Officials Gather For Annual REDI Summit
U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Luján (D-NM) delivering the welcoming address. Courtesy/LANL CPO
From left, Los Alamos County Economic Development Director Joan Ahlers, with RDC Board members Kristin Henderson and Javier Sanchez. Photo by Eric Vasquez/valleydailypost.com
Staff Report
Officials gathered Thursday at Buffalo Thunder Resort for the Regional Economic Development Initiative (REDI) Summit. “Navigating Our Economic Future” was the theme for this year’s event.
The REDI Strategic Plan was completed nearly 10 years ago in 2008. This year, the summit featured successes and Read More
LAC: Tourism Work Group Meeting Today
Voices Of Los Alamos Meets Monday, Sept. 25
VOLA News:
Voices of Los Alamos will hold its next meeting at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 25 at the Unitarian Church.
Voices of Los Alamos is a progressive political activism group created for Los Alamos residents to voice their concerns over current political events (both at the state and at the federal level) and give people a space to gather together, discuss and form action plans.
The membership is inclusive; everyone is welcomed to attend the meeting.
Agenda items for the upcoming meeting include:
Immigration proclamation passed, what’s next? The Public Education Department Read More
Add Some Color And Adventure To Your Life This Autumn In Los Alamos
COUNTY News:County Personnel Board Meeting Canceled Sept. 26
COUNTY News:
The Los Alamos County Personnel Board meeting at 11:30 a.m. Sept. 26 in Room 110 in the Municipal Building at 1000 Central Ave. is canceled. Read More
County Takes Part In National Voter Registration Day
COUNTY News:
Tuesday, Sept. 26, the Los Alamos County Clerk’s Office will host National Voter Registration Day 2017 events, as part of a massive 50-state effort to register thousands of voters.
Founded in 2012, National Voter Registration Day is designed to create an annual moment when the entire nation focuses on registering Americans to exercise their most basic right – the right to vote. More than 2 million Americans have registered to vote on this day since the inaugural National Voter Registration Day.
“With the 2018 Elections fast approaching, the goal of National Voter Registration Read More
A Fed Bear Is A Dead Bear…
The Environmental Sustainability Board will discuss the ordinance that addresses the placement and maintance of roll carts during its meeting at 5:30 p.m. today in the Municipal Building. The goal is to prevent what is occurring in this picture: wildlife getting into garbage cans. This picture was taken in October 2016 off Canyon Road. Photo by Robert Cunningham
Garbage cans and bears are a bad combination. When a bear dumpster dives, it raises safety concerns for people and may spell death for the animal. Read More
Letter To The Editor: County Government Overreacts … Again
By ROBERT VISELFirst the County wants to fine the residents of Los Alamos for weeds and peeling paint. Now they want to fine residents for keeping their trash bins outside? This is a growing trend with our local politicians. All it takes is one little whiny cry baby to file a complaint and the County overreacts.
Every time the County can’t control their wasteful and excessive spending they raise the Utility Rates and Property Taxes. Every time there is a trivial complaint they have a “knee jerk” response without thinking things through. An idiot causes an automobile accident where there Read More
Los Alamos Police Department’s Criminal Investigations Division Driven To Solve Cases
Los Alamos Police Det. Sgt. James Rodriguez is proud of the Department’s Criminal Investigations Division. Photo by Maire O’Neill/ladailypost.com
Los Alamos Police Department Det. Sgt. James Rodriguez remembers police officers coming to speak as guests at his high school in Loving and says he found what they had to say about the job intriguing. Even when he studied mechanical engineering at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Wash., law enforcement was always in the back of his mind.
Rodriguez returned to New Read More
ESD Discusses Changes To Brush & Bulk Program
The wood chipper at the Eco Station makes a giant pile of mulch that is free to the community. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com
The brush pile is huge right now at the Eco Station. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com
BY KIRSTEN LASKEY
Los Alamos Daily Post
kirsten@ladailypost.com
The Environmental Services Division’s quarterly brush collection is underway. The program started in August and runs through the beginning of October.
When it comes to what can be collected most yard waste is accepted except for weeds, Office Specialist Tiffany Read More
Lightning Strikes Los Alamos Golf Course Trees
Lightning struck a tree around 4:30 p.m. Sunday near Tee 12 at the Los Alamos Golf Course. Reports are that a golfer near the strike was knocked off his feet but uninjured and the sound from the strike heard over in Quemazon. The lightning appears to have jumped to a smaller tree a few feet away. Excavated dirt is visible at the base of the tree where the lightning exited at the ground. Photo by Kerry Habiger
Los Alamos County Golf Pro Jim Phillips stands on Tee 12 Monday near where it appears the same lightning bolt that hit the tall tree at left, also struck this smaller tree growing a few feet away to the Read More
Letter To The Editor: Regarding Old Smith’s Building
By ROB BARAN
Los Alamos
I would like to follow-on with Kathy Willcut’s good idea (link); the County can use that space for some of it’s recreational initiatives!
