EMNRD: $70 Million Available For Projects That Modernize New Mexico’s Grid
Director Rebecca “Puck” Stair
NM State Energy Office
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SANTA FE – The New Mexico Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department (EMNRD) is now accepting grant applications from public entities that can demonstrate how new technologies can be harnessed to develop a reliable, modern electric grid.
The grant funding comes from the Community Benefits Fund the State Legislature created during its 2025 legislative session. The legislature allocated $70 million from the Community Benefit Read More
Posts From The Road: Mickey Mantle’s Boyhood Home Along Route 66 In Oklahoma
Boyhood Home: The modest white wood-sided house at 319 S. Quincy Street in Commerce, Okla., is where Mickey Mantle spent his early years from age three until he signed a pro baseball contract after high school. Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com
Mantle Homestead: The Mantle homestead included the house and a tin garage or barn on the side of the property. The open grassy lawn between the two structures is where Mickey Mantle spent every afternoon practicing his hitting skills. His father and grandfather served as his pitchers. Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com
By GARY WARREN
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Scenes From Special Reception Recognizing Enterprise Bank & Trust For $500,000 Donation To Los Alamos Historical Society For Oppenheimer House Renovation
Enterprise Bank & Trust President and Chief Executive Officer Jim Lally addresses guests gathered for a special event on Thursday at Historic Fuller Lodge, recognizing the generosity of Enterprise and its $500,000 donation to the Los Alamos Historical Society to support the renovation of the Oppenheimer House. ‘Today is a very special day … marking the continuation of a great relationship between Enterprise Bank & Trust and the Los Alamos Community,” Lally said. “You see, just over eight years ago, our company came to Los Alamos to partner with LANB and what attracted us to Read More
Fr. Glenn: The Freedom Of Restraint
By Fr. Glenn Jones:
When you watch the fiction of television, you’ll often see portrayals of freedom as being unrestrained license to do anything that passions impel you to do at the moment. Sadly, often tragically, things don’t tend to turn out well when you do that—either for yourself or for those around you. TV is, after all, fiction. How much pain has been doled out because we don’t restrain ourselves when we give in to temptations moving us to do things which are wrong—the tearing apart of families, destruction of financial security, health problems, feuds, and even murder, etc.
Freedom, according Read More
SFCC Respiratory Care Open Houses Begin Oct. 30
Respiratory Care student in the simulation lab. Courtesy/SFCC
SFCC News:
Applications are open through Dec. 12 for the Respiratory Care program for the Spring 2026 term
SANTA FE – Santa Fe Community College (SFCC) announces that the Respiratory Care program will host several open houses on Oct. 30, Nov. 17 and Dec. 3.
The Respiratory Care open houses offer prospective students the opportunity to visit the college’s state-of-the-art simulation labs, meet the Respiratory Care faculty and staff, and ask questions about the program. Prospective students can choose from a selection Read More
DPU Highlights Medical Equipment Alert Registry
DPU reminds residents who rely on electrically powered, life-sustaining medical equipment to register for the Medical Equipment Alert Program. Courtesy/LAC
COUNTY News:
As part of Public Power Week, the Los Alamos County Department of Public Utilities (DPU) is reminding residents who rely on electrically powered, life-sustaining medical equipment to register for the department’s Medical Equipment Alert Program.
This voluntary registry allows DPU to identify customers with special notification needs in the event of planned power outages. Registered participants receive special Read More
Elk Graze Beneath Fall Colors Near Valles Caldera
Elk graze beneath fall colors Friday near Valles Caldera National Preserve. Photo by Lauren Hughes Read More
Los Alamos County Offices & Services To Close Or Modify Hours In Observance Of Indigenous Peoples Day Monday
COUNTY News:
In observance of Indigenous Peoples Day, some Los Alamos County government offices and services will close or have modified hours Monday, Oct. 13.
The County’s administrative offices, Atomic City Transit fixed bus routes, and the Environmental Services division are closed on Monday.
In addition, the following facilities will close or have modified hours:
- Camp May Road – Open through 7 p.m. Sunday Oct. 12.
- White Rock and Mesa libraries – Open 1-5 p.m.
- Aquatic Center – Open 1-4 p.m.
- Los Alamos County Ice Rink – Closed
- Golf Course and Golf Shop – The Golf Shop and Driving Range
Friends Of New Mexico History Museum Presents First Wednesday Lecture ‘The Albuquerque Indian School: Two Sides Of A Coin’
Graduate Juanita Papuyo (Isleta Pueblo) and immediate family, Albuquerque Indian School, 1937. Courtesy/Family photo – Ted Jojola
New Mexico History Museum News:
Coming in November, the Friends of History of the New Mexico History Museum presents its FIRST WEDNESDAY lecture, “The Albuquerque Indian School: Two Sides of a Coin”, Wednesday, Nov. 5.
Presented by Dr. Theodore S. Jojola (Isleta), founder and director of the Indigenous Design + Planning Institute at The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.
This lecture is presented free on YouTube by Friends of History: https://tinyurl.com/t534ehdn Read More
Environmental Sustainability Board To Meet Oct. 16
COUNTY News:Daily Postcard: Is That Really The Milky Way Above East Gate Guard Tower!?
