Los Alamos Police Department Conducts Wet Lab
The Los Alamos Police Department recently conducted a ‘wet lab.’ Volunteers drank alcohol at the station and officers honed their skills in recognizing and testing suspects for DWI. Here, a volunteer walks a straight line as an officer checks his performance. A training officer looks on. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
Officers look for signs of intoxication in the wet lab with volunteer drinkers. Photo by Anthony Lucero/Los Alamos Police Dept.
A wet lab volunteer walks the line. Volunteers were ferried home by police officers after the event. PhotoPet Of The Week: Whiskey The Cat
Whiskey the cat. Photo by Paulina Gwaltney PhotographyScenes From Saturday’s Energy Efficiency Home Tour
PEEC and Los Alamos County sponsored a tour of energy efficient homes Saturday. The home of Rosmarie and Paul Frederickson features 1.5 inches of insulation added under the stucco. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
The Frederickson home has a heat-collecting sunroom. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
The Frederickson garden produces much of the family’s food. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
The Meyer home has solar panels and a xeric (drought resistant perennials) garden. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
Drought-tolerantLetter To The Editor: Chris Chandler’s Experience, Expertise, Excellent Track Record Deserves Our Vote
By KYLE WHEELER and JOHN HOPKINSWe are writing in support of Chris Chandler for County Council. The two of us have known and worked with Chris for many years, and we admire her dedication to the community and her willingness to work hard to improve its future. She has devoted countless hours to past service on the County Council, the Planning and Zoning Commission, and the two Charter Review Committees, one in the 1990s and the other in the past 10 years. She served as our Probate Judge, only recently stepping down from that position to run for County Council.
Chris worked at the Laboratory Read More
Letter To The Editor: Disparity In Opportunities Presented To Children Is Glaring
By LYNN HANRAHAN This Thursday at the Farmer’s Market and Thursday evening at Fuller Lodge, presentations will be made concerning progress on Los Alamos County’s capitol improvement projects. My concern about some of these projects is that they do not benefit our community in a fair and equitable manner. Remember, we will all be footing the bill for these projects at some point.
Let’s use the proposed indoor ice rink as an example. It is argued that having an indoor rink will benefit the children of the community and citizens at large by making it possible for our Read More
Cone Zone: Week Of Oct. 17
COUNTY News:Letter To The Editor: Surprised By Police Presence At League Forum
By DOROTHY BROWNOn Oct. 6, I attended the League of Women Voters Forum to hear the candidates’ statements and their answers to questions. It was informative, well organized, and peaceful. At no time did anyone become rude or threatening while exploring divergent opinions.
Therefore, it was surprising that two uniformed, armed police officers entered at the beginning of the meeting but were not there to be part of the audience. At the end of the meeting, a uniformed police officer appeared to be using his cell phone to record photos or video of citizens in attendance. This raises the
Letter To The Editor: Sheriff’s Office Is Now Vestigial
By A Concerned CitizenOh boy, now we learn from George Chandler’s informative and thoughtful letter (here) that Sheriff Marco Lucero seeks to sue Los Alamos County to preserve the Office of the Sheriff.
It seems that the role of the sheriff is like that of the human appendix: formerly more useful than today. A current theory of the role of the appendix is to act as a reservoir for desirable intestinal
flora, to help prevent e.g. Clostridium difficile infections following a bout of cholera or dysentery.
Having clean food and water and a highly effective police force, the existence Read More
Letter To The Editor: Regarding Sheriff’s Lawsuit
By GEORGE CHANDLERMeet Recreation Capital Projects Team At Farmer’s Market Thursday
COUNTY News:County Website Maintenance Saturday Evening
COUNTY News:
Los Alamos County’s website at www.losalamosnm.us will be temporarily unavailable beginning late Saturday evening for planned server updates and upgrades.
