MANA Del Norte Announces 2023 Scholarship Opportunity: Deadline June 30, 2023
MANA del Norte News:
SANTA FE – MANA del Norte is accepting scholarship applications for the 2023-2024 academic year. The application deadline is June 30.
Applicants must be a current or former resident of one of the following northern New Mexico counties: Los Alamos, Mora, Rio Arriba, Santa Fe, San Miguel or Taos.
For more information, visit: https:////www.manadelnortenm.org or contact Scholarship Committee Co-chair Virginia Martinez-Fiske at 505.316.4209.
This year, up to ten scholarships will be awarded to selected recipients who will be honored at MANA del Norte’s Scholarship Banquet, Read More
U.S. Sen. Luján & Reps. Gallego, Hayes Introduce Grant Program To Empower Teacher Leaders
U.S. Sen. Ben Ray Luján
U.S. SENATE News:
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Sen. Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) and U.S. Representatives Ruben Gallego (AZ-03) and Jahana Hayes (CT-05) introduced legislation this week to empower teachers and schools to better serve students.
The Teachers Leading, Educating, Advancing, and Designing (Teachers LEAD) Act establishes a grant program through the Department of Education to help districts provide educators with additional leadership and professional development opportunities.
The grant program established by the Teachers LEAD Act will:
- Provide financial
LAHS Athlete Teke Nieto Signs National Letter Of Intent
Los Alamos High School senior Teke Nieto signs a National Letter of Intent today to play football and wrestle for Augustana College, a private Lutheran college in Rock Island, Ill. He intends to major in mechanical engineering. Photo By John McHale/ladailypost.com
At today’s letter signing event at LAHS, senior Teke Nieto is accompanied by his parents Joseph and Alyssa and brother Ty Nieto. Photo By John McHale/ladailypost.com Read More
Topper Men’s Volleyball Completes First Season
The Topper Men’s Volleyball Team gather for a photo Saturday during a tournament at Manzano High School. This was the Toppers first season playing men’s volleyball and they finished 6th in the tournament. Photo by John McHale/ladailypost.com
Troy Makela and Andrew Johnson go up for the block from an Albuquerque High School player in a match played Saturday at Manzano High School. Photo by John McHale/ladailypost.com
Lenny Zhoa spikes the ball over the Albuquerque player. Photo by John McHale/ladailypost.com
Ben Siegler digs a ball. Photo by John McHale/ladailypost.com
Antoni Galassi Read More
Sign Up underway For Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library Offering Free Books For Children From Newborn To Age 5
Los Alamos JJAB News:
The Los Alamos affiliate of Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is sponsored by Los Alamos JJAB and made possible by funders and private donors. The program is for children, newborn up to the age of 5, who reside in Los Alamos County. Each month, registered children receive a free age-appropriate book in the mail. The books selected are high quality and educational, and children receive a bilingual book twice per year.
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a program started in 1995 to promote literacy and to encourage the love of reading in young children. Currently, one Read More
ECECD Announces Proposed Changes To Improve Access To High-Quality Child Care For Most New Mexico Families
ECECD News:
SANTA FE — The New Mexico Early Childhood Education and Care Department (ECECD) has announced proposed regulations that will ensure that qualifying New Mexico families will continue to receive free child care through its child care assistance (CCA) program and child care providers will receive increased rates.
These proposed changes build on Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham’s vision for universal, high-quality early care and education. Child care businesses will continue to receive the benefits of expanded eligibility and the Competitive Pay for Professionals grant, which Read More
Annual Topper Soccer School Begins Monday June 12
This Week In Sports: May 9-13, 2023
This Week in Sports:
Los Alamos High School Hilltopper games are covered by the Los Alamos Daily Post sports team of Gene Mortensen (Voice of the Hilltoppers), Mike Cote, John McHale and Nate Limback.
The Hilltopper Sports Schedule for May 9-13:
May 9 Tuesday
- Golf NMAA State Playoffs at Santa Anna Golf Course
May 12 Friday
- Track & Field State Championship at UNM
May 13 Saturday
- Track & Field State Championship at UNM
Rotary Hosts Talk By Youth Exchange Student Olivia Hsieh
As the school year comes to an end, Olivia Hsieh of Taiwan, one of two youth exchange students sponsored by the Rotary Club of Los Alamos, spoke to Club members May 9th at Cottonwood on the Greens. Hsieh is an outdoor enthusiast and has also enjoyed being a member of the Los Alamos High School Choir, the Robotics Club, and Interact, Rotary’s youth service organization at LAHS. Photos by Linda Hull
On May 9th Rotary Club President Alison Pannell presented youth exchange student Olivia Hsieh of Taiwan with a trade banner from the local Club during the meeting at Cottonwood on the Greens. Hsieh returns Read More
AFT NM Celebrates ‘Thank An Educator’ Week!
By WHITNEY HOLLAND
President
AFT New Mexico
Throughout the country, this week is celebrated as “Thank a Teacher” week.
We know here at AFT NM it is more than just the teacher who helps to create a positive environment in our public schools and places of learning – it is the educational assistants, support personnel, nurses, transportation professionals, counselors, facilities personnel, secretaries, and cafeteria workers who all lend a hand to our students’ successful learning.
This is true whether you are in an early education center, a K-12 setting, or at one of our colleges or universities Read More
Op-Ed: Drag For Kiddies?
By ANDY FELTON
Los Alamos
I was recently made aware of the Los Alamos County Library’s Drag Story Hour, featuring plans to host “Lil Miss Hot Mess” and the reading of If You’re a Drag Queen and You Know It. The event is sponsored by the Institute for Research on Male Supremacism, a so-called feminist organization that “expose[s] the danger of misogynist ideology and mobilization.”
