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The New Mexico Department of Health on Sunday reported 13 confirmed cases of coronavirus in Quay County, all in the Tucumcari ZIP code. The age breakdown of the confirmed cases in the county was one age 9 and younger, three age 10 to 19, one age 20 to 29, one age 30 to 39, two age 40 to 49, one age 50 to 59, two age 60 to 69 and two age 70 to 79. Seven females and six males were infected. Quay County continued to see a high rate of cases in December, with 35 so far. A total of 140 cases were reported in the county in November. The total number...
New Mexico’s governor and the Department of Health on Friday announced a partial relaxation of COVID-19 restrictions this week and details about a reopening system for counties, but it appeared doubtful Quay County would land in the coveted green zone when the system goes into effect Wednesday. The rating system becomes effective Dec. 2 when Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s two-week “reset” of a shutdown of in-person business at non-essential workplaces ends. Counties would be allowed to further reopen their economies based on a per capita...
Logan Municipal Schools on Saturday became the fourth school district in Quay County to have in-person classes disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic. The district stated in a text message Saturday afternoon to parents and students that Logan schools will go entirely to online classes starting Monday through Dec. 18 “due to a COVID case on campus.” The Tucumcari, San Jon and House school districts in the county late last month converted from a hybrid model of teaching to all-online learnin because of rising COVID-19 cases in the region or cor...
The New Mexico Department of Health on Friday reported four confirmed cases of coronavirus in Quay County. Three of the cases were reported in the Tucumcari ZIP code and one in Logan. The age breakdown of the confirmed cases in the county was one age 10 to 19, two age 20 to 29 and one age 50 to 59. Two females and two males were infected. The total number of cases in the county since the pandemic began rose to 267, with five deaths. A total of 87 people have been deemed by the state as recovered from the virus. Quay County continued to see a...
The New Mexico Department of Health on Thursday reported six confirmed cases of coronavirus in Quay County, all in the Tucumcari ZIP code. The state also reported its second consecutive daily record high of deaths – 44 – and hospitalizations from the disease Thursday. The age breakdown of the confirmed cases in the county was two age 10 to 19, one age 30 to 39, one age 50 to 59 and two age 70 to 79. Three females and three males were infected. The total number of cases in the county since the pandemic began rose to 263, with five deaths. A tota...
Quay County, as expected, and 31 other New Mexico counties on Wednesday landed in the red zone on the state’s COVID-19 map that will guide economic reopenings in the coming weeks. Neighboring San Miguel County, however, landed in the yellow zone with a test positivity rate right at the 5% benchmark. Its daily case rate of coronavirus was 32.2 per 100,000 people, above the benchmark of 8 daily cases per 100,000 people. No counties were in the green zone. The next re-evaluation of counties will be Dec. 16. Los Alamos County, in the yellow zone a...
The New Mexico Department of Health on Tuesday reported seven confirmed cases of coronavirus in Quay County. According to the agency, six of the cases were in the Tucumcari ZIP code, with one in Bard. The age breakdown of the confirmed cases in the county was one age 10 to 19, three age 20 to 29, two age 30 to 39 and one age 40 to 49. Four females and three males were infected. The total number of cases in the county since the pandemic began rose to 254, with five deaths. A total of 80 people have been deemed by the state as recovered from the...
The New Mexico Department of Health on Monday reported the fifth death from COVID-19 in Quay County, along with a record-high 17 confirmed cases. According to an email from the agency, the latest death was a man in his 60s who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions. Another death in the county was reported Friday with a woman in her 60s who had underlying conditions. It was the third death in Quay County in November. Fifteen of the cases reported Monday were in the Tucumcari ZIP code, with one in House and one in Nara Visa. The age...
The New Mexico Legislature easily approved a coronavirus relief bill during a special session last week, but two lawmakers whose districts encompass all or most of Quay County were among those who voted against the measure. District 67 Rep. Jack Chatfield (R-Mosquero) voted against it in part because he said the $330 million package didn't address the growing debt in the state's unemployment insurance fund. District 7 Sen. Pat Woods (R-Broadview) opposed the bill partly because he said it was...
