NCRTD Garners Fourth Award For Excellence In Financial Reporting
NCRTD News:
The North Central Regional Transit District (NCRTD) has received the Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting for its Fiscal Year 2018 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR), from the Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA) of the United States and Canada.
This marks the third of the GFOA’s top national awards that have been bestowed upon the NCRTD this year and follows the Distinguished Budget Award for the FY 2019 Annual Budget and the award for Outstanding Achievement in Popular Annual Financial Reporting (PAFR).
This makes the District Read More
LANL: Discover Lightning’s Electrifying Truth At Free Public Talks In Los Alamos, Santa Fe, Albuquerque
LANL physicist Tess Light will discuss lightning at free public talks starting Sept. 11. Photo by Rob Lang Photography
LANL News:
- Tess Light of Los Alamos National Laboratory discusses those bright cracks across the sky at Frontiers in Science talks in Los Alamos, Santa Fe and Albuquerque
Los Alamos National Laboratory scientist Tess Light will discuss the beauty and mystery of lightning at three Frontiers in Science public talks starting Sept. 11 in Santa Fe.
“On any given day lightning flashes nearly 4 million times across the earth,” said Light, a physicist at the Laboratory. Read More
AFSCME Endorses Luján For U.S. Senate
U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Luján
From the Ben Ray Luján for Senate Campaign:
ALBUQUERQUE – The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, the largest trade union of public employees in the United States, has endorsed U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Luján to be the next U.S. Senator for New Mexico.
At their convention in Albuquerque, AFSCME leaders said Luján – the son of a union ironworker and a public school official – was the best candidate to uplift working families given his record of protecting health care, workers’ benefits and security, Social Security, and Medicare. Read More
New Mexico State Land Office Sends Cancellation Notice To Cypress Inc. Owned By The Late Jeffrey Epstein
State Land Office News:
SANTA FE – Commissioner Stephanie Garcia Richard has announced that a cancellation letter has been sent to Cypress Inc., a company owned by the late Jeffrey Epstein and listed as the owner of the Zorro Ranch in Santa Fe County.
On July 16, 2019, the Land Office provided over 400 pages to the New Mexico Office of the Attorney General. All documents were related to 1,243 acres of state trust land leased to Cypress Inc. The leases date back to 1993 when Epstein originally purchased the 10,000 acre New Mexico ranch. Commissioner Garcia Richard directed staff to draft Read More
Amber Alert: 5-Year-Old Missing In Rio Arriba County
Renezmae Calzada. 5, missing since Sunday. Courtesy/NMSP
NMSP News:
The Rio Arriba County Sheriff’s Office is asking for the public’s assistance in locating Renezmae Calzada.
Calzada is a 5-year-old Hispanic female, four feet tall, weighing approximately 35 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes.
Calzada was last seen at 9:30 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 8, 2019, wearing blue shorts with stars and a “Frozen” shirt from the Disney film.
Many details are still unknown and under investigation by the Rio Arriba County Sherriff’s Office. However, of urgent concern is the whereabouts of Calzada. Read More
Full Moon Tour At Fort Union Friday
Courtesy photo
FORT UNION News:
WATROUS – Join park rangers Friday, Sept. 13 for a 1.25-mile tour through the grounds of Fort Union and along the Santa Fe Trail under the serenity of a dark sky.
The tour will bring together the history and culture of the valley with a natural dark sky. The program will start at 8:30 p.m. at the visitor center and will run to approximately 10 p.m. Friday.
After sunset, the high plains take on a new identity. Beneath the glow of a full moon the remnants of the old fort casts light shadows against the prairie. Fort Union was certified earlier this month as an International Read More
Military Order Of The World Wars Meets Sept. 17
MOWW News:
This month’s meeting of the Military Order of the World Wars is Tuesday, Sept. 17.
The guest speaker is Cathy Hadley, RHIT of Los Alamos Medical Center.
Hadley has been in the health care industry since 1979. Starting as a transcriptionist, she worked her way to director of Health Information Management (Medical Records) in Linton, Ind. During her time there she was a part of the planning team forming the hospital’s first Emergency Operations Plan.
Hadley moved in June of 2016 to Los Alamos to serve as director of Health Information Management at LAMC. Shortly thereafter she was asked Read More
NWS: Today’s High Near 80; Tonight’s Low Around 55
The National Weather Service forecasts today’s high in Los Alamos near 80 with mostly sunny skies and tonight’s low around 55. Courtesy/NWS Read More
SFNF Plans Multiple Prescribed Burns This Fall
SFNF News:
SANTA FE – Fire managers on the Santa Fe National Forest (SFNF) are planning to take advantage of favorable conditions this fall to conduct prescribed burns across the forest to remove hazardous fuels, improve wildlife habitat, and create healthier, more resilient forest and watershed ecosystems.
Depending on conditions, including fuel moisture levels, air quality and forecasted weather, the forest’s window to implement these prescribed burns is Sept. 16 to Nov. 30.
The SFNF will issue additional notifications about each project based on fire managers’ expectations for implementation. Read More
Scenes From African Library Project Send Off Event
A crowd gathers Wednesday near Sullivan Field to send local volunteer Sharon Allan off to New Orleans in a van loaded with books for Africa as part of the African Library Project. The project is dedicated to changing lives book by book by starting libraries in rural Africa. This grassroots approach mobilizes U.S. volunteers, young and old, to organize book drives and ship books to start or improve a library in Africa. Photo by John McHale/ladailypost.com
Builders Club members in the van with the boxes of books and Sharon Allen, a prime mover and volunteer in the African Library Project. Key Club Read More