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  • Captured fugitive bound over for trial

    The woman wanted on Methamphetamine trafficking charges who fled town last month and was later captured by Los Alamos police behind a Taco Bell in Albuquerque has been bound over for trial.

    In a preliminary hearing Monday, Los Alamos Magistrate Court Judge Pat Casados ordered Leslie Kathryn Draper, 23, bound over for trial in District Court on seven counts of trafficking a controlled substance (Methamphetamine).

    Draper remains in the Los Alamos County Detention Center on $100,000 bond.

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  • Los Alamos students win Supercomputer Awards

    The New Mexico Supercomuting Challenge awarded dozens of prizes during an award ceremony Tuesday morning.

     

    Awards were based on presentations of research to a team of volunteer judges on Monday at the J. Robert Oppenheimer Study Center. Participants also discussed poster displays of their computing projects. Many students toured the laboratory’s supercomputing centers and heard talks and saw demonstrations by laboratory researchers.

     

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  • Senate panel hears plans for cleanup complex

    Los Alamos National Laboratory will receive $212 million in recovery act funding and the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad, $172 million in the national campaign to create jobs quickly while accelerating reduction of contamination left over from the Cold War.

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  • Some CIP applications put on hold

    County councilors’ discussion at their last budget hearing focused on Capital Improvement Projects. Tonight they will switch gears and focus on departments’ operating budgets.

    It has been said before that the county spends money freely where capital projects are concerned. In fact, the cost of some CIP projects, such as the Judicial/Police/Jail Complex, have gone up in price, a move that some residents disagree with.

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  • Community thanks concert promoter Russ Gordon

    The man who fills downtown with music each summer was recognized at a special FAN Club in the Chamber of Commerce offices Wednesday evening.

    “What a gas, this is so fun,” said Russ Gordon of the large crowd who gathered to honor and thank him.

    This summer his Los Alamos Summer Concert Series is hosting 22 free concerts from May 15 through the end of August. Local, national and international acts are included in the series.

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  • Town Hall kicks off Earth Week

    Green is busting out this year in Los Alamos.

    A well-attended Energy Town Hall meeting at Fuller Lodge Tuesday morning, marked a departure in scale and emphasis from past years’ events.

    Los Alamos County Environmental Services Manager Regina Wheeler facilitated the four-hour program that included new work and initiatives at the laboratory and practical programs like water conservation in the county.

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  • Radio Station asks to share in funding

    Gillian Sutton approached council at the start of its budget hearings Monday evening. She referenced the county administrator’s budget, which includes a proposed increase from its current $390,277 to $435,109.

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  • CIP projects get tentative green light

    County budgets hearings are nearing a close as several capital outlay projects were approved as the council took action tentatively approving design, study and budgets for them at its meeting Thursday night.

    Capital Improvement Projects were the topic of Tuesday night’s meeting, a continuation of the meeting held in Council Chambers on Monday.

    Councilors voted on various courses of action regarding the CIP applications that the CIP committee reviewed at their public meetings at the beginning of the year.

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  • Los Alamos middle-schoolers finish strong

    Despite a few hurdles, Rachel Robey and Gabe Montoya captured third prize out of 61 teams in the N.M. Supercomputer Challenge this year.

    For one thing, they were from Los Alamos Middle School. They were middle-schoolers up against tough high-school competition, not to mention increasingly proficient elementary school participants as well.

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  • FY-2010 Budget Hearings kick off with gusto

    Day one of the county's budget hearings moved along at a mostly vigorous clip Monday evening in council chambers and spirits remained high.

    “It’s been mentioned that the county has healthy fund balances and we do,” Chief Financial Officer Steven Lynne said. “We’ll start at about $122 million and end at about $110 million.”

    The main weakness the county has is its lack of diversity, he explained adding, “Our greatest risk is one of our biggest assets because it pushes us towards a certain conservatism.”

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