DHSEM: How To Build A Home Emergency Supply Kit
DHSEM News:
The New Mexico Department of Homeland Security & Emergency Management (DHSEM) works to protect the people of New Mexico and the nation through a comprehensive and coordinated program of mitigating hazards, preparing for emergencies, preventing attacks, and recovering from disasters regardless of cause.
DHSEM encourages everyone to build an emergency kit for their household. Chances are, most people have many of the items needed to check all the items off DHSEM’s checklist.
Leadership Los Alamos Health & Wellbeing Session Review
C’YA Executive Director Bernadette Lauritzen leads a discussion during the March 28 Leadership Los Alamos session. Courtesy/LLA
LLA News:
Leadership Los Alamos (LLA) held its Health & Wellbeing session March 28 at the Los Alamos Little Theatre. The engaging event aimed to foster leadership skills and promote community awareness among participants.
The session began with a warm welcome from LLA Board Members, followed by a short breathing exercise designed to center the participants and prepare them for the day ahead. Judith Gordon led the group through their third Leadership Development Read More
Los Alamos MainStreet Staff, Councilor Attend Conference
Los Alamos MainStreet & Creative District Executive Director Jacquelyn Connolly, County Councilor Ryn Herrmann and Event Manager Alison Watkins at the 2025 Main Street Now Conference. Courtesy/LAMCD
MainStreet News:
Los Alamos MainStreet & Creative District recently attended the MainStreet Now Conference in Philadelphia, Penn. Executive Director Jacquelyn Connolly, Event Manager Alison Watkins, accompanied by Los Alamos County Councilor Ryn Herrmann, spent a busy and thought-provoking week participating in informative sessions and activities.
Pennsylvania Gov. Read More
How NASA Dreams Turned To Creative Writing Reality
St. John’s College staff member Kathleen Murphy. CourtesySJC
By KATHLEEN MURPHY
St. John’s College
In 1983, I met with my school counselor for the “career talk”. All vocational tests pointed toward the sciences, and I could taste a future at NASA. As I became more insistent about this pathway, my counselor oddly kept redirecting me to other jobs. He pointed out how well I was doing in English class, and wouldn’t I like to take an elective course in Creative Writing? He suggested jewelry-making. Jewelry-making? I left perplexed.
Walking home, I stopped in my tracks: I am a woman; THAT’S where the Read More
Santa Fe Community College To Close For Memorial Day
SFCC News:
SANTA FE — Santa Fe Community College and the Santa Fe Higher Education Center will be closed Monday, May 26, in honor of Memorial Day.
No classes or activities will be held, and no other student services will be available.
The college’s early childhood development center, Kids Campus, and the William C. Witter Fitness Education Center
are included in the closure.
SFCC and the Santa Fe Higher Education Center will reopen on Tuesday, May 27.
Summer credit classes begin June 2. For information on registration, visit sfcc.edu/get-started/apply-and-register or call 505.428.1270. Read More
Artist Talk And Wire Weaving Demonstration With Hlengiwe Dube May 24 At Museum Of International Folk Art
NMDCA News:
The community is invited to join an artist talk and wire weaving demonstration with artist, author and entrepreneur Hlengiwe Dube, 1-3 p.m. Saturday, May 24 at the Museum of International Folk Art.
Dube is an artist, author, and the founder of Ifundiso Trading. Born in New Hanover in 1974, she was raised in the Valley of Thousand Hills in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Her grandmother imparted the art of beadwork during her youth, fostering her development as a contemporary designer who draws inspiration from traditional motifs.
Dube is now recognized as an expert in Indigenous knowledge Read More
Dark Night This Evening At Spirio Field In White Rock
From Pajarito Astronomers Club:
Los Alamos County Parks, Recreation and Open Space Divisions have partnered with the Pajarito Astronomers Club for the Dark Night program. The community is invited to attend the May Dark Night this evening at Spirio Field, weather permitting. The forecast for tonight is mostly clear. Sunset is 8 p.m., and those gathered will begin observing Jupiter about 8:45 p.m., if it is clear to the west.
Anyone with an interest in stargazing and the chance to look through a telescope is invited to come out to Spirio Soccer Field this evening at Overlook Park in White Rock.
