Gallup Sun

In an effort to reach the state vaccination goal of 60 percent of eligible New Mexicans vaccinated by June 17, the New Mexico Department of Health is offering a $100 incentive for those who have not yet received their second shot, or in the case of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, for those who have not yet received their single shot.

New Mexicans can schedule appointments online.

The NMDOH has set up a way to schedule the second dose of the Moderna or Pfizer vaccine by June 17 , or the Johnson and Johnson vaccine by that same date.

For people needing their first vaccine, either Pfizer of Moderna, they can make appointments as well. But will not be eligible for the incentive.

To be...

An enrolled member of the Navajo Nation from Sheep Springs, N. M. pleaded guilty June 3 to committing second degree murder in Indian Country in July 2015.

In its release June 9, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said 21-year-old Mathias Neal and an accomplice got into a physical altercation with John Doe while at a chapter house in San Juan County on the Navajo Nation.

In the plea agreement it said Neal punched and kicked the victim, while he was on the ground, and hit him with brass knuckles and rocks to his head and throat, causing fatal injuries.

Neal admitted he was aware that Doe tried to run and was not fighting back.

As a result of the beating, Doe died at the scene and was...

“Vigorously academic, beautifully diverse, thoroughly Christian”

That is the motto that guides the Rehoboth Christian School’s new sixth grade program.

Sixth grade science teachers Kate Poortenga and Michael Baldonado started a new RCS curriculum known as “High Desert Horizons” three years ago.

Poortenga told the Sun the idea is to use the neighborhooc as a learning tool for students. She explained that this is a way for them to learn from people in the region and also from the land.

“If we understand the corners that we have in this world, we can then use that to understand the rest of our world,” she said.

In the past the students...

IT WAS THERE A MINUTE AGO

Thoreau, May 22

One Thoreau man noticed his son’s truck was missing after he looked outside his window and didn’t see it one Saturday morning.

On May 22, around 7:07 am, McKinley County Sheriff’s Deputy Ivan Tsethlikai Jr. was dispatched to #219 State Highway 122 in Thoreau after a caller said a truck had been stolen.

Tsethlikai met with the Thoreau man who made the call, who explained that his son’s red Dodge Pickup truck had been stolen from his front yard between 6 am and 6:40 am that morning. He stated that his grandson had parked the truck in front of his house the night before, and that all the entry gates had been locked. But he acknowledged...