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Today's News

  • 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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  • Single-payer health system

    Dear Editor,

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  • Community icon dies

    Unstoppable in his quest for peace, longtime Los Alamos crusader Ed Grothus lost his battle with cancer. He died quietly about noon Thursday in his Los Alamos home surrounded by family. 

    “When one is legendary, one must do legendary things,” Grothus often said. And so he did.

    One need only Google his name to find him the subject of a trove of newspaper stories and magazine articles from around the world. Grothus, 85, also is the subject of several documentaries and a video that streams on YouTube.

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  • Lujan in town for economic recovery tour

    Cheerful optimism laced Wednesday’s visit by Rep. Ben Ray Lujan who was conducting his economic recovery tour throughout District 3.

    “There are different numbers that have been reported and we’re looking at the numbers hour after hour but it’s looking to be about $1.1 billion and possibly more,” Lujan said of New Mexico’s share of the stimulus package President Obama signed Tuesday in Denver. 

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  • What is the right thing?

    Dear Editor,

    I am responding to your bold assertions that you made in your Friday Feb. 6, 2009, editorial, “It is Time to Do the Right Thing.”

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  • Please, support labs

    Dear Editor,

    Our national research laboratories - Los Alamos, Sandia and Lawrence Livermore - are national treasures. Their physical plants and assemblies of some of our most talented scientists, engineers and technicians cannot be duplicated anywhere in the world.

    Yes, their primary directive has been military research. But technology-sharing programs have enabled their discoveries to be developed commercially for peaceful purposes. And they have been soliciting more and more contracts for nonmilitary research.

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