The Read More
Scenes From Chamisa Elementary School K-Kids Supply Drive For Los Alamos County Animal Shelter
Chamisa K-Kids ILy Hinde, Hendrix Deschamp, Andres Sandaval and Mimi Martinez of Chamisa Elementary School in White Rock, sponsored a supply drive to benefit the Los Alamos County Animal Shelter. The students donated the supplies from their drive on Wednesday to Los Alamos County Animal Shelter Director Paul Sena, right. Not pictured are Sponsor and Art Teacher Chevelle Andrea, Lynch Parsons and Sophie Stewart. Photo by John McHale/ladailypost.com
Los Alamos County Animal Shelter Director Paul Sena. Photo by John McHale/ladailypost.com Read More
What About All Those Ticks Around Town?
A brown dog tick (Rhipicephalus sanguineus). Courtesy/CDC
A rocky mountain wood tick (Dermacentor andersoni). Courtesy/CDC
COUNTY News:
Why is there an increase in ticks in Los Alamos County?
In Northern NM, an increase in tick populations in 2025 is likely due to several factors:
- Climate change: Milder winters and earlier springs, due to climate change, allow ticks to survive and reproduce for a longer period, leading to larger populations. Ticks are exotherms, meaning they don’t regulate their internal temperature, so they thrive in warmer conditions. Changes in precipitation patterns
New Virtual Program Trains Public On Overdose Prevention
UNM’s Project ECHO News:
ALBUQUERQUE — In a concerted effort to combat the escalating opioid crisis in New Mexico, Project ECHO at The University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center is partnering with the New Mexico Health Care Authority and Bernalillo County to introduce the Community Opioid Response Education (CORE) program.
The program provides free, virtual training on naloxone administration and harm reduction strategies for everyone in New Mexico, equipping them with the knowledge and tools necessary to save lives. Any New Mexican who participates can receive free harm reduction Read More
LAHS’s Clove Tholen & Annie Xie Named New Mexico High School Musical Theatre Top Ten Best Actor Nominees
LAHS Seniors Clove Tholen and Annie Xie named New Mexico High School Musical Theatre Top Ten Best Actor nominees for their individual performances in this year’s Olions production of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee! Courtesy/LAPS
LAPS News:
Congratulations to Los Alamos High School (LAHS) Seniors Clove Tholen and Annie Xie who were named New Mexico High School Musical Theatre Top Ten Best Actor nominees for their individual performances in this year’s Olions production of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee!
After an intensive week of rehearsals, coaching sessions, Read More
‘Get Your Hands In The Soil’ At Coronado Historic Site
NMDCA News:
Spring has sprung at Kuaua Pueblo at Coronado Historic Site and the garden needs tending.
From 10:30 a.m. to noon on Wednesday, May 28, Coronado Historic Site’s Ranger Anthony will lead the monthly program, “What’s Growing on, Kuaua.”
Each month Ranger Anthony demonstrates different gardening techniques and aspects of garden care and maintenance. Bring water and wear comfortable clothes, a hat, and shoes you can get dirty.
This program is included with admission of $7 for adults and free to children 16 years and younger, New Mexico residents 60+ with ID, Native/Tribal affiliations, Read More
Storytelling Through Drumming At White Rock Library May 24
Jordan Ramos-Flores of Unidrums will lead ‘Storytelling Through Drumming’, 2-4 p.m., May 24 at White Rock Branch Library. Courtesy/LAC
COUNTY News:
The Los Alamos Public Library System will host a unique experience in “Storytelling Through Drumming”, 2-4 p.m. Saturday, May 24 at White Rock Branch Library.
Jordan Ramos-Flores of Unidrums will lead the afternoon workshop, guiding participants through exercises to stimulate the flow of storytelling through rhythm and percussion. Ramos-Flores will lead the exploration and invite contributions from those compelled to share.
“I’m truly Read More
New Mexico State Bar Foundation’s Modest Means Helpline To Host Small Business Webinar June 4
State Bar News:
ALBUQUERQUE — The New Mexico State Bar Foundation’s Modest Means Helpline will host its third free small business webinar of the year, noon-1 p.m. Wednesday, June 4.
