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The toll

Diego Lopez Reporter
Wednesday, November 25, 2020
CIBOLA COUNTY, N.M. – COVID-19 is taking its toll. Across the nation hospitals are filling up and there aren’t enough hospital beds, more importantly there aren’t enough medical professionals to take care of the ever-increasing patients.
Diego Lopez - CC The Veterans Day wreath is laid on the monument in Veterans Park on Nov. 11, as a socially distanced crowd of veterans and their families watched.

Diego Lopez - CC The Veterans Day wreath is laid on the monument in Veterans Park on Nov. 11, as a socially distanced crowd of veterans and their families watched.

Veterans Day; Honoring the fallen

Diego Lopez Reporter
Wednesday, November 18, 2020
GRANTS, N.M. - A handful of veterans joined a small gathering on November 11 to commemorate Veterans Day. The event, which is held every year on November 11 at 11 a.m.
Acoma-Canoncito-Laguna Service Unit will be undergoing a redesign phase after facing budgetary issues. The U.S. Indian Health Services say that the hospital will remain open but with limited operations. File photo

Acoma-Canoncito-Laguna Service Unit will be undergoing a redesign phase after facing budgetary issues. The U.S. Indian Health Services say that the hospital will remain open but with limited operations. File photo

ACL to undergo redesign; Hospital to remain open

Diego Lopez Reporter
Wednesday, November 18, 2020
ACOMA, NEW MEXICO — AcomaCanoncito-Laguna Service Unit, a 25-bed medical facility, is facing a budget crisis, forcing the hospital to look at its financials.

School district reports more than 20 new cases

Rosanne Boyett Reporter
Wednesday, November 18, 2020
CIBOLA COUNTY, N.M. The Grants/Cibola County School District temporarily closed four elementary schools earlier this month because of COVID-19. Superintendent Max Perez acknowledged that staff and students at Bluewater, Mt. Taylor, Mesa View, and San Rafael all returned to campus on Nov. 16.

A breaking point; CGH hitting its capacity

Diego Lopez Reporter
Wednesday, November 18, 2020
CIBOLA COUNTY, N.M. — Cibola General Hospital is a 25 general bed facility with four Intensive Care Unit beds, and doctors at the facility are sounding the alarm. CGH Chief of Staff Dr. MacFarland Bridges and CGH Chief Hospitalist Dr. Amanda Young, as she was titled by Dr.
They can be hard to find at first, but the tiny white flecks are evidence of a mealybug infestation on this dwarf umbrella tree (Schefflera arboricola) houseplant. Tyra Trumble Courtesy photo

They can be hard to find at first, but the tiny white flecks are evidence of a mealybug infestation on this dwarf umbrella tree (Schefflera arboricola) houseplant. Tyra Trumble Courtesy photo

Southwest Yard & Garden; Managing mealybugs on treasured houseplants

Dr. Marisa Thompson Extension Horticulture
Wednesday, November 11, 2020
Question: Can I put peroxide in the soil to kill the mealybugs on our schefflera? Tyra T., Los Lunas Answer: I do not recommend it. While hydrogen peroxide is not likely to kill your huge houseplant, it is not going to kill your mealybugs either.