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Today's News

  • Celebrating 10 years

    It’s been 10 years since Dr. Yushu Cheng first opened the doors to the Acupuncture Clinic and with an anniversary and a new year underway, Cheng is taking the opportunity to thank Los Alamos residents and wish them a Happy New Year.

    It’s been a busy 10 years for Cheng. “Every year we treat lots of different cases,” she said. “Mostly they are pain, muscle pain, nerve pain, joint pain (and) many different kinds of pain. Also we treat traumatology problems, internal medical disease, dermatology disease, genecology problems.”

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  • Committee reviews final CIP applications

      The last in a series of meetings, during which Capital Improvement Projects applications were reviewed, was held on Friday night in Council Chambers. The committee appointed to review the applications heard presentations from sponsors on the last six applications.

      Applications reviewed on Friday night were as follows:

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  • FRIED LIGHT: A failed state in the making

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  • The A-Bomb’s shadow

    The new exhibit at the Los Alamos Historical Museum focuses on a subject that affected the entire nation, but for the local community, it especially hit close to home.

    In fact, not only does the exhibit feature displays from the Rogers Historical Museum in Rogers, Ark., but the local museum was able to incorporate a few materials from its own collection.

    The exhibit, “The Life Atomic: Growing Up in the Shadow of the A-Bomb,” addresses the height of the Cold War.

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  • Feel good about yourself

    This week we look at Asset #38, Self-Esteem. According to the Search Institute, “Youth are more likely to grow up healthy when they have high self-esteem.” Nationally, only 52 percent of youth feel like they have this Asset in their lives.

    The funny thing is when we mention the words self-esteem, there’s almost an audible groan. There’s nothing wrong with having self-esteem, but when you don’t have it, a lot seems to go wrong.

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  • Hockey: LA wins in its home finale

    The Los Alamos Hilltopper hockey team remained unbeaten and solidified its hold on first place with a 4-1 win over the Santa Fe Blue Jackets Friday.

    The Blue Jackets (8-1-1), a composite New Mexico Interscholastic Ice Hockey League team representing St. Michael’s, Capital and Santa Fe High Schools went into Friday night’s game at Los Alamos County Ice Rink as the only team in the state that hadn’t yet fallen to the Hilltoppers. The two teams played to a 3-3 tie Nov. 23 at Santa Fe.

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  • Wrestling: ’Toppers earn hardware at Valley meet Saturday

    Blaine Lattin again led a big outing for the Los Alamos Hilltopper wrestling team this weekend.

    Lattin took the gold medal in the 189-pound bracket for the Hilltoppers at a singles tournament, hosted by Albuquerque’s Valley High School. Los Alamos was originally slated to compete at Highland but was rerouted to Valley late last week by Albuquerque Public Schools officials.

    In all, Los Alamos took home six medals, four in the junior varsity bracket and two more in the varsity tournament. For the tournament, the Hilltopper squad went a combined 16-6.

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  • Girls basketball: ’Toppers drop nondistrict game to Academy

    The Los Alamos Hilltopper girls basketball team dropped a nondistrict contest Friday night to the Albuquerque Academy Chargers.

    Just three days after one of its better offensive performances of the season, a 50-33 win over the Taos Tigers, Los Alamos had its second lowest-scoring outing against the Chargers.

    A good Hilltopper defensive showing against a solid Chargers’ squad was squandered in Friday night’s 33-29 loss at Academy.

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  • Police work with landlords for safer neighborhoods

    Rumors of meth houses inside the manufactured home community were circulating when Steve and Peggy Gianes first took over management of Royal Crest at 2025 East Jemez Road.

     

    “Working together with our local police, we've gotten rid of those homes,” Gianes said during an interview Wednesday. “In another home in our community there was an illegal resident who would not have been approved to live here because of his criminal history. It was difficult to get him out of here but with the help of the police, we did it.”

     

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  • Los Alamos County Library System gets upgraded

    Work to include new self -checkout stations and security gates within the Los Alamos County Library System started at least three years ago. On Wednesday the library system staff and community celebrated the fruits of that labor.

     

    The new features were recognized with a ribbon-cutting, a presentation and a cake. Participants were introduced to the new stations and security measures at Mesa Public Library.

     

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