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Today's News

  • Cross country: Pittman finishes fourth at NCN regional meet

    Kyle Pittman led a big effort by the Los Alamos Hilltopper cross country team at Saturday’s boys Nike Cross Nationals Southwest Regional.

    Pittman, who just two weeks earlier took his first state Class AAAA individual championship, finished fourth at the Southwest Regional meet, held Saturday in Tempe, Ariz. With a time of 15 minutes, 24 seconds to lead the Hilltoppers to a fifth-place finish.

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  • Nuclear partnership debated

    The Department of Energy’s project to support domestic and international nuclear energy development drew a relatively light response at a public hearing Thursday.

    Five people spoke against and one urged full speed ahead.

    Sol Golub of the department’s Office of Nuclear Energy gave an overview of the history and issues involved in the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP) and the matter at hand, a Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement

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  • Skating safely: Police Chief Torpy addresses helmet law

    The skate park in front of Mesa Public Library opened last month, much to the delight of local youth.

    So far the reaction to the opening of the skate park has been mostly positive, however, as Police Chief Wayne Torpy will attest, there have also been some complaints.

    The complaints Torpy is receiving stem from some of the skate park users not wearing helmets while at the park. Torpy was in council chambers on Tuesday night to brief council on the New Mexico Child Helmet Safety Act.

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  • McLeod saves the day for school district

    Superintendent Mary McLeod convinced the 29-member Legislative Education Study Committee (LESC) that met at the state capitol Wednesday to hold Los Alamos Public Schools harmless from a bill that would have cost the district nearly $3 million in state revenues.

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  • Complaint filed against LAPD

    A Los Alamos resident and former Los Alamos National Laboratory physicist alleges that he was the victim of "jailing and beating and subsequent abuse of authority" on and subsequent to Nov. 24, 2006 by Los Alamos police.

    Richard Morse, 73, filed a complaint Nov. 12 in First District Court against the LAPD. He is seeking $300,000 for pain and suffering, another $20,000 for the theft of his two automobiles as well as court costs and interest.

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  • Ways and Means Projects to get kicked off

    The House of Hope Women has begun its Ways and Means Projects for securing funding for the next October house-building trip to Júarez, Chihuahua, Mexico.

    A raffle is the first of the projects that the group is sponsoring – an opportunity to win one of three different items.

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  • Look, Hawaii makes some real news

    SANTA FE – Barack Obama’s victory produced many firsts, most of which have been discussed to death by national analysts.

    One first that hasn’t been discussed is the election of a president from our 50th state of Hawaii.

    President-elect Obama is more closely identified with Illinois now but he grew up in Hawaii and, appropriately enough, he used a 50-state strategy to win his election.

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  • Tours give an inside peek at Airport Basin Project

    County councilors, members of the media and county officials got an up close and personal view of the Airport Basin project site on Friday afternoon.

    Split into two one-hour tours, those who attended were driven around the construction site and given an update on contractor Hensel Phelp’s progress.

    Engineering Project Manager Dan Erickson led the tours, while Project Manager David Apple also helped answer questions and gave briefings on various parts of the project.

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  • Workshop: Not enough room for the universe

    SANTA FE – The universe, in all its scales, frequencies, bits and chunks, is becoming too numerous for astronomers to handle.

    The Great Survey Workshop this weekend in Santa Fe brought about 75 astronomers together to compare datasets and share algorithms about the vast new wave of information that is flooding in from the cosmos.

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  • Where’s money coming from?

    It was good to hear state Senate Majority Leader Michael Sanchez (D-Valencia) say that he supports education funding in spite of a daunting budget shortfall facing existing and future state budgets.

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