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Clean Car Tax Credit passes first committee

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SANTA FE — Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s proposal for a new tax credit to help New Mexicans purchase zero-emission cars and light trucks cleared its first committee on Jan. 23.

The House Energy, Environment and Natural Resources Committee voted 6-3 to recommend passage of House Bill 140.

The bill would create new...

Annexation makes way for major NGWSP water line

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A handful of McKinley County residents just became Gallup residents without moving an inch, as the city annexed a little over 45 acres around Cipriano Street west of State Road 602 to accommodate a major water line that will eventually connect the Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project to the city’s water supply.

Dubbed the Lewis Annexation, the acreage is mostly zoned Rural Residential but will include three commercially zoned tracts to take in an existing warehouse owned by Null Rentals and two more lots that belong to Wilson and Nieves Yazzie, who run a daycare licensed for 12 children. The Yazzies hope to expand soon to double capacity.

The annexed properties will be grandfathered...

GMCS asks legislators for funding for technology

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In order to continue their mission of leading their students to success, Gallup-McKinley County Schools is asking the state for funding during the 2024 legislative session. During the Dec. 18 GMCS school board meeting, Deputy Superintendent Jvanna Hanks III explained the three main projects she presented to the lawmakers at an earlier date.

All three of the asks Hanks presented involved technology that would improve students’ learning.

The first priority was experimental simulators and auto center equipment that would help with specific Career Pathways that high school students take on. The district requested almost $1.8 million for a variety of simulators, including hydraulic...

Red Rock Elementary teacher follows in her mom’s footsteps

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Jessy Wommack grew up walking around downtown Gallup and going into shops where people from around town would greet her mother, an elementary school teacher, fondly. Everyone knew her name and was excited to see her. Wommack also spent her summers playing school with her dolls and her younger sisters and brother, using her mother’s old desks and curriculum.

But she never thought she’d become a teacher.

“I think it was always a part of me, I just didn’t know that would eventually be my path,” Wommack said in an interview with the Sun.

Instead, after graduating from Gallup High School, Wommack joined a program at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque for undergraduate...

BREAKING GROUND

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New Tohatchi High School comes with a pricetag of $68 million

Gallup-McKinley County Schools invited Navajo Nation leaders and New Mexico education leaders out to the groundbreaking ceremony for the new Tohatchi High School on Jan. 19.

Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren, New Mexico Public Education Department officials, the Gallup-McKinley County School Board, Navajo Nation Council Delegates Nathan Notah, Vince James, and Dr. Andy Nez, along with Department of Diné Education leaders were present at the groundbreaking and expressed their well wishes for the construction of the new Tohatchi High School building.

“Our children are our future,” Nygren said. “Everything we do...

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