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  • White Rock: Let's Make a Deal

    More than 100 participants attended Thursday night’s town hall meeting on the White Rock economic development plan.

    Jay Renkens, a project manager with the consulting firm MIG Inc., began the discussion. “We want to create a ‘there’ there, with a sense of place, a reason to stop and the amenities you deserve,” he said.

    Creating a reason for traffic that usually passes through to stop and spend money would be important to sustaining the project, he added.

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  • Law and order: Local District Attorney’s Office opened

    Los Alamos County and the district attorney for the First Judicial District have completed a memorandum of understanding Monday, paving the way for a regular presence by an official of the DA’s Office in Los Alamos.

    Los Alamos Police Chief Wayne Torpy, Chief Deputy District Attorney A.J. Salazar, Los Alamos County Attorney Mary McInerny and Los Alamos County Council Chair Jim Hall all played important roles in working out the arrangement.

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  • DISCOVER OUR SECRETS: Take a tour off the beaten path

    There’s more to see in Los Alamos than just what can be spotted through the windshield of your car. There are several walking and bus tours that take visitors off the main drag and onto unbeaten paths.

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  • Montoya targets the undecided voters

    Santa Fe County Commissioner Harry Montoya said he estimates half the voters are still undecided about the crowded Democratic primary for the District Three Congressional seat that Tom Udall will give up at the end of this year.

    “I don’t have a million dollars or a coat tail to ride,” he said, a reference to Santa Fe millionaire Don Wiviott and Public Regulatory Commission Chair Ben Ray Lujan, whose father Ben Lujan is the Speaker of the House in the state legislature.

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  • Candidate cautions on county spending

    Two of the three speakers scheduled for a Kiwanis Club lunch Tuesday were unable to attend, and that meant more time for county council candidate Vincent P. Chiravalle to introduce himself.

    Chiravalle, a Republican and a Ph.D. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Princeton University, is making his first bid for county office.

    He emphasized campaign issues organized around the theme of Los Alamos as “a special place” and controlled spending.

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  • Grand Jury indicts local residents

    In First Judicial District Court, a Grand Jury has issued criminal indictments for two Los Alamos residents, a local resident currently residing in Santa Fe and a San Juan Pueblo woman.

    Los Alamos Police Capt. Randy Foster explained the indictment process during an interview Wednesday.

    “Now that these individuals have been indicted, the next step is that they will either be re-arrested if the district attorney’s office has requested it, or they will receive a summons telling them when to appear in court,” Foster said.

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  • Chief flies high for Guard and Reserve forces

    Los Alamos Police Chief Wayne Torpy holds the men and women who serve in the National Guard and Reserve forces in high esteem.

    “It’s very moving to see how much heart they put into service to this country while holding down full-time jobs,” Torpy said after spending Friday flying in a fuel tanker and observing a variety of military exercises during a “Boss Lift” program.

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  • Richard Octaviano 'Birdie' Branch

    BRANCH – Richard Octaviano “Birdie” Branch, 79, a resident of Los Alamos, passed away Sunday, May 4, 2008, due to natural cause. He was preceded in death by his wife, Lucy Branch, June 17, 2005; brother, Larry Branch; and parents, Richard and Grace Branch. Richard was a computer operator for 35 years, and loved to go fishing, work in the yard and he also loved to read.

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  • Neel W. Glass

    GLASS – Neel W. Glass, 83, most recently of Rapid City, S.D., died April 27, 2008, in Albuquerque. He was born in The Dalles, Ore., and grew up in Hood River. He left high school at age 16 to join a surveying team in Alaska, and went on to join the Army Air Corp and then to attend the University of Washington. He received his Ph.D. in physics from UCLA in 1953 and worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory from 1954 until 1992.

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  • Utility customers pay extra for 'convenience'

    At a recent meeting of the Los Alamos County Council, Assistant Utilities Manager John Arrowsmith reported that 38 customers had paid their utility bills by credit card, including an additional “convenience fee” of $4.95.

    Some residents found the new arrangement convenient, but not everybody was happy about the new charge.

    Sheila Shiferl of White Rock said she went in to the utilities office to pay her bill on Friday and discovered a sign that said she would have to pay an extra $4.95 for the service, a new charge that she was not aware of.

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