Daily Postcard: Springtime in the Moreno Valley. The ice covering Eagle Nest Lake is beginning to melt as seen on March 30, 2024. Photo by Marc Bailey
EMNRD News:
SANTA FE — The State Parks Division of the Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department (EMNRD) is embarking on a $1 million project to upgrade comfort stations at Elephant Butte Lake State Park.
The project, to be completed in stages, will begin April 1, 2024, and is anticipated to continue through August of 2024. It will entail demolishing an antiquated comfort station at the park’s main entrance and completely renovating two campground comfort stations.
“We will have to close these stations as they are being worked on,” Park Superintendent Chris Bolen said. “We ask our visitors Read More
Scene from the Los Alamos Bridge Club sectional tournament. Courtesy/BESC
JERRY FLEMING
Los Alamos Bridge Tournament Director
The Los Alamos Bridge Club held its first sectional tournament in five years, co-hosted by the Bridge Club and the Betty Ehart Senior Center.
There were 58.5 tables and 65 players participating more than five sessions. Most of the players were from Los alamos and Santa Fe, but there were players from Albuquerque, Las Cruces and out of state.
Local players fared quite well, with Sig Lodwig, John Ruminer, Cliff Rudy, Jennifer Young, Earle Marie Hanson, Steve Kemic, Martin Read More
By GEORGE MORSE
Sports And Outdoors
Los Alamos Daily Post
This is the last week that you can legally fish using your current license. The new 2024-2025 license season begins April 1 (Monday). It will expire March 31, 2025.
Licenses can be obtained online or pur hated at license vendors throughout the state. They can also be purchased at State Department of Game and Fish offices.
If you currently have a Colorado fishing license, the same dates will apply.
Streamflows are slowly rising. Spring runoff has yet to really begin and is likely to still be several weeks away. It look like it will start peaking Read More
Daily Postcard: The view early this morning at Pajarito Mountain Ski Area where because of all the snow, the season is extended to April 14. The community is invited to attend Easter Brunch 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday, March 31, followed by a huge Easter Egg hunt on the snow – one side for kids 7 and under; the other for 7+ with hundreds of easter eggs hidden on the slopes. Learn more here. Courtesy/PMSA Read More
Photo by Kiefer Garcia
Courtesy/Santo Domingo Pueblo
EDD News:
SANTA FE — The New Mexico Outdoor Recreation Division (ORD) of the New Mexico Economic Development Department (EDD) has announced funding of $975,142 in new Outdoor Equity Fund (OEF) awards to 33 organizations.
These awards will be distributed to 16 rural, 13 urban, one land grant, and five Tribal communities. Of those awarded, 28 are first-time recipients of OEF funding.
The first-of-its-kind Outdoor Equity Fund (OEF) was created in 2019 to enable all New Mexican youth equitable access to the outdoors. The grant supports programming Read More
Phil Robinson atop rugged 13,108-foot Truchas Peak, the second-highest summit in New Mexico. Courtesy/LAM
By Bill Priedhorsky
Los Alamos Mountaineers
Phil Robinson will speak about New Mexico’s highest peaks at the March 26 meeting of the Los Alamos Mountaineers. The meeting will be in person with a hybrid adjunct.
While hundreds have summited all of the Colorado’s more than 50 “14ers”, which rise above 14,000 feet, Robinson, a retired Albuquerque Public Schools science teacher is the only person who has hiked New Mexico’s highest 186 peaks (with the exception of a pair of peaks in the Taos Read More
Golf Course Manager Mike Lippiatt outlines construction work underway at the golf course. Courtesy/Kiwanis
By BROOKE DAVIS
Kiwanis Club of Los Alamos
At the March 12 meeting of the Kiwanis Club, Los Alamos Golf Course Manager Mike Lippiatt gave a presentation outlining the construction work in progress at the golf course.
The golf course was built and opened in 1947 and, other than an irrigation upgrade, the current renovation project is the “first facelift the course has had in 75 years,” Lippiatt said. The final design for this project was approved by the Los Alamos County Council in 2023. Read More
New Mexico State Park News:
SANTA FE — The State Parks Division of the Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department announces that, effective immediately, ice fishing and any other related activities are closed at Eagle Nest State Park.
State Parks is instituting this closure because warming temperatures have reduced the thickness of the ice to the point that it is no longer safe for the public to access the lake surfaces.
For more information, call 575.377.1594 or visit www.emnrd.nm.gov/spd.
Ready for warmer weather? Reserve your camping space up to six months in advance at any of your Read More
