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  • Recycling a top priority for Los Alamos

    The New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) has recognized Los Alamos County for having the state’s second highest recycling rate.

    According to the NMED, Lincoln County recycled the most, 67 percent of its solid-waste in 2007, a figure attributed to the county's composting of large quantities of green waste.

    Regina Wheeler, Los Alamos County Solid Waste Division Manager, said the NMED calculates recycling rates using guidelines set by the Environmental Protection Agency, but those guidelines do not account for the total material actually recycled in the county.

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  • Burning questions draw explosive answers

    Long-time residents of Los Alamos say they seldom notice the periodic booms that punctuate the silence of their mountain settlement.

    But newcomers and some of the neighbors across the river and down in the valley have complained that the blasts lately have rattled their windows in Santa Fe and beyond Espaola and that they can hear the sounds of explosives testing from the nuclear weapons laboratory in Los Alamos.

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  • Council OKs service projects

    It’s that time of year when many service contracts come before Los Alamos County Council for renewal.

    Following detailed discussion at its regular Tuesday meeting in the Community Building, council approved those services - all but one - unanimously. Councilors Nona Bowman and Mike Wheeler were out of town.

    One change was made to the services provided in this year’s general services agreement for PAC 8 Television, which televises council and other important meetings and community broadcasts.

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  • MEYERS

    Mary Louise Hoefer Meyers, 86, a resident of Rio Rancho, New Mexico, passed away on Sunday, June 8, 2008. Mary was born August 2, 1921, in Marceline, Missouri. Mary grew up in Salina, Kansas where she met her husband, Walt. They were married in Washington, DC, on December 4, 1942.

    They moved to Los Alamos when Walt was stationed there during the Manhattan Project, and lived there for over 60 years. They moved to Colorado Springs, CO, in 1993, and then returned to New Mexico in 2000.

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  • Baker's salary bumped by council

    Prestige comes with the job title but esteem is earned and Los Alamos County Administrator Max Baker has earned the esteem of the Los Alamos County Council, Councilor Ken Milder said during Tuesday’s council meeting.

    Milder, who served on county council in the 1980s, said he’s worked with a lot of county administrators over the years and ranks Baker amongst the best of them.

    “What’s important is the level of confidence any county administrator can earn and Max has certainly earned our confidence,” he said.

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  • Bond resolution passes at Tuesday's meeting

    A bond resolution to help repair and rebuild area schools was approved Tuesday night by the school board.

    During its regularly scheduled meeting, the board voted 5-0 to approve a mail-out ballot to be sent out to Los Alamos County residents in January 2009 that asks taxpayers to help bear the weight of a $40 million infrastructure-rebuilding project dubbed the “20-Year Facilities Renewal Plan” that is designed to ensure the longevity of current LAPS schools.

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  • Los Alamos Apartments fall into foreclosure

    The largest property foreclosure in the history of Los Alamos is underway.

    The Los Alamos Apartments, with a foreclosure value of approximately $3 million, run east of the Bradbury Science Museum to 9th Street between Central Avenue and Iris Street, and includes two buildings immediately adjacent to museum park housed the Los Alamos National Laboratory student housing.

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  • Biosafety committee reviews new influenza research

    Two new biological research projects came before the Institutional Biosafety Committee Tuesday. Both involved influenza research at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

    Babs Marrone of the laboratory’s Bioscience Division said her application for a project on “Environmental Sampling for Endemic Influenza Strains” was made in anticipation of funding from a Congressionally approved project led by the University of California, Los Angeles, for a High Speed, High Volume Laboratory Network for Infectious Diseases.

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  • Summer intern joins Monitor

    The Monitor welcomes its summer intern Gabriel Vasquez, 23, of El Paso.

    The English, Journalism and Mass Communications major from New Mexico State University joined the staff in late May and plans to be with the Monitor until the end of July.

    “I’m very content to be here,” Vasquez said. “This will be an incredibly valuable experience for me, I’ve already learned quite a bit.”

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  • BRIDGE

    James Andrew Bridge, 86, died Friday, June 6, at Sombrillo Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. He was born in Rolla, Missouri, on May 2, 1922, to Josiah and Lucy Atwater Bridge. Jim came to Los Alamos in 1943 after studying for three years at the University of Maryland. He met his future wife, Edulia Marie Bustos (“Eddie”), in Los Alamos in 1945. They were married Nov. 18, 1946.Jim was a PFC in the Special Engineer Detachment during the Manhattan Project.

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