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Details On Tonight’s Super Blood Wolf Moon Eclipse

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on January 20, 2019

Courtesy/NWS

Courtesy/NWS

LIVE SCIENCE News:

If you live in the continental United States, tonight (Jan. 20) is a great night to take a gander at the sky.

As the clock ticks toward midnight on the East Coast, the moon will become increasingly cloaked in red shadows in the longest lunar eclipse visible from North America for years.

This eclipse has been dubbed the Super Blood Wolf Moon eclipse.

The Wolf Moon is the traditional name for January’s full moon. “Blood” is for the vermilion hue that shades the moon during a lunar eclipse. And the “super” is there because this January’s full moon also happens Read More

New Mexico True Collaborates For National Park Gateway Communities

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on January 20, 2019
New Mexico True is collaborating for National Park Gateway Communities. Courtesy/MTD
 
NMTD News:
 
SANTA FE ― The New Mexico Tourism Department—in collaboration with the Department of Cultural Affairs and the Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department—launched a new campaign including a consumer webpage to minimize negative impact of the partial federal government shutdown to gateway communities.
 
New Mexico and its 15 National Park Service (NPS) units have been directly impacted by the partial shutdown. The tourism industry, specifically, has felt the effect,
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New Mexico Museums & Historic Sites Offering Free Admission To Furloughed Federal Employees & Their Families During Government Shutdown

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on January 20, 2019
Jemez Ruins at Jemez Historic Site, Jemez Springs. Courtesy photo
 
NMDCA News:
 
SANTA FE ― New Mexico’s state-run museums and historic sites are offering free admission to furloughed federal employees and their families during the government shutdown.
 
“New Mexico’s Department of Cultural Affairs is opening doors at all of our facilities to furloughed federal government workers and their families,” said Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA) Cabinet Secretary Debra Garcia y Griego. “Our goal is to support the furloughed worker.”
 
DCA will be offering free
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County Crews Getting Handle On Pothole Epidemic

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on January 19, 2019

Los Alamos County Traffic & Streets Division Manager Dan Erickson this morning on Trinity Drive getting a handle on the epidemic of potholes emerging around town following recent snow storms. Traffic and Streets Division crews are doing what they can to fill the potholes based on weather and availability of materials and labor. Photo by John McHale/ladailypost.com Read More

PEEC: Explore Age Of Earth And Lunar Eclipse

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on January 19, 2019
Rick Wallace talks at 2 p.m., Sunday at the nature center about the evening’s total lunar eclipse. Courtesy photo
 
PEEC News:
 
The Los Alamos Nature Center’s planetarium has something coming up everyday this weekend.
 
Discover how scientists measure the age of the Earth on Friday evening, watch the beautiful film “National Parks Adventure” Saturday afternoon and learn more about the total lunar eclipse Sunday afternoon before viewing it Sunday night.
 
At 7 p.m., Friday, Jan. 18, Galen Gisler will discuss the history of mankind’s speculations, ideas, theories and
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Scenes From FIRST LEGO League Robotics Event

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on January 19, 2019
FLL Team 146, The Quadrumaniacs, won the top award, The Champion’s Award at the 2018-2019 Los Alamos FIRST LEGO League Qualifying Tournament. Courtesy photo
 
FLL Jr. Teams cheer for a successful expo! Courtesy photo
 
ROBOTICS News:
 
LEGO robots congregated at Los Alamos Middle School Saturday, Dec. 8, 2018 for the local qualifying tournament for FIRST LEGO League (FLL).
 
Teams from Los Alamos, Santa Fe and Albuquerque competed for awards and met to share ideas, as is part of the “gracious professionalism” concept of FLL.
 
Local high school
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Rep. Gonzales Remarks On Taos Avalanche

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on January 19, 2019
Rep. Roberto Gonzales
 
NMDP News:
 
SANTA FE ― Thursday, an avalanche fell just before noon at Taos Ski Valley leaving one skier dead and one critically injured.
 
