Lifestyles

Community Invited To Bliny Breakfast At St. Job’s March 1

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St. Job of Pochaiv Orthodox Christian Church will host a bliny breakfast March 1. Courtesy photo

By Father Theophan
Rector
Saint Job of Pochaiv Orthodox Church

St. Job of Pochaiv Orthodox Christian Church is again offering our traditional bliny breakfast, 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, March 1.

Normally we don’t have coinciding fasts, but this year Lent in the West and the Great Fast in the East coincide, with us both celebrating Easter/Pascha on April 20.

The two Sunday’s leading up to the Orthodox observation of the Great Fast, this year, are Meatfare Sunday, Feb. 23, the last time we consume meat, Read More

Public Works Dept. Announces Restart Of DP Road Phase II

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COUNTY News:

The Los Alamos County Public Works Department announces the restart of scheduled construction on DP Road. The project activities ramped up this past week with material deliveries. Beginning Monday, Feb. 24, new lane closures and flagging operations will begin on DP Road to install the new force main sewer pipe infrastructure.

Motorists visiting DP Road should expect minor delays as there will be one lane road configurations. Traffic in these areas will be managed by flagging operations. Traffic control may change periodically to allow completion of scheduled work including Read More

House Committee Passes $1.5 Billion Road Funding Bill

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NMDOT News:

SANTA FE — A bipartisan bill authorizing $1.5 billion in transportation bonds cleared its first legislative hurdle today, winning unanimous approval from the House Transportation, Public Works & Capital Improvements Committee to help address New Mexico’s $5.6 billion road funding shortfall. 

The House Appropriations and Finance Committee will next consider House Bill 145, sponsored by Reps. Dayan Hochman-Vigil, Patricia A. Lundstrom, Art De La Cruz, Cathrynn N. Brown, and Nathan P. Small. The legislation would empower the State Transportation Commission Read More

LA Mountaineers Discuss Europe’s Toughest Trek Feb. 25

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The Grande Randonnée No. 20 climbed one cliff after another for days on end. Courtesy/Mountaineers

By BILL PRIEDHORSKY
Los Alamos Mountaineers

At the Feb. 25 Los Alamos Mountaineers meeting, Martin Staley will talk about his trek along the French Grande Randonnée No. 20, or GR20, in Corsica, France, which is billed as the toughest long-distance trek in Europe.

Martin traveled to Corsica in July 2024 to trek the entire GR20 with a guided group, covering over 120 miles and nearly 45,000 feet of total elevation gain and loss over the course of 13 days. The GR20 is a spectacular trail that winds its Read More

Water Transmission Line Replacement & Fiber Conduit Installation Underway Along NM 4

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Work underway Wednesday morning along N.M. 4. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

Map of construction of a new water transmission line underway along N.M. 4. Courtesy/LAC

By CAROL A. CLARK
Los Alamos Daily Post
caclark@ladailypost.com

A planned reconstruction of N.M. 4 between N.M. 502 and Rover Boulevard in White Rock by the New Mexico Department of Transportation (NMDOT) has prompted the need for a new 16” water transmission line. It will be constructed and placed outside of the planned expanded roadway. The existing transmission line has experienced multiple breaks and would be Read More

Mason: Rev Your Engines For Electric School Buses!

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By SARA ANN MASON
Los Alamos

What would you say to saving our schools money, reducing students and school staff exposure to a known cause of chronic health conditions, increasing community air quality, and lowering carbon emissions?

You might think such wide-ranging benefits require many different policies, but they are all achievable by simply converting our school buses to electric vehicles. And we have the opportunity to make that easier for our schools this legislative session!

House Bill 32, “Electric or Alternative Fuel School Buses”, makes electric school buses available and affordable Read More

Posts From The Road: Stepping Back In Time In Lowell, Ariz.

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Strayhound: An old Greyhound Bus sits near the Bus Stop on Erie Street in Lowell, Ariz. However the bus has been renamed the Strayhound by those who have volunteered their time to save this business district in Lowell. A view up the street gives a glimpse of what the area was like decades ago. Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com

Shell: A Shell gas station sits at the top end of Erie Street in Lowell. This was the first building restored and repainted to look as it did in the 1950s. The old Chevy sits out in front of the garage to add an additional nostalgia to the scene. Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com Read More

Fr. Glenn: As Trees By The River

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By Fr. Glenn Jones:

Oh, do we not love to focus on the positive of things? We love immediate gratification; after all, planning ahead and/or looking at inevitable consequences is sooooo not fun. And even Jesus said a kind of version of the same thing, didn’t He?! “Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day’s own trouble be sufficient for the day.” (Matthew 6:34) Carpe diem!!

That’s the danger of taking scripture piecemeal—like Satan did in his tempting of Jesus, by the way—rather than looking at it as a whole. For just before the verse above, Read More

All Shall Be Well: Love Is Patient, Love Is Kind…Love Never Ends

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Clergy from left, Deacon Amy Schmuck, Deacon Cynthia Biddlecomb, retired, The Rev. Mary Ann Hill and The Rev. Lynn Finnegan. Photo by Nate Limback/ladailypost.com

By The Rev. Lynn M. Finnegan
Associate Rector
The Episcopal Church of the Holy Faith

Recently, I met with a couple planning to be married in the Spring. For their ceremony, they requested the most requested wedding scripture of all time: a passage from St. Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians. It reads:

Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable Read More