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Los Alamos Police Expand ‘Prescription Drug Take Back Day’ to White Rock

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Courtesy/DEA

LAPD News:

Det. Sgt. Oliver Morris and his team at the Los Alamos Police will host a “Prescription Drug Take Back Day” 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, April 27 in the east parking lot of Los Alamos Medical Center, 3917 West Road.

Morris explained that senior citizens in White Rock contacted his office saying they would have difficulty going up to Los Alamos to turn in their unused and out of date pills.

“We were able to get an additional drop off site registered with the DEA and have made arrangements to have officers set up at the White Rock Library parking lot from 10 a.m. Read More

PEEC Earth Day Series: Composting Returns to Los Alamos County

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Composting Returns to Los Alamos County
By TOM NAGAWIECKI
Environmental Services Specialist for Los Alamos County

The new Los Alamos County composting facility at the old wastewater treatment plant in Bayo Canyon is set to be complete in fall 2013. 

The County composting program was discontinued in 2011 due to closure of the County landfill and odor issues. 

The County has been working over the past few years to find the best location and process to resume the composting program.

The new facility will enable the County to create higher quality compost in a cost-effective manner and Read More

County Department Heads Continue Presentations to Council

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Community and Economic Development Department Director Anne Laurent speaks to Council about the proposed budget for the divisions under her direction. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com 

Public Works Department Director Philo Shelton III presents his department’s proposed budget listing numerous areas of cost saving measures. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

County Administrator Harry Burgess and Police Chief Wayne Torpy converse prior to tonight’s proposed budget presentations. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

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County Department Chiefs Address Council

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Los Alamos County Assessor JoAnn Johnson works on last minute details with Chief Deputy Assessor Joaquin Valdez prior to their presentation on the Assessor’s Office budget to Council. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com 

Los Alamos County Assessor JoAnn Johnson and Chief Deputy Assessor Joaquin Valdez present their proposed FY2014 budget to Council. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com   

Los Alamos Municipal Court Judge Alan Kirk chats with County Attorney before the start of tonight’s Council meeting. Kirk briefed Council on his FY2014 Read More

County Officials Present Budget Overview

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County Attorney Rebecca Ehler listens as Los Alamos County Administrator Harry Burgess briefs Council on the FY2014 budget. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

Los Alamos Deputy County Administrator/Chief Financial Officer and Budget and Grants Manager Gina Coluzzi Torpy present highlights of the FY2014 budget to Council. Lynne explained that a $5 million increase in the proposed $185,928,637 budget is a change in accounting and not an increase in the budget. He also explained the various reductions achieved in the proposed budget. Eight fulltime positions are being eliminated Read More

Council Tackles FY2014 Budget Hearings Tonight

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Council Vice Chair David Izraelevitz, Police Chief Wayne Torpy and Budget and Grants Manager Gina Coluzzi Torpy preparing for tonight’s meeting. Los Alamos County Administrator Harry Burgess, Steven Lynne, Deputy County Administrator/Chief Financial Officer and Budget and Grants Manager Gina Coluzzi Torpy will present the FY 2014 Summary of Changes from Proposed to Adopted, FY 2014 Pension Administrative Costs, FY 2014 Long Range Financial Projection, FY 2014 Equipment Replacement List and FY 2014 Recurring Grants List during tonight’s County Council meeting, which Read More

Los Alamos Police Blotter: April 4–April 10, 2013

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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.

April 4 at 3:42 p.m. / Police received a report of a 12-year-old Los Alamos boy being abused on 33rd Street. The matter is under investigation.

JASON WILLIS

April 4 at 4:25 p.m. / Police arrested Jason Willis, 32, of Los Alamos in the 2500 block of Trinity Drive on an outstanding Municipal Court warrant.

April 5 at 1 p.m. / Police charged Lois Vigil, 46, of Santa Fe near Canyon Road and East Road with Read More

Letter to the Editor: Use Slant Drilling in WR Parks?

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By JOHN BARTLIT
Los Alamos
 
A current public issue is whether County water wells should be drilled in County park lands on the edge of White Rock Canyon.
 
The public discussion has dealt little, if any, with alternative drilling technology, namely, directional drilling, also called slant drilling.
 
Directional drilling goes back 50 years, but major advances came as computers became commonplace.
 
Directional drilling is the technique of drilling wells at a slant, instead of always boring straight down. Not only can holes be drilled at an angle, their paths can curve
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Authors Speak Series Presents David Grant Noble

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David Grant Noble

MPL News:

Mesa Public Library’s Authors Speak Series presents David Grant Noble, Author, Archaeologist, Photographer of the Southwest, at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 25 in the Upstairs Rotunda.

In Noble’s most recent book, In the Places of the Spirits, he combines eloquent text and equally eloquent images, photographs of the earth and humanity’s places on it, a moving record of the Southwest.

Rendered with grace and capturing the ineffable spirit of the landscape, petroglyphs and archaeological sites of New Mexico, Utah and Arizona, Noble brings together all of his gifts Read More