Best Bear Sighting Yet
Aspen Elementary School student Athena Preston’s mother, Annette Preston always comes up with the most impressive hairstyles for Crazy Hair Day. Photo by Daniel Preston Read More
PEEC Organizes Natural Arch Hike Oct. 8
Natural Arch. Photo by Chris SwansonChick Keller To Lead Final Wildflower Walk Of 2017
Wildflower expert Chick Keller leads the last wildflower walk of the season Oct. 2. Photo by Thomas Graves PhotographyOutdoor Nature Loom Project And Workshop Oct. 4
A Nature Loom created from sticks and leaves that caught the artist’s interest. Photo by Liz MartineauAn eight-foot tall Nature Loom will be added Oct. 4 to the Los Alamos Nature Center’s outdoor nature play area.
PAC 8: Students Create Suicide Prevention Videos
Students at PAC 8 create three suicide prevention videos with the help of a grant from 100+ Women Who Care. Courtesy/PAC 8
A 100+ Women Who Care grant helps students at PAC 8 create three suicide prevention videos. Courtesy/PAC 8
PAC 8 News:
Students at PAC 8 have created three suicide prevention videos with the help of a grant from 100+ Women Who Care.
The videos have been playing at the Reel Deal Theater and on PAC 8. PAC 8 teachers helped students learn how to write a script, work with cameras, act and edit.
The first PSA focused on the warning signs of a suicidal person: https://www.youtube.com/watch? Read More
LAFD Bike Team Demonstrates Safety To Girl Scouts
The Los Alamos County Fire Department Bike Team over the weekend discuss and demonstrate bicycle safety with local Girl Scouts. Courtesy photo
Los Alamos County Fire Department Bike Team discuss and demonstrate bicycle safety with local Girl Scouts. Courtesy photo
Los Alamos County Fire Department Bike Team discuss and demonstrate bicycle safety with local Girl Scouts. Courtesy photo
Los Alamos County Fire Department Bike Team discuss and demonstrate bicycle safety with local Girl Scouts. Courtesy photo
Los Alamos County Fire Department Bike Team discuss and demonstrate bicycle safety Read More
PEEC: Los Luceros Birding Trip Oct. 7
The Rio Grande at Los Luceros. Courtesy/PEEC
PEEC News:
The Pajarito Environmental Education Center is offering a special opportunity Saturday, Oct. 7 to go birding at New Mexico Historic Site Los Luceros.
The trip will be led by expert birder Joe Fitzgibbon, and is $10 per person for PEEC members and $12 per person for all others. This birding trip is limited to 12 participants, and expected to fill quickly.
Los Luceros is a local gem of the New Mexico Historic Sites, and was once nominated as an Audubon Important Bird Area (IBA). More than 150 bird species have been seen at Los Luceros, though it Read More
Study: New Mexico 8th Worst State For Teachers
WALLETHUB News:In order to help educators find the best opportunities and teaching environments in the U.S., WalletHub analyzed the 50 states and the District of Columbia across 21 key metrics, ranging from teachers’ income growth potential to pupil-teacher ratio to teacher
Daily Postcard: Double Rainbow Over LAHS
Daily Postcard: A double rainbow appears Saturday over Los Alamos High School. Photo by Amy Casson Read More
PEEC Brings New Film To Planetarium
Letter To The Editor: Changes To New Mexico STEM-Ready Science Standards
By ELENA E. GIORGIToday Is Native Women’s Equal Pay Day
AAUW News:
Native Women Have to Work 9 Extra Months to Make the Same Salary as White Men Made Last Year
Editor’s note: This post was originally written by Elizabeth Bolton in 2015 and updated in 2017 by Senior Researcher Kevin Miller, Ph.D.
Stop us if you’ve heard this one before: There’s a pay gap between women and men, and that gap is widest on average for Latinas, black women, and Native women. In fact, American Indian and Alaska Native women are paid just 57 cents for every dollar white men are paid. For Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander women, that number is 59 cents.
Today, Sept. Read More
Scenes From Lucky Ducky Carnival At FSN
Saturday was the annual Luckey Ducky Day at Los Alamos Family Strengths Network on Orange Street. The fundraiser attracted hordes of kids and their grownups for a day of funfilled activities. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
Scenes from Lucky Ducky Day. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
Scenes from Lucky Ducky Day. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
Scenes from Lucky Ducky Day. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
Scenes from Lucky Ducky Day. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
Scenes from Lucky Ducky Day. PhotoUWNNM Board Conducts Site Visit At FSN
United Way of Northern New Mexico Board members conducted a site visit Sept. 12 at the Family Strengths Network at 3540 Orange St., which receives United Way funding. From left, UWNNM Executive Director Kristy Ortega, UWNNM Treasurer Dr. Cindy Rooney, FSN Executive Director Carie Fanning and UWNNM board member David Trujillo. FSN is a private, non-profit organization that has served the families of Los Alamos and Northern New Mexico since 1989 through its Family Resource Center and programs. FSN’s mission is to provide education, support groups and activities to all types Read More
LAHS Homecoming Festivities Begin Monday
LAHS News:
Los Alamos High School Homecoming festivities begin Monday, Sept. 25 and continue through Saturday, Sept. 30 this year.
Monday, Sept. 25
- Powder Puff Football Game
- Longstanding tradition where senior girls play football.
- Football players coach and officiate the game.
- 7 p.m. (after JV Football game)
- Sullivan Field
Tuesday, Sept. 26
- Billy Bob Volleyball Game
- Longstanding tradition where senior boys play volleyball.
- Volleyball players coach and officiate the game.
- 6:30 p.m.
- Griffith Gym
Thursday, Sept. 28
- Bonfire
- 8-9:30 p.m.
- Sullivan Field Parking Lot
- LAHS Marching Band,
Bear Wanders Near Los Alamos High School
STAFF REPORT
Los Alamos High School (LAHS) activated a shelter-in-place Monday after a bear was spotted in the vicinity of the school’s campus.
The shelter-in-place lasted approximately 15 minutes, LAHS Principal Carter Payne said. During the shelter-in-place, students stayed in the classrooms and instruction continued; however, the doors and windows were closed, he said.
Payne added there was no interaction between people and the bear. He said the School Resource Officer called Animal Control.
This is not the first time wildlife has wondered on the school campus, resulting Read More
Northern New Mexico College Professor Dr. Ulises Ricoy Receives Grant To Support Undergraduate Research
Dr. Ulises Ricoy and NNMC student Maria Orozoco. Courtesy/NNMC
NNMC News:
Dr. Ulises Ricoy, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and Associate Professor of Biology at Northern New Mexico College, has received a $20,000 grant from BUILDing SCHOLARS at the University of Texas, El Paso, to support undergraduate research for Northern students.
BUILDing SCHOLARS is a National Institutes of Health supported center dedicated to increase the diversity of students participating in biomedical research training and maximize opportunities for faculty and staff development.
The grant will Read More
Night Sky Observation In Valles Caldera Sept. 23
The Milky Way over the Jemez River. Photo by Jim SteinAuthor And National Speaker Sonja Corbitt Discusses Upcoming Spiritual Retreat For Women
Sonja Corbitt is the featured speaker at a special spiritual retreat designed just for women Saturday, Oct. 14 at IHM. Courtesy photo
During a recent interview from her home in Tennessee, popular Catholic author and speaker Sonja Corbitt discusses her upcoming spiritual retreat in Los Alamos designed just for women.
Corbitt is the author of several books. She explained that the upcoming retreat will focus on topics taken from two of her books, “Unleashed: How to receive everything the Holy Spirit wants to give you” and Read More
