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Local schools file restraining order to state

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The fight to keep impact aid funds continues

Despite a court ruling last spring in favor of the district, Gallup-McKinley County Schools faces a new obstacle in the ongoing battle over federal impact aid.

Superintendent Mike Hyatt said the district, along with Grants-Cibola County Schools and Zuni Public School District...

HIPAA, defamation complaint filed against Gallup hospital

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Former Rehoboth McKinley Christian Health Care Services employee William Camarota says a leak of his COVID-19 test results has led him to sue his former employer.

A complaint was filed in the Eleventh Judicial District in McKinley County Aug. 10 alleging “breach of confidentiality, invasion of privacy, retaliatory discharge, and defamation” against RMCHCS, Inc., Felicia Adams and Dean Adams.

Camarota said while he was employed at RMCHCS he took a COVID-19 test and his test results became widely known, which he considers a breach of the Health Information Portability and Accountability Act of 1996.

His attorney David Jordan said his client’s status was of utmost importance to...

Changes at the post office

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How they affect New Mexico

Voting by mail will be the choice for many voters this election season.

In McKinley County that will be possible despite the contentious climate that surrounds the practice in some parts of the country.

USPS Communications Specialist Rod Spurgeon said all letter mail in New Mexico gets processed in a single place — at the Albuquerque Processing and Distribution Center where he works. That is also where the sorting machines are located.

Spurgeon told the Gallup Sun Aug. 18 that two sorting machines have been powered down at the processing center.

A delivery barcode sorter like the one pictured above, has a maximum processing capacity of 36K mail pieces...

County discusses designated polling locations, voting convenience centers

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The McKinley County Board of Commissioners discussed a resolution about the locations of Election Day polling places for all upcoming statewide elections during their Aug. 18 meeting.

McKinley County Bureau of Elections Manager Marlene Custer spoke about the item.

“This resolution makes it so the [voting center at] Thoreau Fire Station will be moving to the Thoreau Public Safety Building,” Custer said. “And then all the rural precincts will be designated a voting convenience center.”

The next step is to ensure these voting locations have the capability to allow people to securely vote on Election Day.

“We are testing all of the sites now, like the Navajo Nation...

Navajo leader, veteran Earnest C. Becenti, Sr. honored

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Flags were flown at half staff

WINDOW ROCK, Ariz.— Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez and Vice President Myron Lizer issued a proclamation calling for flags on the Nation to be flown at half-staff Aug. 19, in honor and memory of Earnest C. Becenti, Sr., who died on Aug. 16.

“As we mourn the loss of Earnest C. Becenti, Sr., we also honor and remember all his great sacrifices and services he provided for his Navajo people. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family, friends, and colleagues as they lay him to rest today [Aug. 19],” Nez said.

Earnest was born on March 9, 1925, and was a community member of Church Rock, N.M. He was married for 69 years to his wife, Mary Becenti...

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