The whole world waits for the certification of our presidential election. American Christians, even many I respect, are suspended in fear about who will be set over them. This is understandable for the world, but shameful for a believer. For us, it betrays a frightful failure to grasp the importance of the ascension of Jesus Christ to “the right hand of God.” Since we haven’t considered what that means, it becomes nothing more than a statement of abstract faith, with no real ability to save...
A new digital resource designed to help adults address challenges associated with alcohol, other drugs and behavioral addictions has been made available for free to New Mexico residents. The 5-Actions Program, at NM5actions.com, was announced by the New Mexico Crisis and Access Line in partnership with ProtoCall Services Inc. and with Digital Therapeutics Group LLC. Funding for the program comes from the New Mexico Human Services Department, Behavioral Health Services Division. “The 5-Actions Program offers an important, scientifically-based r...
Presbyterian Health Plan announced last week it began mailing letters to some of its health plan members about a misdirected mailing that occurred Oct. 1. At that time, it discovered a letter had been sent to some members under their name but with a different member’s address. The letter contained member names, reminders about recommended health screenings for managing their healthcare treatment and contact information for care coordination. The mailing did not involve Social Security numbers, financial or credit card information or any i...
RICHARDSON, Texas — The Lone Star Conference will offer daily steaming passes for its upcoming football, volleyball and basketball seasons under a a new hybrid pricing model announced Wednesday by the conference office. A $10 pass, the release said, will give viewers 24 hours of access to any live football, volleyball or basketball games, as well as access to any previously aired games. Individual games can be downloaded for $10. Select games of all other sports will be available for free or on a pay-per-view basis, at the discretion of the b...
Note: Events subject to change due to the COVID-19 pandemic. • Monday — Virtual Christmas Cash Mob at Desert Rose Center. Tucumcari MainStreet is partnering with the Tucumcari/Quay County Chamber of Commerce and local businesses as part of Very Merry Tucumcari festivities to bring fun and boost local shopping. Participants bid on items, arrange payment and socialize during the Facebook Live session. Hosts entertain and educate as they sell items and encourage viewers to shop locally. Other Cash Mob events will be at Paws and Claws Animal Res...
The Tucumcari Senior Center and Logan Senior Center remain closed to the public indefinitely but will deliver meals to those who qualify. Those interested in meal deliveries should call the Tucumcari facility at 461-2307 and the Logan facility at 487-2287 for more information. Some area schools are going to online teaching temporarily during the pandemic and may not have set menus. Tucumcari Senior Center Wednesday — Fried chicken, green beans, mashed sweet potatoes, whole-wheat roll, cookie. Thursday — Sloppy joe, green peas, potato wed...
On this date ... 1970: A 23-year-old Tucumcari man died in a one-car accident 32 miles east of Las Vegas in San Miguel County. The driver failed to negotiate a curve, lost control and flipped his car, throwing him and a passenger from the vehicle near the post office in Trujillo. The passenger was taken to a Las Vegas hospital, then transferred to St. Vincents Hospital in Santa Fe with head injuries. • The Tucumcari-Quay County Chamber of Commerce elected its new board of directors: Craig Currell, Harold Ferguson, Norm Wegner, King Aitken, G...
To increase COVID-19 testing of New Mexico’s workforce and avoid additional temporary restrictions on essential businesses, the New Mexico Departments of Health and Environment implemented a voluntary surveillance testing and contact tracing agreement to enable businesses to prevent mandatory 14-day closures triggered by state rapid responses to COVID-19 cases. The agreement requires essential businesses to conduct regular COVID-19 testing among staff, as well as assist the Department of Health in contact tracing efforts. If positive cases a...
