Neither arrests nor charges indicate a conviction, and neither means that a person is guilty of the charges filed against them.

May 9 at 10:31 a.m. / A 53-year-old Los Alamos man in the 1300 block of San Ildefonso Road reported that he was the victim of larceny. The estimated loss is less than $2,500.

May 9 at 12:33 p.m. / A 53-year-old Los Alamos man reported a case of extreme cruelty to animals/torturing and criminal damage to property in the 300 block of Conejo. The matter is under investigation.

Column by BONNIE J. GORDON

Los Alamos science fiction writer Carolyn Neeper has been contemplating and engaging in interspecies communication for many years.

As readers of her column in the Los Alamos Daily Post, "How the Hen House Turns" know, Neeper is deeply involved with the animals in her life, be they skunks, dogs or turkeys. It doesn’t hurt that Neeper also is a microbiologist.

“We aren’t unique in our emotional responses,” Neeper said. “We exaggerate our uniqueness. We need to appreciate more that we’re simply a part of it all.”

Neeper has watched the

Cooperate To Cheat … To Get A Good Grade, Or, To Learn?

Here is an interesting read: http://blogs.kcrw.com/whichwayla/2013/04/cheating-to-learn-how-a-ucla-professor-gamed-a-game-theory-midterm

To sum it up: An UCLA professor of Behavioral Ecology allowed his students to create their own rules for a midterm test.

The Los Alamos High School Student Council is holding a remembrance service for Isaac Hayden at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 22 at the memorial garden at the high school.

"Isaac was a sophomore at LAHS who committed suicide back in March," Student Body President-Elect Soumyo Lahiri-Gupta said. "The Los Alamos High School Student Council felt it right to have a remembrance service for Isaac at our memorial garden in order to make sure he is not ever forgotten at our school."

The LAHS Student Council invites the public to attend this service.

Staff Report

The month of May is dedicated to moving nearly 150 employees into the new Los Alamos County Municipal Building downtown at 1000 Central Ave.

The 311 Customer Care Center will be one of the very last service areas to move to the new building; therefore, they will be the best resource to call (3-1-1 from a land line or 505-662-8333 from a cell phone) for questions about any of the departments.

The Department of Public Utilities is conducting a tour of proposed well sites for the San Juan-Chama Water Supply Project followed by public discussion, Thursday, May 23, at White Rock Town Hall, 133 Longview. 

Visit proposed well sites and existing well sites to understand well characteristics and logistics associated with the proposed San Juan Chama test wells.

The DPU Board will convene at 5 p.m. White Rock Town Hall for the tour (public invited) and reconvene at 7:30 p.m. at White Rock Town Hall for public discussion. 

For more information, contact DPU Public Relations at

HILLTOPPER News:

The Los Alamos High School Track and Field Team is participating in the State Meet in Albuquerque this weekend.

Results so far:

YMCA News:

Los Alamos has a rich, public night life once a year, and local adults are being asked to be a part of it. Each year, volunteers help at a community-wide, downtown celebration for Los Alamos High School graduates known as Senior Appreciation Night or SAN.

Graduates tell us the event is the highlight of their year, and volunteers tell us it is a great time and they enjoy the festivities.

Anders “Andy” Ainsworth has been hired as the Boys Head Golf Coach for Los Alamos High School. 

He takes over for Ann Stewart (who was hired as Head Girls Basketball Coach.)

Ainsworth served as a volunteer this past year and is a math teacher at Los Alamos Middle School.  He was an assistant golf coach for the Men’s and Women’s Golf Team at Western New Mexico from 2008-2010, and has been a boys and girls basketball coach (both assistant and head) and an assistant volleyball coach at Coronado High School. 

Los Alamos Athletics looks forward to having Coach Ainsworth