Daily Postcard: The Summer Solstice captured on camera at about 5:55 a.m. today from the Anniversary Trail in Los Alamos. Photo by Don Siebe Read More
Life, As We Know It, Depends On … Pollinators
There are approximately 46 species of bumble bees native to North America and 250 species worldwide—all dependent on flowering plants. Courtesy/NPSNPS News:
National Pollinator Week is a time to celebrate pollinators and spread the word about what you can do to protect them. More than 75 percent of the Earth’s flowering plants depend on bees, butterflies, birds, bats, and other pollinators. Yet scientists have noted that these hardworking insects and other animals are in trouble. Our own well-being and the welfare of our planet rests upon their wings.
Punxsutawney Phil Mysteriously Resurfaces Just In Time For New Mexico Summer Solstice At 10:24 P.M. Tonight!
Punxsutawney Phil mysteriously resurfaces at an undisclosed location in Los Alamos just in time to enjoy New Mexico’s summer solstice at 10:24 p.m. tonight. The elusive Phil was last spotted around town in February … for details, click here. Courtesy photo
COMMUNITY News:
WHEN IS THE SUMMER SOLSTICE 2017?
The summer solstice falls on Wednesday, June 21, 12:24 A.M. EDT. For time zones further west, the solstice falls on Tuesday, June 20 as follows.
- Tuesday, June 20, 11:24 P.M. CDT
- Tuesday, June 20, 10:24 P.M. MDT
Pajarito Celebrates Solstice With 100 Days Of Summer
Pajarito bike trail. Photo by Stacey Glaser/Pajarito Mountain
Blue skies today above Pajarito Mountain. Photo by Stacey Glaser/Pajarito Mountain
A wildflower grows on Pajarito Mountain. Photo by Stacey Glaser/Pajarito Mountain
PAJARITO News:
There are blue skies today at Pajarito Mountain in Los Alamos. Pajarito is celebrating the Summer Solstice with the 100 Days of Summer Celebration.
The weather is looking great for this fun event!
Enjoy lift-served mountain biking and hiking 4-7 p.m., and a New Mexico-inspired menu is available 4-7 p.m. at the Pajarito Mountain Café. Craft Read More
Highly Anticipated 2017 ScienceFest Celebrates 100th Anniversary Of Los Alamos Ranch School
SCIENCEFEST News:The highly anticipated annual event, Los Alamos ScienceFest returns this year from July 13–16 and features events packed full of science, adventure, learning, and fun.
This year’s theme celebrates the 100th Anniversary of the Los Alamos Ranch School and features special events that allow participants to step back into the past and experience the fun of old-fashioned Ranch School days and summer camps, as well as informative tours and events for the entire family.
The Los Alamos Ranch School started in 1917 as a boys’ school that
Read More SFNF Issues Closure Order For Cajete Fire Burn Area
Closure burn area map. Courtesy/nmfireinfonews.com
SFNF News:
SANTA FE – The Santa Fe National Forest (SFNF) today issued a closure order for the approximately 1,400 acres on the Jemez Ranger District burned by the Cajete Fire.
The restricted area includes: all lands, roads and trails within the fire perimeter (depicted on the closure map), Trail #137 between the last bridge coming from the Las Conchas Trailhead (before the trail ascends) and the East Fork Trailhead, and segments of Forest Road (FR) 270 south of the fire and FR 4G, 4GA and 4GB on the northwestern point of the burned area.
The closure Read More
FBI Investigates Agent-Involved Shooting In Albuquerque
FBI News:
The FBI is investigating an agent-involved shooting that occurred June 19 in the Home Depot parking lot near Coors Blvd. and I-40.
The shooting occurred at approximately 5 p.m. during a law enforcement operation.
A suspect vehicle got away after striking a task force officer who was taken to the hospital with non-critical injuries. No other law enforcement officers were injured.
It is unknown if any suspects were injured.
The suspect vehicle has been located. It is described as a 2008—2014 white Dodge Charger with lime green racing stripes from front to back. It also had lime green on Read More
BBBS Drive For Matches Golf Tournament July 15
By KELLY MYERS, Co-Chair
Big Brothers Big Sisters
Los Alamos/Rio Arriba Region
Big Brothers Big Sisters (BBBS) has been matching caring adults with kids for more than 115 years. It’s the only thing they do and they do it really well. An adult (Big) is professionally matched with a child (Little). Once they are matched they begin a relationship, typically meeting once per week.
I am the co-chair for the Big Brothers Big Sisters Mountain Region Los Alamos/Rio Arriba Board of Directors, currently serving 115 children – 56 in Los Alamos and 59 in Rio Arriba. However, we always have Read More
United Way Of Northern New Mexico Announces 2017 Funded Partners
UWNNM News:
More than $1 million was requested by 47 nonprofit organizations serving Los Alamos and Rio Arriba residents. United Way of Northern New Mexico’s (UWNNM) Community Action Fund Grant Cycle concluded with the funding of $628,420 to 29 local nonprofits. United Way’s funding will reach residents that are to be born this year to those needing assistance in the last stages of life.
UWNNM’s Grant Committee consists of Community Action Fund Investors, Cornerstone Partners, Community and Board Members who work tirelessly over the course of about a month helping decide where funds are Read More
V.B. Price: Can A National Culture Go Insane?
Image by Christopher Dombres
By V.B. PRICE
Albuquerque
vbprice.com
In the wake of last Wednesday’s shooting in Virginia at a Republican workout for the bipartisan Congressional Baseball Charity game, the murder of four UPS workers in San Francisco on the same day, and now a mass killing of five people in Northern New Mexico around Tres Piedras and Abiquiu, many of us are left with the deeply disturbing feeling that we’re experiencing once again another tremor in the spasmodic unraveling of America’s cultural sanity.
According to massshootingtracker.com, over 196 mass shootings have Read More