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Robotics Team Takes Another Plunge

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ASME presents Los Alamos Team 4153 with a $10,000 check in front of the team’s 2012 robot that shoots basketballs. Photo by TK Thompson/ladailypost.com

Los Alamos Team 4153 member Tiffany Anton accepts a $10,000 check from Anthony Puckett of the local chapter of ASME as Partha Rangaswamy of the chapter and Robotics team members look on. Photo by TK Thompson/ladailypost.com

Staff Report

Los Alamos Team 4153, comprised of students in grades 9 through 12, is planning to build another robot for the 2013 competition.

The team this year has 23 students including 16 boys and seven girls as well Read More

K-Kids Club at Aspen School Helps Needy

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The brand new K-Kids Club at Aspen School just finished a holiday food drive for LA Cares. The club has 25 active members in grades 1-6 with more joining every week! Students decorated collection boxes, wrote and made daily announcements, and hauled a lot of bags and boxes of food to help those in need in our community over the holidays. Photo by Sharon Allen 


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IHM Catholic Church Continues Christmas Tradition


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Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church parishioners continue their Christmas tradition this year of taking gift tags from their Angel Tree responding to needy children’s and senior’s Christmas wishes. This year they gathered more than I,000 gifts including numerous bicycles. This is just another example of the generosity of the Los Alamos community. Photo by Kenneth Lee Read More 
Public Invited to Experience Live Nativity


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UNITED CHURCH News:


There will be a Living Nativity staged from 5-8 p.m. Monday, Dec. 24 in the parking lot on the west side of the United Church across Canyon Road from the Aquatic Center. 


The public is invited to interact with the Living Nativity; greet the Holy family, the shephards and the Kings, and pet the live stable animals.


Cookies and hot chocolate will be provided.  Read More 
‘Report From Santa Fe’ Features a Founder of Environmental Movement


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Gus Speth


PBS News:


“Report From Santa Fe” will feature Gus Speth, one of the founders of the environmental movement at 8 a.m. Sunday, Jan. 6 on New Mexico PBS, Ch. 5.1.


as well as environmental advisor to two presidents.  He outlines the economic policies that underlie some of the failures of environmental policy to make the kind of changes that are imperative to the survival of the planet.


Speth talks about his time in jail protesting the tar sands pipeline with Bill McKibben , and what individuals can do to move towards a better America, which he terms “America The Possible.” Read More 
Los Alamos Elks Lodge Helps Make Christmas Bright


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The Los Alamos Elks Lodge #2083 set up an Angel Tree and worked with Immaculate Heart Catholic Church in Pojoaque and Saint Vincent de Paul to provide gift packages for more than 80 needy children. Kneeling are Dave Williams and Project Chair Natalie Dimitruck and from left standing, Jim Hay, Reine Williams, Mike Johnson, Holly Brown, Mark Sandoval, Trish Sandoval and Dick Bjarke. Photo by Denise Bjarke Read More 
LAHS Memorial Garden Commemorates the Lives of Students


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The LAHS NJROTC present the colors at the Dec. 20 LAHS Memorial Garden dedication. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com


A ribbon is cut Thursday, Dec. 20 to dedicate the Los Alamos High School Memorial Garden. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com


By Bonnie J. Gordon


The Los Alamos High School Memorial Garden was dedicated on Thursday, Dec. 20. The Rotary Club of Los Alamos, under the direction of member Skip King, spearheaded the design and development of the Memorial Garden. 


The garden commemorates the lives of students who passed away while attending Los Alamos High School. This Read More 
Somber Ceremony Marks National Tragedy


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Los Alamos High School Junior Soumyo Lahiri-Gupta addresses the group gathered at Ashley Pond Friday night to remember the victims at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. Photo by Greg Kendall/ladailypost.com 


By Greg Kendall


Los Alamos High School Student Council members organized a special Friday night candlelight vigil in memory of the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown. Conn. 


About 50 people gathered in the cold at Ashley Pond Park to honor the children, teachers and administration staff who lost their lives in the terrible tragedy.


LAHS Junior  Read More