Daily Postcard: Early Sunrise Silhouettes Trees
Daily Postcard: Early sunrise silhouettes a line of trees Monday in White Rock. Photo by Nancy Ann HibbsCounty’s Traffic & Streets Division Snow Response Team Asks For Resident Cooperation During Winter Storms
Scene on Diamond Drive from winter 2024. Post file photo
COUNTY News:
During the winter months, Los Alamos County’s Traffic and Streets Division works hard to ensure safe travel by plowing snow from designated streets and sidewalks. To enhance the effectiveness of snow and ice control operations, the snow response team would like to remind residents that they also play a crucial role in maintaining clear and safe pathways.
To support this effort, residents are asked to:
- To clear sidewalks and driveways within 24 hours of the end of a storm.
- Ensure areas for trash pickup and mail or newspaper delivery
Los Alamos County And DestinationiQ To Host Tourism Town Hall Wednesday Dec. 10
COUNTY News:
Los Alamos County invites community members to attend a Tourism Town Hall at 5:30 p.m., Wednesday, Dec. 10, at SALA Event Center, 2551 Central Ave.
The event will be co-hosted by the County and its tourism marketing partner, DestinationiQ.
The Tourism Town Hall invites residents and business owners to connect with DestinationiQ and get an inside look at what’s next for tourism in Los Alamos County. The event will showcase new strategies to strengthen the local visitor economy and highlight how DestinationiQ will support these efforts through research, collaboration, and community Read More
LAHS DECA Collecting Socks For Homeless Shelters
Los Alamos High School DECA President Jasmine Heft displays a collection box for the DECA Sock Drive. Courtesy/LAHS
LAHS News:
The Los Alamos High School (LAHS) DECA Chapter is collecting socks for homeless shelters in Santa Fe and Espanola throughout November.
Collection boxes are located at the high school in A-Wing, D-Wing, and E-Wing (Activities Office), Los Alamos Middle School (LAMS) Front Office and the lobby of Los Alamos Schools Credit Union, 1010 Central Ave.
Each academic year, LAHS DECA Chapter selects a community service project to support. For the fifth consecutive year, DECA Read More
Aging Budget Strengthens Safety, Support For NM Seniors
Aging Secretary Emily Kaltenbach
ALTSD News:
SANTA FE – The New Mexico Aging and Long-Term Services Department (ALTSD) is requesting $8.2 million in general funds, representing an 11 percent general fund increase from the previous year.
“New Mexico’s older adults need a strong, responsive support network,” Aging Secretary Emily Kaltenbach. “Each year, we see more aging seniors aging in need — this budget strengthens frontline services families rely on, invests in protection for our most vulnerable, and positions us to be prepared for the future.”
The FY27 budget request focuses on the Read More
Luján Delivers $202 Million For Vital New Mexico Projects
From the Office of U.S. Sen. Ben Ray Luján
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) announced more than $202 million in federal funding secured for New Mexico in the Fiscal Year 2026 (FY26) Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill and Fiscal Year 2026 (FY26) Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies (MilCon-VA) Appropriations Bill.
In both appropriations bills that were signed into law, Sen. Luján successfully secured $202,188,000 in Congressionally Directed Spending for 13 critical Read More
Denish: Hope And Aspiration
By DIANE DENISH
Corner to Corner
diane@dianedenish.com
Most people I talk to have never heard of a small museum in Dallas called the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza. I didn’t recognize the name either when a friend I was planning to visit mentioned it. “You know,” she said, “the Texas Book Depository?” Of course—the building forever linked to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
The building, completed in 1903 to replace an earlier structure destroyed by fire, has always served as a warehouse or storage facility. In 1963, the Texas School Book Depository Company leased space there Read More
Peace And Serenity Of Guaje Pines On Warm Fall Day
The peace and serenity of Guaje Pines Cemetery under the warmth of the autumn sunshine. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com Read More
Los Alamos County Animal Shelter Has Pets For Adoption
Handsome and debonair Paco the little rat terrier is available for adoption at the Los Alamos County Animal Shelter. Courtesy/LAC
COUNTY News:
The Los Alamos County Animal Shelter invites the community to stop by to meet the adoptable cats and dogs, or browse available animals anytime on its website.
Whether ready to adopt or just wanting to help out, volunteers are always welcome to make a difference—one paw at a time.
County: How To Be BearWise At Home This Fall
Learn how to be bear wise at home to prevent encounters. Courtesy/LAC
COUNTY News:
It’s Fall, and the bears are busy getting ready for their long winter slumber. Be BearWise at home to prevent encounters.
Trash & Recycling:
- All trash containers are cleaned often to reduce odors.
- Recycling is rinsed out and clean.
- Bear-resistant trash containers are always closed and latched.
