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Rotary Interact Students Host ‘Spread The Warmth’ Drive

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LAHS Interact students gather around the bake sale table at their ‘Spread the Warmth’ food and warm clothing drive held Dec. 3 in the Zia Credit Union parking lot. Photo by Sandy Tobin

By LINDA HULL
Vice President
Rotary Club of Los Alamos

“Thank you, thank you, thank you!” Members of the Los Alamos High School Interact Club, the youth service organization sponsored by the Rotary Club of Los Alamos, can’t express their gratitude enough for the impressive support the community gave the students’ efforts to collect non-perishable food and warm clothing during their Dec. 3 “Spread the Warmth” drive. Read More

LAHS Graduate Duncan Fuehne Wins National Title

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Los Alamos High School graduate Duncan Fuehne ran a tremendous race Dec. 2 at D2 Nationals on a snowy course in Seattle, Wash. Fuehne finished 3rd overall in 29:43 for the 10K course. He was the 2nd finisher for National Championship Colorado School of Mines (teammate Dillon Powell was Individual Champ). The Ore Diggers won with a remarkable 43 points to runner-up Wingate’s 177 points. In his senior year at LAHS, Fuehne finished 3rd overall (2nd Topper) on the State Champion Hilltoppers Boys XC team. Photo by Blake Wood Read More

Taylor-Mesilla Historic Property Nativity Scenes Dec. 18

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DCA News:

Visit the Taylor-Mesilla Historic Property and explore its collection of more than 200 Nativity scenes from across the world Dec. 18 at Mesilla Plaza.

The event runs 1-4 p.m., and visits will be available in blocks of 15 minutes. Admission will be $5 for adults and free for children 16 years old and younger. Members of Friends of Taylor-Mesilla will also enjoy free admission. Visitors may purchase tickets here.

Taylor-Mesilla Historic Property is a dazzling microcosm of New Mexico’s history and culture, and the Nacimientos Open House is a rare opportunity to tour its halls and absorb Read More

Lunch With A Leader Features Leger Fernandez Dec. 15

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U.S. Rep. Teresa Leger Fernandez

LWV News:

This month’s League of Women Voters “Lunch with a Leader” will feature U.S. Rep. Teresa Leger Fernandez noon to 1 p.m. Dec. 15 via zoom.

Leger Fernandez is an attorney and has represented New Mexico’s 3rd Congressional District since 2020. She was re-elected Nov. 8, 2022.

Leger Fernandez was born in Las Vegas, N.M. and educated in West Las Vegas until attending college at Yale, then Stanford Law school. She has accomplished much since she graduated from one of the first classes of Head Start in Las Vegas.

Leger Fernandez returned to New Mexico after law Read More

Letter To The Editor: Back To The IPRA

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By CATHERINE OZMENT
Los Alamos

I am the first Chair of the Community Development Advisory Board speaking in my capacity as a private citizen.

For a county that already struggles to comply with Inspection of Public Records Act (IPRA) requests, Council made a peculiar choice Tuesday to increase that workload. This may be due to an apparent lack of understanding among some Councilors about how CDAB came into being and the functions it served (and an unsurprising apathy among others).

CDAB exists because in 2017 people IPRAed code enforcement cases and paperwork, and the practices revealed were Read More

Christian Science Society Christmas Sale Underway At 800 Trinity Dr.

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Christian Science Society News: 

On a snowy winter’s night 150 years ago, a woman took a fall on an icy sidewalk in Lynn, Mass. Her condition was such that she was taken to a nearby home and a doctor called. A frail woman, she’d been an invalid off and on throughout her 45 years on earth. The doctor wasn’t hopeful about her recovery. So, this woman asked for a Bible. It was natural for her to turn to the Scriptures. Her mother had taught her when she was a child that she could look to the God who is love and the Bible for comfort and inspiration. 

The woman read an account of one of Christ Jesus’ healings and she Read More

Obituary: Terence Mitchell Oct. 22, 2022

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TERENCE MITCHELL Oct. 22, 2022

Terence Mitchell passed away peacefully at his home in Santa Fe Oct. 22, 2022. Terry was born in Haywards Heath, Sussex, England in 1937, where he met his life partner Marion Mitchell née Wyatt when they were teenagers.

Terry went on to receive his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. in Physics at the University of Cambridge. Terry, advised at Cambridge by Sir Peter Hirsch, was one of the pioneers of transmission electron microscopy. He continued as a postdoctoral fellow at the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge before emigrating to the United States in 1963 and joining the faculty Read More