LAPS News:
The Los Alamos Board of Education held an election of officers during Tuesday night’s meeting.
Kevin Honnel was elected president.
Dawn Venhaus is vice president.
Melanie McKinley is the new board secretary.
The remaining two board members include:
David Foster
Judith Bjarke-McKenzie Read More
LANL employees and others listen to Senatorial candidate Heather Wilson during her Town Hall meeting late Wednesday afternoon at the Hilltop House Hotel. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com
By Carol A. Clark
A large crowd turned out to hear Republican U.S. Senatorial candidate Heather Wilson speak at a Town Hall Meeting at the Best Western Hilltop House Hotel late Wednesday afternoon.
Wilson spoke of her background and experience before fielding questions from the audience of slightly more than 100 people.
At age 17, she entered the U.S. Air Force Academy and graduated in 1982. A Rhodes Read More
LANL Official Terry Wallace briefs audience members at Duane Smith Auditorium Wednesday evening about the voluntary separation program under way at the Lab. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com
By Carol A. Clark
Terry Wallace, Principal Associate Director for Science, Technology, and Engineering at Los Alamos National Laboratory conducted the third and final community forum about the Lab’s Voluntary Separation Program (VSP) now under way.
On March 1, the National Nuclear Security Administration approved the plan to reduce the Laboratory workforce by 400 to 800 employees Read More
The 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama, has picked the University of New Mexico Lobos college basketball team to make it all the way to the NCAA’s March Madness Sweet Sixteen Tournament, which begins March 22nd. The Lobos will play Long Beach State tonight (Thursday, March 15) at 4:10PM ET in Portland Oregon. The President went on to predicted that the New Mexico State Aggies would lose to Indiana in tonight’s second round match-up scheduled for 9:45PM ET.
Get more of the story from KOAT 7 Albuquerque. Read More
HazMat and other emergency responders worked near this section of TA-21 at the east end of DP Road Wednesday after a small chemical reaction occurred during cleanup activities. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com
LANL NEWS:
At about 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Los Alamos police and firefighters left the scene of a HazMat incident that began just before noon at the east end of DP Road.
A small chemical reaction in a bottle containing liquid drawn from a 60-year-old cylinder at Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Technical Area 21 caused Laboratory officials to call in hazardous material personnel, Read More
Los Alamos Deputy Police Chief Kevin Purtymun just reported that as of 1:43 p.m. today, the air monitors surrounding the HazMat spill near Enclosure 12 toward the far end of DP Road are registering clean.
“The roadblocks at the intersection of DP Road and Trinity Drive are being removed and placed down around the building involved while cleanup work there continues,” Purtymun said. “The roadblocks were placed at the entrance to DP Road as a precautionary measure until the situation was assessed. The public can now come and go nomally along the majority of DP Road.” Read More
Coordinator Philmont Taylor of the Los Alamos County Emergency Management Department just released a reverse 911 meesage ordering all residents along DP Road to shelter in place.
The cause for this emergency is a hazmat leak in Enclosure 12 at TA-21, Taylor said.
DP Road residents are to stay inside and close off all ventilation to the outside until they hear the “all clear” signal.
Check back for more on this developing story.
DP Road is shut down at about noon today because of some type of hazmat issue at Technical Area 21.
Police are directing drivers away from the intersection of DP Road at Trinity Drive.
There is a report of a small brush fire at TA-21 and police and other emergency responders are on scene.
Check back for more details on this developing story.
Example of a 150-foot crane. Courtesy
By Carol A. Clark
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) requires a permit on construction cranes any time that they will exceed a 100:1 sloped surface from the nearest point of the nearest airport runway out to 20,000 feet or 200 feet above ground level.
“We are right on the edge of the affected area of the airport,” said Dan Erickson, capital projects division manager. “It’s better to be safe than sorry so we decided to go ahead and apply for a permit to the FAA – we’re hoping it won’t slow the project.”
The County applied for the permit nearly Read More
Brownell’s Hallmark Owner Steve Brownell, center, shares with customers the website that shows where he is moving to in Kansas once he closes the store. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com
Brownell’s Hallmark store’s final days are marked with a store sale.
With Steve Brownell’s looming retirement, customers were pleased for the opportunity to purchase items marked down as much as 75 percent but expressed sadness to see a local treasure closing down. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com
Hallmark Manager Peggy Rustin rings up sales Tuesday Read More