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Smith’s Marketplace Is Open For Business!

The doors to Smith’s Marketplace are now open to the public following the 7:30 a.m. ribbon cutting ceremony today. Local dignitaries such as Dist. 43 Rep. Stephanie Garcia Richard, center, and Los Alamos County Chair Geoff Rodgers, second from left, attended a special pre-opening event Tuesday evening inside the new store. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailyspot.com Read More

A Glimpse Inside Smith’s Marketplace

Smith’s Marketplace opened its doors for special tours today. The store will host an official grand opening with a ribbon cutting ceremony at 7:30 a.m. Wednesday after which the doors will open to the public. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

Meet Smith’s Marketplace Director Erik Boehm, here with VP of Public Affairs Marsha Gilford from Salt Lake City. Boehm is in charge of running the new store. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

Produce Department. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

Employees are putting on the finishing touches to the store in preparation Read More

Darren White Launches PI & Security Firm

Darren White

BUSINESS News:

Former Bernalillo County Sheriff Darren White has started a private investigations and security company. 

White, who is nationally known as a public safety expert, served as secretary of the New Mexico Department of Public Safety, Bernalillo County sheriff and director of Public Safety for the City of Albuquerque. White also runs Buzzsaw Strategies, a government relations company.

White is partnering with David Linthicum, former chief deputy for the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Department. The team will use their decades of experience running large

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Yang: From Hurricanes To Academics … I Am Not Prejudiced, But Others Are

From Hurricanes To Academics … I Am Not Prejudiced, But Others Are

By ELENA YANG
Los Alamos

When it comes to prejudice, or discrimination, especially about race and gender, our heads spin and our emotions explode. It’s easier to spot outright discrimination, but the subtle types? It’s also much easier to assign prejudice in others, much less so in ourselves. What we do about it is another, vastly different — and difficult — topic.

Let’s start with some light-hearted quandaries. Q: Do you find a category 4 hurricane Cruella as scary as the same category hurricane named Voldemort? Read More

Yeamans Machine Shop Expands Capabilities

BUSINESS News:

Yeamans Machine Shop Inc., at 162 Eastgate Dr., in Los Alamos has acquired a Mazak 5-axis machining center. This machine is capable of 5-axis simultaneous machining. 

For those not familiar with this terminology, this means that the machine is using five different axes of motion in unison to move the cutting tool along its path. This allows for machining of very complex parts such as a turbo impeller. 

In addition to expanding the company’s capability to manufacture complex parts, this new machine also will improve efficiency and accuracy of other parts through Read More

Central Park Square Parking Lot Resurfaced Sunday

A worker sprays a resurfacing solution on the Central Park Square parking lot during a sealcoat operation Sunday at 15th Street and Central Avenue. Philip Kunsberg purchased Central Park Square more than 2-and-a-half years ago and implemented a program to ensure his properties and buildings are well maintained and updated on a regular basis. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

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TOTH Vacation Bible School July 14-18

Courtesy/Ellen McBee

TOTH News:

Vacation Bible School is 9 a.m. to 12 p.m., July 14-18 at Trinity on the Hill Church.

This year’s theme is Weird Animals. Children age 3 through the beginning of sixth grade are invited to attend. Trinity on the Hill is at 3900 Trinity Dr.

To register, visit groupvbspro.com/vbs/ez/ToTH or call the church at 505.662.5107. Read More

Northern New Mexico Women’s Health Center Welcomes Dr. Patrick Dawson to Staff in Los Alamos

Patrick Dawson, MD

LAMC News:

Los Alamos Medical Center is pleased to announce Patrick Dawson, MD, has joined the medical staff of the Northern New Mexico Women’s Health Center.

Dr. Dawson is a Fellow of the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology and a Diplomat of the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology. He has a special interest in general and high risk obstetrics, non-surgical options when available, and minimally invasive options when surgery is needed.

“We are very pleased to welcome Dr. Dawson,” said Feliciano Jiron, Los Alamos Medical Center CEO. “His specialties offer Read More

Smith’s Opens First Marketplace Store in New Mexico in Los Alamos July 16

BUSINESS News:

  • Company Unveils First In-Store Murray’s Cheese Shop Offering 175 Types of Cheeses 

Smith’s Food & Drug is opening its multi-department store format, Smith’s Marketplace, on the Trinity Site in Los Alamos July 16.

It is the first Smith’s Marketplace store to be built in New Mexico and will replace the existing Smith’s combination food and drug store in the Merrimac Shopping Center on Central Avenue. Ribbon cutting ceremonies will begin at 7:45 a.m., July 16.

More than 200,000 items throughout the 110,600-square-foot store will surprise and delight customers at every Read More

ACI Calls Out State for Paying Outside Company to Create ‘New Mexico True’ Campaign

ACI News:
 
The New Mexico Association of Commerce and Industry (ACI) led a panel of business leaders and experts who testified July 8 on issues with New Mexico’s procurement procedures.
 
Concerns were raised that major opportunities are being lost for local businesses when the state government spends tax dollars outside New Mexico.
 
Dr. Beverlee McClure, ACI’s President and CEO, explained that the presentation was intended to empower the committee to take action on a key issue that is costing New Mexico jobs.
 
“When the state government spends money in New Mexico,
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