New Mexico Environment Department To Permanently Close Deming Field Office Due To Lack Of Appropriated Funding For Building Leases
NMED News:
DEMING — The New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) will permanently close its field office Sept. 30 at 405 E. Florida St. in Deming.
The Department is committed to excellence in customer service to all New Mexicans. To that end, NMED’s priority is retaining all current employees while recruiting new employees for current vacancies.
The closure of the Deming field office was necessitated by operating budget constraints. NMED is evaluating the closure or consolidation of additional field offices due to the lack of appropriated funding for building leases.
Starting Oct. Read More
New Mexico’s Circus Wise Fool Coming To Albuquerque
WISEFOOL News:
SANTA FE — For more than 20 years Wise Fool has been sharing the magic of the circus arts with Northern New Mexico. Wise Fool’s new professional production, ReUnite, will be shared Sept. 2 at at PopeJoy Hall in Albuquerque.
The show successfully delighted and engaged audience members in Santa Fe in May when Wise Fool offered the show to the community four times in their very own studio. The show dazzles audience members with circus feats while engaging in an important conversion. This was Wise Fool’s first new production since the pandemic.
Tickets to the show are on earlybird sale Read More
FBI: Smith Lake Man Pleads Guilty To Second Degree Murder … Faces Life In Prison
FBI News:
ALBUQUERQUE — Alexander M.M. Uballez, United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico, and Raul Bujanda, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Albuquerque Field Office, have announced that Josiah Alan Smith, 29, of Smith Lake and an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation, pled guilty in Federal Court to second degree murder.
Smith will remain in custody pending sentencing which has not been scheduled.
According to court documents May 17, 2021, Smith shot and killed the victim, identified as John Doe, at a residence near Church Rock, New Mexico, on the Read More
LANL: Oppenheimer’s Science Beyond The Manhattan Project & More
Science: Oppenheimer’s science beyond the Manhattan Project
What about J. Robert Oppenheimer as a scientist stands out after all these years? Mark Paris, a theoretical physicist at Los Alamos, takes a look at some of the high points in a column for Physics Today, tracing Oppenheimer’s important contributions to the emergence of quantum theory. Oppenheimer achieved influential work in the spectral properties of molecules, offered an understanding of cosmic rays and neutron stars, and predicted what would come to be called ‘black holes’. Much of that work came while founding the leading Read More
FBI: Tsayatoh Man Pleads Guilty To Being A Felon In Possession Of Firearms & Ammo … Faces 10 Years In Prison
FBI News:
ALBUQUERQUE — Alexander M.M. Uballez, United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico, and Raul Bujanda, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Albuquerque Field Office, have announced that Rumaldo Peshlakai pled guilty to being a felon in possession of firearms and ammunition.
Peshlakai, 43, of Tsayatoh, and an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation, will remain in custody pending sentencing, which has not been scheduled.
According to court documents, Sept. 23, 2021, Peshlakai and Jane Doe were involved in a domestic dispute at a residence in Tsayatoh. Read More
Highlands University To Host 10th Annual Painters Exhibition
Clouds, View from the Studio, painting by Joel Greene. Courtesy/NMHU
NMHU News:
The 10th Annual Painters Exhibition will open Sept. 10, 2023, at Kennedy Hall on the New Mexico Hghlands University (NMHU) campus, and will run through Oct. 31. This year’s invitational show will feature 41 artists and 123 paintings. An opening reception will be held 4-7 pm., Sept. 10.
Artist Joel Greene, who has shown work in previous Painters Exhibitions at NMHU, is the 2023 exhibition’s featured artist.
“I am really impressed by his use of color and the way he uses value and texture to depict the New Mexico landscape,” Read More
Weekly Fishing Report: Aug. 14, 2023
By GEORGE MORSE
Sports and Outdoors
Los Alamos Daily Post
The stocking of rainbow trout by the State Game and Fish Department slowed down this past week. Only two locations were stocked with catchable-size trout in Northern New Mexico. There will likely be an uptick in the amount of stocking in the next two weeks before the Labor Day weekend (Sept. 2-4). The last three-day holiday weekend of the summer.
