Kirsten Laskey (ladp admin)

Small Business Season Instead Of Just One Saturday?!

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By RYN HERRMANN
Director
Los Alamos Chamber of Commerce

The holiday shopping season is critical to local small businesses. This year’s Small Business Saturday is Nov. 27 and will bring much needed focus to our small, local businesses.

But one day is not enough to sustain these businesses. So please join in celebrating not just a day, but a season of shopping small and local in Los Alamos!

Here are some ways to participate:

Blue Bucks

Enterprise Bank & Trust will again sponsor the award-winning Blue Bucks event, which runs Saturday, Nov. 20 through Saturday, Dec.11.

An update to the program Read More

Power Restored To Majority Of North Community Customers

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A map of the effected area. Courtesy/LAC

Update: As of 3:50 p.m., power is fully restored to all affected customers in North Community.

COUNTY News:

Power has been restored to the majority of customers in North Community as of 2:50 p.m. today. Approximately 20 customers are still without power near 47 Street and Arizona Avenue.

The cause of the outage is due to a failed switch on Arizona Avenue.

The estimated time to restore power to these customers is 4:30 p.m. today. Read More

County Proclaims October Arts And Culture Month And Oct. 22 An Evening Of Arts And Culture

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From left, Los Alamos Arts Council Program Director Laura Canuelas-Torres and Interim Executive Director Marlane Hamilton accept a proclamation declaring October as Arts and Culture Month and Oct. 22 as An Evening of Arts and Culture, from Councilor David Izraelevitz during the Sept. 27 council meeting. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com

COUNTY News:

Los Alamos County Council proclaimed October as Arts and Cultures Month and Oct. 22 as An Evening of Arts and Culture during its regular meeting Sept. 28.

Councilor David Izraelevitz read the proclamation, which states:

WHEREAS:  Read More

Screening Of ‘Adventures Of A Mathematician’ Moves To Fuller Lodge Tonight

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Adventures of a Mathematician Writer/Director Thor Klein and Producer Lena Vurma at a special, behind-the-scenes presentation of their film Monday afternoon at Fuller Lodge. The public will have an opportunity to view the film at 7:30 p.m. today at Fuller Lodge. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Klein and Vurma. Los Alamos County and the Los Alamos Historical Society are presenting the event today, which is free but participants should register at EventBrite. Adventures of  a Mathematician is based on the autobiography by Stan Ulam and provides an account of the top-secret Read More

Karen Wray Gallery Hosts Exhibition Opening Reception At 5 p.m. Today

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COMMUNITY News:

The Karen Wray Gallery is delighted to  hosting its very first exhibition since the shutdown last year. The opening reception is 5-7 p.m. today at 1247 Central Ave., Suite D-2.

The exhibit runs through Oct. 22.

“What this last 18 months has starkly shown me is the immense value, the necessity, of human contact,” Gallery Owner Karen Wray said. “By not being able to socialize together, hug friends, shake someone’s hand, teach my students, greet my artists and customers, dine with fellow diners and servers at our favorite restaurants, visit with family and friends, Read More

EM-LA Discusses DP Road Cleanup Work At Council Meeting

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By KIRSTEN LASKEY
Los Alamos Daily Post
kirsten@ladailypost.com

Work on parcels of land off DP Road yielded unexpected and unwelcomed surprises. These surprises are radioactive material, which forced the Department of Energy (DOE) to return to the land parcels it transferred to Los Alamos County and perform cleanup work.

During the County Council work session Tuesday night, Environmental Management Los Alamos (EM-LA) Field Office Senior Health Physicist Brian Harcek updated the council on the cleanup work.

The affected areas are on property on the south side of the road, Harcek Read More

Hardin: When A Global Shipping Container Shortage Challenges A Local Business

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By LAURAL HARDIN
 General Manager
Petree Garden Center & Florist

When you think of shopping local the first thing that comes to mind probably isn’t that a world-wide shipping container shortage will affect your fall bulbs or Holiday gift shopping. But it certainly will.

At Petree Garden Center & Florist we source lines from artists and manufacturers here in the US and around the world. When there’s a shortage of workers to harvest bulbs in Holland or a port in China is closed for a few days or a massive freighter gets stuck in a canal, every part of the supply chain breaks down. Lack of containers, Read More

Police Arrest Qing Miao In Lawn Decoration Theft

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Qing Miao
LAPD News:
Wednesday, Los Alamos Police Department arrested and charged 57-year-old Qing Miao of Los Alamos with one count of petty larceny and one count of criminal damage to property. The larceny charge was a result of a previous case investigated for theft of lawn decorations. Miao was booked into the Los Alamos County Detention Center.
Today, Investigators charged Miao with an additional charge of petty larceny (yard decoration) and one  count of possessing/receiving stolen property. All charges were filed in the Los Alamos Municipal Court.
The Los Alamos Police Department
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