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NPS Park Ranger Chris Judson Retires After 47 Years

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National Park Service Ranger Chris Judson retired Friday following 47 years of service, 42 of them at Bandelier National Monument and the other five at Yellowstone National Park. By Sunday, she was already volunteering at the Manhattan Project Office and said she also will volunteer at Bandelier with curatorial projects, which have been on hold for several years because nobody has had time to work on them. Judson has often been called the face of Bandelier, not just to returning visitors to the Park who seek her out on arrival, but also to thousands of local community members, young and old who Read More

‘Secondary Cause Of Death’ Opens At LALT March 16

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By KELLY DOLEJSI
Los Alamos

It’s been three long years since Los Alamos Little Theater treated audiences to Peter Gordon’s “Murdered to Death.”

Finally, thespians will stage the much anticipated sequel, “Secondary Cause of Death,” at 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays March 16-31, and a matinee at 2 p.m. Sunday, March 25, at the LALT Performing Arts Center at 1670 Nectar St.

Tickets at $14/$12 for students and seniors are available at CB FOX, online, and at the door 30 minutes prior to performances.

It’s 1939, and Colonel Charles Craddock has inherited Bagshot House, the setting for “Murdered to Read More

Military Order Of The World Wars Meets March 20

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MOWW News:
 
This month’s meeting of the Military Order Of The World Wars is Tuesday, March 20 with speaker State Rep. Stephanie Garcia Richard. She will be talking about what happen at the recently completed legislative session.
 
The meeting is in the 2nd floor conference room at the Los Alamos Research Park. The Los Alamos Research building is west of the South Mesa Fire Station. Parking is available east of the fire station (accessible from southbound lane of the Los Alamos Canyon Bridge) or east of the Research Park building (access is through the LANL control stations
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Sunshine Week: Open Government Is Good Government

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By BONNIE PAGE
General Counsel
Smarsh
 
National Sunshine Week 2018 begins today and runs through March 17.

“The basic purpose of FOIA is to ensure an informed citizenry, vital to the functioning of a democratic society, needed to check against corruption and to hold the governors accountable to the governed.” … United States Supreme Court in NLRB v. Robbins Tire Co., 437 U.S. 214, 242 (1978)

July 4, 1966, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law the first Federal sunshine law in the U.S. The text of the bill stated that “a democracy works best when people have all the information Read More