Nation rides out second wave
After a few promising days in September with no new coronavirus cases, the Navajo Nation may have let its guard down too soon.
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CARES kerfuffle: Delegates angry over hardship memo extending deadline
A Nov. 20 memorandum from the Navajo Nation president’s chief of staff has angered some Council delegates, who say it gives chapters and tribal programs a loophole for hanging onto their CARES Act allocations into December rather than reverting them to the Hardship Fund as the Council mandated in recent legislation.
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Making calls, saving lives: A week in the life of a contact tracer
Within the past year, “PPE,” “N95,” “social distancing,” “comfort baking” and the admonition of the year, “Mute yourself!” have, shall we say, gone viral. There’s also the world’s newest career: contact tracer.
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Nation’s top librarian turns the page on an epic chapter
If you were to make a list of the world’s most exciting careers, “librarian” probably wouldn’t even make the top 100. But in Irving Nelson’s 43-year stint with the Navajo Nation Library, he’s battled poisonous spiders, spent hours in an asbestos-ridden basement, walked miles in a blizzard and taken epic cross-country road trips just so you and the rest of the Navajo public can have something good to read.
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Diné photographer recognized for pandemic work
Navajo Times photographer Sharon Chischilly has received a grant from Italian-Cuban photographer Manuello Paganelli recognizing her work documenting the COVID-19 pandemic on the Navajo Nation.
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Dewpoint: 37.9 F (3.3 C)
Humidity: 36%
Wind: West at 4.6 MPH (4 KT)
Pressure: 30.24
Highway 264,
I-40, WB @ Winslow