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Letter To The Editor: Lea County Commissioner Shares Support For Sharon Stover

By REBECCA LONG
Lea County Commissioner

I am writing in support of my friend, Sharon Stover, candidate for State House District 43.

Sharon and I became acquainted through our positions as board members of the New Mexico Association of Counties. She is the immediate Past President of the association and I am the Vice President.

These following points are the reason that Sharon is the best candidate for the New Mexico House of Representatives District 43:

  • Sharon deeply understands your community as a past member of the Los Alamos County Council and as County Clerk.
  • Sharon has the highest integrity.
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Scenes From ‘Sheriff’s Public Safety Day’

Sheriffs from across New Mexico attend ‘Sheriff’s Public Safety Day’ hosted by the Los Alamos Sheriff’s Office Oct. 8 at Ashley Pond Park. The sheriffs gather at the event in a show of support for Los Alamos Sheriff Marco Lucero, center. The fate of the Office of the Sheriff in Los Alamos County and whether to abolish it is in the hands of voters today. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

Los Alamos Sheriff Marco Lucero, left, with Executive Director Jack Jones of the New Mexico Sheriffs’ Association. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

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Cinema Cindy Reviews ‘Doctor Strange’

By CYNTHIA BIDDLECOMB
Los Alamos
 
“Dr. Strange” is the latest Marvel graphic novel to come to the screen.
 
This one provides the backstory for the hero of the same name. Marvel comic book readers will know, that Dr. Stephen Strange is an egotistical human being, a much celebrated, though thoroughly arrogant neurosurgeon.
 
As we see in this movie, his hands were permanently damaged in a car accident, one he ought not to have survived at all. Of course, without the skilled hands he once had, his prospects of returning to neurosurgery are dim.
 
Stephen Strange learns from his
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State Auditor Releases Special Audit Of UNMH’s Indigent Care Program

State Auditor Tim Keller
 
STATE News:
 
SANTA FE State Auditor Tim Keller released a special audit Nov. 4 of the Indigent Care Program at the University of New Mexico Hospital (UNMH).
 
Advocates and policymakers have long sought more transparency about revenues and expenses related to healthcare for economically disadvantaged people. The special audit, conducted by an independent audit firm, examined UNMH’s indigent care costs and funding from fiscal year 2014 to 2016.
 
The audit found that UNMH had a total funding shortfall of more than $60 million, despite a reduction
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NCRTD Veterans Day Holiday Closure

NCRTD News:
 
The North Central Regional Transit District (NCRTD) has announced that the RTD “Blue Buses,” RTD Chile Line and RTD Mountain Trail Route will not be in service on Friday, November 11, in observance of the Veterans Day holiday.
 
The NCRTD thanks and honors all veterans for the time they served and the sacrifices they and their families made for our country!
 
The North Central Regional Transit District provides fare-free and premium fare-based bus service Monday through Friday to a service area that encompasses over 10,000 square miles
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SFCC Autumn Readings In Library Nov. 14

SFCC News:
 
Santa Fe Community College Autumn Readings in the Library continues 11:30 a.m. to 12:45 p.m., Monday Nov. 14.
SFCC faculty member Russ Whiting will read along with his Intermediate Fiction students.
 
The free event is in the SFCC Library, 6401 Richards Ave. Call 428.1903 for information.
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Social Media: The End Of Social Graces?

Communication expert, professor and author Leslie Shore

COMMUNICATION News:

Avoid the pitfalls of poor etiquette on social media with these five reminders from communication expert Professor Leslie Shore:

  • Don’t respond to a post or comment out of emotion – Take time to process what you have read or seen and allow yourself time to reflect on your thoughts before commenting out of anger or jealousy. You and your ‘friends’ will be grateful you did.
  • Remember who your ‘friends’ are – Before sharing your pregnancy, engagement, or other news on FB or twitter—think. Your family and friends
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General Election 2016 Is Here: Polls Close At 7 p.m.

Courtesy/LAC

ELECTION DAY News:

Today is the 2016 General Election and all registered voters in Los Alamos County who have not done so are encourged to get to the polls and vote.

The following Vote Centers are open 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., today:

  • Municipal Building, 1st Floor, Council Chambers (1000 Central Ave.)
  • White Rock Library – Multi-Purpose Room (10 Sherwood Blvd.)
  • Golf Course Community Building – Multi-Purpose Room (4290 Diamond Dr.)

SAMPLE BALLOT – White Rock  (Senate District 6 – Precincts 1-6)

SAMPLE BALLOT – Los Alamos (Senate District 5 – Read More

‘Manhattan Project National Historical Park’ Nov. 15

HISTORICAL SOCIETY News:
 
The Los Alamos Historical Society’s November lecture features a panel on the Manhattan Project National Historical Park, including the first Los Alamos appearance of the new MPNHP Superintendent Kris Kirby.
 
