Los Alamos County Clerk’s Office To Limit In-Person Services, As COVID-19 Public Health Emergency Continues
County Clerk Naomi Maestas
COUNTY CLERK News:
Due to growing COVID-19 concerns, and in continuing to align with directives from the Governor’s Office and Los Alamos County, County Clerk Naomi Maestas is taking proactive measures.
Beginning today, July 6 until further notice, the Los Alamos County Clerk’s Office will suspend all in-person services and transactions. Customers may drop off items in the designated Drop-Box located outside the Clerk’s Office.
Staff will process Drop-Box items and be available to assist customers by phone and/or email 8 a.m. to noon and 1-5 p.m., Monday through Read More
Chart 114: COVID-19 In New Mexico July 6
The number of diagnoses in Los Alamos, Rio Arriba, Santa Fe and Taos counties versus date. Source: New Mexico Department of Health. Created by Eli Ben-Naim Read More
New Mexico COVID-19 Cases Now At 13,507 With 2 New Deaths And 5,902 Patients Recovered
STATE News:
SANTA FE – New Mexico state health officials have announced this afternoon 253 additional positive tests for COVID-19.
Los Alamos County now at 9 cases that have tested positive for COVID-19.
Today’s update announces 2 additional deaths reported in New Mexico related to COVID-19.
The New Mexico Department of Health reported today the most recent cases:
- 60 new cases in Bernalillo County
- 6 new cases in Chaves County
- 8 new cases in Cibola County
- 6 new cases in Curry County
- 85 new cases in Doña Ana County
- 2 new cases in Eddy County
- 1 new case in Hidalgo County
- 17 new cases in Lea County
- 1 new case
COVID-19 Testing At Los Alamos Public Health Office
The New Mexico Department of Health Public Health Office in Los Alamos offers COVID-19 testing via appointment 8-11a.m. Monday-Friday. Call 505.662.4038 at schedule an appointment. Courtesy/LAC Read More
FBI: Syndicato De Nuevo Mexico Prison Gang Member Tony Gauna Charged With Racketeering Conspiracy, Robbery…
FBI News:
ALBUQUERQUE – Tony Gauna, 37, of Vaughn, New Mexico appeared in federal court in Albuquerque today for an initial appearance on a criminal complaint charging him with participation in a Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (“RICO”) conspiracy and other offenses related to the Syndicato de Nuevo Mexico (“SNM”) prison gang.
The complaint specifically charges Gauna with one count of RICO conspiracy, two counts of interference with commerce by threats or violence, one count of brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence, one count of discharging a firearm during Read More
Luján Applauds Reopening Of Paycheck Protection Program
From the Office of U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Luján:
...Encourages Struggling Businesses To Apply For Remaining $130 Billion In Forgivable Loans
NAMBÉ – Today, U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), the U.S. House Assistant Speaker, applauded the reopening of the Small Business Administration’s Paycheck Protection Program, which had initially ended June 30. Last week, with Luján’s support, the program was extended through Aug. 8.
“The Paycheck Protection Program has served as a lifeline for thousands of small businesses in New Mexico. When the program ended last week, it still had $130 billion Read More
UbiQD And Solvay Announce Greenhouse Technology Development Partnership
Greenhouses with UbiGro® consistently produce larger crop yields by enhancing the spectral quality of sunlight. Courtesy/Solvay
BUSINESS News:
- Cooperation focuses on developing and commercializing next-generation quantum dot-based specialty agricultural films for greenhouse coverings
LOS ALAMOS and BRUSSELS — UbiQD, Inc., an advanced materials company powering product innovations in agriculture, clean energy, and security, and the Solvay Group, announced today that they have agreed to partner on the development of next-generation luminescent greenhouse technology
Udall Among Senators Raising Concerns About Tribes Being Denied Access To Critical Federal COVID-19 Data
U.S. SENATE News:
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senators Tom Udall (D-N.M.), vice chairman on the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, and Patty Murray (D-Wash.), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, and U.S. Representatives Frank Pallone Jr. (D-N.J.), chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.), chair of the House Natural Resources Committee, and Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.), chair of the House Natural Resources Subcommittee for Indigenous Peoples, called on the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers Read More
American Hospital, Medical, Nurses Associations Issue Open Letter Urging Public To Wear Masks To Stop COVID-19 Spread
By American Hospital Association
American Medical Association
American Nurses Association
An Open Letter To The American Public:
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have urged the American people to protect themselves, their neighbors and their loved ones amidst the worst global health crisis in generations. After months of physical distancing and staying at home, infections and deaths began to decline.
But in the weeks since states began reopening, some of the steps that were critical to the progress we made were too quickly abandoned. And we are now watching in real-time Read More
Tech-Trek-In-A-Box: Taking STEM Camp Across New Mexico
A student unpacking her Tech-Trek-in-a-Box for this year’s STEM Camp. Courtesy/AAUW
AAUW News:
Sixty 7th grade girls from across the state were selected in April to attend the American Association of University Women’s (AAUW) STEM camp at New Mexico Tech.
This was to be the seventh year that AAUW in New Mexico ran Tech Trek NM to nurture girls’ interests in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). So when COVID-19 made holding camp impossible, AAUW decided to try a new approach: take (literally mail) the camp to the girls. Thus was born Tech-Trek-in-a-Box.
Tech Trek is usually a week-long Read More
New Mexico [External Sources]
- FBI warns of carjackings in New Mexico - Albuquerque - KOAT New Mexico
- New Mexico institutions pay out thousands to recover from ransomware - KOB 4
- Report: NMPED failing to meet dozens of federal standards - KOB 4
- Woman rescued by local crews after hurting knee in Foothills - KRQE News 13
- City of Roswell facing $637,311 fine after worker death - KRQE News 13
- Cold for eastern New Mexico, milder west - KOAT New Mexico
