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Interior Department Makes $55 Million Available To Clean Up Orphaned Oil And Gas Wells On Tribal Lands

DOI News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Department of the Interior Friday announced final guidance for Tribal communities on how to apply for $55 million in grant funding and direct assistance available under President Biden’s Investing in America agenda to clean up orphaned oil and gas wells across Indian Country.

Funding through the program may be utilized to plug, remediate or reclaim orphaned wells on Tribal lands, restore soil and habitat in degraded areas, decommission or remove associated infrastructure, identify and characterize additional undocumented wells on Tribal land, and set Read More

LANL: New Technology Improves Space Weather Monitoring

The Compact Space Plasma Analyzer will improve space weather prediction. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

Peaceful though it may seem from Earth, space is beset by “weather” that can prove perilous for the sensitive — and expensive — technology aboard the spacecraft and satellites increasingly populating the realms outside our atmosphere. To meet that challenge, Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers have developed the Compact Space Plasma Analyzer, a small and cost-efficient space sensor capable of measuring space weather, which will help protect technology in orbit.

“Space weather, Read More

Heinrich Pushes For Action To Tackle Fentanyl Crisis

U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich

U.S. SENATE News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Friday U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) held a press conference with New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez, first responders, law enforcement, and a New Mexico resident personally impacted by the fentanyl crisis to highlight the urgent need for action and discuss efforts happening at all levels of government to keep families safe and get deadly fentanyl out of our communities.   

Heinrich is leading comprehensive efforts to tackle the opioid epidemic and protect New Mexico communities from fentanyl. Most recently, as Read More

Clergy Gather For Sunday Of Orthodoxy Vespers

Orthodox clergy, including Father Theophan of Job of Pochaiv Orthodox Christian Church in Los Alamos, right,  gathered Sunday evening, March 24 at All Saints of North America Orthodox Church in Albuquerque for Pan-Orthodox vespers. Courtesy photo

Job of Pochaiv Orthodox Christian Church News:

On Sunday evening, March 24, Orthodox clergy and faithful from all over New Mexico gathered at All Saints of North America Orthodox Church in Albuquerque for Pan-Orthodox vespers. This was the first Sunday of the Great Fast in preparation for the celebration of Pascha, this year, on May 5.

The first Read More

Submittal Of Site Treatment Plan Added To LANL Electronic Public Reading Room

LANL News:

Per regulatory requirements, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) announces new documents have been added to the Los Alamos Legacy Cleanup Contract Electronic Public Reading Room.

All legacy cleanup documents required to be posted after April 30, 2018, are available on the site linked above.

For legacy cleanup documents that were posted prior to April 30, 2018, please visit the LANL electronic public reading room:

  • Submittal of the Site Treatment Plan, Fiscal Year 2023 Annual Update and Proposed Revision 34.0, Federal Facility Compliance Order, October 4, 1995, Los Alamos
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New Mexico Outdoor Recreation Division’s FY24 Outdoor Equity Funding Reaches $3.7 Million

Photo by Kiefer Garcia

Courtesy/Santo Domingo Pueblo

EDD News:

SANTA FE — The New Mexico Outdoor Recreation Division (ORD) of the New Mexico Economic Development Department (EDD) has announced funding of $975,142 in new Outdoor Equity Fund (OEF) awards to 33 organizations.

These awards will be distributed to 16 rural, 13 urban, one land grant, and five Tribal communities. Of those awarded, 28 are first-time recipients of OEF funding. 

The first-of-its-kind Outdoor Equity Fund (OEF) was created in 2019 to enable all New Mexican youth equitable access to the outdoors. The grant supports programming Read More

McDonough: Doing Something About State Of Education

By Patrick McDonough
Chairman
Excellent Schools New Mexico

A dear friend of mine has a standard question for his friends complaining about the state of education in New Mexico. He asks, “what are you going to do about it?”

Well, my wife Nella Domenici and I are doing something about it.

We believe this is the social justice issue of our time – the lack of educational preparedness that is systemic in underserved, and often ignored communities. We know, based on results being achieved nationally in underserved communities, and at our Excellent Schools New Mexico (ESNM) partner schools, that this Read More

Daily Postcard: Cloud Parks Shadow On Black Mesa

Daily Postcard: A cloud parks its shadow exclusively on Black Mesa in an otherwise sun-drenched foreground Friday as viewed from N.M. 502 near Totavi gas station. Photo by Maggie Meier Read More

This Week In Sports: March 28-30, 2024

Los Alamos High School Hilltopper games are covered by the Los Alamos Daily Post sports team of Mike Cote, John McHale and Nate Limback.

Hilltopper Sports Schedule for March 28 through March 30:

March 28 Thursday

  • Softball at Rio Rancho Tournament
  • Baseball vs Santa Fe Away – 3 p.m.
  • Baseball vs Santa Fe Away – 5 p.m.
  • B/G Track at Bernalillo

March 29 Friday

  • Softball at Rio Rancho Tournament
  • Tennis Quad Meet in Española

March 30 Saturday

  • Softball at Rio Rancho Tournament
  • Tennis Quad Meet in Española
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Installation Ceremony Held Saturday For Deacon Amy Colleen Schmuck At Bethlehem Evangelical Lutheran Church

Deacon Amy Colleen Schmuck is applauded Saturday morning as she is installed as Deacon for Welcome and Lifelong Learning at Bethlehem Evangelical Lutheran Church. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

Pastor Nicolé Raddu Ferry welcomes the congregation, family and friends to the Installation Ceremony Saturday  for Deacon Amy Colleen Schmuck. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

Bishop Jim Gonia delivers the sermon during the Installation Ceremony. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

By CAROL A. CLARK
Los Alamos Daily Post
caclark@ladailypost.com

Pastor Nicolé Raddu Read More

EPA And NMED To Host Community Meeting On Chevron Questa Mine Superfund Site On Tuesday April 16

NMED News:

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in cooperation with the New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) and the New Mexico Energy, Minerals, and Natural Resources Department (EMNRD), invites you to attend the community meeting for the Chevron Questa Superfund site.

