With remote learning, full attendance is possible

Snow days may soon become a thing of the past for Gallup-McKinley County Schools students.

COVID-19 showed districts around the world that remote learning is possible, and now GMCS is taking what it learned and applying it to other situations where students may not be able to be in the classroom in-person, as in the case of snow days.

During the Oct. 25 school board meeting, the district’s superintendent, Mike Hyatt, introduced the idea of Virtual Days to the board.

“We’re looking at ways in which we can provide an online [experience] or learning happening at home during those days that’s appropriate and fits what’s...

Early on Wednesday morning a woman in Fort Wingate, N.M. got up to visit the bathroom and saw light coming from a structure near the Fort Wingate Old School Building at 322 Painted Horse Trail.

She dialed 911 and McKinley County Sheriff’s Deputy Terence Willie responded.

The woman told Willie she sometimes sees light on at the school, but she didn’t see anyone on Oct. 20. That morning she saw smoke and tall flames.

Willie reported that he could see the flames as he was approaching exit 33 on I-40. When he arrived at 3:30 am, he saw a single story structure fully engulfed and the area had heavy black smoke.

Nearly two hours later, at 5:20 am, Deputy Chief Tim Berry with the...

The Coal Avenue Commons and city alleys are ongoing projects for the City of Gallup. During the Oct. 21 Business Improvement District board meeting, City Manager Maryann Ustick gave an update on the projects’ progress.

According to Ustick, the second phase of the Coal Avenue Commons project will cost a total of $3.5 million. A Transportation Project Fund grant from the New Mexico Department of Transportation will pay for 95 percent of the project, while the city will only pay for five percent.

In an interview with the Sun, Gallup’s Planning and Development Director Clyde Strain said the city should receive the grant any day now.

Ustick told the BID that the only thing left before...

Week ending Friday, October 22, 2021

 

CO2 Surge

On the eve of the COP26 climate conference, established under the Paris Agreement to cope with the climate crisis, scientists say emissions from rich nations have risen sharply in 2021. “The Climate Transparency Report” says emissions will rise four percent in the world’s 20 largest economies in 2021 after dropping about six percent last year due to COVID. With the world currently around 1.1 degrees Celsius warmer than pre-industrial times and with the goal to keep warming to only 1.5 degrees, the report says nations will have to put ambitious policies in place to curb the worst of global heating.

Earthquakes

At least three...