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Local healthcare access and potholes on city streets were the most frequent concerns that constituents relayed to two state legislators during a political forum last week hosted by the Tucumcari Zia Club. One lawmaker also offered a possibility to fund the construction of a new hospital in Tucumcari. State Sen. Pat Woods and state Rep. Jack Chatfield, both Republicans, heard that feedback and talked about the New Mexico Legislature session coming in mid-January. Many officials from the city and...
FORT SUMNER — The Fort Sumner Municipal Schools board heard on Nov. 21 that two legislative bodies are considering increasing the required number of classroom hours for school districts. Superintendent Matt Moyer, addressing the board virtually, warned board members to expect extensive discussion about extending the school year in the upcoming legislative session, which begins Jan. 17. The 60-day session will extend through March 18. Moyer said preliminary discussions in interim meetings of the Legislative Finance Committee and the L...
Quay County’s number of confirmed coronavirus cases went back down again last week after a spike during the previous period. The number of COVID-19 cases in the county last week totaled seven by Wednesday, compared to 14 in the previous week. Two other weeks in early November also totaled seven cases each. The New Mexico Department of Health did not report data on Thursday or Friday because of the Thanksgiving holiday. According to the COVID Act Now website, Quay County’s rate of new cases dropped somewhat to 121.2 cases per 100,000 people las...
We’re studying through the book of Acts in church and one thing that struck us recently was the availability of places for those first preachers to engage listeners with the claims of the Gospel of Christ. Most cities had multiple synagogues that were happy to let traveling ministers address them. There were crowded, open-air markets where people bustled around: you were free to set up your soap box there and just start preaching. You could expect crowds gathered at riverbanks. In our little town, there’s no such place. What foot traffic the...
On this date ... 1972: A 16-year-old Tucumcari girl was in critical condition at an Amarillo hospital after a one-car accident on the city’s west side. The crash, which occurred on North 10th Street, hospitalized four other people at Trigg Memorial Hospital who were in the 1967 Volkswagen. According to Tucumcari Police, the accident occurred because of excessive speed on a curve. • Two FBI agents were in Tucumcari to hold three days of school for local law-enforcement officers. The school dealt with practical matters such as search and sei...
Note: Events subject to change due to the COVID-19 pandemic. • Saturday — Glow on 66 Christmas Light Parade. The annual parade at 6 p.m. on Second Street near downtown and Route 66 will include a $500 prize for best float. Lineup will be from 5 to 5:30 p.m. at the Tucumcari Historical Railroad Depot. The parade will finish at the Tucumcari Convention Center. Those who wish to enter should call (575) 404-6480, (575) 461-1694 or email [email protected]. • Dec. 9-10 — Christmas Carriage Rides. Tucumcari Rawhide Days is presenting this ev...
Tucumcari Senior Center Wednesday — Meatloaf, parsley mashed potatoes with gravy, zucchini, tomatoes and corn, whole-wheat roll with margarine, blueberry cobbler. Thursday — Beef fajitas with lettuce and tomato, pinto beans, apricots. Friday — Chili beans, coleslaw, California veggies, cornbread with margarine, tapioca pudding. Monday — Hamburger steak, brown gravy, garlic mashed potatoes, carrots, whole-wheat bread with margarine, apricots. Tuesday — Chicken fajita with peppers and onion, cauliflower with margarine, fruit cocktail. Logan Sen...
The recent opening of Sunset Avenue Boutique women's clothing store in Tucumcari fulfills a dream the owner held since she was a girl. "I've always wanted a store since I was 10 years old," owner and operator Breanna Driscoll said during an interview last week, less than a week after the boutique's soft opening on Nov. 18. "I used to spend a lot of summers at my grandma's house in Schulenburg, Texas, another small town a lot like this. "I always wanted to do this, and this seemed like a good...
Few persons would think of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address as appropriate Thanksgiving-season reading. Many among us, for some strange reason, prefer to imagine him delivering it under a searing sun and in soggy humidity. Perhaps we confuse the month of the battle with the month of the ceremony initiated to honor those who died at the Battle of Gettysburg. Absurdly and challenging the imagination, over 7,000 soldiers died. The fighting lasted three days, from July 1 through July 3, 1863. Lincoln’s spellbinding address at Gettysburg, which...
People are more alike than different. Even those who use politics against you want the same things you want. They want to live their lives the way they believe is best, and they usually believe their way would be best for you, too. The difference is they are pursuing a way you think is not going to work; for themselves or for others. They may prioritize feeling safe over liberty. You may think what makes them feel safe is too dangerous. Maybe they’d put green chilis on everything and you don’t want them on anything. You might be right or you...
