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Judge Grants Katcher Time To Obtain Public Defender

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Garrett Thayne Katcher

Staff Report

Garrett Thayne Katcher of Los Alamos appeared Thursday in Los Alamos Magistrate Court for a pre-trial hearing on a charge of aggravated battery against a household member.

At the beginning of the proceedings, his attorney, Public Defender Tyr Loranger told Judge Pat Casados his attorney-client relationship with Katcher had collapsed due to behavior exhibited by Katcher in the hallway prior to court. He asked to be removed from the case. Casados gave Katcher until May 22 to obtain a public defender and set a status hearing for May 25.

Katcher was arrested Read More

Feliz Cinco de Mayo!

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COMMUNITY News:

Today is Cinco de Mayo … Spanish for “Fifth of May”. The date is observed to commemorate the Mexican Army’s unlikely victory over French forces at the Battle of Puebla May 5, 1862, under the leadership of General Ignacio Zaragoza.

In the United States, Cinco de Mayo has taken on a significance beyond that in Mexico. In the U.S. the date has become associated with the celebration of Mexican-American culture. In Mexico, the commemoration of the battle continues to be mostly ceremonial, such as through military parades.

In the United States, Cinco de Mayo is sometimes Read More

Pig + Fig Café Now Serving Tapas!

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Pig + Fig Café owner Laura Hamilton now serves tapas 4-8 p.m. Monday through Saturday. Courtesy photo

Rebecca Tredway with a sample plate of tapas now on the menu nightly at the Pig + Fig in White Rock. Courtesy photo

The new tapas menu includes Tortilla de Patata, Esperragos and Gambas Azafran. Courtesy photo

 

By MANDY MARKSTEINER
Los Alamos

When Pig + Fig Café owner Laura Hamilton tried tapas for the first time, she was seven years old and visiting her mother’s hometown, Cebreros, Spain. She ordered Gambas al Ajillo … and didn’t want to share it!

In fact, she loved it so much that she used Read More

Obituary: John Langdon Rand May 2, 2017

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JOHN LANGDON RAND May 2, 2017

John Langdon Rand, age 89, passed away on Tuesday, May 2, 2017. John was preceded in death by his wife, Virginia, last May, following 63 years of marriage.

Born in Detroit, Michigan to John and Leona Rand, John was raised in eastern Oregon and thereafter retained life-long ties to family and friends in the northwest. He is survived by his 6 children: John (Brenda), Mark (Carolyn), Greg (Christine), Amy (Don), Dan (Remi), Joe (Carminda); 15 grandchildren; and 6 great grandchildren. 

At 17 years old, John volunteered for the Navy during WWII. He served in the Philippines Read More

The Service Lives On In Senior Appreciation Night

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Former Acting Chief Gary Bequette Los Alamos Police Department and his daughter Diana. Courtesy/YMCA
 
Courtesy/Los Alamos Monitor
 
By DIANA MARTINEZ
The Family YMCA

In 2010, tears in his eyes, 71-year-old Gary Bequette sat and watched his adult daughter as she volunteered to help senior graduates get in and out of overstuffed sumo wrestling suits. He smiled as the teens pushed, bounced off and jump upon one another.

“I am so thankful that this is continuing,” he told his daughter Linda Bequette. Gary Bequette had once been Captain and retired as acting Chief at the Los Alamos Read More

Robinson: Why Should I support The Rec Bond?

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By JAMES ROBINSON
Los Alamos

Today, the ballots for the Recreation bond will be mailed out, and Los Alamos will be tasked with deciding whether or not it wants to invest in its future or stay in the past.

With their vote, money can be invested in modern infrastructure that could stimulate demand in our town beyond our national laboratory for the first time in decades, or keep things the same.

Our wonderful golf course was the gift of the United States government almost 70 years ago, and have a irrigation system to match. My family has been around Los Alamos since the early 60s and to them, not much has changed. Read More

LANL: Roelofs Takes Director Role At Center For Integrated Nanotechnologies

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Noted physicist Andreas Roelofs is the new director of the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

Noted physicist Andreas Roelofs is the new director of the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT), a Department of Energy-funded nanoscience research facility with a core center at Sandia National Laboratories and a gateway research site at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

CINT provides users from around the world with access to state-of-the-art expertise and instrumentation in a collaborative, multidisciplinary environment with a focus on nanoscience Read More

Letter To The Editor: Of Roads And Rec Bonds

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By STEPHANIE NAKHLEH
Los Alamos

When I read the objections to the 2017 Recreation Bond, I am sympathetic. I also drive down Trinity and despair at the crumbling curbs. I also drive down into Rendija Canyon and worry about losing a filling. I also look at Mari-Mac, which resembles a war zone more by the day, and I think, how can we be such a wealthy county and have infrastructure like this? I get it. The thing is, none of those irksome things has to do with county government, and none of them will be resolved by refusing to vote for the Rec Bond.

Trinity Drive is a state road. So is NM 502, which runs from Trinity Read More