Celebrating Hard-Working Men and Women Who Help Keep Communities Clean

Every week the big green garbage truck rumbles into the neighborhood and the mechanical spectacle of its hydraulic arm grabbing, lifting, dumping and returning trash and recycling carts to the curb commences.

This commonplace show is accompanied by a brief symphony of safety warning beeps and the crunching of trash being compacted before the driver moves on to the next home. Some of Waste Management of New Mexico’s most loyal residential fans and avid watchers are the kids who eagerly await the arrival of their garbage man on collection day.

June 17 marks the start of National Garbage Man Week. There will be no...

A condo or a cabin? Beach or mountain? Country or city? USA or overseas? What is your favorite vacation spot? Adventurer or homebody?

Some people choose a staycation - a vacation spent at home and involving day trips to local attractions.

And some people use vacation time for home improvements - which really isn’t a vacation. The purpose of a vacation is supposed to be rest and relaxation. And fun.

However, some jet-setters cram so much activity into their annual vacation - they need a vacation from their vacation when they return home.

I’ve often wondered where people that live at the beach take their vacations. Do they travel to the mountains? Do they go somewhere dry? Do they...

Biblical Mental Health Support

And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. Mark 12:29-31 (ESV)

At multiple points throughout Scripture, such as the passage above, we are reminded that human beings are more than simply our physical bodies. We easily recognize that we have a ‘body,’ and each of us individually know from experience we have a ‘mind,’ (though we may at times question if others have one).

Scripture clearly indicates that we have a ‘spirit’ as well. The mystery that we often wrestle with is “how do these interact?” They are interconnected, yet separate. In many ways, each...

Shared with the ‘Gallup Sun’

Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham

490 Old Santa Fe Trail Room 400

Santa Fe, NM 87501

(505) 476-2200

Mervyn Tilden

P.O. Box 457

Church Rock, NM 87311

(505) 567-8561



NEW MEXICO DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

May 8, 2019

Dear Governor Lujan Grisham,

I am writing to you as a last resort and to appeal to you for immediate action regarding a dead dog that has been on the bridge to Church Rock on Highway 566 since April 29, 2019. N.M. State Road 566 is a 11 mile-long state highway in the US state of New Mexico. NM 566’s southern terminus is at N.M. 118 and Historic U.S. Route 66 in Church Rock, and the northern terminus is at the end of state...