Travel: Giverny Is All About Monet
Claude Monet. Photo by Debbie Stone
Famed Japanese Bridge. Photo by Debbie Stone
By DEBBIE STONE
Santa Fe
For the Los Alamos Daily Post
It wasn’t enough for me to stare in awe and drink in the beauty of Claude Monet’s ravishing paintings of water lilies in Paris’ wonderful Musee de l’Orangerie – which by the way, is a must visit attraction for art lovers in the City of Lights. I needed to make the trip to Giverny, where the renowned Impressionist had lived and worked, and created over 250 paintings of said water lilies in his garden.
Widely regarded as the poster boy for Impressionism, Monet strived to Read More
County Assessor: Amendments To New Mexico Constitution
By GEORGE CHANDLER
Los Alamos County Assessor
In the November election just passed, the voters approved two amendments to the New Mexico Constitution that changed the property tax benefits available to New Mexico veterans.
We have received the following guidance from the Property Tax Division of the Department of Finance Administration regarding the implementation of these amendments:
“… [an increase in] the Veteran’s property tax exemption for honorably discharged members of the armed forces and their widows and widowers from $4,000 to $10,000. The amount after 2024 will then be adjusted Read More
Pongratz: Need Help Helping Our Schools?
By MORRIE PONGRATZ
LAPS Foundation Board Member
As Giving Tuesday approaches you may be wondering how to best help Los Alamos Public Schools. If you moved here to work at LANL, you may not know that Los Alamos Public Schools (LAPS) is at the 33.6th percentile for per-pupil spending compared to the national distribution. This means that LAPS spends more per student than about 33.6% of school districts nationwide but less than the remaining 66.4%!
The Los Alamos Public Schools Foundation was established in 2005 to enable folks to address this disparity through personal, tax-deductible contributions. Read More
Fr. Glenn: Beginning At The End
By Fr. Glenn Jones:
I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving! After the hectic beginning of another school year, coupled with the cooler weather, it’s always a favorite holiday as we begin to slide into the winter season and the dreariness which often accompanies it. However, of course, now we look forward to December and the joys of the Christmas season and its gatherings and holidays before the real depths of winter begin.
But before we get into Christmas, we traverse the Christian Advent season—this year beginning on December 1. Advent is a time of anticipation for celebration of the remembrance Read More
Posts From The Road: Texas Highway 207
Highway and Canyon View: Texas Highway 207 weaves its way through the rugged landscape of Palo Duro Canyon in the Texas Panhandle. This route allows travelers a view of the mid-section of the canyon which is privately owned ranch land. The canyon stretches for more than 100 miles and varies in width from six to 20 miles wide. The depth of Palo Duro Canyon varies but is about 800-1,000 feet deep in most areas. Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com
Palo Duro Canyon: A rest area and view point on the southern side of Palo Duro Canyon gives viewers a nice wide view of the canyon and the north rim in the distance. Read More
NM Wildlife Federation: 2025 Legislative Session Priorities
JESSE W. DEUBEL
Executive Director
New Mexico Wildlife Federation
It’s hard to believe that 2024 is about to end. It seems like we just wrapped up the 2024 legislative session and now we are only six weeks away from starting the 2025 session.
The New Mexico Wildlife Federation (NMWF) will be working on some very important wildlife-related bills this year.
Our priorities this session include the following:
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- Reforming the structure of the NM State Game Commission;
- Securing a substantial appropriation to fund the implementation of NM’s Wildlife Corridors Action Plan;
- Expanding the state’s
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All Shall Be Well: Advent A Time To Seek Light In The Darkness
Clergy from left, Deacon Amy Schmuck, The Rev. Lynn Finnegan, The Rev. Mary Ann Hill, Pastor Nicolé Raddu Ferry and Deacon Cynthia Biddlecomb, retired. Photo by Nate Limback/ladailypost.com
By DEACON AMY SCHMUCK
Bethlehem Evangelical Lutheran Church
I grew up in a secular home, that is to say, we did not practice faith in any way, and my limited knowledge of God and Christian faith and Jesus and prayer came solely from my paternal grandmother, an Irish Catholic “Granny” who taught me the Lord’s prayer, and the bedtime prayer for children, “Now I lay me down to sleep…” and she told me Jesus lived Read More
