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June 8th, 2012
Many of the restrooms are locked. Many of the trash bins are locked. Many of the campgrounds are closed and the reservation system for the Lakes Basin is in its annual state of confusion.
By
George Shirk - Times News Editor
The Mammoth theater scene is on the up-and-up, says artistic director Shira Dubrovner.
All it needs is a vision, a business model and some way to capture and hold young people.
Easy to say, hard to do.
Dubrovner got a heavy taste of the challenges facing the theater last month at Directors Lab West in Pasadena, where she and other participants jammed a load of insight into eight days between May 19-26.
They also jammed nine plays in there, ranging from classical theater to highly experimental works by new artists and directors.
By
George Shirk - Times News Editor
When Skip Harvey joined the Town council eight years ago, Mammoth Lakes was in good shape, the snow came in bucket loads and the future was as bright as the sun.
But on Wednesday evening, when Harvey stepped down, everything was upside down, including the $40 million MLLA judgment against the town at the same time that Mammoth endured its worst snow year in decades.
By
Aleksandra Gajewski - Mammoth Times Publisher and Editor
"If you never want to go hiking with me again, I completely understand."
It was supposed to be easy.
With one spot open for another medical marijuana dispensary, the cost of a mere application took a leap on Wednesday.
It’s always a big deal when the Sierra Summer Festival, in cooperation with Mammoth Gallery, opens its annual poster competition, and it’s open now.
The Town Council Wednesday evening gave the go-ahead to the Whitmore Track project, five years after Elaine Smith and her High Sierra Striders floated the idea.
CARMA, the Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-wave Astronomy facility east of Big Pine, will be holding its annual and much-anticipated Open House on Saturday, June 9, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
By
George Shirk - Times News Editor
“Golly, Fido, I thought you were going to come unglued there for a while.”
By
George Shirk - Times News Editor
Mammoth developer and businessman Paul Rudder, along with real estate investor Drew Hild, pulled a rabbit out of their hats this week.
June 6th
Mono County voted in two new supervisors Tuesday night, with a third race that will also eventually bring another new supervisor to the table stuck in runoff mode.
Fred Stump, running for elected office for the first time, will replace two-term District 2 incumbent Duane “Hap” Hazard. Tim Alpers, a two-time former Mono County supervisor, will replace two-term District 3 incumbent Vikki Bauer.
June 4th
By
Owens Valley Radio Observatory staff
Two weeks ago, many of us in the Western United States got the opportunity to see a full or partial annular eclipse of the sun. To those a little further north of the Owens Valley, seeing the ring of fire as the moon went in front of the sun was a marvel— but the partial eclipse seen from our own homes was spectacular as well.
Did this leave you wondering—"What's the next special event in the cosmic dance of our solar system?" Well, wonder no more, for that event is upon us.
Re-jiggering
June 8, 2012
And just like that (snap fingers), the political landscape of Mammoth and Mono County changed.