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Rep. Jim Hall Attends N.M. 4 Construction Briefing

Rep. Jim Hall speaks with Time Out 4 Pizza owners Trish and Omar Sanchez Tuesday morning during the County’s weekly meeting on the N.M. 4 road construction project. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

County Engineer Kyle Zimmerman briefs Rep. Jim Hall on the N.M. 4 road project during Tuesday’s public meeting. He said that the project is on time and on budget and scheduled for completion this fall. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

Time Out 4 Pizza owner Trish Sanchez tells County Engineer Kyle Zimmerman that the N.M. 4 road construction project has not had an adverse Read More

County Council Approves Updated Employee Compensation Plan

Gloria Maestas prepares to take the role of councilor votes for the new, updated compensation plan for county employees. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

Two councilors disagreed with the motion on the table at Tuesday night’s council meeting, but in the end, the measure passed 4-2.

Councilor David Izraelevitzwas absent.

At issue was an amendment to the County’s FY2012 employee compensation and classification plan, including new and revised job descriptions and approval of the FY2013 compensation and classification plan.

Councilor Vincent Chiravalle voted no saying that he Read More

County has Completed its Required Compensation Comparison and Job Description Review

Los Alamos County Human Resources Manager Denise Cassel, center, Acting Assistant County Administrator Steve Lynne and consultant Carol Mercer discuss an amendment to the FY2012 Compensation and Classification Plan including new and revised job descriptions as well as approval of the FY2013 Compensation and Classification Plan. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com Read More

Los Alamos County Council Welcomes San Ildefonso Governor

San Ildefonso Gov. Terry Aguilar was elected Feb. 18 and came to tonight’s County Council meeting at the request of Council Chair Sharon Stover to introduce himself to the other members and staff. He told Council that he just past the bar and that he planned to invite the Los Alamos County Council to his Pueblo to meet with his Council. Photo by Carol A Clark/ladailypost.com Read More

Tonight’s County Council Presentations Feature Youth

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Los Alamos High School student Alexander Castille is presenting a distracted driving survey to the County Council that he and members of the Los Alamos Youth Leadership team conducted through spending time on strategic intersections around towncounting the motorists who were chatting on their cells, applying make-up, smoking and exhibiting other distracted behaviors. Most drivers were doing something other than just driving. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

Los Alamos High School students Alexandra Berl, speaking, and Olivia Snyder, Tessa Snyder and teacher Read More

Arts in Public Places Board Agenda

ARTS IN PUBLIC PLACES BOARD News

LOS ALAMOS COUNTY

ARTS IN PUBLIC PLACES BOARD

AGENDA for Wednesday, April 11, 2012

4:30 to 6:00 PM Mesa Public Library

 

I. CALL TO ORDER

II. PUBLIC COMMENT (This section on the agenda is reserved for questions and comments from the public on items that are not otherwise included in this agenda. Speakers will be limited to 4 minutes each.)

III. APP BOARD BUSINESS
     A. Approval of Minutes from March 14, 2012

IV. CURRENT PROJECTS
     A. Discuss potential art locations for the Municipal Building (Architect)
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Film Review: The Snapper

Review by Kelly Dolejsi

Pregnant women get asked many questions as they await their babies: When are you due? Is it a boy or a girl? Have you picked out a name? Have you written a birth plan?

Or even, sometimes: Who’s the father?

In “The Snapper,” a sort of a 1993 Irish precursor to the 2007 American megahit “Knocked Up” in that both comedies star a fetus that does not result from sacred marital love but rather from booze, 20-year-old Sharon Curley (Tina Kellegher) does not want to answer that last question.

Her co-workers, friends, parents  — everyone Read More

Muni Building Crane Back in Action Friday

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An ongoing ballet between man and machine. Photo by TK Thompson/ladailypost.com

These ironworkers are placing floor girders on the second floor of the new Municipal Building. Photo by TK Thompson/ladailypost.com

There is still a lot of earthwork to be done on this site. The grey concrete slab in the middle of the image will be the next to have structural steel placed on it. Photo by TK Thompson/ladailypost.com Read More