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  • Roger Bruce Perkins

    PERKINS – Dr. Roger Bruce Perkins died at home in Los Alamos, N.M., July 11, 2008, after a courageous battle with cancer. Roger was born in Hammond, Ind., Nov. 8, 1935, to Philip and Lydia Perkins. Roger was awarded a Ford Foundation scholarship while a sophomore in high school, which sent him to college early at the University of Wisconsin. He graduated with a B.S. from Wisconsin in 1955, and received his Ph.D. in physics from Princeton University in 1959. He was a Fellow of the American Physical Society.

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  • McCain: Labs to play key role

    ALBUQUERQUE — Diners, cooks and wait staff stood and cheered and an “order up” bell rang out loudly from the kitchen to honor Sen. John McCain as he entered Barelas Coffee House on 4th Street Tuesday morning.

    The presumptive Republican presidential nominee, accompanied by Chairman Allen Weh of the Republican Party of New Mexico, joined several small business owners and minority business leaders for a roundtable discussion. The group included Albuquerque attorney and business owner Jon Barela and New Mexico Hispano Chamber of Commerce President Carlo Lucero.

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  • LANL unable to release history report

    A Los Alamos National Laboratory librarian was unable to release a 30-year-old report on the early history of computing, Steven Aftergood, who directs the Project on Government Secrecy, reported Monday.

    “I got an inquiry from a graduate student who was trying to locate a copy of the report for academic purposes,” Aftergood said in a telephone interview Tuesday. “The subject matter seemed intrinsically interesting. It wasn’t some isolated detail in nuclear physics, but rather a broad sweep of technological history.”

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  • Fire official to present Cerro Grande Fire talk

    “The Cerro Grande Fire and Our Recovery “ is the title of a public talk by Los Alamos County Deputy Fire Chief Doug Tucker set for 7 p.m. Friday.

    The talk is accompanied by a PowerPoint presentation showing video and lots of news footage taken during and following the fire and will be held at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at 1967 18th Street.

    The talk is a modified version of the presentation Tucker and LAFD Fire Chief Doug MacDonald have presented around the world.

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  • Airport Basin appeal withdrawn

    The appeal of the Planning and Zoning Commission’s approval of the site plan for the Airport Basin Site has been withdrawn, County officials announced late Monday.

    William Arland, III, from Rodey, Dickason, Sloan, Akin and Robb, P.A, had filed the appeal last week on behalf of his firm’s client – Cabot, Cabot and Forbes, Los Alamos Investment Company LLC, of Boston, Mass.– regarding the location of the fueling facility on the Airport Basin Site. Cabot, Cabot and Forbes own the property located at 182 East Gate Drive. NSTC is a tenant in the building.

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  • GAO: LANL security lapses not fixed

    The Government Accountability Office has returned to the subject of security at Los Alamos National Laboratory, this time calling for long-term strategies for improvement.

    In the first part of a lengthy report released this morning, GAO responded to a request by lawmakers to describe the security environment at LANL and determine whether new management approaches would sustain security improvements over the long term.

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  • Roundabout's makeover serves dual purpose

    One of the greatest roundabouts ever built in the U.S. is in Clearwater Beach, Fla. It carries up to 58,000 vehicles and 8,000 pedestrians per day. Palm trees sprout from the roundabout’s midsection, replacing a towering fountain deemed too distracting – and the cause of many a fender bender. Frequent wind gusts showering water onto passing cars and drenching pedestrians further contributed to the fountain’s demise.

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  • Spotlight on Los Alamos: Mother inspires daughter’s choice to fight crime

    Det. Shari Mills of the Los Alamos Police Department has inspired her daughter, Paige Early, to enter the law enforcement field.

    Early, 30, is a participant at the San Juan College Police Academy in Farmington and intends to return to the LAPD as a patrol officer following her graduation just before Christmas.

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  • Collaboration culminates in groundbreaking

    County and school officials joined representatives from New Mexico’s Congressional Delegation, contractor Hensel Phelps, consultants with WH Pacific and other entities in celebrating the official ground-breaking for the county-owned Airport Basin Site Friday morning.

    The ceremony took place behind the RV Park on East Road. The site is slated to become the new location for Los Alamos County’s and Los Alamos Public Schools’ warehouses, shops, fleet and bus barns, and other facilities in early 2010.

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  • Former Pierotti's Clowns Noe Lujan dies at 77

    A former member of Pierotti’s Clowns, Jose Noe Lujan, died at his home in Los Alamos July 6 after a long battle with cancer. He was 77.

    Lujan, who was born in Española, was a catcher on the nationally-famous five-man softball team from Los Alamos in the late 1950s, catching games for star pitcher Bernard L. “Bun” Ryan.

    The team’s founding member, Lou Pierotti, often got together with Lujan to play golf or partake in other activities when they weren’t on the softball field.

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