Phase Two of the Coal Avenue Commons project is moving closer to becoming a reality.

During the Sept. 16 Business Improvement District board meeting, Gallup’s Assistant City Manager, JM DeYoung went over the project’s updates with the board. City Manager Maryann Ustick prepared updates for the meeting in an email.

Ustick said the state will pay for Phase Two of the project. The cost for Phase Two is estimated at $3.5 million.

“We are so excited that the state has come up with the full amount of funding for this project,” Ustick told the Sun.

The city staff is currently working with construction firm Wilson and Co. to get a fee proposal to do the necessary re-certifications...

McKinley Academy students are getting the chance to learn about the latest technology as the school introduces a new education pathway: computer science.

Science teacher Christopher Adams spent his summer taking a course about teaching computer science to prepare to present the new material. In an interview with the Sun, he explained that the school is currently only offering a single class in the curriculum, one that teaches the essentials of computer science.

Computer science instruction was new to Adams who originally taught basic science.

“When I was going through the training, oftentimes they said ‘the only way you’re going to be able to learn it is through having more...

Week ending Friday, September 17, 2021


Oil Untouched

A new study says that oil and gas production around the world must fall by three percent each year, with 58 percent of known petroleum reserves remaining in the ground, to hold global heating to the 1.5 degrees Celsius goal in the Paris Agreement. “There’s a good likelihood the rates of decline are going to have to be even larger, and the total amount of carbon that’s going to stay in the ground is also going to be larger,” James Price at University College London, who was involved in the analysis, said. While some oil companies have cut their plans for future oil and gas extraction as they transition to low-carbon energy...

As a community-based educational and advocacy campaign, No Minor Sale aims to connect with community members and organizations across New Mexico. And since beginning in Fall 2017, the No Minor Sale campaign is thrilled to have had the opportunity to partner with 47 community organizations and tobacco retail stores from 20 New Mexico localities who have shared the campaign’s mission of ending the illegal sale of tobacco products to minors.

In 2019, No Minor Sale began advocating for tobacco retail licensing, a policy proven to reduce illegal tobacco product sales to minors. This campaign policy focus existed until Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham signed into law the Tobacco Products Act...