Summertime fun: ABOVE: Tyrese Yazzie,7, prepares to dress a doll named Angel while on a porch of a friend's home Tuesday afternoon in Gallup. Yazzie held up each item of clothing for examination before dressing the doll. BELOW: Sunshine Clifton holds tight a blanket as winds gusts picked up outside her home in Gallup, NM Tuesday afternoon. Clifton dries laundry daily on the clothesline. Tuesday, she attempted to remove her son's blanket before near by rain clouds brought showers. [Photos by Daniel Zollinger/Independent]

Ralph McQuary fills out a ballet at city hall in Grants on Tuesday. The vote was for a quarter percent of a raise in taxes for improvements to streets and alleyways. [Photo by Brian Leddy/Independent] Full Story