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Makeover slated for local airport

Gallup residents are getting closer and closer to flying out of their hometown.

During the Feb. 22 city council meeting, the next steps to making that a reality were taken.

C.B.  Strain, the city’s Planning and Development director, got the City Council’s nod to move forward with...

Read This: Library supporters invited to team up

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Calling all bookworms! The Octavia Fellin Public Library wants you.

While you’ve been hunkered down enduring a pandemic, a core group of library lovers has been working behind the scenes to start the Friends of OFPL group, and everyone is invited to join.

The founding group had the supremely bad luck of starting their efforts in January 2020, otherwise known as the before-times. Then, of course, COVID-19 swept the globe and blew a lot of people’s plans back.

Unable to convene meetings and do recruiting in person, the group set to work registering as a nonprofit, writing bylaws and doing the dry, administrative groundwork to set up the Friends of OFPL. By last year they were able...

New low-interest loan program aims to help small businesses

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The Northwest New Mexico Council of Governments is looking for a few good businesses – that need a little boost to thrive and grow.

NWNMCOG has opened a new Enterprise Loan Fund to help small businesses get the capital they need with lower interest rates and longer repayment terms than traditional loans.

The fund is built on a $900,000 grant from the U.S. Economic Development Administration and will make loans of $20,000 to $100,000 to small businesses that can show they have been in business for at least two years, are stable and have a strong management structure.

Business owners must be able to put up 10 percent of the loan amount toward the project. Loan interest rates will...

School Board discusses 55th New Mexico legislative session

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By Molly Ann Howell
Sun Correspondent

The second session of the 55th New Mexico Legislature ended on Feb. 17, and similar to past years, New Mexico schools are looking at how some of the decisions will impact staff and students alike.

Gallup-McKinley County Schools Superintendent Mike Hyatt went over the latest legislative session with the Board of Education during its Feb. 22 meeting.

First up for discussion was Senate Bill 1, which increased the base salaries of New Mexico teachers.

Gov. Michelle Lujan-Grisham released a statement on Feb. 14 showing her support for the bill.

“The Legislature has answered my call to deliver the largest increase in pay to New Mexico teachers in...

Getting real-life experience

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GMCS opens an internship program to seniors

By Molly Ann Howell
Sun Correspondent

Gallup-McKinley County Schools has found another way to try and prepare its students for their future. This school year was the first year of the Career Pathways Internship program.

The school district has been working with Pathways for some time. The seven pathways that the internships revolved around this year entail art, business, education, health sciences, human services, information technology, and transportation. Only seniors can participate in the internships.

During the Jan. 31 school board meeting, GMCS’s Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum/Instruction, Wade Bell, explained why the...

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