The County apologizes in advance for any inconvenience. Read More
Local Health Office Closes But Expected To Reopen
By Carol A. ClarkLos Alamos Daily Post
The New Mexico Department of Health’s Los Alamos County Health Office effectively stopped seeing patients Sept. 14 across from Los Alamos High School at 1183 Diamond Dr.
Public Health Nurse Manager Andrea Cunningham staffed the office for two years but was directed to tender her resignation after she asked for three weeks off without pay in September to accompany her husband on a trip to South Africa.
“I wrote them a letter asking them to reconsider but they said if I was going to take three weeks off then I needed to resign,” Cunningham said.
Cunningham and Read More
Sheriff Has Limited But Important Role
By PETE SHEEHEY
Los Alamos County Councilor
I will vote against eliminating the office of Sheriff in Los Alamos County, because it is important for an elected Sheriff to offer independent investigation of citizen concerns, among other services. This opinion is my own, not a legal position of the County. I offer here for your consideration the facts upon which my opinion is based.
The County Charter (municode.com/library/nm/los_alamos_county/codes/code_of_ordinances) does not take away all law enforcement authority from the Sheriff. Here’s what the Read More
Chandler: Sustaining Our Character
By CHRIS CHANDLERCounty Council Candidate
Over the course of my campaign for county council, I have worked hard to talk to as many residents as possible. As of today, I personally have knocked on over 1,600 doors, walked in every neighborhood, spoken to hundreds of residents.
The people with whom I spoke spanned a wide range of demographics – long term residents, people relatively new to town, home owners and renters; parents, grandparents and singles; young and older folks, some from other cultures and countries. We are fortunate to live in such a vibrant, multi-cultural community. Read More
Woods: Why I’m Running For County Clerk
By AMY WOODSI’m Amy Woods and I am running for Los Alamos County Clerk. I grew up here in Los Alamos. Our family came to Los Alamos when it was a closed military town and everyone had to have a badge or an escort. Clearly, things have changed a lot, however, I have inherited Carlotta and BB McInteer’s commitment to contribute to the community.
I returned to Los Alamos after living in a variety of places. In the communities I lived in I served as well as I could; I was on the Board of Directors at the Albuquerque YMCA, and on the Planning and Zoning commission in the town Read More
Sheriff Duties Can Be Handled By Police Department
This is a graph showing the processes of service requests for the first seven months of this year for the Los Alamos County Sheriff’s Office. Courresy image
By RICK REISS
Los Alamos
If you are concerned about the ability and capacity of the Police Department to handle the work done by the Sheriff’s department, please consider the actual statistics and volume of work performed by the Sheriff department.
The Sheriff was formerly required to provide service of process for the courts. During the many terms of current and past Sheriffs, there has not been a significant amount of reporting regarding Read More
Los Alamos County Councilors Give Additional Direction On Proposed Capital Improvement Projects
COUNTY News:
At the Oct. 4 Los Alamos County Council meeting, Councilors gave the Dekker Perich Sabatini (DPS) team new directives for the proposed capital improvement projects. Their directives follow the Sept. 20 County Council work session and input from residents and businesses.
The directives include:
- Los Alamos County staff should move forward with design concepts for two of the Economic Development projects – 20th Street extension and Deacon Street improvements. Staff should establish a project budget of $1.3 million for the 20th Street extension and $2.1 million for the Deacon
Los Alamos Police Blotter: Oct. 5 – Oct. 9, 2016
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 filed against them.
ALEX SILVER
Oct. 5 at 5:49 p.m. / Police arrested Alex Silver, 27, of Los Alamos on San Ildefonso Road on an outstanding District Court warrant.
Oct. 5 at 2 a.m. / Police arrested Jonathan Guise, 39, of Los Alamos on Short Drive and charged him with battery against a household member and issued him a summons to appear in court. The police booking photo is not available.
Oct. 5 at 11:46 a.m. Read More
‘Out Of This World’ Pumpkin Splash & Halloween Carnival Oct. 29
