Serving the High Plains
Serving the High Plains
This has been a pretty good month for interaction with readers …
A sampling:
Ron Mask read a report in the Quay County Sun that New Mexico State’s interim president has decided this “is not a good time” for a merger with Mesalands Community College in Tucumcari. This pleases Mask, who prefers Mesalands link up with Eastern New Mexico University in Portales.
“NMSU's decision is heaven sent,” he wrote in an email.
“ENMU is a much more logical partner for Mesalands Community College students who wish to further their education at a four-year school. Not only is ENMU closer to home, it offers many viable career choices including advanced degrees in nursing, which builds on MCC's nursing program.
“An added bonus is its beautiful campus. Portales is a lovely eastern New Mexico city and a natural choice for an academic partnership. I believe MCC should actively seek an agreement with ENMU to send our students there for their advanced degrees. It's the logical choice.”
What’s particularly interesting about Mask’s view is that he’s come by it from afar.
“My only connection to Quay County so far is an interest in Tucumcari and eastern New Mexico and a desire to see it prosper,” wrote the man who lives in Phenix City, Ala.
“My roots are deep in Alabama soil but I yearn to spend my last years elsewhere. Several years ago I stumbled upon Tucumcari by chance while touring the Southwestern U.S. on Google Earth.
“I kept returning to Tucumcari and finally subscribed to the Sun. I follow the news and the citizens of Quay County and have become enamored with the little town on Route 66 and with its rich history. I hope to visit my personal Shangri La before I grow too old for new adventures. … I hope to see you all in the near future.”
• Lori Blood has a question:
In the mid-1960s to the early 1970s, she wrote in an email, she lived in Melrose and there was a house “called the Sainz house …”
The county sheriff was quite familiar with this house, she wrote, because “that house was extremely haunted. Everyone in town knew it, too.”
Blood wants to know if the house is still standing. She also wants to know why the house was haunted.
I don’t know about any haunted houses in Melrose.
Anybody?
• Michael Lusk was not happy with something in a recent newspaper. I’ll share his views exactly as he shared them with me:
“WHAT YOU PUT IN TODAYS PAPER ABOUT TRUMP IMPEACH BIDEN WON'T DAMAGE ANYTHINH THAT IS NOTHING BUT A LIE TRUMP
WAS THE ONLY HONEST PRESIDENT WE HAVE EVER HAD AND OUR COUNTEY WAS THE BEST IT HAS EVER BEEN OUR IDIOT GOVERNOR IS GOING TO BE EVECTED YOU NEED TO GET YOUR FACTS STREIGHT BIDEN AND HIS FAMILY AND ADMINISTRATION ARE CROOKS 2020 ELECTION WAS STOLEN”
This is also from Lusk:
“I am praying for you.”
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