ArtsCrawl is usually a big part of Gallup’s social calendar during the spring, fall, and summer. But COVID-19 has kept it on hiatus for a year and a half. However, during the Business Improvement District meeting on Aug. 19, Executive Director Francis Bee gave the board some hope for the future.

“… I would say right now there’s like a 50/50 chance we’re going to have the ArtsCrawl, but we’re planning for it; because if you don’t plan for it, it certainly can’t happen,” Bee said.

Bee asked the city council to close Coal Avenue between First Street and Third Street and Second Street between Route 66 and Aztec Avenue. The closures were approved.

“We’re keeping a...

Municipalities across New Mexico are preparing ordinances to begin selling legal cannabis.

Most of Aug. 24’s City Council meeting was spent preparing Gallup’s ordinance and making final adjustments before it becomes official.

In weeks past, the city council and the Planning and Zoning Committee discussed what they wanted to see out of the ordinance. (Aug. 6)

The Planning and Zoning Committee drafted a zoning ordinance which outlined the areas in the city where cannabis can be sold or consumed. (Aug. 11)

This week’s city council meeting allowed for discussion and final changes to the ordinance.

In an interview with the Sun, Director Clyde Strain said the Gallup Planning and...

UNM-Gallup announced current enrollment numbers for Fall 2021 stand at 1,747 students and 14,165 student credit hours as of Aug. 25.

At the same time last year enrollment stood at 1,937 students at 15,474 student credit hours.

Senior Public Relations Specialist Lee Lamb said the school expects the numbers to increase slightly over the next couple of weeks and could wind up about even or slightly ahead of last year’s figures.

 

On an afternoon in June, neighbors walked the grass loop of Albuquerque’s 4-H park as kids chased underneath a metal sculpture and stepped on a marker that hints of the unmarked grave site below for students at the old Albuquerque Indian School who died more than 100 years ago.

Draped on a solitary tree nearby were orange tapestries, part of a community-built memorial dedicated to the gravesite near the former site of the Albuquerque Indian School. It went up after someone noticed a plaque missing that commemorated the cemetery for Zuni, Navajo and Apache students buried there between 1882 and 1933.

How the plaque went missing is a mystery, and its absence might have escaped...