Letter To The Editor: No Loyalty Left In Sports
By ROY M. MOOREGFOA Presents County’s OMB Its ‘Distinguished Budget Presentation Award’ For 24th Straight Year
Deputy County Manager/Chief Financial Officer Steven Lynne
COUNTY News:
The Office of Management and Budget for Los Alamos County was recently notified by the Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA) that it has been awarded the “Distinguished Budget Presentation Award” for its FY16 Budget.
This is the 24th year in a row that the County has received this prestigious national award. In order to receive the award, the County had to satisfy nationally recognized guidelines for effective budget presentation. It must be rated “proficient” in four categories, which contain 14 mandatory Read More
Los Alamos Historical Society Team’s Last Day In Japan
Kallie Funk and Judith Stauber cutting up at Nagasaki Ropeway. Courtesy photoWilliams: Multi-lane Roundabout At Central–N.M. 502 More Accident Prone Than If Signalized
Courtesy imageGeorge Jennings, Jr’s letter on “Arts In Public Places” For New Roundabout here gives me an opportunity to make some comments and to offer an “ART” suggestion.
Mr. Jennings’ letter sounded like perfect satire with his bow for commuters (disingenuous, since commuters were the last consideration on the Council’s agenda) and a call for a humongous rocket/bomb display. I seem to remember that the council has made a great fuss about de-emphasizing the bomb business in an effort to promote Read More
Why Today Matters For Women’s History
Women suffragists picketing in 1917 in front of the White House. Courtesy/Belmont-Paul Women’s Equality National Monument
By PAGE HARRINGTON
Executive Director
Belmont-Paul Women’s Equality National Monument
One day in 1917, a dozen women gathered in front of the White House to stage a silent protest for women’s right to vote.
Spectators yelled at them, kicked them, and spit on them. They ripped the banners from their hands and threw them onto the ground.
Undaunted, these women brought those tattered banners back to a house across town. They cleaned them — sometimes carefully re-stitching Read More
Expert On Nature Play Visits Los Alamos
Ken Finch portaging a canoe. Courtesy photoPEEC News:
Generations of American children enjoyed outdoor play in wild spaces as a cherished part of growing up, but too many of today’s children are virtually trapped indoors. Veteran environmental educator and national nature play expert Ken Finch will speak at the Los Alamos Nature Center at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 21 at the Los Alamos Nature Center. He brings an informative and light-hearted perspective of the growing movement to restore nature-based play to childhood. He will also explain how we can help foster it in our own family and Read More
Letter To The Editor: Why Is County Hemorrhaging Money In Lawsuits To Former Employees?
By KHAL SPENCERAs I have said before, and concur once again with Doug Pippin and George Chandler, its long past overdue for our County Council to level with the public on why, exactly, Los Alamos County and our government insurance carrier have been hemorrhaging money in lawsuits to former employees, whether faulty personnel and policy rules or poor administrative decisions (or both) are at fault, and why the public continues to be kept out of the loop on what is OUR COUNTY GOVERNMENT.
I therefore have a modest proposal. All current Councilors standing for re-election, and all those Read More
Los Alamos Jewish Center Hosts Annual Community Passover Seder April 23
LAJC News:
The Los Alamos Jewish Center will hold its annual Community Passover Seder at 5:30 p.m. Saturday, April 23 at the Betty Ehart Senior Center. The event is open to anyone interested in attending.
The Seder is a ceremonial dinner filled with rituals designed to celebrate the Jewish people’s exodus from Egypt. The Seder, which is Hebrew for “order,” ushers in the week of Pesach in which Jews refrain from eating Chametz. The celebration of Passover commemorates the miraculous delivery of the Jews from years of slavery, ultimately culminating in the birth of the Torah, the Five Books of Moses, Read More
Angel Investor Paul Singh Hears Local Elevator Pitches
Paul Singh’s custom Airstream outside Unquarked Wine Bar in Central Park Square for the Los Alamos stop of his Tech Tour. Courtesy photoCinema Cindy Reviews ‘Hello, My Name is Doris’
By CYNTHIA BIDDLECOMB“Hello, My Name is Doris” is the first film in many years to star Sally Field in a leading role.
