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  • Bear Camp registration draws 3 a.m. crowd

    Determined parents, some equipped with lawn chairs, braved the 3 a.m. darkness and cold air Friday to secure their children’s place in this summer’s Bear Camp. There are just 75 slots available in the 11-week program, open to youth entering K-6th grades in the fall.“I came in (to the Aquatic Center) at 5:30 a.m.

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  • Wilson whirls through full agenda

    Throughout a day of meetings, media and mixers, Rep. Heather Wilson, R-N.M., listened to area concerns and shared her views on local and statewide issues. While visiting the Family YMCA, Wilson talked with staff and board members about youth issues and initiatives the organization is embracing.

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  • Bandelier dedication marked by state award

    The cavates in Frijoles Canyon in Bandelier National Monument were listed on New Mexico’s most endangered list of historic places just 10 years ago. John Mack, Angelyn Bass Rivera and Lauren Meyer got busy and documented more than 1,000 cavates, drafted a conservation plan for Frijoles Canyon and developed new technology to conserve and further document the built heritage.Today, these well preserved and maintained small homes etched into steep tuff cliffs from 1100-1400 A.D.

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  • Utilities' forecast looks stable; regular rate increases projected

    A woman recently called the Los Alamos utilities department, concerned about a large bill. Ordinarily, she used about 4,000 gallons of water each month, but after her old, inaccurate meter was replaced, her total shot up to 18,000 gallons, or about $50. County Conservation Officer Matt Dickens came to her house to see what he could do.It turned out the extra 14,000 gallons had leaked from two constantly running toilets.

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  • Lab Notes: Supercomputer challengers come to town

    Students from around the state will visit Los Alamos Monday and Tuesday to face off for the New Mexico Supercomputing Challenge. Los Alamos National Laboratory will host more than 250 students from New Mexico’s high schools and middle schools. The occasion is the 18th Annual Supercomputing Challenge, the culmination of months of effort by the students and their teachers. Projects will be judged Monday and an awards ceremony will take place 9-11 a.m.

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  • Waste options open chasm

    SANTA FE – A forum on closing Material Disposal Area G Wednesday night grappled with one of the most nearly impossible tasks of cleaning up legacy waste at Los Alamos National Laboratory.Under the current schedule and under penalty of a legally binding agreement, LANL and the Department of Energy are supposed to find a way by the end of 2015 to close out a complex disposal area that has slowly accumulated nearly one million cubic yards of exposed clothing, equipment, and other junk and materials contaminated by radioactivity or chemicals or both. &ldquo

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  • Council: Worldscape proposal advances

    Addressing the Los Alamos County Council Tuesday, Peter Rogina, the president of WorldScape Inc., likened the explosion of 3-D immersive imaging capability to an offshore earthquake creating an economic tidal wave.Rogina, along with Managing Director Randall Platt of York Capital Trust, who handles investor relations for WorldScape, and Anthony Mortillaro, assistant county administrator, gave a fast tutorial of WorldScape’s development plans in Los Alamos County and requested a loan of $1,490,500 from the economic development fund.Council approved the first

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  • Police find missing woman in five minutes

    A 77-year-old local Alzheimer’s patient was returned to her husband after Los Alamos Police detectives found her unharmed Tuesday morning. The woman wandered away from her husband at about 10 a.m. in downtown Los Alamos.“The woman’s husband called and said he was inside a business near 15th and Central Avenue when he looked around and discovered his wife was missing,” said Det. Shari Mills.

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  • Council: Demolition could begin in May

    The landmark Municipal Building could come down as soon as May with the site restoration completed in August, the Los Alamos County Council was informed at its regular meeting Tuesday.The council voted 6-to-0 to authorize an agreement with Paul Parker Construction, a New Mexico Corporation with an office in Los Alamos, providing for demolition and remediation services.

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  • Another reason to ride the bus

    Atomic City Transit and Los Alamos National Laboratory are co-sponsoring an Earth Day contest to reduce Los Alamos County’s carbon footprint. Driving a recent model mid-sized car 20,000 miles per year emits about 11 tons of CO2. By taking the bus for just one week, riders can reduce their emissions by about 100 pounds per vehicle.

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