SANTA FE – Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham announced on Sept. 12 that the Public Education Department has completed an overhaul of reporting requirements, trimming 34% from administrative work required of school districts and charter schools across New Mexico and cutting teacher paperwork by 41%.

This fulfills an executive order issued May 23 by Lujan Grisham to reduce the administrative burden for teachers and school administrators by 25% by the start of the 2022-23 school year.

“Less time spent on paperwork means more time that educators have to spend quality time teaching our students,” Lujan Grisham said. “By easing burdens for educators and administrators, we are ensuring they...

Boys & Girls Club awarded Nearly $6,000

Borderland Boys & Girls Club received a grant worth almost $6,000 from the Taco Bell Foundation on Aug. 22 to support more than 150 youth in the Gallup community. The funds will go toward delivering a wide range of fun and engaging programs that assist in nurturing positive relationships, developing attitudes and behaviors that help children succeed in school and become economically self-sufficient and develop healthy family and community relationships.

Borderland Boys & Girls Club is one of more than 400+ youth-serving organizations that will receive a portion of the $7 million in Community Grants presented by the Taco Bell Foundation this...

Gallup Mainstreet Executive Director Michael Bulloch announced in an Aug. 18 press release that the Levitt Amp series would be coming back to Gallup for the next three years.

“This means that we will be able to bring you quality, free family-friendly musical performances by both National Touring Acts and local performers, for three more years. We look forward to continuing work to activate and improve the Courthouse Square Plaza and can’t wait to see what amazing acts we get next year,” Bulloch stated in the press release.

This past year the concert series had acts ranging from country singers to a music group that was described as “a blend of Louisiana-French...

I Knead Sugar bakery, Farmington school win technology Comcast grant

It’s appropriate that a bakery would be Gallup’s first winner of a RISE award.

Comcast launched the business development program during the pandemic to help small minority-owned businesses with marketing or technology help. Winning applicants may qualify for creative production and marketing services or a technology makeover, free with the possible exception of taxes and other fees.

Jacqueline Ahasteen thought her chances were pretty good last year when the program was extended to women-owned businesses, so she applied. She learned in July that her bakery, I Knead Sugar, had won a technology makeover package to...