Rotary Club of Los Alamos Vice President Linda Hull, left, and Rotarian Nancy Cerutti, right, induct Sarah Rochester into the Club during a special ceremony Aug. 26 at the Manhattan Project Restaurant. Rochester is the founder of the Los Alamos Visiting Nurse Service and following her recent retirement, is heading up the creation of the Sanctuary at Canyon’s Edge – a hospice facility for Los Alamos. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com Read More
Adamina Wellness Opens In Los Alamos
Angela Love Storkan
BUSINESS News:
Adamina Wellness was originally opened in Raton more than two years ago. Owner Angela Love Storkan recently returned to Los Alamos and is now working as an independent contractor out of her father’s practice, Storkan Chiropractic at 2610 Trinity Dr., Suite 22.
Storkan received her Associates Degree in Holistic Health from Trinidad State Junior College. During her time there, she had the opportunity to learn a variety of techniques she now incorporates into her practice. These techniques include Massage Therapy, Reflexology, Acupressure, Read More
Whitewater Ramble Will Perform Final Summer Concert Tonight At Ashley Pond Park
Whitewater Ramble. Courtesy of the bandBy RUSS GORDON
Los Alamos Summer Concert Series Producer
Well friends of the Los Alamos County Summer Concert Series, we’re down to our last show of the year. I hoped you enjoyed the shows. Again, I’d like to thank our sponsors and especially Los Alamos County. They sure built a beautiful stage. Our sponsors are all listed at www.gordonssummerconcerts.com. Please acknowledge them when possible and do shop locally! Our sponsors all pay taxes to the County and therefore help pay for the Concert Series.
Our final show of the 25th anniversary Read More
Tuesday’s School Board Meeting Includes Introduction of Position 3 Applicants
LAPS News:
The School Board will hold a Regular School Board Meeting and Executive Session at 5:15 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 9 at the Los Alamos Public Schools Administration Building, School Board Room.
The agenda items for the Regular School Board Meeting include a motion to go into a closed Executive Session in the School Board Conference Room to discuss the purchase, acquisition or disposal of real property, specifically the expansion of a leased property.
Following the Executive Session, the school board president will reconvene the Regular School Board. Some of the agenda items include: Read More
LAESF Scholarship Committee Holds Annual Retreat
Committee members from left, Randy Erickson, Chair Phil Tubesing, Immediate Past Chair Rebecca Chamberlin and LANL Foundation Scholarship Program Officer Tony Fox. Photo by Andrea Multari/LANL Foundation
The Los Alamos Employees’ Scholarship Fund Advisory Committee annual self-assessment retreat. Photo by Andrea Multari/LANL Foundation
LANL FOUNDATION News:
Newly elected Los Alamos Employee’s Scholarship Fund Chair Phil Tubesing led the Advisory Committee’s self-assessment retreat recently at the LANL Foundation offices in Espanola.
The committee annually evaluates outreach Read More
Solo Traveler: Held Up In Mexico
Travelers dance around their combi during the ‘hold-up’ for Benito Juarez’ birthday. Photo by Sherry HardageSolo Traveler: Held up in Mexico
By SHERRY HARDAGE
In 2012, I decided to rehydrate my desiccated high school Spanish with a six-month swim in a Mexican lake. San Cristóbal de las Casas, in Chiapas, was the perfect choice as there were few English speakers living there to distract me.
I found a teacher and some other Americans whose language skills were similar to mine. We met twice a week for a couple of hours at my casita. Once in a while we would walk to the market or a nearby Read More
Los Alamos Public Schools Brighten Up State Fair
Art by LAPS students on display at the N.M. State Fair. Photo by Stephanie Rittner
The display of art by LAPS students at the N.M. State Fair. Photo by Stephanie RittnerLAPS News:
Renne Mitsunaga, art teacher from Chamisa Elementary and Stephanie Rittner, art teacher from Pinon, spent the day at the N.M. State Fair. They didn’t ride the Ferris wheel or eat cotton candy. They hung almost 200 pieces of Los Alamos Public Schools student art in the School Arts building.
Every year, school districts from around the state come together at the state fair to display student artwork. It’s Read More
Scott Hardy Rides to Raise Funds to Fight MS
Scott Hardy and his family prepare for the Pedal los Pueblos to be held this weekend. Courtesy photo
By BERNADETTE LAURITZEN
There’s still time to support a Los Alamos High School alumni as he prepares to ride in the National Multiple Sclerosis Society’s Pedal los Pueblos this weekend.
Scott Hardy, son of Matt and Becky Hardy will ride hard Saturday and Sunday with his wife Selena Hardy (formerly Marroquin) assisting in the rest stops along the way. The two day, figure eight route through northern New Mexico, raises funds and awareness for the movement and makes new connections along the way.
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Fire Hydrant Painting Continues Around Town
Steven Calhoun of Los Alamos has an umbrella ready as artist Olivia Snyder of Santa Fe paints a fire hydrant on Central Avenue during intermittent showers Thursday. The Fire Hydrant Painting Competition is part up the 2014 Los Alamos ScienceFest, which kicks off today. Snyder is a junior at Santa Fe School for the Arts and is painting a ‘space geometric’ pattern on her hydrant near the Bradbury Science Museum. Calhoun is a senior at Los Alamos High School and said he is painting two hydrants near Ashley Pond with themes of Aspen Trees and Pine Trees. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com Read More
Bandelier Rangers, Los Alamos Fire Department Assist Lost Hikers
Present trail conditions in Frijoles Canyon, results of the flooding following the Las Conchas Fire in 2011. Courtesy/NPSBANDELIER News:
Two Bandelier rangers spent a long night earlier this week searching for six Albuquerque-area hikers, three adults and three children ages 4-7, lost in the park.
Tuesday at about 3 a.m. they found the group, exhausted, dehydrated and hungry but otherwise healthy, near Upper Crossing in Frijoles Canyon. Six members of the Los Alamos Fire Department joined them, helped the hikers walk out, and transported them to their vehicles at the
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