Education

U10 Toppers Are 2025 ABX LAX Fiesta Champions

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ABX LAX Fiesta U10 Champions from left, Coach Jennifer Martinez, Liam Hand, Korbin Parton, David Hargather, Aubry Hand, Antonio Martinez, Ronan Parton. Back row from left, Michael Rosenow and Devlin Rosenow (elevated). Rhys Rosenow kneeling and Elijah Martinez chillaxing. Future players Amber Martinez and Isla Rosenow are also featured. Not present Conner Komathy, Brian Cardon and Steven Richardson.

By MICHAEL ROSENOW
LAYLAX Hilltoppers

After two festive games on Saturday and the Championship on Sunday, the U10 Toppers came out on top with a 30-6 spread over three games. The team incorporated Read More

Improve Smartphone Photography Skills Workshop May 25

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MIAC News:

The community is invited to learn how to get the most out of phone cameras with Rapheal Begay (Diné), 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday, May 25.

Begay is an artist based in Tségháhoodzání (Window Rock, Ariz.). His work uses cultural landscape photography and creative collaboration to celebrate and preserve the Diné way of life. Visual sovereignty, Indigenous storytelling traditions, and land-based knowledge inform his research and practice.

The workshop begins in the Education Classroom and moves to the Arroyo outside the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture (MIAC) in Santa Fe.

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Pages Of Our History: Highlights Of The Life Of Los Alamos Ranch School Student Whitney Ashbridge

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Whitney Ashbridge as a boy at the Ranch Schoool. Courtesy/Los Alamos Historical Society Photo Archives

By SHARON SNYDER
Los Alamos

Several Los Alamos Ranch School boys have returned to the site of their school in their adult years, bringing back the memories. One such boy returned in his adult years, but he had very little time to reminisce during the months he spent on the grounds of his old school. That returning Ranch School boy was Col. Whitney Ashbridge, the Post Commander for the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos.

Ashbridge was born in 1904 in Philadelphia, Penn. He attended the Los Alamos Ranch Read More

Los Alamos High School Graduate Lillian Kay Petersen Named 2025 Hertz Fellow

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Lillian Kay Petersen

COMMUNITY News:

Lillian Kay Petersen, a 2020 graduate of Los Alamos High School, has been named a 2025 Hertz Fellow.

Petersen aims to reveal the mechanisms of gene regulation by combining high-throughput microfluidic assays and synthetic biology. She is a first-year doctoral student in genetics at Stanford University. In 2024, she graduated from Harvard University, where she studied applied mathematics and molecular biology.

Petersen has written three first-author papers to date, ranging from revealing the genetic underpinnings of disease to predicting crop Read More

Los Alamos Local Business Coalition Invites Community To Forum #4: Tools And Strategies Workshop May 29

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LALBC News:

The Los Alamos Local Business Coalition (LALBC) invites all community members, business owners, and local leaders to attend Forum #4: Tools and Strategies Workshop at 5:30 p.m., Thursday, May 29, 2025, at SALA Event Center, with a live Zoom option for remote attendees.

This interactive forum will shift the conversation from identifying problems to building practical solutions. Attendees will participate in group workshops to develop and refine bold, actionable strategies aimed at improving the local business environment. The workshop format will use the “IMAGINE” framework, Read More

PAC 8 Summer Media Classes Start June 2

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PAC 8 News:

PAC 8 summer media classes start June 2 and there are still a few openings for students aged 8-14. Students have opportunities to learn videography, editing using Premiere Pro, drone flying with photography and video, music composition, lighting, special effects, and GoPro video. New classes this year are 2-D and 3-D stop motion animation and Starting a YouTube channel for kids. These classes help students learn about teamwork and provide a creative outlet for them. They also help students to develop their technical skills along with their reading and writing skills. Read More

LAHS Robotics Has Successful 2024-2025 Season

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The Project Y team at the FIRST in Texas District Championships. Courtesy photo

The team showing off the robot at the ASME Northern New Mexico Social Mixer. Courtesy photo

LAPS News:

Los Alamos’ local high school robotics team, Project Y, has seen a successful 2024-2025 season. They competed with the For Inspiration of and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) program with the FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) division. They spent seven weeks designing, building, and programming a robot able to perform various tasks needed for the FRC game, REEFSCAPE.

From March 7-9, Project Y competed Read More

St. John’s College 58th Commencement Ceremony May 24

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Dr. Stephen Forman

SJC News:

SANTA FE — St. John’s College will hold its 58th Commencement ceremony at 10:30 p.m., Saturday, May 24. Approximately 130 members [LS2] of the Class of 2025, including undergraduates and students in the Graduate Institute’s Master of Liberal Arts and Master of Eastern Classics in-person and low-residency programs, will receive their degrees from the college, which recently celebrated its 60th anniversary in the City of Santa Fe.

St. John’s College Class of 1970 alum and emeritus member of the college’s Board of Visitors and Governors, Dr. Stephen Forman Read More

Los Luceros Kids Day Camp June 16-20

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DCA News:

Returning this summer, PEEC and Los Luceros Historic Site are teaming up once again to offer a collaborative day camp filled with hands-on projects and outdoor adventures 9 a.m. – 4 p.m., Monday – Friday, June 16 – 20.

Campers will explore the bosque with friends while diving into themes from the beloved New Mexico Outdoor Pass booklet. Each day highlights a new theme, inspiring curiosity and discovery about the natural world. As they complete activities, campers will earn exciting outdoor prizes like camping mugs, picnic blankets, and multipurpose tools, perfect Read More

Scenes Of School Bus And Car Collision On Diamond Drive

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Los Alamos police and firefighters responded to the scene of a school bus and car collision early this afternoon on Diamond Drive near Los Alamos High School. LAPD reports that the bus driver was cited for failure to yield, and the juvenile in the other car was transported to Los Alamos Medical Center with non-life-threatening injuries. Courtesy photo 

The school bus involved in a collision with a car early this afternoon on Diamond Drive near Los Alamos High School in which the bus driver was cited for failure to yield, and the juvenile in the other car was transported to Los Alamos Medical Center Read More