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New Mexico State Police officers were investigating a fire Friday evening that claimed the life of at least one Tucumcari resident. The fire broke out Friday afternoon at 1910 S. Rock Island St. Quay County Sheriff Russell Shafer confirmed at least one fatality. He said New Mexico State Police were taking over the investigation. A supervising state police trooper at the scene declined to comment, but said the agency would issue a statement later. Shafer, speaking at the scene...
On this date ... 1960: Clovis Municipal Schools had plans to build a new elementary school in hopes of alleviating overcrowding at Highland Elementary. The W. R. Bauske construction firm submitted the low bid for the project at $114,245. The six-classroom unit was to include a principal’s office and would be heated with natural gas. In February 1960, school board members decided to name the new school Sandia Elementary. Ed McCready, a teacher at Highland, was selected as Sandia’s first principal. Pages Past is compiled by...
Recently, I watered a weed. “Big deal,” you say. “Most folks in your neighborhood, mortals whose lawns are not perfect, water weeds every time they water. What makes you special?” No, you don’t understand. For a few weeks in the summer, I singled this weed out and watered it. It had popped up in a planter among some pretty little flowering plants of another variety. But it looked to me a little like some plants I’d ensconced there in a previous season, or, I thought, it...
My sister learned to whistle at age 2. She was precocious in other ways as well. She knew how to read by the time she started kindergarten. She demonstrated a physical dexterity I never did. She was much more talented at the piano. But it was the whistling that really got to me. I was 6 when she started to whistle and I remember it clearly. She sat in her highchair at my grandparents’ house and started whistling her heart out. She could see, even at 2, that she was creating quite a sensation and so she continued, louder, d...
