Topic a ‘bureaucratic nightmare’

The McKinley County Board of Commissioners held a discussion about a proposed road resolution at their regular meeting Oct. 2.

The commission discussed ceasing road maintenance on certain roads, portions of roads, road segments and bridges on which the county does not have jurisdiction.

County Manager Anthony Dimas Jr. said that the proposal has been prepped for key staff members to review. He said the commission, the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Navajo Nation have worked on the resolution for the past year.

County Attorney Doug Decker said the resolution can be sent ahead quickly or held for a comment session.

County Chairperson Genevieve...

The City of Gallup agreed on a design option for the Coal Avenue Commons Construction Project Sept. 25 that will feature a plaza street.

Stanley Henderson, public works director for the City of Gallup, said the city worked with GallupARTS, the Business Improvement District, Gallup MainStreet and the Northwest New Mexico Council of Governments on a plan to transform Coal Avenue, from First to Third streets, into an event street.

Henderson said the city held public meetings to stimulate downtown development and revitalization in a process dubbed “creative placemaking.”

He said three conceptual design options were formulated from the creative placemaking process. Visuals and...

The McKinley County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a set of bones that were found Sept. 26 on the Mendoza road by an archaeologist.

The remains were found at about the three-mile marker and early indications show that they’re not recent.

According to the sheriff’s report, Jeremy Loven said archaeologists were doing some excavation work in the area when they came across human remains. He said they had found part of a human arm and some other human parts when they were digging through the dirt.

The local Office of the Medical Investigator was called  to examine the bones. After the examination, the bones were turned back to the archaeologists to be logged.

Despite first responders’ life saving measures, a 26-year-old man died Oct. 3 from stab wounds sustained during an alleged confrontation with another man near Second Street and Hill Avenue.

Gallup Police responded to the area near Octavia Fellin Public Library shortly before 1 pm and found the badly injured victim, identified Oct. 4 as Pendrick Yazzie of Red Rock, N.M.

Officers were able to get a lead on the suspect with the assistance of witnesses.

Detectives were called to the scene and began interviewing witnesses and processing the scene for evidence.

On the evening of Oct. 3, Gallup police arrested Gregory L. Long, 26, for an open count of murder. He was booked into the...