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Today's News

  • Softball: WR reaches Juniors softball semifinal

    The White Rock Juniors All-Star softball team will face Albuquerque Westgate Wednesday night for the right to advance to the state tournament championship round.

    White Rock won a pair of elimination games against Albuquerque Thunderbird and Silver City following an opening round loss to put itself in a position to vie for the state title.

    White Rock needed extra innings to top Thunderbird 10-4. Starting pitcher Dominique Sandoval held Thunderbird off the scoreboard for four innings, bug Thunderbird pushed four runs across in the fifth to tie the game.

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  • Martinson’s 78 puts her on top of women’s contest

    When you’re hot, you’re hot.

    And right now, Tami Martinson is swinging about as hot a club as she ever has.

    Just two days after what she called the best round of her career, Martinson fired a 6-over in Saturday’s first round of the Los Alamos Ladies’ City Championship. Her opening round 78 gives her a 6-shot advantage of her nearest competitor heading into today’s second and final round.

    Today’s final 18 holes is scheduled to start at 8:30 a.m.

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  • Sanchez going for second seniors title in three years

    The opening round for Eddie Sanchez didn’t end as well as it started.

    But if he finishes up in the same position that he finished Saturday, he will grab his second City senior men’s title in three tries.

    Sanchez will take the lead heading into today’s City Championship Senior Men’s final round after finishing with a 1-over 73 Saturday.

    John Stam and defending senior men’s champion Bruce Norman are within five shots of Sanchez’s lead heading into today’s play.

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  • Curt Norman takes early lead at City tournament

    It was probably a good thing for the rest of the field that Curt Norman was a little off his game.

    Despite what Norman characterized as a so-so round Saturday, he sits at the top of the leaderboard in the men’s championship flight of the Los Alamos City Golf Championship. Norman shot a 1-over 73 to take the day one lead ahead of four other top golfers after the first 18 holes.

    The tournament, being played at Los Alamos Golf Course, concludes today. A shotgun start is scheduled for 8:30 a.m.

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  • Trinity Project showing signs of unraveling

    Instead of the sprawling, retail-filled plans for Trinity Place, Los Alamos residents could end up with a big-box store and a parking lot; and that seems to be all right with at least one county councilor.

    Wade Williams, a partner in The Boyer Company, along with Assistant County Administrator Anthony Mortillaro, Seth Kirshenberg of the Kutak Rock law firm and Kevin Wager of Jones Long LaSalle, were all in council chambers Thursday night for the special session, which revolved around discussion of Trinity Place.

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  • Artwork for Eco Station being discussed

    Beautification efforts for the Eco Station continue, with plans to install a piece of artwork moving along.

    On Friday the Art in Public Places Board met to discuss current projects. Among those on the list were the Judicial/Police/Jail Complex and the Eco Station. APP Board Staff Liaison Stephani Johnson was hoping to finalize plans for the JPJ artwork, but instead the Board decided to hold off on a decision regarding the artwork because of comments from councilors.

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  • Espanola mayor weighs run for lieutenant governor

    Joseph Maestas is strongly considering a run at the state’s second highest office.

    The Española mayor is meeting with the best political consultants in the state and reaching out to key political organizations, labor unions, progressive organizations and top political leaders across New Mexico to discuss the upcoming political season, he said.

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  • The Farmers' Market keeps manager hopping

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  • LAHS student visits CERN

    Alex Kendrick’s “The Underground Radio II” was determined to be one of the top science projects in the world. Recently, he discovered what other scientific innovations the world has to offer.

    Kendrick visited the European Organization for Nuclear Research’s CERN from June 28-July 2. CERN is located near Geneva, Switzerland.

    Kendrick traveled with 13 other students, two of whom were from Albuquerque.

    CERN, according to its website, is the world’s largest particle physics laboratory.

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  • Hilltalkers to share their knowledge with the newest group of debaters

    The Los Alamos High School Hilltalkers are smooth talkers. Their speech abilities allowed them to compete six rounds of the National Forensic League’s National Tournament, held June 12-18 in Birmingham, Ala. The seven Hilltalkers needed eight ballots to break into the elimination round and earned seven.

    The policy debaters and the duo interpretation team were close to being placed in the top 60 teams but achieved a spot in the top 100.

    More than 300 high schools brought a total of 3,500 students to the competition.

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