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On this date ... 1973: A Quay County jury of three men and nine women deliberated for five hours and convicted Tucumcari resident Jose “Henry” Quintana, 26, of second-degree murder. Quintana was accused of fatally shooting Roberto Roybal, 30, of Tucumcari in the chest with a revolver on Feb. 10 at the La Chiquita Lounge on West Main Street in Tucumcari. Quintana’s attorneys said he shot Roybal accidentally when he was struck in the back of the head with a pool cue during a brawl. District Judge Stanley Frost was scheduled to sentence Quint...
Tucumcari schools Wednesday — Breakfast: Pancake sausage on a stick, assorted cereal, graham crackers, fresh mixed fruit, apple juice, skim, 1% or strawberry milk; Lunch: Ham and egg chef salad, barbecued pulled pork sandwich, French fries, coleslaw, romaine lettuce, fresh tomatoes, dill pickle chip, fresh mixed fruit, skim, chocolate skim, 1% or strawberry milk. Thursday — Breakfast: Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal, egg potato cheese breakfast scramble, 6-inch whole-grain tortilla, salsa, fresh mixed fruit, orange juice, skim, 1% or str...
Several of New Mexico’s top healthcare services, including Presbyterian Healthcare Services, recently announced they will change their mask policies next week. Presbyterian operates Dr. Dan C. Trigg Memorial Hospital in Tucumcari and a small clinic in Logan. While New Mexico’s public health order expired on March 31, the four health systems are set to implement the masking update on April 16 to ensure there was additional time to protect team members, patients and their families during the current respiratory illness season, according to a joi...
ROSWELL — Voicing concerns about the long-term consequences it could have on the state’s budget, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham wielded her veto pen, removing large swaths of an omnibus tax package Friday but stopped short of killing the bill. Shortly before the deadline on April 7 to sign measures passed by state lawmakers during the recent 60-day legislative session, Lujan Grisham announced she had signed House Bill 547, an ambitious tax reform proposal. Among other things, the bill spared from the governor’s line-item veto — one-time rebate...
SANTA ROSA — The city’s human resources director has filed for a restraining order against Mayor Nelson Kotiar, alleging he has “created a hostile work environment” by allowing sexual harassment, threats and intimidation to take place in violation of the city’s personnel policy ordinance. Monica Young, a city employee since May 2022, filed the complaint March 30, two days after her “partner,” P.J. Salazar, was fired as a special projects employee for the city. Young said in her complaint she fears “more retaliation and (a) continued hosti...
U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and New Mexico U.S. Sen. Ben Ray Lujan announced the agency is spending $40 million to provide high-speed internet access for people in rural areas in New Mexico, including Quay County. The ENMR Telephone Cooperative will receive a $2.6 million grant to create a fiber-to-premises network to provide high-speed internet to residents of Quay, De Baca, Harding, San Miguel, Guadalupe, Union and Socorro counties. ENMR also will make high-speed internet affordable by participating in the FCC’s L...
William Sandoval, a Tucumcari High School graduate, recently received the Airman of the Year award from the Silver Knights AMU Guardians of Flight. Sandoval, a senior airman, is stationed at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington state as part of the 62nd Aircraft Wing. In his five years in the Air Force, Sandoval has been deployed twice to the Persian Gulf with missions in Iraq and Syria....
Two days after Kix on 66 in Tucumcari reopened last week, the restaurant was on the verge of running out of food. “We’ve been so busy, I had to call in an emergency truckload,” co-owner Donna Halfhill said Friday morning. “It stressed the heck out of me, but we’re all good. We definitely wouldn’t have had enough to get through the weekend.” Halfhill and her husband Todd closed on the purchase of Kicks on 66 at 1102 E. Route 66 Blvd. in late January. Todd Duplantis owned the restaurant since early 2019 after he acquired it from Yvonne Brazie...
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service denied a request by environmental and conservation groups to list the coyote as endangered in the territory that overlaps with the Mexican wolves. The groups said that the similarity of appearance to a Mexican wolf warranted the listing as a way to prevent people from accidentally killing the wolf. However, the Fish and Wildlife Service found the resemblance between the Mexican wolf and the coyote is not similar enough that the two canines cannot be distinguished from each other. The agency looked at whether...
