Two phase project for 2021

University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center is opening a medical clinic in Gallup with the first phase focused largely on women’s specialties.

The clinic will be located at 205 E. Nizhoni Ave., Suite 3 in the same building as HME Specialists LLC.

Cynde Tagg, the executive director of Ambulatory Care Services at University of New Mexico Hospitals, who has been at UNM for 31 years, described it as a “cavernous office space with a cement floor.”

She told the Gallup Sun Oct. 27 that this “first clinic of its kind in the state” will have its ceiling lowered and flooring added before the New Mexico Department of Health does its inspection...

County willing to fund the program

As a result of the COVID pandemic, congregate shelters around Gallup have had to operate in a reduced capacity or close entirely. The city is now in dire need of shelter for people who are at risk as the pandemic continues, even more so with the cold weather quickly approaching.

This situation was brought before the Gallup City Council during their Oct. 27 meeting by City Manager Maryann Ustick.

“The city is not doing this for the administrative funds. We’re doing it because it’s a need for our community and it needs to be met,” she said.

Ustick said the city received about $900,000 in federal CARES Act funding from the state, which was not...

Major employer will retain 125 jobs with LEDA investment

McKINLEY COUNTY— Cabinet Secretary Alicia J. Keyes announced Oct. 27 that a long-time paper factory in McKinley County will receive economic assistance from the state so it can install new equipment and remain in business for the next decade, retaining at least 125 well-paying jobs.

McKinley Paper has been reliant on the Escalante Generating Station for steam power. The 253-megawatt, coal-fired power plant near Prewitt, operated by Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association, closed at the end of August as the facility exhausted its remaining on-site fuel supply.

Through the Economic Development Department, the State of...

Week ending Friday, October 23, 2020

Pre Dust Bowl?

A new study finds dust levels are rising in the American Great Plains due to farming practices and climate trends that scientists say are reminiscent of the lead-up to the 1930s Dust Bowl period. The University of Utah research finds that the amount of dust has risen up to 5percent per year, which coincides with the expansion of cropland and seasonal crop cycles. Writing in Geophysical Research Letters, the scientists suggest farming practices could now be exposing more soil to wind erosion, albeit much less than when 1920s Midwestern farmers were tilling the topsoil with mechanical plows. This led to the Dust Bowl after severe...