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New Mexico Invests $1.9M To Expand Youth Outdoor Access

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Wumaniti Earth Native Sanctuary engages Indigenous and rural youth in traditional horseback riding, archery, mustang rescue and shelter building. Courtesy/EDD

EDD News:

SANTA FE — A $1.9 million investment through the state’s Outdoor Equity Fund will connect over 22,000 youth across 14 counties to 62 programs that promote wellness and expand outdoor access.

Applications for overall FY26 funding surged 141% over the previous year, with 228 organizations requesting $7.8 million in funding against $4 million available.

“This state investment in our youth is amplified by nearly $2 million Read More

Earth Day Event Celebrates Ancestral Roots At Jemez Historic Site April 18

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NMDCA News:

JEMEZ SPRINGS — A special Earth Day celebration will be held from 10 a.m.–4 p.m., Saturday, April 18, 2026, at Jemez Historic Site in honor of Indigenous roots to the land. The celebration includes a hike, traditional children’s games, an “artifact” dig, pottery demonstrations, bread baking in the horno, or outdoor adobe oven, and Native arts and crafts vendors.

Each year the site hosts an Earth Day hike, and this year visitors can go on a longer excursion with site staff, who will lead a 3.2-mile hike to Oak Canyon (a.k.a. Church Canyon) from 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. Hikers will stop at different Read More

Community Invited To View New Lowrider Stamps Cruising Into Los Alamos Post Office & View 6 Cool Vehicles Saturday

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U.S. Postal Service News:

The Los Alamos Post Office invites the community to celebrate its newly issued Lowrider stamps and view six cool lowrider vehicles and listen to music from 8 a.m. to noon Saturday in front of the downtown Post Office.

The U.S. Postal Service held a first-day-of-issue ceremony for its new Lowriders stamps on March 13 in San Diego. With that issuance, USPS celebrated lowrider car culture, rooted in working-class Mexican American/Chicano communities throughout the American Southwest.

“A lowrider is a masterpiece of engineering and artistry, a rolling canvas of art. Read More

Community Invited To Celebrate Manhattan Project National Historical Park 10th Anniversary April 8 At Fuller Lodge

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COUNTY News:

Manhattan Project National Historical Park will celebrate its 10th anniversary with a community event, 5:30 to 7 p.m., Wednesday, April 8, in the Pajarito Room at Fuller Lodge.

The event starts with a program that reflects on the park’s first decade of preserving and sharing the complex history of the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos and its lasting impact on the world.

Following the program conclusion at 6:15 p.m., the event will offer visitors and locals an opportunity to connect with park staff and partners, learn more about the park’s mission, and commemorate a decade of preservation, Read More

Fr. Glenn: Passionate

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By Fr. Glenn Jones:

So, we come this weekend (March 29 this year) to Passion, or “Palm”, Sunday … the latter name referring to the branches placed on the road as the Israelites celebrated the entry of Jesus into Jerusalem. While that passage of the Gospel opens the day’s Catholic Mass, it hardly speaks to the whole of the day’s remembrance. Rather, in the Gospel of the day’s Mass and of other denominations’ observances, we have one of the longest, most poignant, and most moving excerpts of our year: the account of Jesus’ sacrifice of Himself—the Last Supper, the agony in the Garden, His arrest, false Read More

Four Stops, One Iconic Road: Route 66 Exhibit Brings History To Life In New Mexico Starting April 25

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ROUTE 66 News:

ALBUQUERQUE — In celebration of both the 100th anniversary of Route 66 and America’s 250th birthday, the “Route 66 Centennial Traveling Exhibit” (“Exhibit”) will bring the history, stories and images of the Mother Road to life across New Mexico.

The free Exhibit features nearly two dozen large-scale interpretive panels, audiovisual mini-documentaries, and educational components highlighting the diverse stories of New Mexicans connected by Route 66.

The Exhibit includes four stops in the state:

  • Grants, April 25-27;
  • Albuquerque, May 6-7;
  • Gallup, May 9-Dec. 31; and special
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Los Alamos Historical Society To Bury Time Capsule Beneath Oppenheimer House

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Los Alamos Historical Society Executive Director Todd Nickols and Associate Director Kristen Hollis on March 17 with the time capsule that will be buried beneath the Oppenheimer House on Bathtub Row. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

Los Alamos Historical Society Executive Director Todd Nickols in Oppenheimer’s Office on March 17 in the Oppenheimer House on Bathtub Row. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

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

The Los Alamos Historical Society is creating a time capsule to be buried beneath the floor of the Oppenheimer Read More

Los Alamos History Museum Announces New Exhibit: Secrets Of Shangri-la: Enlisted Women At Project Y

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 Los Alamos History Museum News:

The Los Alamos History Museum is proud to announce the opening of a new special exhibit, Secrets of Shangri-la: Enlisted Women at Project Y, which explores the often-overlooked contributions of enlisted women who served in Los Alamos during World War II as part of the Manhattan Project.

During World War II, Los Alamos—known only by its code name, Project Y—became the central laboratory of the Manhattan Project, the top-secret effort to develop the atomic bomb. While scientists such as J. Robert Oppenheimer have become household names, hundreds of enlisted Read More

Fr. Glenn: Treading Water

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Fr. Glenn Jones:

Well, we’re coming close to Easter. Next weekend (March 27 this year) is Passion (Palm) Sunday, in which we remember and contemplate especially the passion of Jesus—His arrest, torture and crucifixion. This is why the Catholic devotion—very common during Lent—of the Stations of the Cross. We Christians should be more attentive to meditate on His passion frequently, because Jesus does it for us … takes upon Himself the deserved punishment that our sins and wrongs against God and one another deserve. He saves us from ourselves.

As analogy, we might imagine we’re on the Titanic Read More