These individuals were booked into the Quay County Detention Center from April 5 to April 7: — Joe Ray Montano, 47, Tucumcari, contempt of court. — Michael Cullen, 67, no address listed, criminal trespass (unposted). — Tracy Charles Pilley, 40, Tucumcari, unlawful carrying of a deadly weapon. — Timothy Reggario, 33, Estancia, probation violation. — Seth A. Chavez, 35, Tucumcari, trespassing. — Raymond Jerry Pacheco, 59, Tucumcari, felony escape from a community custody release program, criminal trespassing (posted) and assault (unlawful acts, t...
These calls were made to the Tucumcari-Quay Regional Emergency Communications Center from April 3 to April 9: Monday — 1:17 a.m.: Accident in 1900 block of South Mountain Road, Tucumcari. — 2:07 a.m.: Domestic disturbance in 1000 block of School Street, Logan. — 8:05 a.m.: Property damage in 1000 block of South First Street, Tucumcari. — 11:52 a.m.: Trespassing in 300 block of South First Street, Tucumcari. — 1:59 p.m.: Brush fire in 31700 block of U.S. 54, Logan. — 2:04 p.m.: Fire in 100 block of West Rankin Avenue, Tucumcari. — 2:30 p.m.: Fi...
A somewhat divided Tucumcari City Commission on Thursday voted to re-advertise its opening for District 3 after accepting a letter of removal of an appointee who didn’t live within the district. According to the meeting agenda, commissioners also had the option of reconsidering three other applicants to fill the District 3 seat, which has been vacant since December when Ruth Ann Litchfield stepped down for health reasons. The other applicants were Randi Eidsmoe, Joe Barnett and Steve Farmer. Commissioner Christopher Arias said the other t...
Tucumcari’s new police chief requested $3-an-hour pay raises and bonuses for officers in her department during a work session Thursday with city commissioners. Patti Lopez, who had been interim police chief since the firing of predecessor Pete Rivera in January, officially was hired for the position, effective March 21. City manager Paula Chacon announced Lopez’s hiring during Thursday’s city commission meeting. Chacon had planned to announce it during the commission’s previously scheduled March 23 meeting, but it lacked a quorum. “She’s...
HOUSE — A former Farwell, Texas, high school principal and former superintendent of Chillicothe, Texas, schools has been chosen to be the interim superintendent of House Municipal Schools. Coby Norman, who retired as Farwell High School’s administrator on July 31, 2022, was hired at a special House Municipal School Board meeting on March 24. Norman said last week he retired after 32 years in education, of which 22 he was an administrator. Temporarily, Norman replaces Bonnie Lightfoot, whom the board placed on paid leave on March 14. Lig...
It's apparent one year after New Mexico allowed the sale of recreational marijuana on April 1, 2022, that it led to dramatic effects on Tucumcari. Ten cannabis dispensaries have opened in the city, and an 11th is under construction on South Mountain Road. According to data from the state's Cannabis Control Division, Tucumcari has seen more than $4 million in sales of recreational and medical marijuana in one year. The city has seen more than 68,000 transactions during that time, averaging about...
• April 22 — Tucumcari Rotary Club’s Surf and Turf Dinner. The event includes a dinner at the Tucumcari Elks Lodge from 6 to 7:30 p.m. and a dance featuring Limited Edition. Tickets are $40 and are available at go.rallyup.com/trsurfandturf. Proceeds will benefit the Rotary Club’s scholarship and youth leadership programs. • April 28-30 — Chuckwagon Cookoff at Cottonwood Campground at Ute Las State Park. See western-themed meals cooked the old-fashioned way. May 6 — Cinco de Mayo Celebration. This age-21+ event from 8 p.m. to midnight at t...
Tucumcari schools Wednesday — Breakfast: Scrambled eggs with ham, whole-wheat toast, mini-bagels with strawberry cream cheese, banana, apple juice, skim, 1% or strawberry milk; Lunch: Cobb salad, barbecued chicken thighs, breadstick, garlic mashed potatoes, baked beans, chilled peaches, skim, chocolate skim, 1% or strawberry milk. Thursday — Breakfast: Assorted cereal, graham crackers, apple juice, orange juice, skim, 1%, or strawberry milk; Lunch: Cheeseburger, french fries, baked beans, romaine lettuce, dill pickle chip, fresh mixed fru...
