Chris Clark

Free Camping At Bandelier Saturday June 27

by

BANDELIER News:
 
All over the country, this weekend is being celebrated as the Great American Campout. It’s a time for packing the tent and sleeping bags into the car, heading out for a favorite camping spot, and enjoying a weekend in the great outdoors.
 
As a part of the celebration, Bandelier National Monument is inviting campers to come and stay in the park’s Juniper Campground for free Saturday night, June 27.
 
“We’re close enough to Los Alamos, Santa Fe, and even Albuquerque to be an easy drive, but far enough into the woods to feel like a real campout,”
Read More

Parra-Vasquez And Romero Best Pace Race Predictors

by

Racers are off and running in Tuesday’s 3-mile Pace Race. Courtesy photo
 
ACRR News:
 
Nicholas Parra-Vasquez and Ted Romero were the best predictors in Tuesday’s 3-mile race, being 9 and 16 seconds off their predictions.
 
In the 1-mile race, Martin Pieck was 27 seconds and Bob Weeks was 29 seconds off their predictions. Tuesday’s pace race was held on trails to the Estante Overlook and in Portrillo Canyon.
 
The fastest runners for 1 mile were Jason Pieck (8:34) and Sophia Pieck (9:01). For the 3-mile course, Katie Gattiker was 61 seconds off
Read More

Beat The Heat: Stay Cool At Pinon Park Pool

by

Pinon Park Pool. Courtesy photo
 
PPP News:
 
Beat the heat this summer with a membership to Pinon Park Pool.
 
For about $2.50 a day, community members can stay cool at Pinon Park Pool this summer. Located at 104 Bryce Ave., in White Rock, the pool offers no crowds, lots of room for lounging on the deck, tables and grills for a picnic, two slides, a diving board, lap swims, snack bar, play area and a shaded kiddie pool. Swim lessons are also available.
 
Pinon Park Pool offers three membership options: a single membership
Read More

Firing Operations Completed On Commissary Fire

by

SFNF News:
 
Commissary Fire Update:
 
Start Date: June 5, 2015
 
Percent Contained: 0
 
Size: 500 acres
 
Growth Potential: Moderate
 
Vegetation: Ponderosa pine, aspen, mixed conifer, grass and brush
 
Summary: Fire crews on the lightning-caused Commissary Fire on the Pecos/Las Vegas Ranger District successfully completed firing operations with hand ignitions on 150 acres yesterday as part of a strategy to manage the fire for resource objectives. 
 
Resource objectives on the Commissary Fire
Read More

IRS Reminder To File On Foreign Bank Accounts

by

IRS News:
 
PHOENIX ― The Internal Revenue Service reminds everyone who has one or more bank or financial accounts located outside the United States, or signature authority over such accounts that they may need to file an FBAR by Tuesday, June 30.
 
FBAR refers to Form 114, Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts, which must be filed with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), a bureau of the Treasury Department. It is not a tax form and cannot be filed with the IRS. The form must be filed electronically and is only available online through the 
Read More

Project Update: Kirtland AFB Fuel Spill Remediation

by

Image not to scale. Courtesy/NMED
 
 
NMED News:
 
The New Mexico Environment Department issued a few of the recent project activities on the Kirtland Air Force Base clean up of a decades-old jet fuel spill:
  • Drilling of 16 new groundwater monitoring wells was completed in early June. The analytical results from the new wells show that ethylene dibromide (EDB) in the shallow and intermediate zones is not migrating toward the Kirtland-3 and Ridgecrest-3 drinking water wells. The new monitoring wells are also defining the vertical extent of EDB contamination in
Read More

Colorado Man Sentenced In New Mexico For Robbery

by

FBI News:
 
ALBUQUERQUE — Robert O’Dell Neihart, 44, of Ignacio, Colo., was sentenced Wednesday afternoon in federal court in Las Cruces to 148 months in prison for the armed robbery of a Wells Fargo Bank branch in Farmington.
 
Neihart will be on supervised release for three years after completing his prison sentence.
 
Neihart was arrested in November 2012 on a two-count indictment charging him with the armed robbery of the Wells Fargo Bank branch on East Main Street in Farmington Sept. 21, 2012, and using a firearm during a crime of violence.
 
Count 1 of the indictment also
Read More

HD3 Forms New Angel Investment Group

by

HD3 News:
 
High Desert Discovery District (HD3)―New Mexico’s first privately-led high technology start-up accelerator (www.hddd.org)―announces the formation of a new angel investment group, the High Desert Angels. 
 
The organization also announced the HD3 Board of Directors for the 2015-2017 term.
 
“For some time, HD3 has debated the most productive way to provide HD3 innovators, entrepreneurs and start-ups access to seed, early stage and growth capital. Given the quantity and quality of angel and super angel-capacity individuals connected to HD3
Read More

DOE Issues Remaining $1.8 Billion In Loan Guarantees

by

DOE News:
 
WASHINGTON, D.C. — To further support the construction of two advanced nuclear reactors at the Alvin W. Vogtle Electric Generating Plant, the Department of Energy announced it will issue $1.8 billion in loan guarantees to three subsidiaries of the Municipal Electric Authority of Georgia (MEAG Power).
 
This is the last of three conditional commitments that were first announced by the Administration in 2010, which, when combined with the previously issued $6.5 billion in loan guarantees to Georgia Power Company (GPC) and Oglethorpe Power Corporation (OPC), allow
Read More

Ribbon Cutting Ceremony At Canyon Complex

by

From left, County Councilor Pete Sheehey and Vice Chair David Izraelevitz and Councilor James Chrobocinski, right, join School Board Member Bill Hargraves and LAPS Superintendent Kurt Steinhaus (scissors) at this morning’s ribbon cutting ceremony to mark the completion of remodeling at the Canyon Complex. Photo by Chris Clark/ladailypost.com
 
Newly remodeled Canyon Complex. Photo by Chris Clark/ladailypost.com
 
Staff Report
 
Los Alamos Public Schools officials, County Council members and County and LANL staff gathered this morning to cut the ribbon and
Read More