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Council Seeks Public’s Feedback Using Open Forum On Holding Friday Morning Council Meeting

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COUNTY News:

The County’s Public Information Officer has posted this new question on the County’s “Open Forum” at www.losalamosnm.us:

“The County Council currently holds two business meetings per month on Tuesday evenings at 7 p.m. To enable broader public participation, they are considering moving one of their Tuesday meetings to a Friday morning at 11:00 a.m. Do you think this is a good idea? Why or why not?”

During a Council meeting in January, the Council discussed having a different meeting date and time to enable broader public participation in Council meetings.

Currently, the Council Read More

Public Weighs in on County Sustainability / Energy and Water Conservation Plans

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Christine Chavez, Water/Energy Conservation Coordinator for the DPU and Tom Nagawiecki, Environmental Services Specialist for the County discuss the drafts of the Los Alamos County Sustainability Plan & Energy and Water Conservation Plan during a meeting Friday. Photo by Greg Kendall/ladailypost.com

Staff Report

Department of Public Utilities Water/Energy Conservation Coordinator Christine Chavez and County Environmental Services Specialist Tom Nagawiecki led a public forum Friday to review the drafts of the Los Alamos County Sustainability Plan and the Energy and Water Read More

Los Alamos Police Blotter: Feb. 14– Feb.19, 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.

Feb. 14 at 9:02 a.m. / A 31-year-old Los Alamos woman reported that she was being harassed in the 400 block of Ridgecrest.

MARK HENINS

Feb. 14 at 9:15 a.m. / Police charged Mark Henins, 46, of Los Alamos with harassment and issued him a summons to appear in court.

Feb. 14 at 9:21 p.m. / Police charged a 16-year-old Jemez Springs boy with shoplifting at Smith’s Food and Drugs Center on Central Read More

Los Alamos Daily Post Launches ‘Council, Boards & Commissions’ Calendar

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LOS ALAMOS DAILY POST News:

The Los Alamos Daily Post announces the launch of its “Council, Boards & Commissions” Calendar.

The new calendar provides a listing of upcoming council, board and commission meetings with links to corresponding websites, agendas, videos and minutes.

Readers may access the new calendar through a button on the bottom right side of the front page of the Los Alamos Daily Post:

To view the new Council Boards & Commissions Calendar click HERE.

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Arrowsmith Presents Smart Grid Talk to Kiwanis

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Utility Manager John Arrowsmith discusses the Smart Grid Project. Courtesy photo

Staff report

Department of Public Utilities Manager John Arrowsmith spoke to the Los Alamos Kiwanis Club at its lunch meeting Tuesday, Feb. 19.

Arrowsmith presented an overview of the NEDO PV Smart Grid project. Everyone wants renewable power, but the challenge is that solar is available 24 percent of the time, wind 30-40 percent of the time and hydro 30 percent of the time, he said.

It is still necessary to have traditional power sources for the times when the renewable power can’t be generated, Arrowsmith said. Read More

Column: Trinity Drive and the Entrance to Town … What are Your Thoughts?

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Column by KRISTIN HENDERSON
Los Alamos County Councilor

Trinity Drive and the entrance to town … what are your thoughts?

This process has been going on for years – but is coming to a conclusion now and your input is needed.

The short (ish) of it is, Trinity Drive is really, as we know, N.M. 502 – a state highway. We are on the schedule to get funding for the stretch just before the pool into town to Knecht Street – just past where all the dirt is torn up for Trinity Site.

Funding is available essentially now and the road could be re-done in the next year.

Because it would be federal Read More

County to Present Final Options for White Rock’s A19a

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Rendering of the final concepts for development of parcel A-19a in White Rock. Courtesy/LAC

COUNTY News:

Final concepts for residential and commercial development on parcel A-19-a in White Rock will be presented at 6 p.m. Monday, 25 at White Rock Fire Station #3.

The White Rock Implementation Committee and the County’s Community and Economic Development Department staff will host the meeting featuring a presentation by Dekker Parish Sabatini, the consultant charged with developing the A-19-a Masterplanning Study for the past three years.

The meeting will start at 6 p.m. with an open house, Read More

Community Broadband Meeting Wrap Up

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COUNTY News:

Some 30 citizens attended a meeting Feb. 20 regarding recommended design of the Community Broadband Network by Los Alamos County.

An update on this last-mile, open-access, fiber optic network project as well as the finance mechanisms proposed by the business plan was discussed.

Digital copies of the presentation and handouts are available at the CBN Project website. In addition, an Open Forum has been created and is now available for County citizens to post a statement about the project.

The CBN project will provide a presentation to County Council at the March 12 work session Read More

Public Briefed on N.M. 502–Trinity Drive Project

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Los Alamos citizens view N.M. 502 Conceptual Design displays set up Wednesday in the Community Building during an open house. Photo by Greg Kendall/ladailypost.com
Staff report

The New Mexico Department of Transportation held a public open house Wednesday to discuss proposed alternative revisions for the N.M. 502–Trinity Drive project and to receive comments from the public as part of a required environmental review of the project. 

NMDOT project team representatives were present to discuss the project, along with Los Alamos County Public Works Division representatives.

NMDOT Read More