Letter to the editor: Make New Mexico Trap Free
By MONIQUE BEYERLELos Alamos
Real Estate Corner: 10 Tips To Purchasing A New Home
Real Estate CornerBuying a new home is exciting and a big commitment, both emotionally and financially. These 10 steps of the home buying process can help you make the best decision possible so you can purchase with confidence:.
- Step 1: Find a Mortgage Lender. Your mortgage lender can pre-qualify you for a mortgage and provide with the price range you should be looking at in your home search. A pre-qualification letter will be issued to you by your mortgage lender.
- Step 2: Find the right Real Estate Professional. A Realtor ® can help you find
CIR Presents: Great Decisions
CIR News:
United Church Of Los Alamos: Mexico Mission Auction March 21
UCLA News:LAMS Team Takes First In MathCounts Competition
From left, Coach Phuong Nguyen, Mathletes Antonio Dowdy, Do Vo, Duncan Fuehne and Christopher Koh and Coach Jane Lataille.LAMS News:
The Los Alamos Middle School MathCounts team placed first Saturday in the Northern New Mexico Chapter MATHCOUNTS competition at Pojoaque High School.
The team was made up of Do Vo, Christopher Koh, Antonio Dowdy and Duncan Fuehne. Vo placed first as an individual, Koh placed 2nd, Dowdy 3rd and Fuehne placed 4th. The team coaches are Phuong Nguyen and Jane Lataille.
The team will compete March 21 at state.
The MATHCOUNTS Competition Program is designed Read More
How The Hen House Turns—Chicken Moxie
How the Hen House TurnsLast week I reviewed our experience building the Hen House. What amazed me then, and still resonates now, is how the birds adapted to our ideas.
They laid eggs in the nest boxes. They entered the House at dusk and sat on the roosts to sleep. They drank from water jugs (cut down gallon plastic jugs), re-supplied their gizzards with oyster shells to grind their food (LA tuff doesn’t provide good hard pebbles for grit.), and ate their lay pellets laced with cracked corn.
Over its 40 years of intermittent occupancy, the Hen House provided Read More
Food on the Hill: A Lighter Eggplant Parmigiana
FOOD on the HILLI know that if I ask the husband what he wants for dinner, he is likely to say “vegetables in curry” or “eggplant parm.” (Either answer, of course, is better than “I don’t care,” which I find annoying and unhelpful, even if his intention is to convey that he’s flexible, or something.)
Although I’ve been cooking since I was a child, I had never prepared eggplant parmigiana before our marriage. When I did finally try to make it for dinner, I was put off by the amount of cheese, bread crumbs, frying oil and active time necessary to prepare it. Over the years I tried to reduce Read More
YMCA Little Youth Spring Basketball Program Registration Ends Friday
YMCA News:
The YMCA Little Youth Spring Basketball program for Girls and Boys in grades K-1st, is open for registration until Friday, Feb. 27. Read More
Beauties For Big Brothers Big Sisters
Miss Northern New Mexico Rose Lea of Los Alamos. Photo by Try’N’Fly Photography of Los Alamos
BBBS News:
Los Alamos’ own Miss Northern New Mexico 2015 will be bringing “Beauties for Big Brothers Big Sisters” to this year’s Fire and Ice Festival in Jemez Springs.
Come out to Fitzgerald Park 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and purchase your chance to toss a pie at Miss Northern New Mexico, as well as other delegates of the Miss United States Organization. If you’re really feeling ferocious, you can even get the opportunity to plant a pie right in a beauty queen’s face. Weather permitting, there Read More
Los Alamos Cooperative Market Celebrates Four Years In Business Saturday!
CO+OP News:
The Los Alamos Co+op Market is celebrating its 4th anniversary Saturday by offering fun learning experiences for all ages, live music, food sampling, cake and a semi-annual Inventory Reduction Sale.
Celebrate community while enjoying interactive booths by a variety of non-profit organizations including the NMSU County Extension, Camino de Paz, Family YMCA and Pajarito Environmental Education Center (PEEC).
To show appreciation for the Co+op’s member/owners, the Co+op is offering a 10 percent discount Saturday on all regular priced items.
Activities for all ages:
All Day: Read More
Public Invited To Attend First 2015 Budget Committee Meeting Wednesday
LAPS News:
The first meeting of the Los Alamos Public Schools 2015 Budget Committee is 5-6:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Speech Theater at Los Alamos High School.
Public comment will be accepted at the beginning and the end of the meeting.
Agenda Highlights:
- Review of Budget Committee Charter approved by LAPS School Boar;
- Review of LAPS non-negotiable goals; and
- Discussion of how to identify the gaps to reach non-negotiable goals, how to measure those gaps and what is required to close those gaps.
