Community

More than 100 young people and their families turned out at the Two Grey Hills Skate Park last week for the Protect the Land Skate Jam, an Earth Day gathering that paired skateboarding lessons with native seed planting, art-making and a park clean-up.

The Arizona Public Service, Salt River Project and Tucson Electric Power have selected five organizations in northeastern Arizona to receive grants totaling $110,000 in the final rounds of a program created to help communities manage the economic shift away from coal-fired power.

Drivers along U.S. Route 160 near Tuba City can expect months of lane restrictions and delays as a pavement preservation project gets underway, according to the Arizona Department of Transportation.

Solar shade parking canopies are being installed at the Tuba City shopping center, where they will generate electricity for Bashas’ Diné Market while covering 96 parking spaces.

The towering green industrial shelves inside the Gallup Community Pantry warehouse stretch nearly to the ceiling, built to hold pallets of food for thousands of families in McKinley County and parts of the Navajo Nation.