Benson: A Meditation For Women Too Busy For Christmas
By JODY BENSON
Los Alamos
“I’m sick of Christmas,” my friend said. “Every year it’s the same thing. Shopping, baking, writing cards, addressing envelopes, more shopping, decorating, entertaining, cooking the Christmas dinner…. The kids and grandkids always come to mom’s or grandma’s house for their Christmases. I have to do everything. It’s not like I’m the only one there—after all, I’m married. But does HE ever help? No. All he does is come home and enjoy the place. He thinks he’s done enough if he has to pull out his credit card.”
“It’s been the same since Christmas began,” I agreed theologically. Read More
Hampton: Transportation Board Dec. 5 Meeting Update
By DAVID HAMPTON
Chair
Los Alamos County Transportation Board
At our last Transportation Board meeting, Dec. 5, we received a presentation and took public comments on the N.M. 4 Crossing and Multi-Use Trail Improvement Project. While there was general agreement with the HAWK signal crossing and the multi-use trail in and around Pinon Park, T-Board and the public had mixed opinions about the proposed westbound lane reduction and portions of the multi-use trail on the Mirador side, north of N.M. 4. More public meetings will be held in 2025 as the design progresses.
HAWK signals operate in a YELLOW–RED–FLASHING Read More
Catch Of The Week: Sketchy Facebook Ads
By REBECCA RUTHERFORD
Los Alamos
For the Los Alamos Daily Post
Sometimes it seems like I see more ads than posts from my actual friends on Facebook. And god forbid I accidentally linger on any one ad too long, guarantee you I will see nothing but ads for that kind of thing for the next week straight (let’s not talk about that charcuterie board ad).
But did you know that some ads are not just annoying, but straight up scams that can steal your money or personal info, or maybe even infect your computer with a virus? Best thing you can do is ignore them!
I got an ad for this, looks kind of fun right, but doesn’t something Read More
Gibson: Home Energy Conversion Is Not New
By ROBERT GIBSON
Chair
Los Alamos County Board of Public Utilities
My family travelled frequently to my grandparent’s Ohio farm while I was growing up. On colder mornings and evenings, my grandfather would descend to the cellar to shovel coal into the furnace. Quaint though that may seem today, more than half the space heating in the U.S was coal until after WW II. (Much heat in wartime Los Alamos was coal, too.) Stoking a coal furnace was a dirty and physical job. That farmhouse was converted to oil heat in the 1960s.
That was not its first conversion, either. Built in the mid-1800s, it originally Read More
County Parks & Recreation Board November 2024 Update
By JAMES WERNICKE
Parks and Recreation Board
At the November Parks and Recreation Board meeting, Chamisa Elementary Art Teacher Andrea Lynch presented skateboard decks painted by students as appreciation for the new White Rock skatepark which completed construction in September, highlighting a successful collaboration between County staff, contractors, and the public.
The board discussed plans for the 2025 work plan, updates and corrections to the Community Services Division website recommended by the Equine & Livestock Working Group, updates on the Open Space Management Plan Read More
Denish: Presidential Pardons Through History Have Been Messy
By DIANE DENISH
Corner to Corner
© 2024 New Mexico News Services
Note to mainstream media, Republicans, Democrats, Independents, and sanctimonious opinion writers, TV pundits and elected officials: SPARE ME THE OUTRAGE ABOUT THE HUNTER BIDEN PARDON. Think about how you would protect your child from continued threatened prosecution or, put another way, how would you give your child a second chance for taking accountability and reversing course in a life that had unraveled?
It’s fair to be disappointed that President Biden changed his mind and decided to do something he said he wouldn’t do. Read More
Weekly Fishing Report: Dec. 9, 2024
By GEORGE MORSE
Sports and Outdoors
Los Alamos Daily Post
It appears that the weather has, as expected, entered into a La Niña pattern. Storms coming in from the Pacific Ocean tend to stay to the North of New Mexico. We miss out on much of the moisture. We end up getting wind and cold air.
The Fishing Report will be shorter from now until springtime because many of the streams and lakes are now inaccessible due to winter weather conditions.
Anglers who would still like to fish open water for trout and other species should consider a trip to Southern New Mexico
Most of the small lakes and reservoirs Read More
