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Scenes From Acoma Pueblo

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From Mesa top at Acoma Pueblo. Photo by Jenn Bartrum
 
Acoma Pueblo Church. Photo by Jenn Bartrum
 

Staff Report

The beauty and history of the Pueblo of Acoma were revealed during a recent visit.

There is a great difference of opinion as to the age of the Acoma Nation. While traditional Acoma oral history reflects on a time far beyond our imagination, a time of creation and emergence onto this world, the Acoma people have always known of a special place called “Haaku,” a spiritual homeland prepared for their eternal settlement.

Recent excavations on Acoma Mesa tend to suggest Read More

Middle of Nowhere: Taos Pueblo

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View of the Taos Pueblo. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com

One of the buildings in the Taos Pueblo. While it may appear to be one structure, it is actually made up of many housing units that share common walls. The buildings at the Pueblo are made entirely of adobe. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com

 

By KIRSTEN LASKEY
Los Alamos Daily Post

The middle of nowhere can be deceiving.

The phrase seems to conjure up places no one knows about or at least very few. As a result, it is easy to assume places described as the “middle of nowhere” are locations cloaked in obscurity. But that Read More

RTD Blue Buses Will Not Run July 3-4

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NCRTD News:

The North Central Regional Transit District (NCRTD) has announced that the RTD “Blue Buses” will not be in service this Friday in observance of the Fourth of July holiday.   

The RTD Taos Express will not be in service Saturday, July 4. The Taos Express will be operating on its normal schedule Sunday, July 5.

The North Central Regional Transit District provides free bus service Monday through Friday to a service area that encompasses more than 10,000 square miles of north central New Mexico including the counties of Los Alamos, Rio Arriba, Santa Fe and Taos; the Cities of Read More

RTD Chile Line Launches July 1

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NCRTD Chair/Mayor of Taos Daniel Barrone, second from left, stands alongside the newly wrapped bus with, from left, NCRTD Transit Bureau Chief David Harris; NCRTD Vice Chair/Santa Fe County Commissioner Miguel Chavez and NCRTD Executive Director Anthony Mortillaro. Courtesy/NCRTD

NCRTD News:

The North Central Regional Transit District (NCRTD), operator of the RTD “Blue Bus,” and the Town of Taos will consolidate operations of the Taos Chile Line July 1, launching the RTD Chile Line.

The RTD Chile Line will provide fare-free bus transit service within the Town on the Red Route and

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Solo Traveler: Good Guides

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The slit in the mountain is the hole where the Agua Azul river emerges from underground. Photo by Sherry Hardage
 
Agua Azul waterfalls. Photo by Sherry Hardage
 
Solo Traveler
Good Guides
By SHERRY HARDAGE

I’m sure every traveler has some frustrating or angry story about taking a day tour and being funneled into a trinket store where the tour operator gets a kickback on whatever the tourists buy.

My own experiences in India and Thailand were so bad they caused me to stop taking tours altogether. That was a mistake.

Tour guides come in many ‘flavors’, just like the rest of humanity, and a Read More

NCRTD Implements Financial Transparency Platform

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NCRTD News:
 
In its commitment to clear and open government, the North Central Regional Transit District (NCRTD) has implemented a web-based financial transparency and accountability platform on its website.
 
The NCRTD has contracted with OpenGov to create an interactive reporting tool that allows the public to explore the District’s financial data online in easy-to-use graphical formats that can be selected and customized by the user. 
 
The system provides historical financial data from 2010 to the current year that can be analyzed on a monthly or annual basis
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LAHS Graduates Travel To Europe

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Los Alamos travelers, front row from left, Charlie Herrmann, Sophan Kellog, Astrid Hengartner, Sally Grindstaff, Nicole Stafford, Aletta Marciano. Back row from left, Melanie Borup, Eric Ovaska, Lynn Ovaska, Emma Phillips, Steven Calhoun, Laura Whicker, Michelle Pederson, Brandon Cullinan and Kate Margavicius. Not pictured are Alexi Ortega and former LAHS student Sam Harris. Courtesy photo 
 
 
LAHS News:
 
Los Alamos High School graduates participating in Europe 2015 want to thank everyone who supported them this year as they fundraised and prepared
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Blue Bus Makes Changes To Routes And Schedules

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RTD News:
 
The Regional Transit District announces the following changes by route:
 
100 Riverside
Improved connections at the Española Transit Center. Improved service to Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo. Reduced service to Dreamcatcher Theater.
 
110 Westside/Crosstown
An all-new route featuring service along Fairview to the Westside and to Española Valley High School.
 
150 Chimayo
The Las Trampas route will now be served by the 150 Chimayo route. There will no longer be two routes. The route now extends to the Española Transit Center to provide for additional
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Solo Traveler: Technology Changes Culture

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La Plaza del Chorro y Lavaderos Publicos in San Miguel de Allende. Photo by Sherry Hardage
 
Public wash basins used to wash clothing in earlier times. Photo by Sherry Hardage
 
Solo Traveler
By SHERRY HARDAGE

Many years ago I attended a lecture by an anthropologist who had grown up in Cochiti Pueblo.

When he was a kid, his family lived in a traditional extended family home. Because the only heat in the small adobe house was a wood stove in the kitchen, the family gathered around the kitchen table in the evenings. The kids did their homework and his grandparents told stories. In this way they Read More

Businessmen From Philippines Tour Los Alamos

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A group of eight businessmen from the Philippines and a couple of American tour guides visited Los Alamos last Saturday. One of the guides explained that this is the second year the group has traveled through Los Alamos as part of their tour of southwestern United States. The trip began three days earlier when the men flew from Malaysia to San Francisco where they visited for two days before flying to Albuquerque. The tour guides were waiting for them with a truck load of motorcycles, which they rode up I-25 toward Los Alamos. The guide said the group will head for Arizona next as part of their two-week Read More