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Donald Schutte, a longtime lawyer and a former assistant district attorney and district court judge in Quay County, died Feb. 25. He was 72. Attorney Roger Bargas, with whom Schutte shared a law...

With a deadline looming to apply for grants from the New Mexico Department of Tourism’s New Mexico True marketing arm, the Tucumcari City Commission decided to assign one of the city’s grant...

PORTALES — Roosevelt County officially made its opposition known the morning of Feb. 25, just hours before Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed the red-flag gun bill into law. In a news release from...

• March 7 — Enchilada Dinner. Center Street United Methodist Church will hold its annual enchilada dinner with all the fixings from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Adults will be charged $10 and children $5....

Tucumcari schools Wednesday — Breakfast: Fruit and yogurt parfait, assorted cereal, cinnamon graham cracker, fruit, milk, juice; Lunch: Chicken nuggets, ham and cheese chef salad, honey wheat roll,...

On this date ... 1970: Raphael Martinez defeated A.D. Stephenson and incumbent Bud Clayton in the election for Tucumcari municipal judge. Martinez earned 203 votes, or 44%, Stephenson 145 votes (32%)...

The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals made an important and necessary point again last week when it threw out a lawsuit that claimed YouTube violated the Constitution’s free-speech protections by...

Well, President Trump’s first reaction to the Center for Disease Control’s announcement two weeks ago that a coronavirus epidemic was nearly inevitable was his usual stamping of feet. He denied...

Two weeks ago, I was happily sailing on a huge cruise ship in the Indian Ocean. My wife Colleen is a travel agent and I was tagging along with her and her group on a Celebrity Cruise Line ship as it s...

I didn’t have a good story to tell on someone, including myself, I could use as the basis for this Quay County Sun article. So I resorted to checking the internet for interesting facts about March...

The Quay County Clerk’s Office will see a flurry of activity Tuesday. That is the day — and one day only — that people can file for state and local offices for the June 2 primary election. The...

The Logan girls basketball team was seeded No. 1 in the Class 1A state tournament and hosts 16th-seeded Dora in its first-round game. Tucumcari’s girls team was seeded ninth in the Class 3A state...

The Logan boys basketball team fell 63-52 in the semifinal Thursday of the Class 1A-6 district tournament at Fort Sumner. The Longhorns (15-13) fell behind 19-9 in the first quarter and trailed the...

Dr. Thomas Doncaster recently returned to Dr. Dan C. Trigg Memorial Hospital to provide family practice care to patients in Tucumcari. “We are thrilled to welcome back Dr. Doncaster,” Vickie...

These calls were made to the Tucumcari-Quay Regional Emergency Communications Center from Feb. 24 to March 1: Monday • 4:50 a.m.: Domestic disturbance in 600 block of East Laughlin Avenue,...

These individuals were booked into the Quay County Detention Center from Feb. 24 to March 2: • Michael Baltes, 49, Fort Sumner, driving while license suspended or revoked. • David Moses Garcia,...