Superintendent Jennifer Guy: Welcome Back To School!
By JENNIFER GUY
LAPS Superintendent
Welcome back to the 2023-24 school year! I hope you and your family had a wonderful summer. I am excited to have your children back in our classrooms and am looking forward to a positive, productive school year. At LAPS, we are committed to ensuring that 100% of the students in our district are successful in three key areas: Academic Success, Social Emotional Well-being, and Civic Responsibility.
This year, our focus will be on providing consistent, rigorous instruction that builds strong foundations for learning, develops critical thinking skills, promotes Read More
Liddie’s Traditional New Mexican Dishes: Plum Pastelitos
By LIDDIE MARTINEZ
Española Valley
Nobody wants to bake in the summer. Given the record temperatures and weeks of enduring the heat wave, a hot kitchen is the last place you want to spend time. But on the day the monsoons finally arrive, you will want to celebrate! I had a handful of ripe red plums that I had enjoyed fresh a few days ago but were now very soft to the touch; I thought that I would make a quick celebratory dessert with what I had on hand. Red plums are tart, which makes them a perfect choice for pastelitos. Since I happened to have puff pastry, I decided to use that and get a jump start. The beauty Read More
Weekly Fishing Report: Aug. 2, 2023
By GEORGE MORSE
Sports and Outdoors
Los Alamos Daily Post
July has come and gone. This year July was stingy with its rainfall and overly generous with the heat. It may go down as one of the hottest and driest months ever in New Mexico. Much of the United States and Europe was suffering through the same conditions.
Fortunately, the strong spring runoff has held off the worst that could happen keeping streamflows above normal and wildfires manageable. Hopefully, the monsoon rains that should have started in July will make their appearance in August. Streamflows are beginning to fall below normal. Read More
Martinez: Enterprise Bank’s Latest Community Impact Report
By LIDDIE MARTINEZ
President, Los Alamos Region
Enterprise Bank & Trust, Member FDIC
I am excited to share Enterprise Bank & Trust’s latest Community Impact Report. In the report, you’ll find inspirational stories, told through the eyes of our nonprofit partners, associates and those directly impacted by our community development efforts.
This year’s report features an organization that touches the lives of those in need throughout New Mexico. Nearly 1 in 5 children in northern New Mexico experiences food insecurity. While a child may have access to food, they may not be consuming Read More
Posts From The Road: The Lakes Of Grand Mesa
Island Lake: Kayakers and boaters enjoy an afternoon on the water at Island Lake on the Grand Mesa. Island Lake is one of the largest lakes on the mesa. Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com
Photographers: A couple enjoy photographing the scenic Island Lake on the Grand Mesa. The entire mesa is a haven for photographers with more than 300 lakes, gorgeous scenery and an abundance of wildlife. Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com
By GARY WARREN
Photographer
Formerly of Los Alamos
In our travels around Colorado, one of our favorite destinations is the western slope town of Grand Junction and the Read More
Fr. Glenn: Real Value
By Fr. Glenn Jones:
People certainly have varying ideas of what is truly valuable these days. Most people would point to family and friends first of all, I think, for what is life without love and fellowship, which we crave above all other things?
After all, wealth makes one comfortable and may enable many worldly advantages, but with it often come false friends, treachery, theft, etc. Better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a fatted ox and hatred with it.” (Proverbs 15:17), and “Wakefulness over wealth wastes away one’s flesh, and anxiety about it removes sleep.” (Sirach 31:1)—both of these Read More
Tales Of Our Times: Elections Work Less On Problems Than On Securing A Monopoly
Tales of our Times
By JOHN BARTLIT
Los Alamos
To be strong and durable, a fit ecosystem includes a host of competing species. A fit economy comprises a host of competing business sectors. A fit investment portfolio contains diverse options from different sectors.
By far, our nation’s strangest large system, containing the most diverse thinking, is a government of the people, by the people. Above all, people are a mixed bag. The catalyst that makes this system grow stranger and stranger is the defining role that elections have in governing. To win elections, our system has evolved so that the widely
