Logan News

Portales and Clovis area residents won't be short on options for celebrating July 4th this year.

Lujan set to open distirct office... U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Lujan will be in Tucumcari to officially open his district here at 1:30 p.m. on Friday.

No fireworks are being allowed in Quay County because of the fire ban, but fireworks can be set off in the Tucumcari city limits, according to city and county officials.

More than 5,000 acres of grassland have burned in three days from multiple fires in Quay and Harding counties.

About 7 p.m. Monday, firefighters had contained a brush fire near San Jon on Interstate 40 that threatened at least one home.

The Ute Reservoir Advisory Group is holding a 10 a.m. meeting Friday at the Tucumcari Convention Center to discuss water supply management at Ute Lake.

The following is a sample of calls received during the last few days by the central dispatch office for Quay County, based at the Tucumcari Police Department.

While many seniors decided to take the day off a handful of Logan high school's class of 2009 stuck out their last day of school.

Area students received scholarships from local and state organizations to aid them in their pursuit of higher education.

It will be costly and take some time to implement the state's new euthanasia law for animals in Tucumcari and Quay County, according to the city's police chief.

Two local veterinarians will offer rabies shot clinics at four locations in Quay County on May 2. Veterinarian J.P. Corey will be at the following locations: Nara Visa: 10:30-11:30 a.m. CDT at the Fire Station.

The following is a sample of calls received during the last few days by the central dispatch office for Quay County, based at the Tucumcari Police Department.

Missouri fugitive flees Quay County deputies from Logan; chase ends in Panhandle.

Bill McCamey, a veteran of more than three decades of work with film and television productions, has been named the new Las Cruces film liaison.

The 41st Agricultural and Home Economics Seminar. hosted by the Quay County Extension Service, will begin at 9 a.m. on Thursday at the Tucumcari Convention Center.

A Quay County mother and daughter were arrested on Christmas eve, accused of stealing Christmas gift cards intended for foster children.

Elizabeth Elayne Miller, 69, died Saturday, Dec. 6, 2008, at Specialty Rehabilitation Hospital in Albuquerque, N.M., following a courageous battle with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Elayne was born Nov. 22, 1939, in Logan, N.M., to the late Rex and Irene Miller. She attended McAlister Grade School and Tucumcari High School and graduated from high school in Big Spring, Texas, in 1958.

Elayne is survived by her son and his wife, Marvin and Kitty Martin of Magdalena, N.M.; her daughter, Michelle Smith of Artesia, N.M.; seven grandchildren, Matthew and Emily Martin, both of Albuquerque, Luke and Nathan Martin, both of Magdalena, Bill, Melissa, and Christina Smith, all of Artesia; two great-grandsons, Aiden Martin of Albuquerque and Javirius Solmone of Artesia; sister Patricia (Miller) Cross of Canyon Lake, Texas, and three brothers: RC Miller of Tucumcari, Mac Miller of Lake Meredith, Texas, and Gary Miller of Roswell, N.M.

Christopher J. Francone, 39, of Keenesburg, Colo., was arrested on a Quay County warrant for alleged failure to appear.