Democratic Party Celebrates New Headquarters Monday
Community members who attend Monday’s grand opening celebration of the Democratic Party of Los Alamos 2012 headquarters, 140 Central Park Square, will have an opportunity to taste and vote for the best new flavors of Ruby K’s gourmet cupcakes. Courtesy/DPLA
Buy a Plane and Help a Good Cause
The public is invited to bid at an auction Sept. 5 in Midland, Texas on six aircraft seized in drug-related cases by the U.S. Marshals Service. Courtesy/USMS
U.S. MARSHALS News:
San Juan, PR – The U.S. Marshals recently conducted a preview of six aircraft in Aguadilla that will be sold at public auction Sept. 5 in Midland, Texas.
The aircraft were part of a seizure conducted in December 2011, shortly after a search warrant was executed by the Drug Enforcement Administration in relation to the investigation of Santo Seda-Rodriguez.
Seda-Rodriguez, owner and pilot of Jeshua Air Services, was the Read More
United Way Youth Team Announces Upcoming Events
UNITED WAY YOUTH TEAM News:
Golden Acrobats Perform Sept. 15 in Los Alamos
The Golden Acrobats perform at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 15 in Duane Smith Auditorium at Los Alamos High School. The event is a fundraiser for the 2013 Gordons’ Summer Concert Series. The Los Alamos Daily Post is sponsoring the event. Tickets are $20 for adults and $12 for children under 16. Tickets go on sale Sept. 5 at CB FOX, Los Alamos Chamber of Commerce and the Del Norte Credit Union offices in Los Alamos, White Rock and Espanola. For more information, visit russ@gordonssummerconcerts.com Courtesy/RG Read More
Friday’s ‘Blue Moon’ Shines Over White Rock
Friday’s “Blue Moon” looking east over White Rock is the second full moon during August. The next “Blue Moon” is expected in 2015. Photo by Katy Korkos Read More
Mountain’s Student Newspaper Project Part 10
Editor’s note: This is part 10 of a 15-part series featuring newspapers created by sixth grade students in teacher Michele Altherr’s gifted class at Mountain Elementary School.
This newspaper features the intelligent attributes of the orangutan as reported and published by Mountain Elementary School 6th grade student Lucas Manzanares.
County Line Highlights Plenty of Sunshine
COUNTY News:
County Council Special Session set for Thursday
There won’t be a regular County Council session Tuesday evening; however, the County Council does plan to meet at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 6. The only item on the agenda will be to fill the existing councilor vacancy.
The County received seven letters of interest by the Aug. 28 deadline. The candidates must be at the meeting and be ready for an interview with the Council, which is expected to make a decision that evening.
Download the agenda to review the list of candidates and letters of interest: https:////www.losalamosnm.us/gov/council/Pages/default.aspx Read More
CONE ZONE: Traffic Conditions Week of Sept. 3
LOS ALAMOS COUNTY News:
Public Works Projects:
For more information about the projects listed below, please e-mail lacpw@lacnm.us, call 662-8150, or visit the “Projects” link at www.losalamosnm.us.
Pavement Preservation – Fog Sealing Moves to North Community and Quemazon
Fog sealing operations will occur Tuesday and Wednesday on North Community streets including 45, 46, 47, 48, White, Urban – North Road to 48, and Sycamore.
Crews will then move to Quemazon on Wednesday and Thursday on streets south of Brisa del Bosque: Tranquillo, Hermosura, Sereno, Sonrisa, and Solana. Followed by Read More
Multimedia Bird Banding Talk Thursday at PEEC
PEEC News:
Courtesy Photo
At 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 6, Dave Yeamans will give an updated talk at the Pajarito Environmental Education Center (PEEC) about bird banding. The talk is free and open to the public.
Bird banding starts with getting a permit to conduct a study on birds of a particular type in a defined area.
Yeamans’ talk will focus on passerines (perching birds in the areas around upper Alamo Canyon in Bandelier National Monument and the Valles Caldera ranch headquarters.
During bird migration season, researchers set up up to 20 nets 20 meters long and 3 meters high, and then patrol the Read More
Los Alamos Singletrack Assoc. Hosts First Time Trials
LASA News:
The Los Alamos Singletrack Association (LASA) held its first mountain bike time trials Wednesday evening. A course was setup northwest of the Diamond Drive/San Ildefonso Road roundabout. LASA plans to hold more Wednesday evening time trials. For information, contact Scott Weiss at 661-4499. Visit the group’s Facebook page at: https://www.facebook.com/LosAlamosSingletrack.
