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Today's News

  • Redmond elected state treasurer

    Former 3rd District Rep. Bill Redmond of Los Alamos is the state’s newly elected GOP treasurer. He was elected Saturday during a New Mexico Central Committee meeting in Albuquerque.

     

    Longtime GOP leader JoAnn Johnson, also of Los Alamos, nominated Redmond to the two-year post.

     

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  • School board includes town hall on Trinity Development Project

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  • Review of CIP applications underway

    Review of the Capital Improvement Projects applications began on Monday night at White Rock Fire Station #3, with a good public turnout.

     

    The meeting marked the first in a series that will be held in an effort to review the applications that were received during the CIP cycle, which opened in October 2008.

     

    The CIP process began when Council reviewed and endorsed a new CIP Development Flow Chart for all CIP projects in July 2008.

     

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  • Governor's budget calls for 'year of restraint'

    SANTA FE – Capital expenditures and educational budgets will take the brunt in the governor’s proposed spending reductions for next year, which he has dubbed “the year of restraint.”

     

    Anticipating the 60-day session that begins next week, Gov. Richardson said New Mexico is in “great shape,” despite the recession.

     

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  • Are you our next county councilor?

    The county council needs your help! Jim West’s resignation created a vacant seat on the seven-member council responsible for local government. 

    Our charter requires the remaining six to appoint a “qualified voter” to serve through December 2010. Would you or someone you know make a good councilor?

    Council is a great way to serve our community.  It is also a major commitment of time and energy.

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  • Family YMCA awarded $25,000 LANS grant

    The Family YMCA was awarded a grant of $25,000 from Los Alamos National Security, LLC’s Community Giving Grant Program on Dec. 16 to assist in an expanded community health initiative.

    This grant will assist the YMCA with a cardio-wellness expansion and an improved strength-conditioning area to keep pace with families, youth and adults who turn to the YMCA for health and wellness activities and programs.

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  • Boys basketball: LA falls to St. Pius, 65-55

    ALBUQUERQUE — Despite dropping their first three ballgames and four of their first six, the St. Pius X Sartans aren’t the three-time defending champs for nothing.

    A suddenly resurgent Sartan squad was able to create enough chaos to keep the Los Alamos Hilltopper boys basketball team off-balance for most of Tuesday night’s nondistrict game at St. Sebastian Gymnasium.

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  • Girls basketball: Belen knocks off LA at home Tuesday, 55-45

    While Los Alamos’ girls basketball team has had its ups and downs this season, the effort has been there throughout.

    However, that effort was noticeably absent Tuesday night in a home game against Belen.

    Los Alamos was beaten to the punch on both ends of the floor Tuesday. Belen was able to create some key turnovers and beat Los Alamos down the floor in transition to pick up a 55-45 victory at Griffith Gymnasium.

    Tuesday’s game was a head-scratching effort all around, Hilltopper head coach Tarah Logan said.

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  • JUNTOS teens revel in food, fun and field trips

    Good-natured chatter flowed amongst a gathering of Los Alamos and Española teenagers as they discussed spending a long weekend together.

    The seventh- through 12th- grade students are members of JUNTOS and met at Española Valley High School Jan. 5 to plan a student exchange activity in which students from Los Alamos will spend the weekend and a Monday morning with students and their families in Española.

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  • UNM-LA offers quality education

    Daniel Pink, author of “A Whole New Mind,” says that a crucial need in the 21st century is a story that makes sense of one’s data.

    In this and following columns, I hope to begin telling the stories of UNM-Los Alamos as it re-envisions itself and what it can do best.

    What we have done and still do best is teaching. The first part of our story is to remind everyone that we are one of the best two-year transfer schools in the state of New Mexico.

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