Kiwanis To Hear From LAHS Principal Eric Ziegler Jan. 12
LAHS Principal Eric Ziegler
KIWANIS CLUB News:
The Kiwanis Club of Los Alamos will hear from Los Alamos High School Principal Eric Ziegler at its dinner meeting on Monday, Jan. 12.
The dinner begins at 5:30 p.m., with the meeting to be called to order at 6 p.m. at Trinity on the Hill Church.
To learn more about the Kiwanis Club of Los Alamos, visit kiwanis.org. Read More
LANL Foundation Opens Applications For Career Pathways Scholarship
LANLF News:
ESPAÑOLA — The LANL Foundation is pleased to announce that applications are now open for the Career Pathways Scholarship, an opportunity designed to support Northern New Mexico students and adult learners earning an associate degree, certificate, or professional trade credential in pursuit of a specific career goal.
“The Career Pathways scholarship is about expanding access to education that leads directly to opportunity,” said Mike Ammerman, LANL Foundation Scholarship Program Director. “This scholarship helps remove financial barriers for students and adult learners Read More
UNM-LA Advisory Board To Meet Monday, Jan. 12
UNM-LA News:
The UNM-Los Alamos (UNM-LA) Advisory Board is holding a board meeting at 5:30 p.m., Monday, Jan. 12, in the Building 2 Lecture Hall (Room 230) on the UNM-LA campus located at 4000 University Drive, Los Alamos, NM 87544.
The meeting will also be virtual via Zoom. You can join the meeting by following this link: https://unm.zoom.us/j/95145966954.
Agenda items include swearing in three board members and discussion of tuition and fees.
The board generally meets on the Monday preceding the second Tuesday of each odd calendar month except in July, unless otherwise directed. The board Read More
Los Alamos High School Graduates Reuben Goettee & Samantha Grow Perform In Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade
Los Alamos High School 2022 graduates and Northern Arizona University students Reuben Goettee and Samantha Grow perform in the 2025 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City. Courtesy photo
By KIRSTEN LASKEY
Los Alamos Daily Post
kirsten@ladailypost.com
While many Americans could be found seated around the dinner table Thanksgiving Day, two Los Alamos High School graduates – Reuben Goettee and Samantha Grow – found themselves on national television in front of millions of viewers.
Goettee and Grow are members of the Northern Arizona University marching band, which earned Read More
Learn A Living Tradition – Make Traditional New Mexican Straw Appliqué Art At Los Luceros Historic Site
Los Luceros Historic Site News:
Create one of Northern New Mexico’s most enchanting arts, straw appliqué, with Northern Río Grande National Heritage Area (NRGNHA) at Los Luceros Historic Site this month.
What: Learn how to make straw appliqué art using wheat straw to decorate wooden decorative items. The workshop begins with participants carefully selecting wheat straw and preparing it by splitting, flattening, and burnishing it to enhance its natural golden sheen.
Participants will arrange the prepared straw into intricate designs such as flowers, vines, stars, sacred symbols, and Read More
Los Alamos Members Of IWF-NM Celebrate Start Of 2026
Several Los Alamos members of the International Women’s Forum-New Mexico (IWF-NM), gathered for lunch Tuesday at Blue Window Bistro to celebrate the start of a new year. From left, Retired Bradbury Science Museum Director Linda Deck. Los Alamos Historian Nancy Bartlit, Enterprise Bank & Trust Regional President Liddie Martinez, County Administrative Services Department Director Helen Perraglio, and not pictured Los Alamos Daily Post Publisher Carol A. Clark. IWF-NM celebrates women by advancing leadership across careers, cultures and communities, connecting the state’s most Read More
SFCC Library And Creative Writing Program Offers Free Online Spring 2026 Writing Generation Series Begins Feb. 18
SFCC News:
SANTA FE — Santa Fe Community College’s Library and Creative Writing program present the free online Spring 2026 Writing Generation (Wri-Gen) Series beginning Feb. 18 led by esteemed authors.
