Which local events to fund; how much to give

The Lodgers’ Tax committee met May 25 to determine how upcoming area events would be funded.

Since the hospitality industry took a hit last year during COVID, the amount of money available for this year’s funding is smaller than it has been.

Gallup’s Tourism and Marketing Manager Jennifer Lazarz told the Sun how the tax works.

People pay Lodgers’ Tax when they stay at hotels in Gallup. The tax comes out to five percent of an area hotel’s daily rate. When a person pays $80 a night, $4 goes to the Lodgers’ Tax.

Lazarz said that Gallup’s average daily rate for hotel rooms was $66 the first week in April 2020. During the...

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Thoreau, June 3

A man falsely accused another man of driving drunk and nearly hitting him.

On June 3, around 4:41 pm, McKinley County Sheriff’s Deputy Paul Davis Jr. was dispatched to 1 Larkspur Pl. in Thoreau because a man who was later identified as Marcus Lynch, 46, of Thoreau, was reporting he had almost been hit by a black SUV.

When Davis arrived at the scene, the SUV was gone. Lynch said the SUV had gone by his house a few times and that the driver owed him $80. He explained that he confronted the driver at his house at 7 Larkspur St.

He stated that the driver flipped him off, sped up, and almost hit him. He had jumped out of the way. The driver came back...

Angelita Charley

March 1, 2020, 1:59 am

DWI

While patrolling State Road 602, New Mexico State Police Officer Justin Maese said a white Jeep failed to yield, turning onto West Aztec Avenue causing him to slam on his brakes. After performing a traffic stop and approaching the vehicle, Maese said he could smell alcohol coming from the vehicle.

The driver, Angelita Charley, 51, of Church Rock, N.M., was slow with her actions, had slurred speech and appeared confused, according to police reports. Maese said Charley failed the field sobriety tests and failed to take further tests. Charley was arrested for aggravated DWI, failure to yield, and no driver’s license.



Lionel Chavez

Feb...

Week ending Friday, July 9, 2021


Seafood Bake

The deadly heat wave that roasted the U.S. Pacific Northwest and western Canada also cooked more than a billion seashore animals to death, leaving a putrid stink near Vancouver, B.C. University of British Columbia experts say the heat, combined with low tides in the middle of the afternoon, created dangerous combinations for animals like clams and mussels for more than six hours at a time. Observers say temperatures above 50 degrees Celsius occurred on some rocky shoreline habitats. Professor Dave Sauchyn of Canada’s University of Regina says this summer’s unprecedented heat occurred years earlier than predicted by models, in a sign...