School Board To Discuss Construction Tuesday
LAPS News:
The Los Alamos School Board will hold a Regular School Board Meeting and an Executive Session at 5:30 p.m. Sept. 8 at the Los Alamos High School Speech Theater. The Executive Session will take place after the Regular Meeting is adjourned.
The agenda includes:
- Recognition by the Board
- Summer Reading Challenge – Recognize Los Alamos Public Schools student winners and businesses
- Smiths Market Place Community Rewards check(s) presented to Los Alamos Public Schools by Community Specialist Kathryn Fulton,
- Most Educational Initiative – First Place: Museum of the Coastal Bend
United Church Youth Pastor Keith Lewis Keeps Faith-Building Fun While Raising Funds For Nepal
United Church of Los Alamos hosted a 5-week Vacation Bible School in August and Youth Pastor Keith Lewis kept the faith-building and learning fun with the theme: EVEREST – Conquering Challenges with God’s Mighty Power.
“Each week we talked about how God helps us,” Read More
Water Color Artist Jeannie Hyland To Teach At Fuller Lodge Art Center
Watercolor painters, discover how to get exciting results by applying color to saturated paper. Join world renowned artist Jeannie Hyland to improve your skills at watercolor painting or to learn all new skills.
Fuller Lodge Art Center is pleased to offer a one day workshop with Hyland from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 19. “Wet & Workable Watercolor: Still Life” will help students learn how to work on wet, moist and dry paper to uncover the tremendous flexibility of watercolor.
Hyland will cover managing the moisture Read More
Bishop DANIEL Visits Los Alamos Sept. 26-27
His grace Bishop DANIEL of the UOC of USA will be visiting Los Alamos Sept. 26-27 and his parish, Saint Job of Pochaiv Orthodox Church.
He will preside over the Vigil of the Elevation of the Holy Cross at 5 p.m. Saturday and the Divine Liturgy at 10 a.m. Sunday. Bishop DANIEL will be available to speak with parishioners and those who are curious about the Orthodox Faith. We will share a light meal after both services, and all are welcome to come join us.
His grace Bishop DANIEL
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Pastor Granillo: One Nation, Under God…
How important is it, really, for Christians to seek holiness? I mean, if salvation is by faith alone, then what difference does continuously seeking to be more like Christ really make?
After all, no one will ever be perfect in this life anyway, so wouldn’t seeking holiness just make us hypocrites? Why does holiness matter?
Paul writes to the churches around Ephesus, “As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received” (Ephesians 4:1 NIV). Paul makes it abundantly clear in all his letters that they were saved by grace Read More
Light Casts Patterned Shadow At Smith’s
Sunlight shining through the lattice work and casts a patterned shadow on the patio at Smith’s Marketplace. Photo by Jennifer Bartram Read More
Lunch With A Leader Features David Puddu
Missing Terrier/Poodle Mix Near Urban
Bailey went missing Thursday afternoon near Urban. Courtesy photo
COMMUNITY News:
Bailey, a terrier/poodle mix, tan/blond in color went missing around 2:30 p.m. Thursday Sept. 3 from 46th Street near Urban Park.
Bailey is tan/blond in color and very friendly. His owners believe he may have headed into the canyons by the bridge on Diamond Drive.
If anyone has seen him please call Linda or Carlos Casias 505.6902.142 or 505 6906790. Read More
LAPS Announces Early Student Dismissal For Homecoming Friday Sept. 11
LAPS News:
Los Alamos Public Schools has announced the early dismissal schedule for students on Friday, Sept. 11 for Homecoming:
- All elementary schools: noon (no lunch service);
- Los Alamos Middle School: 12:45 p.m.; and
- Los Alamos High School: 1 p.m.
Udall On Need To Extend LWCF At Valles Caldera
Los Alamos Chamber of Commerce Manager Nancy Partridge, left, is among a group that gathered Friday with U.S. Sen. Tom Udall at the Valles Caldera National Preserve. Courtesy/Sen. Udall’s Office
Sen. Tom Udall, second from right, and the group participate in a cookout. Courtesy/Sen. Udall’s Office
U.S. SENATE News:
U.S. Sen. Tom Udall hosted a roundtable discussion Friday at the Valles Caldera National Preserve on the urgent need to extend the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) at the Valles Caldera.
He participated in a group discussion about the need to reauthorize Read More
AFT Lawsuit Against NMPED Moves Forward
EDUCATION News:
American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten and American Federation of Teachers New Mexico President Stephanie Ly released the following statement:
“Thursday’s ruling from Judge Thomson is an important acknowledgement in our lawsuit against the abusive policies of the New Mexico Department of Public Education under the leadership of Governor Martinez and Secretary Skandera. Judge Thomson’s granting of a hearing for a preliminary injunction beginning on Sept. 16 is a huge win for our union and all educators across New Mexico.”
