WPA website in the works

Looming on the horizon is a virtual museum featuring a unified collection of Depression era art, furniture, decorative objects, and architecture. This vast national treasure trove of artworks emerged from numerous public works New Deal art projects occurring under the leadership of President Franklin D. Roosevelt during the years 1933 to 1942.

Thanks to Roosevelt’s federal Public Works of Art Project, put in place to stimulate the Great Depression’s dire economy, a diverse group of artists of varying levels of experience and notoriety contributed sculptures, lithographs, furniture, architecture, wall paintings, Navajo weavings, watercolors, oil...

Part 1 of 2: The city’s strategic plan

Another coronavirus year has come and gone, and it is once again time for Gallup’s city councilors and staff to look to the future as they begin strategic planning for FY22.

Every year the city council meets for strategic planning, where they discuss the successes of the past year and things they want to accomplish in the near and far future.

In a previous Sun article published last year, Councilor Yogash Kumar, Dist. 3, explained that the strategic planning sessions helps the council figure out what they want to get done in the upcoming years. They do so by looking at their own priorities and those of their constituents.

“When we run (for...

Week ending Friday, March 4, 2022


 

Mosquito Attraction

Researchers say they have found that the best way to avoid being targeted by mosquitoes is to shift your wardrobe to colours the biters are not attracted to. Biologists from the University of Washington found that after the insects catch a whiff of carbon dioxide from human breath, they target anyone wearing the longer- wavelength colours of red, orange, black and cyan for their next blood meals.  Writing in the journal Nature Communications, Jeffrey Riffell says that while the insects are attracted to human breath, sweat and skin temperature, they don’t even bat an eye at those wearing green, purple, blue and...

SANTA FE – Parents have something to think about as the New Mexico Public Education Department has released a new toolkit that lays out new COVID-19 guidelines. The new guidelines allow schools to set their own face mask policies, so now parents will be able to make their own decisions for their children on whether or not they should go to school with a mask.

Along with the optional mask mandate, schools will also be able to accept easy, over-the-counter home tests in place of school-based testing programs.

The only remaining state-mandated mask requirement is for those returning to school from five days of self-isolation after testing positive: They must wear a mask for days six...