The other day I heard a program on NPR discussing how children and youth are taking in the threat of climate change. One teenager spoke of how he became keenly aware of the threat when he had to leave his home as he viewed an approaching wildfire just outside his window. He’s an example of someone who recognizes the threat because he’s had a glimpse of it up close and personally. Other children and youth see it from a distance, like a cloud choking off their future. Anger and depression grow from such a dark view of what’s ahead. The NPR discu...
FORT SUMNER — Drought conditions in Texas and throughout the U.S. continue to take a toll on cattle numbers, with higher calf prices and less beef production projected for 2023, according to a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service livestock economist. “Most of the country is in some form of drought,” David Anderson, AgriLife Extension economist in the Texas A&M Department of Agricultural Economics, Bryan-College Station, told attendees at the recent South Central Texas Cow-Calf Clinic in Brenham. “Drought affects all aspects of the cattle...
A Texas man filed a lawsuit earlier this month against a Tucumcari travel center after he said he was injured when an air pump hose exploded in his hand. Mikhail Franklin of El Paso filed the suit on Nov. 7 in Tucumcari district court against Pilot Travel Centers LLC, which owns and operates the Flying J Travel Center on South Mountain Road in Tucumcari. The lawsuit states Franklin was at the Flying J on July 25, 2021, when he attempted to use an air pump machine that “unexpectedly exploded in his grasp without warning.” It stated there was...
These calls were made to the Tucumcari-Quay Regional Emergency Communications Center from Nov. 21 to Nov. 27: Monday — 12:59 a.m.: Disturbance in 1600 block of South Third Street, Tucumcari. — 3:20 a.m.: Disturbance in 2000 block of South Mountain Road, Tucumcari. — 9:51 a.m.: Theft in 600 block of South Fourth Street, Tucumcari. — 10:05 a.m.: Accident at South Third Street and West Charles Avenue, Tucumcari. — 10:50 a.m.: Accident with injuries in 36200 block of Interstate 40 east, Bard. — 11:02 a.m.: Accident at West Tucumcari Boulevard a...
These individuals were booked into the Quay County Detention Center from Nov. 21 to Nov. 25: — Marland Glenn Hadley, 49, no address listed, disorderly conduct. — Jackson Douglas Talvitie, 44, Tucumcari, resisting, evading or obstructing an officer (arrest) and contempt of court. — Bernadette Tapia, 39, Moriarty, contempt of court. — Douglas C. Batson, 20, Logan, contempt of court. — Natasha Ogren, 31, no address listed, contempt of court. — Neil Vanwyck, 44, Tucumcari, contempt of court. — Emilio E. Sustaita, 32, Tucumcari, contempt of c...
Opponents probably won't be taken by surprise by the Tucumcari girls basketball team this year. About a year ago, a young and mostly inexperienced Lady Rattlers team knocked off several state-ranked teams, mostly due to its tenacious defense. Tucumcari went 13-11, won their district tournament and qualified for the Class 3A tourney. This season, Tucumcari returns five players who were starters or saw a lot of floor time. And this time, the Lady Rattlers have more depth. "We're trying to change...
Young and fast. That, plus more of an emphasis on defense, are the gist of coach John Span's outlook on his Tucumcari High School boys basketball team. The Rattlers open their season at 1 p.m. Thursday against Bosque at the three-day West Las Vegas Shootout tournament. Tucumcari's first home game will be against Texico on Dec. 6. Tucumcari boasts one prominent returning starter, senior point guard Curtis Gonzales, from last season's team that sported an 8-17 record but won its district...
Not only is the leadership of Tucumcari High School wrestling undergoing a transition, but so is the sport in New Mexico. THS assistant coach Tim Clark was promoted to head coach of the Rattlers program after coach Eddie Encinias retired last season after 22 years and a New Mexico Wrestling Hall of Fame career. "I have big shoes to fill," Clark said. "I've told the kids that Coach Encinias left a lineage in the program, but he also left at a time when there's a major transition happening within...
Two Tucumcari High School football players earned all-district honors in District 4. Senior offensive guard and middle linebacker Xzander Garcia and junior offensive guard and linebacker Antonio Gonzales were the top vote-getters from the Rattlers program for first-team honors in the district, which included Ruidoso, Dexter, Hope Christian and New Mexico Military Institute. Tucumcari’s Jordan Rincones, a sophomore running back and linebacker, and Daymion Urioste, a freshman running back and outside linebacker, each earned second-team honors i...