Lifestyles

Atomic City Transit Rte 2M (Main Hill) Suspended June 7-9

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Atomic City Transit. Post file photo

COUNTY News:

Los Alamos County Atomic City Transit has announced that service will be suspended on Route 2M (Main Hill) starting Tuesday, June 7 through Thursday, June 9 due to a staffing shortage.

Bus riders are asked to use Route 2T (Truck Route), which will continue to operate its regular schedule from 5:55 a.m. until 6:58 p.m. Monday through Friday. The County apologizes for any inconvenience this may cause. 

Call (505) 661-RIDE (7433) for additional information or use the ACTracker to locate bus routes in real-time.  For the specific route service schedules, Read More

County: Trenching Scheduled Next 2 Weeks In White Rock

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COUNTY News:

The Los Alamos Department of Public Utilities (DPU) will replace about 1,500 feet of underground electric line over the next two weeks on Cheryl Avenue and Aragon Avenue.

The work will be done between 7 a.m. and 5 p.m. weekdays by Parker Construction.

The replacement, starting Tuesday and ending by June 21, will require excavation along Aragon Avenue from Cheryl Avenue to Bryce Avenue and along Cheryl Avenue for about 160 feet from Aragon heading west.

A trench will be dug in the street next to the curb. Traffic barricades and utility work signs will be placed in the vicinity and if necessary, Read More

New Mexico Tourism Department Seeks To Create Nation’s First Statewide Tourism Exchange

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NMTD News:

SANTA FE — The New Mexico Tourism Department (NMTD) released a Request for Proposal (RFP) May 20 for an integrated tourism exchange platform, which will enable a better travel planning and booking experience for suppliers and customers.

Tourism exchanges are government-supported digital business-to-business distribution platforms that connect suppliers and distributers, as well as intermediaries such as online travel agencies. It then can provide the engagement data from the platform to provide more sophisticated analytics to those intermediaries, as well as local destination Read More

Posts From The Road: Zion National Park’s Kolob Canyons

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Initial View: After leaving the visitors center, visitors travel a short distance before rounding a bend in the road giving them their initial view of the Kolob Canyons. The first of several stops allow one to get out of the car and ‘take in’ this magnificent view. Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com

Red and Orange: Another vantagepoint gives visitors a view of the brilliant red and orange canyon walls that rise from the valley floor. Many of the cliffs in Kolob Canyons are 2,000 feet high. The light green spring growth accent the red walls and darker green conifer trees in this view. Photo by Gary Read More

Cone Zone: Week Of June 6, 2022

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COUNTY News:

Public Works Projects: 

The projects listed in this section are being managed by County Public Works staff through contractors.

For more information, e-mail 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.

Sherwood Boulevard and Aztec Avenue

Crews with Star Paving Company will continue road and drainage improvements on Sherwood Read More

Los Alamos Faith And Science Forum’s Ninth Summer Series Kick Off Lecture Draws Full House

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An audience member asks a question of Professor Marty Hewlett during his lecture Wednesday at the Los Alamos Faith and Science Forum in Kelly Hall at Trinity-on-the Hill Episcopal Church. Courtesy/LAFSF

LAFSF News:

The Los Alamos Faith and Science Forum (LAFSF) kicked off its ninth summer series to a full house last Wednesday in Kelly Hall of Trinity-on-the Hill Episcopal Church. Professor Marty Hewlett spoke on “Darwinian Evolution: perspectives from science, philosophy, and theology.”

Professor Hewlett began by identifying three ways of seeing and knowing – through science, philosophy, Read More

Fr. Glenn: ‘You are gods!’

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By Fr. Glenn Jones:

You know … when you think about it, we human beings are wonderfully made. After all, not only do we live and grow and are animate like all animals, but unlike them, we can think, plan, reflect, discern cause and effect, conduct science, etc. St. Thomas Aquinas wrote that our mental ability is that which makes us most like God (though still infinitely less than Him, of course). And Jesus, when rebuffing an opponents’ challenge, quotes Psalm 82: “Is it not written in your Law, ‘I have said ‘you are “gods’”? (John 10:34)

We might then remember Rene Descartes’ contemplation of whether Read More

Democrats Gather For Meet & Greet At Pig & Fig Cafe

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LLocal Democratic candidates from left, County Council incumbent Randall Ryti, Councilor Melanee Hand and Probate Judge incumbent Michael Redondo at the final Democratic Meet & Greet of the 2022 Primary Election season held this morning on the patio at Pig + Fig Cafe in White Rock. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com

White Rock Precinct Chair David Schiferl, left, with Democratic Primary Candidate for New Mexico Attorney General Brian Colon, who traveled to town this morning to chat with local Democrats at the Meet & Greet. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com Read More