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Valles Caldera Trust Identifies Visitor Center Site / Final Environmental Impact Statement Released

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VCT News:

Jemez Springs — The Valles Caldera Trust (Trust) has released the Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) for the proposed Public Access and Use Plan (PAUP.)

The plan aims to expand visitor access while preserving the natural and cultural resources of the Valles Caldera National Preserve.

In June of this year, the Trust opened a 60-day public comment period on a Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) that featured six public access alternatives.

A total of 125 written comments from agencies, pueblos, organizations and individuals were submitted.

The DEIS was revised Read More

Udall to Participate in WIN Forum at Intel

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ALBUQUERQUE – Friday Nov. 9, U.S. Sen. Tom Udall will be the featured guest at a Women at Intel (WIN) forum in Rio Rancho to discuss the importance of providing women and girls with skills to succeed in the workforce.
 
At Intel Corporation, Udall will meet with senior staff and participate in an open forum hosted by Women at Intel Network (WIN), an employee organization.
 
He will emphasize the importance of encouraging more women and girls to enter into the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM.)
 
Saturday Nov. 10, Udall will have classified meetings
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Photojournalist Tony O’Brien’s ‘Contemplative Landscape’ on Display at NM History Museum

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A Quiet Moment, Monastery of Christ in the Desert. Photo by Tony O’Brien

NM HISTORY MUSEUM News:

After covering the lives of drug addicts and prostitutes in America and the struggle of Afghan rebels fighting the Soviets – including a stint as a prisoner of war – Santa Fe-based photojournalist Tony O’Brien turned to Christ in the Desert Monastery in Abiquiu to restore his spirit.

During the year he spent living with the Benedictine monks, they allowed him to document their daily activities and rituals, both contemplative and secular.

O’Brien’s work from that era now forms the heart of a new Read More

Palace’s Front Door to Close for Renovation Project

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PALACE News:

Visitors can still visit via the History Museum and Palace Courtyard

Santa Fe—A long-awaited maintenance project to refinish or replace some of the floors in the entryway of the 400-year-old Palace of the Governors will temporarily inconvenience visitors accustomed to entering themuseum complex through its doors.

As of Friday Nov. 2, the Palace doors facing the Santa Fe Plaza are closed as workers begin deconstruction in the entry and front-desk area.

Visitors are asked to come in through the New Mexico History Museum, just around the corner at 113 Lincoln Ave.

The work is expected Read More

Osprey Executes Touch and Go at Los Alamos Airport

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CV-22 Osprey out of Kirtland Air Force Base flew over a Los Alamos neighborhood en route to the Los Alamos Airport on Saturday afternoon. Photo by Greg Kendall/ladailypost.com

An Osprey touches down at the Los Alamos Airport Saturday afternoon. Photo by Greg Kendall/ladailypost.com

CV-22 Osprey out of Kirtland Air Force Base takes off from the Los Alamos Airport Saturday afternoon. Photo by Greg Kendall/ladailypost.com Read More

Who Calls the Shots When it Comes to Vaccines?

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Local moms discuss parental rights with Rep. Jim Hall. Photo by Mandy Marksteiner

By Mandy Marksteiner

Kristy Mack had concerns about giving her son the chicken pox vaccine when she was eight months pregnant because she didn’t want to risk harming her unborn child.

The doctor agreed to delay the shot. Her son eventually received all of his shots. But if he had been attending preschool, he would have had to file a vaccination exemption with the State Department of Health.

If his waiver had been denied, he wouldn’t be able to go to preschool.

The waiver forms have been changed. Now parents are required Read More

Rinard Wins Embroiderer’s Gold Thread Award

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CAROLE RINARD. Courtesy photo

EGA News:

Santa Fe Enchantment, the 2012 national seminar of the Embroiderers’ Guild of America, will bring more than 600 needlework enthusiasts from across the country to Buffalo Thunder Resort in Pojoaque from Oct. 28 through Nov. 2. 

Participants will attend classes in all facets of needle arts. Members of the local Pajarito Chapter of EGA are excited to have the opportunity to study with noted teachers without having to travel a long distance.

While registration for the seminar is now closed, the public is invited to come to Buffalo Thunder during that

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A Moment in Time: The Odyssey of the Segesser Hides

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Segesser II, depicting a 1720s expedition to root out French raiders. Photo by Blair Clark, NM/DCA.

NEW MEXICO HISTORY MUSEUM News:

Historian Thomas E. Chávez speaks about and signs copies of his new book, A Moment in Time: The Odyssey of New Mexico’s Segesser Hide Paintings (Rio Grande Books, 2012), an anthology that includes 14 articles by prominent scholars, at 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 3, in the New Mexico History Museum Auditorium in Santa Fe.

The event is free with admission; Sundays free to New Mexico residents.

Contributors to A Moment in Time include Fray Angélico Chávez; Joe S. Sando; Read More

Bishop’s Lodge Buries Time Capsule

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Bishop’s Lodge Ranch Resort & Spa, 1297 Bishop’s Lodge Road in Santa Fe, hosted a celebration Friday to commemorate its 95-year anniversary as a resort approaching in 2013. Bishop’s Lodge Managing Director Richard Verruni presents opening remarks at the site where the time capsule will be buried. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

At Friday’s ceremony, former Santa Fe Mayor Larry Delgado prepares to place his pocket knife in the time capsule that commemorated Bishop’s Lodge Ranch Resort & Spa’s 95-year anniversary. Mayor Pro Tem Rebecca Wurzburger Read More

Letter to the Editor: Furious at Icons on Ballots

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By JJ Maier

I just returned home from voting early here in my home town of Los Alamos, New Mexico.

I was furious to discover that the ballot had “icons” in front of the presidential candidates – not their party icons, but icons selected by the New Mexico Secretary of State:

1. Obama had a distorted eagle

2. Romney had the American Flag

When I called our local County Clerk, they said the local government has no control over how the ballot looks or what is on it and that this ballot format is being used by all precincts throughout the state.

This seems way over the top in attempting to influence citizens at the Read More