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The night the lights went out in...
May 30th, 2004
Usually when I use the word “blackout,” people think I am referring to my misspent youth (or not so youth, but definitely, misspent), but surprisingly enough I am usually referring to a power fail...
Blackout highlights needs
May 30th, 2004
Through the years, we have visited about our dependence upon utilities and how we didn’t have to worry about them when we had no running water, electricity, or natural gas.
We just went on about ou...
Trucker's Spa prostitutes receive probation
May 30th, 2004
Three women formerly employed at the now defunct Trucker’s Spa, ten miles west of Tucumcari, were each given six months probation in Quay County Magistrate Court Wednesday.
Jane Yoh, Myung Choi and...
Frasier running for commission seat
May 30th, 2004
Doyle W. Frasier
1. What is it that makes Quay County uniquely Quay County?
“I have lived numerous places traveling with road construction and Quay County is definitely unique. I feel the diversifi...
Madrid running for commission seat
May 30th, 2004
Grace Madrid
1. What is it that makes Quay County uniquely Quay County?
Quay County’s uniqueness comes from the people who reside here. The people are warm and friendly with a deep faith in their f...
Garcia running for commission seat
May 30th, 2004
Daniel Garcia
!. What is it that makes Quay County uniquely Quay County?
First, its history. You find here evidence of prehistoric times, dinosaur bones, seashells, petrified wood, etc; evidence of w...
Residents think dogs poisoned
May 30th, 2004
Three local dog owners who live in close proximity to one another think their dogs have been poisoned.
John Cruze, of the 2000 block of South Eighth Street, said that as of Thursday his Australian b...
Ute Lake Water project heads to Senate
May 30th, 2004
Federal authorization legislation for the Ute Water Project will be submitted to the U.S. Senate in June, a spokeswoman for Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., said Thursday.
Officials have said authorizatio...
DECA honors fellow students
May 30th, 2004
Five Tucumcari Distributive Education Club o America students were honored with the “Top Five” awards which according to Antonio Pacheco honor the best five DECA students at the high school.
“S...
Hodge announces for Quay County Commission
May 30th, 2004
Mark Hodge has entered the race for the Second District Quay County Commissioner’s race.
He has lived in Quay County since 1984. He is married and has three children. He was an agent for Plateau C...
Lady Rattler coaches hold basketball camps
May 30th, 2004
The Coaching staff of the Lady Rattler basketball squad will be holding their Lady Rattler “Nothing but Net” Basketball Camp June 14-18, and according to Lady Rattler head coach Alicia Trujillo, s...
Five Rattlers named as all district
May 30th, 2004
The 2003-2004 District Four Class A-AA All-District Baseball Team was announced recently and five Tucumcari High School players made the list. District coaches voted for the players they thought were...
Election - Curry seeks county commission seat
May 27th, 2004
Billy Ray Curry
1. What is it that makes Quay County uniquely Quay County?
“Quay County is unique, because of its history. It began as cowboy country. The county was totally agricultural until the r...
Election - Hodge seeks commission seat
May 27th, 2004
Mark Hodge
1. What is it that makes Quay County uniquely Quay County?
“What makes Quay County unique is its cultural diversity and its location just off Interstate-40.”
2. What do you see as the...
Ex-jailer faces June jury
May 27th, 2004
Robert Gonzales, the Quay County Detention Center employee charged with criminal sexual acts involving minors, is scheduled to appear before a jury in Tenth Judicial District Court June 22.
Gonzales...
GOP members dine, meet candidates
May 27th, 2004
Nearly 50 people gathered at the GOP “Meet the Candidates Bean Feed” Saturday evening at the Tucumcari Convention Center.
Candidates as diverse as those seeking Quay County Commissioner seats all...
Seventh grader recognized for essay
May 27th, 2004
Tucumcari seventh grader Desirae Evans was honored by the Daughters of the American Revolution for her state winning essay, “The Louisiana Purchase; Thomas Jefferson’s Presidential Legacy.”
Eva...
Historical Institute to see rare zebra
May 27th, 2004
The President of the Tucumcari Historical Institute, Duane Moore announced earlier this week that the institute will be traveling to the New Mexico Zebra Ranch between Roy and Wagon Mound on Friday, J...
