Community Encouraged To Help Local Nonprofits Like Los Alamos Film And Culture Festival On Giving Tuesday
Director Mikheil Gabaidze, right, from the Country of Georgia, and producers Elene Japharidze and Sophiko Komakhidze won the 2025 LAFCF short film award for “Vasomotor Rhinitis”. Courtesy image
By BERNADETTE LAURITZEN
Los Alamos
Do you know that warm, fuzzy feeling when you see the child of a friend achieve success? Recently, the Los Alamos Film and Culture Festival’s (LAFCF) Sandy Jones experienced that same feeling.
Mikheil Gabaidze, from the Country of Georgia is the director behind the winning 2025 LAFCF short film “Vasomotor Rhinitis”. Gabaidze used a portion of his Los Alamos winnings Read More
State Grants Up To $25,000 Available For New Mexico Creative Businesses
Potter at Paseo Pottery. Courtesy/NMEDD
NMEDD News:
SANTA FE — Established creative businesses in New Mexico can apply for state grants up to $25,000, aimed at strengthening operations and supporting long-term growth.
The Business Development & Expansion Grant Program, administered by the New Mexico Economic Development Department’s Creative Industries Division, is open to for-profit creative businesses with at least three years of operational history. Funding aims to strengthen business infrastructure and marketing and support long-term sustainability.
“New Mexico’s Read More
LAHS English Lit Students Learn About Journalism During Field Trip To Meet Los Alamos Daily Post News Team
Los Alamos Daily Post Photographer John McHale discusses sports photography with Los Alamos High School students from English Teacher Lori Thompson’s Sports Lit class during their field trip in October to visit the news team to learn about journalism, photography and the newspaper business. Photo by John McHale/ladailypost.com
Los Alamos High School students from English Teacher Lori Thompson’s Sports Lit class take a field trip in October to visit the news team at the Los Alamos Daily Post. Photo by John McHale/ladailypost.com
A second group of Los Alamos High School students from English Read More
Scenes From Small Business Saturday 2025 In Los Alamos
Volunteers Teri Nixon and Traci Sowers at the counter assisting Small Business Saturday customers today at the Lobby Shop inside Los Alamos Medical Center. Photo by John McHale/ladailypost.com
Kirsten Laskey of the Los Alamos Daily Post joins shoppers on Small Business Saturday today in Village Arts at 216 DP Road. Photo by John McHale/ladailypost.com
Boomerang Consignment and Resale and Gaia Gifts Owner Anna Dillane at the counter assisting Small Business Saturday customers today at 1247 Central Ave. Ste. A, and celebrating her 11th year in business. Photo by John McHale/ladailypost.com Read More
On Today’s Small Business Saturday, Haaland Urges New Mexicans To Shop Local, Strengthen Community Economies
Gubernatorial Candidate Deb Haaland
From the Deb Haaland for Governor Campaign:
ALBUQUERQUE – On Small Business Saturday, Deb Haaland, candidate for Governor of New Mexico, encouraged New Mexicans to shop small and support local businesses. Haaland views New Mexico small businesses as a key way to address the affordability crisis by growing opportunities for good-paying jobs across the state and providing an alternative to large corporations that price gauge.
As a single mom, Haaland started selling salsa to help make ends meet and provide the flexibility to care for her young child. Read More
Boomerang Prepares For Small Business Saturday Shoppers
Boomerang Consignment and Resale and Gaia Gifts in all its glory at the corner of Central Avenue and Knecht Street is among many local concerns prepared to welcome shoppers on today’s ‘Small Business Saturday’ … a day that means the world to every owner in Los Alamos and White Rock. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com Read More
NACo: Counties Celebrate Key Permitting Inclusion In SPEED Act
NACo News:
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The National Association of Counties (NACo) issued the following statement in response to the passage of the Standardizing Permitting and Expediting Economic Development (SPEED) Act (H.R. 4776), which advanced out of the U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources Nov. 20.
NACo Executive Director Matthew Chase said:
“Counties are pleased that the SPEED Act would reform the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) by streamlining federal permitting and strengthening county involvement in decision-making. We support commonsense permitting reforms, and Read More
Alpha Zeta Adopt-A-Family Program Seeks Local Sponsors
By BERNADETTE LAURITZEN
Los Alamos
Alpha Zeta, a local Chapter of Beta Sigma Phi, is collaborating with local schools to identify families who could use a little extra love over the holiday season. Their Adopt-A-Family program for 2025 has received 54 applications, with 13 families looking for sponsors.
Families who remain include families with grandparents in the home, single parents with multiple children, and single-child families. The biggest family remaining is a family of seven, and the smallest is a family of two.
“About 80 percent of the families in the program live in Los Alamos County; Read More
Local Love: Do You Have Some To Give?
By KEVIN HOLSAPPLE
Board Member
Places and Spaces Los Alamos
Los Alamos and White Rock are communities defined in large part by their independent spirit and local businesses. If you tuned in to the Los Alamos Local Business Coalition forums earlier this year, you will understand that many of our local businesses continue to struggle with maintaining pre-pandemic cash flow and revenue margins. Challenges like difficulty finding workers, increased labor costs, and high operational costs persist in our uncertain economy. To ensure our small businesses fully recover and achieve sustainable
Celebrate Los Alamos WinterFest Weekend 2025 Dec. 5-7!
COUNTY News:
Los Alamos WinterFest Weekend 2025 celebrates winter in Los Alamos, Dec. 5-7. This year’s theme is “Red, Green, or Christmas”.
Businesses/organizations have scheduled events, including ballets, bazaars, shows, sales:
Friday, Dec. 5
- 1-3 p.m. Community Art Program: Lino Block Printed Tea Towels, Los Alamos Arts Council
- 1-7 p.m. 32nd Annual Creche Show, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- 7-8 p.m. December Night Sky, Los Alamos Nature Center (PEEC) Planetarium
- 7-9 p.m. Sugar Plum on “The Hill” at Duane Smith Auditorium
Saturday, Dec. 6
- 8-11 a.m. Kiwanis
