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  • County: Committee offers insight to council

    Los Alamos County may be one step closer to deciding on a location for a municipal building following action taken by county councilors Tuesday night.

    Assistant County Administrator Anthony Mortillaro opened the discussion regarding the municipal building by saying that the focus of the topic was for council to provide a direction to proceed for a municipal building.

    Following Mortillaro’s brief introduction, members of the MainStreet Futures Committee addressed council and presented them with a few different options that they had come up with.

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  • Schools: Supporters sign petition for Katko

    More than 100 signatures have been received during two-hour shifts Friday and Monday at Film Festival alone as parents and staff members circulate petitions throughout the community “to save Mike Katko’s job as principal of Mountain Elementary School.”

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  • Rodriguez among LANL’s next generation of scientists

    Marko Rodriguez has had a mouse in his hand since he was 8 years old.

    “All my life I have been on a computer,” he said.

    He earned his PhD in computer science two years ago at the University of California, Santa Cruz.  Now, among his many appellations he can describe himself as a director’s postdoctoral fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Center for Non-Linear Studies where he is also associated with the lab’s Applied Mathematics and Plasma Physics group in the Theoretical Division.

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  • County Council hears transit’s goals

    County councilors handled a full agenda during last week’s council meeting.

    This week will be no different.

    With four items of business that center on major county issues, the meeting has been moved from the White Rock Town Hall to the Community Building, to allow more room for the public who wish to attend.

    The Trinity Drive Street Standards, selection process for siting and construction of a municipal building, work associated with the Judicial/Police/Jail Complex and property taxes will all be topics of discussion at tonight’s meeting at 7 p.m.

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  • Energy Secretary sees future for security labs

    ALBUQUERQUE – The primary role of Los Alamos and the other nuclear weapons labs remains as stewards of the nuclear stockpile, “as long as other countries continue to have nuclear weapons.”

    Energy Secretary Steven Chu had answers for some of the uncertainties about the future of the nuclear weapons complex. But those issues weren’t topmost on his mind, and he probably didn’t lay them to rest.

    During his trip to New Mexico this week, Chu reaffirmed the nuclear security mission as the main job of the weapons laboratories.

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  • Council meeting venue changed

    Tuesday’s county council meeting is a must-attend event for anyone interested in the standards for Trinity Drive, property taxes, the municipal building or the Judicial/Police/Jail complex, as all of these items will be discussed.

    The meting was originally scheduled to be held in White Rock, however, a change of venue has been made and instead, the meeting will be held at the community building at 7 p.m.

    The evening will begin with public comment, followed by the consent agenda, on which there are four items of business.

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  • Sustainability main focus of luncheon

    The first Los Alamos County Sustainability Leadership Luncheon was held Thursday at Fuller Lodge.

    More than 50 leaders from government, institutions and private companies convened to discuss a shared vision of a sustainable future. 

    Los Alamos County and the Los Alamos Department of Public Utilities hosted the event with sponsorship from Los Alamos National Bank, North Wind, Inc. and Energy Controls, Inc.

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  • Fire safer cigarette bill signed into law

    Any entity that manufactures cigarettes to be sold in New Mexico must now make them self-extinguishable.

    In nearly his final bill action from the 2009 Legislative session, Gov. Bill Richardson signed House Bill 70, the “Fire Safer Cigarette and Firefighter Protection Act,” into law Wednesday imposing stiff penalties on manufacturers who fail to comply.

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  • Viewing Easter’s rich history

    A major controversy in early Christianity, in which an Eastern and a Western position can be distinguished, occurred in fixing the date on which the Resurrection of Jesus was to be observed and celebrated, according to research by Hans J. Hillerbrand for the Encyclopedia Britannica.

    The dispute was not definitively resolved, he said, until the 8th century.

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  • County: Public Utilities receives progress award

    The Los Alamos Department of Public Utilities received a Quality New Mexico Roadrunner Award during a ceremony held April 2 in Albuquerque.

    Utilities Manager John Arrowsmith, County Council Chair Mike Wheeler, Roadrunner Project Leader Gaylyn Meyers and others attended the event.

    Arrowsmith thanked DPU employees for their efforts, which helped the department earn the award.

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