Editor’s note: This is part 12 of a 15-part series featuring newspapers created by sixth grade students in teacher Michele Altherr’s gifted class at Mountain Elementary School.
This newspaper features the intelligent attributes of the rhesus monkey as reported and published by Mountain Elementary School 6th grade student Nate Stephens.
LACA News:
The Los Alamos Concert Association kicks off its 2012-2013 season at 4 p.m. Sunday Sept. 23 with a concert featuring Rachel Barton Pine.
An extraordinary violinist, the Washington Post wrote, “An exciting, boundary-defying performer – Pine displays a power and confidence that puts her in the top echelon.”
Barton Pine will be accompanied by pianist Matthew Hagle, who has been praised for the “rare clarity and sweetness” of his playing by Clavier Magazine.
In both art and life, violinist Rachel Barton Pine has an extraordinary ability to connect with people. Read More
Stephanie Garcia Richard, Democratic candidate for New Mexico House District 43, speaks with voters during a community breakfast Saturday in La Cienega. Courtesy photo
LOS ALAMOS HISTORICAL SOCIETY News:
In a series of performances from Sep. 11 through 14, storyteller Susan Marie Frontczak will portray perhaps the most famous of women scientists, Madame Marie Curie (née Maria Skłodowska.)
Madame Curie changed the world in which we live through her discovery of radium and radioactivity. Through collaboration with the medical community, she and her husband Pierre discovered and established the first successful radiation treatments of cancer.
Simply through her own passion and perseverance, Marie Curie opened the doors of science to women worldwide. Read More
From left, Los Alamos Fire Chief Troy Hughes, Rotary President Linda Hull and Police Chief Wayne Torpy following Torpy’s presentation to the Club recently at the Dixie Girl Restaurant on Central Avenue. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com Read More
County workers near 15th Street in late August. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com
COUNTY News:
The Los Alamos County Council, staff and road and construction crews worked on the following list of projects throughout August:
Editor’s note: This is part 11 of a 15-part series featuring newspapers created by sixth grade students in teacher Michele Altherr’s gifted class at Mountain Elementary School.
This newspaper features the intelligent attributes of the killer whale as reported and published by Mountain Elementary School 6th grade student Marja Graham.
BANDELIER News:
Bandelier National Monument Superintendent Jason Lott has announced fall and winter hours for the Bandelier Visitor Center and the Atomic City Transit shuttle service.
“The days are getting shorter, and Labor Day weekend is traditionally the end of our summer hours,” Lott said. “Starting Tuesday Sept. 4, the Bandelier Visitor Center will be closing at 5:30 p.m., and then on Oct. 1 it will be closing at 4:30 p.m.”
New Hours:
ELECTION 2012 News:
By Carol A. Clark
Incumbent County Council candidate Vincent Chiravalle and Council candidate Pete Sheehey have responded to request for comment from the Los Alamos Daily Post following Friday’s announcement by the Los Alamos Firefighters Association – IAFF Local 3279, that its membership elected to endorse them as well as House Dist. 43 candidate Stephanie Garcia Richard for the November General Election:
Vincent Chiravalle
“I am happy and honored to receive the endorsement of our firefighters. I want to thank the union membership for their Read More
HISTORICAL SOCIETY News:
The Los Alamos Historical Society and Pajarito Mountain Ski Area have teamed up for a raffle featuring the publication, Just Crazy to Ski: A Fifty Year History of Skiing at Los Alamos.
For $10, raffle ticket buyers will receive the book and an opportunity to win a 2013-2014 season pass to the Ski Hill.
Only 700 tickets will be sold. The drawing will be held Nov. 1, 2013. (Yes, that is more than one year away, as is the season for which the ski pass can be used.)
Proceeds from the raffle will benefit the Historical Society’s publishing venture, Bathtub Row Press, which has put Read More
