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By
George Shirk - Times Senior Writer
“I’d like to have a Happy Hour.”
Fido’s funny like that. He comes up with things that are so out of the blue that I hardly know what to think.
“It sure sounds like fun,” he said. “I just don’t know what it is. Let’s have one.”
“We can have as many as we want,” says I. “What’s your idea?”
“Idea? I’m a dog. I don’t have ideas. I have instincts.”
“Tell you what. After work, we’ll have a Happy Hour.”
“Hey hey hey hey!”
By
George Shirk - Times Senior Writer
The contractors won the pennant! The contractors won the pennant!
All right, so it wasn’t exactly that dramatic at Wednesday’s Town Council meeting, but to Mammoth builders it must have seemed like Bobby Thomson had just stepped to the plate and swatted a drive into the lower deck of the left field stands.
When they walked out of the Council Chambers, they had a victory, although not a total, hands-down victory.
First of all, there was no actual action.
By
Wendilyn Grasseschi - Times Staff Writer
“No.”
That was the Mono County Supervisors’ almost united response to Tuesday’s request by a Bridgeport community group to take the Bodie Hills Wilderness Study Area out of its semi-protected status.
In fact, the board was so irritated by the resolution and the way it ended up on the agenda, they refused to vote on it, leaving it to die an undignified death.
“Fireball,” the iconoclastic checker at Vons, showed up the other day with a hairnet over his shaved pate. Didn’t slow him down a whit…
Our own Shaylyn Riley and boyfriend Scott Smith came in second in the first heat of the co-ed canoe race last Saturday at the Firemen’s BBQ Yeah!…
