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In about six months, Quay County should have a new comprehensive plan that will include results from citizen comments and outline a path to achieve county goals, according to Phyllis Taylor, a principal with Sites Southwest, an Albuquerque architecture, design and planning firm. Taylor told the Quay County Commission on Monday during a “kickoff meeting” to begin the process that plan development would begin in January with public outreach to seek suggestions on land use, transportation, housing, economic development, infrastructure, hazard miti...
Two ribbon-cutting ceremonies Friday helped launch two new businesses in Tucumcari. One marked the beginning of a new chapter for a Tucumcari landmark, a Victorian mansion in the downtown area, as a bed and breakfast. The other announced the opening of a counseling service, owned and operated by Sabrina Gaskill, a licensed clinical social worker. The office is located at 706 S. First St., Suite 111. The century-old, two-story Victorian home at 401 S. First St. has become the Doll House Bed and...
Franklin McCasland, manager of the Arch Hurley Conservancy District of Tucumcari, has been appointed to the advisory council of the New Mexico Interstate Stream Commission. New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez announced McCasland’s appointment on Friday. McCasland will represent the ISC’s northeast New Mexico district, which includes Harding, Union, Curry and Roosevelt counties, as well as Quay County. McCasland also serves as chair of the Quay County Commission, representing the county’s District 3. He is also a rancher and farmer. “I am honored...
Depending on when you read this, it’ll be about 10 days until Christmas Eve. You can bet that until then, the younger people might ask, “Is it almost Christmas yet?” Once they’re seven or eight, though, they’ve learned about calendars, and at least some of them will figure out exactly how many days it is until Christmas, and they’ll remind you multiple times every single day. I usually respond to that with, “So, you’d better be good!” That might quiet him for a while, especially if he’d recently gotten into trouble at school. Nonetheless...
The following are the menus for the Tucumcari and Logan senior centers and schools in Quay County for today through Dec. 20: Senior centers Coffee, tea and milk served daily Logan Thursday: Pork ribs, baked potato, margarine, salad with dressing, potluck roll, strawberries, bananas. Friday: Beef tips, egg noodles, salad with dressing, peas with carrots, pears, oatmeal cookie Monday: Stuffed bell pepper, baked beans, carrots, biscuit, fruit cocktail Tuesday: Chicken adovada, pinto beans, spinach, flour tortilla, rice pudding Wednesday: Glazed...
December 1966 • The Forrest Currell Lumber Company was building the new Elks Lodge that holds a swimming pool, dinning room, lodge room, sauna, small gym and a kitchen. The cost of the project was $172,000 • Five Tucumcari High School band members were chosen to participate in the New Mexico All State Band competition held in Albuquerque. They were: Lynn Parker, Kitty Wheeler, Camila Smith, Karen Carman and Sammy Izard • The federal building on the corner of First and McGee Streets was near completion. It will house the offices of U.S. Repre...
County to watch employee driving records Quay County employees who drive county vehicles now have more incentive to keep their driving records clean. The Quay County Commission on Monday approved an agreement with SambaSafety Information Services of Albuquerque that will allow the county to learn of traffic violations by county employees almost immediately after the employees get a ticket. Under the agreement, the county will pay $200 per month for the services, County Manager Richard Primrose said. SambaSafety will also notify the county...
Upon further review, Salem’s whereabouts remain unknown. That’s the cat an Arizona family came to Tucumcari to pick up on Dec. 1, five months after losing her in a cross-country move. Wayland Labhart confirmed Salem via a birthmark in the mouth with Tucumcari’s Paws and Claws Animal Rescue, and the cat had even acclimated to its new house in Precott Valley. But a veterinarian’s office check revealed the cat the Labharts picked up was a male. Salem, also known as Bitey, is female. “I appreciate everything Paws and Claws has done and continues...
A new study by the McKinsey Global Institute about the potential of automation should serve as a stark warning to all world leaders that they must prepare for what may well be the biggest societal and economic upheaval in our lifetime. The report builds off this core finding: In about 60 percent of occupations, at least one-third of job tasks could be automated and performed much more cheaply by robots or algorithms. As a result, McKinsey estimated that at a best guess 400 million people worldwide would need to change their occupations by...
President Donald Trump recently reduced the size of a couple of national monuments in Utah. This has the environmental community up in arms. The environmentalists apparently think that opening this land to agricultural and industrial use will destroy the land. Implicit in that argument is that hikers, campers, picnickers, photographers, movie-makers, and recreational vehicles have less impact. I tend to disagree with that assessment. That is based on my observations of northeastern New Mexico, which consists mostly of several million acres of o...
Hillary Clinton found herself in trouble when it became known that she chose to use an unsecured server to transmit and receive classified information while she was secretary of state, rather than the normal secure system provided to cabinet secretaries. This is a violation of law. Donald Trump came under scrutiny when it became clear to one and all that he would win the Republican nomination for president of the United States. This is not a violation of law, but it served to scare the...
The Tucumcari Lady Rattlers edged the Lady Longhorns 61-60 in overtime Friday night during the round-robin basketball tournament at Logan. "I really can't say anything negative about the game," said Glenna Strand, Lady Longhorns head coach. "This was the first real challenge for the Lady Longhorns." Strand said the Lady Longhorns knew the Lady Rattlers were going to be a challenge. She said the team got a chance to see where it needs to make improvements, and also got a chance to match up...
Despite a district win last week against West Las Vegas, the Tucumcari Rattlers need to be more aggressive, focused for their upcoming home tournament, said Eddie Encinias, head wrestling coach. “We are going to have some of the toughest competition from New Mexico and Texas at this tournament; the boys can’t afford to start off slow,” Encinias said. Encinias said during the district dual on Dec. 13 with the West Las Vegas Dons, the Rattlers came out flat in the first period. He said the sluggish start led to a situation where pin fall victo...