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Elected officials were sworn in Jan. 2 at the courthouse in the 10th Judicial District courtroom by Judge Albert J. Mitchell. Those taking the path included Tim Rose, newly elected district attorney, and his staff along with county commissioners, the county clerk and staff, the county treasurer and staff and the probate judge. Rose said he was very excited and was ready to start work. He said he was happy with the changes they were making in the office with some very needed remodeling that is being done. Mike Cherry said he was looking forward...
The Quay County Clerk's Office will be conducting the Mesalands Community College Board of Trustees election to be held on March 5, 2013. The filing day for candidates is 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Jan. 16 in the office of the Quay County Clerk, 300 South Third Street. Any person desiring to be a candidate for the board of trustees must file a signed "Declaration of Candidacy" in the office of the County Clerk on this date. Any person desiring to be a must be a registered voter residing within the college district boundaries for which they are a...
QCS Staff Photo: Jerrene Bradley Monday afternoon the fire department was called out to the 1100 block of Monroe for a structure fire. The Tucumcari Fire Department is investigating two fires causing considerable damage Monday. In the morning the department was called to a fire at the Terry Turner Building. Fire trucks arrived to smoke boiling out of the building and quickly went to work. The fire was mainly in the back part of the building and was put out within the hour. QCS Staff Photo: Jerrene Bradley Fire fighters had to break out a...
All Tucumcari and Quay County residents can drop off their Christmas trees at the Coronado Park at Camino Del Coronado between the hours of 8:30 a.m. until 4:30 p,m, Monday through Friday through Jan. 31, according to a city spokesperson for the city. Make sure all ornaments and lights are taken off the trees and please do not put them in plastic bags as this will tear up the mulching machine. These trees will be mulched for use in the city parks for landscaping and erosion control. For more information call 461-2143 or 403-...
QCS Staff Photo: Jerrene Bradley Alex Madrid's family supported him at his retirement luncheon. Tucumcari city employees held a retirement pot luck luncheon for Landfill Coordinator Alex Madrid on Friday. Madrid has worked for the city of the last eight years and decided it was time to retire. He said that he had been doing some work on his house like painting and some remodeling and now he will have time to get his house finished during the colder months. Madrid said that he will probably go back to work doing something like teaching, construc...
The Quay County Sun asked several people if they make New year's resolutions. Their responses: Georgia Lujan: My resolution for 2013 is to lose weight. Ellen White: Resolutions only lead to disappointment when I break them. Todd Steele: Continue to treat people the way I want to be treated and try to further my life and education in a better way. Patty Fuentes: I want to be more organized and have a positive attitude. I am going to try and get it together and be happier next year....
New Mexico State Police are investigating the shooting death of Tucumcari City Commissioner Daniel Lopez. Officials said police found Lopez in his Tucumcari home at 11:48 p.m. Saturday, injured by a gunshot. He later died at Dan C. Trigg Memorial Hospital in Tucumcari. State Police Capt. Jimmy Glascock said circumstances surrounding Lopez's death remain under investigation but officials are not searching for a suspect. Lopez was a former state police captain stationed in Tucumcari and a former...
KTNM/KQAY radio sponsored "Twas the night before Christmas" at the convention center on Friday with approximately 60 children and parents attending. QCS photo CKTNM/KQAY radio sponsored "Twas the night before Christmas" at theconvention center on Friday with approximately 60 children and parents attending. All of the kids and parents enjoyed the reading of this special story by Kevin Mueller. The children were excited to see Santa and to get their picture taken with him. The kids were given Christmas presents of baby dolls, trucks, stuffed...
I was recently on Facebook and came across a woman who said that she and the man she takes care of were needing a Christmas dinner delivered and wondered if there was a church or organization who could help them out. She did some checking and found that there was no one who could help them. I started talking to different people and found that in our community there really are people here that are willing to help people in a time of need. I was given some money donations to help get them food for their freezer and to help stock their cabinets...
The following candidates filed Tuesday at the Quay County Clerks Office for positions on the school board in their respective school districts in Quay County. The election will be held on Feb. 5 and the term for school board positions is four years. Tucumcari District 2 Christopher Michael Birch District 3 Leif E. Gray Logan Position 3 Remainder of term (Tommy Bruhn) Bryan B. Roach Position 4 Bill Cone (incumbent) William S. Osborn Position 5 Larry H. Webb Thomas S. Humble (incumbent) San Jon Position 1 Franklin D. Gibson Position 3 Cynthia...
The Tucumcari cash mob hit again on Thursday night with a dozen people shopping at a local small business. Thursday night brought in several people shopping and buying items on their Christmas lists. Everyone enjoyed the unique items offered from antiques to jewelry and much more. Coffee and cookies were served for refreshments while doing their shopping....
QCS photo: Jerrene Bradley Bicyclist Joe Fors, traveling from Chicago, stopped at the Blue Swallow Motel in Tucumcari before continuing his trip to Los Angeles to raise cancer awareness. Tucumcari received a pink visitor Thursday, with bicycler Joe Fors coming through the city to talk about cancer. Fors, traveling from Chicago, stopped at the Blue Swallow Motel before continuing his trip to Los Angeles. He said the trip is an effort to help people become more aware of all types of cancer. Fors said he lost his stepmother in September to...
The preliminary hearing for Tony Day, 14, who is accused of killing his adoptive mother and stepsister on Nov. 26, has been postponed until 9 a.m. Dec. 28, according to Suzy Chavarria, court monitor for the Tenth Judicial District Court in Tucumcari. Day is facing charges in connection to the deaths of his mother, Sue Day, 67, and her daughter Sherry Folts, 49, at the family home on Quay Road 63. The preliminary hearing was originally set for Friday....
