Lifestyles

LAPS Is On Two-Hour Delay Due To Snow

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LAPS News:

Los Alamos Public Schools is on a two-hour delay this morning due to inclement weather.

All elementary morning half-day in-person programs are canceled. All in-person PreK-12 special education morning classes are canceled as well.

Snow crews have been out since 4 a.m. working to clear walkways and parking lots at the schools.
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Scenes Around Los Alamos Following Snow Storm

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View heading west this afternoon on the Main Hill Road. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

View this afternoon near the entrance to town. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

View looking west this afternoon in downtown Los Alamos. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

View this afternoon at the intersection of 15th and Central Avenue. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

View this afternoon near Central and Oppenheimer Drive. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

View heading east late this afternoon on Canyon Road. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

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Scenes From Rotary Club’s 12th Annual Crab Fest Dinner

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Rotarians Lesley Harelson, left, and Linda King package meals for pick-up and delivery at the Rotary Club 12th Annual Crab Fest Saturday night at Cottonwood on the Greens. Photo by Kateri Morris

From left, LAHS Rotary Interact volunteer Malia Hanawalt, Rotarian Melissa Metcalf and Cottonwood on the Greens co-owner Pawel Listwan. Photo by Kateri Morris

COMMUNITY News:

The Rotary Club of Los Alamos held its 12th Annual Crab Fest fundraiser Saturday night at Cottonwood on the Greens.

Rotary members and volunteers packaged 230 dinners sold and delivered 190 dinners, 40 of which were donated Read More

Posts From The Road: Route 66 National Museum

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National Route 66 Museum: A large neon sign sits in front of the National Route 66 Museum in Elk City, Okla. Historic Route 66 as it is known today passes by the museum complex. Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com

Mid-Century Travel: A display in the Route 66 Museum features a restored 1940 Chevrolet in front of a typical motel, or tourist court as they were called at that time. Also note other signs of mid-century travel such as the Burma-Shave sign and a drive-in movie speaker. Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com

By GARY WARREN
Photographer
Formerly of Los Alamos

Route 66, Will Rogers Highway, Read More

Fr. Glenn: ‘Recalculating…’

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By Fr. Glenn Jones:

Well, a happy Valentine’s Day (or week, depending on when you read this) to you all…our annual societal tribute to romance … to affection … to luuuvvvv. For you husbands that forgot, well … I hope the couch is comfy. (“Ouch…move over, dog!”) Even after all these years, I remember still our 1st grade exercise of making Valentines for all our classmates … even the “yucky” girls. Yet, it wasn’t long before those girls weren’t quite so yucky anymore, and then hardly any time when a young lad thinks of little else … the mere presence of his beloved bringing incomparable joy … and her absence Read More

The Many Myths Behind Inspiration For Valentine’s Day

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Saint Valentine, who according to some sources is actually two distinct historical characters. Fototeca Gilardi/Getty

By LIVIA GERSHON
History.com

On February 14, when we share chocolates, special dinners, or doily cards with our loved ones, we do it in the name of Saint Valentine. But who was this saint of romance?

Search the internet, and you can find plenty of stories about him—or them. One Saint Valentine was supposedly a Roman priest who performed secret weddings against the wishes of the authorities in the third century. Imprisoned in the home of a noble, he healed his captor’s blind daughter, Read More