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  • College Board makes changes

    The face of UNM-LA’s five-person Advisory Board changed Monday night as Marie T. Chiravalle became chair, Linda Daly stepped down and Micheline Devaurs was sworn in.

    Daly served two consecutive four-year terms. She did not seek reelection in February’s at-large election.

    “I’d like to spend more time with my family,” she said earlier. “I feel it’s a good time to step aside and let another community member, a UNM-LA supporter, join the advisory board.”

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  • Small plane crash claims two

    Two people were killed Monday when a small plane crashed south of Santa Fe.

    Authorities are still unable to identify the pilot and passenger in the plane, but a spokesperson for the state police said investigators believe the single-engine plane was on its way to Los Alamos.

    State police officers were notified just after 6:45 a.m. Monday of the downed plane off State Road 344 and Highway 14 in a wooded area near Golden.

    Peter Olson, a state police spokesperson, said he was at the site at about noon.

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  • Local fire officials urge preparation for fire season

    Winds blowing on an already dried out county landscape have fire officials concerned.

    “The conditions we’re seeing right now could start our fire season as early as this month,” said Los Alamos Fire Department Deputy Fire Chief Doug Tucker. “We’re trying to prepare folks and not scare anybody but it’s lining up to be a severe wild fire season.”

    Assistant Chief/Fire Marshal Michael Thompson agreed.

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  • LA Mesa Law intends to stay small but powerful

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  • DPU receives Roadrunner recognition

    The Los Alamos Department of Public Utilities will be honored through the 2008 New Mexico Quality Award Program on April 2 in Albuquerque.

    The DPU submitted an application to the NMQA in which they gave examples of quality improvements they are working on and the process through which the improvements are being made.

    Some of the quality improvements the DPU has made include: meter reading improvements and software improvements.

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  • School Board to meet Tuesday

    The Youth Mobilizers are scheduled to present their findings on high school drop outs to the Los Alamos Board of Education at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Los Alamos High School Speech Theater.

    Also on the agenda are first readings of Policies regarding sick leave, evaluation of licensed personnel and document retention.

    The board will discuss the sale of school bonds, the superintendent search, Trinity Development Project and the 20-year facilities renewal plan.

    The meeting is open to the public.

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  • Risky business: Safety-minded cleanup of Area B resumes

    The site is shaped like a boomerang. Several discrete areas of shallow pits are scattered along a strip of land on the southern side of DP Road.

    Buckled pavement covers most of it, where an old trailer park used to sit.

    Material Disposal Area B is about to get busy again.  After two years of public silence, with only a few visible changes across the road from a row of small businesses, one of Los Alamos National Laboratory’s major environmental cleanup projects is shifting gears.

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  • Second verse, same as the first

    Colleagues suggested that I simply write today’s date into last month’s weather summary.

    Like January, February was warm, sunny and dry, and even more so. February brought its share of storm activity, but those storms brought mostly wind and little moisture.

    High pressure dominated the Southwest during much of February, beginning with the first week.

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  • New Mexico to receive $18.3 million to fight crime

    Some $11.1 million of the $18.3 million New Mexico is getting from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to fight crime is going to the state.  

    Of that funding, a little more than $5 million is available to communities throughout New Mexico on a competitive basis. The remainder will be allocated to the New Mexico Department of Public Safety to be distributed based on the state’s priorities.

    Los Alamos County is eligible for $24,241.

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  • Chu retreats from Yucca Mountain

    Republican senators on the energy committee bore down on Secretary of Energy Steven Chu in a hearing Thursday in Washington.

    Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., returned to a topic from the presidential campaign as he interrogated Chu on nuclear power.

    Chu’s prepared remarks to the committee on the administration’s plan to gain energy independence, mentioned “nuclear” only once at the end and that reference was omitted in his oral statement.

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