Today's News

The immeasurable benefit employers provide when they support their National Guard and Reserve soldiers was vigorously appreciated during a special luncheon at the Hilltop House Hotel Wednesday.

Officials from New Mexico’s “Employer Support for the Guard and Reserve” (ESGR), recognized UNM-Los Alamos, Los Alamos Fire Department, Los Alamos National Bank  and United Way of Northern New Mexico for supporting their employees when called to serve America.

The Hansons were quicker than the rest of the field.

At Saturday’s Pajarito Trail Runs, held on Pajarito Mountain, Hans Hanson and Susan Hanson were both winners in the 10-kilometer race.

Hans Hanson won the 10K by more than 12 minutes over the next-closest competitor, Day Frostenson, while Susan Hanson won the women’s 10K by more than four minutes over Kay Ulrich.

In all, 110 runners braved the elements and very difficult trail courses in Saturday’s race.

There are sites and activities that are deemed unique to Los Alamos and embraced by locals. But now, it is more than just Los Alamos residents who are noticing these local gifts.

In fact, the New Mexico Recreation and Parks Association presented awards to the Los Alamos Recreation Division and the Parks Division during its annual conference in September.

The recreation division received the Aquatic Program of the Year award for its Pumpkin Splash activity while the parks division earned the Park/Trails/Bike Path award for its design and master plan for Camp May.

There is art in nature – a setting and rising sun, a blooming flower, a floating cloud. In fact, art is all around us.

Sometimes artists take matters into their own hands to show people just how artistic nature can be. The natural world becomes the artist’s canvas to create an image. Robert Smithson shaped rocks into the “Spiral Jetty” in the Great Salt Lake, while Christo and Jeanne Claude have draped cloth material on various structures including a valley in Rifle, Colo., and islands off of Florida.