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Los Alamos Good News Clubs Begin Monday Sept. 8

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Los Alamos Good News Clubs start next week after school. Courtesy photo

COMMUNITY News:

The Los Alamos Good News Clubs are starting next week. Each Club meets 2:40-4:30 p.m. once a week after school and features Bible and missionary stories, Scripture memory, songs, games, snacks, prizes and occasional crafts.

The Clubs are non-denominational, are entirely free, and run from September through the end of April.  No Clubs on snow days, holidays, or parents’ conference days. Parents must fill out a registration form.

Schedule:

  • Mondays beginning Sept. 8: Aspen (library), Mountain (music
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Learn About Survival, Strength, & Resilience Of Diné & Ndé People At Bosque Redondo Memorial’s Fall Ranger Tours

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NMDCA News:

Visitors can join a ranger-guided tour at Bosque Redondo Memorial at Fort Sumner Historic Site from 1–3 p.m., Saturdays, Sept.–Nov., 2025, to learn about the complicated history of the site.

Ranger Lily and Instructional Coordinator Rebekha offer a weekly guided tour of the permanent exhibition, Bosque Redondo…A Place of Suffering…A Place of Survival, which is a living testament of the “Long Walk,” and forced internment of the Diné (Navajo) and Ndé (Mescalero Apache). In addition to touring the exhibit, participants will also experience a tour of the outdoor grounds, visit Read More

Harwood Museum Presents ‘Pursuit Of Happiness: GI Bill In Taos’, Opening Sept. 27

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Eva Mirabal, Buy War Bonds, 1942, offset poster, 19 3⁄4 x 16 1/8, unframed. Courtesy of Jonathan Warm Day Coming.

Oli Sihvonen, 3 by 3, 2 Blue, Brown, and Green, 1975, acrylic on canvas, 29 1/8 x 29 3/8. Courtesy of M.A. Healy Family Foundation Purchase Fund. Collection of Harwood Museum of Art.

ART News:

TAOS — This fall, Harwood Museum of Art is pleased to present Pursuit of Happiness: GI Bill in Taos, a large-scale exhibition that re-centers post-World War II American art history through the lens of the GI Bill and its transformative impact on the Taos art scene. On view from Sept. 27, 2025, through Read More

Cumbres & Toltec’s Dark Sky Train Sept. 20 & Oct. 3

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Photo credit Pete Lerro Photography

C&TSR News:

This fall, the historic Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad is offering a brand-new way to experience Colorado’s night skies. The Dark Sky Train will depart on Sept. 20 and Oct. 3, 2025, carrying passengers along the Colorado/New Mexico border and deep into the San Luis Valley—one of the darkest, quietest places in North America.

The train will stop at Big Horn Wye, a remote location unreachable by road, where guests can step off for 90 minutes of unforgettable stargazing. From the Milky Way stretching overhead to brilliant constellations Read More

Fr. Theophan: Remember To Love Your Town

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By Fr. Theophan
Rector
Saint Job of Pochaiv Orthodox Church

This past week I had the pleasure and great opportunity to attend an iconography workshop in Carnegie, a small suburb of Pittsburg. I stayed with my parents in West Virginia right across the state border. Adjacent to the class, I conducted a wedding ceremony in a beautiful Orthodox church in Greenville, S.C., and served a liturgy in Anderson, nearby.

I feel like breaking into song with Johnny Cash, “I’ve been everywhere, man…”

Other than the airline trip back home, which is worth a novel in itself for all the twists and turns it made, the Read More

Historical Society Lecture Series Kicks Off Sept. 9

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LAHS News:

The Los Alamos Historical Society’s 2025–2026 Lecture Series kicks off with Collisions: The Life and Mind of Luis W. Alvarez. From 7–9 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 9, Author Alec Nevala-Lee will explore Alvarez’s remarkable life and far-reaching impact.

Nobel Prize–winning physicist Luis W. Alvarez made groundbreaking contributions across fields ranging from radar and particle physics to the theory of dinosaur extinction.

A book signing will follow the lecture in the Pajarito Room at Fuller Lodge. Don’t miss the chance to meet the author and have your copy signed!

This event is free Read More

Today Marks Labor Day 2025

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Labor Day History:

Today is Labor Day, which pays tribute to the contributions and achievements of American workers.

It was created by the labor movement in the late 19th century and became a federal holiday in 1894.

Labor Day weekend also symbolizes the end of summer for many Americans and is celebrated with parties, street parades and athletic events.

When Is Labor Day?

Labor Day is always observed on the first Monday in September.

Why Do We Celebrate Labor Day?

Labor Day, an annual celebration of workers and their achievements, originated during one of American labor history’s most dismal

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New Mexico PBS Production Teams Wins 2025 Indigenous Media Award For Best Multimedia

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NMPBS News:

ALBUQUERQUE — New Mexico PBS (NMPBS) congratulates the Indigenously Positive series production team for winning a 2025 Indigenous Media Award for Best Multimedia, for their story, “Gaza looms over election for some Native people.”

Indigenously Positive is a collaborative partnership between New Mexico in Focus, NMPBS’ weekly news and public affairs show, and nonprofit news organization New Mexico In Depth. Episodes air on In Focus and are published on both organizations’ websites.

The Indigenous Journalists Association (IJA) presented awards recognizing outstanding Read More

Honor. Remember. Climb The Cube. For 9/11 Responders

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Be part of a commemorative celebration at the New Mexico Museum of Space History to honor the bravery of 9/11 first responders with the invigorating Climb the Cube event on Sept. 13. Courtesy/NMMSH

NMMSH News:

ALAMOGORDO — Be part of a commemorative celebration at the New Mexico Museum of Space History as we honor the bravery of 9/11 first responders with the invigorating Climb the Cube event on Saturday, Sept. 13, 2025! Registration opens at 7:30 a.m. Space is limited, so we strongly encourage participants to register in advance.

This event is a heartfelt tribute to the firefighters, police Read More

Intro To The Jewish High Holy Days: A Two-Part Exploration

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Courtesy/LAJC

By RABBI JACK SHLACHTER
Los Alamos Jewish Center

In communities around the world, countless rabbis are at this very moment engaged in the enormously challenging task of exhorting Jews to attend the local synagogue for the upcoming holidays of Rosh HaShanah, the “New Year,” and Yom Kippur, the “Day of Atonement.”

As in everything, however, Los Alamos is unique – our rabbi (yours truly) is only gently encouraging Jews to come to the Los Alamos Jewish Center for these Jewish High Holidays. If ever there was a time in the past several decades when identifying with the Jewish community Read More