Each author will read at an introductory session. In a follow-up Zoom meeting the author will engage the participants in a writing exercise/creative session. Attendees can go to any of the sessions by registering just once at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/SFCCWriGenSpring26.
The sessions begin at 6 p.m., Wednesdays, beginning Feb. 18 and will feature these writers: Jamie Figueroa Read More
Los Alamos High Flyers Competitive Gymnastics Teams Shine At Start Of New Season
The Los Alamos High Flyers Gymnastics Level 4 Girls team winning the 3rd place Team Trophy at the Rio Rancho competition, from left, Coach Svetlana Shurikhin, Aly Lppez, Cece Gulsby, Harmony Cutter, Lucy Meierbachtol, Ava Zadina, Grace Waters, Nina Gyrya, Zoie Romero and Coach David Vosburgh. Courtesy/LAHFG
SPORTS News:
The Los Alamos High Flyers competitive gymnastics teams are off to a great start this season. The competitive teams, comprised this year of 60 athletes ranging in age from 5 to 17, are collectively expected to compete in 19 competitions over the course of the competitive season. Read More
Pajarito Environmental Education Center Celebrates 11 Year Milestone As Nationally Certified Community Wildlife Habitat
The certification process for Los Alamos began with an email PEEC’s Selvi Viswanathan, right, sent to Luisa Grant of the National Wildlife Federation. More emails followed and a local Community Wildlife Habitat Team was formed that included Viswanathan, her son Hari Viswanathan, Michele Altherr, Hedy Dunn, Laura Loy, Yvonne Keller and Bob Walker. Other community members as well as students pitched in to work toward obtaining the certification. Courtesy/PEEC
PEEC News:
This month, the Pajarito Environmental Education Center (PEEC) is celebrating an exciting milestone: Los Alamos has Read More
SFCC To Host Ask, Be Present, Connect – ABC Suicide Prevention Partner Class In Municipal Building Jan. 9
SFCC News:
If one of your New Year’s intentions is to lean into community, here is a great first step. You can make a difference by learning how to reach out to people who are struggling and strengthen community connections.
The first public class of the New Year is coming up at 9 a.m., Friday, Jan. 9 in the Los Alamos County Municipal Building, Room 330.
Ask, Be Present, Connect – ABC Suicide Prevention Partner Class is a 60 minute class that addresses how to prevent suicide. During the class you will learn about the common causes of suicidal behavior, the warning signs of suicide, and Read More
Community Invited To Tabletop Game Day At Mesa Library
COUNTY News:
The next Tabletop Game Day is 1-4:30 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 10 at Mesa Public Library.
All ages are welcome to bring their board games or choose from the more than 125+ board games the library owns. Members of the library staff and volunteers will be hanging out hoping to play games with people at Mesa Public Library mostly in The Zone on the lower level.
Free popcorn and drinks will be available in The Zone area.
This program is for everyone and anyone who wants to play tabletop board games. The library owns card and board games for kids as young as four and welcomes experts who want to teach Read More
Posts From The Road: 2025 Year In Review Part 2
Sheep Creek Bay: Sheep Creek is one of many contributors to Flaming Gorge Reservoir. Seen is Sheep Creek Bay, framed nicely by the red cliffs and hills, which is a part of the large and long reservoir. This is near Wyoming and it is easy to visualize how the reservoir is opening up and becoming wider as it exits the deep canyons to the southern part of Flaming Gorge Reservoir. Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com
Viewpoint: A group of hikers stop at a viewpoint near the Canyon Rim Campground to view the river and canyon below. The viewpoint is near the Red Canyon Visitor Center. The river is hundreds Read More
LANL Grad Student To Teach STEMarts LIVE CODING Bootcamp Kicking Off On Saturday Jan. 24
STEMarts Lab News:
STEMarts LAB in Santa Fe is kicking off the new year with its first LIVE CODING Bootcamp on Jan. 24 featuring Kelcey Davis, graduate student/LANL astrophysicist, who will be teaching students how to analyze data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to understand galaxies.