Logan to hold basketball camp
May 27th, 2004
A basketball camp for boys and girls, in grades three through eight in the 2004-2005 school year, will be held at Logan High School Gym June 14 -16.
The fee will include daily instruction, drinks, sn...
Athletes honored
May 27th, 2004
Tucumcari High School held its athletic banquet Monday evening and a number of awards were handed out to the school’s athletes.
Among the many awards given, two went to the male and female athletes...
Domestic violence rises
May 27th, 2004
Local police and court officials are dealing with a number of domestic violence cases on a daily basis. According to the 2004 Tucumcari Police incident log, police officers have already responded to...
A man who is shopping impaired
May 23rd, 2004
Generally speaking my wife doesn't let me shop alone.
Actually, my wife, as a solid rule of thumb, doesn't let me go into stores at all. I am what experts on shopping call an "impulse shopper." My wi...
Graduation Reflections
May 23rd, 2004
Graduation from high school is often an emotional event for both students and parents, It is a time of sadness and happiness because it represents the ending of one era and the beginning of another.
...
Ingram, Byers
May 23rd, 2004
Hazel R. Ingram
Hazel R. Ingram, 91, of Albuquerque since 1997 and former resident of Tucumcari since 1932 died Wednesday, May 19, 2004.
Hazel Ingram owned and operated Crescent Creamery in Tucumcari...
Local couple heads to Washington D.C. for memorial dedication
May 23rd, 2004
The last time Frank Garcia was in Washington D.C. World War II had just ended and he was returning to the United States after a number of years with the Army in Europe.
Now he is returning to the nati...
Group protests firing
May 23rd, 2004
It was an unlikely group of activists that gathered on the edge of the Mountain View Apartment parking lot. Few of the group were younger than 60 years old and canes, walkers and even a wheelchair wer...
Local named Taos coach
May 23rd, 2004
Rick Apodaca made sure his step up to a varsity coach was a big one.
Apodaca, an assistant coach for the Portales boys basketball team for six seasons and a graduate of Tucumcari High School, on Thur...
Tucumcari loses power
May 23rd, 2004
Strong, gusty winds caused a major power outage Wednesday evening from around 5:30 p.m. until 9: 30 p.m.
The power went out for most of the eastern half of Tucumcari east of First Street and north to...
Mate, Bell, Coughenour, Meeks, Budley, Garcia
May 21st, 2004
Shirley Bell
Shirley Bell, 67, died at Trigg Memorial Hospital Tuesday, May 11, 2004 following a brief illness.
Shirley Bell was born Feb. 7 1937 in Burleson, Texas. She had been making her home in Tu...
Candidates square off for state senate - Frost
May 21st, 2004
A lifelong San Jon rancher seeking a seat in the state Senate has some definite ideas on how to improve New Mexico’s educational system.
Democrat Bob Frost, 61, is facing Fred Sparks, D-Raton, in...
Cadidates square off for state senate - Sparks
May 21st, 2004
A former Raton mayor and current city commissioner doesn't think northern New Mexico is getting the representation it needs in Santa Fe.
He said he’s running for the New Mexico State Senate to cha...
Artists start class for youths
May 21st, 2004
If Doug Quarles has his way, in about a month, the Tucumcari area will be overrun with young artists.
That is why the area painter and muralist is, with his artist wife Sharon Watson, scheduling art c...
Salt cedar to face aerial attack
May 21st, 2004
There is an invader in the area and a handful of area residents are taking it on. They will begin with an aerial assault and finish going hand to hand with the invader on the ground.
The Invader is...
Graduates to enjoy Elks' all nighter
May 21st, 2004
On May 28 the Tucumcari High School class of 2004 will hold its graduation ceremony and afterwards, nearly fifty seniors will attend an all-night party at the Elks Lodge on South First Street.
The pa...
TMS excels at FCCLA state
May 21st, 2004
Tucumcari Middle School’s Family, Career and Community Leaders of America chapter participated in state competition April 29-May 1 in Albuquerque.
A number of local students took honors at the com...
Rattlers seniors set final week activities
May 21st, 2004
Class of ‘04 readies for festivities
Tucumcari High School seniors will begin participating in special events and festivities this Saturday, marking their upcoming graduation. Events, dates and time...