The LAPS School Board and District Office strongly encourage community involvement in this process. Read More
Speaker Tripp Releases Statement On Passing Of Former House Sergeant-At-Arms Gilbert Lopez
STATE News:
SANTA FE – House Speaker Don Tripp released the following statement on the passing of former Sergeant-At-Arms Gilbert Lopez:
“Gilbert Lopez dedicated his life to serving the people of New Mexico. Including his tenure as the sergeant-at-arms, Lopez served in the State Capitol for 23 years before retiring in 2014. He is a man of great honor. Our prayers go out to his family and friends.”
Memorial honoring House Sergeant-At-Arms Gilbert Lopez at his retirement following the 2014 legislative session:
WHEREAS, after twenty-three years of working at the state capitol, Read More
Prescribed Burns Planned On Santa Fe National Forest’s Cuba Ranger District
SFNF News:
SANTA FE – Fire managers on the Santa Fe National Forest plan to continue the La Jara prescribed pile burns on the Cuba Ranger District this week.
The La Jara prescribed pile burns, a remaining total of 56 acres, may continue through March 30, only if conditions, including fuel moisture levels, air quality and weather forecasts, are favorable. Small blocks may be treated each day to decrease the daily smoke volume.
Prescribed fires are one of the most effective tools available to resource managers for restoring fire-dependent ecosystems. These fires mimic natural Read More
Legislation To Expand State’s Voyeurism Law Passes House Floor With Unanimous Vote
Rep. Sharon Clahchischilliage
STATE News:
SANTA FE – Legislation that would crack down on sexual predators attempting to secretly view or record a person’s intimate areas has passed the House floor by a bipartisan vote of 59-5.
The legislation, sponsored by Rep. Sharon Clahchischilliage, R-San Juan County, will now go the State Senate.
“We have the right to our privacy and must make sure these rights are protected,” said Clahchischilliage, of Kirtland, the bill’s sponsor. “This legislation will help protect New Mexico’s families from predators. I look forward to a vote by the Senate.” Read More
Letter to the Editor: Grateful For Support
By VICKY HYPES, Christian ChurchThe House of Hope and Trinity Builders wish to thank the community for supporting our Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper held Feb. 17.
We are grateful for the publicity provided by KRSN, The Los Alamos Daily Post and The Los Alamos Monitor. Jan McDonald and his band provided wonderful Dixieland Music, and more than 40 members of Trinity on the Hill and other Los Alamos Church congregations helped make this a success. We thank you all!
The proceeds from this event help purchase the supplies for our groups to continue
Easter Sunday Eggstravaganza April 5
Greg Moon Art Gallery Calls For Entries In ‘After Dark IV’ Exhibition
The Greg Moon Art Gallery in Taos. Courtesy/GMAGPajarito Masonic Lodge #66 Hosts Charity Breakfast For Blue Star Mothers Of America
Pajarito Masonic Lodge #66 hosted a charity breakfast Saturday morning to benefit the local chapter of the Blue Star Mothers of America, a non-partisan, non-political, non-sectarian organization that supports the relatives of active duty and retired military. Numerous members of the local chapter worked alongside the Lodge brethren to cook and serve waffle breakfasts to a hungry public! For more information on the Blue Star Mothers of America, visit https:////www.bluestarmothers.org. For more information on Pajarito Lodge or Freemasonry, contact Jake Turin, Read More
New Mexico Senate Unanimously Confirms Higher Education Department Secretary Barbara Damron
Barbara Damron
STATE News:
SANTA FE – Today, the New Mexico State Senate unanimously confirmed Higher Education Department (HED) Cabinet Secretary Barbara Damron.
Damron received numerous praises from both sides of the aisle throughout the proceedings.
“I am both honored and privileged to be given this tremendous responsibility by Gov. Susana Martinez and the New Mexico State Senate” Damron said. “All education stakeholders must work together to guide students down a successful academic path.”
Damron has more than 30 years of experience as an executive, health care provider, scientist, Read More
Infinity Squared Music Presents Spoken Lead Singer Matt Baird In Los Alamos Concert Tuesday Evening
Spoken lead singer Matt Baird performs at 7 p.m., Tuesday. Courtesy photo
INFINITY SQUARED MUSIC News:
Don’t miss this concert at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 24. Matt Baird, lead singer for Spoken, has come from Iowa by way of Texas to do an acoustic show at New Beginnings Fellowship for a $5 cover fee.
This event is the third show in six months, brought to you by a new Los Alamos community group, represented by the name Infinity Squared Music and coordinated by local Phil Jacobson.
The name was born out of the first show (September 2014), where nationally-acclaimed Everfound performed at White Rock Baptist Read More