Officials Conduct ‘Every 15 Minutes’ Debriefing
Los Alamos Fire and Police Chaplain Cheryl Ridlon leads a debriefing session Friday at police headquarters following last month’s “Every 15 Minutes” distracted driving exercise at Los Alamos High School. Fire Chief Troy Hughes, at left, and Police Sgt. Jordan Redmond and others took part in Friday’s debriefing. Students, parents, teachers, police firefighters, hospital personnel, judicial officials, chaplains from around the region, a mortuary, the Office of the Medical Investigator, a LifeCare helicopter and other emergency personnel participated Read More
New Pharmacy Coming to General Area
AREA News:
A new CVS/pharmacy is under construction on Riverside Drive Saturday in Espanola. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailynews.com Read More
LAHS Varsity Science Bowl Team Make New Mexico History
Congratulations to the Los Alamos High School Varsity Science Bowl team who made New Mexico history in the epic campaign to win National Science Bowl. Facing the best and the brightest that America has to offer, the team made up of Scott Carlsten, Micha Ben-Naim, Lorenzo Venneri, Kevin Gao, and Alexandr Wang, placed 9th in the nation. This was the first time a New Mexico team has broken round robin play and made double elimination. The students would like to thank their coaches: Paolo Venneri, Barbara Jo Mullis, and Kathy Boerigter.Courtesy/LAPS Read More
A New Nature Center – A Natural Fit for Los Alamos
Column by Michele Altherr
As Los Alamos considers the merits and possibility of building a municipal nature center, it is worth considering the genesis of the idea and the value that it adds to our community.
Back in 1999 a large group of citizens gathered in Fuller Lodge to express their interest in a Los Alamos Nature Center. When asked for help in turning the idea into reality, a core group of deeply committed people volunteered. We began to meet in various homes, some of which were lost months later to the Cerro Grande Fire.
We were geologists, physicists, artists, Read More
Saturday’s ‘Supermoon’ Shines Above Los Alamos
Saturday night’s perigee full moon or “supermoon” taken at the old Anderson Overlook was an incredible sight to behold as the moon was the closest and largest of this year to the Earth. Photo by Jennifer Bartram
Saturday night featured the closest and largest full moon of this year.
Astronomers call it a perigee full moon.
The word perigee describes the moon’s closest point to Earth for a given month.
But last year, when the closest and largest full moon occurred on March 19, many people used the term “supermoon.”
The term has been used again for Saturday’s Read More
LALT’s Cowboy Poet a Rip-Snorting Good Time
Grace (Christina Martos) and Wyatt (Bruce Lamartine) share a song. Photo by Minesh Bacrania
Review by Bonnie J. Gordon
Los Alamos Little Theatre’s production of Cowboy Poet, a C&W Musical, an original country-western musical written, composed, and directed by Deborah Magid, opened May 4 to an enthusiastic audience.
Toe tapping music, comedy and a dash of pathos combine to make Cowboy Poet a great evening at the theatre.
Cowboy Poet is set in Pojoaque and Santa Fe, and is all about New Mexico.
Wyatt Rugosa (Bruce Lamartine) is the Cowboy Poet Laureate Read More
Hilltopper Softball Team Beats St. Pius 5-4, First Round of State Tournament, Advances to Play Los Lunas!
Danci Smith catches a grounder. Photo by Alan Kirk
Micaela Christensen catching third strike. Photo by Alan Kirk
Monica Teter throwing a pitch. Photo by Alan Kirk
Amy Gutierrez hitting a single. Photo by Alan Kirk
Monica Teter bunts moving runners. Photo by Alan Kirk
Ari Larkin bunts scoring runner from third. Photo by Alan Kirk
Kristen Christensen scores. Photo by Alan Kirk
Los Alamos Baseball Legend Bun Ryan speaks to team after victory. Photo by Alan KirkPolice Promote Anti-Bullying Efforts
Los Alamos Police Det. Paige Early, center, and Det. Brian Schamber, behind her, talk to community members and give them free tickets to the special screening of “Bully” at the Reel Deal Movie Theater Friday evening. Photo by N.S. Mills
Los Alamos Police Officers and Detectives have been spearheading an effort to help stop bullying behavior at the local schools and throughout the community.
On Friday evening, police were at the Reel Deal Movie Theater providing community members with free tickets to the special screening of “Bully.”
“Bully” is a documentary Read More
Come and Get Um … Kiwanis Pancakes Sizzlin on the Grill at Betty Ehart Until 11 a.m.!
KIWANIS News:
Get dressed and get over to the Pancake Breakfast from 7-11 a.m. today at the Betty Ehart Senior Center, 1101 Bathtub Row. The Kiwanis Club of Los Alamos is cooking up a mouth-watering array of fluffy and flavorful pancakes, moist eggs and juicy sausage along with piping hot coffee and chilled orange juice, white milk and chocolate milk. Proceeds from today’s Pancake Breakfast benefit local youth. Founded in January 1948, the non-profit Kiwanis Club is the oldest service organization in Los Alamos. Local members take seriously the Kiwanis International Vision: “Kiwanis Read More
Andrew Zhao Named 2012 U.S. Presidential Scholar
LAHS News:
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has announced the selection of Los Alamos High School senior Andrew Zhao as a 2012 U.S. Presidential Scholar.
