Weekly Fishing Report: July 3, 2024
By GEORGE MORSE
Sports and Outdoors
Los Alamos Daily Post
There has been extensive flooding in the Las Vegas area, especially along the Gallinas River. It is best to avoid this area as crews clean up after the floods.
Recent rainfall has changed conditions on several rivers. The Pecos River and the Jemez River are running much higher than last week. Streamflows are above normal for this time of year.
Lakes and reservoirs are starting to warm up. Early mornings and evenings will soon be the best times to be out on the water.
The format has changed a bit, and the focus will be on waters close to Los Alamos Read More
Los Alamos County Health: Reaching Out To The Community
By LORI PADILLA
Chair
Los Alamos County Health Council
Health Connection:
Back in April, Los Alamos Daily Post reporter Kirsten Laskey wrote a very detailed piece on the presentation Social Services Manager Jessica Strong gave on preliminary results and short-term recommendations identified in the interim Los Alamos County Comprehensive Health Plan. (https://ladptest2.ortizaudio.net/los-alamos-county-comprehensive-health-plan-update-identifies-challenges-and-offers-short-term-solutions/).
The actual presentation can be found at the following link under the Read More
Wernicke: Parks & Recreation Board Update For June 2024
The bottom of Ranch School Trail after an early June rainstorm. Courtesy photo
By James Wernicke
Chair
Los Alamos Parks and Recreation Board
Here are the June Parks and Recreation Board (PRB) meeting highlights:
Public Comment on Aquatic Center Maintenance
We first heard public concerns that conducting aquatic center maintenance from September to April could negatively impact swim teams and other users. While contractor availability will play a role in scheduling, the PRB is committed to working with the Community Services Department (CSD) to minimize disruptions. Public comments Read More
Life After 50: Basal Cell Carcinoma
Courtesy photo
By BERNADETTE LAURITZEN
Los Alamos
I read the words, before I heard them. I know what the last word means, yet I googled it the second I read it. I do wait for the time when someone might say, “it’s just skin cancer,” unsure if my response would be surly.
I do believe that if you learn a lesson, you should share it to save someone from learning it the hard way.
I’m not sure we ever bought sunscreen as a child … it would have been a rare luxury. If we did it was the white kind you put on your nose and it never rubbed into the skin, like diaper cream. Oh, did I mention that until I moved to New Mexico 30 years Read More
Powell: Let’s Honor Our Ranch School History
By IRENE POWELL
Concerned Citizens for the Segler Painting
Los Alamos
Several concerned community members attended the Art in Public Places Advisory Board (APPAB) meeting Thursday night to support the County’s acquisition of The Boys of the Pajarito Plateau, a painting by renowned artist Jeff Segler depicting three young men on horseback during the Los Alamos Ranch School (LARSO) era.
Mr. Segler, formerly of Los Alamos, was also in attendance. Six of us spoke during public comment urging the APPAB to vote to advise the County Council to purchase the painting.
After a great deal of discussion, Read More
Maupin: Santa Fe Association Of REALTORS® To Comply With National Class-Action Lawsuit Settlement
By RYAN MAUPIN
REALTOR®
The Maupin Group at RE/MAX First
Greetings, Los Alamos!
I wanted to get the word out to our community that we’re about to enter a new era of real estate and to help you prepare for some big changes on the horizon.
Beginning July 10, 2024, our local Santa Fe Association of REALTORS® (SFAR) will begin complying with the terms of the recent National Association of REALTORS® (NAR) class-action lawsuit settlement (“The Settlement”). NAR has required all local associations who opted into The Settlement to be in full compliance prior to NAR’s final implementation date of Aug. 17, Read More
Dannemann: Let’s Get Bold About Fixing Education
By MERILEE DANNEMANN
Triple Spaced Again
© 2024 New Mexico News Services
The most overused word in the recent primary was “bold”. Candidates were claiming they had bold solutions for New Mexico’s myriad problems and failings.
Then we got the Kids Count report, reminding us that New Mexico is again 50 out of 50 in children’s wellbeing.
The bare statistics in that report show that New Mexico children’s literacy rate is much worse than the poverty rate. We have 23% of New Mexico children in poverty, almost 50% higher than the national average of 16%. But the rate of fourth graders who cannot read proficiently Read More
