Travel

Valentine’s Care Packages Help Students Travel

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LAHS News:

Looking for a way to send someone you love a special Valentine? Europe 2015 student travelers are putting together personalized Valentine’s packages filled with gifts for everyone.

If you have a loved one far away, here is your chance to send them a Valentine package and support the educational travel of 14 local high school seniors. For $30, Europe 2015 travelers will fill a Valentine’s Care (about YOU) Package with treats such as hand-written notes, chocolates, candy, homemade treats, hot chocolate, tea, stuffed animals, heart-filled gifts, Valentine’s Read More

Sunport Travel Site Aims To Provide Quick Information

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SUNPORT News:

Albuquerque International Sunport and the City of Albuquerque are proud to announce the launch of the airport’s new website, https:////www.abqsunport.com/, which went live to the public Jan. 26.

The Sunport website was previously incorporated as part of the City’s website. The new website helps travelers find the information they need about the airport quickly and easily.

The site includes live flight arrival and departure information, the airport’s Twitter feed, terminal maps, information about visiting New Mexico, feedback forms, and other important information. Read More

Solo Traveler: You Just Never Know

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Solo Traveler
You Just Never Know
By SHERRY HARDAGE

If all we know about a country is from news reports and movies, it’s a guarantee we don’t really know much.

My youthful impression of India was that everyone was dirt poor and on the verge of starvation. I was shocked to discover Weight Watchers is big business in Delhi. The first time I ever flew over the ocean was on a trip to India in 1985. I went with my boyfriend, who was born in Lucknow. Our travels, to visit his extended family, took up the entire three-week vacation.

The way I met them all was at dinner and house parties. I quickly learned that upper Read More

Register For Spring Break Trip To Washington, D.C.

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Students visit Washington, D.C. in 2014. Courtesy photo

 

EDUCATION News:

It’s not too late to register for the annual Spring Break Trip to the nation’s capitol. The visit to Washington, D.C. and Baltimore, Md., is open to all 8th grade students including home school students.

It is a private non-school sponsored trip.

Highlights of the trip include:

  • The White House;
  • International Spy Museum;
  • Walter Reed Medical Museum;
  • The Capitol tour;
  • Washington Monument;
  • Holocaust Museum;
  • Smithsonian Museums;
  • National Zoo;
  • Arlington Cemetery;
  • night tours of all Presidential Monuments;
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‘Blue Buses’ Not In Service MLK Day

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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 Monday, Jan. 19 in observance of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.                                                                                                Read More

Los Alamos County Terminates NM Airlines Contract

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NCRTD Receives Clean FY2014 Audit

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NCRTD News:

The North Central Regional Transit District (NCRTD) has received an Unqualified Opinion with no findings and no carryovers as reported in its Fiscal Year 2014 Independent Auditor’s Report.

The findings, which have been verified by the New Mexico State Auditor’s office, were presented today at the NCRTD monthly Board meeting by Farley Vener, President of Hinkle and Landers, P.C., which conducted the audit.

The report issued an Unqualified Opinion with no new findings and no carryovers. A carryover last year was resolved in the current year. The report also found no liquidity issues. Read More

New Mexico Airlines Flight Schedule Update

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COUNTY News:

New Mexico Airlines contacted Los Alamos County officials late Thursday afternoon to say that they expect to resume full service next week.

The airlines has not flown its route between Los Alamos and Albuquerque since Monday. Los Alamos County Public Information Officer Julie Habiger said this morning that she expects to release another update early next week as the County continues to closely monitor the situation.

The airlines previously suspended all flights in New Mexico in early December. Public Works Director Philo Shelton said in a Dec. 12 news release that commercial Read More

Solo Traveler: Testing Manhood

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The Matadors greeted by the Queen and her Lady. Photo by Sherry Hardage
 
Solo Traveler
Testing Manhood
By SHERRY HARDAGE

My Cuban Spanish teacher taught us a lot about bullfighting when I was in high school; the purpose of matadores and picadores, how the bulls were raised, that the skill and the dance of the bullfighter made him a true artist. But in my lifetime I had yet to see a bullfight.

In September, 2010, my friend and I were in San Miguel de Allende for the Bicentenario of the Mexican Revolution. Bullfights are always part of those independence day celebrations. John had gone to many in Read More