Randy Flores on the time trail course Wednesday evening. Photo by Greg Kendall/ladailypost.com
Marcus Leibrecht moves along the route of the time trail course Wednesday evening. Photo by Greg Read More
Redbook Names Albuquerque and Santa Fe Among ‘Most Romantic Date Destinations’ in America
Image/Wikimedia Commons, Creative Commons, Attribution 3.0 Unported
Staff report:
Redbook magazine has released its list of the “Most Romantic Date Destinations” in America and Los Alamos has three of them in its own back yard … or just a day’s drive away.
Redbook’s list:
- The Finger Lakes region of Upstate New York
- St. Augustine, Fla.
- Top of the Rock, New York City
- The Greenbrier in White Sulphur Springs, W.V.
- St. Petersburg, Fla.
- Harvest Inn, Napa Valley, Calif.
- Albuquerque, N.M.
- Pittsburgh, Penn.
- Newport, RI.
- Santa Fe, N.M.
- Rincon, Puerto Rico
- Sedona,
I-25/St. Francis Drive Ramp Closed Tonight
NMDOT News:
The New Mexico Department of Transportation is alerting motorists that there will be a ramp closure at the Interstate 25/St. Francis Drive interchange in Santa Fe tonight.
The northbound off-ramp to St. Francis Drive will be closed from 8 p.m. Aug. 31 until 5 a.m. Sept. 1. The ramp is being closed for safety reasons while work is done on the bridge above it.
Motorists exiting from I-25 to Santa Fe may take the Old Pecos Trail, Cerrillos Road, or N.M. 599 exits. The southbound on-ramp from St. Francis Drive to I-25 will remain open.
Crews will be working at the interchange all Labor Day weekend Read More
Los Alamos Historical Museum Prepares Exhibit ‘Jack Aeby: His Life and Work Beyond the Blast’
A new exhibit is going up today in the Changing Exhibit Room of the Los Alamos Historical Museum: “Jack Aeby: His Life and Work Beyond the Blast.” Aeby took the only color photograph of the Trinity test. His daughter has been working together with a museum specialist and an archivist to prepare the extraordinary exhibit for a special public opening from 4-6 p.m. Friday, Sept. 7. Courtesy/LAHM Read More
Former LANL Director Drops By Local Bookstore
Former Los Alamos National Laboratory Director Robert Kuckuck stopped in to peruse the books and gifts available in the Otowi Station Bookstore Thursday. Consensus among employees: “What a nice man.” Kuckuck is pictured here in his office preparing for a business meeting. Courtesy photo
LANL Researcher Named as American Chemical Society Fellow
LANL News:
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) scientist Kristin Omberg was named as an American Chemical Society (ACS) Fellow for her contributions to national security as a “technical leader in detecting and mitigating biological threats” and to the ACS community.
Omberg is the acting division leader of the Decision Applications Division and the Laboratory’s project leader for the Department of Homeland Security’s BioWatch Program.
BioWatch is a detection system that monitors for potential airborne bioterror attacks. Her BioWatch team in the Decision Applications Division provides Read More
Virginia Creeper Spotted on Trinity Drive
This Woodbine (aka Virginia Creeper) was spotted growing along Trinity Drive Thursday. Photo by TK Thompson/ladailypost.com Read More
Los Alamos County Launches Sunshine Webpage
COUNTY News:
Los Alamos County has added a new “Sunshine” webpage to its County website.
The new feature can be accessed by clicking on the sun icon on the County’s home page.
The Sunshine webpage addition is another step toward the County’s goal to build citizen trust by being open and transparent.
The new webpage makes more government documents available on-line and offers a more direct way to navigate to key documents that are already offered on the website.
For example, the Sunshine webpage offers new information to residents through a County “checkbook register” that shows monthly Read More
‘Mozart on the Rocks’ Opera at Bandelier on Sept. 29
CHAMBER News:
FREE TO ALL! The Los Alamos Opera Guild (LAOG) The Guilds of The Santa Fe Opera, Inc. and Bandelier National Monument will co-host OPERA AT BANDELIER.
The event will be held on National Public Lands Day, Saturday Sept. 29, at the Bandelier amphitheater. Visitors will be able to enjoy the fall colors at Bandelier while listening to music.
The performance will be “THE THREE SOPRANOS” singing Mozart; coordinated by local Opera singer Alicia Soloman with Jess Cullinan and Heather McCulloch.
Enjoy selections from the Magic Flute, Marriage of Figaro, and Cosi fan tutte Read More
New Trend in Effective Speed Control…
Municipalities around the nation have hit on an effective new way to slow down speeders on public roadways. Courtesy photo
This method proves much cheaper than speed cameras, radar guns and police officers. Courtesy photo Read More
Mountain’s Student Newspaper Project Part 9
Editor’s note: This is part 9 of a 15-part series featuring newspapers created by sixth grade students in teacher Michele Altherr’s gifted class at Mountain Elementary School.
This newspaper features the intelligent attributes of the cuttlefish as reported and published by Mountain Elementary School 6th grade student Ethan Aulwes.
