Lifestyles

Trinity On The Hill Welcomes New Rector Rev. Mary Ann Hill

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Rev. Mary Ann Hill

TOTH News:

Trinity on the Hill Episcopal Church has announced that the Rev. Mary Ann Hill will be joining the church as its new rector as of May 1.

Reverend Mary Ann was ordained in 2002 after a career at the University of Illinois as an academic advisor to graduate and undergraduate students in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures. She served in several parishes and comes to TOTH after 15 years as rector of St. Dunstan’s Episcopal Church in Tulsa, Okla. There, to name but a few accomplishments, she supervised a sizeable church preschool and founded a Latino mission Read More

SFCC Hosts Roadrunner Car Club Porsche Owners For Tech Session Open To The Public May 6

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SFCC News:

Santa Fe Community College (SFCC) will host a tech session at the Automotive Technology Center for the Roadrunner Region Porsche Club of America at 11 a.m. Saturday, May 6 on SFCC campus, 6401 Richards Avenue.

Members will drive Porsches to rally at the center. The club and college welcome the public to attend the tour and see the Porsches.

Attendance is free, but attendees are encouraged to email Rob Ryan at robreagan2@gmail.com for planning purposes.

For more information about the SFCC Automotive Technology Center and SFCC’s Automotive Technologies Program contact Director Read More

West Road To Close For Utility Repair Tuesday-Thursday

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Map Courtesy/LAC 

Map Courtesy/LAC

COUNTY News:

A portion of West Road will be closed Tuesday through Thursday this week for an emergency utility repair.

Los Alamos Department of Public Utilities (DPU) crews will be repairing a broken non-potable water line in the center of the road. West Road traffic will be stopped south of Fairway Drive down to Omega Road at the overflow Los Alamos County Ice Rink parking lot.

The ice rink, Los Alamos Reservoir and Camp May will be accessible from the west. Anyone wishing to access those areas from Los Alamos will need to drive through the Los Alamos National Read More

Mountaineers Talk Features Rock Climbing In The Bugaboos

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Jonathan Regele atop the Bugaboos in British Columbia. Courtesy/Jonathan Regele.

By BILL PRIEDHORSKY
Los Alamos Mountaineers

Jonathan Regele will speak about “Rock Climbing the Bugaboos” during the April 25 Mountaineers meeting, which will be held in person and with a hybrid adjunct.

Regele and his family made a one month road trip during July 2022 up through the Canadian Rockies and over to the pacific northwest. He hired a climbing guide for a 4 day trip to the Bugaboos in British Columbia. While there, they stayed in the Conrad Kain Hut and climbed the Crescent Towers Donkey’s Ears and the Read More

Cone Zone: Week Of April 24, 2023

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COUNTY News:

Los Alamos County construction news for the week of April 24, 2023.

Public Works Projects:

The projects listed in this section are being managed by County Public Works staff through contractors. For more information, email lacpw@lacnm.us, call 505.662.8150, or visit the “Projects/Public Works” link at www.losalamosnm.us. Please slow down and use caution within the construction work zones. Please note the below information is based on a schedule provided by the contractors and may change due to weather or other delays.

33rd / 34th Street Road and Utility Improvements:

Beginning Read More

Posts From The Road: Hill Country Bluebonnets

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Bulls and Bluebonnets: In many areas around the hill country west of Austin and San Antonio, Texas various animals graze among the bluebonnets and other wildflowers in the fields. Seen are two bulls standing in a field of bluebonnets staring at the photographer trying to figure out what the guy is up to! Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com 

Boat In the Bonnets: A small boat rests on the shore of a pond near Kingsland, Texas among a blanket of bluebonnets. The granite rocks surrounding the pond add another level of interest to the scene. Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com

By GARY WARREN
Photographer Read More

Fr. Glenn: That Which Cannot Be Killed

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By Fr. Glenn Jones:

Ever been the object—nay, the victim—of a harmful, yet baseless, rumor?

I’ve recently watched a murder mystery series on PBS: Vienna Blood. In one episode, an antagonist, threatening a protagonist so as to keep him from submitting evidence of a crime, warns that he and his toadies would draft a false and damaging tale against him, warning him: “You can’t kill a rumor. Like a hydra, you cut off one head, and two spring up in its place.”

Probably most of us have been the subject of the rumor mill at one time or another. People love to speculate about the faults of others—very likely so Read More

All Shall Be Well: Creation Care

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Clergy from left, Deacon Cynthia Biddlecomb, retired; Pastor Nicolé Ferry, Assistant Rector Lynn Finnegan and Pastor Deb Church. Courtesy photo

By Reverend Lynn Finnegan
The Episcopal Church of the Holy Faith
Santa Fe

When I was in eighth grade, my “reading” teacher began each class with a list of ten words. We then had to use our (paper) thesauruses and produce a list of synonyms for each word. I found the task incredibly tedious.

Today, I am grateful for the tedium! The exercise impressed upon me the power and nuances of words and language. Take the word “dominion”. In a majority of English translations Read More