Author: Donovan Quintero

The Walmart Supercenter in Gallup will close for one day in an effort to help “curb the impact” of the coronavirus that has caused the lockdown of the city since last Friday.

To ensure people were not denied access to the water station, Gallup Water and Sanitation Director Dennis Romero said the city, along with the National Guard and Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority, would be setting up water stations for people to fill their water tanks at no charge.

She didn’t hesitate to give what she could give.
Shylah Pettigrew knows all too well what it feels like to be hungry and thirsty.
Her years of living on the streets, as well as the teachings of her mother, taught her to be compassionate, she said.

A request asking New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham from newly sworn-in Gallup Mayor Louis Bonaguidi to extend an emergency lockdown that has been in place since Friday has been granted.

From the state police checkpoint on 491, I-40 is less than two miles away, but through-travelers are told to go through Twin Lakes, Crownpoint and meet the interstate at Thoreau. The route requires knowledge of the reservation roads that often do not have road signs.