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Luján Announces Plans To Self-Quarantine, Despite No Symptoms, Issues Update Congressional Offices Operations

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U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Luján

CONGRESSIONAL News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), the U.S. House Assistant Speaker, announced Monday plans to self-quarantine after a brief interaction with an individual who was at the time asymptomatic but later tested positive for COVID-19.

Luján is exhibiting no symptoms, and health professionals have advised that he is at a low probability for infection. He first learned of the individual’s diagnosis Sunday afternoon. Still, out of an abundance of caution for the health and safety of the public, he has chosen to self-quarantine. Read More

NMDVS Postpones Upcoming Events Due To COVID-19 Pandemic Reaching New Mexico

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NMDVS News:

SANTA FE — The New Mexico Department of Veterans Services (DVS) has postponed all agency-related public events in the immediate future—following the New Mexico Department of Health’s (DOH) public health order temporarily prohibiting mass gatherings in New Mexico in response to the COVID-19/Novel Coronavirus pandemic reaching the state.

The public health order defines “mass gatherings” as events that bring together 100 or more people in a single room or connected space such as auditoriums, stadiums, arenas, conference centers, and theaters.

Exempt from the order are airports, Read More

Enterprise Bank & Trust Announces Scholarship Program

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Enterprise Market President Liddie Martinez

ENTERPRISE BANK News:

Enterprise Bank & Trust has developed the new Enterprise Bank Scholarship Program, and graduating seniors from Los Alamos High School are encouraged to apply for the scholarship.

The deadline to apply is 5 p.m., April 1, 2020. Applications are available through the school’s guidance counselor.

Applicants will be evaluated by the scholarship committee based on academic excellence, leadership experience and community volunteer work.

“This is our first year for the program, and we are excited to support the educational Read More

FBI: Up To $10K Reward In Laverda Sorrell Disappearance

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Laverda Sorrell

FBI News:

The FBI is offering a reward of up to $10,000 for information leading to the identification, arrest, and conviction of the person or persons responsible for the disappearance of Laverda Sorrell.

Sorrell, who resided in Navajo on the Navajo Nation, was reported missing by a family member July 8, 2002. 

Sorrell’s husband said she had been missing since July 4, 2002, when he dropped her off at an office in Fort

The FBI and Navajo Nation Division of Public Safety are investigating. 

Anyone with information on Sorrell’s disappearance is asked to call the FBI at Read More

New Mexico Museum Of Space History Launching Rocketeer Academy Summer Camp

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Sometimes exploring gets messy! These summer camp cadets are trying to determine just exactly what sort of extraterrestrial lifeform they’ve happened upon. Hands-on science is what makes the Museum of Space History’s camp a summer to remember. Courtesy/NMMSH

What goes up, must come down…but will it survive? The only way to find out is to try, and that’s exactly what these summer camp cadets are ready to do – launch their basketful of peeps and prepare for the results. Courtesy/NMMSH

NMMSH News:

ALAMOGORDO — Who says you can’t be at two places at the same time?

This summer, the New Mexico Museum Read More

NMDWS: Business Professionals Participate In Mock Interviews With Junior & Senior High School Students

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A student sits down with NMDWS Secretary Bill McCamley for a mock interview Tuesday at Manzano High School. Photo by Rebecca Sisneros

Students practice responses to common interview questions with business professionals Tuesday at Manzano High School. Photo by Rebecca Sisneros

NMDWS News:

ALBUQUERQUE — As part of Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s initiative to increase youth career and college readiness opportunities, the New Mexico Department of Workforce Solutions (NMDWS) and New Mexico Workforce Connection are supporting schools around the state in providing mock interview opportunities Read More

Los Alamos Sheriff Announces New Registered Sex Offender

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Stephen Geisik

LAPD News:

Los Alamos County Sheriff Joe Granville is advising the community of a newly registered sex offender.

Stephen Geisik registered Monday with the local sheriff’s office. He was convicted in the First District Court of Los Alamos of one count of “Criminal Sexual Contact of a Minor in the 2nd Degree”.

Stephen Geisik is residing at 850 Rim Road in Los Alamos.

For further information regarding registered convicted sex offenders, review the Los Alamos County Sheriff’s Office website. Read More

New Mexico Wildlife Federation Update: Game Commission To Repeal Or Rewrite ‘Non-navigable Water’ Rule

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By BEN NEARY
NMWF Conservation Director

 

ALBUQUERQUE — The director of the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish Department has asked the state courts to resolve whether landowners may block the public from accessing streams and rivers that flow across private property.

Michael Sloane, NMDGF director, on Wednesday filed a complaint for declaratory judgment in state district court in Santa Fe. The lawsuit names the New Mexico State Game Commission as respondent. 

Top lawyers on Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s staff are representing Sloane. Attempts to reach the lawyers and and a spokesman Read More

Liddie’s Traditional New Mexican Dishes: Panocha

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Panocha. Photo by Liddie Martinez

By AUTHOR LIDDIE MARTINEZ

Espanola Valley

As we enter the Lenten Season, I am flooded with memories of quiet, candlelit spaces, ancient novenas read by kneeling families and melancholy hymns sung from brittle pages with Spanish cadence reverberating through my body.

This season of reflection lasts forty days. As a child this seemed like an eternity of fasting, giving up our favorite treats and focusing only on others, but there were rewards.

Much of our religious practice was prescribed so early in our existence that the rhythm of these rituals was imbedded Read More