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  • Public hearings to be rescheduled

    Two public hearings that were scheduled for Tuesday night’s county council meeting were deferred until some future council meeting. Based on that decision, the agenda was a bit lighter than expected.

    Before any business was handled, the public was allowed to comment on items not listed on the agenda. Los Alamos resident Howard Cady seized the opportunity to address council regarding his concerns with the Complete Streets project on Trinity Drive.

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  • Chapman elected to lead local Democrats

    New officers were elected to the Los Alamos County Democratic Party board Wednesday evening during a special meeting at Fuller Lodge.

    Outgoing Chairman Stephen Fettig passed the torch to his longtime Vice Chair Cathy Chapman at the combined ward, precinct and county meeting.

    “Cathy has been involved in the party a lot longer than I have and she’s come to my rescue a number of times,” Fettig said. “She will lead the party in a good direction.”

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  • LANL outlines stimulus plan

    SANTA FE – Hazardous cleanup projects on DP Road are the main focus of the laboratory’s economic stimulus plans.

    Officials of the Department of Energy and Los Alamos National Laboratory outlined current proposals for using stimulus funds to catch up on and accelerate hazardous cleanup work on DP Mesa.

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  • College of Santa Fe gets reprieve

    SANTA FE – Gov. Richardson was greeted as a superhero at the College of Santa Fe Tuesday morning, where he promised to keep fighting to save the school.

    Students and staff cheered state and city officials who promised to try again to save the college from impending bankruptcy. An emotional crowd spilled out of a standing-room only performance space to hear the announcements.

    A bill that would have enabled the state to take control of the college died when the legislature ended Saturday without taking final action.

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  • Threats to CalPERS pensions never greater

    The organization fighting to protect the pension benefits of retired public employees is fighting for new members.

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  • Council awards Diamond Drive Phase 3 contract

    Drivers get ready. Your trip between 39th Street  and North Road is about to get a bit bumpy.

    During Tuesday night’s county council meeting, councilors voted to award Bid No. 2009-11 to RMCI Inc. in the amount of $4.91 million plus applicable gross receipts tax for the construction of Diamond Drive Phase 3.

    The motion passed 6-1, with Councilor Robert Gibson voting against it.

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  • Heart of lab now named for Domenici

    A ceremony Tuesday afternoon completed the process of naming three buildings at the center of Los Alamos National Laboratory in honor of one of the lab’s leading patrons, former Sen. Pete Domenici.

     

    Domenici was on hand Tuesday to receive the plaudits of laboratory leaders and staff in the auditorium of the National Security Science Building (NSSB).

     

    “You won’t have any buildings left to dedicate if you keep this up,” joked Domenici during his speech, according to the laboratory’s Newsbulletin this morning.

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  • Mountain principal’s job in question

    Rumors were running rampant this morning that Mountain Elementary School Principal Mike Katko has been asked to resign or be fired. 

    The source of the rumors is not yet clear.

    The Los Alamos Board of Education met behind closed doors Tuesday in two executive sessions. Discussions of personnel matters was included on the agenda of both. The first session was held at 4 p.m. and the second at 5 p.m.

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  • Special Session planned for October

    SANTA FE – With a bang of his gavel, the Speaker of the House officially ended this year’s 60-day session at about noon Saturday.

    A special session will follow in order to tie up a number of loose ends left dangling.

    “There will be a special session,” said Gov. Richardson Saturday during his standard 1 p.m. press conference. “The issue will be when. It will be this fall, probably October.”

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  • School Board meets at Mountain Thursday

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