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Today's News

  • What now?

    With the rejection by the general membership of the Elks Club of a proposal to purchase their land along Trinity Drive, it looks like the county’s plans to build the Municipal Building there seems to be dead.

    So now what?

    If the Elks hold to their position – and it is their land remember – then it seems that the county will be forced back to the drawing board. But just what does that mean?

    When asked, County Administrator Max Baker said that the county would have to meet with the developer to see where they will go from here.

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  • Domenici: A man who will be missed

    Thursday was a bittersweet day in Los Alamos. It was the last official visit to the community by Sen. Pete Domenici.

    For 36 years he has a been a strong supporter of Los Alamos, New Mexico and our nation. He was a friend to many and a figure of strength to many more.

    Now that he is retiring after six terms in the United States Senate, we view his departure with a mix of sadness and fear.

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  • Canyon Rim Trail headed for CIP process

    After its inception five years ago, the Canyon Rim Trail may get to see the light of day if it is accepted as a Capital Improvement Project.

    The CIP application process began Oct. 20, 2008, with deadline for submission of applications set for Dec. 19, 2008.

    The Canyon Rim Trail will be an important addition to the trail system, as it will serve as a connector for the town of Los Alamos.

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  • Lab assuming services contract, employees

    Los Alamos National Laboratory is on track to assume the management of the services now provided by its major subcontractor KSL.

    KSL Services has been LANL’s site services subcontractor since 2003, when the partnership of KBR Shaw and Los Alamos Technical Associates, was awarded a five-year contract worth about $800 million, with an option for an additional five years. KBR, Kellogg, Brown and Root, was at the time a subsidiary of oilfield services giant, Halliburton.

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  • Cross country: Toppers thump district teams

    As it has been for the entire decade, Thursday's District 2AAAA cross country meet was a green-out.

    The Los Alamos Hilltopper boys and girls teams crushed all comers at the 2AAAA championship meet, held at Caja del Rio in Santa Fe. The Hilltopper boys took four of the top five individual places and seven of the top nine to finish with just 18 points, while the Hilltopper girls swept all five top spots to finish with a picture-perfect 15 points.

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  • Governor unveils first Navajo language textbook

    Gov. Bill Richardson traveled to Gallup and Farmington recently to talk with high school students and Navajo leaders about the first Navajo textbook, Dine Bizaad Binahoo’aah (Rediscovering the Navajo Language).

    This is the first time that a text written by a Navajo author has been adopted as a textbook for teaching the Navajo language.

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  • Girls soccer: Chitanvis scores twice as Toppers thump Knights to start World Cup play

    BERNALILLO — Historically, the Los Alamos Hilltopper girls soccer team has done some of its finest work in the postseason.

    Thursday’s game was no exception.

    To open the Class AAAA tournament, the Hilltoppers picked up an impressive win over the Del Norte Knights at the State Farm Soccer Complex and are just a win away from a trip to next week’s state semifinal round.

    Los Alamos scored three unanswered goals, two coming in quick succession just before halftime to knock off the sixth-seeded Del Norte Knights 4-1.

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  • Boys soccer: Eagles take Hilltoppers into overtime in playoff opener

    BERNALILLO — Most years, a two-seed at the state playoffs won’t have a tremendous amount of trouble with an 11-seed.

    But if Thursday’s boys soccer contest was any indication, this isn’t going to be most years.

    The Belen Eagles gave the Los Alamos Hilltoppers everything they could handle Thursday in the opening game of the Class AAAA World Cup round. The Eagles broke a scoreless tie with a 48th minute goal and got their defense settled in to protect it.

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  • Test moratorium turns 50

    Fifty years ago today, the United States entered an unfamiliar territory known as the nuclear test moratorium.

    President Dwight Eisenhower halted all nuclear testing for one year, beginning Oct. 31, 1958. It was the first significant step back from an arms race that had taken on a new dimension in the era of the hydrogen bomb, a thousand times more powerful than the weapon used on Hiroshima at the end of World War II.

    The moratorium, with extensions and a frightening intermission that included the Cuban Missile Crisis, led to the end of atmospheric testing in the world.

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  • Los Alamos County thanks Sen. Domenici

    Admiration and appreciation marked a day dedicated to one of the town’s most revered public officials Thursday. Los Alamos County hosted “Domenici Day” to honor and thank Sen. Pete Domenici for all he has done for the community during his 36 years in office, which will end with his retirement Dec. 31.

    Domenici commented that this will be his final trip to Los Alamos to participate in ceremonies.

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