Tucumcari Municipal Court announced it would be conducting business remotely starting Nov. 30 until further notice. The court’s hours will be the same, from 7:30 to noon and from 1 to 4:30 p.m. All arraignments and trials will be handled via Go to Meeting as it has since March. All payments can be mailed to Municipal Court, P.O. Box 1188, Tucumcari, NM 88401. Payments also can be made by putting a money order in an envelope with the name and “Municipal Court” written on it and dropped in the drop box on the east end of City Hall. A recei...
These individuals were booked into the Quay County Detention Center from Nov. 24 to Nov. 29: • Adrianna M. Apodaca, 30, Logan, contempt of court. • Miguel Hernandez, 27, Santa Rosa, contempt of court. • McKenzie Taylor Kelley, 22, Roswell, aggravated fleeing a law-enforcement officer, possession of a stolen vehicle, resisting, evading or obstructing an officer and possession of drug paraphernalia. • Joshua Dwight Pryor, 25, Inglewood, California, embezzlement of a motor vehicle (first offense). These individuals were released from the Quay Co...
If you are one to dwell in the negative, this editorial challenge is not for you. But if you are one to look at, and reach for, the stars, who understands how very smart and talented so many of our fellow New Mexicans are, who recognizes the unique synergy of our military bases, national labs, research universities, private aerospace enterprises and one-of-a-kind purpose-built spaceport, New Mexico needs your voice. Because over the next month, it is essential we do everything possible to ensure those determining the new home of the new U.S....
I am writing this on Thanksgiving, when I shouldn’t be working on a column. But here I am, working on a column while I anticipate the annual feast. It’s going to be about being thankful. Gratitude is good for you and the people you thank. The usual thing columnists do on Thanksgiving is talk about what they’re thankful for. I’ll continue that tradition. In 2020, the year whose name denotes perfect vision, ours was dimmed by a world-wide pandemic. But those who read this column, whether I can count them on one hand or both, are alive, and, I...
We live in a time of heedless iconoclasm, and so one of the country’s oldest traditions is under assault. Thanksgiving is increasingly portrayed as, at best, based on falsehoods and, at worst, a whitewash of genocide against Native Americans. The New York Times ran a piece the other day titled, “The Thanksgiving Myth Gets a Deeper Look This Year,” bristling with hostility toward the day of gratitude and noting that “the holiday arrives in the midst of a national struggle over racial justice.” (The paper is admirably consistent — a couple of y...
These calls were made to the Tucumcari-Quay Regional Emergency Communications Center from Nov. 23 to Nov. 29: Monday • 4:17 a.m.: Vehicle theft in 300 block of West Heman Avenue, Tucumcari. • 5:51 a.m.: Disturbance in 800 block of West Tucumcari Boulevard, Tucumcari. • 9:39 a.m.: Property damage at East Douglas Avenue and North First Street, Tucumcari. • 9:59 a.m.: Civil dispute at South First and East High streets, Tucumcari. • 11:47 a.m.: Property damage in 100 block of East Railroad Avenue, Tucumcari. • 2:33 p.m.: Fraud in 200 block of Ea...
A Santa Fe County District Court judge last week granted Mesalands Community College’s motion to dismiss a whistleblower lawsuit by the college’s former president. District Judge Maria Sanchez-Gagne ruled in a filing dated Nov. 24 the lawsuit by John Groesbeck was filed at an improper venue. The lawsuit was dismissed without prejudice, which means Groesbeck could refile an amended lawsuit later. Sanchez-Gagne stated Mesalands is not qualified as a state educational institution under the New Mexico Constitution, nor did it fall under the sta...
Three of Quay County’s public schools have elected to go entirely to online learning because of rising cases of coronavirus. Quay County recorded more than 140 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in November, more than doubling the number since the pandemic began in March. House Municipal Schools superintendent Bonnie Lightfoot announced in a letter posted online Friday on the district’s website it would delay in-person classes until Jan. 18. “My intention is always to protect the students and staff in our school and this decision has been made out o...