Kirsten Laskey (ladp admin)

Española Co-Operative Market Considers New Direction

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The Española Community Co-Operative Market. Courtesy/Valley Daily Post

ECM News:

ESPAÑOLA – Española Community Market Co-operative (ECM) announced today that it is considering a strategic re-direction for its health food cooperative at 312 S. Paseo de Onate in Española’s west side due to lower sales in the last year.

ECM Board members met recently and determined that last year’s poor financial performance was further exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions imposed on small businesses. Despite support from its volunteers and suppliers from the Española Valley during recent Read More

Snyder: The Other Los Alamos That Touched Our History

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Eastern plains, San Miguel County, New Mexico. Photo by Sharon Snyder

By SHARON SNYDER
Los Alamos Historical Society

When Ashley Pond Jr. founded the Los Alamos Ranch School in 1917, the road from Santa Fe to the school passed through the tiny village of Buckman, situated on the east side of the Rio Grande.

Buckman was a mail stop for the Denver and Rio Grande narrow gauge railroad, and nearby homesteaders and the people from the ranch school crossed a rickety wooden bridge over the river to visit the Buckman post office. The inconvenience prompted A.J. Connell, director of the school, to request Read More

World Futures: Communication And Information Part 1

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By ANDY ANDREWS
Los Alamos World Futures Institute

Every day we receive information through our senses, primarily through sight and sound.

As we advanced as a species, we created coding, the energy transmitted through the structures of the sounds or images in the form of languages and graphic representations of them.

Of course, one can expand and modify the simple perspective with other sounds such as music and warning signals or visual media such as art and other signals.

The key, however, is that these energy transmissions are created by humankind to send information. It is highly sophisticated Read More

Los Alamos County Manager Harry Burgess Updates Business Community On CARES ACT Funds Application

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Los Alamos County Municipal Building at sunset at 1000 Central Ave. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

County Manager Harry Burgess

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

To address, and hopefully aid, the impacts of COVID-19 on Los Alamos businesses, residents and workers, Los Alamos County has applied for $3.5 million in CARES Act Funding.

County Manager Harry Burgess shared this news to attendees at the Los Alamos Chamber of Commerce’s Business Community Call, which was held Tuesday afternoon.

In an interview with the Los Alamos Daily Post Wednesday, Read More

Snyder: A Journalist At Trinity And Over Nagasaki

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New York Times journalist William Laurence. Courtesy image

By SHARON SNYDER
Los Alamos Historical Society

Journalist William Laurence already had a keen interest in science when he attended the Harvard Tercentenary Conference of Arts and Sciences in 1936. Four years later he attended a lecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to hear a young scientist named Robert Oppenheimer. At that time, Laurence could never have imagined where his interests in science would take him.

Laurence was born in Lithuania but eventually made his way to the United States where he left his birth name Read More

Snyder: Taos Artist Pop Chalee Recalls Manhattan Project

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Pop Chalee’s Blue Horse in the company of Jemez pottery by Mary Small. Photo by Sharon Snyder

Pop Chalee giving an interview to the Los Alamos Historical Society in 1992. Courtesy/Los Alamos Historical Society Archive

By SHARON SNYDER
Los Alamos Historical Society

When we think of the famous people who have been associated with Los Alamos, those who have come here for visits or consultations or lived here for decades, we generally think of scientists, but some have left their mark in other ways.

During the Manhattan Project years, Merina Lujan Hopkins came with her husband, Otis, when he was recruited Read More

Snyder: Ashley Pond – Importance Of A Small Body Of Water

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Ranch School masters and boys construct the dam in Los Alamos Canyon that created a reservoir to supply water to the school. Courtesy/Los Alamos Historical Society Archive

Los Alamos Ranch School boys circle Ashley Pond as they leave for a pack trip in the Jemez Mountains. Courtesy/Los Alamos Historical Society Archive

By SHARON SNYDER
Los Alamos Historical Society

When Peggy Pond Church first saw the site where her father would one day open a school for boys, she was 12 years old. She remembered it in later years as “not much more than a homesteader’s farmhouse, a few sheds, and a muddy puddle of Read More

Los Alamos Helps ‘Impossible Foods’ Save Environment

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Impossible Foods CEO and Founder Pat Brown

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

When Pat Brown founded his company Impossible Foods in 2011, he set a high-level objective: to eradicate the consumption of meat from animals by 2035.

Turns out several businesses in Los Alamos are helping Brown achieve this goal. During a virtual presentation Tuesday night, which was part of ScienceFest, Brown revealed several local restaurants including Sirphey, Pajarito Brew Pub and Cottonwood on the Greens serve dishes with Impossible Burger and Impossible Sausage.

Impossible Read More

Fernando Baca Joins Century Bank

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Fernando Baca

BUSINESS News:

Century Bank welcomes Fernando Baca as a Commercial Loan Officer and Vice President.

Baca has more than 30 years of experience in commercial banking and portfolio management and has spent his entire career working in community banks.

He prides himself in providing exceptional service to his clients including finding solutions for their unique borrowing and cash management needs.

Baca is a graduate of the University of New Mexico and has been involved in many community organizations in Northern New Mexico including United Way, the Risk Management Association Read More

Los Alamos Historical Society Seeks Community Support

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Participants in a past historical walking tour. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com

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

Summertime is typically the Los Alamos Historical Society’s busy time. Visitors walk through the exhibits at the history museum, participate in the historical walking tours and shop in the museum’s gift shop. COVID-19 changed all that.

The museum is empty, and a lot of its activities and programs moved online. While the Historical Society has adapted to accommodate the state’s public health order; the pandemic has made the organization Read More