Her talent, flexibility and grace are the things that make this movie work. Doris Miller may not, however, be a character you can completely get behind. Sure she’s a shy, mousy, invisible accounting clerk, but she is also socially inept.
The movie opens with Doris’ mother’s funeral. Her brother Todd (Stephen Root) and sister-in-law Cynthia emerge at the wake to suggest to Doris that she get some help. It seems mother was a bit of a hoarder and Doris needs to clean out the house Read More
Registration Opens For White Rock Artist Market
Shoppers peruse last year’s Artist Market at the White Rock Visitor Center. Courtesy photo
ART News:
In June, the White Rock Artist Market will begin its 4th consecutive year as a monthly outdoor artist market. Local artists and artisans from Los Alamos, White Rock and the surrounding Northern New Mexico area are invited to participate.
The market is open 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. the first Saturday of each month, June through September
Participants will experience high levels of visitors traveling on the mandatory Bandelier National Monument Shuttle that picks up and drops off Read More
Obituary: Fay Hicken Jarvis Nov. 1, 1917–April 9, 2016
FAY HICKEN JARVIS Nov. 1, 1917–April 9, 2016
Fay Hicken Jarvis was born November 1, 1917 in Provo Utah to Elijah M. Hicken and Erma I. Jensen. Her family resided in Salt Lake City, Utah; Hinckley, Utah; Cowley, Wyo.; and Richmond, Utah where her father served as a seminary instructor and principal, and she later taught elementary school students.
Fay attended LDS Business College then BYU earning a degree in Elementary Education. At BYU, she met George Jarvis and married in the Logan LDS temple in August 1940, a year after her graduation. After his graduation, George and Fay moved to Madison Wisconsin
Daily Postcard: View From Beanfield Mesa
View taken from Beanfield Mesa Sunday. Photo by Robert Beberniss Read More
Big Wins For LAFC Celtic And Atomic City United
By Los Alamos Football Club Coaching Staff Letter To The Editor: Gov. Gary Johnson
By SCOTT SCRIMSHAWLAPS Students Earn Top Honors At New Mexico State Science & Engineering Fair
Amaya Coblentz, LAMSAG Balderas To Feds: Shut Down Accreditor Of Predatory, For-Profit Schools
NMAG News:Study: Gender Wage Gap Costs New Mexico’s Women More Than $2.3 Billion Per Year
STATE News:Fire Chief Troy Hughes Withdraws From Nebraska Interviews, Announces He’s Staying In Los Alamos
LAFD Fire Chief Troy Hughes
COUNTY News:
LAFD Fire Chief Troy Hughes announced today that he has chosen to withdraw from the Lincoln, Neb., Fire Chief selection process and remain in Los Alamos.
Hughes said he had applied for a job opening in Lincoln earlier this month with the goal of being closer to his family, who primarily reside in Nebraska. He said the decision to pursue the job in Nebraska or stay in Los Alamos had been very difficult.
“I spent many restless nights pondering the decision to stay with LAFD or go back to Nebraska,” he said, emphasizing that the importance of spending time Read More
American Federation Of Teachers New Mexico Announces Early Endorsements For 2016 Candidates
AFTNM News:
Statewide, Legislative Candidates Champions for Educators and Working New Mexicans
ALBUQUERQUE – American Federation of Teachers New Mexico President Stephanie Ly and AFT NM Committee on Political Education Chair Sara Attleson released the following statements:
“We are proud to endorse these candidates for elected office in 2016. AFT NM’s Committee on Political Education held a series of interviews and asked candidates to complete questionnaires detailing their positions on public education and labor issues in New Mexico, and each of these candidates share our