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STEM Santa Fe Giving Tuesday Math Festival Fundraiser

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STEM SF News:

There is a great need in Northern New Mexico to boost students’ math and science skills. In 2023-2024, only 22% of Santa Fe Public School students were proficient in math, and 36% in science. In Española Public Schools, 11% were proficient in math and 27% in science. (https://nmvistas.org)

STEM Santa Fe’s Efforts

We believe that Math literacy is crucial for STEM careers and for fostering a future-ready generation that is equipped to excel in any profession.

STEM Santa Fe brought the Julia Robinson Mathematics Festival to New Mexico in 2017. This international festival Read More

Alpha Zeta Adopt-A-Family Program Seeks Local Sponsors

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By BERNADETTE LAURITZEN
Los Alamos

Alpha Zeta, a local Chapter of Beta Sigma Phi, is collaborating with local schools to identify families who could use a little extra love over the holiday season. Their Adopt-A-Family program for 2025 has received 54 applications, with 13 families looking for sponsors.

Families who remain include families with grandparents in the home, single parents with multiple children, and single-child families. The biggest family remaining is a family of seven, and the smallest is a family of two.

“About 80 percent of the families in the program live in Los Alamos County; Read More

Weekly Fishing Report: Nov. 24, 2025 

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By GEORGE MORSE
Sports and Outdoors
Los Alamos Daily Post 

Happy Thanksgiving. 

Snow is now beginning to fall in the higher elevations and the beautiful white covering on the mountains is a most welcome sight. When planning a trip it will be increasingly important to keep track of weather and road conditions at and going to your destination. 

Several lakes will begin to freeze over and it will be awhile before the ice is thick enough to allow for ice fishing. Santa Cruz Lake and Monastery Lake do not allow any ice fishing. 

Eagle Nest Lake, Fenton Lake and Lake Maloya are popular ice fishing destinations Read More

NMDPS Hosts Missing Persons, Community Resource Day

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DPS Deputy Cabinet Secretary Sylvia Serna. Courtesy photo

Courtesy photo

DPS News:

SANTA FE — The New Mexico Department of Public Safety (DPS) brought together law enforcement officers and families of missing persons for two days of training and support services in November.

Friday, Nov. 21, officers from across New Mexico attended eight hours of missing persons training at the Law Enforcement Academy. The New Mexico Missing Persons Clearinghouse, U.S. Marshals, FBI, and New Mexico State Police led sessions on evidence collection, interviews, interagency collaboration, and alert activation Read More

SFCC Pickleball Club Host Yuletide Pickeball Palooza Dec. 14

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SFCC News:

SANTA FE — Santa Fe Community College’s Pickleball Club will present a Yuletide Pickleball Palooza Sunday, Dec. 14 at the William C. Witter Fitness Education Center (FEC), 6401 Richards Avenue, Santa Fe, 87508.

Pre-registration is required online at https://bit.ly/4pdiw7d. Time slots accommodate players of all levels. Beginner and Intermediate play is from 10 a.m. to noon (doors open at 9:30 a.m.).

Advanced and Advanced Intermediate play is from 1 to 3 p.m. (doors open at 12:30 p.m.).

The event will support SFCC students in two ways. Fifty percent of the $20 registration Read More

Sangre de Cristo Chorale Holiday Concert Will Feature Lauridsen’s Mid-Winter Songs Dec. 6-7

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Courtesy/Sangre de Cristo Chorale

SCC News:

SANTA FE — The Sangre de Cristo Chorale will perform its holiday concert, Mid-Winter Songs, at 4 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 6 and Sunday, Dec. 7 in Santa Fe. Both concerts will be at the First Presbyterian Church of Santa Fe. Celebrating its 48th season, the 52-voice Chorale is led by Music Director George Case and accompanied by pianist Deborah Wagner.

The centerpiece of this concert is Morten Lauridsen’s five-movement choral symphony Mid- Winter Songs for chorus and piano. Based on the poetry of British poet and novelist Robert Graves, Mid-Winter Songs Read More

Autism Training Series For Spanish Speaking Community

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UNM News:

Hilos Sobre el Autismo is a monthly virtual program offering trainings, educational supports, and resources on autism to Spanish-Speaking families in New Mexico.

This training series is presented in Spanish. English translation is available.

Training event details:

  • Date: Nov. 19, 2025
  • Time: 1–2:15 p.m. (MT)
  • Presenter: Alexandria Lofton, Trust Director of The Arc of New Mexico
  • Topic: Navigating Special Needs Trusts
  • Registration link: https://bit.ly/4on6w33              

Questions? Contact us at HSC-AutismPrograms@salud.unm.edu or 505.272.1852.

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Scenes Of 2025 Veterans Day Ceremony At Ashley Pond

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The Los Alamos Fire Department (LAFD) displays its American flag for the 2025 Veterans Day Ceremony on Tuesday at Ashley Pond Park. The Veterans Day event included Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 8874, American Legion Post 90, American Legion Auxiliary Unit 90 and Major General Franklin E. Miles Chapter 229 of the Military Order of the World Wars. Photo by John McHale/ladailypost.com

Los Alamos High School NJROTC participates in the 2025 Veterans Day Ceremony on Tuesday at Ashley Pond Park. Photo by John McHale/ladailypost.com

Scouts BSA and Girl Scouts of New Mexico Trails lead the Pledge of Read More

Weekly Fishing Report: Nov. 9, 2025 

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By GEORGE MORSE
Sports and Outdoors
Los Alamos Daily Post 

The State Game and Fish Department stocked Nov. 5 a total of 7,160 Gila trout in the East Fork, Middle Fork and West Fork of the Gila River. The fish averaged four inches in size.

Gila trout are raised at the Federal Fish Hatchery in Mora. They are one of two species of trout native to New Mexico. The other is the Rio Grande cutthroat trout. Gila trout inhabit the Gila River drainage in Southwestern New  Mexico.

At one time, Gila trout were considered an endangered species due to habitat loss and interbreeding with rainbow trout. Limited angling Read More

New Mexico Department of Transportation Announces Land Of Enchantment Young Ambassadors

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NMDOT News:

SANTA FE — The New Mexico Department of Transportation, in partnership with the Office of the Governor, has named 14 high school students as the 2025–2026 Land of Enchantment Young Ambassadors, a new statewide leadership program focused on preventing litter and graffiti while promoting community pride.

The Young Ambassadors initiative is part of NMDOT’s Que Linda program and the Governor’s youth-focused #KeepLitterOut campaign and aims to empower youth to lead local beautification efforts across New Mexico. More than 150 students applied for the inaugural program, which Read More