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Today's News

  • Joe Dick 'Richard' Reeves

    REEVES – Joe Dick “Richard” Reeves began life at Miller Hospital in Portales, N.M., the day after Christmas 1951. He passed away unexpectedly March 23, 2008, in Lafayette, La., from complications from a routine sinus/sleep apnea surgery. He attended Lindsey Elementary where he found his love for reading and graduated from Portales High School in 1969. Dick’s undergraduate studies earned him a degree in broadcasting. He earned his Federal Communication License in 1979, which he proudly displayed in his home office.

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  • Skate park at the library NOT a crisis

    The negative publicity and widespread misinformation surrounding the new downtown skate park is unfortunate for many reasons, most importantly because it gives the appearance that this is a divisive issue for our community.

    The truth is that there is just a handful of vocal opponents to the skate park.

    They have managed to convince many of the residents of 2500 Central and Oppenheimer Place that a skate park downtown near the library would reduce their property values and threaten their way of life, and there is simply no basis for these fears.

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  • History project points to fuller investigation

    POJOAQUE – The history of toxic releases at Los Alamos has not come out whole. Rather, it has been excavated piecemeal, room-by-room, box-by-box, paper-by-paper and clue-by-clue.

    Over the last 10 years that the Los Alamos Historic Document and Retrieval Assessment (LAHDRA) project has been pulling pieces of facts from oblivion, the project team has slowly illuminated one of the dark corners of recent times.

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  • Motorized use of SF Forest unveiled

    Santa Fe National Forest  (SFNF) released a proposal designating a system of roads, trails and areas for motorized use of the forest. This marks the beginning of the National Environmental Policy Act process for the project.

    District Ranger Sandy Hurlocker explained to County Council members during a work session Tuesday in White Rock that SFNF has begun a review of its travel management of the entire forest. He detailed the forest’s travel management proposal and said it is undergoing a 45-day comment period.

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  • Theives cost library thousands

    About a thousand items disappear from the Los Alamos County libraries each year. That equates to some $20,000 and 175 hours of staff time spent searching for items listed in the catalog but missing from the shelf, said Library Manager Charlie Kalogeros-Chattan during her presentation to County Council at White Rock Town Hall Tuesday.

    Councilors were clearly stunned. Councilor Jim  West shook his head saying, “I find that incredible in this community.”

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  • 'Win a home' contest falls flat

    It sounded too good to be true. But some 675 people tried anyway.

    The “win a home” essay contest that gave people a chance to win Todd and Tiffany Lovell’s White Rock home fizzled last month, a result of failing to collect the 2,500 entries needed to keep the contest running.

    For an entrance fee of $100 and a 500-word essay on the topic of their choice, contestants were given a chance to win the couple’s three-bedroom, 1,200-square-foot home with a remodeled bathroom, one-car garage, wood shop, Jacuzzi and outdoor fireplace.

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  • 'Radamisto' premiers at Santa Fe Opera

    George Fredric Handel’s “Radamisto” opened for the first time at the Santa Fe Opera last Saturday evening, only a dozen short of 300 years after its’ premier performance in London.

    Although Beaumarchais would not write his revolutionary bedroom farce (“The Marriage of Figaro” also playing this summer!) for nearly 60 more years, the plots of the two operas seemed ironically similar: Lord-and-master spurns his beautiful, loving wife, to pursue less-powerful-but-more-admirable man’s also beautiful and faithful wife.

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  • Famous outlaw is coming to Duane Smith

    One hundred fourteen young performers filled up Duane Smith Auditorium Monday for the chance to make it in the spotlight. At the end of the day, 59 thespians were selected to be a part of Missoula Children’s Theatre’s production of “Robin Hood.”

    These actors may have made it, but there is still a lot of work ahead for the cast. The performance will take place at 7 p.m. Saturday in Duane Smith Auditorium.

    Despite the heavy workload, tour actors/directors Evan and Emily Karlewicz are excited to begin.

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  • Challenging cartoons

    Wile E. Coyote always got dealt a bad hand. The skinny as a stick Warner Bros. ACME cartoon character with a ravenous appetite for roadrunners, developed some ingenious inventions and methods to kill the speedy bird. But despite all of Wile’s smarts, every one of his ideas blew up on him, or fell on him, or flattened him, while the bird zoomed on, unharmed.

    Well, not anymore.

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  • Our View: CARE package sounds great

    Well, it’s Aug. 15. That’s the date the governor has set for his big push. And that push has gotten even bigger.

    At first, the plan was to call the Legislature back in September to get them to pass his health care reform measure – the one that died in the January session.

    Now his call includes a request for more highway funds and his much CARE package that is now the centerpiece of the upcoming special session.

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