Daily Postcard: Not really … it is a photo of the Milky Way taken last summer in Show Low, Ariz., artistically superimposed above a shot of the East Gate Guard Tower taken in September. Also known as the Los Alamos Fire Lookout, the East Gate Guard Tower, in place since 1948, has played a key role in monitoring both security threats and forest fires in and around Los Alamos. Recently renovated, the tower today welcomes visitors to town as a National Historic Lookout and reminder of the Manhattan Project era. Photo by Steve Bublitz Read More
LWV Lunch With A Leader: Danielle Prokop Oct. 16
Danielle Prokop
LWV News:
This month’s League of Women Voters of Los Alamos (LWV) community event, Lunch with a Leader, is 11:45 a.m. to 1 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 16, at the Unitarian Fellowship Hall on Sage Street. This month’s speaker is award-winning journalist Danielle Prokop.
Prokop was born and raised in Los Alamos. While pursuing international studies at the University of New Mexico, she got her first taste for print at the Daily Lobo, and hasn’t stopped since. After graduation, she worked at the Santa Fe New Mexican, first on the copy desk and eventually on general assignment.
In 2020, Prokop Read More
NMAA’s JP Murrieta Visits LAHS Sports Lit Students & Films Gametime Segment With Topper Girls Cross Country
New Mexico Activities Association (NMAA) Sports Information Director JP Murrieta speaking to teacher Lori Thompson’s Sports Lit students Thursday at Los Alamos High School. Photo By John McHale/ladailypost.com
NMAA Sports Information Director JP Murrieta filming a segment of Gametime with the Topper Girls Cross Country Team Thursday in Griffith Gymnasium. Photo by John McHale/ladailypost.com Read More
Chamber, MainStreet, LACDC To Close Monday Oct. 13 In Observance Of Indigenous Peoples’ Day
CHAMBER News:
The Los Alamos Chamber of Commerce, MainStreet, and Los Alamos Commerce & Development Corporation (LACDC) will be closed Monday, Oct. 13, in observance of Indigenous Peoples’ Day.
The organizations are scheduled to reopen at 9 a.m. Tuesday.
Editor’s note: Indigenous Peoples’ Day is an official city and state holiday in various localities in the United States that celebrates and honors Indigenous American peoples and commemorates their histories and cultures. It is celebrated on the second Monday in October. Source: Wikipedia Read More
Black Mesa Brass Quintet Fall Concert Oct. 17
Nobel Peace Prize 2025: Maria Corina Machado
Maria Corina Machado
Nobel Peace Prize 2025
Born: 1967, Venezuela
Residence at the time of the award: Venezuela
Prize motivation: “for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy”.
Ill. Niklas Elmehed © Nobel Prize Outreach
From The Norwegian Nobel Committee:
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has announced its decision to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2025 to Maria Corina Machado of Venezuela:
The Nobel Peace Prize for 2025 goes to a brave and committed champion of peace Read More
State Of New Mexico Opens Mexico City Office To Boost Trade And Tourism
Representatives from the state of New Mexico and Mexico cut the ribbon Oct. 7 at the opening celebration of New Mexico’s Mexico City office. Courtesy/EDD
EDD News:
SANTA FE — The State of New Mexico announced the opening of its new Economic Development Department and Tourism office at the World Trade Center in Mexico City, marking a major step in strengthening trade, tourism and cross-border collaboration.
The launch was celebrated on Oct. 7 with a ribbon-cutting and letter of intent signing event in Mexico City and a live video conference connecting partners across New Mexico and Mexico. Read More
Los Alamos Makers Hosts Free Soap-Making Workshop With Local Family Business ‘Lively Faith Soap’ Oct. 16
‘Isla and baby Bernard’: Isla and her baby Bernard are two of the registered purebred Nubian goats from the local family farm (Lily’s Ridge Ranch). Courtesy/LAM
From Los Alamos Makers:
Los Alamos Makers continues its mission to empower creative entrepreneurs and bring hands-on learning to the community by hosting a free soap-making workshop led by Lively Faith Soap, a family-run natural soap company based in White Rock.
The event will take place at 6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 16 at Los Alamos Makers at 1789 Central Ave. Participants will discover the artistry and science behind handcrafted soap Read More
Late-Blooming Clematis Brightens White Rock Garden
A beautiful late-blooming clematis brightens a garden this week in White Rock. Photo by Joyce Wolff Read More
New Mexico State Police Conduct Narcotics Operations Netting Large Quantities Of Illegal Drugs In Albuquerque
NMSP News:
ALBUQUERQUE — In continuation of targeted efforts to combat illegal drug activity in Bernalillo County, the New Mexico State Police (NMSP) Crime Suppression Bureau (CSB) executed two residential search warrants Oct. 10, 2025, in Albuquerque.
With the support of the New Mexico State Police Tactical Team, CSB Narcotics Agents conducted thorough investigations that led to the successful execution of search warrants at two residences.
The outcomes of these operations resulted in two arrests and the seizure of large quantities of illegal narcotics.
Residence 1:
- Felipe S. Almaguer,
