The McKinley County Sheriff's Office is handling a three-vehicle collission on I-40 eastbound at the 9.8 mile marker, west of Gallup.

Traffic is being diverted off 1-40 at exit 8, utilizing the frontage road to go around the crash and return on the interstate at Exit 16.

Drive with caution and watch for area traffic. Expect delays until the roadway is cleared.

City Council to decide next month

The coronavirus pandemic is what did in the annual Best of the Best Rodeo last summer, but the city is not ready to decide whether or not to put a halt to this year’s event.

Even though city staff recommended cancellation, the Gallup City Council decided to give organizers time to put together a proposal regarding the rodeo for presentation at the April 13 meeting. A decision by council members is expected the same night.

Promoter Walt Eddy was among those at the March 9 meeting urging the council not to cancel the rodeo that night because if they did, he predicted, a story from the media would cause potential advertisers to sour even if things...

Library gets additional funding

A year ago, just before the COVID-19 pandemic was declared, the City of Gallup was talking about how to build a new regional animal shelter. Now they’re talking again.

At the Feb. 25, 2020 City Council meeting, Jackie McKinney was the outgoing mayor. He said he had friends on both sides of the land issue and didn’t want to encumber the incoming mayor over site selection. So the council voted to table the issue.

Gallup got its new mayor, Louis Bonaguidi, at the same time COVID was entering the picture.

The sites under consideration for the shelter included an expansion of its current location (Balok Street off U. S. Highway 491) with the...

The Gallup City Council approved a budget adjustment to begin a water line replacement and road pavement project at its March 9 meeting.

Replacement of the water line — on East Wilson Drive, from McKinley Drive to Marguerite Franco Drive — was slated to take place within two years, with supervision from the city’s utilities department. But since the public works department wants to utilize time-sensitive funds for a mill and overlay on Marguerite Franco Drive, the utilities department proposed moving up the process to get the water line done.

On March 9, Dennis Romero, the department’s executive director, went before the city council and asked for a budget adjustment, which...