The “Manhattan Project National Historical Park” panelists include Kirby, Kirk Singer, Charlie Strickfaden and Ellen McGehee at 7 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 15, at Fuller Lodge in Los Alamos.
 
The Manhattan Project National Historical Park was established in November 2015 to preserve portions
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Letter To The Editor: We Urge Our Community To Reelect Stephanie Garcia Richard State Representative

Signed by:

  • Susan Roach
  • Kyle and Mike Wheeler
  • Ken and Karyl Ann Armbruster
  • June Fabryka-Martin
  • Ellen Mills
  • Shelby and Tony Redondo

Well, we are finally here. The 2016 election is drawing to a close, and we as a group wish to share our conclusions with our fellow Los Alamos citizens regarding what we agree is the better choice to represent our community in the State legislature. We urge our community to reelect Stephanie Garcia Richard for State Representative.

We believe that Stephanie is the most qualified person for the challenging job of State Representative. As a graduate of Barnard College Read More

Senior Parent Night At LAHS Nov. 14

 
LAHS News:
 
Current Los Alamos High School seniors and their parents are invited to attend Senior Parent Night beginning at 6 p.m., Monday, Nov. 14 in the Speech Theater.
 
“Even though we just completed senior conferences, we want the opportunity to meet with students and parents who may still have questions about college applications, letters of recommendation, FERPA and Naviance,” explains Cindy Black, one the guidance counselors at the high school.
 
Other topics to be covered include scholarships, SAT
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LA Federated Republican Women Meet Thursday

LAFRW News:

The Los Alamos Federated Republican Women will hold its November meeting at noon Thursday, Nov. 10 in the Patio Room at 1001 Oppenheimer Place.

Community members are encouraged to attend.

For further information, call Donna MacDonald at 505.662.4001. Read More

Letter To The Editor: Vote ‘For’ Question 1 To Eliminate Dangerous Confusion

By ROBERT GIBSON*
Los Alamos

John Horne’s recent letter cites various state statutes (laws) granting powers to county sheriffs. Unmentioned is the New Mexico Constitution, which is superior to those laws. Art. X, Sec 5C grants to Los Alamos County the power, through our County Charter, to establish our “form and organization … of government” and to “designate those officers which shall be elected.” The same section also allows us to designate “those officers and employees which shall perform the duties assigned by law to county officers.”

Under our current voter-approved Charter, Council Read More

BPU To Hear Value Of Solar Study

COUNTY News:

Utility Financial Solutions, LLC  (UFS) will present a study on the value of solar (VOS) and how to quantify the benefits that distributed solar generation creates for the Department of Public Utilities.

The presentation is scheduled at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 16 at the Board of Public Utilities’ meeting in Council Chambers, 1000 Central Ave. in Los Alamos. No Board action is planned.

According to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s website, VOS “refers to methods used to determine the market value of distributed photovoltaic projects.” Looking at factors such Read More

Letter To The Editor: The 1940’s Radio Hour — A Great Veterans Day Weekend Activity

By JIM NESMITH
Los Alamos

I was genuinely disturbed and disappointed by Bonnie Gordon’s review of the Los Alamos Little Theater’s production of the 1940’s Radio Hour on November 5, 2016. I attended the same opening performance and it was a wonderful experience, enjoyed by every single person in the house with the obvious exception of Bonnie. I agree with Bonnie that she was not the ideal person to review the play and go further in saying she should have recused herself.

Yes, the characters were stereotypes but so what? Show me one play or movie in which that is not the case to at least some degree. We Read More

Smoke Alarm May Have Saved Life In Local House Fire

Los Alamos Firefighters battle the blaze at a home at 108 Sherwood Blvd. Wednesday morning in White Rock. Photo by Stephen Rinaldi/LAFDPhoto by Stephen Rinaldi/LAFD

Los Alamos Firefighters quickly contained the fire at 108 Sherwood Blvd. Wednesday morning and kept it from burning adjacent homes. Photo by Stephen Rinaldi/LAFD

The boarded up home Sunday at 108 Sherwood Blvd. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

 

By CAROL A. CLARK
Los Alamos Daily Post
 
A blaring smoke alarm woke the male resident asleep Wednesday morning inside his home at 108 Sherwood Blvd., in White Rock.
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Letter To The Editor: Vote AGAINST Option 1 And Keep Your Sheriff

By JOHN N. HORNE
Los Alamos County Undersheriff
 
Los Alamos County Charter Section 304.3:

Deputies of the Sheriff, police department, and peace officers. The council shall establishes as a Department of the county, a police department to be charged with conserving the peace and enforcing the laws of the state and the ordinances of the county. The sheriff shall have those powers and duties assigned to the sheriff by state statutes including the powers of a peace officer, but the sheriff shall not duplicate or perform those duties in this charter or by ordinance or resolution assigned or Read More

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