I was dismayed to read that the Kroger company has such wide latitude in choosing which businesses can move into the old Smith’s space. However, Kroger owns the land, so they can do as they please. But with the County pressing forward with the recreational initiatives (made famous … or ‘infamous’ by the Rec Bond debate), why not use that perfectly sited, wide space with ample parking for one Read More
Los Alamos County ESB Meets Today
COUNTY News:
The Environmental Sustainability Board will meet at 5:30 p.m. Thursday in Room 110 in the Los Alamos County Municipal Building at 1000 Central Ave.
The meeting is open to the public.
3. APPROVAL OF AGENDA
4. APPROVAL OF MINUTES Approval of the Aug. 17, 2017, Environmental Sustainability Board Minutes Presenters: John Bliss
- Construction and Demolition Recycling Presentation Presenters:
Labor Management Relations Board Meets Sept. 25
COUNTY News:
The Labor Management Relations Board will hold a special meeting at 10 a.m. Monday, Sept. 25 in Room 110 at the Los Alamos County Municipal Building at 1000 Central Ave.
II. Discussion and/or Possible Action Items
A. Prohibited Practices Complaint Hearing. The International Union of Police Associations, AFL-CIO, Local No.14 v. County of Los Alamos [Motion may be made to close meeting pursuant to NMSA 1978, 10-15-1 (H) (3) for deliberations by the Board]
III. Adjournment
Smart House Art Dedication At Muni Building Oct. 3
Los Alamos Police Blotter: Sept. 14 To Sept. 19, 2017
LAPD News:
The following information is provided by the Los Alamos Police Department.
Neither arrests nor charges indicate a conviction, and neither means that a person is guilty of the charges against them.
JON M. WEATHERS
Sept. 14 at 6:27 a.m. / Police arrested Jon M. Weathers, 46, of Albuquerque at 2500 Trinity Dr., on an outstanding District Court warrant.
CHRISTOPHER N. BEGAY
Sept. 19 at 4:52 p.m. / Police arrested Christopher Neil Begay, 23, of Los Alamos at 2500 Trinity Dr., on an outstanding District Court warrant.
Scenes From LAFD Chief Garcia’s Retirement Lunch
Friends and colleagues honored retiring Los Alamos Fire Department Wildland Fire Division Chief Ramon Garcia, here with his wife Kathleen, at a special luncheon Tuesday at Cottonwood on the Greens. Courtesy photo
Scene from Tuesday’s retirement lunch for Los Alamos Fire Department Wildland Fire Division Chief Ramon Garcia. Courtesy photo
Scene from Tuesday’s retirement lunch for LAFD Wildland Fire Division Chief Ramon Garcia.Courtesy photo
Scene from Tuesday retirement lunch for LAFD Wildland Fire Division Chief Ramon Garcia. Courtesy photo Read More
County: Be Bear Aware
This bear was spotted earlier this month roaming around Andanada Street and El Corto in Los Alamos. Photo by Ken Hanson
COUNTY News:
Bears continue to make their way into residential areas due to lack of food in the wild and ease of getting it out of trash roll carts.
If a bear does not find a food source, it will move on. However, bears that are accustomed to eating human food are more likely to become habituated and are more prone to have dangerous human encounters. Here are some safe practices for managing trash to minimize encounters with bears:
- Keep your family, neighbors, pets, and property safe:
Quorum Notice: Environmental Sustainability Board
COUNTY News:
Members of the Environmental Sustainability Board may attend a Recycle Audit, 8 a.m. to noon Sept. 22 and Sept. 29 in White Rock.
A quorum may be present but no action will be taken.
The meeting is open to the public. Read More
Letter To The Editor: The Ordinance, Some Solutions
By HELEN M. MILENSKII have waited until having the opportunity to read all of Mr. Izraelevitz’s (Council Chair David Izraelevitz) partitioned letters to the editor. Also, he accepted an invitation to have coffee with me and discuss some of the issues I take with the current ordinance and its enforcement. Heather Ortega joined me and I do believe we covered a lot of the concerns we have both heard from the community.
I will now respond with my own letter to the editor and as I do not intend to partition my letter, I will try to be brief.
I am quite certain that most people, rich or poor, Read More
