Pink Moon And Star Trails Dash Across White Rock Sky
Pink Moon and star trails viewed early Saturday morning above White Rock. ‘While the name ‘Pink Moon’ might suggest a rosy-colored moon, the reality is a bit less magical. The name comes from the early spring bloom of a wildflower native to eastern North America: Phlox subulata, commonly known as creeping phlox or moss phlox. This flower, often called ‘moss pink’ was in full bloom around April’s full moon. Source: www.almanac.com. Photo by Nancy Ann Hibbs Read More
Los Alamos Middle School Hawktalkers Coach Sherri Bublitz Honored As 2025 Speech Coach Of The Year
LAMS Hawktalkers Coach Sherri Bublitz, center, is honored as 2025 Speech Coach of the Year by the New Mexico Speech and Debate Association. LAHS Hilltalkers Speech & Debate Coach Margo Batha, right, nominated Bublitz for this award, presented here by her former students Donald Poston and Brandi Weiss. Courtesy/LAPS
LAPS News:
Los Alamos Middle School and Hawktalkers Speech and Debate Team Coach Sherri Bublitz was honored as the 2025 Speech Coach of the Year by the New Mexico Speech and Debate Association (NMSDA).
AA Speech & Debate Director Elise Matton and Los Alamos High School Read More
Los Alamos Middle School 7th Grader Hannah Li Earns 3rd Place At 2025 State Spelling Bee In Albuquerque
LAMS 7th grader Hannah Li competing March 29 at the 2025 State Spelling Bee. Courtesy/LAPS
LAPS News:
Los Alamos Middle School 7th grader Hannah Li placed 3rd at the 2025 New Mexico State Spelling Bee held March 29 in Albuquerque. She competed against 25 other students from across the state.
This was Li’s third trip to the State Spelling Bee. She placed second the last two years and has been participating in school and district spelling bees for four years.
“I have been participating in the spelling bee since I was in fourth grade,” she said. “In the 2021-2022 school year, I placed third in the Los Alamos Read More
Proactive Policing Leads NMSP Crime Suppression Bureau Agents To Make Multiple Felony Arrests In Albuquerque
NMSP News:
ALBUQUERQUE — April 9, 2025, at approximately 3 p.m., New Mexico State Police (NMSP) Crime Suppression Bureau (CSB) agents stopped at a Chevron gas station at 5980 Alameda Blvd. NE, where they observed the driver of a vehicle smoking narcotics.
The registered owner was determined to be 30-year-old Efren Jesus Montes-Quezada, who had an active felony warrant in Texas for Enticement of a Minor for Indecent Purposes Via Telecommunications. Montes-Quezada exited his vehicle when he was contacted by agents and taken into custody on his warrant.
The same day, at approximately 8:30 p.m., Read More
Wernicke: Donate Life
Alejandra Wernicke of Los Alamos meets her kidney donor 10 months after her transplant. Courtesy photo
By JAMES WERNICKE
Grateful Husband
Los Alamos
April is National Donate Life Month. For my family, it’s more than an awareness campaign. Organ donation gave my family a future. In 2017, my wife Alejandra’s kidneys were failing. Dialysis was keeping her alive, but just barely—every week was a cycle of exhaustion, nausea, and the creeping fear that time was running out. In 2019, we got the call that she had a living donor match.
Her donor was a former drug addict who had not only turned his own life Read More
Los Alamos Chemist Jeffrey Pietryga Named AAAS Fellow
AAAS Fellow Jeffrey Pietryga
LANL News:
Los Alamos National Laboratory scientist Jeffrey Pietryga has been named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Members of the world’s largest professional society — scientists, engineers and innovators from across disciplines — are named fellows in recognition of their lifetime efforts to advance science or its applications.
A longtime chemist at the Laboratory, Pietryga was recognized by the AAAS “for formative contributions to the synthetic chemistry of advanced nanocrystal quantum dots,” as well as “enthusiastic Read More
Free Events Added To ‘Cosmic Frontiers 2025: Planets’
NMC News:
The New Mexico Consortium (NMC) is hosting Cosmic Frontiers 2025: Planets, May 3-4 at SALA Los Alamos Event Center. Cosmic Frontiers will bring together top planetary scientists and astronomers for groundbreaking discussions.
Three scientific sessions will feature the topics:
- Our Solar System;
- Exoplanets; and
- Methodology to Study Planets.
In addition to the main scientific sessions at SALA, there will be a variety of free public events throughout the weekend to allow the community to get involved and explore the wonders of space.
“We’re excited to not only bring the main Cosmic Read More
NMSP Investigates OIS Involving Rio Arriba County Sheriff’s Office And Ohkay Owingeh Police Department
NMSP News:
ESPAÑOLA — April 11, 2025, the New Mexico State Police Investigations Bureau was requested to investigate an officer-involved shooting involving the Rio Arriba Sheriff’s Office (RASO) and the Ohkay Owingeh Police Department.
Investigations Bureau agents learned that at around 12:30 p.m., April 10, 2025, a RASO deputy responded to a larceny call at a residence on State Road 75 in Dixon. The reporting party alleged that his son Zachary Sisneros, 32, stole various items from his residence, including a firearm. Sisneros left in a white 2014 Toyota passenger vehicle and a “be on the Read More
Daily Postcard: Rare Northern Wheatear In New Mexico
Daily Postcard: A rare Northern Wheatear found April 6-7 at a golf course near Belen. These birds breed from eastern Labrador, across northern Europe and Asia, and into western Alaska. They all then migrate to Africa for the winter. Except for this male anyway, which ended up in New Mexico. This is only the second time a Northern Wheatear has been recorded in New Mexico. It was originally found Sunday morning by Billy Medley. Northern Wheatears show off some pizzazz when they take flight. They forage for insects on the ground in meadows, grazed pastures and tundra, and perch and sing from prominent Read More
Friends Of History To Host Pancho Villa Lecture May 7
FRIENDS OF HISTORY News:
Friends of History invites the community to a Wednesday lecture, “Raid And Reconciliation: Pancho Villa, Modernization, and Violence in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands” presented by Brandon Morgan at 12-1 p.m. May 7. Free on YouTube.
Historian, educator and author Brandon Morgan examines Pancho Villa’s 1916 raid on Columbus, New Mexico, during the Mexican Revolution and sheds light on the connections between violence and modernization that shaped the U.S.-Mexico border. He explains how this border story continues to resonate into today’s debates about the borderlands. Read More
