St. Cyr: Celebrating The Best Father In The World
By PETER ST. CYR
For Pete’s Sake
© 2023 New Mexico News Services
This Sunday, like millions of Americans, I will celebrate Father’s Day.
I will cherish the memory of my adoptive father’s life and the impact his love had on my wellbeing.
His active engagement in my life positively influenced my social development, helped me achieve academically and steered my moral growth from childhood into adulthood.
I was blessed when my adoptive parents rescued me from a Catholic orphanage for special needs children six months after I was born with a hole in my heart. It was a dangerous physical ailment that had Read More
Home Country: Squash Bug Stomping
Home Country
By SLIM RANDLES
Dud was heading home in his pickup truck when he saw the strange goings-on at the Bahdziewicz place. Abraham Lincoln Bahdziewicz was out in the family’s large garden with a full complement of kids who were happily hopping around. Some of the kids came from the neighborhood, but most of them were homegrown Bahdziewicz kids.
The Bahdziewicz family had a great garden and went at the whole thing scientifically and in great fun, because this is one family that runs short on cash but long on kids.
Dud pulled over and watched for a minute as Abe laughingly directed the family dancers Read More
Weekly Fishing Report: June 13, 2023
By GEORGE MORSE
Sports And Outdoors
Los Alamos Daily Post
Fishing conditions have changed only a little since last week. Streams and rivers continue to run high and above normal.
They are slowly dropping and once they clear it should be prime fishing. Expect a lot of big fish to be caught this season.
Fenton Lake State Park is open for camping. Lake is open 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Camping by reservation only. It is heavily-stocked with rainbow trout. It also has some wild brown trout and some Rio Grande cutthroat trout from earlier stockings. It was stocked June 1 with 952 rainbow trout. Only two cutthroat trout Read More
Dannemann: Tragedies Continue At CYFD
By MERILEE DANNEMANN
Triple Spaced Again
© 2023 New Mexico News Services
How has New Mexico’s Children, Youth and Families Department (CYFD) gotten it so tragically wrong so many times? Don’t you wonder?
A recent special report by KOAT television highlighted the story of 4-year-old James Dunklee Cruz, beaten to death by his mother’s male roommate after numerous previous incidents had been documented. He had been sent back to his mother’s home by CYFD multiple times, even though there were loving relatives who wanted to take him. Those who speak for CYFD have not answered the simple question: Read More
Posts From The Road: Highlights Of Historic Route 66 In Albuquerque
Route 66 Sign: A beautifully lit neon sign spans Central Avenue NW welcoming travelers to Route 66 in Albuquerque. Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com
Tewa Lodge: The Tewa Motor Lodge at 5715 Central NE opened in 1946 and features Pueblo Revival style of architecture and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. This is one of many motels along Historic Route 66 in Albuquerque. Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com
By GARY WARREN
Photographer
Formerly of Los Alamos
Route 66, The Mother Road, The Main Street of America and now Historic Route 66 is the iconic highway route that opened Read More
Fr. Glenn: Law? What Law?
By Fr. Glenn Jones:
It’s always rather an adventure driving between Albuquerque and Santa Fe, especially on weekdays when commuter traffic is particularly heavy–cars flying past the poor slob who obeys the speed limit, often receiving for his lawfulness a one-fingered wave in thanks (“Oh, how awful; the fingers on each side of that middle one have been amputated! Poor fellow.”) And, of course, there are far too few resources for police to enforce speed limits strictly, so many go rocketing on their merry Doppler-shifting speeds fearlessly and virtually unhindered. (BTW, a favorite red bumper Read More
Background To The Movie ‘Oppenheimer’ Chapter 2: The Los Alamos Ranch School
The center section of Fuller Lodge was built for the Los Alamos Ranch School in the late 1920s. The wings on the structure were added after World War II. Photo by Chris Judson
By CHRIS JUDSON
Presented by the Los Alamos Historical Society and Team Oppie
Historical Background: Chapter 2, The Los Alamos Ranch School
In 1917, Ashley Pond Jr. founded a school for boys on the Pajarito Plateau. The Los Alamos Ranch School would become a prep school where students not only received a fine academic education but also spent time outdoors to become strong and well-rounded young men ready to take on the responsibilities Read More
