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link QCS Photo: Thomas Garcia Tron Walters of the Rising 'W' chuck wagon batters tenderized steaks during Saturday cook-off with the help of Jentry Bressler. link QCS Photo: Thomas Garcia People begin to line up at the Musselshel chuck wagon out of Roundup, Monta., for a taste of a traditional chuck wagon meal. By Thomas Garcia QCS Senior Writer Over 250 residents and visitors braved Saturday's high winds to immerse themselves in the rustic sights and atmosphere of the 14th annual Chuck Wagon Co... Full story
link QCS Photo:Thomas Garcia Workers work to clear a clogged ditch on Saturday by pushing 275-feet of steel pipe through underwater debris in the canal. QCS Staff A crimp in the first flow of water in three years through the Arch Hurley Conservancy District's canals was repaired Saturday evening as Arch Hurley crews worked more than four hours to clear a refrigerator that clogged the tunnel of a siphon ditch south of Tucumcari. “The water is flowing and the district's members will be r... Full story
QCS Senior Writer The Quay County Commissioners plan further discussion and research on whether to hold a special election in September on a new gross receipts tax to help pay for Quay County's central emergency radio dispatch system. “This is issue and service that is vital to all of the residents,” said Richard Primrose, county manager. The commission discussed the matter at a meeting held Monday in the Village of Logan council chambers. Primrose recommended that the special election be scheduled early. Ellen White, chief deputy county cle... Full story
QCS Managing Editor A renewal of crop production in Quay County, where water is flowing in Arch Hurley Conservancy District waterways for the first time in three years, could mean a $25 million boost to the area’s economy, according to Franklin McCasland, Arch Hurley’s manager. The season’s allocation comes to about nine inches for each of the 42,000 acres served by the Arch Hurley district, which is about half of a typical year’s release, McCasland said. “If there’s more rain,” he said, “we could allocate more water” this season, McCasland...
QCS Managing Editor The guardian of Tony Day, a 15-year-old Tucumcari boy facing double murder charges, has asked for records and court proceedings in the case to be kept from public view when they deal with medical or mental health treatment. Prosecuting attorneys and the Quay County Sun have filed responses in opposition to closing the court proceedings in the case. Day's guardian, Kathleen Oakey, an attorney with the New Mexico Public Defender’s office, has also asked that hearings that involve Day’s medical or mental health treatments, inc...
link QCS Photo: Steve Hansen Dan C. Trigg Memorial Hospital physical therapists Rick Korn and Misty Johnson flank Bob Coslett as he undergoes a balance test at the Quay County Community Wellness Fair. The fair was held Saturday at the Tucumcari Convention Center. QCS Staff About 600 Quay County residents visited the Quay County Community Wellness Fair Saturday morning at the Tucumcari Convention Center to learn about matters that affect health, receive small souvenir items and medical screening...
link QCS Photo: Thomas Garcia Santa Rosa Lions’ second baseman tries to stop the ball with his knee to keep Tucumcari Rattlers Gabriel Molinas from advancing to third base on the errant throw. Thomas Garcia QCS Senior Writer It was a tale of fifth innings as the (12-8) (3-4) Tucumcari Rattlers baseball team split a district doubleheader with the (13-7) (3-3) Santa Rosa Lions Thursday at Tucumcari. The first game ended in the fifth as the Lions overran the Rattlers with a 12-0 lead. In the s... Full story
link QCS Photo: Steve Hansen. With help from Jeanine Apodaca, left, and Tracy Neal, teachers at Eastern Plains Head Start, Tucumcari, Head Start students Isabella Salas, left, Jonathan Montoya and Jude Rosas plant flowers at Tucumcari City Hall. QCS Staff Pre-kindergarten students at the Eastern Plains Head Start facility in Tucumcari and a hardy band of older volunteers helped Tucumcari observe the Great American Cleanup last week. Veronica Sandy, Tucumcari’s building enforcement officer, doubl...
link Courtesy photo: Katherine Sena, THS. Tucumcari High School seniors Leah Encinias (left), Brianna Molinas, Madeline Wiegel, Caitlin Elebario and Olana Romero clean up the grounds at NMSU Agricultural Research Station, Tucumcari. The cleanup was part of Earth Day activities at THS on Tuesday. QCS Staff Tucumcari High School students spent Tuesday morning cleaning up at sites around Tucumcari and earning some community service credit as they observed Earth Day, according to Christina Fleming,...
Thankful for volunteers Dear Editor, I would like to express a very large thank you to the junior class of Tucumcari High School. These young people came out on Earth Day and fought the wind and dirt while they raked, pulled, and scraped up 70 large bags of trash from fences and lots of loose blowing flower remains from the grounds of the Tucumcari Cemetery. Flower parts get caught up in hedges, fences and on other graves. The young people also picked up paper cups, ribbons from flowers, and wooden stakes. Seventy large sacks is a lot of trash.... Full story
QCS Staff Rents are rising by 35 percent on June 1 for residents of public housing units in Tucumcari whose annual income is at or above federal minimums, according to Viki Riddle, executive director of the Tucumcari Housing Authority. The rent increases are mandatory under federal Dept. of Housing and Urban Development rules, Riddle said. The Tucumcari Housing Authority board approved the increases on Thursday. The higher rents —the first that HUD has ordered increases since 2006—affect 90 housing units in the city’s public housing areas but n...
An individual's medical records should be confidential in most cases -- but not when those records are used as a defense in a double murder case. The guardian for Tucumcari's Tony Day, 14 when he was accused of killing his mother and sister in 2012, has asked court records and proceedings be sealed when they deal with Day's medical or mental health treatment. A hearing is scheduled May 5 in Tucumcari before Tenth Judicial District Court Judge Albert Mitchell. Prosecutors have already filed a motion opposing secret court proceedings. That's the...
These days if you’re excited by the crack of the bat on a baseball you probably live too close to a Major League Baseball field. I bet some of you whippersnappers out there have never heard the sound of a wood bat hitting a leather ball. The thought hit me like a line drive back through the box last Sunday as I was watching a segment on CBS Sunday Morning. It was about a guy who recovered from a stroke after hearing what he said was the “ubiquitous ping” of a ball on a bat at a ballpark near...
