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Gov. Lujan Grisham Announces $150,000 LEDA Investment With Company That Developed Technology To Process Cremated Remains Into Smooth Stones

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Parting Stone of Santa Fe has developed a one-of-a-kind technology to process cremated remains into smooth stones. Courtesy/SNM

STATE News:

SANTA FE — Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has announced that the State of New Mexico is providing LEDA economic assistance to an innovative Santa Fe company that has developed a one-of-a-kind technology to process cremated remains into smooth stones.

Parting Stone has seen rapid growth with the increase in cremation rates as the business has nurtured relationships with some 600 funeral homes across the United States and Canada. As families are more dispersed Read More

Integrity New Mexico Calls For Transparency And Investigation Into Hermits Peak Prescribed Burn

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Integrity New Mexico News:

…While no one is sure of the final cost, the Governor estimated the cost ‘in the billions’

SANTA FE — Integrity New Mexico has filed a request with the Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Agriculture* for an investigation into whether there was undue political pressure to get the Hermits Peak prescribed burn done.  

The Forest Service is responsible for the largest forest fire disaster in the state’s history. Numerous media outlets have reported that rank-and-file Forest Service employees felt pressured to “get the job done” in a political environment Read More

Former Resident Tina Derr Commissions Artist Steven Scheibe To Create Likeness Of Jemez Mountains

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Former Los Alamos resident Tina F. Derr commissioned artist Steven D. Scheibe of Olympia, Wash., to view more than 200 photos, mostly photographs submitted to the Los Alamos Daily Post, and paint a likeness of the Jemez Mountains above Los Alamos. Courtesy/Tina F. Derr

This painting by artist Steven D. Scheibe now hangs in Tina F. Derr’s home, offering her a small reminder of the Jemez Mountains above Los Alamos. Courtesy/Tina F. Derr Read More

New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas Secures Conviction Of Offender Who Videotaped His Abuse Of Child

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Attorney General Hector Balderas

From the Office of the Attorney General:

ALBUQUERQUE — New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas announced Wednesday that Joshua Vigil pled guilty to five felony counts involving his sexual abuse and exploitation of children.

Under the plea agreement accepted by the district court this afternoon, Vigil pled guilty to:

  • Criminal Sexual Penetration (1st Degree) (Child Under 13);
  • Criminal Sexual Contact of a Minor in the Second Degree (Child Under 13);
  • Sexual Exploitation of Children (Manufacturing);
  • Possession of a Controlled Substance (Methamphetamine);
Read More

Pets Of The Week: June And Snow White

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June is a 3-month-old tortoiseshell kitten with magical markings of stardust and twilight. She is spayed, vaccinated, microchipped and ready to find a family to call her own. Walk-in adopters are welcome 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Española Humane shelter. Visit https://www.espanolahumane.org/pets/. Courtesy/Española Humane

Snow White is a blue-eyed, 1-year-old white shepherd/husky mix. She is spayed, vaccinated, chipped and will go to her new home with a 6-month supply of heartworm prevention, and her adoption fee is waived for the next week. Walk-in adopters are welcome 10:30 a.m. Read More

U.S. Embassy & FBI Return Historic Sculpture Of San Antonio De Padua To People Of Mexico

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Saint Anthony of Padua statue from the 19th century. Courtesy image

FBI News:

MEXICO CITY, MEXICO —The Embassy of the United States in Mexico and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have announced the return of a Saint Anthony of Padua statue from the 19th century that was located in the Museum of Fine Arts of San Angelo (SAMFA) in Texas.

Through a formal request process initiated by Mexican authorities, FBI personnel contacted the museum who worked cooperatively and responsibly to reach a mutual resolution and effectuate the transfer of this important object to Mexico through the FBI. Read More

Los Alamos Rotary Hears Talk By Astrophysicist Dr. Rick Wallace On ‘The James Webb Space Telescope, First Images 2022’

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Astrophysicist Rick Wallace recently gave a presentation about the deep space images from the James Webb Space Telescope to the Rotary Club. Here he assures his audience that there will only be a ‘tiny bit of physics’. Photo by Linda Hull

By LINDA HULL
Vice President
Rotary Club of Los Alamos 

Promising his presentation would only include “tiny bit of physics”, Dr. Rick Wallace, retired Los Alamos National Laboratory astronomer and astrophysicist, spoke Aug. 2 at the Rotary Club of Los Alamos about “The James Webb Space Telescope, First Images 2022”.

With PowerPoint slides that featured James Read More

LANL News Roundup For Week Of Aug. 1-5

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Science: Innovative technologies featured at the 8th Annual DisrupTECH

Innovations in crime-scene sampling, carbon capture and 3D printing were just some of the disruptive technologies featured at DisrupTECH Aug. 3, the eighth annual convergence of tech transfer and entrepreneurship offered by the Richard P. Feynman Center for Innovation and the New Mexico Start-Up Factory. Read the full article here. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) shares a compilation of news stories for the week of Aug. 1-5, 2022.

Research in MAGLAB verifies new phase of matter in Read More

Chandler: Analysis Of Proposed Changes To Nuisance Code (Chapter 18)

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By GEORGE CHANDLER 
Los Alamos

Urban planning consultant DPS has issued a draft of a new nuisance code. 

This is a long overdue revision of the nuisance code that was put in place years ago in a well-meant effort to deal with the never-ending problems of junk cars and unkempt or abandoned houses, and happily the new code eliminates many of the gross problems of the old one. Unfortunately, in spite of many years working in our little town, DPS still doesn’t quite get it about Los Alamos. 

The new code seeks to impose standards and rules on the old neighborhoods and housing stock of Los Alamos that have Read More