Rep. Roberto “Bobby” Gonzales (D-Ranchos de Taos) released the following statement:
 
“I am grateful to the ski patrol, first responders, and good Samaritans that responded instantly and without hesitation. Our community sends our thoughts, prayers, and will hold close the victims and families of those affected.”
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Scenes Of Snow Front Passing Through Los Alamos

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on January 18, 2019

Scene of the snow front that moved east through Los Alamos today as viewed around 8:45 a.m. from Western Area. The gray mass is not the Sangre de Cristos; it is the front itself, delineated from the blue sky above). Photo by Brint Perera

Scene of the snow front that moved east through Los Alamos today as viewed around 8:45 a.m. from Western Area. Photo by Brint Perera

Scene of the snow front that moved east through Los Alamos today as viewed around 8:45 a.m. from Western Area. Photo by Brint Perera

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On The Job In Los Alamos: Clearing Parking Lot Ice

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on January 18, 2019

On the job in Los Alamos Thursday afternoon is Eric Duran the maintenance man for Shannon Corporation clearing away a buildup of ice from the parking lot outside the Los Alamos Daily Post World Headquarters on Central Avenue. #worklosalamos #wherediscoveriesaremade. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com Read More

Professor Warns Legislators: Get Serious On Climate

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on January 18, 2019
By ANDREW OXFORD
Walk around the Capitol, and much of the talk is about an oil boom that is buoying the state’s finances, providing more money for schools and whatever else.
 
But for an hour on Thursday, a climate scientist urged one committee of legislators to look past all of that.
 
“The world will be moving away from fossil fuel production,” David Gutzler, a professor at the University of New Mexico and member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, told members of the House Energy, Environment and Natural Resources
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One Skier Dies, Second Critically Injured After Taos Ski Valley Avalanche … Resort Begins Investigation

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on January 18, 2019

Loved ones embrace Thursday as an avalanche victim is transported down the mountain behind them at Taos Ski Valley. Photo by Morgan Timms/The Taos News

By JOHN MILLER
jmiller@taosnews.com

Updated Jan. 17 at 10:14 p.m.

One man has died, and another remained hospitalized with critical injuries Thursday night after an avalanche near Kachina Peak in Taos Ski Valley.

Holy Cross Hospital CEO Bill Patten confirmed that one of the men who was treated at their facility in Taos had died just before 5 p.m. of his injuries.

Officials had not released the identity of either victim as of late Thursday night. Read More

NWS: Today’s High Near 37; 80% Chance Of Snow

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on January 18, 2019
The National Weather Service forecasts a high today in Los Alamos of near 37 and an 80 percent chance of snow showers mainly before 11 a.m. with a total daytime snow accumulation of around an inch possible. Tonight’s low is predicted to reach around 16 degrees. Courtesy/NWS
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Major Pothole Spotted On East Road Near Airport

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on January 17, 2019

Motorists are urged to keep alert and on the lookout for potholes emerging throughout the county like this large one spotted this afternoon on East Road just west of the Los Alamos County Airport. County road crews are patching the potholes as weather permits. We encourage residents to send us their pothole photos so we can publish them to let others know the locations: caclark@ladailypost.com. Photo by Bonnie J.Gordon/ladailypost.com Read More

Caution: Potholes Emerging Following Winter Storms

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on January 17, 2019

COUNTY News:

Los Alamos County Traffic & Streets Division staff would like to remind motorists to be on the look out for potholes that are developing in the days following several back to back winter storms.

As snow begins to melt off of roadways, the potholes are exposed in the pavement.

“Until the hot mix plant re-opens this Spring, and we see much warmer temperatures return that are needed for the hot mix to be an effective patch, we are going to continue to be in a reactive mode to fix only the worst potholes with a temporary solution,” said Dan Erickson, Traffic and Streets Division manager. Read More

Avalanche Buries Two People Near Taos Ski Valley’s Kachina Peak

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on January 17, 2019
An ‘inbounds avalanche’ occurred in chute four on Taos Ski Valley’s Kachina Peak just before noon today, burying at least two people near the base of the run. Members of Taos Ski Valley Ski Patrol and other first responders searching the snow extracted two skiers just before 1 p.m. and performed CPR on them, but are uncertain if anyone else may have been buried in the slide. Photo by Morgan Timms/The Taos News
 
By 12:40 p.m. today, rescuers had pulled out a second person who had been buried by the avalanche near Kachina Peak. Photo by Morgan Timms/The Taos News
 

By JOHN

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