The webinar is titled, “Independent Contractor or Employee? How to Navigate Legal Classification and Contracts.”
This is the final webinar in the Modest Means Helpline’s 2025 three-part small business webinar series for New Mexico small business owners. The June 4 webinar will be presented by Margaret Lorenz, who is a licensed N.M. attorney with the Modest Means Helpline, and Taylor Duffney with Briones Business Read More
U10 Toppers Are 2025 ABX LAX Fiesta Champions
ABX LAX Fiesta U10 Champions from left, Coach Jennifer Martinez, Liam Hand, Korbin Parton, David Hargather, Aubry Hand, Antonio Martinez, Ronan Parton. Back row from left, Michael Rosenow and Devlin Rosenow (elevated). Rhys Rosenow kneeling and Elijah Martinez chillaxing. Future players Amber Martinez and Isla Rosenow are also featured. Not present Conner Komathy, Brian Cardon and Steven Richardson.
By MICHAEL ROSENOW
LAYLAX Hilltoppers
After two festive games on Saturday and the Championship on Sunday, the U10 Toppers came out on top with a 30-6 spread over three games. The team incorporated Read More
Improve Smartphone Photography Skills Workshop May 25
MIAC News:
The community is invited to learn how to get the most out of phone cameras with Rapheal Begay (Diné), 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday, May 25.
Begay is an artist based in Tségháhoodzání (Window Rock, Ariz.). His work uses cultural landscape photography and creative collaboration to celebrate and preserve the Diné way of life. Visual sovereignty, Indigenous storytelling traditions, and land-based knowledge inform his research and practice.
The workshop begins in the Education Classroom and moves to the Arroyo outside the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture (MIAC) in Santa Fe.
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Pages Of Our History: Highlights Of The Life Of Los Alamos Ranch School Student Whitney Ashbridge
Whitney Ashbridge as a boy at the Ranch Schoool. Courtesy/Los Alamos Historical Society Photo Archives
By SHARON SNYDER
Los Alamos
Several Los Alamos Ranch School boys have returned to the site of their school in their adult years, bringing back the memories. One such boy returned in his adult years, but he had very little time to reminisce during the months he spent on the grounds of his old school. That returning Ranch School boy was Col. Whitney Ashbridge, the Post Commander for the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos.
Ashbridge was born in 1904 in Philadelphia, Penn. He attended the Los Alamos Ranch Read More
Los Alamos High School Graduate Lillian Kay Petersen Named 2025 Hertz Fellow
Lillian Kay Petersen
COMMUNITY News:
Lillian Kay Petersen, a 2020 graduate of Los Alamos High School, has been named a 2025 Hertz Fellow.
Petersen aims to reveal the mechanisms of gene regulation by combining high-throughput microfluidic assays and synthetic biology. She is a first-year doctoral student in genetics at Stanford University. In 2024, she graduated from Harvard University, where she studied applied mathematics and molecular biology.
Petersen has written three first-author papers to date, ranging from revealing the genetic underpinnings of disease to predicting crop Read More
Los Alamos Local Business Coalition Invites Community To Forum #4: Tools And Strategies Workshop May 29
LALBC News:
The Los Alamos Local Business Coalition (LALBC) invites all community members, business owners, and local leaders to attend Forum #4: Tools and Strategies Workshop at 5:30 p.m., Thursday, May 29, 2025, at SALA Event Center, with a live Zoom option for remote attendees.
This interactive forum will shift the conversation from identifying problems to building practical solutions. Attendees will participate in group workshops to develop and refine bold, actionable strategies aimed at improving the local business environment. The workshop format will use the “IMAGINE” framework, Read More
PAC 8 Summer Media Classes Start June 2
Courtesy photo
PAC 8 News:
PAC 8 summer media classes start June 2 and there are still a few openings for students aged 8-14. Students have opportunities to learn videography, editing using Premiere Pro, drone flying with photography and video, music composition, lighting, special effects, and GoPro video. New classes this year are 2-D and 3-D stop motion animation and Starting a YouTube channel for kids. These classes help students learn about teamwork and provide a creative outlet for them. They also help students to develop their technical skills along with their reading and writing skills. Read More