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Today's News

  • Photo shoot Saturday in Los Alamos

    Across the world, people will be clicking their cameras to capture the beauty in their own communities.

    Los Alamos will be joining in on this world wide photo walk, which will be held Saturday.

    The local photo shoot will begin at 8 a.m. in front of Starbucks. Participants will be traveling from Fuller Lodge to Ashley Pond to take pictures.

    When the walk is completed, images will be uploaded to a flickr site and one photographer will be selected to win Scott Kelby’s “The Lightroom 2 Book for Digital Photographers.”

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  • A favorite returns to Los Alamos

    Friday, we’ll be at Ashley Pond with one of Los Alamos’ favorite bands, the Jimmy Stadler Band from Taos. This marks the 15th straight year that these rockers have played our series.

    They’ve been very busy this year playing an average of five dates a week including weddings and parties all over the country. They’ve also been working on their next album at the studio owned by their drummer Craig Neil.

    Jimmy said they’ve written and recorded two-dozen new songs and will be playing some of them Friday.

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  • Volleyball: LA finishes seventh in NMHSCA preseason poll

    The Los Alamos Hilltopper volleyball team finished seventh in Class AAAA’s preseason poll.

    The preseason poll, taken from a vote by head coaches throughout the state, was released by the New Mexico High School Coaches Association this morning.

    Los Alamos’ seventh-place finish in the poll, in which it grabbed 42 total points, placed it just two points behind sixth-ranked Albuquerque Academy and 11 points ahead of Piedra Vista in the eighth slot.

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  • Football: Hilltoppers picked 5th in preseason AAAA poll

    The Los Alamos Hilltopper football team was ranked fifth in the 2008 preseason poll conducted by the New Mexico High School Coaches Association.

    The Hilltoppers garnered 66 points in the Class AAAA poll, which is voted on by coaches of the various schools. The poll was released this morning.

    Artesia, the defending Class AAAA champion, picked up 135 of the possible 140 points to finish first in the NMHSCA poll.

    Last season, Los Alamos finished with a record of 9-2. It won its first eight games of the season and finished second in District 2AAAA behind Capital.

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  • Woman needs spinal cord stimulator: Insurance won't pay

    Getting back to normal is what local resident Dawn Cline expected after breaking her left foot 14 months ago. But that didn’t happen. Instead, the Aspen Copies co-owner developed Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS), a condition she hadn’t heard of, much less imagined would nearly consume her life.

    Cline makes it to her store at 1789 Central Ave. most days and often alternates between her crutches and wheelchair when the pain becomes just short of unbearable.

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  • Artificial Intelligence project proposed

    The title of Art Morse’s talk for the Computer Users Group at the Los Alamos Senior Center Tuesday was a little misleading.

    As it turned out, “A Hundred Years of Artificial Intelligence,” was not about the last hundred years, but rather it was neatly divided between the first 50 years, when computers were just becoming accessible and 50 years that haven’t happened yet.

    The next 50 years are important because that will be the time frame within which artificial intelligence will almost surely be upon us, according to many projections.

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  • Skate park referendum issue draws a crowd

    Turnout was good and expectations were high at the Tuesday night County Council meeting in White Rock. Young and old, supporters and opponents turned out for a chance to defend their views on the skate park location near Mesa Public Library.

    And after it was all over, the council voted 6-1 to not take any further action, leaving the project at the library to proceed.

    Dozens of concerned residents from White Rock and Los Alamos packed into council chambers to find out whether the skate park issue would be put on the Nov. 4 ballot.

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  • Learn more about behaviors in dementia Thursday

    Dr. Lena Smith will speak at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Bradbury Science Museum for the next installment of its Alzheimer’s series. “Managing Difficult Behaviors in Dementia,” is the title of her presentation.

    One of the most difficult aspects of dementia is with managing the behaviors associated with moderate and later stages of the disease.

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  • ANALYSIS: Report urges prompt global strike capability

    Blue-ribbon panelists of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) recommended Friday that American submarines have a few conventional arrows in their nuclear weapons quiver for special circumstances.

    Presently, for example, the only immediate military response, for taking out a missile about to fire a nuclear weapon at the United States or one of its allies, is with a delivery system carrying a nuclear weapon.

    That may not always be the best choice, the committee decided, depending on the situation.

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  • Tax Day trespassing case ends in hung jury

    What started as a 24-hour prayer vigil in front of Los Alamos National Laboratory ended with two men praying through the night in a jail cell at the Los Alamos Detention Facility.

    The men were part of a small group praying and protesting April 14 against tax money used to build nuclear weapons.

    Trinity Nuclear Abolitionists members Marcus Patrick Blaise Page, 41, of Albuquerque and Michael Butler, 21, of Gallup were arrested about 9:30 p.m. and charged with criminal trespassing.

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