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Today's News

  • State of the County

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  • FRIED LIGHT: An eye for an eyeball

    With a stiff upper lip, the man talked about all the competition for people’s eyeballs these days.

    “We’re not just competing with competitors,” he lamented, stepping around bunches of boxes of printed matter the other day. “It’s not just all the other print out there, it’s e-mail and the Internet, television and cable, CDs and DVDs and all the rest.”

    Sounds kind of like somebody in the newspaper business, doesn’t it?

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  • Boys swimming: LA takes third at state Saturday

    ALBUQUERQUE — Heading into the state championship swim meet, Los Alamos head coach Rusty Bernstein said his team’s depth could prove to be a factor Saturday.

    Apparently, he knew what he was talking about.

    Los Alamos put together some solid swims at Saturday’s championship finals, enough to put it in contention in team standings. The Hilltopper boys grabbed third place Saturday, picking up 202 total points, holding off Albuquerque High School to earn a trophy at the meet.

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  • Swimming and diving: Topper girls finish 4th at state meet

    ALBUQUERQUE — It had been an up-and-down year for Victoria Maqueda.

    After starting off the 2008-09 swimming season feeling good about her game, she was slowed by illness, then missed training time due to winter travel. It took her awhile to get back to where she felt she wanted to be.

    But Saturday, in her season finale, Maqueda put together the race of her career in the 100-yard breaststroke.

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  • Wrestling: Lattin is third, Wilde fourth at Class 4A tourney

    RIO RANCHO — A pair of Los Alamos Hilltoppers made it to the consolation finals at the Class AAAA wrestling championship tournament last weekend.

    The tournament was held Friday and Saturday at the Santa Ana Star Center in Rio Rancho.

    Blaine Lattin finished third for the Hilltoppers Saturday, bouncing back from a loss to open Saturday’s competition, while Zak Wilde grabbed a fourth-place finish for Los Alamos at the tournament.

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  • Girls basketball: Toppers thump Capital at home

    The Los Alamos Hilltopper girls basketball team got the win it needed Friday night, but not the help it needed.

    With its upset win over the Española Valley Sundevils Tuesday night in the valley, Los Alamos kept alive its chance for half of a District 2AAAA regular season title, but needed to beat the Capital Jaguars Friday and get some help from the Bernalillo Spartans.

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  • Boys basketball: LA knocks off Capital in finale

    Alex Kirk had a huge night for the Los Alamos Hilltopper boys basketball team as it tripped up Capital in its season finale Saturday.

    Kirk, the 6-foot, 11-inch junior center for the Hilltoppers, scored 31 points and grabbed 15 rebounds as the Hilltoppers beat Capital’s Jaguars 60-39 Saturday in Santa Fe.

    Capital kept the game close throughout the first half, but in the third quarter Los Alamos started to pull away. In the fourth quarter, Los Alamos dominated.

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  • Firefighters save home and rescue pets in White Rock

    Three dogs trapped inside a burning home were saved during a daring rescue by Los Alamos firefighters Friday afternoon in White Rock.

    According to those at the scene, the near disaster was averted because of the swift and well-orchestrated actions of a firefighting team comprised of experienced veterans mixed with newly graduated cadets who just came out of a cutting-edge training academy.

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  • UNM-LA enrollment increases for third straight semester

    UNM-LA Executive Director Cedric Page credits the college’s efforts at outreach for it enrollment growth.

     

    This semester, UNM-Los Alamos increased its head count for the third straight semester.

     

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  • Two community leaders diagnosed with cancer

    Until now, two community leaders have kept the causes of their illnesses quiet.

    But to advocate early diagnosis and spotlight Saturday’s Relay For Life informational event, County Council Vice Chair Mike Wismer and former Councilor Jim West are sharing their personal cancer experiences. 

    The men were diagnosed just a few months apart with different types of cancer. Wismer shared their stories during an interview late Tuesday. 

    “Jim is in Houston undergoing chemotherapy and blood transfusions for Large Cell Lymphoma,” Wismer said. 

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