ICE CREAM BREAK-IN
Gallup, July 20

Someone really wanted some ice cream.

On July 20 around 9:22 am the Gallup Police got a call saying that the Dairy Queen at 200 East Highway 66 in Gallup had been broken into.

When Lieutenant Francie Martinez, Officer Cindy Romancito, and Sergeant Terrance Peyketewa got to the scene, they saw that the glass door on the east side of the business had been broken into.

According to the police report, an employee said one of the customers had informed her about the break in.

The business owner told police that nothing seemed to be missing, but that she would have someone check the surveillance cameras. The total cost of the damage to the door is...

Joseph Romero Jr.
July 19, 10:15 pm
DWI

Gallup Police Officer Nicole Diswood was sitting in her patrol car at the Gallup Municipal Airport when someone approached her and told her about a vehicle in a ditch across from the Sonic on the west side of town.

According to her report, Diswood found the blue Nissan in the ditch off Margarite and West Historic Highway 66. When she approached the car, the driver was still trying to get out of the ditch.

Diswood noticed the driver, later identified as Joseph Romero Jr., 22, from Gamerco, had bloodshot, watery eyes, and she could smell alcohol on him. She told him to put the car in park, and he proceeded to put it in neutral and then back...

On an afternoon in June, neighbors walked the grass loop of Albuquerque’s 4-H park as kids chased underneath a metal sculpture and stepped on a marker that hints of the unmarked grave site below for students at the old Albuquerque Indian School who died more than 100 years ago.

Draped on a solitary tree nearby were orange tapestries, part of a community-built memorial dedicated to the gravesite near the former site of the Albuquerque Indian School. It went up after someone noticed a plaque missing that commemorated the cemetery for Zuni, Navajo and Apache students buried there between 1882 and 1933.

How the plaque went missing is a mystery, and its absence might have escaped...

Earthweek: Diary of a Changing World


Fish Bake

With record summer heat and drought threatening wild salmon in California, the Pacific Northwest, British Columbia and Atlantic Canada this summer, experts say many commonly eaten fish could face extinction as global heating makes waters too hot for them to survive. A report in the journal “Nature Climate Change,” warns many species will struggle to keep pace with the deepening climate emergency. “Warming waters are a double whammy for fish, as they not only cause them to evolve to a smaller size, but also reduce their ability to move to more suitable environments, co-author Chris Venditti of Britain’s University of Reading...