Two separate calls to Metro Dispatch about a white truck led to one man being arrested for a DWI. When he was taken to the McKinley County Adult Detention Center, officers found he had some marijuana, too.

On April 21 around 7:30 pm McKinley County Metro Dispatch received a call about a possible drunk driver. The caller said a white GMC Sierra with an Arizona plate was swerving and speeding while heading northbound approaching Metro Avenue and U.S. Highway 491. The caller watched the truck turn into the Heritage Speedway in Gallup.

McKinley County Sheriff’s Deputy Terence Willie told Metro Dispatch that he would head to the truck’s location. While Willie was on his way, Metro...

Follow up to the story ‘A century of federal indifference left generations of Navajo homes without running water’



 

For a while, Chee Smith Jr. thought he was going to have to send his father to die among strangers. His family lives at Whitehorse Lake, a Navajo chapter where, until a few years ago, roughly 550 of 700 residents had no running water in their homes, including Smith’s. As Smith’s father aged and his health worsened, it became harder and harder for him to live at home.

“We had to haul water from the chapterhouse or the watering points every day for just basic things — for cooking, for laundry, for stuff like that, and also for our livestock,” Smith...

One of two Arizona colleges on national vaccination challenge

TSAILE, Ariz. – Diné College is one of two colleges in Arizona among 250 nation-wide that has accepted President Joe Biden’s challenge to get students and the community vaccinated by July 4, according to online news site Universitybusiness.com

“On Thursday [June 3], the Department of Education launched the COVID-19 College Challenge, effectively asking institutions to take a pledge saying they will strive to get their communities vaccinated,” the online article said. “The ED says the timing is crucial as students head back home for the summer, but will return for fall semesters in just a couple of...

Week ending Friday, June 11, 2021

Climate Vintage

Earth’s hotter climate is forcing some European winemakers to change strategies to maintain the quality of their wines. “With warmer temperatures, the vine cycle has been shorter and we’ve been harvesting earlier, on average,” Dom Perignon Champagne maker Daniel Carvajal Perez told the CNA news network. He added that the warmer climate had actually brought higher quality to his grapes. Germany’s riesling growers also like the new climate reality. Twelfth-generation family winery Weingut Peter Jakob Kuhn says it no longer has to suffer seasons when the grapes don’t achieve enough sweetness.

 

Earthquakes

Southern...