Teachers start program
May 21st, 2004
Holli Cantrell and Andrea Hodge, Masters of Education students at Eastern New Mexico State University, implemented a literacy project at Tucumcari Elementary during March and April in coordination wit...
ENMU prof to speak at House ceremony
May 21st, 2004
Nine House High School seniors will be officially graduating Friday at 7 p.m.
A noted professor and TV, radio announcer, Donald “Doc” Elder will deliver a motivational speech to the graduating se...
Schools focus on renovations
May 21st, 2004
Tucumcari Municipal Schools will be spending nearly 2.5 million dollars on a number of construction and renovation projects over the next year and a half.
The bulk of the funding will come from the N...
What you don't know about sex
May 16th, 2004
I was at a county commissioners’ meeting the other day and they were talking about the best way for children to learn about what we used to called, “the birds and the bees.”
A couple of people...
Talks more powerful than pamphlet
May 16th, 2004
Although my parents and grandparents have been dead for many years, I tend to think of them on a daily basis and frequently wish I could ask just a few more questions even though I think I know some o...
Author signs 'Byways' article
May 16th, 2004
Pretty much a Who’s Who of Tucumcari gathered at the Tucumcari Convention Center Thursday evening to greet the author of an article of in New Mexico Magazine.
The crowd was there because much of th...
Visitors help celebrate Glenrio 'Tourism Day'
May 16th, 2004
The New Mexico Department of Tourism held its annual Tourism Day at the Glenrio Visitors Welcome Center Friday. Tourists from across the globe stopped by to sample donated food and some were lucky eno...
KC bicyclists tours West
May 16th, 2004
Tommy Small, a man who hasn’t driven a car in over five years, left his home in Kansas City May 1 and expects to tour the western United States for the next five months on his bicycle.
Small passed...
Lafferty, Martin, Inman
May 16th, 2004
A. Clyn Inman
A. Clyn Inman, 85. of Albuquerque for 49 years, native New Mexican and a resident of Oahu, Hawaii for two years, died Tuesday, May 11, 2004.
Clyn Inman was a veteran of World War II havi...
Local graduates from Fort Worth Seminary
May 16th, 2004
FORT WORTH — Tucumcari native Samuel Mitchell earned a Master of Divinity degree with Biblical Languages from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas, on May 7.
Mitchell gra...
Nursing home helps residents
May 16th, 2004
Laurel Hills Healthcare in Tucumcari has recently launched a new program that is bringing back local residents who have had to go to Amarillo or Lubbock for their medical needs.
Erika Smith, a recent...
Teacher honored
May 16th, 2004
Andrea Hodge, a teacher at Tucumcari Elementary School, has been chosen as one of twenty people who will attend the 2004 Institute of the High Plains Writing Project. Hodge will participate in a two-w...
Mesalands truckers get green light
May 16th, 2004
Mesalands Community College’s Commercial Truck Driving program has been given a five-year recertification by Professional Truck Driver Institute of Alexandria, Va. In the letter granting the recert...
Grady salutes alumni
May 16th, 2004
Grady will hold their Annual Memorial and Alumni Dinner at the Grady School Cafeteria on May 30 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. The cafeteria will be open at 9 a.m. for coffee.
All 10 year classes will b...
Rattler golfers falter at state
May 16th, 2004
The Tucumcari High School golf team, Nick Wiegel, Larry Roybal, Matt Smith, Aaron Peacock and Brian Lopez, did not do as well as expected at the state golf tournament recently.
The tournament was hel...
Three locals graduate from Amarillo College
May 16th, 2004
Three Tucumcari students graduated recently from Amarillo College in Amarillo, Texas.
Susan Marie Lincoln received an Associate of Science degree. Lee A. Aragon and Tifany Maria Johnson graduated with...
Rattlers lose squeaker to Lordsburg
May 16th, 2004
The Lordsburg Mavericks defeated the Tucumcari Rattlers 15-14 in the bottom of the eighth inning Thursday to end Tucumcari’s hopes of a state baseball championship in Albuquerque.
The Rattler hitte...
More windmills come to county
May 16th, 2004
It was announced late Wednesday that the United States Senate approved a comprehensive national energy policy bill that includes a provision to extend a tax credit for wind energy production.
That la...
