Today's News

Former Los Alamos police officer Brian Schamber and Los Alamos County have settled for $600,000 in an agreement that was released Wednesday afternoon.

“It’s a very appropriate way to resolve the claim,” Schamber’s attorney John Day said. “Brian can start a new life. There are a lot of extremely smart people in Los Alamos and there are people in the county and police department that made stupid decisions in this case.”

Day said Schamber will resign his post at LAPD. And Day said that Schamber and his family will move away from Los Alamos to an undisclosed location and begin his new career outside of law enforcement.

Los Alamos Little Theatre will have auditions for Diane Samuels’ drama, “Kindertransport” 3 p.m. Dec. 15 and 7:30 p.m. Dec. 17 at the Performing Arts Center, 1670 Nectar St.
Callbacks by invitation will be Dec. 19.
The cast consists of five women and one man.
Auditions will be cold readings from the script, and those auditioning should demonstrate some comfort speaking in the dialects of the characters.
Copies of the script are available at the information desk at the Mesa Public Library.
“Kindertransport” tells the story of one of the thousands of German Jewish children sent to England before the outbreak of World War II.
Rehearsals begin in mid-January and run for three weeks in March.
Questions can be addressed to the director at rev.jcullinan@gmail.com. 

Los Alamos wants a new national park to commemorate the Manhattan Project. State Corrections Secretary Gregg Marcantel has proposed making a museum in the state penitentiary. And Ruidoso Downs is (still) trying to save the Hubbard Museum.
Unique properties, interesting proposals. Some have more merit than others.
Proponents of the Manhattan Project park hope to preserve and interpret such historic structures as Pond Cabin, where early work was done, and a vintage Quonset hut where the atomic bomb Fat Man was assembled.
Opponents don’t like the idea of glorifying a dark chapter of history.
History is history, good or bad. The Manhattan Project was a watershed event, and Los Alamos was its womb. Yes, it deserves a site because it’s worth remembering and reflecting on the events leading up to Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Critics should remember that in Germany a few Nazi concentration camps have been preserved and opened to the public because tourists are interested in seeing them and because descendents and survivors want the public never to forget.
Recognizing an infamous place has a precedent in New Mexico..The Bosque Redondo Memorial at Fort Sumner is a handsome, culturally sensitive monument to the Navajos and Apaches who died there in an army experiment gone terribly wrong.

The Teen Center will be hosting a special Open Mic night Thursday and Home Run Pizza will be donating the pizzas.
Director Sylvan Sierra Argo said the Teen Center will have support staff on hand after the funeral Friday.
Ruby K’s is donating bagels, cream cheese and tortilla wrap finger food, Starbucks is donating coffee, Smith’s in White Rock is donating snacks, the Co-op is donating snacks, JJAB is funding art therapists to be present in the afternoon and LATC Staff will host movies and popcorn until 11 p.m.
“We’ve seen more of a need for processing space, decompression time – less structure and more space to just be together,” Argo said.
Argo said there will be an art therapist available 2:30-6:30 p.m. next Tuesday.