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APP News:

The Art in Public Places June meeting has changed from Thursday, June 27 to 5:30 p.m. Thursday, June 13 at Mesa Public Library.

The meeting is open to the public and community members are encouraged to attend.

Staff Report

Regional Coalition of LANL Communities Executive Director DeAnza Valencia Sapien made an annual presentation to the Los Alamos County Council Tuesday evening.

Sapien explained that The Regional Coalition is comprised of eight cities, counties and pueblos surrounding Los Alamos

Staff Report

Los Alamos County Council unanimously approved a contract with RMCI, Inc., in the amount of $1,749,450,

COUNTY News:

• Final push to recruit the majority of households - representatives will be going door-to-door and visiting highly trafficked areas

Recruitment for the Mesa Smart Meter Study has been extended in an effort to ensure most residents of North and Barranca Mesa participate in the important research effort, reported officials at the Los Alamos Dept. of Public Utilities (DPU). 

Project collaborators are recruiting

Los Alamos Juvenile Justice Advisory Board and Los Alamos County Social Services Department announces the first meeting of the Suicide Awareness and Prevention Working Group meeting.

The meeting will take place 2-3:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 22, at the new Municipal Building, in the large conference room on the third floor (room 330.)

The goal is to form a working group of experts, representatives of agencies and other entities who will work together to formulate and implement a multi-pronged approach of evidence based and best practice programs that will help bring about long term

View of the reservoir as it slowly fills. Photo by Greg Kendall/ladailypost.com

Los Alamos Reservoir is beginning to fill with water again. 

Contractors have rebuilt the dam and have cleared out the debris and muck that resulted from the devastating 2011 Los Conchas Fire. 

The run off from winter snows has been disappointing this year and the reservoir is filling very slowly. Currently there are about three acre feet of water in the reservoir that has a capacity of approximately 25 acre feet.

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

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.

PEDESTRIAN STOP AND RIDE THROUGH WORK ZONE

Contractor RMCI is required to maintain safe vehicular and pedestrian access throughout its Canyon Road construction project. 

The location of existing utilities, placement of new utilities and maintaining vehicular traffic has made it impossible to keep the swing of equipment out of the pedestrian path. This is an unsafe situation.

Beginning Monday, May 20, RMCI will use a 15-passenger van to transport pedestrians through the Canyon Road construction site.