Education

Del Norte LOV Foundation Announces 2025 Spring Cycle Community Grant-Making Program Recipients

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DNCU News:

SANTA FE — The Del Norte LOV (Living Our Vision) Foundation, an independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization associated with Del Norte Credit Union (DNCU), has announced the seven nonprofit organization recipients of its 2025 Spring Community Grant-Making Program.

Each nonprofit organization grantee will receive $2,500 in charitable funds towards their programming for a total investment of $17,500 to the community.

The Del Norte LOV Foundation, with the help of its DNCU Employee Foundation Committee, reviewed 38 applications submitted during the spring cycle’s request Read More

SFI Community Lecture ‘Climate Change And Contagion: Complex Crises Past And Present’ June 18

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Image: detail “Ice Harvest” Maurice Cullen. Oil on canvas. 1914. Source: Montréal Museum of Fine Arts. Courtesy/SFI

SFI News:

One of the greatest challenges we’ve ever faced as a species is anthropogenic climate change. Can the history of climate variability and change offer us solutions for the future? Paleoclimatology — the reconstruction of Earth’s past — reveals how shifts in the environment shaped the rise and fall of civilizations. Climate change has often been associated with what seem to be “contagious” risks, from conflict to pandemic disease. Drawing lessons and Read More

Scenes Of Recent Construction At Chamisa Elementary

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The newly constructed Chamisa Elementary School main building received its final coat of paint recently at 301 Meadow Lane in White Rock. Construction continues on the project to replace the decades-old former school. Workers are removing portables from the school grounds, digging up the old parking lot, and removing playground equipment from the former primary playground. Photo by Bernadette Lauritzen

Scene at the construction site for the new Chamisa Elementary School viewed recently at 301 Meadow Lane in White Rock. Photo by Bernadette Lauritzen

Scene at the construction site for Read More

NM Tech’s LunaMiners Scoop Up Fairy Tale Ending At CoSMiC Collegiate Space Mining Competition

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New Mexico Tech’s LunaMiners team competed at the CoSMiC Collegiate Space Mining Competition. Courtesy photo

New Mexico Tech’s LunaMiners team competed at the CoSMiC Collegiate Space Mining Competition. Courtesy photo

NMT News:

AMES, IA — New Mexico Tech’s LunaMiners team recently showcased their exceptional engineering capabilities by sweeping the CoSMiC Collegiate Space Mining Competition held at Iowa State University. The three-day competition challenged teams to design and build autonomous robots capable of lunar construction tasks, specifically excavating and stacking Read More

Summer VBS Reimagined At United Church Of Los Alamos

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United Church News:

The community is invited to learn about Juneteenth and the mandate from the prophet Micah to “seek justice, love kindness and walk humbly with God.”

Summer VBS is being reimagined at the United Church on Canyon Road as Summer Family VBS Thursdays. The action will be Vespers, Bible Study and Supper for all ages 5:30-7 p.m. on three Thursdays this summer.

  • Vespers, Bible and Supper
  • Thursday, June 19, 5:30-7 p.m.

All are invited to join in the intergenerational fast-paced fun starting June 19 with Juneteenth & Justice!. Next, July 24 will be Rhythm of the Church year, assisted Read More

SFCC Library To Present “Herding Poems: A Reading By Miriam Sagan” July 31

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Book cover of “What Solitude Sees in Me: Uncollected Poems 1976-2023”. Courtesy photo

SFCC News:

SANTA FE — Santa Fe Community College Library will present “Herding Poems: A Reading by Miriam Sagan” from 5–6:15 p.m., Thursday, July 31. The free online poetry event begins with a half-hour reading by Sagan who will read from her latest book, “What Solitude Sees in Me: Uncollected Poems 1976-2023,” published by Casa Urraca Press in Abiquiú. The second half will be an open discussion on how to put a poetry manuscript together. Register here to be sent an online link on the morning of the event.

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Duplicate Bridge In Los Alamos: June 11, 2025 Game Results

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Bridge News:

Here is a hand from the June 11 game of the Los Alamos Duplicate Bridge Club that offers both sides an opportunity to bid to a makable part score. 

However, if West, the dealer, opens with 1♣, it is doubtful that N/S makable part score.

However, if West, the dealer, opens with 1♣, it is doubtful that N/S will ever enter the auction, though they are cold for 4♦!

This is board #12. West is the dealer and N/S are vulnerable.

 

North
♠ A8
♥ 93
♦ AT96
♣ KT764
West East
♠ K765 ♠ Q93
♥ AQ72 ♥ KJT865
♦ Q ♦ K7
♣ J852 ♣ Q3
South
♠ JT42
♥ 4
♦ J85432
♣ A9

After West opens the bidding with 1♣, North has no bid and East should Read More

Friends Of History First Wednesday Presentation: Who Are The Pueblos? By Cultural Educator Jon Ghahate July 2

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Acoma Pueblo. Courtesy/Jon Ghahate

Friends of History of New Mexico History Museum News:

The Friends of History will present on July 2 its first Wednesday presentation, “Who Are the Pueblos? The History and Legacy of the Ancient-to-Contemporary Puebloans” by Pueblo Cultural Educator Jon Ghahate.

Details:

Background:

Drawing on historical, cultural, and archaeological evidence surrounding US Southwest ancestral sites, this presentation offers an analysis of the Ancestral Puebloan Read More

New Mexico State Bar Foundation’s Legal Resources For The Elderly Program Hosting Free Webinar June 24

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New Mexico State Bar News:

ALBUQUERQUE — The New Mexico State Bar Foundation’s Legal Resources for the Elderly Program (“LREP”) will be hosting a free virtual legal webinar starting at 11 a.m. on June 24.

The webinar, which aims to equip attendees with integral financial knowledge, will cover information regarding debt problems, including what happens if a person can’t pay their debts, what actions debt collectors can take, and what actions a person may take if they are sued for a debt they owe.

New Mexico residents can register for this free webinar online or by calling 505.797.6005 and providing Read More

New Mexico Court Education Institute Presents Former UNM Law Professor Barbara Bergman Judicial Education Award

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Law professor Barbara E. Bergman

Administrative Office of the Courts News:

ALBUQUERQUE – Law professor Barbara E. Bergman received an award June 12 honoring her lasting contributions to judicial education in New Mexico.

The New Mexico Court Education Institute (CEI) presented Bergman with the inaugural Rozier E. Sanchez CEI Faculty Award for excellence in judicial education during a ceremony in Albuquerque at the annual training conference for state court judges.

Bergman taught at the University of New Mexico School of Law for 28 years and in 2016 joined the faculty of the James E. Rogers Read More