DPU News:
Los Alamos businesses on the south side of Trinity Drive from 20th Street to the end of DP Road were briefly without power yesterday morning.
Around 10 a.m. a contractor severed an underground electric line while removing a section of sidewalk.
Electric line crews with the Los Alamos Department of Public Utilities responded and rerouted power around the damaged section to restore power in less than 30 minutes.
Permanent repairs will be scheduled in the near future. Read More
By Janet “TJ” Taub
Photo by Sue York/ladailypost.com
Photo by Sue York/ladailypost.com
Photo by Sue York/ladailypost.comPAJARITO RAMBLER…
Column by Nina Thayer
The recent rains have brought a wealth of wildflowers to the Pajarito Plateau including the Quemazon Nature Trail, where I hiked recently.
Quemazon, which is a local Spanish word for “burned”, is indeed that. The entire mountainside was consumed with crown fire in the Cerro Grande Wildfire 12 years ago.
The nature trail was completely restored in the years after the fire by more than 250 Mountain School students and reopened by the County in 2004.
The trailhead is located off of Trinity Drive in the Western Area. Bear left to remain on Trinity Read More
NMTC News:
New Mexico Technology Council’s 5th Annual Women in Technology Celebration is set for 8:30-10 a.m Thursday, Nov. 1 at the Albuquerque Marriott Pyramid, 5151 San Francisco Road NE in Albuquerque.
The Nov. 1 event recognizes exceptional women in New Mexico who are working in a technology field and who encourage other women to pursue careers and leadership roles in technology.
The 5th Annual Women in Technology Celebration also recognizes women in technology across the state of New Mexico as well as deserving female high school seniors who receive scholarship funds for college. Read More
LANL News:
Los Alamos National Laboratory is conducting an emergency preparedness exercise on Wednesday, Aug. 29. It is an exercise only.
LANL routinely conducts emergency exercises to test the preparedness of emergency response and other LANL personnel who would respond to an actual emergency.
The majority of the exercise is on LANL property and shouldn’t affect the public. Signs will be in place outside the Los Alamos Medical Center, alerting the public that an exercise is under way.
Laboratory employees who work in facilities near the exercise scenario have been notified. Los
OVARIAN CANCER TOGETHER News:
In memory of Cheri Host, Kathy Aikin and Emmy Hopson, the community is invited at 10 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 1 to tie teal ribbons to the trees at Ashley Pond.
September is Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month and Saturday’s event is being held to raise awareness and not lose any more women in the community to the disease.
Even in its early stages ovarian cancer has symptoms. Research indicates that 95 percent of women with ovarian cancer had symptoms and 90 percent of women experienced symptoms with early-stage ovarian cancer.
Symptoms vary from woman to woman and many Read More
Editor’s note: This is part 6 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 dolphin as reported and published by Mountain Elementary School 6th grade student Sarah R.
Column by Kent Pegg
One of the key factors to weight loss and weight management is your metabolism. Metabolism is a term that refers to how your body transforms the calories in the food you eat into energy.
The food is broken down into sugars and amino acids that the body then has available for use as energy. The energy is then either used or it is stored as muscle or fat.
If you want to lose weight and keep the weight off, one important thing to do is to know your metabolic rate. Your metabolic rate is the number of calories your body burns in the course of a day.
To accurately determine your metabolic rate, Read More
TSM News:
Opus 50, the Taos School of Music’s special concert season to celebrate the 50thanniversary of the prestigious summer music school brought internationally-known ensembles to Taos including the Shanghai, Jupiter and American String Quartets, plus the Borromeo and Brentano String Quartets.
Music world luminaries Michael Tree, founding member of the Guarneri String Quartet, Christopher Constanza, Thomas Sauer and Robert McDonald also performed and served as faculty.
In addition, 19 young artists, graduates and students of the nation’s leading music conservatories, Read More
