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A National Weather Service hydrologist doesn't see much relief coming this winter from New Mexico's persistent drought. Royce Fontenot, a senior service hydrologist for the agency, said during a webinar last week a La Nina high-pressure system in the northern Pacific Ocean is projected to send the jet stream in a more northernly direction this winter, bringing dryer-than-normal conditions to the parched Southwest. Fontenot said the outlook for December through February is below-normal...
The New Mexico Activities Association last week released another update for its high-school sports calendar, with football being the first sport to begin its season in mid-February. NMAA executive director Sally Marquez acknowledged in a report last week by the Las Cruces Sun-News the revision was “a last-ditch effort” to salvage sports for the 2020-2021 school year. Tucumcari High School athletic director Wayne Ferguson said Thursday he hadn’t updated the school’s team schedules because the NMAA hadn’t given guidance on how many games sho...
A lab report indicates starvation and unexpectedly cold weather were major factors in a mass die-off of migratory songbirds earlier this fall. The U.S. Geological Survey National Wildlife Health Center analyzed representative samples of the migratory songbirds collected, cataloged and sent for analyses by New Mexico Department of Game and Fish biologists, in early September. The lab report indicates a single abnormality shared by nearly all birds was body condition ranging from poor to severely emaciated. “The laboratory results are very i...
These individuals were booked into the Quay County Detention Center from Nov. 30 to Dec. 7: • Lonnie D. Allsup, 31, Clovis, criminal damage to the property of a household member (under $1,000). • Samuel Mejia Lopez, 36, Tucumcari, two counts of battery against a household member. • David Royce Shivers, 35, Logan, contempt of court. • Gerald Lucero, 44, Santa Rosa, conspiracy to commit failure to register as a sex offender. • Danford Cross Jr., 35, Tucumcari, contempt of court. • Eric James Ledford, 30, Abilene, Texas, indecent exposure. ...
These calls were made to the Tucumcari-Quay Regional Emergency Communications Center from Nov. 30 to Dec. 6: Monday • 8:46 a.m.: Accident with injuries at South Third Street and West Delk Avenue, Tucumcari. • 12:30 p.m.: Theft in 2300 block of South First Street, Tucumcari. • 12:52 p.m.: Domestic disturbance in 1400 block of South Third Street, Tucumcari. • 1:43 p.m.: Search warrant in 900 block of South Mountain Road, Tucumcari. • 1:57 p.m.: Arrest warrant in 300 block of South Third Street, Tucumcari. • 3:23 p.m.: Breaking and entering in 700...
LOGAN — A Logan man was killed in a one-vehicle accident Monday night, according to a release from the New Mexico State Police. Jerry Knowles, 34, died in the Monday crash. According to the NMSP release, a 2001 Ford F-150 driven by Knowles was heading east on NM 540. For reasons unknown, the vehicle left the roadway near mile marker 1 and rolled. The release said alcohol did not appear to be a factor in the accident and seatbelts did not appear to be properly utilized....
The New Mexico Department of Health on Saturday reported four confirmed cases of coronavirus in Quay County. Three of the cases were reported in the Tucumcari ZIP code, with one in the Nara Visa ZIP code. Two females and two males were infected in the county. The breakdown by age is two age 20 to 29, one age 30 to 39 and one age 40 to 49. Quay County continues to see an elevated rate of COVID-19 cases in December, with 57 so far. A total of 140 cases were reported in the county in November. The total number of cases in the county rose to 304,...