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Two suspects from Colorado remained in the county jail after they were accused last week of crashing a car in Tucumcari after a high-speed police chase and shooting at officers as they approached to give first aid. The duo surrendered to police after a two-hour standoff in the upside-down car. Scott Andrew Sherbondy, 36, of Colorado Springs, Colorado, remained jailed in the Quay County Detention Center on complaints of first-degree kidnapping, three counts of aggravated assault upon a peace...
The Quay County Commission on Monday approved a preliminary plat of the proposed Air Park at Ute Lake subdivision near Logan that combines residential housing with individual airplane hangars and two runways. The unanimous approval came with the stipulation that Chad Lydick, a Clovis engineer overseeing the project, submits a cultural properties protection plan for the 160-acre development east of 12 Shores Golf Course. Sid Strebeck of Clovis, along with his son Layne, are developing the...
The New Mexico Racing Commission didn’t give any signals about how it leaned regarding a sixth license during its latest meeting Thursday, but a key member of a group wanting to build a racetrack and casino in Tucumcari cautioned it is too early to be critical about inactivity on the matter. “There was really no discussion about the racetrack, the sixth license,” said Warren Frost, one of the principals at Coronado Partners that wants to build an $80 million racino in Tucumcari. “As far as the commission giving guidance, they didn’t do that....
A Tucumcari man received a suspended prison sentence last week for voluntary manslaughter for his role in the 2017 killing of a man at a home north of Tucumcari. John T. Coston, 27, initially was charged with first-degree murder and felony tampering with evidence for the shotgun death of Joseph T. Burgess, 25, of the 4200 block of Quay Road 65 on April 5, 2017. A Quay County jury in February found Coston guilty of voluntary manslaughter and not guilty of murder and the tampering charges. During the sentencing hearing May 15, Coston's attorney,...
Tucumcari schools Wednesday — Breakfast: Sausage and cheese breakfast bagel sandwich, cereal choice with cinnamon goldfish graham cracker, fruit, juice, milk; Lunch: Cook’s choice. Thursday — Breakfast: Trix cereal bar, cereal choice with cinnamon goldfish graham cracker, fruit, juice, milk; Lunch: Cook’s choice. Monday — No school; summer break. Tuesday — No school; summer break. Tucumcari Senior Center Wednesday — Swiss steak, baked potato, cabbage, whole-wheat roll with margarine, pineapple chunks. Thursday — Chicken pot pie, green bean...
• May 31-June 1 — New Mexico Music Showcase. The Tucumcari Columbus Club presents its third annual music festival. A parade welcoming all vehicles, floats and horses will go from the old Kmart building to the Tucumcari Convention Center at 9 a.m. June 1. The music lineup and ticket information will be announced at a later date. Call Jonathan or Benji at (575) 403-6035 or (505) 582-7459 for more information. Tucumcari Convention Center. • June 1 — “Western Days.” The 50th anniversary of the Tucumcari Historical Museum’s grand opening will includ...
On this date ... 1969: The Federal Aviation Administration approved a $9,139 grant for construction of T-hangar taxiways at Tucumcari Municipal Airport. News of the grant arrived at the newspaper by telegram from U.S. Sen. Joseph Montoya of New Mexico. • The Odeon Theatre in Tucumcari was screening a Dean Martin film, “The Wrecking Crew.” The Canal Drive-In Theatre on Tucumcari’s west side advertised a double feature of motorcycle movies, “Hell’s Belles” and “Born Losers.” • The Safeway market in Tucumcari advertised sliced bacon for 69 cents...
Disabled Tucumcari resident Derrick Matthews endures muscular dystrophy, diabetes and heart problems that require him to make frequent phone calls to set up appointments with Albuquerque doctors and arrange transportation there. Since late April, making those phone calls has proven impossible or time-consuming because the Tucumcari area lost the Sprint cellular signal required to operate both his cellphones. One is a Boost Mobile phone; the other is an Assurance phone. Both require a Sprint...
A surveillance program that allows the U.S. government to comb through hundreds of millions of Americans’ telephone records in search of connections to terrorism could soon be a thing of the past. That would be good news for personal privacy and responsible intelligence-gathering. Reports in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal suggest that the National Security Agency has lost its enthusiasm for a program that is the successor to the massive “bulk collection” of telephone records revealed six years ago by Edward Snowden. Luke Murry...
It’s over. The “Game of Thrones” television series, which has treated viewers to epic-movie-quality episodes for eight years, aired its final cliff-hanging installment on Sunday. I didn’t watch it. I’m too cheap to subscribe to cable or satellite television or to pay the added fee for HBO. I’ll see it later, when the DVDs for Season 8 are available at reduced rates. I did manage to watch the first seven seasons through means both fair and foul. I also have managed to read the books on which the series was based, the five existing novels in t...
