Family Council Fête Features Craig Martin Experience Dec. 14
School Board Seeks Nomination for 2014 Achievement Award
LAPS News:
School Board President Jim Hall and members of the School Board invite students, staff, and community members to nominate any staff member, parent, community member, student or school volunteer for the 2014 Los Alamos Public Schools Excellence for Student Achievement Award.
Hall wrote in the invitation that there are a “myriad of individuals who give time, energy, and skills to better the lives of students. Los Alamos schools wouldn’t be where we are without the tremendous support of members of the student body, staff, and community.”
Los Alamos Public Schools will choose a recipient Read More
First Ever Native American Food Hub Helps Farmers Find Markets
STATE News:
ALBUQUERQUE – USDA Rural Development State Director Terry Brunner presented a certificate of obligation to the Acoma Business Enterprise, LLC to develop a business plan to expand the marketing the produce grown by Native American farmers through a food hub at the Southern Pueblos Council monthly meeting. Read More
Anna Casperson Elected LAAOR President
Longtime Los Alamos Realtor Anna Earlene Caspersen, left, was elected president and received the gavel from Past President Mary Anne Beard at Wednesday’s Los Alamos Association of Realtors (LAAOR) 2013 President’s Breakfast at the Fusion Cafe & Coffee Roasters in Mari-Mac Plaza. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com
Qualifying Broker/Owner Kendra Henning of RE/MAX of Los Alamos, left, was honored with a special ‘Above and Beyond’ award for her extra efforts this year for LAAOR. Past President Mary Anne Beard presented Henning with a gift during Read More
Community Celebrates Bradbury Science Museum’s 50th Anniversary
Bradbury Science Museum Director Linda Deck, left, welcomes Los Alamos County Councilor Kristin Henderson at the museum’s 50th Anniversary Party Wednesday evening. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com
Marge Cole Agnew and her husband Lew Agnew, center, at the Bradbury Science Museum’s 50th Anniversary celebration Wednesday evening in downtown Los Alamos. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com
Community members celebrating the museum’s 50th birthday. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com
These men took the challenge. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com Read More
Alice Brigham Waterman Memorial Service Jan. 11
Alice Brigham Waterman
Memorial Service:
A Memorial Service for Alice Brigham Waterman is scheduled for noon Saturday, Jan. 11 at the United Church of Los Alamos, 2525 Canyon Road.
A reception will follow in Graves Hall.
Waterman, 94, passed peacefully from this life December 4, with family by her side. She had struggled for eight months with declining health after breaking an ankle and being diagnosed with mantle cell lymphoma.
She had just spent a joyous Thanksgiving holiday with children, grandchildren, great grandchildren, and even a great-great granddaughter. Read More
Breakfast With Santa Draws Crowd
The Los Alamos Kiwanis Club’s “Breakfast With Santa” Dec. 7 was a booming success.
Chairwoman Cheryl Pongratz said in an interview later, “I thought it went really well.”
Breakfast With Santa is a Kiwanis pancake breakfast with a difference. The club doesn’t sell tickets. Instead, it asks for cash and food donations to help those in need.
Kiwanis Treasurer Cindy Eaton said the club took in $1,815 at the door and $1,500 from Del Norte Read More
Chamber Forms New Crowdfunding Clowd®
Nicholas Seet, second from right, speaks with students in his UNM-LA class, ‘Financing the Entrepreneurial Enterprise.’ Photo by Vint Miller/UNM-LA
Nicholas Seet and his UNM-LA class, ‘Financing the Entrepreneurial Enterprise.’ From left, Misty in front, Alex behind (Main Street Crowd), Julia, Micheline, Yoko, Katy, Mack, Professor Nicholas Seet, Gary, Brandon and Marshall Neel (MainStreet Crowd.) Courtesy photo
CHAMBER News:
- New Economic Development Portal Brings Projects to the People
The Los Alamos Chamber of Commerce announced today that Read More
ESL Students Visit Los Alamos Rotary Club
Students from South Korea and India enrolled in the advanced ESL (English as a Second Language) program at UNM-Los Alamos visited Tuesday’s meeting of the Rotary Club of Los Alamos as a way to learn more about American culture and this international service organization. From left, Younghoon Moon, Manimalar, Eunhee Lee, Hyo Seok Chun and ESL instructor Jane Clements. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com Read More
Astronaut Mike Mullane Addresses Civil Air Patrol Cadets
Staff Report
Astronaut Mike Mullane spoke to the Los Alamos Civil Air Patrol cadets Monday at the Los Alamos Airport.
