Jessy Wommack grew up walking around downtown Gallup and going into shops where people from around town would greet her mother, an elementary school teacher, fondly. Everyone knew her name and was excited to see her. Wommack also spent her summers playing school with her dolls and her younger sisters and brother, using her mother’s old desks and curriculum.

But she never thought she’d become a teacher.

“I think it was always a part of me, I just didn’t know that would eventually be my path,” Wommack said in an interview with the Sun.

Instead, after graduating from Gallup High School, Wommack joined a program at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque for undergraduate...

New Tohatchi High School comes with a pricetag of $68 million

Gallup-McKinley County Schools invited Navajo Nation leaders and New Mexico education leaders out to the groundbreaking ceremony for the new Tohatchi High School on Jan. 19.

Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren, New Mexico Public Education Department officials, the Gallup-McKinley County School Board, Navajo Nation Council Delegates Nathan Notah, Vince James, and Dr. Andy Nez, along with Department of Diné Education leaders were present at the groundbreaking and expressed their well wishes for the construction of the new Tohatchi High School building.

“Our children are our future,” Nygren said. “Everything we do...

SANTA FE — Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s proposal for a new tax credit to help New Mexicans purchase zero-emission cars and light trucks cleared its first committee on Jan. 23.

The House Energy, Environment and Natural Resources Committee voted 6-3 to recommend passage of House Bill 140.

The bill would create new temporary income tax credits for electric vehicles, plug-in hybrid electric vehicles and other zero-emission vehicles. The bill also proposes tax credits for home and commercial electrical vehicle chargers.

The bill is sponsored by Reps. Dayan Hochman-Vigil and Yanira Gurrola and Sen. Bill Tallman.

“We know there’s consumer demand for these vehicles, and our...

WASHINGTON D.C. — New Mexico Congresswoman Teresa Leger Fernández, alongside Senators Ben Ray Luján and Martin Heinrich, wrote a letter to Deanne Criswell, Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) on Jan. 22, expressing deep concern over the delay processing decisions to over 100 claimants affected by the Hermit’s Peak/Calf Canyon Fire. The letter, emphasizing the urgency of the situation, calls for immediate action to address the backlog of claims and ensure swift justice for the victims.

Expressing solidarity with the people of northern New Mexico who endured unimaginable suffering due to the Hermit’s Peak/Calf Canyon Fire, Leger Fernández, Luján and...