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New era of 10-digit dialing starts Oct. 24

Friday, 22 October 2021 11:19 gallupsun

Staff Reports

If your local call isn’t going through, try adding the area code. Starting Oct. 24, 10-digit dialing will be the norm in New Mexico.

On and after Oct. 24, local calls dialed with only seven digits may not be completed, and a recording may inform you that your call cannot be completed as dialed. If you get this recording, you must hang up and dial again using the area code with the seven-digit telephone number.

This change is necessary as the Federal Communications Commission has mandated 988 as the new three-digit number to route callers to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline and Mental Crisis Hotline 1 (800) 273-TALK. According to the bipartisan National...

New alley gates are a success

Friday, 22 October 2021 10:12 gallupsun

By Molly Adamson

Sun Correspondent

City Manager Maryann Ustick told the Gallup Business Improvement District Oct 21, that the newly-installed gates at Second and Third Streets appear to be doing their jobs.

The gates were an idea of City Councilor Linda Garcia, Dist. 1, and members of the neighborhood and business community as a possible solution to squatter encampments on rooftops and vandalism, and garbage in alleyways.

“[We] actually reduced the amount of trash collection we have in there, because people are not dumping anymore,” Ustick said. “So it’s been very successful — no reports of anybody on the roof, and I think the businesses are pleased.”

Ustick spoke about...

City to apply for $18.6 million in GRE bonds to fund public projects

Friday, 22 October 2021 04:36 By Molly Ann Howell Sun Correspondent

The City of Gallup has developed a plan to fully finance the new public safety building.

During the Oct. 12 city council meeting, City Manager Maryann Ustick explained that the city could use Gross Receipts Tax bonds to fund the project. First, however, the council had to decide between two options; one that would give the city $12.8 million now and $5.8 million in FY24, and another that would provide $9 million now and $9.5 million in FY24.

The city will then go on to apply for the money through the New Mexico Finance Authority.

Ustick told the council that not all of the allotted funds would go toward the public safety building and that it would be necessary to designate...

Earthweek: Diary of a Changing World

Friday, 22 October 2021 04:30 Gallupsun Staff

Week ending Friday, October 1, 2021

Arctic Minimum

The sea ice surrounding the North Pole reached its lowest coverage of the year on Sept. 17. While not a record low this year, sea ice cover has dropped by about 50 percent since the 1980s, which scientists say has been a direct result of greenhouse gas emissions. This summer’s more stubborn ice forced Russia to use icebreakers to clear a path through its summertime Northern Sea Route after it remained blocked for the first time since 2008.

Eruptions

Many residents of Spain’s La Palma Island were told to seal doors and windows with tape and wet towels to protect against potentially toxic gases emitted by the eruption of...

Earthweek: Diary of a Changing World

Friday, 22 October 2021 04:29 By Steve Newman

Week ending Friday, October 8, 2021

Earth Dimming

Global heating during the past two decades has caused the planet to appear dimmer from space, scientists say. Less low-lying cloud cover over parts of the warming oceans is said to be the main cause of a 0.5 percent drop in the amount of light reflected by the planet. Most of the dimming observed by satellites was across the vast Pacific and during the last three years of the 1998-2017 study. Scientists at the Big Bear Solar Observatory in New Jersey write in Geophysical Research Letters that the changes in Earth’s reflectiveness did not match changes in the sun’s brightness during recent solar cycles.

Historic Eruption

The...