Col. Mullane graduated from West Point in 1967, was commissioned in the USAF and flew combat missions in Vietnam.
He holds a Master’s of Science Degree in Aeronautical Engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology and is also Read More
Be Surrounded by Sound at Holiday Prism Concert
Community Winds Musical and Artistic Director Ted Vives at Tuesday’s Holiday Prism Concert rehearsal. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
Winds saxaphone and bassoon players rehearse for the upcoming Holiday Prism Concert. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
The Los Alamos Community Winds will present its third annual Holiday Prism Concert at 7 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 14 at White Rock Baptist Church. The idea of a prism concert, presenting continuous music in the round, began at the Eastman School of Music about 40 years ago, Winds Read More
Walls Are Rising at Smith’s Marketplace
Letter to the Editor: On Affordable Housing
Once again the topic of affordable housing in Los Alamos is in the air, evincing what to me is a basic ignorance of economics. The COST of housing is based on the cost of its economic inputs; that is, land, labor, materials, and capital. The PRICE of housing is established in an auction market between a willing buyer and a willing seller. As the run-up and collapse of the recent housing bubble illustrate, the two are only loosely linked.
A developer analyzes the local market and attempts to find the right combination of land, labor, materials, and capital to entice buyers
FBI: John Charles McCluskey to Receive Life in Prison for Murdering Oklahoma Couple
FBI News:
WASHINGTON—John Charles McCluskey, 48, will receive a life prison sentence for a host of crimes arising from the carjacking and murder of a couple from Tecumseh, Oklahoma, after a federal jury today announced that it could not reach a unanimous decision on whether to impose the death penalty.
Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, Acting U.S. Attorney Steven C. Yarbrough of the District of New Mexico, Special Agent in Charge Carol K.O. Lee of the FBI’s Albuquerque Read More
Governor’s Proposal Would Raise Starting Teacher Salaries
STATE News:
Wednesday, Gov. Susana Martinez announced proposals to better recruit, retain, and compensate new teachers, as well as reward teachers and school leaders whose students are achieving strong academic growth in the classroom.
Martinez’s plan would increase the minimum base starting salary for teachers in New Mexico by 10 percent and allow every school district to propose a plan to utilize new state funding to provide significant financial rewards to its high-performing teachers and school leaders.
“Teaching Read More
Fruitcake Sale Tradition Continues in LANB Lobby
OES News:
For more than 50 years, Los Alamos Chapter #63, Order of Eastern Star, has sold Collin Street Bakery holiday fruitcakes in Los Alamos.
This year the chapter will continue that tradition by selling fruitcakes, as well as apricot pecan and pineapple pecan cakes 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., or until sold out, Friday, Dec. 13 and Friday, Dec. 20 in the Los Alamos National Bank lobby, 1200 Trinity Dr.
Regular-sized traditional holiday cakes cost $25 each and pineapple pecan cakes cost $30.
Contact Judy Goldie, 505.662.3797, judygoldie1@gmail.com or Nina Laird, 505.662.7580 for more information. Read More
Final 70th Anniversary Lecture: LANL’s Stockpile Stewardship Role
A B61 nuclear gravity bomb. Courtesy/DOD
LANL News:
- Last in year-long series of public talks at Bradbury Science Museum
The role Los Alamos National Laboratory plays in stockpile stewardship is the focus of the final 70th Anniversary Lecture at 5:30 p.m., Dec. 18 at the Bradbury Science Museum. Jon Ventura, Los Alamos’s executive staff advisor to the Principal Associate Director for Weapons Programs, will give the talk.
“For 70 years the men and women of Los Alamos have explored the frontiers of science and engineering to meet a broad array of national security challenges,” Ventura said. “The Read More
Young Minds, To Work!
M.I.M.R.E.. (Mechanical Idea Made Real Epically.) Courtesy photo
Young Minds, To Work!
The Los Alamos Middle School has accepted a challenge involving skill, creativity, problem-solving abilities, and gracious professionalism. “What is this challenge?” you might ask, and so I will answer that inquiry, it is the FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC), and this year it is the “block party”. Read More
Alert: Elk Wintering on N.M. 4
Reader Alert:
A community member has asked the Los Alamos Daily Post to alert motorists to the fact that Tuesday she saw an elk herd on the right side of the road on N.M. 4, north of White Rock and south of the truck route, on Pueblo land.
Today she spotted the herd on the left side of the road on N.M. 4.
“Yesterday one was hit and killed,” she said. “Please warn your readers who are driving to and from White Rock … this was just at sunrise about 7 a.m.” Read More