Each month, Gallup Rotary Club selects outstanding high school students in order to honor their academic achievements. Front Row: Kylynn Brown, Navajo Pine; Mary-Trynee Canete, Miyamura; Pashen Beyale, Wingate. Middle Row: Glen Ratmeyer, Rehoboth; Ricardo Rico, Gallup; Adrieanna Stewart, Gallup; Brianna M ortensen, Gallup Middle College. Back Row: Wayde Morgan, Crownpoint; Stephen Buddy Joe, St. Michaels; Ty Metteba, Window Rock; Kobe Natachu, Zuni; Jeremiah Salez, Miyamura; Philbert Joe, Tohatchi; Israel Gonzales, Thoreau; Maria Ladon, Ramah. Photo Credit: NativeStars

Gallup Reads is just one of the educational programs that work well, though it is not included in the general curricula of Gallup McKinley County Schools. The concept was passed through the local Gallup-McKinely Chamber of Commerce after several board members had visited Albuquerque’s chamber and heard about the program set up in New Mexico’s most populous school district.

When the chamber decided to pursue this system in Gallup, the name was altered for local flavor and board member Linda Murphy picked up the original banner to get the program started and helped to handle the $10,000 donation from the chamber to purchase books.

Formerly in the banking business, Murphy recruited...

On April 6, students who entered the gymnasium at Gallup Central High School encountered an unbelievable sight, a table stacked high with over $2 million in cash.

However, after closer inspection they discovered that the money wasn’t real but rather an interactive feature of an imaginative financial skills reality fair known as the Spending Frenzy.  An event made possible by the WK Kellogg Foundation and a group of local organizations. Based on the notion that students often learn better through hands-activities, as opposed to lectures or traditional classroom lessons, the program allowed students to take a trial run at adulthood by paying expenses such as food, transportation...

April 6 was the Grand Opening for the re-established Veterans Services Office in Gallup and the ribbon-cutting was attended by a fairly large crowd of veterans interested in what Director Jack Fox had to say. The new office is located inside the Ford Canyon Senior Center and will be open about six days a month and staffed by Tyra Saavedra, who is also the VSO for Grants.



The New Mexico Department of Veterans’ Services Network of Care for Service Members, Veterans & Their Families is a one-stop-shop for virtually all services, information, support, advocacy, and much more. This public service is an attempt to bring together critical information for all components of the...