Meet Short List for Los Alamos Police Chief
Staff Report
The search for a new police chief to replace Wayne Torpy who retired last month drew 40 applicants, of which 26 met the minimum qualifications. Of those 26, five have made the short list and will travel to Los Alamos this week for in-person interviews:
Roy E. Melnick, Chief of Los Lunas Police Department
Tenure: 2009-Present (21 years with police department in New Hampshire)
Salary: $100,101
Employees: 41
Education: Juris Doctorate in Law, Master in Business Administration and Bachelor in Criminal Justice, FBI National Police Acadamy
Comment: “My strongest attribute Read More
Cañada del Buey Trail Improvements … A Gift to the Community
Gathered Monday evening on the Cañada del Buey Trail along Longwiew Drive near Rover Boulevard, from left, Tony Fox (WRMPIC), Paul Andrus (Housing and Special Projects manager) Steve Foltyn, (WRMPIC) Darby Martinez (administration support), Robert Repass, Ray Alcouffe, Dan Saxton, David Sherrill WRMPIC members), Charlie Kalogeros-Chattan (Community Services director), Katy Korkos (WRMPIC vice chair), Denny Erickson (WRMPIC chair), Steven R. Parks (WRMPIC) and Ann Laurent (CEDD director). Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladilypost.com
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Members of the White Rock Master Plan Read More
Letter to the Editor: Education in Los Alamos
By ANITA SCHWENDT
Los Alamos
I am concerned about the lack of funding for education in the state, and how it affects the quality of education in Los Alamos.
The community is committed to strong education, but the funding is not supportive of the quality that this town has come to expect. Considering that, for the last few decades, the great schools in Los Alamos have attracted and kept many families in this town, the quality of education is not just a concern for current parents, but for LANL, the county, as well as other community members. It is a source of recruiting and retention for LANL. LANL supports Read More
Letter to the Editor: Great Local Customer Service
By KAY GRADYAbout two years ago, my husband and I bought a Lazy-Boy Recliner from CB Fox in Los Alamos.
Recently, the foot rest broke. I contacted CB Fox to find out how I could get the chair repaired. Someone from the store came to my home to look at the chair and figure out what part was needed. The part was ordered, and CB Fox arranged to come pick up the chair and take it to their store.
They fixed the chair and returned it to my home the same day. I was not charged for the part, labor, or transporting the chair to/from the store.
Great Customer Service from a local merchant. Read More
Food on the Hill: Fall Off The Bone Baby Back Ribs
Photo by Sue York/ladailypost.comDirections:
Prep the ribs by cutting off all the fat that you can, without Read More
Upgrade to Mars Rover Could Aid Discovery on More Distant Worlds
Mars Rover. Courtesy/NASA
AGU News:
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Smart as the Mars Curiosity mission has been about landing and finding its own way on a distant world, the rover is pretty brainless when it comes to doing the science that it was sent 567 million kilometers to carry out.
That has to change if future rover missions are to make discoveries further out in the solar system, scientists say.
The change has now begun with the development of a new camera that can do more than just take pictures of alien rocks – it also thinks about what the pictures signify so the rover can decide on its own whether Read More
Yum Run Supports Work of LA Cares
Rosmarie Frederickson, vice president of LA Cares, left, with June Gladney, treasurer, at Ruby K’s Bagel Café. Photo by Mandy MarksteinerBy MANDY MARKSTEINER
LA Cares runs the food bank in Los Alamos. They feed 65-75 families a month. Families receive a box of staples like rice, noodles, and beans.They can “shop” for specialty items. LA Cares also provides rent and utility payment assistance for people who have fallen behind and are in danger of having their utilities shut off or losing their housing.
“Everyone assumes that all the people in this town are wealthy, but last year we helped Read More
Nearly 9,000 NM Homes to Gain Broadband Access
FCC News:
ALBUQUERQUE ─ Monday, U.S. Sen. Tom Udall applauded the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) allocation of $5.18 million from the Connect America Fund (CAF) to expand and improve broadband service to nearly 9,000 New Mexico households.
This announcement follows Udall’s efforts to urge the FCC to free up unused funds that would help close the digital divide between urban areas that have access to high-speed Internet and rural areas that do not.
“Reliable high-speed Internet is critical to leveling the playing field between rural and urban communities,” Udall said. “Broadband Read More
NJROTC Holds Car Wash Sept. 21
NJROTC News:
The Los Alamos High School NJROTC will hold a car wash fundraising event at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 21.
The event will be held in front of the Pueblo Gymnasium on Diamond Drive. Read More
Special School Board Meeting Thursday
LAPS News:
The Los Alamos Board of Education will hold a Special School Board Meeting at 4 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 12 at Los Alamos Middle School, Room 149.
The agenda items for the Special School Board Meeting include Aspen Construction Update, LAMS Construction Update, LAMS Material Change Request, LAMS Landscape Credit, LAMS East Parking Lot Rock, LAMS Start of School in New Building Sept. 17 and Central Office remodel, including the Board Room. Read More
Letter to the Editor: On Big Ideas, Ignorance, and Irony
By ED SANTIAGOIt strikes me as ironic that in an age that has not known smallpox, in a town founded on reason, we’re debating whether or not a make-believe sky-god will be offended by our choice of date for a Big Idea conference.
