Quay County Sun - Serving the High Plains

Those wondering when the New Mexico Racing Commission might decide whether Tucumcari is awarded a horse-racing license now can circle a tentative date — Dec. 6. “I emphasize the word...

The Tucumcari school board on Oct. 15 approved two resolutions that would place renewal of the existing “Two Mill” property tax on a February special-election ballot. Unlike previous elections,...

Quay County UHF Association users in Tucumcari waiting for Amarillo television stations to come back on the air may wait a while longer. A nonprofit group that runs a UHF signal-booster on Tucumcari...

Friday — Trunk or Treat. The New Mexico Children, Youth and Families Department is partnering with local law-enforcement agencies and other community partners to make this a "spooktacular" event....

Tucumcari schools Wednesday — Breakfast: Sausage and cheese breakfast bagel, cereal choice with cinnamon goldfish graham cracker, fruit, juice, milk; Lunch: Roast turkey with turkey gravy, peanut...

In public relations, our job was to make the company look good, to cast the company in a good light. When I worked for “house organs” — or employee publications — I learned they gave the...

We don’t often editorialize strongly on behalf of green grass, sunshine or happy faces. Everybody loves those things, so there’s no reason to start a discussion on such topics in hopes of...

Here we are, on the verge of one of the most important mid-term elections in American history, and Russian meddling is being charged. Guess it never really stopped. Last week, Elena Alekseevna Khusyay...

We don’t know much about Charles Franklin Petitt. He was from Cleveland, Tennessee, he’d apparently gone to Tucumcari, and his mother was worried about him in the fall of 1937. Ray H. Smith was...

A weeks-long impasse over who is responsible for upkeep on a Quay County Road AF cattle guard on state right-of-way has ended, but issues that emerged from it have not. County commissioners at their...

Renewal of a gross-receipts tax to support Dan C. Trigg Memorial Hospital has received the most attention from Quay County voters for the Nov. 6 election. But state bond questions will prove...

The following are calls made to the Tucumcari-Quay County Regional Emergency Communications Center from Oct. 15 to Sunday: Monday • 1:24 a.m.: A prowler in the 1900 block of South Seventh Street....

The six-week enrollment period to the New Mexico health-insurance exchange for 2019 begins next week, and officials urge those who enrolled last year to update their information for possible cost...

The following individuals were booked into the Quay County Detention Center Oct. 16-22: • William Archuleta, 26, Tucumcari, court order. • Peter Thomas Briones, 21, Tucumcari, battery on a househo...

Tucumcari and several other area school districts soon will receive grants from the state for security improvements. The security upgrades can include new doors and locks, hand-held radios, fencing...

San Jon/Grady on Friday closed its regular season of six-man football with a 45-26 district victory at Floyd. The victorious Coyotes, which moved up Sunday in the state rankings from eighth to...

Logan on Saturday defeated No. 1-ranked Melrose on the road 25-22, 24-26, 25-23, 22-25, 15-12 in an epic clash of regional volleyball powers that undoubtedly will shake up the state rankings. The...