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Today's News

  • Baseball: LA Juniors roll to District 1 crown

    The Los Alamos Junior All-Stars capped a dominant run through the District 1 tournament Thursday by blasting the Pecos All-Stars 25-1 to capture the district title.

    With Thursday’s win, Los Alamos will now advance to the state tournament, which starts July 24 in Deming.

    Los Alamos rolled through the District 1 tournament, outscoring its three opponents 51-4 in its three victories.

    “Generally, they performed well,” Los Alamos manager Bill Cooper said. “We hit the ball real well. We fielded the ball real well.”

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  • Sports briefs

    Gilna highlighted in Sports Illustrated

    Local runner Gareth Gilna isn’t just a face in the crowd, he’s also one of the “Faces in the Crowd.”

    Gilna is in this week’s Sports Illustrated, listed in the magazine’s “Faces in the Crowd” feature for his recent sweep of the distance events at the Class AAAA state championship meet.

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  • Predictions were off the mark at Tuesday’s pace race

    It was tough going on the trail and in the prediction department at this week’s pace race.

    The pace race, a weekly event sponsored by the Atomic City Roadrunners, was held Tuesday starting from behind the Larry R. Walkup Aquatic Center. In all, 38 runners and walkers took part.

    In Tuesday’s race, the 1-milers had an option of running on pavement or on the Bench Trail but confusion about a turnaround on the pavement trail made predictions tougher.

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  • 'La Traviata,' a prima donna’s delight

    Soprano Natalie Dessay’s highly anticipated first outing as Violetta (the title character in “La Traviata,”) opened the season at the Santa Fe Opera Friday night. Verdi’s consumptive Camille is required to progress from stratospheric fioritura in the first act, to lyrico spinto fullness by the middle of the second; two extremes difficult to encompass in one voice. Nevertheless, “Traviata” is finally and utterly a prima donna vehicle and even admittedly mediocre vocalists have made a success on sheer strength of personality.

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  • State retirement changes disputed

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  • Norsemen and the great crack in the Atlantic

    More than a thousand years ago, my Norse ancestors were busy pillaging Europe. Using Viking long boats (the stealth weapon of the day), we could sneak up the coasts and rivers of civilized areas, plundering and pillaging at will.

     

    But perhaps we were not thoroughly evil souls. After just a couple of bloody centuries, we converted to Christianity, beat our swords into plowshares, and became peasant farmers.

     

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  • New super. welcomed, fire chief named

    Changing of the guard seemed to be the theme for Tuesday night’s county council meeting, as the new superintendent at Bandelier National Monument gave a presentation and Douglas Tucker was confirmed fire chief.

    The meeting began with Bandelier National Monument Superintendent Jason Lott introducing himself to council and giving a brief presentation.

    During his presentation, he outlined his extensive experience, talked about current happenings at Bandelier and spoke about some of his goals as superintendent.

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  • Steering committee to meet tonight

    The third meeting of the Municipal Building Steering Committee will be held tonight, from 6-8 p.m. in council chambers at the community building.

    Tonight, the committee will discuss the results of the criteria weighting take-home straw poll and make the determination for the final criteria weighting.

    In addition, they will also review and discuss all of the public and private sites that are being considered, as well as those that were submitted to Assistant County Administrator Anthony Mortillaro, by the June 25 deadline.

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  • Mali meets Los Alamos

    Mali musician Balla Kouyate’s family holds a major responsibility. As djeli, they are tasked with reminding the community of its traditional greatness and accomplishments.

    This can be done through being a historian, dancer or performer. Kouyate chose music to promote his culture.

    And he is bringing his music and culture to Los Alamos.

    Kouyate and his band, World Vision, will perform at 7 p.m. Friday at Ashley Pond. The concert is part of the Los Alamos County Summer Concert Series. So what can locals learn from a steward of the music of Mali?

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  • UNM-LA offers new programs

    The University of New Mexico-Los Alamos in collaboration with Doña Ana Community College and Central New Mexico Community College will manage a new, unique collaborative higher education project.

    Chief Justice Edward L. Chávez of the New Mexico Supreme Court introduced the New Mexico Center for Language Access on the steps of the Supreme Court building Wednesday.

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