Why limit our concern to Jehovah, though? Should we also check with Allah, God, Zeus, Amen-Ra, Quetzalcoatl, Zoroaster, Yukiyú, and the thousands of other gods mankind has invented throughout the millennia? Each of those has or had adherents whose belief is just as strong and whose sacred-day rules are just as arbitrary. No matter what day is picked Read More
Los Alamos Police Blotter: Aug. 28–Sept. 3, 2013
The following information is provided by the Los Alamos Police Department.
Neither arrests nor charges indicate a conviction, and neither means that a person is guilty of the charges filed against them.
GERALD HECK
Aug. 28 at 12:32 a.m. / Police arrested Gerald Heck, 35, of Los Alamos on San Ildefonso Road on an outstanding Magistrate Court warrant.
Aug. 28 at 9:46 p.m. / A 19-year-old Los Alamos woman reported that she was battered by a household member on Canyon Road.
DANIEL DESCHAMP
Aug. 30 at 2:10 p.m. / Police arrested Daniel Deschamp, 29, of Los Alamos at 39th Street and Trinity Read More
Memorial Services Set For Token Adams
SIMT News:
The Southwest Incident Management Team has announced a memorial service scheduled for fallen firefighter Token Adams.
Captain Token Mark Adams, 41, passed away Friday, Sept. 6, 2013.
The service will take place at 10 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 12 at Calvary of Albuquerque, 4001 Osuna Road NE in Albuquerque. Inurnment will follow at Vista Verde Memorial Park, 4310 Sara Road SE in Rio Rancho.
For further information about the service, visit www.danielsfuneral.com. Read More
Letter to the Editor: Is the Next Big Idea to Tackle Ignorance, Revisited
By KHALIL J. SPENCER
Los Alamos
After reading Judith Stauber and Daniel Cooper’s letter in the Los Alamos Daily Post, I kept expecting an explanation from the organizers of the Next Big Idea to what looks to this reader like a display of either insensitivity or stubbornness.
I do find it amazing that an event predicated on great ideas would have the “great idea” to schedule the event on Yom Kippur. Like the two authors of the original letter, I doubt that the organizers would schedule such an event on Easter, Good Friday, or Christmas Day.
Given that one can not separate the development Read More
Syria’s Bashar al-Assad Interview Airs 7 p.m. Today
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Courtesy photo
PBS News:
Charlie Rose has recorded an interview in Damascus with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, which will run in its entirety in a special presentation on KNME-New Mexico PBS at 7 p.m. today on Ch. 5.1.
In the interview, Charlie Rose asks Assad about the use of chemical weapons in Syria. (KNME will pre-empt the 7 p.m. episode of ANTIQUES ROADSHOW, then resume regular programming.)
The Charlie Rose interview with Assad will broadcast one night before President Obama is scheduled to address the nation on his plans to respond to the situation Read More
Letter to the Editor: Thoughts From Sam
Thoughts From SamThis past weekend over 500 New Mexico Democrats attended our first “Rising Star” Dinner, which was a sold out extravaganza. Congressman Jaoquin Castro spoke strongly and eloquently about how Democrats are slowly but surely turning America ‘blue.’ The next day, close to 300 Dems attended our Fall SCC meeting which conducted important business, listened to potential 2014 candidates and adjourned early!
The big news was the announcement from Bernalillo County Clerk Maggie Toulouse Oliver-she is running for the Democratic nomination for Secretary Read More
Local Einstein Impersonator Makes Rounds of TV Stations Promoting ‘Next Big Idea’ Festival
Katy Korkos, manager of the Los Alamos Chamber of Commerce was interviewed Friday at television stations in Albuquerque about this weekend’s ‘Next Big Idea’ festival in downtown Los Alamos. Donning her Albert Einstein persona, Korkos is seen here promoting the festival on ‘New Mexico Style.’ Her interview aired live Friday morning on KASA Fox Channel 2. Courtesy photo
Chamber Manager Katy Korkos AKA Albert Einstein on the set of ‘Good Day New Mexico’ during Friday morning’s taping. Host Casey Messer chatted with ‘Einstein’ Read More
Yang: Simple Ideas
Simple IdeasSummer fantasies and lite-writing are supposed to be over…well, summer isn’t officially over, and I allow myself to cross my “black line” every so often. Black line, as in “black words,” shows on your computer white background.
The first simple idea is this: What if we dropped packages of Sarin antidote in Syria?
Do I cross the line into politics? Not really. Geopolitics has a profound impact on economics and organizations. Wall Street developed an allergic reaction to just the speculation of a potential strike against Syria, lowering the Dow Jones indices; it is likely Read More
Taste the Sky Fundraiser Kicks Off Event Season
Soumyo Lahiri-Gupta and other members of the United Way Youth Team kicked off this year’s event season Sunday with the annual Taste the Sky fundraiser at the Los Alamos County Airport. All proceeds from the event are reinvested in the community through the Community Action Fund. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com
United Way Executive Director Kristy Ortega, second from right, with members of the Youth Team. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com
UWNNM Youth Team stands ready to serve the community. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com
From left, Cheryl Pongratz of Los Alamos Read More
