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Today's News

  • ACT celebrates first birthday

    Atomic City Transit will celebrate their 1st birthday party tomorrow from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. and would like to invite the public to celebrate with them. There will be a tent along Central Ave. between the post office and Fuller Lodge, where the public can enjoy hot dogs, chips, soda, cake and cookies, while supplies last.

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  • Girls soccer: LA crushes another district foe

    SANTA FE — You can’t predict the weather, but the District 2AAAA girls soccer race is  pretty much a foregone conclusion.

    Had everything gone according to schedule, the Los Alamos Hilltoppers would have been celebrating their fourth-straight district title with Tuesday’s 10-0 romp of the Capital Jaguars.

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  • Boys soccer: Toppers blank Jags 4-0 Tuesday

    SANTA FE — On a cold, damp field on which it has struggled the past two seasons, the Los Alamos Hilltopper boys soccer team cleared its final big hurdle to returning the top of District 2AAAA.

    And it did so in dominant fashion.

    The Hilltoppers trounced the Capital Jaguars 4-0 Tuesday night at Jaguar Field, putting them just one win away from recapturing the District 2AAAA championship they felt they squandered in 2007.

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  • Largest firefighter recruit class in history now underway

    The current class of 34 recruits marks the largest ever assembled by the Los Alamos Fire Department in its 19-year history since joining the county.

    Battalion Chief Edward Henry Ortiz heads up the LAFD training division responsible for molding the men and women recruits into top-notch firefighters.

    “We’ve got a great group ranging in age from late teens to early 40s,” Ortiz said. “The majority are from New Mexico whereas last year we had about a 50-50 mix of recruits from New Mexico and those from out of state.”

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  • LANL names a new leader of public affairs

    Los Alamos National Laboratory named Lisa Franklin Rosendorf on Tuesday to head the Communications and Government Affairs Division.

    She takes the place of David McCumber, who has expressed his desire to return to the practice of law and has been reassigned to the office of Legal Council, according to a lab announcement.

    “There is a real transformation underway as the laboratory becomes a 21st century hub for national security science,” Rosendorf said in a telephone interview this morning.

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  • Judicial complex construction to begin next week

    Starting next week, residents will find Oppenheimer Drive closed for construction as work starts on the new Judicial/Police/Jail complex.

    Capital Projects Manager Anne Laurent and Public Works Director Kyle Zimmerman were in council chambers for Tuesday night’s meeting to ask that council approve the services agreement with HB Construction of Albuquerque, authorizing them to move forward with work associated with the JPJ complex.

    Council voted 6-1 to pass the motion, with Vice Chair Robert Gibson voting against it.

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  • B-Boys conquer the world!

    I always thought break-dancing was just a quick trend, locked up tight in the 80s’ and only performed by odd balls wearing really bad outfits.

    Watching “Planet B-Boy” revealed just how wrong I was. The 80s just took an art form was ruined it by turning the art into commercialized tripe.

    Break dancing, according to this documentary, has nothing to do with acid washed jeans and more to do with a free form of self-expression. There aren’t really any set moves or guidelines, it’s more about what a particular dancer feels and wants to express.

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  • Golf: Krantz/Rokop lead LA golfers at NNMSMGA final

    A pair of Los Alamos teams had solid showings at the Northern New Mexico Senior Men’s Golf Association’s final event of the 2008 season.

    The NNMSMGA Team Tournament was held Oct. 1-2 at Twin Warriors Golf Course in Bernalillo.

    Ron Krantz and Don Rokop finished second in the second flight to the team of John Garcia/Sol Zamora by one stroke. Krantz/Rokop shot a combined 154 net score.

    The top team in the first flight was Isaac Herrera/Simon Suina, which won with a net score of 136. Both Herrera and Suina are from Cochiti Pueblo.

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  • Volleyball: LA knocks off Espanola Valley in big road match

    A long delay in the fourth game didn’t slow the Los Alamos Hilltopper volleyball team down very much in a critical District 2AAAA match Saturday.

    With Los Alamos up by double-digits in the fourth game, the lights at Española Valley’s Edward Medina Gymnasium went out due to a nearby thunderstorm. They remained off for 2-1/2 hours.

    But after the delay — and a 15-minute warm-up period for both teams — the Hilltoppers finished off game four and the match, winning 19-25, 25-22, 25-20, 25-14.

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  • Open Space Specialist forges new trails

    Craig Martin is a man of many trades. He’s a writer, a teacher, a husband, a father, an avid hiker and the go-to guy for trail maintenance in Los Alamos County.

    Martin always knew he had a love for the outdoors. His interest became apparent to him when he was growing up in Philadelphia and was a Boy Scout.

    “I thought it was neat. I’d never been out in the woods before,” he said.

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