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Navajo Nation extends emergency declaration, closures amid ongoing COVID-19 spread

Thursday, 23 April 2020 17:56 gallupsun

The Navajo Nation extended its declaration of a state of emergency and also extended the closure of Navajo Nation government offices and related entities until May 17 to help slow the spread of COVID-19 on the Navajo Nation April 22.

The Navajo Police Department issued 179 citations during the second 57-hour weekend curfew, which ran from April 17 - 20. One-hundred and eight of those citations reflected curfew violation citations. The other 71 were for traffic violations.

The numbers reflect preliminary totals provided by six out of seven police districts. Tuba City, Ariz. and Crownpoint, N.M. received the largest number. Tuba City got 48 citations while Crownpoint got 31. The...

Eleven test positive at RMCH

Thursday, 23 April 2020 14:47 gallupsun

Eleven employees at Rehoboth McKinley Christian Hospital have tested positive for COVID-19 as of April 22. The staff members are under quarantine until they are cleared. The hospital is in the process of testing and identifying all employees who may have been exposed to the 11 who tested positive.

McKinley County commissioners reverse themselves

Tuesday, 21 April 2020 10:42 gallupsun

An online McKinley County commissioner’s meeting held April 20 addressed an ordinance restricting liquor sales and encouraging people to stay home between 8 pm and 5 am.

Ordinance 2020-April-002, established April 13, called for banning the sale of certain alcohol products and urging citizens to self-curfew between 8 pm and 5 am.

McKinley County Undersheriff James Maiorano III compared the response to the ordinance to a balloon full of water. If you push it, the water just moves to another place, in the case of people looking for alcohol in the county, it means moving from convenience stores to grocery stores and from McKinley County to a neighboring county.

There was a single...

The Devil’s Dilemma

Friday, 17 April 2020 05:14 By Beth Blakeman Associate Editor

Changes at RMCHCS

Elective surgeries and most non-urgent health services will be put off due to Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s executive order March 25. Lujan Grisham says the decision is to protect the state’s supply of equipment that workers need in order to stay safe from COVID-19.

That order caused some re-evaluation at Rehoboth McKinley Christian Health Care Services. RMCHCS will decide on procedures on a case by case basis.

“With this new rule in effect, it affects our finances. As we approach the difficult financial challenges COVID-19 imposes on us, like many other businesses across the globe, we are taking prudent financial steps which make sense,” RMCHCS CEO David...

Anthonette Cayedito missing since 1986

Friday, 17 April 2020 05:13 By Cody Begaye Sun Correspondent

Need the public’s help

Few things can rattle a community like a person going missing. The idea that someone can disappear without a trace and no information about what happened to them can cause a whirlwind of emotions: hope that they will be found safely; worry that no one knows where they are; fear that a bad fate has befallen them.

For long-time residents of Gallup and surrounding areas, those feelings have plagued them for over three decades. April 6 marked the 34th anniversary of the day 9-year-old Anthonette Cayedito was taken from her home in the middle of the night.

Despite a bevy of tips and leads that have come up in the years since, the fate of Cayedito is still...