Tucumcari Officer Resigns Amid Break-in and Property Charge
Tucumcari police officer Pete Vargas resigns effective April 19 amid charges of breaking and entering and criminal damage to property filed in the Tenth Judicial District Court. Vargas, 32, had been on administrative duty since his Feb. 27 arrest, with a trial date pending after Judge Albert J. Mitchell Jr. recused himself. Police said Vargas and the home owner, Roseann Quintana, had a continuing intimate relationship. state police investigated a 3:50 a.m. break-in at 1805 S Sixth St. in Tucumcari where Vargas was on scene.
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Tucumcari
Tenth Judicial District Court
Pete Vargas
Jason Brazier
Quay County
Vargas
State Police Office
Brazier
Pete Rivera
Tenth Judicial District
Albert J. Mitchell Jr
Quay County Magistrate Court
Lance Bateman
S. Sixth St
Ute Lake Water Authority Hires Santa Fe Law Firm
The Eastern New Mexico Water Utility Authority announced its first outside counsel, Montgomery and Andrews Law Firm of Santa Fe, after a 25 minute executive session at Clovis City Hall. The move follows Logan village suit to halt the Ute Water Project and its environmental reviews.
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Eastern
Ute Reservoir
Quay County
Authority
Roosevelt
Curry
Gayla Brumfield
Buneesa
Bunny” Terry
Ute Lake and
Logan
Tucumcari Historians Share Stories At Endee Event
Local historians at the Tucumcari Historical Museum recounted life in and around Quay County drawing more than a dozen residents. Horace Woods, born in 1915 in Wheeler Texas, recalled his family’s move to New Mexico and cotton farming hardships before settling on a Curry County homestead north of Broadview. A video of Woods’s memories is online at gcsunonline.com.
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Tucumcari Historical Museum
Quay County
Horace Woods
Woods
Wheeler
Texas
New Mexico
Curry County
Broadview
Thursday Clinic grand opening ceremony at Dr. Dan C Trigg Memorial
Grand opening events run Thursday from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m at the Dr. Dan C Trigg Memorial Hospital with a ribbon cutting at the Ministry of Hope on Friday at 1 a.m located at 105 East Railroad Avenue. May 10-12 annual Quay County Fair festival details and contact number 487-0944. Cast votes online gesmnonline.com. Last week poll results show 40 percent Yes and 60 percent No with 67 total votes. Obituaries listed Frances L Salas Evagene Gene Fowler Donna Mae Proffitt Dominguez Mary Elien Daniels. Looking back April 1962 Tucumcari American Legion delegates named for Boys and Girls State committees from Tucumcari High School and Logan High School.
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Ministry of Hope
East Railroad Avenue
Quay County Fair
Frances L. Salas
Evagene
Gene” Fowler
Donna Mae
Dominguez
Mary Elien Daniels
Tucumcari American Legion
Tucumcari High School
American Legion Auxiliary
Janet Kelt
Betsy Hicks
Vickie Breen
Wanda Bush
Billy Cates
Butch Jaynes
Leonard Garcia
Ralph Ortega
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque
New Mexico Military Institute
Roswell
Kenneth Shipler
Rita Fitzner
Logan
Logan High School
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Mark Jackson
Ute Lake
Water Authority
Ute Water Project
Thomas Garcia
Tristan Osborn
Clinic
Dan C. Trigg
Gesmnonline.com
Ucumccari
Geral
South First St
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