Today's News

The Los Alamos Hilltopper girls track and field team had a big showing in its final regular season meet of 2012.
The Hilltoppers picked up second place at the Cleveland Invitational Friday. They grabbed 81 points to take the runner-up spot in team standings.
Meanwhile, the Hilltopper boys finished with 44 points, taking fourth place in the event. Host Cleveland picked up solid victories in both the boys and girls team competition.
Both teams will take part in the District 2-4A championship meet Friday and Saturday. Santa Fe will host the 2012 district meet.
For the Los Alamos girls, Amanda Mercer won the first race of her prep career, taking top honors in the 3200 meters.

Sixty-five students from seven Northern New Mexico counties are recipients of Los Alamos Employees’ Scholarship Fund scholarships, funded through more than $500,000 in donations from Los Alamos National Laboratory employees and the company that manages the Laboratory.

Los Alamos High School senior Scott Carlsten received the top award, the platinum scholarship, which provides $7,500 in financial assistance annually for four years.

Bandelier National Monument Superintendent Jason Lott’s presentation inspired at least two participants at the Manhattan Project Communities Conference, who singled it out as one of the most thought provoking.

“My area of expertise is not in Washington where these decisions are made, not in the regional office where a lot of this is planned out for follow through. My expertise is on the ground, as a superintendent of national parks,” Lott said, who then proceeded to lay out the groundwork for the project. “There’s going to be a big agreement signed with a lot of high ranking people, but when it comes to the ground it’s going to take us to make it happen.”