Combine semi-truck flatbeds, fire trucks, farm and service vehicles and jeeps with sheets of mini-lights, Santa Claus and a lot of kids. Add a heavy dose of imagination and you get Tucumcari's annual Parade of Lights, which wound its way through Tucumcari on the evening of Dec. 8. QCS correspondent: James Lout Santa shouted holiday greetings from a cherry-picker bucket perched over the cab of the Tucumcari Fire Department's ladder truck. A total of 16 entries, ranging from the Mesalands Dinosaur Museum's flatbed-mounted mini-light T-Rex to a...
When the national Pearl Harbor Association disbanded a couple years ago, it hit Logan's Bobby Casados hard. Casados, a veteran active in Logan American Legion Post 77, took matters into his own hands. Howard Robertson tells one of his World War II stories as Bobby Casados looks on. On Friday, the 71st anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Casados saw his dedication pay off at the Legion Post. Attention turned at mid-day to remembering the attack on the U.S. Pacific Fleet that thrust the U.S. into World War II, described by...
From 80 to 100 kids called her "Mom" and her husband Mike was "Dad." "I don't want to see the word 'adoptive,'" Mike Day said. "They were our kids." That's how about 200 stunned and mourning children, former wards, friends and neighbors remembered Sue Day at a memorial service Tuesday for Sue and her daughter Sheri Day Folts, held in the County Fair Barn in Tucumcari. Sue Day, 76, and Folts, 49, were slain in their home on Nov. 26. Their son, 14-year-old Tony Day, is being held in connection to their deaths. The mood at Tuesday's service...
Members of the Rough Rider Motorcycle Rally Committee from Las Vegas, N.M., spent Saturday in Tucumcari shopping for needy kids in their community. William Sanchez, coordinator, Elmer Martinez, Mike Fields and four other members were at Alco to do their shopping for these kids for Christmas. Sanchez said the Alco store in Las Vegas had closed down and they looked for another Alco store near them and found the one in Tucumcari. Martinez said that they contacted Brian Woodward, manager of Alco and told him what they planned on doing. QCS Staff...
After weeks worth of debate, and the threat of a negative referendum election, Quay County commissioners voted Monday to repeal an animal ordinance. The vote was 2-1, with commissioners Robert Lopez and Bill Curry voting for the repeal and Commissioner Brad Bryant voting in dissent. The ordinance would have - Allowed law enforcement and prosecutors to impose penalties on pet owners who allowed their animals to let them run wild or to abandon them. - Required persons who own seven to 10 non-neutred pets to purchase an annual multi-annual $25...
Altrusa International of Tucumcari recently donated 105 books to the Quay County Detention Center. The books were used to expand the library at the detention center. QCS photo: Jerrene Bradley From left, Altrusa members Pat Clark, Merlinda Turner, Lou Briscoe, Sylvia Wampler and Evelyn Coughenhour. Altrusa conducted an internal book drive and collected 95 books to donate the center and then the organization received a grant from the Altrusa International Foundation, Inc., which matched their $50. The additional money was used to purchase 10...
Kathleen Box was re-elected to the Rocky Mountain Farmers Union board of directors. Delegates to the 2012 RMFU convention re-elected board member Kathleen Box to serve another term on the board. Box will continue to represent New Mexico on the board. She and her husband Phillip reside in Tucumcari and are a third generation farm family. They have been involved in RMFU for 28 years. They were in the first RMFU program in 1987. Mike McAlister, director of communications for RMFU said Box's duties are to represent the membership and oversee the...
On Monday county commissioners met in special session and approved a roofing contract for the court house. County Manager Richard Primrose said the commission approved the contract of $203,300 to WWRC Inc. of Clovis. He said the company has 10 days to start on the roof after being notified of the approval. Primrose estimate it would take 90 days to finish the project. Primrose said the preservation society has also approved repairs on the court house. Primrose said that the county will be spending $6,688 to install an air conditioning unit at...
A 9 a.m. Dec. 7 preliminary hearing has been set for a Tucumcari teen charged in the death of two family members at their home earlier this week. Tony Day was charged Tuesday with two open counts of murder, accused of killing his stepmother and her daughter Monday at their home about two miles west of Tucumcari. State police responding to reports of a homicide in the 4400 block of Quay Road 63 said they found the bodies of Sherry Folts, 49, and her mother, Sue Day, 67. State police Capt. Ryan Suggs said Day was removed from the residence and...
The Tucumcari Oasis Tree Project helping in the beautification of Tucumcari by offering memberships to the Arbor Day Foundation. The fee is $10 and each person receives 10 free trees. Rebecca Blakeney started the project. She said when she moved to Tucumcari in September and saw the community had been planting trees around the town, she wanted to help the community with getting more trees planted. Blakeney said the the elementary school needs some of their trees replaced and there are some other places around town in need of trees. Yvette...
Lt. Gov. John Sanchez stopped in Tucumcari on Tuesday to listen to citizen concerns. About 25 people attended Mobile Office Day. Some asked Sanchez about the Ute Lake pipeline project and what will be done during the 60-day session of the Legislature, starting in January. Sanchez said the project was a concern of Gov. Susana Martinez would be discussed during the session. Other concerns were the wind energy project south of Grady, the Workmans Compensation agriculture exemption, production tax credit, funding cuts for the arts. Some suggested...
Black Friday in Tucumcari turned out the community in large numbers. Rhonda Kandel, manager of K Mart, said the store had many special sales for shoppers. She said Tucumcari shoppers were fantastic and were shopping Tucumcari in better numbers this year with three days of door buster sales. Brian Woodward, manager of Alco, said the day started out slow but picked later. He said many shoppers were coming in the store and sales were up from last year. Sandy Shipley of Shipley's Radio Shack said they had a lot of early shoppers coming in the...