In the spirit of exposing misogyny, we should first recall what the term means. Misogyny derives from the Greek terms Misos, meaning “hatred,” and gunē, meaning “woman.” Therefore, the functional definition would Read More
Rotary Club Of Los Alamos Awards Multiple Scholarships At LAHS Convocation Event 2023
The Rotary Club of Los Alamos awarded multiple scholarships to graduating seniors at the Los Alamos High School convocation ceremony May 4 at Duane Smith Auditorium. From left, Rotary Club President-elect Tim Bullock, students Marion Stradling, Yunseo Kim, Keturah Sherrill, Katherine Werner, Yenwoo Park, Timur Tyulin, and Rotary Club President Alison Pannell. Rotarian Linda Bullock chaired the Club’s scholarship committee. Photo by Nate Limback/ladailypost.com Read More
UNM-Los Alamos To Host 42nd Commencement Featuring Sen. Leo Jaramillo As Keynote Speaker
Scene from previous commencement ceremony at UNM-LA. Courtesy/UNM-LA
UNM-LA News:
UNM-Los Alamos is pleased to announce that it will be hosting its 42nd commencement ceremony May 11, 2023, at Crossroads Bible Church in Los Alamos. The event will begin at 6 p.m. and will feature State Sen. Leo Jaramillo as the keynote speaker.
Sen. Jaramillo, who was elected in November 2020, represents New Mexico Senate District 5, which includes Los Alamos, Rio Arriba, Sandoval, and Santa Fe Counties. A native of the Española Valley and a proud alumnus of Española Valley High School, Senator Jaramillo has Read More
Scenes From LAHS Interact Club Bake Sale Benefitting Earthquake Victims In Syria And Türkiye
Members of the Los Alamos High School Interact Club, a youth service organization sponsored by the Rotary Club of Los Alamos, encouraged classmates Monday afternoon, May 8, to buy baked goods in support of their humanitarian project to send funds to victims of the recent earthquake in Syria and Türkiye. Photo by Linda Hull
A hungry crowd gathered after school Monday at Los Alamos High School to purchase baked goods from Rotary Interact students who are supporting earthquake relief efforts in Syria and Türkiye. Photo by Linda Hull
A quick glimpse of the baked goods that filled two tables at the Read More
NMHU Takes Vote Of No Confidence In Board Of Regents
NMHU News:
LAS VEGAS, N.M. — New Mexico Highlands University (NMHU) Faculty and Staff Association (NMHUFASA) President Dr. Kathy Jenkins and New Mexico Highlands University (NMHU) Faculty Senate President Dr. Rod Rock released the following statements:
Members of the New Mexico Highlands University Faculty Senate and NMHUFASA have taken a vote of no confidence in the NMHU Board of Regents due to their lack of enforcement and respect in the areas of faculty tenure, worker rights, and seeming indifference to the erosion of academic rights and norms throughout our university’s departmental Read More
Early Childhood Education Offers Math Learning Sessions
Courtesy/ECE
ECE News:
Free Workshops in Early Childhood Education (ECE) at Santa Fe Community College for a series of four innovative and groundbreaking math learning opportunities!
Provided by Early Education Equity
Playing with Math in Early Childhood Through a Cultural Lens (PreK-3):
- 9 a.m.- 12 p.m. May 20 – Finding Math Quilting
- 9 a.m.- 12 p.m. June 17 – Exploring Math in Clothing
- 9 a.m.- 12 p.m. July 15 – Creating Meaningful Math Games
Children‘s math skills upon entry to Kindergarten are some of the best predictors of their success in STEM, reading aptitude in 3rd Read More
AAUW To Host Spring Tea Friday May 12
AAUW News:
The American Association of University Women (AAUW) Los Alamos Branch will host a Spring Tea, 4-5:30 p.m. Friday, May 12 at the Bethlehem Lutheran Church, main floor Gathering Space, 2390 North Road.
UNM-Los Alamos student and AAUW Scholarship recipient Sara L. Lujan is the featured speaker at the Spring Tea.
Prospective members are welcome and refreshments will be served. Read More
New Mexico Museum Of Natural History & Science To Host Young Explorers Summer Science Program
Campers at the NM Museum of Natural History & Science learning about dinosaurs. Courtesy/NMMNHS
NMMNHS News:
ALBUQUERQUE — The Young Explorers Summer Science Program is returning to the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science (NMMNHS) for three weeks of fun and scientific exploration this July!
The Young Explorers Summer Science Program will be held in-person at NMMNHS over the summer for the first time since 2019. Campers between the ages of 5 and 12 will have a chance to explore paleontology, space science, and all things STEM in both large and small groups from July 10 through Read More
LAHS Interact Club Bake Sale Monday Outside Duane Smith Auditorium To Benefit Earthquake Victims In Syria/Türkiye
Courtesy image
COMMUNITY News:
The Los Alamos High School Interact Club, a youth service organization sponsored by the Rotary Club of Los Alamos, will host a bake sale 2:35-3:10 p.m. Monday, May 8 in front of Duane Smith Auditorium.
Interact is dedicated to helping local and global communities.
All funds raised from Monday’s bake sale will go to help those negatively affected by the earthquakes last month in Syria/Türkiye. Read More
Over 50 Seniors Recognized And Awarded Scholarships At Los Alamos High School Class Of 2023 Honors Convocation
LAHS Assistant Superintendent Carter Payne reminds students to send a thank you to the individuals and organizations who made the 2023 Honors Convocation evening possible. Photo by Nate Limback/ladailypost.com
J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Committee Scholarships: LAHS Alumni Christine Hazard Phillips, left, and Abel Chavez, right, present J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Committee Scholarships Read More
