Gallup Mayor Louis Bonaguidi has written a second letter to Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham, hoping for an extension of the lock down, and a change in the curfew. The original lock down ordered by the governor is set to expire at noon May 4. Should it be approved, another three-day lock down would extend to noon May 7.

Bonaguidi told the Gallup Sun May 3 that health professionals he’s been talking to said if the COVID-19 numbers don’t break in the next two to three weeks, the virus is going to continue ravaging the area all summer long.

The mayor pointed out that in addition to issues Gallup faces with transients, there are people who come into the city at the first of the month to...

Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham invoked the New Mexico Riot Control Act, which authorized her to enact temporary restrictions to mitigate the uninhibited spread of COVID-19 in the City of Gallup.

The Riot Control Act authorizes the governor to, for the temporary existence of a state of emergency, prohibit persons being on public streets and the use of certain streets and highways, among other broad emergency restrictions.

The act states in Section 12-10-17 – Proclamation of emergency that “Upon request of the mayor of a municipality or the sheriff of a county or a majority of the members of the governing body of the municipality or county having jurisdiction and after finding that a...

The Navajo Nation has surpassed 2,000 active cases on the reservation. After the numbers were released April 30, the total stands at 2,141 following an additional 164 positive cases.


To date, a total of 12,023 tests have been performed with 8,639 tests coming back negative. These figures are according to the Navajo Department of Health and Navajo Area Indian Health Service, in coordination with the Navajo Epidemiology Center.


The 2,189 cases include the following counties:


McKinley County (N.M.): 539

Apache County (Ariz.): 515

Navajo County (Ariz.): 502

Coconino County (Ariz.): 283

San Juan County (N.M.): 213

San Juan County (Utah): 32

Socorro County (N.M.): 21

Sandoval...

In the midst of the COVID-19 global pandemic, with shortages of tests and Personal Protective Equipment, re- use, recycling, and making the most of available resources have become crucial to the effort.

Fifteen hand-crank hospital beds, from an old nursing home that was purchased by Rio Arriba County, will be put to new use at Rehoboth McKinley Christian Health Care Services.

The beds were offered to the hospital, along with sixty 3-D printed N95 masks and 123 gowns.

The masks came from Ryan Proctor in Albuquerque, and printed face shields came from Steve Cox with Northern New Mexico College.

Two anonymous cash donations to the Rio Arriba County Rosie the Respirators face mask...