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OBITUARY: Virginia ‘Ginger’ Richins Jan. 6, 2015

VIRGINIA “GINGER” RICHINS Jan. 6, 2015

Virginia “Ginger” Richins, 84, a resident of Duncan Arizona, passed away on Tuesday, January 6, 2015.

She was preceded in death by her husband of 50 years, Ward Richins; son, Frank Edwards; brother, Rowan Willis; parents, Frank and Frances Willis. Ginger loved horse related activities and was active in the Cowbells club for most of her life. She enjoyed her kids and grandchildren in their many activities. Ginger was known for loving a good game of cards. Those who knew her became friends quickly and loved her sense of humor and kindness. Read More

Valles Caldera Elk Hunt Lottery Opens

VCT News:

JEMEZ SPRINGS – Beginning this week and running until midnight March 18, public land hunters may enter the Valles Caldera Trust’s lottery for a chance to hunt for Rocky Mountain elk this fall on the Valles Caldera National Preserve. The Valles Caldera is known nationally for its large elk herds and quality hunting experience.

The number of elk tags for the 2015 hunt has increased to 242 from 226 in 2014 and are divided into 15 separate hunts: four mature bull hunts, nine antlerless hunts and two either sex hunts. For 2015, the Trust also is offering dedicated hunts for youth, women, Read More

OBITUARY: Helen T. Bender Dec. 24, 2014

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Local Student Talia Ben-Naim Helps Her Community

Los Alamos Middle School student Talia Ben-Naim presents checks for $840 each to Self Help, Inc Director Ellen Morris Bond and YMCA Youth and Family Director Jeremy Smith from her very successful Rock on Climbathon. The proceeds raised from her fundraising event assist the YMCA in providing scholarships and assist Self Help, Inc. in providing consultation and advocacy, emergency financial assistance and seed money grants to area residents. The Rock on Climbathon is part of Ben-Naim’s ‘passion project’ in LAMS seventh grade GATE class, in which she is a student. ‘Passion Read More

New Mexico Airlines Flight Schedule Update

COUNTY News:

New Mexico Airlines contacted Los Alamos County officials late Thursday afternoon to say that they expect to resume full service next week.

The airlines has not flown its route between Los Alamos and Albuquerque since Monday. Los Alamos County Public Information Officer Julie Habiger said this morning that she expects to release another update early next week as the County continues to closely monitor the situation.

The airlines previously suspended all flights in New Mexico in early December. Public Works Director Philo Shelton said in a Dec. 12 news release that commercial Read More

Intro To Entrepreneurship Returns To UNM-LA

Instructor Nik Seet will teach Intro to Entrepreneurship (Business Plan Development) at UNM-LA during the spring semester. Photo by Mandy Marksteiner
 
Instructor Nik Seet, third from left, with his students who raised more than $15,000 for their startups in a few weeks. Photo by Mandy Marksteiner
 

Intro to Entrepreneurship returns to UNM-LA

By Mandy Marksteiner

Have you ever wanted to start your own business? Learn the process of starting a successful company from someone who has both academic training in entrepreneurship and the experience of turning his garage-invented Read More

Unitarian Church Presents ‘Northern New Mexico Regional Art Center’ By Maura Taylor

UCLA News:

Sunday 9:30 a.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Los Alamos, Maura Taylor will present a forum talk about the Northern New Mexico Regional Art Center, a small community nonprofit in Espanola.

In addition to running Espanola’s two museums and operating a gallery and visitor’s center, the organization offers free art and music classes to children. During her past three summers as a college student, Maura interned at the center, and will discuss both her own experiences and general information for those interested in learning about the NNMRAC and nonprofit work Read More

Morning Fog Engulfs Community

The tower at the entance to Los Alamos was barely visible in this morning’s fog that engulfed the community. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

Looking east this morning from the Holiday Inn Express parking lot at Entrada. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

Looking east from Entrada this morning. Poto by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

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New Mexico Airlines Flights Canceled

COUNTY News:

New Mexico Airlines is not currently operating flights between Los Alamos and Albuquerque.

Los Alamos County Public Information Officer Julie Habiger explained today that the airline’s last flight was Monday afternoon and they have canceled flights since then.

“We have not talked to officials at the Airlines at this time,” Habiger said. “We are not in contact with the FAA nor would the FAA talk to us about what the possible maintenance issues might be. The County is addressing the situation and I hope to have a statement from the County about this subject Read More

Skandera Still Not Listening To Teachers Or Parents; Continues To Push Retention Despite Negative Effects

By Senate Majority Leader Michael S. Sanchez
D-29-Bernalillo and Valencia Counties

SANTA FE – An op-ed by Education Secretary-Designate Hanna Skandera in the Albuquerque Journal this week asks voters to support the Governor’s continued agenda to end social promotion in New Mexico schools.

Skandera tells us that social promotion is a “failed policy” and that when children cannot read at grade level, they should be held back. It doesn’t matter that they may score extremely high in math, because she believes their reading score is the determining factor in whether they should proceed to the Read More

Ducks Huddle On Ashley Pond

Most of Ashley Pond is frozen over this morning, but the fountain spout is running strong and the ducks have a melted area where they are huddling up with each other. Photo by Chris Clark/ladailypost.com

Ducks gather in the melted waters at Ashley Pond. Photo by Chris Clark/ladailypost.com

Despite the cold snap, the fountain is going strong at Ashley Pond. Photo by Chris Clark/ladailypost.com

 
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Los Alamos Police Blotter: Jan. 1 To Jan. 7, 2014

LAPD News:

The following information is provided by the Los Alamos Police Department.

