Styron’s CSD Corner: Update On County’s Efforts To Assist Community Members Experiencing Homelessness
By CORY STYRON
Director
County Community Services Department
Over the past six months our Social Services Division, led by Manager Jessica Strong under the Los Alamos County Community Services Department, has initiated a new pilot program focused on mobile outreach services. This endeavor aims to support individuals in our community who are currently experiencing homelessness or are at imminent risk of becoming homeless. It’s an initiative funded by a $165,000 grant from the New Mexico Department of Health, and I am proud to say that Los Alamos is among fourteen counties selected Read More
Cultivating Soil Health For Sustainable Future In New Mexico
By RYAN RAINMAKER
Los Alamos Sustainability Alliance
Soil here, Soil there, Soil everywhere!
Soil health has become one of my favorite things to learn about over the past five years and it keeps getting more and more interesting. I’d like to share some of the most amazing things I’ve learned and how you can implement them in your own spaces.
Soil, although small in nature and often overlooked, is a foundational piece of our ecosystems. Soil plays a vital role in the health, vitality, and productivity of our environment. It is also one of the most powerful tools for watershed restoration as it is an Read More
Hite: Concern For The Co+op
From left, Pajarito Environmental Education Center Executive Director Jillian Rubio, Terra Hite and Los Alamos resident Becky Shankland talking about saving the Co-op. Courtesy photo
By TERRA HITE
Los Alamos
The Los Alamos Cooperative Market (Co+op) is much more than a grocery store. It took years of volunteer work from many committed, passionate community members and the financial investment of community members to bring our Co+op to open 13 years ago. Shopping at the Co+op provides a great opportunity to invest in our environment, sustainability, social responsibility, and local Read More
LAPS Board President Discusses Upcoming Resignation
By ANTONIO R. JAURIGUE
Board President
Los Alamos Public Schools
In this upcoming board meeting Thursday, I will be resigning my position on the school board in District 2. This is not an easy decision for me to make, and I would hope my explanation sheds light on why I’m making this decision now.
I would like to offer some background on why I value education, and the institution of public education. I come from a home where my father dropped out of high school his freshman year. I was the product of a teenage pregnancy, and although my father had dropped out, he supported my mom finishing high school, Read More
Robinson: Smoothing Out The Capital Outlay Process
By SHERRY ROBINSON
All She Wrote
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Wesley Billingsley will soon be able to say, “I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.” He will tackle one of the most stubborn problems in state government.
Billingsley is the first director of the new Infrastructure Planning and Development Division (IPDD). While that sounds boring and bureaucratic, the IPDD’s proud parent, the state Department of Finance and Administration, intends for Billingsley to lead an overhaul of the capital outlay system to help small organizations, communities and tribes steer their projects Read More
Weekly Fishing Report: April 22, 2024
By GEORGE MORSE
Sports and Outdoors
Los Alamos Daily Post
The weather has finally settled down and spring I definitely here. Flowers and fruit trees are blooming. The land gets a little greener every day.
Spring hunting season for wild turkeys opened April 15. You will need to purchase an over-the-counter (OTC) turkey hunting license. The season ends May 15. New Mexico has three species of wild turkeys. The most common is the Merriam’s, which is found throughout the state in mountainous areas, mostly in ponderosa pine forest. The Rio Grande wild turkeys are found in riparian areas of Eastern New Read More
