CYFD Trunk or Treat. CYFD is partnering with local law-enforcement agencies and community partners to make this a spooktacular time from 4 to 6 p.m. All participants must enter at the start table to be entered to win a door prize. 107 W. Aber St., Tucumcari. • Saturday — Red Ribbon Carnival. This anti-drug event for areas schoolchildren will be from 2 to 6 p.m. at the VFW Post, 105 E. Main St., Tucumcari. • Saturday — Sing for Your Supper Bike Night. Between 6 and 9 p.m., bring a motorcycle to Cornerstone’s First Edition and p...
On this date ... 1969: Rain contributed to at least four traffic accidents in Tucumcari. A crash west of San Jon also injured a woman from Beloit, Wisconsin. She was traveling 2.6 miles west of San Jon on U.S. 66 when her car slid off the roadway and rolled over once. She was treated at Trigg Memorial Hospital for lacerations. Tucumcari now totals six inches of rain over the yearly average of 14.5 inches. • The United Department Store of Tucumcari advertised bras for $3 and girdles for $6 in colors of white, beige and lemon. • The Odeon The...
President Trump can be expected to denounce the House’s impeachment inquiry as a “witch hunt” or a “coup” attempt no matter how fair and transparent the process is. But House Speaker Nancy Pelosi still needs to shore up the credibility of the fast-moving investigation by having the entire House vote to authorize it and by insisting that witnesses now speaking to investigators in private testify as soon as possible in public. When Pelosi announced last month that the House was launching an “official” impeachment inquiry, this newspaper sug...
My introduction to “black humor” was a book called “Catch-22” by Joseph Heller. I fell in love with it and enjoy this guilt-inducing brand of humor even now, a half-century later. In “Catch-22,” set in World War II, the humor came from lines of reasoning like this: You could get out of combat if you were crazy, but you would be crazy not to want to avoid combat. So, if you tried to get out of combat by claiming you were crazy, you were sane, and back into battle you would go. Well, it was that and other dark, ironic wartime insanity that was fu...
Twelve presidential wannabes standing in a row on stage for three hours. Three friendly liberal journalists under-handing softball questions to them. Tons of BS about free government healthcare and why Trump should be impeached. Until the personal shock I got at the end of the Democrats’ debate on CNN woke me from my stupor, I wasn’t sure I wasn’t watching a rerun of last month’s debate. It was the same uninspiring lineup of leftwing political featherweights, plus a self-made billionaire in a hideous tie named Tom Steyer. And this time instead...
The Mesalands Community College board of trustees on Oct. 15 unanimously changed its admissions policy so non-graduates of high schools no longer are required to take aptitude tests. College President John Groesbeck said the Test of Adult Basic Education or the Pearson ACCUPLACER assessment, once required for non-graduates, was “not an accurate barometer of success in college.” He said the best indicator was past success in high school. Groesbeck also said such tests are unnecessary for students taking only one or two classes and not pur...
LOGAN - Logan beating Melrose would be tough enough. Logan beating Melrose without two Lady Longhorn starters would be tougher. As a result, it shouldn't have been surprising a top-ranked and undefeated Melrose would down a No. 2 but depleted Logan squad by a 25-14, 25-21, 25-17 score Saturday. The Lady Buffaloes improved to 15-0 overall and seized control of the District 6 standings with a 5-0 mark with three league matches left. Brett DeVaney led Melrose with nine kills and two blocks. Hailey...
A depleted Tucumcari team found itself overwhelmed 53-0 Friday night by a top-ranked Tularosa squad in a District 4 opener that was shortened in the third quarter by the mercy rule. Tucumcari fell to 1-7 overall and hasn’t scored since a Sept. 20 overtime loss to Santa Rosa. The Rattlers committed three turnovers — including a fumble returned for a touchdown — and struggled to gain even a first down. Tularosa, ranked No. 1 in Class 3A by MaxPreps.com, improved to 6-1 overall, with its only loss a 33-18 decision to Ruidoso. Tucumcari coach Wayne...
Grady/San Jon ended its season with a 60-18 loss at home Friday against Floyd in six-man football action. The Coyotes trailed only 22-18 after the first quarter against visiting Floyd, but the Broncos salted away the game with 38 unanswered points. Chad Becerra scored two rushing touchdowns for the Coyotes, and Dustin Bryant added another. San Jon/Grady coach Adrian Jones said his team had several dropped passes that would have been touchdowns and committed several turnovers. “We had our opportunities; we just couldn’t capitalize,” he said....
Noah Baker of Amarillo knew he had the talent to excel at Robert Lumpkin Memorial Disc Golf Course in Tucumcari's Five Mile Park. But he didn't play well during his last three tournaments. His biggest obstacle was "between the ears," as he put it. During this weekend's third annual Shootout at Six Shooter Siding, he changed his mental approach. The result was Baker shooting a 9-under-par 165 during the 54-hole tournament and winning the open title by a comfortable seven strokes. "I've been a bra...