Today’s topic is change. It makes the world go round, but a lot of people hate it anyway. Change is inevitable, and yet the older we get, the more we’re inclined to resist it. It can be evolutionary or revolutionary, and it always has its share of detractors and proponents. Change is seldom without controversy. By its own definition, it causes friction. And nowadays, it comes at a blinding pace. More changes have come to the human experience in the last 50 years than has occurred in a thousand years prior. We barely have time to get used to...
Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a pastor in Germany during the rise of the Nazi regime. He was imprisoned and hanged for his involvement in a plot to kill Hitler. As he watched the National Socialists rise to power and begin their reign of terror, he struggled greatly with the theological question, “What is the Christian’s responsibility when facing a government that is actively destroying its own people?” This is no new question. Neither has it grown irrelevant with the passing of time. It’s still a qu...
Tucumcari Police officer Daniel J. Lopez was among 45 cadets who graduated from New Mexico Law Enforcement Academy during a ceremony Wednesday in Santa Fe. The cadets completed 677 hours of standardized basic police officer coursework, according to a news release. The 16-week course included completing hundreds of push-ups, sit-ups, flutter kicks, mountain climbers and other calisthenics. The curriculum included constitutional policing in accordance with current federal and state law; de-escalation of force; crisis resolution; dealing with the...
The VFW Post 2528 and VFW Post Auxiliary 2528 in Tucumcari will host a short Memorial Day ceremony Monday. The annual observance will be at 11 a.m. at Tucumcari Memorial Park Cemetery. A meal will be served afterward at the VFW Post at 105 E. Main St. The post will put out small American flags at graves at the cemetery at 9 a.m. Friday, and it welcomes volunteers who wish to help. Flags will be picked up at 9 a.m. Tuesday. American Legion Post 77 and the Village of Logan are sponsoring a Memorial Day ceremony at 10 a.m. Monday at the village...
The following Quay County students were named to the Eastern New Mexico University Dean's List for the spring semester: Alexis Quintana of San Jon; Shaylee Moon, Rachelle Moon and Trenton Lee of McAlister; Kristofer Cordova, Jesse Sanchez and Wyatt Strand of Logan; and Reagan Runyan, Diedra Vargas, Angelina Arellano, Melina Encinias, Kamelia Lamm and Brittany Pulcini of Tucumcari. To be eligible for the list, a student must complete a minimum of 15 credit hours with a grade-point average of 3.25 or greater....
These calls were made to the Tucumcari-Quay Regional Emergency Communications Center from May 13 to May 19: Monday • 8:12 a.m.: Juvenile problem in 2000 block of Highway 224, McAlister. • 8:45 a.m.: Damage to property in 200 block of South Second Street, Tucumcari. • 1:16 p.m.: Breaking and entering in 300 block of Bell Street, Nara Visa. • 2:05 p.m.: Search warrant in 1000 block of South Third Street, Tucumcari. • 2:12 p.m.: Breaking and entering in 600 block of South Second Street, Tucumcari. • 4:30 p.m.: Disturbance in 1000 block of South Mo...
These individuals were booked into the Quay County Detention Center from May 13 to May 17: • Donna Lee Stroud, 48, Tucumcari, charge not listed. • Brandy Campbell, 37, Colorado Springs, Colorado, three counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, aggravated fleeing of a law-enforcement officer, shooting at or from a motor vehicle and warrant from other counties or states. • Nathan Hendren, 25, Tucumcari, charge not listed. • Arthur Martinez, 55, Tucumcari, shoplifting ($250 or less) and trespassing. • Georgeanna Christine Montoya,...
Tucumcari baseball coach Dwayne Roberts is leaving to take a position at his high school alma mater as coach of Logan's eight-man football program. Meanwhile, San Jon/Grady retained its six-man football coach, Tucumcari alum Adrian Jones, after advertising an opening for the position several weeks ago. Roberts, who accepted the offer from Logan in mid-April, said he also would serve as an assistant coach there in baseball and boys basketball with head coach Kyle Griffiths. Roberts also was an...
The Logan softball team won its play-in game 10-9 over McCurdy in extra innings in the Class 1A/2A NMAA State Softball Championships at Rio Rancho but lost to eventual state runner-up Eunice and Santa Rosa. During the Wednesday morning play-in game against eighth-seeded McCurdy, the ninth-seeded Lady Longhorns had a 9-6 lead in the top of the sixth inning. The Bobcats rallied for three runs in the final two frames to tie it and send it into extra innings. Logan scored a run in the eighth and held McCurdy scoreless to secure the program’s f...