Big-game hunting started this month with the opening of rifle season for pronghorn antelope. Sometimes referred to as “speed goats”, these beautiful animals are unique to North America and actually Read More
Bear And Cub Spotted At Bird Feeders On Barranca Mesa
A bear and cub are spotted at two bird feeders Sunday in the front yard of a residence on Barranca Mesa. They tore down one feeder and ate its seedy contents after which momma bear attempted to rip down the other feeder. Photo by Lee Weinland
A bear and cub are spotted munching seeds Sunday in the front yard of a residence on Barranca Mesa. Photo by Lee Weinland Read More
MOWW To Host Dr. Glen McDuff Talking About Navy Nukes At Meeting Tuesday At Los Alamos Research Park
MOWW News:
The Military Order of the World Wars monthly meeting is Tuesday Aug. 15 in Room 203A at the Los Alamos Research Park.
The speaker is Dr. Glen McDuff talking about Navy Nukes. The U.S. Navy was instrumental in the development of atomic weapons from the very beginning. Navy participation in the Manhattan Project at all levels of science and engineering was crucial to the success and the ending of WWII. Naval officers commanded the combat missions to both Hiroshima and Nagasaki and a Navy Commander became the first director of Los Alamos after the war. Contributions to the nuclear weapons Read More
Rotary Club Of Los Alamos Welcomes Youth Exchange Student From Mallorca, Spain To Ride In County Fair & Rodeo Parade
From left, Rotary Club of Los Alamos President Tim Bullock, student Joan Gurrera, Rotarian Jim O’Donnell and his grandaughters prepare to participate in the 2023 Los Alamos County Fair and Rodeo Parade Saturday on Central Avenue. Gurrera is a Youth Exchange Student sponsored this school year by the Rotary Club of Los Alamos. He is from Mallorca, Spain and attending Los Alamos High School. Photo by Linda Hull Read More
Robinson: Dems Tout Bidenomics In Plans Of Two Manufacturers
By SHERRY ROBINSON
All She Wrote
© 2023 New Mexico News Services
In the years I covered economic development, manufacturing was always the gold standard because of its high wages. So two announcements in a week, which also coincided with the president’s visit, felt almost like the good old days of the 1980s when we had a lot of those announcements.
First there was Arcosa Wind Towers Inc., a manufacturing company, rolling out the red, white and blue bunting for President Biden as the company and Democrats celebrated Arcosa’s new manufacturing center near Belen.
CEO Antonio Carrillo told the small, Read More
Daily Postcard: Dove And Hummingbird Visit Feeder
Daily Postcard: A white-winged dove and hummingbird hovering overhead visit a bird feeder Sunday morning in the yard of a residence in White Rock. Photo by Nancy Ann HibbsShop On The Corner To Donate To Aid Maui Wildfire Victims
Shop on the Corner News:
Shop on the Corner Thrift Store in the lower level of Trinity on the Hill Episcopal Church, off of 39th Street, will donate $2,000 to fire relief in Maui.
All of this Wednesday’s proceeds plus all donated money on Wednesday will go to Episcopal Relief and Development in Maui for the victims of the wildfire that has devastated a large part of the island.
The community is invited to shop 8:30 a.m. to noon Wednesday for great back to school items, Halloween costumes and hundreds of other low priced items, knowing that the purchase price will directly aid fire victims in Maui. Read More
AFRL Recognizes 2023 New Mexico Excellence In STEM
The 2023 New Mexico Excellence in STEM Award winners pictured with Tech Engagement Office leadership June 22, 2023, following an award ceremony held at Q Station, AFRL’s Tech Engagement Office’s collaborative facility in Albuquerque. The AFRL-sponsored event recognizes significant science, technology, engineering and math education endeavors throughout the state. Courtesy/Enrique Knell
AFRL News:
Teachers, students, businesses and volunteers were recognized as winners at the 2023 New Mexico Excellence in STEM Awards, or STEMYS, an event hosted by the Air Force Research Laboratory’s, Read More
Black Feather Fire Update Includes Addition Of Infrared Drone To Provide Firefighters Increased Abilities To Identify Hot Spots, More Accurately Map Impacted Area
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The Black Feather Fire, burning approximately 9 miles south of Gallina on the Coyote Ranger District, on the San Pedro Parks Wilderness, near the Peñas Negras Trail on the Santa Fe National Forest, has consumed 2,198 acres as of this morning and is 0 percent contained. The fire is burning timber, brush and understory.
