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Submitted by Carol A. Clark on October 17, 2019

Weekly Fishing Report: Oct. 17, 2019

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on October 17, 2019

By GEORGE MORSE

Sports And Outdoors
Los Alamos Daily Post

The cold spell came as predicted last week. A hard freeze wiped out tomato and chile plants, as well as other frost-tender plants here in the Espanola Valley.

The weather has turned seasonal again with warm days and very cool nights.

Still no snow in the mountains.

The place to go right now if you are looking for a big trout and don’t care that it came from a hatchery is Santa Cruz Lake near Chimayo. It was stocked Oct. 7 with 218 rainbow trout averaging 20 inches in size and over three pounds apiece.

Several of these

Letter To The Editor: SGR Endorses Christine Bernstein

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on October 17, 2019

By STEPHANIE GARCIA RICHARD

Commissioner of Public Lands

I voted today!

But unfortunately, because of my district, I didn’t get to vote for one of my favorite candidates for school board. However, if you live in District 3, you have the chance to vote for Christine Bernstein for LAPS School Board.

I first met Christine when we were both teachers at Pojoaque Schools. She is an innovative, committed and passionate high school teacher and I know she will bring just as much energy to the school board as she does to the classroom. I’ve witnessed her in action and seen the way she always

Pongratz: After-School Programs Are Next Education Push

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on October 16, 2019

By MORRIS PONGRATZ

Los Alamos School Board Candidate

District 3 (Aspen)

Kudos to New Mexico’s Lt. Gov. Howie Morales! In an Op Ed in last Sunday’s Albuquerque Journal (link) he wrote of the benefits of Out-of-School Time informal education.

He wrote, “Across our state, many thousands of kids are alone and unsupervised – or engaging in risky behaviors – between 3 p.m. and 6 p.m. while parents are still at work. Quality after-school programs give parents peace of mind, providing a safe place for children to go when they are not in school, with supportive and structured educational activities under Read More

Home Country: Squash

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on October 15, 2019

Home Country

By SLIM RANDLES

Squash. Just listen to that word one more time. Squash … one of the English language’s most painful words, along with maim and trauma and rend and okra and Liberace. Why would anyone want to eat something that sounds as though someone sat on it?

The bottom-line truth is, cooks all over the place love a challenge, and they have tried valiantly to turn squash into an edible dish. To do this, they take one tenth of a portion of squash, boil as much of the squashiness as they can out of it, then immerse it in nine-tenths something that tastes good and hope no one will

Letter To The Editor: Response To Importance Of Political Parties

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on October 15, 2019

By DENNIS LITTLE
Los ALamos

Mr. Kerr,

Perhaps I’m in the minority, I’m not sure and I’ve never seen a study to confirm. I was raised by a single mother who wasn’t political at all. To the best of my knowledge, she never voted in her life. In any case, I would hope that most people in a town with so many smart people would do their own research and decide who and/or what political party to vote for rather than just depending on what their parents said to do.

With regards to the rest of your letter, I disagree.

The House (with a Democratic majority) has passed a great number of bills, Read More

Letter To The Editor: Importance Of Political Parties

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on October 15, 2019

By VERNON N. KERR

Los Alamos

Why do I belong to a political party?

We can pick a reason but most likely the reason is that the party we pick is the one our parents belong to. A political party usually represents the values of the home. Chances are that if grandpa and pop were Democrats, you are, too. There is not a lot of hard thinking involved in registering in a political party.

In the beginning of our nation, our first leader, George Washington was opposed to political parties because he felt that they would lead to non-productive political bickering and divert energy away from

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