County

Eastern Area 2 Concrete, Paving and Utility Work Continues

by

Iris Street gutter work continues into next week. Photo by Leland S. Lehman/ladailypost.com

COUNTY News:

Construction of the Eastern Area 2 Concrete, Paving and Utility Project Phase 1 continues.

For the week of October 22, expect concrete work to continue on Myrtle Street as well as on 5th Street.

RMCI, the contractor, has to install multiple concrete valley gutters across 15th Street at Myrtle Street, across 11th Street at 15th Street and on 9th Street at Canyon Road.

When the contractor places the valley gutters, detours will be established until the concrete has cured.

Paving operations Read More

County Line: Early Voting Begins Today

by

 

Satch Cowan Trail Dedication Monday

Join the Councilors at the trailhead at 11 a.m. as they “cut the ribbon” to open the new trail honoring Helen “Satch” Cowan. Meet at the trailhead of the Quemazon Trail in Western Area – hope to see you there! Read the News Release here:
https:////www.losalamosnm.us/news/Pages/NewSatchCowanTrailtobeDedicatedonOct22.aspx

Chat with the Chief on Monday

Police Chief Wayne Torpy will be in his office from 2 to 3 p.m., Oct. 22 and invites any member of the public to “drop by” and chat with him at the Police Read More

Dignitaries Dedicate PRObE Center at Research Park

by

LANL Director Charlie McMillan, center, and U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Lujan joined by other dignitaries, cut the ribbon on the new PRObE Center at the Los Alamos Research Park Thursday. Photo by Blake Jackson/LACDC

Staff Report

A grand opening celebration was held Thursday, Oct. 18 at the Los Alamos Research Park attended by many dignitaries, including U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Lujan, LANL Director Charlie McMillan and NSF representative Dr. Keith Marzullo, each of whom spoke at the event.

The New Mexico Consortium, LANL, Carnegie Mellon University and the National Science Foundation partnered to create Read More

Underground Power Failure Affects Portions of North Mesa

by

DPU News:

An underground power failure affected parts of North Mesa at approximately 1:45 p.m. Thursday. 

The underground line failed beneath the bus stop area at Hawks Landing and San Ildefonso.

Specifically, a single phase of three phase power was lost to homes on San Ildefonso and Alamo Roads, officials at the Los Alamos Department of Public Utilities (DPU) reported. 

DPU’s electric line crews initiated temporary repairs by 4:30 p.m. by back feeding electricity to restore power to the Alamo neighborhood.  

Power was restored by 4:45 p.m. to the remaining customers on San Read More

New Date Set for Covered Arena Groundbreaking

by

COUNTY News:

A community groundbreaking event for construction of the new Multi-Purpose Covered Arena at the North Mesa stables has been rescheduled for 3:30 p.m., Oct. 29 at Brewer Arena.

The event was originally set for last Friday afternoon but had to be canceled due to the massive hailstorm that hammered the area.

Building a covered arena for riding and exercising animals during inclement weather was approved by County Council at the budget hearings in May 2010.

The CIP Oversight Committee chose to move forward with 200’ x 75’ enclosed metal structure with three 25’ x 25’ covered pens on the Read More

Letter to the Editor: The Irony of it All

by

By Chief MAC (Doug MacDonald)
Ret. Los Alamos Fire Chief

I understand the Los Alamos Government Review Initiative’s (LACRI) are in opposition of the proposed amendments the Charter Review Committee (CRS) has recommended to the initiative and referendum provisions of the Charter; under the premise that the proposed signature requirements of 15 percent and timeframes of 60/90 days for referendums/initiatives are onerous.

I find LAGRI’s posture troubling. In January 2010 I attended a public meeting scheduled by the County Council.

The single topic of the meeting was to discuss LAGRI’s petitions Read More

Letter to the Editor: Vote ‘Yes’ on Charter Ballot Questions

by

By Kevin Holsapple
Los Alamos
Amongst the various elective office contests and ballot questions on the slate for November’s election are four local Charter ballot questions deserving of your attention and affirmation.
 
They deal with making improvements to the County Charter provisions dealing with citizen initiatives, referendums, recalls, and future Charter revisions.
 
A group formed by the County Council called the Charter Review Committee (CRC) performed a comprehensive review of the County Charter over the past few years, held a whole bunch of public meetings
Read More

Scarecrows and Pumpkin Glow Coming to Downtown

by

Two great events sponsored by Los Alamos Art Council
 
Build a Scarecrow! Scarecrows will decorate light poles in downtown Los Alamos Oct. 20-29.
 
Applications available at LAAC office and at LAAC website. $10 entry fee.
 
Once registered, bring assembled scarecrow to the Los Alamos Chamber of Commerce office from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 20.
 
For more information, call LAAC at 663-0477.
 
 
 

Read More

BREAKING NEWS: Emergency Century Link Work on Trinity and Diamond

by

COUNTY News!

EMERGENCY CENTURY LINK WORK ON TRINITY AND DIAMOND DRIVE

The eastbound curb lane of Trinity Drive in the vicinity of the Mountain Village apartments – east of 35th Street – is closed to allow Century Link to perform emergency line repairs.

This closure will impact the evening traffic commute and motorists are urged to either use the Truck Route or be prepared for delays on Trinity Drive.

Due to the nature of the emergency, crews may also need to work on Diamond Drive north of the Diamond/Trinity intersection during the evening commute.

Motorists are advised to expect Read More