Highlights:
A community meeting regarding the Black Feather Fire is scheduled for 7 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 15. The meeting will be held at the Coronado High School Campus at 1903 NM-96 in Gallina. It will Read More
Posts From The Road: Kebler Pass Road Colorado
Going Up!: We took Kebler Pass Road (Road 12) off of Highway 133 just outside of Paonia State Park which is the western end of the road. The first few miles of Road 12 leads travelers through a valley along the Anthracite Creek before ascending fairly quickly to higher elevations within the Elk Mountains. After reaching about 9,000 feet in elevation the road levels out and is a gradual climb to Kebler Pass. Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com
Aspen Patterns: The white trunks of the thousands of aspen trees create interesting patterns as they follow the terrain across the mountain side. Also seen Read More
Fr. Glenn: Hushing Hecticity
By Fr. Glenn Jones:
Yes, yes … I made up the word in the title. But it seems applicable these days, no? We are constantly awash with noise these days. Always there is constant stimulation, whether it be streaming music or television, videos or surfing the web. If you live in a larger city, there’s always the sirens, traffic noise punctuated by the not infrequent roar of loud motorcycles and muscle cars—a type of modern chest-beating by younger (and some not so young) guys. We rarely, if ever, take time just to think … to be still, someplace quiet. So rarely resting in our waking moments.
Some say our modern Read More
Former LAMS Art Teacher Karen Trythall Opens In Taos With Joey Weider And Mary Jo Kelly Sept. 1, 2023
‘Apodaca de Canada Crossroads’ created by former LAMS art teacher Karen Trythall. Courtesy photo
ART News:
The September featured artists at Taos Artist Collective are Karen Trythall of Alcalde – a former Los Alamos Middle School (LAMS) art teacher, Joey Weider of Taos and Mary Jo Kelly of Questa.
Everyone is invited to attend the opening of this show 5-8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 1 as part of Taos First Friday Gallery Walks on the northwest corner of Kit Carson and Paseo del Pueblo Sur.
Trythall earned an MFA at West Virginia University and an MFA at University of Minnesota. She retired from teaching Read More
New Mexico Environment Department Confirms Boil Water Advisory Required For Village Of Angel Fire After E. Coli Detected In Samples
NMED News:
ANGEL FIRE — The New Mexico Environment Department’s (NMED) Drinking Water Bureau confirms that a boil water advisory is required for the Village of Angel Fire.
The Village of Angel Fire was required to issue the advisory Aug. 11, 2023, after E. coli, a bacteria, was detected in water samples collected from the water system’s distribution and Peralta 2 Well.
New Mexico drinking water regulations require the Village of Angel Fire to notify their water system consumers of this finding as soon as practical but no later than 24 hours after the system is notified of the confirmation of Read More
Santa Fe Kiwanis: 2023 Zozobra National Anthem Winners
The 99th Burning of Zozobra is Friday, Sept. 1 at Fort Marcy Park/Magers Field on Bishop’s Lodge Road in Santa Fe. Courtesy/Kiwanis
ZOZOBRA News:
SANTA FE — Kiwanis Club of Santa Fe has announced the winners of this year’s Zozobra National Anthem competition.
Kyanna Narajno was selected as the 2023 Zozobra National Anthem singer. Jonathan Allen was selected as the July 4, 2024 Zozobra National Anthem singer. Lillian Dutton was selected as the 2023 New Year’s Eve Zozobra National Anthem singer.
The Kiwanis Club said, “the talent quotient was absolutely stratospheric, with over 50 vocalists Read More