The meeting will be held:

          • 5:30-7:30 p.m.;
          • Tuesday, April 16, 2024
          • VFW Post 7688
          • 2597 North Highway 522
          • Questa, New Mexico 87556

During the meeting, an update will be provided on current site activities and future cleanup work at the Questa Mine. Following the updates, a question‐and‐answer session will Read More

Post From The Road: San Diego Zoo Safari Park

Giraffes: Four giraffes gaze in different directions as they check out their surroundings at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park near Escondido, Calif. There were four other giraffes in the herd nearby. Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com

Rhinos: Three rhinos spend a part of their afternoon next to a muddy pond at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park. The animals are living in a free range enclosure at the park. This enclosure is the largest enclosure in the park. (one rhino is on the ground behind the rhino on the left). Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com

By GARY WARREN
Photographer
Formerly of Los Alamos Read More

New Mexico County Insurance Authority Elects Officers

NMCIA News:

SANTA FE – At its first regular Board meeting following the Jan. 16, 2024 General Membership meeting, the New Mexico County Insurance Authority (NMCIA) Board of Directors held elections for officers on Wednesday, March 13, 2024.

Officers will serve until the first regular board meeting in 2025.

By a unanimous vote, the NMCIA Board of Directors re-elected:

  • Curry County Manager Lance Pyle as Chair;
  • Santa Fe County Manager Gregory S. Shaffer as Vice Chair; and 
  • Re-elected Sandoval County Commissioner Michael Meek as Representative.

The NMCIA Board representative to the NMC Board Read More

USA Today Names New Mexico State Land Office Among Top Workplaces In The Nation For 2024

The New Mexico State Land Office team including Commissioner Stephanie Garcia Richard, front row 3rd from left, celebrate as USA Today announces that their agency has been ranked 22nd nationally in its category of 150-499 employees and the #1 government agency in the top 100 organizations of its size. Courtesy/NMSLO

New Mexico State Land Office News:

SANTA FE — USA Today has announced that the New Mexico State Land Office has won a Top Workplaces USA award, ranking 22nd nationally among organizations with employees between 150-499.

More than 2,220 organizations participated in anonymous Read More

Congressional Delegation On $10M To Help Close Digital Divide, Expand Opportunity For Tribes In New Mexico

Congressional News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), and U.S. Representatives Teresa Leger Fernández (D-N.M.), Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.), and Gabe Vasquez (D-N.M.), welcomed $10 million for multi-purpose facilities for Tribes under the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Capital Projects Fund (CPF).

This investment will fund New Mexico’s Tribal Library Broadband-Ready Facility Improvement Program, which will construct a new childcare center and expand six libraries and family resource centers to help ensure access to educational Read More

Los Alamos National Laboratory Team Is Developing Technology To Provide Fast, In-Field Actinide Measurements

In-field alpha spectroscopy has great potential for nuclear emergency response. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

A research team at Los Alamos National Laboratory is developing a new technology called the Non-destructive Alpha Spectrometer, or NDAlpha, which is the first field-deployable alpha spectrometer that is capable of “point and shoot” measurements of nuclear material or contaminated surfaces.

One of the key signatures of a nuclear accident is the release of alpha-emitting radionuclides such as plutonium.

“Alpha spectroscopy is exquisitely sensitive to these signatures, but normally Read More

Fr. Glenn: To Jerusalem

By Fr. Glenn Jones:

Dang. Though by no means a British royalty watcher, I sure hated to see that Princess Catherine has come down with cancer. She seems like such an elegant, classy and yet down-to-earth young woman. She’ll be a lovely queen one of these days if she can beat this disease. Prayers for her and ALL who come down with cancer, and for all who care for them. Me and the bros lost our dad that way, so been there, done that. And who among us who have been around for a while hasn’t watched friends and family battle that.

There was also a headline not long ago of Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania’s Read More

Los Alamos Mountaineers To Present Talk By Phil Robinson On Summiting New Mexico’s Highest 186 Peaks March 26

Phil Robinson atop rugged 13,108-foot Truchas Peak, the second-highest summit in New Mexico. Courtesy/LAM

By Bill Priedhorsky
Los Alamos Mountaineers

Phil Robinson will speak about New Mexico’s highest peaks at the March 26 meeting of the Los Alamos Mountaineers. The meeting will be in person with a hybrid adjunct.

While hundreds have summited all of the Colorado’s more than 50 “14ers”, which rise above 14,000 feet,  Robinson, a retired Albuquerque Public Schools science teacher is the only person who has hiked New Mexico’s highest 186 peaks (with the exception of a pair of peaks in the Taos Read More

Dixson: Thank You, Governor Lujan Grisham For Your Leadership On Clean Fuels

By BRIDGET DIXSON, IOM
President and CEO
Santa Fe Chamber of Commerce

Earlier this month, Governor Lujan Grisham took a bold step toward creating a cleaner energy future for New Mexico by signing House Bill 41, Clean Transportation Fuel Standards, into law. This innovative legislation is essential to reducing our state’s transportation emissions and reinforces New Mexico as a leader in the energy transition.

Thanks to Governor Lujan Grisham’s support, New Mexico is now the fourth state in the nation to enact these fuel standards that promise to create both an environmentally and economically Read More

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