Students gain literacy, GED at Mesalands
May 13th, 2004
Joyce Ransom, a Literacy student at Mesalands Community College is finding out that it is never too late to get more education.
Last August Ransom decided it was time to take the advice she had been...
San Jon releases honor roll
May 13th, 2004
San Jon Schools recently released the honor roll for the third nine week seesion.
Juniors receiving all “A’s” were Ellen Bone and Jennifer Choate.
The only sophomore to receive all “A’s” w...
Class A Girls do well
May 13th, 2004
New Mexico State Track was held over the weekend and for Quay County Class A competitors: House, Logan and San Jon, it proved to be a mixed bag of results.
Among the girls a number of young women sho...
Rattler boys take third at State
May 13th, 2004
The Tucumcari High School Boys track team place third overall at the state tournament in Albuquerque recently, and junior Chris McCasland was the high-point individual at the meet.
Rattler Coach Way...
Rabies clinic set to start
May 13th, 2004
According to Mike Martinez, Animal Control Supervisor for the Tucumcari Police Department, it is time once again for the annual Quay County Rabies Clinics and he expects a good number of the pet popul...
Water key to city's future
May 13th, 2004
Some communities in the Eastern New Mexico Rural Water Authority, most notably Tucumcar and Clovis, are gambling on growth to pay for their share of the Ute Water Pipeline, according to a study by a c...
Gas moves above $2
May 13th, 2004
Travelers to Tucumcari are paying higher prices at local gas stations, and with the possibility that prices will go even higher, some travelers said they will change their summer plans.
According t...
Morality tale (tail?) about ditching
May 9th, 2004
The local school district is attempting to cut down on absenteeism by students. They have found school runs better when students are in class.
Conversely, In the seven or eight years I was in high sc...
April showers bring spring sights
May 9th, 2004
Not long ago, we visited about the beauty of Quay Valley and the plains after the rain fell, leaving the roaring creek and filled water holes. Now is the perfect time to tour those areas again in orde...
Quintana
May 9th, 2004
Ralph Quintana
Ralph Quintana, 80, died in Laurel Hills Health Care Facility Thursday, May 6, 2004 following an extended illness.
Ralph Quintana was born June 8, 1923 in Montoya. He had been a long t...
Library gets funding
May 9th, 2004
The Tucumcari Public Library will be receiving over $11,000 in telecommunication discounts to help with the communication administration of their library.
The library received the funds under the E-...
Mom reflects on special day
May 9th, 2004
Female residents of Quail Ridge Senior Special Care Center have been receiving flowers and visits from their children this Mother’s Day weekend.
A.J. Williams, the supervising care giver at Quail R...
Area students shine at FCCLA contests
May 9th, 2004
Three Tucumcari High School students did well in the Family Career Community Leaders of America competition in Albuquerque recently, and three students from House School will go on to compete in natio...
Festivities set for Glenrio
May 9th, 2004
The New Mexico Department of Tourism will hold a day of festivities at the Glenrio Visitor Information Center off Interstate 40, exit 373, 42 miles east of Tucumcari on May 14.
Representatives from a...
Candidate announces for Quay County Commission
May 9th, 2004
Bill Curry, a life-long resident of Quay County and a graduate of Tucumcari High School announced his candidacy for Quay County Commission, District 2 recently.
Curry was raised on the Curry Ranch we...
Seven area students to graduate from ENMU
May 9th, 2004
PORTALES - Seven students from the Tucumcari area are graduation candidates at Eastern New Mexico University this spring.
The students looking to graduation at ENMU are: Blanca Esthela Banuelas maste...
Golfers heading to state
May 9th, 2004
Five Tucumcari High School golfers will play in the state golf tournament May 10-11 at Riverside Golf Course near Farmington. Nick Wiegel, Brian Lopez, Aaron Peacock, Matt Smith and Larry Roybal quali...
Jim places in Stevenville
May 9th, 2004
Winston Jim was the only one from Mesalands to make it through the short round at the Stevenville, Texas Intercollegiate Rodeo.
He did it in steer wrestling by taking fourth place out of a field of...
Bears take Rattlers
May 9th, 2004
The Estancia Bears used solid pitching to keep the Tucumcari High School baseball team from coming back to win as the Rattlers went down in defeat 13-8 Wednesday at home in the Region B championship g...
