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.

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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...

This year marks the 37th anniversary of the largest accident releasing radioactive materials in U.S. history.

In the early morning hours on July 16, 1979, an earthen dam that held liquid uranium waste broke, releasing 1,000 tons of solid radioactive mill waste and more than 90-million gallons of acidic and radioactive liquids into the Rio Puerco. The contaminants flowed downstream through the town of Gallup and across nine Navajo chapters.

Residents in the area tell stories of being out herding sheep and then seeing a wave of green liquid coming their way. Some of them were covered in it while they returned home.

The Red Water Pond Road and Church Rock communities live adjacent to...