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  • T-Board validates 90-percent design

    The Los Alamos Transportation Board voted in favor of the 90-percent design phase of the West Jemez Bypass Thursday, which will go before County Council as the board’s endorsement of the best route to take.

    Looking at the design from an engineering and environmental standpoint, the board decided that if the project's goals are still valid, the current design should be finalized.

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  • Vrina Mae Wahlen

    Wahlen – Vrina Mae Wahlen, 86, a longtime resident of Los Alamos. went to the Lord July 8, 2008, in Las Cruces, N.M., surrounded by her immediate family.

    She leaves behind husband John; brother Charles; sister-in-law Betty; children Kaye, Ivy and Keith; son-in-laws Jim and Russell; daughter-in-law Joanne; grandchildren Jason, Katey, Kristin and Haley; stepchildren John and Jim and their wives Marge and Sharon; step-grandchildren Johnny, Joy and Fred; and numerous step-grandchildren, nephews and friends.

    She was a wonderful wife, mother and cherished friend to many.

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  • Santa Fe County exits NCRTD

    Officials continue to express bewilderment over Santa Fe County’s decision to opt out of the North Central Regional Transit District (NCRTD) during its meeting Monday.

    What’s so baffling is that Santa Fe County has long been actively involved in the development of what was to be a four-county transit district. So Monday’s 3-to-2 vote by commissioners to withdraw from the NCRTD and form its own separate alliance with the City of Santa Fe was completely unexpected.

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  • Rotary visionary visits Los Alamos

    The Los Alamos Rotary Club has been successful in achieving its mission of service above self, with an emphasis on serving the local youth.

    This is according to Tom Lindsay, Gov. of Rotary District 5520, who stopped by Los Alamos Thursday as part of his tour of clubs throughout New Mexico and West Texas.

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  • Without objection: Lab-friendly bill advances

    In a session devoted more to expressions of esteem, the Senate appropriations committee made quick work Thursday of an energy and water appropriation proposal.

    The measure containing next year’s spending plans for the national laboratories, including Los Alamos, was passed “without objection,” and sailed forth to the full Senate unchanged from the version approved by a subcommittee on Tuesday.

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  • Margaret H. Clevenger

    Clevenger – Mrs. Margaret H. Clevenger, age 91, lifelong resident of Los Alamos, N.M., joined our Lord July 5, 2008. Beloved wife of the late Marion F. Clevenger. Loving mother to Charles Clevenger, Marilyn Clevenger (deceased), Janet Clevenger, Cheryl (Steve) Gallegos and Mike Clevenger. Loving grandmother to Michelle (Ryan) Krebs, and Steve Gallegos Jr., Sean and Lisa Baros, and great grandmother of Grant and Reese Krebs. Dear sister of five, survived by sister Louise Applecrombie.

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  • John Pirtle

    Pirtle – John Pirtle, loving husband, father, grandfather, uncle and friend, left for life’s next journey July 8, 2008.

    John, a native Texan, came to Los Alamos in 1953 and fell in love with the beautiful scenery. He made New Mexico his home for more than 55 years. John was a security inspector at LANL for 41 years and enjoyed 18 years of retirement.

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  • Bob Everett Comer

    COMER – Bob Everett Comer, Versailles, Mo., died Saturday, June 28, 2008, at home. He was born Oct. 28, 1936, in Jefferson City, Mo., the son of Louis Bernard and Mary Katherine Lampson Comer. On Nov. 21, 1962, in Kansas City, Mo., he married Sandra Kaye Ball.

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  • Not what but how

    The page is turning on the climate debate.

    In recent years and decades, the role of climate scientists was to convince policy-makers and the public that climate change was an issue.

    That mission has been largely accomplished, according to Guy Brasseur, a renowned modeler of atmospheric chemistry.

    He said the question now is about informing the social and political systems on how best to respond and predicting what effects any particular response might mean to the future.

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  • Judicial/jail complex gets green light

    This time next year, if all goes as planned, the community will dedicate a new, security-compliant, energy-efficient (LEED Silver certified) Judicial/Police/Jail (JPJ) complex at the corner of Trinity and Oppenheimer drives.

    The Planning and Zoning Commission unanimously approved the site plan portion of the long-awaited project during its meeting at the Community Building Wednesday evening. Chair David Izraelevitz was absent.

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