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The Tucumcari Oasis Tree Project helping in the beautification of Tucumcari by offering memberships to the Arbor Day Foundation. The fee is $10 and each person receives 10 free trees. Rebecca Blakeney started the project. She said when she moved to Tucumcari in September and saw the community had been planting trees around the town, she wanted to help the community with getting more trees planted. Blakeney said the the elementary school needs some of their trees replaced and there are some other places around town in need of trees. Yvette...
A Quay County teen is in custody after police say he killed his mother and stepsister in their home Monday night outside of Tucumcari. QCS Photo: Thomas GarciaState Police investigators discuss the crime scene of a reported double homicide at a residence on the 4400 block of Quay Road 63 two miles west of Tucumcari. New Mexico State Police officials said Tony Day, 14, shot Sue Day and stabbed her daughter, Sherry Folts. Tony Day is being held at the Quay County Detention Center's juvenile...
A former Quay County resident home to visit family over the holiday weekend recalled his time in New York in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. "The damage was widespread," said Chris Arnett, journeyman lineman for American Electric Power, Abeline, Texas. Arnett said he was part of the 30 members of the Abilene branch who volunteered to go to New York and help restore power. He said the crew drove four days covering over 2,100 miles to reach their destination. Arnett said he and the rest of the crew was stationed in a yard with 1,000 line workers fro... Full story
Lt. Gov. John Sanchez stopped in Tucumcari on Tuesday to listen to citizen concerns. About 25 people attended Mobile Office Day. Some asked Sanchez about the Ute Lake pipeline project and what will be done during the 60-day session of the Legislature, starting in January. Sanchez said the project was a concern of Gov. Susana Martinez would be discussed during the session. Other concerns were the wind energy project south of Grady, the Workmans Compensation agriculture exemption, production tax credit, funding cuts for the arts. Some suggested...
Black Friday in Tucumcari turned out the community in large numbers. Rhonda Kandel, manager of K Mart, said the store had many special sales for shoppers. She said Tucumcari shoppers were fantastic and were shopping Tucumcari in better numbers this year with three days of door buster sales. Brian Woodward, manager of Alco, said the day started out slow but picked later. He said many shoppers were coming in the store and sales were up from last year. Sandy Shipley of Shipley's Radio Shack said they had a lot of early shoppers coming in the...
Two area agencies are working to ensure the less fortunate have a merry Christmas. Since 2005, the Helping Hands Hospice has raised money for their Angel Fund through ceramic angels, said Sherri Lopez, administrator. Lopez said the fund is set up for patients and their families for unforeseen occurrences that may happen throughout the year. She said the money is used to help members of the program year round, though the holiday season is the only time money is raised. Lopez said selling the ceramic angels is the groups only fundraising... Full story
Some residents called for a petition to overturn a new animal ordinance adopted Monday at a Quay County Commission meeting. QCS Photo: Thomas Garcia Ordinance committee member, veterinarian Jean P. Corey talks to the residents about the proposed animal ordinance Monday at the regular Quay County Commission meeting. "However many signatures it takes, I am certain the residents of Quay County will overturn this," said Noami Ashcraft, county resident. "It seems the public hearing was just for show, the commissioners had their minds made up before...
The following are the menus for schools in Quay County for Nov. 29 - Dec. 5 Tucumcari Thursday Breakfast: Biscuits and sausage Lunch: Beef patty, mashed potatoes and gravy, dinner roll, pineapple, milk Logan Thursday Breakfast: Oatmeal, fruit, bananas, juice or milk Lunch: Elementary: Steak fingers MS/HS: Chicken fried steak, mashed potatoes, gravy, corn, salad, carrots, hot rolls, fruit, milk Snack: Teddy grahams, milk Monday Breakfast: yogurt, oatmeal, milk, juice Lunch: Hamburger steak, wheat rolls, mashed potatoes, gravy, salad, corn,...
Through the years, we have visited about the joys of living in a small town and have had the pleasure of trying to explain some of those joys to people who cannot imagine life in such a sparsely populated area. Friends from cities still cannot believe I actually chose to return home after retiring, nor can they believe I have remained here. Well, those of us who appreciate our surroundings are much aware that we love this place because of the place itself and because of the wonderful people who live here. We enjoy life in the slow lane and...
Your anti-Affordable Care Act editorial (last week's Quay County Sun) credits the plan to cut health care costs to "a Washington think tank described as an idea factory for President Obama." Here are some "think tanks" funded by and exist for the sole purpose of maintaining the status quo that primarily benefits the 1 percent: American Enterprise Institute, Heritage Foundation, Cato Institute, our own Rio Grande Foundation and numerous others. The conservative "think tanks" far outnumber liberal organizations. The purpose of the Affordable...
One of our children is notorious for taking off her shoes and socks in the car although she's been told time and again not to do that. Consequently, wherever we go, we need to include time to put those back on her. Recently, on one such occasion, the thought entered my mind that, "Here I am, rebooting the kid again." Then it occurred to me that we do things we shouldn't even when we know better and our relationship with God needs to be rebooted (you know, like when your computer slows down tremendously or stops working right or even doing...