Lions donate funds to fire department
May 9th, 2004
“A firefighter’s job is to fight fires and save people,” said Tucumcari Fire Chief Mike Cherry, “and this will help us do those things better.”
The piece of equipment that Cherry was referr...
Cinco de Mayo held May 5
May 6th, 2004
On May 5, 1862, in the town of Puebla, Mexico, a tired poor and small Mexican army defeated the large, well-armed army supplied to the Emperor Maximilian by the rulers of France, thus driving the Fren...
Scholarship fundraiser on Friday
May 6th, 2004
Mesalands Community College will hold its second annual Hispanic Scholarship Fundraiser on Friday at 6:30 and MCC president Phillip O. Barry is excited about the evening of visiting, dining and dancin...
Tracksters shine at district meet
May 6th, 2004
The 2004 District 6AA track meet was held at Tucumcari High School this past weekend, and a number of Rattlers qualified to go to Albuquerque this weekend for state competition.
Two freshman girls wi...
Baptists end century celebration
May 6th, 2004
A century ago, the First Baptist Church of Tucumcari began and during the last five months in Tucumcari the most modern edition of that church has been celebrating those 100 years of existence.
On Su...
San Jon buys water from Logan
May 6th, 2004
A pipeline currently under construction between Logan and San Jon will begin delivering water to San Jon on July 1 according to officials from both cities.
San Jon’s Administrator Bobbye Rose, said...
Baseball team headed to Albuquerque
May 6th, 2004
Nearly 100 Rattler supporters turned out to see the Tucumcari High School baseball team defeat the Mora Rangers 6-5 to advance to the state tournament in Albuquerque next week.
Joseph Hurley hit the...
Proficiency scores released
May 6th, 2004
Of 82 schools in the state, two Quay County schools are ranked in the top 10 in some of the grades and areas in regard to their scores on the annual state proficiency exam.
Logan ranked fourth in eigh...
A modest salute to Baxter Black
May 2nd, 2004
When I was first hired at this paper, my publisher said, "There are only two things you don’t change with this paper, the first is the mast, because the owners want it that way and I’ll fire you i...
Crowd enjoys 'Historical' gathering
May 2nd, 2004
During the evening of April 26, around 100 members of the Tucumcari Historical Research Institute gathered at the Elks Lodge for the annual dinner meeting.
Three new board members were elected to rep...
San Jon recognized as 'Tree City'
May 2nd, 2004
Many people from other parts of the country probably do not think of New Mexico as a haven for tree lovers, but San Jon has recently been designated a “Tree City USA” by the National Arbor Day Fou...
Commissioners reject center's roof upgrade
May 2nd, 2004
The senior center will not have a new roof in the next few weeks. Despite hopes to the contrary by both patrons of the senior center and of Tucumcari City Commissioners, for the second commission meet...
Tucumcari Middle School Students win break
May 2nd, 2004
Even though it was rainy and somewhat cold, eighth graders from Tucumcari Middle School enjoyed standing outside dining on popcorn and soft drinks Friday morning just an hour after school began.
The...
Madrid to run
May 2nd, 2004
Grace E. Madrid declared her candidacy for reelection for the position of District 1 County Commissioner.
Madrid has served for the past four years as District 1 Commissioner. Madrid is a retired St...
VFW post to help with local lawns
May 2nd, 2004
Recently, when a job needed to be done (actually a number of jobs needed to be done), the city turned to the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the VFW said they would be “honored” to do it.
In their p...
McAlister inaugurates new postmaster
May 2nd, 2004
McALISTER - As communities with post offices go, they don’t get much smaller than McAlister, and according to their newest Post Master, Rachelle Moon, that’s fine by her.
Moon will be officially...
Camp 'Billy Joe' available to locals
May 2nd, 2004
The New Mexico Section of the Society for Range Management, Five-State Range and Wildlife Academy is seeking high school students to participate in the Black Mesa Ecological Academy.
The Academy will...
Rattlers take district championships
May 2nd, 2004
The Tucumcari High School baseball team scored four runs in the top of the sixth inning to defeat a tough Estancia team 11-10 to win the District 4 Class A/AA baseball title. Rattler Coach Mike Russel...
