Obituaries for September 25, 2025
THIS WEEK: Rose Mary “Rosh” Foley Fredericks, Frances K. Big, Mavis J. Yazzie, Jerald Scott House, Leland Aaron Chee, Paul Notah Jr., Gerald Whitesinger, Michael Ray Spencer, Cornelius Tom Leonard
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Chuska Challenge closes out Tour de Rez Cup series
The Tour de Rez Cup series concluded Saturday morning with the Chuska Challenge, a grueling 20-mile mountain bike race at high altitude that drew nearly 115 participants, including 10 youth riders.
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Patriots rally past Vikings, 36-35, in homecoming nail-biter
The Miyamura Patriots (3-2) earned a hard-fought, bittersweet homecoming victory on Friday night at Gallup Public School Stadium, slipping past the Valley Vikings (1-4) in a 36-35 nail-biter.
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Memo backs 22 percent raises for federally funded Children and Family Services jobs
President Buu Nygren has signed a memorandum to the Division of Human Resources backing a salary-scale increase for federally funded employees in the Division of Children and Family Services.
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Contributor: Robert Redford, who brought Leaphorn and Chee to screen, dies at 89
In Michael Feeney Callan’s 2011 biography, Redford recalls traveling “all over the Navajo reservation” with his mother as a boy. In Gallup, he first met Navajo and Zuni people. As Callan writes, “She connected him with the past, introducing him to Native Americans on Navajo reservations in Arizona and to Yosemite.”
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Window Rock Weather
Fair
79.0 F (26.1 C)
Dewpoint: 8.1 F (-13.3 C)
Humidity: 6%
Wind: West at 15.0 MPH (13 KT)
Pressure: 30.07
Dewpoint: 8.1 F (-13.3 C)
Humidity: 6%
Wind: West at 15.0 MPH (13 KT)
Pressure: 30.07
Highway 264,
I-40, WB @ Winslow