Founding statesman John Adams wrote, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” The Constitutional Convention did not produce a document that could govern people who don’t govern themselves. As true as that is, there’s a sense in which it misses the point. It invites the question, “What form of government would be adequate for that other kind of people?” From a Biblical and historical standpoint, the answer is ...
A Tucumcari man was jailed on seven criminal counts, including two felonies, after he was accused of trying to choke a woman and threatened to stab her dog and burn down her house. Nicolas Garcia, 31, was charged Wednesday in magistrate court with aggravated battery by strangulation of a household member, aggravated assault of a household member, battery against a household member, criminal damage to property of a household member of $1,000 or less and three counts of harassment. The aggravated battery and aggravated assault counts are...
A district judge on Wednesday sentenced a Tucumcari man to three years of probation and other conditions after he was convicted of stabbing another man at a convenience store. Judge Albert Mitchell Jr. gave Adrian Andrade, 26, a suspended sentence after he pleaded guilty to aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, a third-degree felony that could have carried a three-year prison sentence and a $5,000 fine. Andrade was ordered to make a $100 donation to the Quay County Domestic Violence Program, provide a DNA sample to the New Mexico Department...
Rejecting a defense attorney’s pleas for a conditional discharge so his client could join the military, a Tucumcari district court judge on Oct. 15 sentenced an Albuquerque teen to 16 years behind bars for his role in a home invasion last year where an elderly Tucumcari man was beaten and his residence ransacked. District Judge Albert Mitchell Jr. sentenced Jamal Jones, 19, to 21 years to prison, with five years of that suspended. Shortly before his case was to go to trial in August, he agreed to plead guilty to aggravated burglary with a d...
A Colorado woman received an 18-month sentence in prison for her role in a high-speed car chase through Tucumcari in May where police officers were shot at after the vehicle she was driving crashed. District Judge Albert Mitchell Jr. on Wednesday sentenced Brandy Campbell, 37, of Colorado Springs, Colorado, after she accepted a deal to plead guilty to aggravated fleeing of a law officer, a fourth-degree felony. A charge of conspiracy to commit aggravated assault upon a peace officer with a deadly weapon was dropped, according to online court do...
Tucumcari schools Wednesday — Breakfast: Cheesy scrambled eggs and whole-wheat toast, cereal choice with cinnamon goldfish graham cracker, fruit, juice, milk; Lunch: Shredded pork with honey wheat roll, turkey ranch wrap, roasted diced potatoes, side salad with romaine lettuce and cherry tomatoes with fat-free ranch dressing, fruit, milk. Thursday — Breakfast: Pork sausage biscuit sandwich, cereal choice with cinnamon goldfish graham cracker, fruit, juice, milk; Lunch: Pepperoni pizza, garden salad, fresh broccoli, fruit, milk. Monday — Break...
These individuals were booked into the Quay County Detention Center from Oct. 15 to Oct. 19: • Audria Maxine Hammonds, 41, Tucumcari, municipal charge (not listed). • Craig Allen Snider, 60, Amarillo, Texas, driving under the influence of liquor (impaired; first offense) and open container (possession). • Adrianna Noel Apodaca, 31, Tucumcari, criminal damage to property (under $1,000). • Nicolas Alexander Garcia, 31, Logan, attempt to commit a felony, aggravated assault against a household member with a deadly weapon, battery on a househo...
These calls were made to the Tucumcari-Quay Regional Emergency Communications Center from Oct. 14 to Oct. 20: Monday • 8:14 a.m.: Domestic disturbance in 500 block of South Eighth Street, Tucumcari. • 11:24 a.m.: Breaking and entering in 13000 block of West Tucumcari Boulevard, Tucumcari. • 11:54 a.m.: Theft in 100 block of West Tucumcari Boulevard, Tucumcari. • 1:20 p.m.: Fraud in 400 block of South U.S. 54, Logan. • 5:04 p.m.: Trespassing in 2400 block of South First Street, Tucumcari. • 8:14 p.m.: Domestic disturbance in 800 block of Ea...
Concerns last month by the Tucumcari Lodgers Tax Board over a sudden shortfall in lodgers tax revenue were resolved Wednesday when it was revealed the mail service had lost a tax-revenue check by one of the city’s motels. Also, the organizer of Rockin’ Route 66 gave a 13-page report of June’s festival and outlined plans for future editions, including the 95th anniversary of Route 66 in 2021 and the highway’s centennial in 2026. The report prompted board members to discuss boosting aid for the next Rockin’ Route 66, scheduled for June 25-28. Du...