Gallup Sun

State focuses on ways to help New Mexico families

SANTA FE — Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham and the New Mexico Human Services Department are celebrating August as Child Support Awareness Month, recognizing and saluting all New Mexico parents who support their children and encouraging those who have difficulty meeting or are failing to meet their child support obligations, to reach out for assistance.

“The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way state government serves its constituents, but we remain as vigilant as ever even with less face-to-face interaction in the areas of family and child welfare,” Lujan Grisham said. “New Mexico is committed to delivering solutions that support...

Jerome Eskeets

Aug. 4, 12:24 pm

Aggravated DWI

McKinley County Sheriff’s Deputy Terence Willie said he was on routine patrol when he was alerted to a possible drunk driver who was weaving all over the road north of Gallup on U.S. Highway 491.

He went to T&R Market and asked the woman who called in to identify the driver. She said it was the nearby man urinating outside of his vehicle. Another witness told Begay the man almost hit him.

By this time, Jerome Eskeets, 45, of Chinle, Ariz., had sat down on the ground in front of Willie’s police unit and had seemingly gone to sleep. Willie said he had to wake him up.

After he did, he asked Eskeets how much he had to drink that day...

TSE BONITO, N.M. — Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez and Vice President Myron Lizer recently visited a newly-established housing manufacturing facility where the first Navajo hogan-style home is being constructed to serve as the prototype for the Nez-Lizer Administration’s housing development initiative to produce much-needed homes for Navajo families, veterans, elders, and others.

Since being appointed to serve as the Executive Director of the Navajo Nation Veterans Administration under the Nez-Lizer Administration last year, James D. Zwierlein has taken on the challenging task of developing and implementing housing manufacturing facilities on the Navajo Nation that can...

The Navajo Department of Health, in coordination with the Navajo Epidemiology Center and the Navajo Area Indian Health Service, reported 22 new positive COVID-19 cases for the Navajo Nation and four more deaths on Aug. 12.

The total number of deaths has reached 477, while 6,920 individuals are reported as having recovered from COVID-19 and 86,759 COVID-19 tests have been administered. The total number of COVID-19 positive cases is 9,356 and negative tests total 72,605.

The Navajo Nation COVID-19 positive cases by Service Unit are as follows:

  Chinle Service Unit: 2,260Crownpoint Service Unit: 780Ft. Defiance Service Unit: 725Gallup Service Unit: 1,507Kayenta Service Unit...