WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. – On the opening day of the Summer Council Session July 17, Speaker LoRenzo Bates (Nenahnezad, Newcomb, San Juan, Tiis Tsoh Sikaad, Tse’Daa’Kaan, Upper Fruitland) provided a report, which highlighted some of the combined efforts and successes of the Navajo Nation Council in recent months.

Speaker Bates highlighted the recent successful passages of legislations that provide $2.2 million for summer youth employment for all of the Navajo Nation’s 110 chapters, that reformed the Navajo Housing Authority board and confirmed four new board members to address the Nation’s housing issues, and for a legislation that approved a lease agreement with the owners of the...

On Aug. 7 at 6:30 pm, the Octavia Fellin Library will present authors Elizabeth Hardin-Burrola, Carol Sarath, and Bob Rosebrough, who will discuss their book Legendary Locals of Gallup. The book provides a look at Gallup’s most memorable people as well as some legends you may not know. A book signing with the authors will follow the presentation.

Elizabeth Hardin-Burrola is a freelance journalist in Gallup and has long been fascinated by the stories of area residents. Carol Sarath worked with the Gallup-McKinley County Schools for 35 years and is currently active on several community boards. Bob Rosebrough is an attorney who enjoys exploring Gallup’s intense history and its rugged...

The Scammer(s) is/are calling individuals and stating he is Sergeant Anderson with the Gallup Police Department. He is calling and telling the individual they have missed jury duty and there is a warrant for their arrest.

 

Sergeant Anderson is directing the individual to purchase a form of money transfer (such as moneygram or greendot, etc.) from Lowe's, or other places that sell these types of services, and wire the money into a certain account or to the suspect to avoid arrest.  Sergeant Anderson is providing the address and phone for the Gallup Police Department in his scam.

 

Capt. Marinda Spencer said the "Gallup Police Department is not doing any such enforcement, nor would...

Mary Ellen Pellington, the affable and studious Octavia Fellin Public Library director is set to retire in the coming weeks.

Pellington, who hails from New Jersey, but whose career adventures readily dot a U.S. map, sat down with the Gallup Sun to reminisce on her library career in Gallup. She arrived in 2009, to the water-scarce region after spending decades near sandy beaches and flowing waterways – even living in Florida for two decades.

“I lived all over,” she said, adding that she earned her Master’s degree in 1973, before “Post-It Notes” were invented and during the dawn of liquid white-out.

Pellington explained that when she arrived in Gallup, she had the goal...