Community Celebrates Bradbury Science Museum’s 50th Anniversary
Bradbury Science Museum Director Linda Deck, left, welcomes Los Alamos County Councilor Kristin Henderson at the museum’s 50th Anniversary Party Wednesday evening. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com
Marge Cole Agnew and her husband Lew Agnew, center, at the Bradbury Science Museum’s 50th Anniversary celebration Wednesday evening in downtown Los Alamos. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com
Community members celebrating the museum’s 50th birthday. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com
These men took the challenge. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com Read More
Alice Brigham Waterman Memorial Service Jan. 11
Alice Brigham Waterman
Memorial Service:
A Memorial Service for Alice Brigham Waterman is scheduled for noon Saturday, Jan. 11 at the United Church of Los Alamos, 2525 Canyon Road.
A reception will follow in Graves Hall.
Waterman, 94, passed peacefully from this life December 4, with family by her side. She had struggled for eight months with declining health after breaking an ankle and being diagnosed with mantle cell lymphoma.
She had just spent a joyous Thanksgiving holiday with children, grandchildren, great grandchildren, and even a great-great granddaughter. Read More
Breakfast With Santa Draws Crowd
Kids visit with Santa during the Dec. 7 Kiwanis Club’s ‘Breakfast With Santa.’ Courtesy photoThe Los Alamos Kiwanis Club’s “Breakfast With Santa” Dec. 7 was a booming success.
Chairwoman Cheryl Pongratz said in an interview later, “I thought it went really well.”
Breakfast With Santa is a Kiwanis pancake breakfast with a difference. The club doesn’t sell tickets. Instead, it asks for cash and food donations to help those in need.
Kiwanis Treasurer Cindy Eaton said the club took in $1,815 at the door and $1,500 from Del Norte Read More
Chamber Forms New Crowdfunding Clowd®
Nicholas Seet, second from right, speaks with students in his UNM-LA class, ‘Financing the Entrepreneurial Enterprise.’ Photo by Vint Miller/UNM-LA
Nicholas Seet and his UNM-LA class, ‘Financing the Entrepreneurial Enterprise.’ From left, Misty in front, Alex behind (Main Street Crowd), Julia, Micheline, Yoko, Katy, Mack, Professor Nicholas Seet, Gary, Brandon and Marshall Neel (MainStreet Crowd.) Courtesy photo
CHAMBER News:
- New Economic Development Portal Brings Projects to the People
The Los Alamos Chamber of Commerce announced today that Read More
ESL Students Visit Los Alamos Rotary Club
Students from South Korea and India enrolled in the advanced ESL (English as a Second Language) program at UNM-Los Alamos visited Tuesday’s meeting of the Rotary Club of Los Alamos as a way to learn more about American culture and this international service organization. From left, Younghoon Moon, Manimalar, Eunhee Lee, Hyo Seok Chun and ESL instructor Jane Clements. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com Read More
Astronaut Mike Mullane Addresses Civil Air Patrol Cadets
Civil Air Patrol leaders and cadets pose with Astronaut Mike Mullane after his talk to the group Monday at Los Alamos County Airport. Photo by Leland Lehman/ladailypost.com
Astronaut Mike Mullane. Photo by Leland Lehman/ladailypost.comStaff Report
Astronaut Mike Mullane spoke to the Los Alamos Civil Air Patrol cadets Monday at the Los Alamos Airport.
Col. Mullane graduated from West Point in 1967, was commissioned in the USAF and flew combat missions in Vietnam.
He holds a Master’s of Science Degree in Aeronautical Engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology and is also Read More
Be Surrounded by Sound at Holiday Prism Concert
Community Winds Musical and Artistic Director Ted Vives at Tuesday’s Holiday Prism Concert rehearsal. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
Winds saxaphone and bassoon players rehearse for the upcoming Holiday Prism Concert. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
The Los Alamos Community Winds will present its third annual Holiday Prism Concert at 7 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 14 at White Rock Baptist Church. The idea of a prism concert, presenting continuous music in the round, began at the Eastman School of Music about 40 years ago, Winds Read More
Walls Are Rising at Smith’s Marketplace
A tall crane towers over the construction site at the new Smith’s Marketplace on Trinity Drive. Photo by Leland Lehman/ladailypost.comLetter to the Editor: On Affordable Housing
By DAVID W. THOMSONOnce again the topic of affordable housing in Los Alamos is in the air, evincing what to me is a basic ignorance of economics. The COST of housing is based on the cost of its economic inputs; that is, land, labor, materials, and capital. The PRICE of housing is established in an auction market between a willing buyer and a willing seller. As the run-up and collapse of the recent housing bubble illustrate, the two are only loosely linked.
A developer analyzes the local market and attempts to find the right combination of land, labor, materials, and capital to entice buyers
FBI: John Charles McCluskey to Receive Life in Prison for Murdering Oklahoma Couple
Special Agent in Charge Carol K.O. LeeFBI News:
WASHINGTON—John Charles McCluskey, 48, will receive a life prison sentence for a host of crimes arising from the carjacking and murder of a couple from Tecumseh, Oklahoma, after a federal jury today announced that it could not reach a unanimous decision on whether to impose the death penalty.
Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, Acting U.S. Attorney Steven C. Yarbrough of the District of New Mexico, Special Agent in Charge Carol K.O. Lee of the FBI’s Albuquerque Read More
Governor’s Proposal Would Raise Starting Teacher Salaries
STATE News:
Wednesday, Gov. Susana Martinez announced proposals to better recruit, retain, and compensate new teachers, as well as reward teachers and school leaders whose students are achieving strong academic growth in the classroom.
Martinez’s plan would increase the minimum base starting salary for teachers in New Mexico by 10 percent and allow every school district to propose a plan to utilize new state funding to provide significant financial rewards to its high-performing teachers and school leaders.
“Teaching Read More
Fruitcake Sale Tradition Continues in LANB Lobby
OES News:
For more than 50 years, Los Alamos Chapter #63, Order of Eastern Star, has sold Collin Street Bakery holiday fruitcakes in Los Alamos.
This year the chapter will continue that tradition by selling fruitcakes, as well as apricot pecan and pineapple pecan cakes 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., or until sold out, Friday, Dec. 13 and Friday, Dec. 20 in the Los Alamos National Bank lobby, 1200 Trinity Dr.
Regular-sized traditional holiday cakes cost $25 each and pineapple pecan cakes cost $30.
Contact Judy Goldie, 505.662.3797, judygoldie1@gmail.com or Nina Laird, 505.662.7580 for more information. Read More
Final 70th Anniversary Lecture: LANL’s Stockpile Stewardship Role
A B61 nuclear gravity bomb. Courtesy/DOD
LANL News:
- Last in year-long series of public talks at Bradbury Science Museum
The role Los Alamos National Laboratory plays in stockpile stewardship is the focus of the final 70th Anniversary Lecture at 5:30 p.m., Dec. 18 at the Bradbury Science Museum. Jon Ventura, Los Alamos’s executive staff advisor to the Principal Associate Director for Weapons Programs, will give the talk.
“For 70 years the men and women of Los Alamos have explored the frontiers of science and engineering to meet a broad array of national security challenges,” Ventura said. “The Read More
Young Minds, To Work!
Hawks FTC team members from left, Sam Crooks, Joseph Thompson, Erin Scott, Jessica Cooke, Summer Bronson, Jaryn Newman and M.I.M.R.E. Not pictured, Do Vo and Michael Peters. Courtesy photo
M.I.M.R.E.. (Mechanical Idea Made Real Epically.) Courtesy photo
Young Minds, To Work!
The Los Alamos Middle School has accepted a challenge involving skill, creativity, problem-solving abilities, and gracious professionalism. “What is this challenge?” you might ask, and so I will answer that inquiry, it is the FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC), and this year it is the “block party”. Read More
Alert: Elk Wintering on N.M. 4
Reader Alert:
A community member has asked the Los Alamos Daily Post to alert motorists to the fact that Tuesday she saw an elk herd on the right side of the road on N.M. 4, north of White Rock and south of the truck route, on Pueblo land.
Today she spotted the herd on the left side of the road on N.M. 4.
“Yesterday one was hit and killed,” she said. “Please warn your readers who are driving to and from White Rock … this was just at sunrise about 7 a.m.” Read More
Solo Traveler: The Soloists
Rocky Mountain Park scene. Photo by Momo Vuyisich
A stream in Rocky Mountain Park. Photo by Momo Vuyisich
Solo Traveler: The SoloistsI was in high school when I read Isabella Bird’s famous book A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains.
She was a 19th century British explorer who supported herself with writing. She traveled alone most of the time, and found that “pluck” was rather admired in the American West.
Most people were filled with too much admiration for her solo travel and independent spirit to do her any harm. Her adventure articles (and books) were published Read More
Udall: Filibuster Rule Change Reducing Senate Gridlock
Sen Tom Udall
U.S. SENATE News:
WASHINGTON —Tuesday, Sen. Tom Udall, D-N.M. praised the confirmation of Patricia Millett to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. She is the first nominee to be confirmed by the Senate since changing its rules to prohibit filibusters of executive branch and judicial nominees, other than those to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Since 2009, Udall has led the fight in the Senate to cut through gridlock, and he said Millett’s confirmation by a vote of 56-38 is evidence that the Senate is finally working again when it comes to these important Read More
NAACP Leader Receives FBI Director’s Community Leadership Award
FBI News:
Albuquerque FBI Special Agent in Charge Carol K.O. Lee presented the 2013 FBI Director’s Community Leadership Award today to Dr. Harold Bailey, president of the Albuquerque chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
Each of the FBI’s 56 field offices annually selects an individual or organization to receive this award, which honors efforts in combating crime, terrorism, drugs, and violence in America.
“It is an honor to receive this prestigious community service award,” Dr. Bailey said. “I will continue to work with others to preserve and Read More
LANL: Nontoxic Quantum Dot Research Improves Solar Cells
Hunter McDaniel, Los Alamos National Laboratory postdoctoral researcher, works in the laboratory developing next-generation quantum dots that could revolutionize photovoltaic technology. Courtesy/LANL
LANL News:
- Record power-conversion efficiency at Los Alamos from quantum-dot sensitized photovoltaics
Solar cells made with low-cost, non-toxic copper-based quantum dots can achieve unprecedented longevity and efficiency, according to a study by Los Alamos National Laboratory and Sharp Corporation.
“For the first time, we have certified the performance of a quantum dot sensitized Read More
