Articles from the August 10, 2022 edition
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Inflation, COVID blunt Reunion crowds
General price inflation and a recent flareup of COVID-19 cases in the region blunted attendance last week at the annual Rattler Reunion for Tucumcari...
Projects list includes $25M for new hospital
Quay County commissioners on Monday approved an Infrastructure Capital Improvements Plan from 2024 to 2028 that includes a $25 million request to fund a new hospital in Tucumcari at the top of the...
Gone but not forgotten
It look nearly 80 years, but little Jimmie Rudolfo Solano finally has a headstone at his grave in Tucumcari Memorial Park cemetery. Jimmie, who was...
Quay County Fair to be without a carnival again
The Quay County Fair in Tucumcari resumes this week as it has for more than a century in Tucumcari, but this will be the third straight year it will lack a carnival. The fair on the city’s west...
Brittney Griner case basically unjust
WNBA player Brittney Griner has been sentenced to nine years in prison in Russia on drug charges, including the possession of marijuana. From the standpoint of biblical principles, this is an unjust...
GOP candidate for Congress stops in Tucumcari
Due to redistricting making the 3rd Congressional District more conservative-friendly, the National Republican Congressional Committee is pumping...
Pages past - Aug. 10
On this date ... 1972: A total of 32 school bus drivers from Quay County participated in the annual New Mexico Transportation Institute this week. Drivers from Tucumcari included Ernest Arguello,...
Calendar - Aug. 10
Note: Events subject to change due to the COVID-19 pandemic. • Wednesday-Saturday — Quay County Fair. Livestock shows will run daily, and home-arts entries will be accepted from 8 a.m. to noon on...
Menus - Aug. 10
The Tucumcari Senior Center and Logan Senior Center also offer grab-and-go meals to those who qualify. Those interested should call the Tucumcari facility at 575-461-2307 or the Logan facility at 575-...
Signs emerge of slowdown in coronavirus cases
Quay County and New Mexico last week each displayed signs of a slowdown with the latest surge of coronavirus cases. Quay County recorded 26 confirmed cases of COVID-19 last week. That compares to 30 c...
Reversal spotlights GOP's indefensible partisan payback
How angry are some Republicans at what they see as betrayal by a centrist Democrat? Angry enough to betray sick military veterans, apparently. That’s the only rational explanation for the sudden abo...
Cannabis not an excuse to kidnap
An American basketball player was recently arrested and imprisoned in Russia for possession of cannabis. Some people are outraged over this; others claim she deserved to be arrested because she broke...
Found inspiration in trees still standing
I found inspiration at a burn scar recently. It was in California, which has been burning for years now as Exhibit A for the onset of climate change. I had driven into the state to pick up my...
City OKs contract for legal services
The Tucumcari City Commission during a special meeting last week approved a contract for legal services with an attorney who helped make corrections with the city’s cannabis ordinance earlier this y...
Cannabis sales hit record levels in July
Cannabis sales hit record level of more than $40 million in July in New Mexico, and Tucumcari saw record numbers, as well. A news release Thursday from a spokeswoman for Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham st...
More than 50 compete in Quay County 4-H Rodeo
A total of 56 4-H members from more than a dozen New Mexico counties, including Quay County, participated on July 29-30 in the Quay County 4-H Rodeo at the Quay County Fairgrounds in Tucumcari....
About 50 attend Kirksey Center's yearly Field Day
Nearly 50 people attended the annual Field Day last week at the New Mexico State University Rex E. Kirksey Agricultural Science Center in northeast...
Second Nara Visa motorcyclist dies in crash
A second Nara Visa motorcyclist has died in three days in separate traffic accidents. According to a news release from New Mexico State Police, officers were dispatched about 9 p.m. Aug. 1 to...
TPS board leaves alone revised dress code
The Tucumcari Public Schools board during a special meeting last week chose to let the district’s revised dress code stand after hearing from coaches and other sponsors of extra-curricular...
Wellborn Pharmacy takes on new place, new name
New place, new name. Wellborn Pharmacy last Monday closed its South Second Street location of about 60 years near downtown, moved to a bigger site on...
Woman donates contents of parents' house for fire relief
Barbara Copeland is 88 years old, suffers from diabetes, is fitted with a pacemaker for her heart and admits she's fighting the effects of old age....
Jail log - Aug. 10
These individuals were booked into the Quay County Detention Center from Aug. 1 to Aug. 7: — Lisa Greenwood, 61, Tucumcari, resisting, evading or obstructing an officer, concealing identity and...
Police blotter - Aug. 10
These calls were made to the Tucumcari-Quay Regional Emergency Communications Center from July 25 to Aug. 7: July 25 — 4:16 a.m.: Prowler ion 1100 block of South Fourth Street, Tucumcari. — 5:07...
Man drowns in Ute Lake trying to rescue son
An Oklahoma man drowned at Ute Lake State Park in Logan on Saturday afternoon while trying to rescue his 11-year-old son who was struggling in the waters. A good Samaritan saved the child. Sebastian...
