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Today's News

  • Monitor has become a useless newspaper

    Dear Editor,

     A “story” in your March 25, 2009, edition stated, “Rumors were running rampant this morning” about the fate of the Mountain Elementary School principal.

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  • Monitor irresponsible in publishing story

    Dear Editor,

     Regarding the article in Wednesdays paper, “Mountain Principal’s Job in Question,” I was shocked and appalled that the Monitor would print such a premature and irresponsible piece.

    Why add to the issue of “rumors running rampant” when no real news was there to report.

    My daughter is a student at Mountain School and it is my experience that Mike Katko is nothing short of a kind, conscientious and caring principal.

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  • A major step forward

    A major step forward

    The signing of the Trinity Site Revitalization Project agreement by the school board Thursday is a positive step forward for our community.

    In its unanimous vote to affirm a partnership with the county, school board members took a step toward the future.

    While we believe that there are still many questions and issues here, this project is what the county has basically banked its future on and we need to move ahead.

    Doing nothing is worse than trying something.

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  • State reopens I-40 to Texas

    The New Mexico Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management (DHSEM) continues to monitor and assist state and local partners during the clean up process from a spring storm that closed Interstate Highways and other roads in New Mexico late Thursday and Friday.

     I-40 east bound at Moriarty was expected to open Saturday afternoon once travel is approved by Texas officials.  West bound lanes of I-40 in New Mexico are open.

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  • Taking a new direction

    Los Alamos Artist Fran Stovall, who has created stain-glass and pastel art since 1993, fell into a slump.  

    A gallery that showed her work closed and she wasn’t doing a lot of art. But on a whim, Stovall decided to apply to be the featured artist in the Art Center at Fuller Lodge’s Portal Gallery.

    Being accepted channeled Stovall in a whole new artistic direction.

    “In fact, it really inspired me to move off in this direction that I’d been thinking about for years,” she said.

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  • A familiar performer returns to the Brown Bag concert series

    A taste of Spain, a dash of Bach and a splash of a few barcarolles will be mixed into Los Alamos pianist Juanita Madland’s concert, the Los Alamos Arts Council’s Brown Bag show at 12:30 p.m. Wednesday at Fuller Lodge.

    The community can look forward a relaxed concert that will feature Spanish dances, a Bach suite, a piece by Chopin and barcarolles, or Venetian boat songs.

    Madland said, “Playing for the Brown Bag is a little lighter than a night concert.”

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  • The hunt is on for treasure

    Are there priceless items sitting in your closet? Or maybe stacked up on shelves in your attic or stuffed in boxes in the garage? Your home could contain a fortune in antiques, gold, coins or jewelry, and you might not know about it. One way to determine if your stuff is valuable is take it to the Treasure Hunters Road Show.

    The Treasure Hunters Road Show will set up shop Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday at the Holiday Inn Express in Los Alamos. Hours of operation are  9 a.m.-6 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday. There is no cost.

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  • Volunteer and you just might get more than you give

    This week we look at Asset #6, Parent Involvement in Schooling. According to the Search Institute, “Youth are more likely to grow up healthy when their parents are involved in their education.”

    Last Thursday night, I attended a school board meeting and work session. Luckily, I landed there when the school principals attended with parents who were representing advisory councils.

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  • Have your day your way

    “A small Greek letter, with irrational beauty, one without an end.”

    Yes, my fellow nerds, that is indeed a Pi-ku that I wrote in tribute to Pi-day. As isolated as revelers of the number pi usually are, Pi-day was national news earlier this month.  Pi-kus (a haiku written about pi) abounded as did pi-limericks and of course pie eating celebrations.

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  • County clears up Trinity miscoceptions

    No project ever goes off without a hitch.

    This is especially true for projects in Los Alamos. The complete streets project on Trinity Drive hasn’t even begun yet and already there is public outcry about what may or may not be developed on that stretch of road.

    During Tuesday night’s county council meeting, Los Alamos resident Howard Cady spoke to council regarding the plans for a complete street on Trinity Drive.

    He said he wanted to alert council to the fact that there’s trouble coming.

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