Houck: Retirement Series – Downsizing For Retirement … A Guide To Getting Started 4 Of 5
By DAVID HOUCK
Qualifying Broker
Atomic Realty LLC
Downsizing in preparation for retirement is a big step. It takes planning, effort, time—and often, money. If you’ve made the decision to move and downsize, the next question is: where do you begin?
The downsizing process isn’t simple, but it is a process and it is manageable. In fact, there are professionals whose entire careers are built around helping others navigate this exact transition.
Step One: Be Realistic
- Start by taking an honest inventory of your home. Identify what’s essential—items you use regularly or truly love. If something
McQuiston: What Is A Smart Alarm System And Why Should I Consider One?
By ALLEN MCQUISTON
Jemez Insurance Agency
Serving Los Alamos Since 1963
What is a smart alarm system?
As recently as 10 years ago, consumers did not have access to technology that let them manage their own home security systems. Smart alarm systems changed that. Originally, traditional security systems were hardwired into the home and monitored by a central station, usually a home alarm company. The customer paid monthly fees.
Fast-forward to today and consumers have smartphones, home networks and wireless technology – all of which the smart alarm system can utilize. People can buy door sensors Read More
Catch Of The Week: Kidnapping Scam Calls
By BECKY RUTHERFORD
Los Alamos
Imagine it’s a regular day, you’re at work, and then your phone rings, it’s an unknown caller but you pick up anyways. You hear a voice yell “MOM!!” and then silence, then scuffling sounds, and another person comes on the line. “Ms. Rutherford, I’ve got your son, and you better get here, I’m going to kill him.” You panic, was that really your son’s voice? It happened so fast, it was hard to tell. You ask to speak to your son, but then the voice says “You already heard his voice, and if you don’t act now he’s going to be dead, understand? Unless you do exactly what we tell you to Read More
Mason: Unified Focus On Traffic Safety Is Essential
By Director Thom Mason
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Los Alamos National Laboratory supports Los Alamos County’s recent efforts to control speeding and enforce traffic safety through an ordinance approved last week to install automated speed cameras in various locations around the county. The ordinance complements efforts taken by the Laboratory in recent months to further promote safer driving on and around Lab property. The Laboratory has installed mobile speed cameras around the site, utilized GPS systems in government vehicles that track speed, seatbelt usage, and location of Read More
Snyder: Pages Of Our History…
A collage of documents and photos of Aldo Leopold. Courtesy/Aldo Leopold Foundation
By SHARON SNYDER
Los Alamos
In regard to the recent discussions concerning artist Jeff Segler’s painting of boys in uniforms and on horseback on the Pajarito Plateau, it seems appropriate to begin a series about the Los Alamos Ranch School boys and what they accomplished after leaving the plateau that was their home for a time.
For my readers who have read Aldo Leopold’s Sand County Almanac, you appreciate the man who wrote that book and the pages that carry his belief in a land ethic — “A thing is right when it tends Read More
Libby Nolen: Thank You Los Alamos!
By LIBBY NOLEN
Los Alamos
I wrote a letter to the editor a few weeks ago talking about the struggles that teenagers face in Los Alamos (link). I did not expect the response that I got. I truly thought that it would be another one of those Op/Eds of a person complaining about something that no one listened to. However, I was proven wrong. Los Alamos, you listened. And I really appreciate that.
The response to my letter has been mostly positive, and to those people, I say thank you for sharing your past experiences with me. It really makes me feel seen to know that my generation is not the only one struggling Read More
Weekly Fishing Report: April 15, 2025
By GEORGE MORSE
Sports and Outdoors
Los Alamos Daily Post
This last week saw unseasonably warm temperatures with several cities throughout the state setting records for daily high temperatures, including Santa Fe and Albuquerque. It was a toasty 97 degrees in Roswell.
Streamflows around the state showed some dramatic increases due to melting snow.
However, streamflow in the Rio Grande is low. The streamflow at Cerro near the Colorado border was just 117 cubic-feet-per second. This indicates that they are already irrigating crops in Colorado’s San Luis Valley.
New Mexico’s snowpack remains Read More
