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Today's News

  • Boys tennis: Hilltoppers shut out Tigers

    If there had been any doubt as to the ultimate outcome of this season’s District 2AAAA boys tennis competition, Tuesday probably squelched that doubt for good.

    The Los Alamos Hilltopper boys tennis team crushed the Taos Tigers at home, sweeping all nine matches the team played and not losing a single set in the process.

    Los Alamos gave up just six games in Nos. 1-4 singles Tuesday and just four games in the three doubles contests to come away with a big 9-0 victory.

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  • Girls tennis: LA tops Taos in home dual

    More years than not, the Los Alamos Hilltopper girls tennis team is wary of its District 2AAAA counterparts from Taos. Usually with good reason.

    That was again apparent with the two teams’ dual meet Tuesday.

    The Hilltoppers came away with a 5-4 victory Tuesday at home, but the Tigers aren’t ready to concede anything to the Hilltoppers as the District 2AAAA tournament inches closer.

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  • 04-14-10 Update

    Book fair

      The Los Alamos Medical Center Auxiliary will host a book fair from 9 a.m.-

    3 p.m. tomorrow in the main lobby of the hospital.

    Little Forest open house

    Little Forest Playschool is hosting an open house from 9 a.m.-noon Thursday. Participants are invited to view classrooms, see children’s artwork, meet teachers and pick up registration. For more information, call the school at 662-5895 or visit www.littleforestplayschool.org.

    Herbs and vegetable talk

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  • Tax penalty looms

    Los Alamos County would like to remind property owners that the second half installment of property taxes for 2009 was due April 12 and becomes delinquent after May 10.

    Payment must either be made in person at the 311 Customer Care Center by 5 p.m. May 10, or must be postmarked by midnight that same day to avoid late payment penalty and interest charges.

    The 311 Customer Care Center is open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. and has recently moved to its new location at 150 Central Park Square (formerly Curves) in Los Alamos.

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  • No prescribed burning this week

    There will be no prescribed burning on the Santa Fe National Forest this week. Last week, fire managers treated 110-acres on the Thompson Ridge Prescribed burn.

    Thompson Ridge

    Pile Burn, Jemez Ranger District

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  • Arms control experts applaud success of Nuclear Security Summit

    Washington, D.C.— The Obama Administration convened 49 leaders from every region of the world in an effort to secure vulnerable fissile materials worldwide and address the threat of nuclear terrorism.

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  • Addressing arms control

    The nation’s leading authority on the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) spent Tuesday evening discussing the program’s past, present and future.

    Brooks’ talk, “A New START and Beyond” comes on the heels of a new nuclear arms reduction treaty signed earlier this month by President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitri Medvedev.

    Called “New START,” the new treaty replaces the original START, which since 1991 has served as a major pact between the two nuclear superpowers.

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  • Speech and debate team to attend the World Series of tournaments

    Seven Los Alamos High School Hilltalkers earned the chance to go to a competition that Head Coach Noel Trujillo described as the World Series of debating.

    After taking first and second places at the New Mexico District Tournament on March 25, 26 and 27 at Albuquerque Academy, Gannon Nelson, Ryan Marcus, Seth Jennings, Kathy Lin, Vickie Wang, Mei Lui and Sky Korber qualified to attend the National Forensic National Tournament.

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  • News Alert: Governor issues proclamation against child abuse and neglect

    Gov. Bill Richardson issued a proclamation naming April “Child Abuse Prevention Month” in an effort to address the approximate 30,000 reports of child abuse and neglect in New Mexico each year.

    “Child abuse and neglect are serious problems and finding a solution depends upon the involvement of people within our community,” Richardson states in his proclamation. “During periods of economic challenges, families feel more vulnerable and as a result child abuse and neglect increase drastically.”

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  • 04-06-10 Police Beat

    Police Beat items are compiled from public information contained in Los Alamos Police Department Records. Charges or citations listed in Police Beat do not imply innocence or guilt.

    March 25

    6:39 p.m. — Christal Pride, 32, of Los Alamos was arrested and charged with DWI and child abuse because she had her 6-year-old son in her vehicle during a crash on N.M. 502 just outside Los Alamos County, after she crossed the center line and struck an oncoming vehicle.    

    March 26

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