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Аnother week, another stack of interesting new releases on Blu-ray and DVD. Read on, because we’ve got the highlights for you below. So if you can’t make it out to the movies this week, be sure to give one of these titles a try!

Big New Releases!

The Boss - The title character in this release is a nasty businesswoman serving time for insider trading. After her release, she goes about trying to repair her image. The executive decides to do so by moving in with her personal assistant and helping out with her daughter’s Girl Scouts. Of course, the lead’s crudeness and aggressive tactics cause further problems. Reviews were poor; despite a couple of...

Local players of the new phone-based game, Pokémon GO, have insights worth sharing

There is a motto in this fast-paced and impatient digital age that flashes on every smartphone screen— it’s not Disney Frozen’s “Let it Go,” but rather, “Let’s Go!”

Pokémon Go made record-breaking history in the mobile app world, currently beating Twitter and even pornographic apps in terms of use. However, if you aren’t a millennial or a Generation X parent, you probably aren’t an expert of the Japanese franchise “Pocket-Monsters,” known as Pokémon in America. It has its own anime cartoon show, trading card game, merchandise, and video games.

Now it’s in your backyard...

Cause of death not released

Nearly a month after the iconic Native American musician Jim Boyd passed away, folks who knew him are still in shock. Boyd was a Native American singer, songwriter, actor, and member of the Jim Boyd Band, which was based out of the Colville Indian Reservation in northeastern Washington State.

Boyd sang four songs with lyrics written by Sherman Alexie for the soundtrack of film Smoke Signals, a 1998 breakthrough feature directed, written, acted, and produced by Native Americans. He also appeared in Alexie’s The Business of Fancydancing.

Boyd, 60, died June 22 in Washington. The cause of death is unknown.

“It was a total shock to hear about this,”...

On July 12, McKinley County Senior athletes headed to the senior Olympics State Games in Roswell.

The athletes included: Priscilla Becenti, Ernest Benally, Guy Bitsilly Jr., Joann Chavarria, Pauline Claw, Virginia Jean Cometsevah, Sylvia Conley, Genevieve Cooley, Mary DeLao, Tony DeLao, Gloria Dennison, Sam Florence, Peggy Franz, Esther Gatewood, James Glacier, Carol Halona, Esther Holiday, Robert Koops, Lenora LeMaster, Richard LeMaster, Antoinette Martinez, David “Bronco” Martinez, Michael Martinez, Margaret Mitchell, Dorothy Montano, Frances Perez, Rosie Quicero, Gloria Santiago, Patricia Slinkey, Manuel Troncoso, Dennis Van Andel, Cecelia Varanauskas, Ira Wallace, Sharon...