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Shin: RPLA Announces Dec. 18 Christmas Party; Please Support Our Small Business Community
By LISA SHIN
Chair
Republican Party of Los Alamos
Please mark your calendars for our last Central Committee meeting of the year, 6 p.m. on Dec. 18, at Open Door Bible Church (2101 Trinity Drive). We will have a brief business meeting to review our 2026 budget, then celebrate Christmas and spread holiday cheer!
The Republican Party of Los Alamos (RPLA) has always supported our small business community, and thankfully, we have Councilor David Reagor. However, as Kevin Holsapple recently wrote, “Many of our local businesses continue to struggle with maintaining pre-pandemic cash flow and revenue Read More
Home Country: Imaginary Squirrel
By SLIM RANDLES
Home Country
It might have been the winter doldrums that did it. You can never be sure of these things. It’s just that … well, Doc is one of those guys who can’t stand to see anyone bored. He claims it’s bad for their inner chemistry, and since he has more initials after his name than anyone else in town, we tend to listen to him.
When it happened, we in the inner circle of the World Dilemma Think Tank down at the Mule Barn truck stop thought back on what Doc had said a year ago when the temperature dropped, along with everyone’s spirits.
“In weather like this,” Doc pronounced, stirring sugar Read More
Denish: Affordability Of Rising Energy Prices
By DIANE DENISH
Corner to Corner
diane@dianedenish.com
Affordability simply means something can be afforded—not expensive. Despite the President recently saying, “they have this new word—affordability,” it’s hardly new. It’s the daily reality for most Americans.
In 2025, prices for housing, food, health insurance, and clothing continue to rise. In 2024, Trump made the cost of eggs—inflated by bird flu and higher production costs—a political flashpoint. Today eggs remain 30–50% higher than a year ago.
Consumers feel the squeeze everywhere: food, housing, health care, and now energy. Read More
Weekly Fishing Report: Dec. 1, 2025
By GEORGE MORSE
Sports and Outdoors
Los Alamos Daily Post
There was just a little stocking done last week in Northern New Mexico due to the Thanksgiving holiday. In the winter, most of the stocking of catchable-size rainbow trout is in Southern New Mexico.
Snow is now beginning to fall in the higher elevations and the beautiful white covering on the mountains is a most welcome sight. When planning a trip, it will be increasingly important to keep track of weather and road conditions at and going to your destination.
Several lakes will begin to freeze over and it will be a while before the ice is thick Read More
Posts From The Road: Gary’s Gay Parita
Gary’s Gay Parita: A view of the front of the gas station at Gary’s Gay Parita reveals just a sampling of what visitors will see while roaming around the grounds of the station. The original gas station burned in 1955 and business ceased. Gary Turner and some relatives constructed this replica Sinclair station in 2003. The purpose of the station was to provide a place for travelers to stop and see items from the period when the original station was in operation. This station did not sell gas. Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com
George: George Bowick sits on the porch of the gift shop located adjacent Read More
Fr. Glenn: Getting Travel Ready
By Fr. Glenn Jones:
Wow. The season of Advent begins today (Nov. 30 this year). Already. And yet Advent for Christians a time of watchful hope. In this special time we are invited to lift our eyes toward two horizons: the first, remembrance of the first coming of Jesus at Christmas; the second, His final coming in glory at the end of time. Because how we prepare for one reveals how we are preparing for the other.
In today’s Catholic Mass Gospel reading, Jesus says, “Stay awake! For you do not know on which day your Lord will come,” and to emphasize the point, He recalls the story of Noah, when people were Read More
Tales Of Our Times: History Recalls The Wisdom In Clean Air Decisions
Tales Of Our Times
By JOHN BARTLIT
New Mexico Citizens
for Clean Air & Water
History Recalls The Wisdom In Clean Air Decisions
A common theme is: “Those who fail to learn from the past are doomed to repeat it.” The history of cleaning polluted air gave us hard-won lessons learned that can spare us from repeating them. As ever, what we don’t know or remember will again cost the continuing effort. So, this column looks back at the early years of clean air rules (the 1970s), when rules were first shaped.
Those pioneer struggles for clean air showed us much more than merely the outcomes of lawsuits. To Read More
All Shall Be Well: Slow Down, Advent Is Here
Clergy from left, Deacon Amy Schmuck, Deacon Cynthia Biddlecomb, retired, and The Rev. Mary Ann Hill. Photo by Nate Limback/ladailypost.com
By Deacon Amy Schmuck
Bethlehem Evangelical Lutheran Church
As you read this, Christian communities have celebrated the beginning of a new liturgical church year with this Sunday, Nov. 30. Advent season is here! What I most appreciate is that the messages in our church lectionary readings, the rhythm of our worship, and the music we use is counter-cultural to the hype, consumerism, stress, rush, and pressures of our society in December. We begin a new Read More
NM Junior Foodies Review: Sawmill Market Winter Experience
Come tour the Winter Market with us! Photo by Rebecca Rutherford
Outdoor space at Sawmill Market all decorated for the holidays. Photo by Rebecca Rutherford
By REBECCA RUTHERFORD
Los Alamos
For NM Junior Foodies
Heritage Hotels and Resorts announces the second annual Sawmill Winter Experience, running from Nov. 28 to Dec. 31, at Albuquerque’s bustling food hall, Sawmill Market.
This indoor and outdoor winter celebration is unlike anything else in New Mexico and brings an immersive holiday wonderland to the Southwest, complete with seasonal food and beverage offerings, enchanting decorations, Read More