On this date ... 1973: Gov. Bruce King said he would ask for a federal disaster declaration for 11 northeastern counties after a huge winter storm. During an airplane tour, King said he saw dying cattle, snow drifting to the eaves of ranch homes and barns, and roads that were impassible. About 15,000 head of cattle were in danger of starvation or freezing in Union and Colfax counties, with at least that many in trouble in Mora and San Miguel counties. Dozens of people were stranded in the Des Moines area and thousands of cattle had died. Four...
A Quay County woman’s 2021 lawsuit against Lowe’s Market in Tucumcari after she said she tripped and was injured there was dismissed last month after both parties reached a compromise and settlement. Mallory Wolff of the Dathan Weems Law Firm of Albuquerque that represented Georgia Griego stated in her March 22 motion to dismiss with prejudice that Griego and the store’s owner “have compromised and settled their differences, and Plaintiff no longer wishes to prosecute this case.” A dismissal with prejudice means the ruling is final and canno...
In another sign the coronavirus pandemic likely was winding down, masks and physical distancing were no longer be required as of March 31 for any person inside a New Mexico courtroom or jury assembly area, the state’s Supreme Court announced last week. Also, jurors no longer need to answer health screening questions to enter a courthouse. Courts will continue to make masks available to any juror who chooses to wear one, but they are not required. The state’s judiciary lifted its remaining health related COVID-19 protocols in recognition of cha...
The New Mexico Department of Agriculture is accepting grant applications for its Healthy Soil Program from April 11 through May 17. Eligible entities are defined in the 2019 Healthy Soil Act as “local governmental [entities] with proven land management capacity to support healthy soil” and include pueblos, tribes, and nations; acequias; land grants; soil and water conservation districts; and New Mexico State University’s Cooperative Extension Service. NMDA also will accept grant applications from other local governmental entities that manag...
These individuals were booked into the Quay County Detention Center from March 27 to April 1: — Bryan Sloan, 37, Tucumcari, contempt of court. — Daisy Acosta, 27, Tucumcari, contempt of court. — Angelo Joseph Milano III, 48, Pascagoula, Mississippi, contempt of court. — Bernice Eskeets, 43, Tucumcari, encouraging violation of probation, parole or bail. — Raymond Carl Holliday, 33, Tucumcari, contempt of court, felony possession of a controlled substance (narcotic drug) and possession of drug paraphernalia. — Regiald Dwayne Booth, 26, Dallas,...
These calls were made to the Tucumcari-Quay Regional Emergency Communications Center from March 27 to April 2: Monday — 1:40 a.m.: Burglary in 1200 block of East Main Street, Tucumcari. — 8:13 a.m.: Property damage in 600 block of South First Street, Tucumcari. — 12:14 p.m.: Accident at East Main and North First streets, Tucumcari. — 12:43 p.m.: Vehicle theft in 500 block of South First Street, Tucumcari. — 2:37 p.m.: Scam in 600 block of East Tucumcari Boulevard, Tucumcari. — 3:15 p.m.: Reckless driving in 800 block of West Tucumcari B...
A Texas jury required less than an hour to deliver a guilty verdict against a Logan EMT and volunteer firefighter who groped a 17-year-old girl in an Amarillo hotel room in 2021. Brian Cox of Logan was convicted of indecent assault, a misdemeanor, by a Potter County jury on March 16, according to court records. Cox was 38 at the time of the offense. Cox was sentenced to 90 days in the Potter County Jail, along with a 365-day suspended sentence and two years of community supervision. He was booked into the jail the next day. Village of Logan...
The Village of Logan council didn’t have to look far to find a new village administrator. It tapped its police chief, Rodney Paris, as the new leader of village operations. He officially was hired March 2. Paris said in a phone interview he was ready to go a different direction in his career. “I’ve served 26 years in law enforcement, and I was ready for a change but didn’t want to retire,” he said. “I felt like I could do a good job for the people of Logan and the visitors who come to town.” Paris said among his high-priority goals are to...