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Logan EMT convicted of indecent assault
A Texas jury required less than an hour to deliver a guilty verdict against a Logan EMT and volunteer firefighter who groped a 17-year-old girl in an Amarillo hotel room in 2021. Brian Cox of Logan...
Logan police chief hired as village administrator
The Village of Logan council didn’t have to look far to find a new village administrator. It tapped its police chief, Rodney Paris, as the new leader of village operations. He officially was hired...
Pandemic ponderings
Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham's public health order regarding coronavirus is scheduled to expire after Friday, more than three years after the pandemic...
City meeting delayed due to lack of quorum
The Tucumcari City Commission postponed its work session and regular meeting last week after it failed to have a quorum. The work session was rescheduled to 5 p.m. Thursday, March 30, with the...
Calendar - March 29
• Saturday — Easter egg hunt at Dunn Park, Tucumcari. This free event from 10 to noon will be for children from kindergarten through fifth grade only. The Pure Elegance Car Club and Tucumcari...
Pages past - March 29
On this date ... 1972: Tucumcari city fathers had a rude awakening when they learned the sewer project on the city’s west end was not funded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as...
Menus - March 29
Tucumcari schools Wednesday — Breakfast: French toast sticks, syrup cup, assorted cereal, graham crackers, applesauce, orange juice, skim, 1% or strawberry milk; Lunch: Turkey and cheese sandwich,...
County manager praised for efforts to fund hospital
A Tucumcari resident during the public comment portion of Monday’s Quay County Commission meeting praised county manager Daniel Zamora’s efforts to find funding to build a new Dr. Daniel C. Trigg...
Curry County fairgrounds hosting pesticide disposals
The New Mexico Department of Agriculture will host a pesticide disposal event from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. April 5 at the Curry County Fairgrounds parking lot, located at Fair Grounds Road in Clovis. This...
Bakery opens along Tucumcari's Route 66
About nine months after Carlson Coffee Co. began offering coffee and baked goods in downtown Tucumcari, its co-owners opened a bakery along the...
Police blotter - March 29
These calls were made to the Tucumcari-Quay Regional Emergency Communications Center from March 20 to March 26: Monday — 12:26 a.m.: Found property in 900 block of North Second Street, Tucumcari....
Jail log - March 29
These individuals were booked into the Quay County Detention Center from March 21 to March 26: — Jesenya Olivas, 20, Portales, contempt of court. — Rodney Hodges, 47, Tucumcari, contempt of...
Area to get $1.8 million in capital outlay
Quay County entities are in line to receive $1.84 million in capital-outlay allocations from the just-completed session of the New Mexico Legislature, including more than $1 million to the City of...
Mesalands president Busch resigns
Embattled Mesalands Community College President Gregory Busch last week submitted a formal resignation letter, effective March 10. Busch’s three-page resignation letter, which stated it was sent...
MCC approves Moss as interim president
The Mesalands Community College board of trustees on Thursday approved making Allen Moss the college's interim president, effective immediately,...
Quay County's mapper hired as assessor
Quay County commissioners apparently couldn’t resist the prospect of a 2-for-1 situation in hiring an assessor. Commissioners on March 13 unanimously chose the county’s geographic information...
Earlier start set for next school year at Logan
The Logan Municipal School board approved a calendar for the 2023-2024 school year that’s largely the same as in previous years but complies with an expanded-instruction bill expected to become...
Pages past - March 22
On this date ... 1972: Firefighters were called to extinguish a blaze in the east wing of the Sheraton Inn motel in Tucumcari. The fire, believed to be electrical in origin, started in a utility room...
Calendar - March 22
• Saturday — Fish fry for Tucumcari STEM Club. This 6:30 p.m. event at the Tucumcari Elks Lodge will help defray the team’s travel expenses for the MIT robotics competition in Boston. The $14 pl...
Menus - March 22
Tucumcari schools Wednesday — Closed for spring break. Thursday — Closed for spring break. Monday — Breakfast: Cinni mini, assorted cereal, graham crackers, fresh apple, orange juice, skim, 1%...
House superintendent put on paid leave
HOUSE - House Muncipal Schools Superintendent Bonnie Lightfoot was placed on paid administrative leave last Tuesday by the school board. Parents said...
Arch Hurley board votes to not allocate water
The Arch Hurley Conservancy District board of directors voted last week to not allocate water into its irrigation canals for now but remained hopeful they might do so after rainier weather this...
State grant will help TPS write facilities master plan
The Tucumcari Public Schools board last week accepted a state grant of up to $34,303.96 to help the district form a five-year facilities master plan. The district’s share of the plan would be...
Tucumcari man files suit over body-slam arrest
A Tucumcari man filed a lawsuit against the city, police department and two officers over his being body-slammed during a 2021 arrest that was captured by a bystander’s video. Pete Apodaca filed a...
County's new COVID-19 cases total one
Just one confirmed case of coronavirus was reported in Quay County last week, down from three during the previous week. Last week’s sole case brought the total number of coronavirus cases in Quay...