Neither arrests nor charges indicate a conviction, and neither means that a person is guilty of the charges filed against them.

CHLIUYEN SHOCKEY

Jan. 1 at 3 p.m. / Police arrested Chliuyen Shockey, 40, of Los Alamos at 2500 Trinity Dr., on an outstanding District Court warrant.

Jan. 1 at 5:06 p.m. / Police arrested Martha Romero, 39, of Cordova at 2500 Trinity Dr., and charged her with embezzlement stemming from an Oct. 16, 2014 report by Los Alamos County Airport of being the victim of embezzlement of an estimated Read More

Poll Workers Train For School Board Election

Elections Manager Gloria Maestas trains poll workers this morning on voting machines for the Feb. 3 School Board. Courtesy/LAC 

Poll workers from left, Fred Brueggeman, Bill McKerley, Erin Kennison and Collin Windle test the audio-visual ballot marking interface component on the ICE voting machine during today’s certification. Courtesy/LAC 

COUNTY News:

The Los Alamos County (LAC) Clerk’s Office conducted poll worker training today for the Feb. 3 School Board Election.

Poll workers are entrusted with the responsibility of carrying out state mandated election procedures Read More

Governor Orders Flags Flown Half-Staff To Honor Rep. Phillip Archuleta

State Rep. Phillip Archuleta

STATE News:

SANTA FE— Gov. Susana Martinez has issued an executive order for flags to be flown at half-staff today from sunrise to sunset, in honor and mourning of State Rep. Phillip Archuleta who passed away Dec. 16.

There will be a public memorial service at 11 a.m., Friday at the New Mexico State Capitol. Rep. Archuleta served the people of the 36th House District.

Governor’s Executive Order:

EXECUTIVE ORDER 2015-001

FLAGS FLOWN AT HALF-STAFF IN HONOR AND MOURNING OF REPRESENTATIVE PHILLIP ARCHULETA

WHEREAS, Representative Phillip Archuleta, who honorably Read More

SFI Seminar: Simplifying Multiscale Modeling

Catherine Ray

SFI News:

The Santa Fe Institute presents the SFI Seminar, Simplifying Multiscale Modeling, at 12:15 p.m., Monday, Jan. 12 in the Collins Conference Room, 1499 Hyde Park Road in Santa Fe.

The presenter is Thiel Fellow Catherine Ray.

Abstract: A fiber bundle is a beautiful device, which expresses global phenomenon in terms of the output of local data. The geometric multi-scale modeling technique, aptly named fiber bundle dynamics, expresses macroscale data in terms of the output of microscale models.

By recognizing that (1) dependent types are fibrations and (2) a multi-scale Read More

NMSA Theater Department Opens 2015 Season

Courtesy/NMSA

NMSA News:

New Mexico School for the Arts’ Theater Department will open its 2015 season with Radium Girls, by D. W. Gregory, directed by Joey Chavez and Deborah Potter.

Inspired by a true story, Radium Girls follows the popularity of radium as a medical and industrial product, used for a variety of purposes – from fighting tumors to providing luminous paint for wristwatch faces – until the workers painting them began to fall ill from a mysterious disease. Gregory’s play traces the efforts of Grace Fryer, a wristwatch dial painter in the 1920s, as she fights for her day in court.

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Los Alamos Civil Air Patrol Cadets Receive LANL Foundation STEM Grant

Los Alamos CAP Cadets with equipment purchased with LANL Foundation STEM grant. Courtesy/CAP

CAP News:

Civil Air Patrol cadets from the Los Alamos Composite Squadron are benefitting from a $1,500 STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) grant from the LANL Foundation.

The grant was used to purchase equipment that supports CAP cadets in their Aeronautical Education and Robotics activities. In addition to these two programs, Los Alamos Cadets participate in Cyber Patriots. This is a national competition that allows cadets to learn how to defend against cyber-attacks and prevent Read More

Heinrich Cosponsors Bill To Ensure Married Same-Sex Couples Are Treated Equally Under Federal Law

U.S. SENATE News:

  • “Guaranteeing equal protection under the law is right and just.”

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., cosponsored S. 29, the Respect for Marriage Act, a bill to ensure all legally-married, same-sex couples are treated equally under federal law.

The bill seeks to fully implement the Supreme Court’s decision striking down the discriminatory Defense of Marriage Act.

“All couples who have solidified their life-long commitment to each other through marriage deserve the same rights and responsibilities regardless of where they live,” Read More

Luján Statement At Start Of 114th Congress

Rep. Ben Ray Luján

CONGRESSIONAL News:

Washington, D.C. – Rep. Ben Ray Luján of New Mexico’s Third District released the following statement Tuesday after being sworn in as a member of the 114th Congress.

“As we start the new Congress it is a tremendous honor to serve the people of New Mexico and to have the opportunity to again represent our great state. In New Mexico we are a family, and to solve the challenges we face we need to work together, from every level of government to the private sector. We all have a role to play and I will be working hard in Washington and in the district Read More

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