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Today's News

  • A quirky performer comes to town

    His humor has been called impish, his songwriting skills have been referred to as creative and his performances are honored as being fearless. Steve Poltz’s music summons a barrage of descriptions and his life reflects his work.

    According to his website, Poltz was born in Nova Scotia; he was raised in Palm Springs and went to college in San Diego.

    He performed with the band, Rugburns, spending the majority of the year touring in a beat-up van and the song he co-wrote with Jewel, “You Were Meant for Me,” landed on the Billboard Top 10.

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  • ‘Harry Potter’ proves worthy of the hype

    More than 250 local Harry Potter fans turned out at the Reel Deal Theater for a midnight showing of “Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince” Tuesday night.

    The mass of Harry Potter devotees – the majority of whom were around the same age as the film’s hero, 16-year-old Harry Potter (played by 20-year-old Daniel Radcliffe)– was enough to fill two screens at the Reel Deal Theatre.

    The enthusiastic crowd – including some who waited in line over five hours - applauded as the lights dimmed in the theater at the start of the show.

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  • Six Monkeys: Chop, chop

    Writer’s block – a dull name for a horribly dull feeling. I picture my parietal cortex lying on a well-used wooden cutting board, an Alaskan ulu knife beside it, eager, the way all knives are.

    I don’t mean to overdramatize. That is how it feels: Like part of my brain is utterly inaccessible. It might still be inside my skull. It might be in the kitchen with the dirty ice cream bowl. Either way, all I get is a headache.

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  • Beep! Beep! Different modes of transportation take center stage Saturday

    Rows of pristine, shiny cars can be spotted Saturday at the Elks Lodge #2083.

    Viewers will be treated to a wide range of automobiles including vintage, muscle, Euro and just plain unique cars. Additionally, motorcycles and antique tractors will be presented.

    This show is more than just automobile eye candy; proceeds from car registrations, which is $25 per vehicle, will go toward several charity organizations. Valerie Wilson of the Elks Lodge said the Elks’ main charity is the National Cerebral Palsy Foundation.

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  • Baseball: WR 9-10s holds off late charge

    A big third inning and a big tag out at the plate in the sixth inning move the White Rock 9-10 baseball All-Stars into the final round of the District 1 tournament Wednesday.

    Ryan Pierce hit a 2-run triple in the bottom of the third inning to help White Rock to an 8-7 victory over Pecos in Wednesday’s elimination game at Lou Caveglia Field. Meanwhile, a slew of White Rock pitchers took the mound Wednesday and most of them will be available for tonight’s contest against Los Alamos.

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  • Health and fitness: Exercise can help fatigue sufferers

    Chronic fatigue syndrome is a debilitating illness that affects more than 1 million Americans.

    While anyone, regardless of sex or age, can be stricken with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), women are four times as likely as men to be affected. People in their 40s and 50s are more susceptible

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  • Softball: WR advances to title game

    The White Rock 9-10 softball All-Stars rolled to a big win Wednesday night to clinch a spot in the state tournament and come within one more win of taking the District 1 title.

    White Rock scored seven runs in the final two innings Wednesday to knock off Santa Fe 12-3 in the round-robin tournament at Overlook Park. Santa Fe scored a pair of runs in the bottom of the fourth inning — it was the home team Wednesday — to get back to within three runs of White Rock, but White Rock countered with four runs in the top of the fifth to wrest control of the contest back.

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  • Forming friendships across communities

    White Rock Presbyterian Church’s mission partner on the Navajo reservation is House of Fellowship, a small church 11 miles south of Gallup that serves several Navajo communities. Many in the community still live without running water or electricity.  Rev. Fred Thomas and his wife Lorraine, both Navajo Indians from that area, reach out to the community in many ways, including doing housing repairs, hauling wood and visiting and praying with the elderly and shut-ins.

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  • Building a trike named TWEAK

    If all goes well in about three weeks, Michael Ham and the class he is teaching at UNM-LA will have finished building a prototype for their alternative electric vehicle, named TWEAK.

    He didn’t have enough money to afford converting from a gas-powered to a battery-powered engine, as an increasing number of hobbyists and experimenters are beginning to do around Los Alamos.

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  • MBSC selects weighting criteria

    Work for the Municipal Building Siting Committee is well underway.

    The group of 16 has three meetings under their belts and seem to be on their way to figuring out the best-suited spot for a new municipal building.

    Assistant County Administrator Anthony Mortillaro sent out letters to Los Alamos County landowners, asking them to submit applications if they’d like to have their land considered by the committee as a possible site for a new municipal building.

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