https://stemarts.com/2025/11/24/stemarts-live-coding-lab-in-2026/
More About STEMarts Lab Bootcamps:
- Bootcamp 1, Jan. 24, 2026
- Visualizing galaxy data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
This Bootcamp introduces students to astrophysics through data from the James Webb Space Telescope Read More
Jan & Jas. Mercer-Smith Mark 50th Wedding Anniversary
Jan and Jas. Mercer-Smith of Los Alamos celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary at the Getty Museum with their daughter, Dr. Alison Mercer-Smith, and her husband, Joe Gu. The Mercer-Smiths met while summer undergraduate researchers at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in 1973, and were married in Longview, Texas on Dec. 27, 1975. They lived in separate states during graduate school (UNC-Chapel Hill and Yale) and post-doctoral appointments (Rockefeller University and Harvard). After their experience at Oak Ridge, they had always hoped to work at a National Laboratory. And in 1983, they Read More
Not Too Late To Register For Washington Spring Break Trip
By ROBERTA COCKING
Coordinator
Spring Break Trip
Attention Los Alamos Middle School and homeschool 8th grade parents. It’s not too late to sign up for this year’s spring break trip to Washington, D.C. This is the 41st year for this once-in-a-lifetime annual trip for your student to travel with their peers to our nation’s capital!
Sign up quickly to lock in your reservation and trip price. Price for the trip could possibly increase after Jan. 9! Flexible payment plans are available with Worldstrides for this trip .
The trip is a private trip and not a school-sponsored trip and has been offered to Read More
County: Tips On Dressing For Safety In Cold Weather
COUNTY News:
According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) website, the best way to avoid hypothermia and frostbite is to stay warm and dry indoors and outdoors.
If you must go outside, dress for safety; wear several layers of loose-fitting, lightweight, warm clothing. Trapped air between the layers will insulate you.
Remove layers to avoid sweating and chill.
Outer garments should be tightly woven, water repellent and hooded. Wear a hat because much of your body heat can be lost from your head.
Cover your mouth to protect your lungs from extreme cold. Mittens, snug Read More
Amateur Naturalist: The life Of Oaks And Mosses
By ROBERT DRYJA
Los Alamos
Consider some the dimensions of a gambel oak tree. It may grow as tall as 30 feet. It is considered to be a large shrub or small tee. Its leaves may be 2 to 7 inches long and 1.5 to 3.5 inches wide with deep lobes, (see Picture 1 below). Its fruit is the acorn seed pod. The lower half of a seed pod connects with a branch. It has a bowl shaped cup at this connecting end. A seed pod may weigh about 1/10 of an ounce.
Now consider a moss. Unlike a gambel oak tree, a moss “branch” may be 0.1 to 3.9 inches long, far less in comparison to the trunk or branches an oak tree. The main branch of a moss may have Read More
New Mexico Ranks No. 20 Nationally For Higher Education
HED News:
SANTA FE — New Mexico’s continued investment in tuition-free college through the Opportunity Scholarship has put the state at No. 20 in the nation for higher education, ranking high for affordability, accessibility and support for the community.
The New Mexico Higher Education Department (HED) is closing out 2025 by highlighting major achievements made possible through sustained funding for higher education and strategic new investments that expand access, improve completion and strengthen high-demand career pipelines.
“Looking back on this year, we are proud to see another Read More
LANL Shares 10 Moments Of Community Connection In 2025
Los Alamos National Laboratory. Courtesy/LANL
LANL News:
- “Los Alamos National Laboratory a force for good through education, nonprofit giving, volunteerism”
At Los Alamos National Laboratory, we strive to be a force for good in the surrounding region, which includes the seven counties of Los Alamos, Mora, Rio Arriba, Sandoval, San Miguel, Santa Fe and Taos. This year, the Lab and its employees contributed to this endeavor through educational enrichment, philanthropy, volunteerism, safety and environmental stewardship.
Raising $2.7M for nonprofits, students and children through Read More