“We fundamentally disagree Read More
NM Salmonella Outbreak Linked To Cucumbers
NMED News:
15 Cases Reported In New Mexico
SANTA FE – The New Mexico Department of Health is investigating 15 confirmed cases of Salmonella Poona infection in New Mexico that appear to be linked to eating garden variety cucumbers grown in Mexico.
The department is working with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the New Mexico Environment Department, the Albuquerque Environmental Health Department, and multiple state health departments as a part of an ongoing investigation of 285 confirmed cases nationally from 27 states.
The cucumbers Read More
Rodent Causes Friday Power Outage
Rodents wreck havoc on electrical wires. Courtesy/americanpest.net
COUNTY News:
A rodent caused a power outage affecting 537 Department of Public Utilities customers late Friday morning.
The outage began at approximately 10 a.m. when the animal got inside an electric switch cabinet at the Airport entrance and damaged a switch.
Parts of the Los Alamos business area on Trinity Drive blinked, while customers North of Central to Canyon and east toward the airport lost power for a longer duration of time. Electric linemen were able to restore power by 10:22 a.m. to Read More
Scenes From Final Summer Concert Of 2015
Los Alamos County Summer Concert Series promoter Russ Gordon huddles under a large green unbrella with local dancer Annie Bard waiting for Friday’s final concert of the season to begin at Ashley Pond Park. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com
Concert goers begin to gather for Friday’s final concert of the season at Ashley Pond Park. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com
Howard the Chinese Shar Pei attends Friday’s final concert of the 2015 season, which was sponsored by the Los Alamos Daily Post. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com
Piano Virtuoso Sean Chen Opens LACA Season
The first American to medal in the prestigious Van Cliburn International Piano Competition since 1997 will kick off the Los Alamos Concert Association’s 70th Anniversary season at 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 25 in the Duane Smith Auditorium.
Rising young pianist Sean Chen has been praised by the Huffington Post for his “exceptional ability to connect with an audience.” His busy concert schedule has earned him rave reviews throughout the US and a recent European tour included a performance in Amsterdam’s Read More
Explore Southwest Desert Climbing Sept. 16
Join the Los Alamos Mountaineers at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 16 at Fuller Lodge in Los Alamos for an exciting presentation by Steve “Crusher” Bartlett, a desert climber extraordinaire!
Social time and reports of recent and upcoming trips take place at 7 p.m. with the program at 7:30 p.m.
The Southwest features the most colorful landscapes Read More
Friday Night Meetup At Blue Window Bistro
A group of new and not so new residents gather Friday night at the Blue Window Bistro as part of the weekly Los Alamos Meetup. The Los Alamos Meetup group gets together for Happy Hour 5:30-7:30 p.m. every Friday. ‘Come on out and have a drink or dinner, see some friends or make some new ones. There’s a steady group of 15 to 35 folks who come out each week and they are friendly and would love to see more folks every week … married, single, families, gay, straight…we don’t care…just come!‘ The group changes locations so check back to see where they will Read More
Bathroom Excitement Sparks Mock Ceremony
Concert promoter Russ Gordon, local dancer Annie Bard and Nomads’ tenor sax player Matt Gibbs are so happy with the new restroom facilities at Ashley Pond Park that they held an impromptu dedication ceremony Friday evening before the final summer concert of the season. They utilized toilet paper for the traditional ribbon cutting segment of the ceremony. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com
Eddy Partridge of Eddy and the Nomads breaks into song as he exits the boys room at Ashley Pond Park Friday saying ‘the new restrooms rock’. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com Read More
Prescribed Burn Planned On Santa Fe National Forest
SFNF News:
Fire managers on the Santa Fe National Forest are planning to conduct a prescribed burn in the Santa Fe Watershed on the Española Ranger District.
The prescribed burn was postponed last spring due to high winds and ”red flag” weather conditions, which could have resulted in extreme fire behavior.
Fire managers would like to complete the Santa Fe Watershed burn by the end of September, but that window is dependent on favorable conditions, including fuel moisture levels, air quality and weather forecasts, and may be extended further into the fall months.
Approximately Read More
Snodgrass: Why Can’t We Get Over The Civil War
The story of the South depicted in the Santa Fe Opera’s world premiere production of Cold Mountain this season, was predominantly a product of old-school thinking about the South and the aftermath of the Civil War.
As a story of an epic journey of a man trying to return home after a pitiless military campaign, the plot of Charles Frazier’s novel Cold Mountain provides a timeless theme that soars above the harsh details of its historical context. That is traditional and appropriate for an opera and certainly well within a novelist’s prerogative, but also Read More