If containers are not bear-resistant:
- Regular trash cans are stored inside a sturdy, locked building or bear-resistant enclosure.
- Garbage is put out the morning of pick up (not the night before).
Around Homes and Read More
Defense Technology Company Castelion Chooses New Mexico As Home For ‘Project Ranger’ Hypersonic Manufacturing Campus
Castelion Co-founder/CFO Andrew Kreitz
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ALBUQUERQUE — Castelion, a defense technology company, announced that it has officially selected Sandoval County as the site for Project Ranger, a 1,000-acre solid rocket motor manufacturing campus.
The campus is projected to create more than 300 high-paying jobs and generate more than $650 million in economic output over the next decade. The company plans to invest more than $100 million over the first four years of Project Ranger’s development, with more capital to follow. Read More
Topper Football Closes 2025 Season With 31-13 Loss
The Los Alamos High School Hilltoppers football team lost Saturday’s home playoff game against Gadsden by a score of 31-13. The Toppers controlled the Panthers’ running game, but the Panthers’ passing game was the winning combination that won the game for the Panthers. The Toppers had a very good season with records of 10-1 overall and 7-0 in district, with a District 5A-1 championship. Here, the Toppers charge onto Sullivan Field. Photo by John McHale/ladailypost.com
Ben Brousseau breaks up a pass play to Armando Ramirez in the first quarter. Photo by John McHale/ladailypost.com
Jordan Read More
Los Alamos County Council Regular Session Nov. 18
COUNTY News:
Los Alamos County Council will hold a Regular Session at 6 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 18, in Council Chambers at the Municipal Building at 1000 Central Ave.
During the meeting, Council will issue a proclamation designating Dec. 2, 2025, as Giving Tuesday in Los Alamos County.
The meeting is open to the public.
The agenda for this meeting has been posted and can be found here. Read More
Mountaineers: Hiking The Highlands Of Iceland Nov. 18
The wild backcountry in Iceland. Courtesy/LAM
By BILL PRIEDHORSKY
Los Alamos Mountaineers
The Nov. 18 Los Alamos Mountaineers meeting will feature a talk by Gwendolyn Gallagher and Don Krier on their hike along Iceland’s Laugavegur Trail, focusing on both the route and its natural history.
The Laugavegur trail is Iceland’s most famous hiking route through the southern highlands. The route is known for diverse and colorful terrain, ranging from mountains of colorfully altered rhyolitic tuffs to obsidian black sand plains, with views of icecaps and glaciers, hydrothermal springs, lava Read More
Robinson: Fire Hazard Mounts As FEMA, Forest Service Shrink
By SHERRY ROBINSON
All She Wrote
© 2025 New Mexico News Services
A woman from Mora County told me recently: “We always said we were land rich and cash poor. Since the fire, we don’t even have the land.” Besides fire and flood damage to family property, a road washed out, and nobody has rebuilt it.
U.S. Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández, D-NM, joined by U.S. Sens. Martin Heinrich and Ben Ray Lujan, have chided FEMA’s New Mexico Joint Recovery Office for its sluggish payout of claims for damages caused by the massive Calf Canyon-Hermit’s Peak blaze three years ago. In their recent letter they said the claims Read More
Pair Of Cranes Land In Beautiful Española Valley
A pair of cranes land in the field of a small farm early Saturday morning in the beautiful Española Valley. Photo by Liddie Martinez Read More
County Lodgers’ Tax Advisory Board To Meet Nov. 18
Daily Postcard: Bucks Sparring On High School Lawn
Daily Postcard: A pair of bucks are spotted engaging in a sparring match, practicing their moves and establishing who gets the best turf on Sunday on the lawn at Los Alamos High School. Photo by Michael Smith
Another view of the bucks sparring Sunday on the lawn at Los Alamos High School. Photo by Michael Smith
And one more view of the bucks sparring Sunday on the lawn at Los Alamos High School. Photo by Michael Smith Read More
Obituary: Thomas Earl ‘Tom’ Moxley III Aug. 12, 1977 – Oct. 16, 2025
THOMAS EARL ‘TOM’ MOXLEY III Aug. 12, 1977 – Oct. 16, 2025
Thomas Earl “Tom” Moxley III, age 48, of White Rock, New Mexico, passed away on Thursday, October 16, 2025, in Seattle, Washington. He was born on August 12, 1977, in Phoenix, Arizona.
Tom will be remembered for his generous heart, quick wit, and unmistakable sense of humor. His intelligence, dedication, and caring nature touched all who knew him and will be deeply missed. Above all, he will be remembered for the deep and unwavering love he held for his daughter, Zoe.
He is survived by his beloved daughter, Zoe Elizabeth Moxley (7); his sister, Read More