Zhao is one of 141 outstanding American high school seniors who have demonstrated outstanding academic achievement, artistic excellence, leadership, citizenship, service and contribution to school and community.
The U. S. Presidential Scholars will be honored for their accomplishments in Washington D.C., June 16–19.
“Honoring Presidential Scholars is an important celebration of students showing the dedication, creativity Read More
Mitchell Trailhead Work Session Set for Monday
TRAIL WORK News:
IMBA’s local chapter, the Los Alamos Singletrack Association (L.A.S.A) is holding a trail work session from 5:30-7:30 p.m., Monday May 7 at the Mitchell Trailhead.
Volunteers will work on some maintainanece items on the Perimeter Trail toward the cemetary, and are asked to wear long pants and sturdy shoes.
It will be a relatively short and easy trail work session and it will be led by Craig Martin, local trail guru and trailmaster.
L.A.S.A’s goal is to help promote the Los Alamos trail community and welcome all types of trail enthusiasts. Read More
LAHS Parent Orientation Set For May 14
Youth Work Party for Lock-In
FAMILY YMCA News
The Family YMCA is offering a free lock-in night to youth groups who provide up to 15 youth and adult volunteers for 5-hours during a work party on May 12. The offer is limited, so groups must respond by May 9.
YMCA Receives Service-Learning Grant
FAMILY YMCA News
- Delle Foundation underwrites summer program for youth ages 11 to 17
Youth in the Y’s Earth Service Corps program visit the Romero Farm in Española. Courtesy/YMCA
The Family YMCA’s Earth Service Corps YESC program started in 2001 following the Cerro Grande fire with the goal of providing an opportunity for youth to assist in repairing trails.
The Delle Foundation is a Los Alamos-based foundation started by Helen and George Cowan.
Helen Cowan, who passed away in 2011, was an avid hiker and was a devotee of local trails.
Some issues of damage from last year’s Las Conchas Fire Read More
Los Alamos Students Win First at State National History Day Competition
NATIONAL HISTORY DAY News
Ruby Selvage and Kathryn McClenahan accepting a special award from the Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum for the best project on agriculture and rural life (with staff from the museum). Photo by Kim Selvage
A pair of Piñon Elementary 6th graders won first place at the statewide National History Day competition on April 27 in Albuquerque.
Kathryn McClenahan and Ruby Selvage will be part of the New Mexico delegation at the national NHD competition in College Park, MD, June 10-14. Their project, a performance entitled “Land Where Our Children Die: The Reactions and Reforms Read More
18 Volunteers Sought for Senior Appreciation Night
Volunteers are needed for the community-sponsored graduation celebration event known as Senior Appreciation Night (SAN), including someone to wear a monkey suit. 
Editorial Images – New Drive Throughs
The new trend that is sweeping Los Alamos … customer initiated drive throughs! It’s hoped that by having more new drive thru windows, less parking spaces will be needed downtown as shoppers will not have to stop to shop or get information. Let’s hope it works and we can reduce the asphalt in Los Alamos!
McDonald’s new drive thru. Photo by Greg Kendall/ladailypost.com.
The new drive thru at the White Rock visitor’s center. Photo by Carol Clark/ladailypost.com.
If you would like to submit an Editorial Image or Cartoon, submit it to citizencontent@losalamosdailypost.com Read More
Los Alamos Daily Post’s Candidates Forum Spotlights Council Candidates During Thursday’s Live Broadcast
Part 1 (49 mins):
Part 2 (30 mins):
County Council Candidates from left, Ken Johnson-D, Roger Waterman-R, Pete Sheehey-D, Marc Clay-R, Vincent Chiravalle-R, and Kristin Henderson-D, at Thursday's Los Alamos Daily Post Forum broadcast live in PAC 8 Television. The forum is now podcast on www.ladailypost.com and will remain accessible on the news site through the November General Election. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com
County Council Candidate Roger Waterman-R. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com
Council Candidate Ken Johnson-D. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com Read More
Clark & Kendall’s – Weekend Preview – May 3, 2012
The Los Alamos Daily Post's events calendar webcast, "Clark & Kendall's Weekend Preview." Carol A. Clark and Greg Kendall co-host this weekly program, which previews each upcoming weekend's events scheduled throughout Los Alamos and White Rock.
Today's Weekend Preview runs about 19 minutes.
To compile the list of events, the Los Alamos Daily Post checks the event calendars found in the right hand sidebar and we sample the posters on the front window at Aspen Copies. We cover events that are of interest to the general public.
This program is sponsored by Kristin Read More
Shoppers Turned Out for Season’s First Farmers Market
Plant vendor Sierra Cook from El Rito, peers through her wares at Thursday’s Farmers Market in the Mesa Public Library East parking lot in downtown Los Alamos, which was the first outdoor market of the season. Photo by TK Thompson/ladailypost.com
Fresh salad greens and radishes were a hot seller at Mr. G’s booth. Photo by TK Thompson/ladailypost.com
Joel Daeschel shows a customer his selection of plants at the Farmers Market. Photo by TK Thompson/ladailypost.com
Jessica Martinez explains to Collin Sorah what surprises the menu holds at the Coffee Booth Kitchen at Thursday’s Read More