Articles from the May 19, 2021 edition
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Tornado touches down near Logan
A storm system Monday evening produced several reports of severe weather in Quay County, including at least one tornado. Trained spotters for the...
Tucumcari baseball hangs tough
The Tucumcari baseball team was hanging tough, trailing visiting Santa Rosa 6-3 after six innings. Then the Rattlers were forced to change pitchers,...
Special Tucumcari school board meeting set for Monday
The Tucumcari Public Schools board will hold a special meeting Monday evening after its regular meeting was rescheduled due to incorrect information about that meeting's teleconference platform. The...
Commission cuts allowance for salary in half
On a 3-2 vote, the Tucumcari City Commission on Thursday cut the city's allowance for the salary of Patrick Vanderpool, executive director of the...
State changes mask mandate
The New Mexico Department of Health announced on Friday that vaccinated individuals no longer will be required to wear masks in indoor or outdoor settings. Schools remain an exception because many...
Sign back on display after a decade
A neon sign that once hung on the now-defunct Vorenberg Hotel in downtown Tucumcari recently was recovered by the Tucumcari Historical Museum and is...
Official questions the mask mandate
A Logan school board member, irked by the boys basketball team’s failure to qualify for the state tournament partly due to COVID-19-related game cancellations, advocated the school flouting the stat...
End-times ideas have consequences
“OK, men. Today’s the last game of the season, and we’re about to take the field against the Canaan Giants. Now, these guys are huge. They’re faster, stronger and tougher than we are, and...
COVID cases show signs of slowdown
Quay County showed tentative signs late last week that a nearly month-long spike of coronavirus cases was diminishing. The county recorded only one confirmed COVID-19 case both Thursday and Friday....
Calendar 5-19
Note: Events subject to change due to the COVID-19 pandemic. • Friday — Fired Up Friday. This downtown event replaces the canceled Fired Up Festival. There will be a chuckwagon demonstration with...
Menus 5-19
The Tucumcari Senior Center and Logan Senior Center remain closed to the public indefinitely but will deliver meals to those who qualify. Those interested in meal deliveries should call the Tucumcari...
Pages Past 5-19
May 19 On this date ... 1971: The Carden-Johnson Circus will bring its three performance rings and 42 acts to the Tucumcari High School football...
GDP should be the main focus
Between headlines about back-and-forth name-calling and arguments over which party is engaging in “cancel culture” or “conspiracy mongering,” there has been little attention paid to...
Trump run would alter landscape
Sometime in 2023, Donald Trump will presumably make the most momentous decision by a single person affecting the fate of the Republican Party in decades. He will decide whether to run for president...
Banning Trump from Facebook step back for First Amendment
On Jan. 7, Facebook suspended President Donald Trump, striking a significant blow to his ability to communicate with the public. Banning him permanently from the platform would be a mistake. An...
Moriarty dominates Rattler Roundup
Tucumcari was the host school for the season-opening Rattler Relays track and field event, but it was Moriarty that ruled the roost. Both the boys and...
Tucumcari softball gets first victory
Staff report The Tucumcari softball team captured its first victory of the season Friday with a 24-11 decision at Clayton. Harley McKinney, Sage Knapp and Alexis Ramirez each went 4-for-4 for the...
Logan baseball team sweeps doubleheader
Staff report The Logan baseball team began its season with a resounding doubleheader victory Friday at Dora, including a combined no-hitter. The Longhorns opened the twinbill with an 11-1 victory...
Three Longhorns named all-district
Staff report Logan’s boys basketball team saw three players earn all-district honors during recent voting by District 6’s coaches. Dante Sanchez, Kaden Riggs and Garrett Bollinger, all seniors,...
Girl's all-district named
Staff report Logan had three all-district players each in girls basketball and volleyball during recent voting by District 6 coaches. Fort Sumner led the all-district list in girls basketball, with...
Gift card scam hits home
From staff report A local man on Saturday at the last minute stopped an apparent gift-card fraud where the scammer claimed to be from the Quay County Sheriff’s Department. According to a report...
San Jon adds extracurricular options
It appears softball and cross country will be added as extracurricular options during the 2021-2022 school year at San Jon Municipal Schools. The district’s board of trustees voted to add those...
Mesalands receives grant
Mesalands Community College will receive nearly $1.2 million in federal emergency funds from the America Rescue Plan, a COVID-19 relief measure. U.S. Rep. Teresa Leger Fernandez (D-Las Vegas)...
Arch Hurley votes no
Despite recent rains and a light mist falling on the morning of its meeting, the Arch Hurley Conservancy District board last week voted again to not allocate any Conchas Lake water to its irrigation...
