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Weekly Fishing Report: June 2, 2025 

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By GEORGE MORSE 
Sports and Outdoors 
Los Alamos Daily Post 

The snow has melted. Snow water equivalent and snow depth will no longer be monitored until winter. 

One of the most-frequently asked questions by other anglers is what lure or fly to use. The best answer is one that you have confidence in that it will catch fish! 

The State Game and Fish Department is continuing to stock bigger-than-average trout in locations throughout Northern New Mexico. 

Check out the Fishing Report to see where these larger trout have been stocked. If you are catching bigger trout at your favorite fishing hole, Read More

Posts From The Road: California’s Central Coast

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Morro Rock: Morro Rock at Morro Bay, Calif. has been an iconic ocean landmark since the days when Native Americans lived along the Pacific Ocean coast. Today the rock is a wildlife preserve and is closed to hiking and camping. Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com

Ocean View: A beautiful ocean view is seen from the shores of Eldwayen Ocean Park in Pismo Beach, California. The shore walkway stretches for a few miles along the scenic coastal area within a Pismo Beach neighborhood. Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com

By GARY WARREN
Photographer
Formerly of Los Alamos

We just returned from a trip Read More

Fr. Glenn: Toughened By Trial

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By Fr. Glenn Jones:

“My scars tell a story. They are a reminder of times that life tried to break me … but failed.”

This aphorism, which I encountered recently, is one that I think many, if not all, of us can relate to in some way, and is not unlike philosopher Frederich Nietzsche’s “What does not kill me makes me stronger.”

We are taught even as children that life will not be a bed of roses … that difficulties enter everyone’s life relative to his status and condition. Yet, as muscles are strengthened through resistance and not through ease, psychological strength and resilience results in overcoming Read More

All Shall Be Well: ‘That They All May Be One’

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Clergy from left, Deacon Amy Schmuck, Deacon Cynthia Biddlecomb, retired, The Rev. Mary Ann Hill and The Rev. Lynn Finnegan. Photo by Nate Limback/ladailypost.com

By Deacon Cynthia Z. Biddlecomb, M.Div.
ELCA retired

What’s the best thing about this town? When someone who doesn’t live here asks you this question, what do you say? Some answers might include: our outdoorsy lifestyle; our unceasing, intellectual curiosity; our diversity of places of origin, from all over the country and around the world; our support of community arts. Our town is rich in so many ways!

One thing that I tell people Read More

McQuiston: 5 Things That May Be Missing From Your Home Insurance Policy

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By ALLEN MCQUISTON
Jemez Insurance Agency
Serving Los Alamos Since 1963

Why Reviewing Your Coverage Matters More Than You Think

Homeowners often assume they’re fully protected — but insurance isn’t one-size-fits-all.

Here are five common gaps that could leave you exposed:

1. Extended Replacement Cost

Most policies cover your home up to a set amount. But if rebuilding costs skyrocket after a wildfire or storm, your coverage could fall short.

Extended replacement cost coverage adds 10–25% extra — an essential safeguard when rebuild costs are volatile.

2. High-Value Personal Items

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Izraelevitz: What Makes You Get Up In The Morning?

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Volunteers for Friends of the Los Alamos Senior Centers Nancy Calkins, left, and Donnay Hayes, at an Ice Cream Social April 4 at the Betty Ehart Senior Center. Courtesy photo

Los Alamos High School student volunteers celebrating the organizations they volunteer for and what they enjoy about their participation. Courtesy photo

By DAVID IZRAELEVITZ
Los Alamos

There is a mystical tradition in Judaism that the soul partially leaves the body during sleep to ascend and interact with the divine, hence our rejuvenation and special insights we sometimes experience during slumber. Accordingly, Read More

Pages Of Our History: Edward T. Hall

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West of the Thirties book cover. Courtesy image

By SHARON SNYDER
Los Alamos

Los Alamos Ranch School turned out many young men who were destined to make their mark on society. One of these young men was Edward T. Hall, who would become a noted cultural anthropologist.

Edward was born in 1914 in Webster Groves, Mo. Not much is known about his life before he attended the ranch school between 1926 and 1927, but he loved the Southwest. He left the school for Santa Fe, where he grew up and spent a lot of time with the artist colony.

Eventually, he earned a bachelor’s in anthropology from the University Read More

Catch Of The Week: Scam Job Offer Smishing

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By REBECCA RUTHERFORD
Los Alamos
For the Los Alamos Daily Post

A good job is hard to find, so what if one falls into your lap? Be careful of any “job offers” via text message, these are scams known as smishing, phishing via text message.

What is smishing? Smishing (SMS phishing) uses deceptive text messages to trick victims into sharing personal information or clicking malicious links, while phishing uses fraudulent emails and fake websites to achieve the same things.

It’s still a phishing scam, just via text message.

In this case, I received the below text messages last week:

One claims to be a job Read More

Home Country: Here In The Rain

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Home Country
By SLIM RANDLES

When the world is hot and my skin is fried, scratching from the constant dry, let the clouds boil up, boil up high. And then shade the earth with the darkening sky and bring the secrets and the smell of rain. The coolness and the blessed rain, again.

Our land is brown but blessed, stressed in the heat, the shiny heat of day.

The slender green of rivers slide along, striving to continue, to feed its own along the banks, the banks where the dust rises. Rises, powdery clomp by clomp as we walk, walk the shady way.

And though the heat, the dryness of heat, pushes down our weary feet, Read More

Life After 50: My Mama’s Mama

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Courtesy photo

By BERNADETTE LAURITZEN
Executive Director
Champions of Youth Ambitions

I’m sure you thought this would be a nice story about the mother of my mom. Well, it is a nice story about someone, but her name is Mama and I’m her mom. More on that in just a minute.

As Mental Health Awareness Month ends, I thought I would reflect on the month and suggest a new idea for anyone that struggles in life. Thanks to the Women’s Christian Service Society of the United Church, Champions of Youth Ambitions has been teaching QPR (Question, Persuade Refer), a free one-hour suicide prevention presentation, Read More