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Today's News

  • Residents express concern over missing campaign signs

    An increasing number of local residents are coming forward with concern at finding their Obama campaign signs disappearing from their front yards – several, more than once.

    Most of the missing signs appear to be in yards and lots in Barranca Mesa.

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  • More jurisdiction for some LAPD officers

    Those traversing N.M. 502 and other outlying parts of Santa Fe County, as if driving on the Autobahn, should know that the Los Alamos Police Department and the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Department have struck a deal that will allow Los Alamos police officers to be cross-commissioned through Santa Fe County.

    This spells bad news for speeders, as LAPD officers will now be able to cite traffic offenders who are caught in those parts of Santa Fe County, which lie closest to Los Alamos.

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  • Lead data study raises water quality concern

    SANTA FE – A persistent critic of the groundwater monitoring program at Los Alamos National Laboratory said he has found traces of what he considers “an overlooked contaminant plume” under an old waste dump on the southern boundary of the nuclear weapons laboratory.

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  • From librarians to world travelers

    President Eisenhower founded the Sister City movement in 1956 to promote world peace and mutual understanding through citizen diplomacy.

    Today, more than six decades later, the Sister City Initiative is still flourishing and Los Alamos is a committed partner to the effort.

    The Los Alamos/Sarov Sister City Initiative works in conjunction with the State Department’s Open World Program, initiated in 1999 by the Library of Congress and authorized by the U.S. Congress to increase understanding between the United States and Russia.

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  • Fun times at the VFW

    Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 8874 takes its service to several levels. The post’s work appears in Los Alamos but is also visible around the state and nation.

    To ensure its services do not fade away, the local VFW is hosting a “Funday Fundraiser” from noon-4 p.m. Saturday at the post home.

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  • PEN&INKee^POSSIBILITIES:Dance lessons

    Its walls were built to educate young people.

    The knobby wood beams were erected to pass on lessons from one generation to another; lessons in several areas of life – the outdoors, discipline and academics.

    The Ranch School shucked away all comfortable securities and instilled students with knowledge to prepare them for the next stages of their lives.

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  • Volleyball: LA swept in first home contest

    On a neutral court, after a long, grueling weekend, the Los Alamos Hilltoppers played tough against the Las Vegas Robertson Cardinal volleyball team.

    So Tuesday, the Hilltoppers were expecting quite a bit better showing than it got against the Cardinals.

    Los Alamos led in every game Tuesday, holding late leads in the first two, but fell to Robertson, 3-0.

    In the first game, Los Alamos held a seemingly-comfortable 22-18 lead and had two game points before falling. In the second game, Los Alamos led 20-17 at one point but couldn’t hold on to that lead either.

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  • Skate park fight officially over

     For children and teens in the community, the grand opening of the skate park can’t come soon enough.

    This is a project that has been long coming for the youth of Los Alamos. It’s also a project that has met resistance from community members concerned about the location in front of Mesa Public Library and the problems that might arise from such a pairing.

    Two of those concerned citizens are Los Alamos residents Jack and Colleen Hanlon. In August, the Hanlons filed an appeal in an attempt to stop the skate park from being built in front of the library.

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  • Forum highlights congressional candidates

    With 40 days remaining until the Nov. 4 election, the urgency to decide for whom to vote intensifies.

    In an effort to afford the community a chance to assess their congressional candidates, the League of Women Voters and the American Association of University Women cosponsored a forum Tuesday evening.

    Answers to 20 questions were heard by some 65 people during the two-hour event at Fuller Lodge.

    KRSN aired the forum live and PAC 8 recorded it to rebroadcast until election day.

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  • L.A. County might get more inmates

    Los Alamos County might soon see an influx of inmates in their jail, following an agreement with Española for inmate confinement.

    The agreement would allow inmates from Española to be held in the Los Alamos County Detention Facility on a short-term basis.

    Española is in need of short-term incarceration for inmates arrested in the city or sentenced to confinement in the Española jail, due to the abandonment of the old detention facility.

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