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Today's Features

  • Getting warmed up for fundraising

    After the success of the first run, Atomic City Circuit Riders are warming up for another fundraiser effort for the Los Alamos Relay for Life.

    The team, which is from the First United Methodist Church, will hold a musical revue and barbecue dinner at 5:30 p.m. May 31 at the church’s Fellowship Hall.

    Discipleship Coordinator Ann LePage said, members of the congregation will take the stage.

    “We have volunteers come and perform something of their choice,” she said.

    All types of music will be represented, including Cajun music.

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  • Opera singer to host concert

    At 7:30 p.m. tonight at Fuller Lodge Melissa Riedel will perform a concert.

    Riedel is a former student of Karolyn Coulter and recently graduated summa cum laude from the University of New Mexico with a bachelor’s degree in vocal performance.

    During the concert Friday, Riedel will perform a work titled, “Galgenlieder” by contemporary composer Jan Koetsier, and will be joined by Sean Kennedy, a tuba player. She will also sing works by Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Cole Porter and Jerome Kern. She will be joined by Keiko Shimono, pianist.

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  • Continuing learning experiences

    It may be the end of the school year, but learning opportunities can continue throughout the summer season.

     

    Whether it is producing works of art at the Art Center at Fuller Lodge or exploring the mysteries of outer space at the New Mexico Museum of Space History in Alamogordo, knowledge is available everywhere.

     

    For the last three years, the Emily L. Bradley Memorial Fund has helped sixth-grade students engage in learning.

     

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  • The Russians to conquer Los Alamos through music

    Igor and the Red Elvises have conquered the hearts of screaming fans all over the world for more than 10 years with diverse, upbeat music and amusing lyrics. Now it’s Los Alamos turn to scream with glee when the band returns to town at 7 p.m. Friday.

    The band’s performance, which will be held at Los Alamos National Bank, is part of the Los Alamos County Summer Concert Series.

    Constantly touring the globe, Igor and the Red Elvises have gained a long-standing reputation as “the hardest working band in show business.”

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  • Six Monkeys: Here’s to the bouillon cube

    I started this column in January as an experiment, but as anyone who read my previous four installments knows, it, uh, didn’t work. OK, it completely bombed and I didn’t get what I wanted at all.

    As it turns out, this was a very lucky, somewhat miraculous break.

    Here’s what I wanted: to try some different kinds of writing in order to expand my tiny bouillon cube of literary facility into a boiling broth of bibliographic excellence.

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  • Thank you letters

    Dinner for a good cause

    Knights of Columbus Bingo Night was a big success. Thanks to all who participated in the spaghetti dinner and Bingo night for the “Relay for Life – American Cancer Society” fund-raiser. A total of $1,810 was raised for this wonderful effort.

    Special thanks to Annie Trujillo-Garcia for making the wonderful spaghetti, Jackie Ciddo for selling tickets, Patti Levings for helping in the kitchen and Ray and Tina Chavez for helping to serve the food.

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  • Teaching the teachers

    Ponderosa Montessori School is now the only school in New Mexico certified to train teachers in the Montessori method under the Montessori Accreditation Council for Teacher Education (MACTE). Ponderosa director Joan Ellard has worked in the field of Montessori education and teacher training since 1984, and has owned the school, formerly Sage Montessori, since 2002.

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  • Elementary students prove their computing skills

    Three of the four teams at Aspen Elementary School that competed in the Supercomputer Challenge earned awards for their efforts.

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  • So you want to be a leader?

    So you want to be a leader? Think you have what it takes to assume control?

    For six years, Leadership Los Alamos has helped locals develop the necessary skills and May 8, the newest crop of leaders celebrated graduation.

    So just what does it take to be a leader?

    William Phillips, who was the keynote speaker, said leadership requires having an open mind, being aware of the interdependency of all things, having a passion for leadership and helping others and learning compassion.

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  • Los Alamos represented at the Kentucky Derby

    Patricia Rogers, a former Los Alamos County Councilor and currently an Albuquerque resident, and Martha Hawkins of Los Alamos, were among the 151,000 spectators who watched an unknown horse from New Mexico achieve victory during the Kentucky Derby.

    Mine That Bird raced from obscurity into fame during the 135th derby, May 2 in Louisville, Ky.

    Hawkins said she and her friend turned to each other during the race and exclaimed, “Number 8! What’s the name of that horse?”

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