Education
Los Alamos County Parks, Recreation And Open Spaces Take Over Nature Center
Kids and adults enjoy games and putt-putt at the nature center last year. Courtesy/PEEC
PEEC News:
The Los Alamos County Parks, Recreation and Open Spaces Division is taking over the Los Alamos Nature Center and putting up a putt-putt course for the evening. The pulic is invited to putt-putt through the Los Alamos Nature Center 6-7:30 p.m., Tuesday, Jan. 17 at 2600 Canyon Road.
Play through the nature center and win prizes, including free passes to the pool or ice rink and more. It is a great way to learn about the latest news on local trails and enjoy a fun, free evening. This family-friendly event Read More
Letter To The Editor: UNM-LA Advisory Board
Letter To The Editor: Thank You To Taxpayers Of Los Alamos
We collectively write this letter to express our deep appreciation to our local taxpayers, parents and community members that have unselfishly and generously given to support the future of Los Alamos. We embarked upon this journey in 2007 when we had more than $130 million in capital facilities needs. Since then Los Alamos has passed $60 million in bond funds and received $20 million in matching State funds.
The 2009 bond Read More
Wadt: On Supporting The School Bond
Rooney: Education Makes A Difference
Over the past several months, I have had the opportunity to represent UNM-Los Alamos at numerous events. When invited to speak, it is easy for me to talk about the important role that UNM-LA plays in our community. Yet, it is even more rewarding to listen. At one event, a retiree told me about how her professional career at LANL was re-invented after she decided to take a biology class at UNM-LA and then took “every class offered by Dr. Leslie Dendy.”
At another event, I spoke with a former student and her current employer who both started their accounting careers with Read More
Letter To The Editor: UNM-LA Provides Important Value To Our Community
By DAVID and TERRY IZRAELEVITZ
Los Alamos
In the next few days, Los Alamos residents will receive a ballot in the mail asking them to support education in our community. The need to continue upgrading our elementary school buildings is self-evident; so is the need for UNM-LA to improve its finances. We hope you will vote in the affirmative to support both questions.
Other letters have explained in more detail and more authoritatively than we can the precarious financial state of our local branch of UNM. Let us remind ourselves of the value that UNM-LA provides to our community.
Our three sons graduated Read More
Future Trails Discussion At Nature On Tap Thursday
PEEC News:
Open Space Specialist Eric Peterson will discuss the proposed flow trail for Los Alamos County and the future of the local trail network at the first Nature on Tap presentation of 2017.
Peterson’s talk is 5:30-7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 5 at UnQuarked in Central Park Square.
Nature On Tap is part of a series of conversations about art, history, nature and science.
Peterson oversees the County’s open space and trails systems. He is a graduate of Bowling Green State University in Ohio and has spent the last six years working in the Open Space Industry, which included Bernalillo Read More
Top LAPS Stories Of 2016
LAPS News:
Los Alamos Public Schools staff and students have accomplished much this year at each of the schools in the district.
2016 Highlights:
Kathy Boerigter Receives Presidential Award For Excellence In Mathematics And Science Teaching
Los Alamos High School Science Teacher Kathy Boerigter accepted the Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching (PAEMST) during a trip to Washington, D.C.
Boerigter, and the other Presidential Awardees, received a certificate signed by the President of the United States, a trip to Washington, D.C. to attend a series Read More
Rooney Presents Information On UNM-LA Mil Levy
The University of New Mexico-Los Alamos is facing a financial dilemma, and UNM-LA Chief Executive Officer Dr. Cynthia Rooney is providing information to local voters about the January school election to increase the tax levy for the branch college from 1 mil to 2 mils.
In a recent presentation to Kiwanis, she pointed out that when UNM-LA was established in 1980, local voters established a 1 mil levy to support it. That tax rate hasn’t changed in the 36 years Read More