RPLA News:
The Republican Party of Los Alamos (RPLA) will meet 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 16.
This meeting will be held in person at 2101 Trinity Dr., Suite A.
This meeting is open to the public.
Get more information through the RPLA Website or contact RPLA Chair Bill McKerley at leadership@losalamosgop.com. Read More
COUNTY News:
The Los Alamos County Environmental Sustainability Board (ESB) will meet 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 16.
This meeting will be held in person in Council Chambers at the Los Alamos County Municipal Building, 1000 Central Ave., Suite 110.
This meeting is open to the public.
Find the agenda for this meeting here: Sept. 16, 2021 ESB Agenda. Read More
ALFRED FURNISH Aug. 28, 2021
Alfred Furnish, 95, ended his earthy life August 28, 2021. He was born and raised in Dedham, MA, served in the Navy in WWII, then attended college at Northwestern University and MIT.
He moved to California and worked at Stanford Research Institute from 1954 through 1958, where he met and married his wife, Jean. In 1959, they moved to Los Alamos, where he worked at the lab until retiring, then lived until moving to Albuquerque in 2018.
He thoroughly enjoyed his engineering career and the outdoors. His passions included his family, dogs, hiking, sailing, skiing, railroading, Read More
The staged reading of Parted Waters, a play by Los Alamos playwright Robert F. Benjamin is 7:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 18 and Oct. 25 at Teatro Paraguas in Santa Fe. Courtesy/Teatro Paraguas
COMMUNITY News:
Teatro Paraguas is presenting a staged reading of Parted Waters, a play by Los Alamos playwright Robert F. Benjamin at 7:30 p.m., Monday Oct. 18 and Monday Oct. 25 at Teatro Paraguas, 3205 Calle Marie in Santa Fe.
Originally presented as a full production by Teatro Paraguas in 2010, Parted Waters is a gripping yet humorous drama about three generations of a Hispanic family in Northern New Mexico with Read More
FBI News:
ALBUQUERQUE — Jonathan James “Baby G” Gomez, 39, of Albuquerque was sentenced Aug. 23 to 17 years and seven months in prison for racketeering conspiracy. Gomez pleaded guilty Sept. 25, 2020.
According to court records, from 2004 to September of 2019, Gomez was a member of the Syndicato de Nuevo Mexico (SNM) prison gang while in the New Mexico Corrections Department prison system.
Gomez acknowledged that SNM is an ongoing criminal organization whose members, prospects and associates engage in acts of violence and other criminal activity including murder, kidnapping and conspiracy Read More
David Herrera Urias
U.S. SENATE News:
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) welcomed President Joe Biden’s recent nomination of David Herrera Urias for U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico.
“We are very pleased that President Biden has accepted our strong recommendation to nominate David Herrera Urias to join the District Court of New Mexico,” Heinrich and Luján said. “Over the course of his legal career, Mr. Urias has built an impressive reputation as he has successfully litigated cases before state and federal courts, Read More
The bars in this chart show the number of COVID-19 diagnoses in Los Alamos versus date, and the line shows the seven-day average. Source: New Mexico Department of Health. Created by Eli Ben-Naim
The bars in this chart show the number of COVID-19 diagnoses in Los Alamos by age group for the six-day period ending Sept. 13. Source: New Mexico Department of Health. Created by Eli Ben-Naim
NMDP News:
ALBUQUERQUE — House Democratic members from Albuquerque have released a proposed, comprehensive crime-fighting legislative package to address growing crime in the city and the state.
The 17 members are urging their legislative colleagues’ support of the package that addresses both immediate and long-term solutions to keep criminals off the streets, increases recruitment and retention of law enforcement officers, reforms pretrial detentions and supervision, and continues investments in families and communities to stop crime at its roots.
“This is an all-hands-on-deck Read More
The Aquatic Center is scheduled to be closed until Monday, Sept. 20. Courtesy/LAC Read More