Winner is rare Navajo female Republican

Incumbent Sharon Clahchischilliage, R-Kirtland, won the District 4 race for the New Mexico Senate Nov. 8, retaining the Republican seat that she first won in 2013, and which includes a significant portion of San Juan County.

Clahchischilliage beat political newcomer and retired educator GloJean Todacheene of Shiprock and won the race by a margin of 54 percent to 45 percent.

The race was one of less than a handful in northwestern New Mexico contests that wasn’t uncontested. The race followed a presidential election victory by Donald Trump, whose son, Donald, Jr., spoke about a week earlier at the Shiprock Chapter House. Hillary Clinton won...

SHIPROCK — Donald Trump, Jr. is the only Republican or Democratic surrogate who stumped in Shiprock during the 2016 presidential campaign season.

Trump, Jr. appeared at the Shiprock Chapter House Nov. 4, and made a prior visit to the Piñon Hills Community Church in nearby Farmington. Shiprock is the northern most town on the Navajo Nation and one of the biggest towns within the 27,000-mile Navajo Nation.

“It was wonderful,” Rep. Sharon Clahchischilliage, R-Kirtland, said. Clahchischillage, a rare Navajo Republican, won the District 4 race against political newcomer GloJean Todacheene of Shiprock. “The turnout was incredible. There were people from all political persuasions...

The body of a deceased Hispanic male was found on Nov. 9 at the Chaparral Mobile Home Park on the east side of Gallup, officials said.

Capt. Marinda Spencer of the Gallup Police Department said a call came into police headquarters about the death. The body is of a male believed to be in his 40s, Spencer said.

Spencer said the body was sent to Albuquerque for an autopsy. She declined to say whether the incident included foul play, saying police investigators await notification of next of kin in the matter.

Spencer said it’s the first unattended death in the Chaparral area in about six or seven months.

By Bernie Dotson

Sun Correspondent

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