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Briefly February 17 2012

February 20, 2012

Eastern Sierra Land Trust hosts third annual volunteer orientation 
People who volunteer tend to live longer and be healthier than non volunteers, according to a recent study by the American Psychological Association. 

Our View: The Fourth of July

February 20, 2012

It always seems a little bit weird to be thinking about the Fourth of July in February, but that’s the way it goes.

The winter of our discontent

February 10, 2012

It’s hard for us to remember a more dreary winter than this one.
 
One event morphs into another incident; one ugly phenomenon touches another.
 

You can discuss a game, but you can't change the score

February 3, 2012

By George Shirk
Times News Editor
 
We’re hoping for a brokered Republican National Convention in Tampa this coming August, and the signs for this happening are just about everywhere.
 
We take this stand not on principal, but on the pure basis of the fun of it all. Smoke-filled rooms. Political favors. Promises.
 

Run, Mammoth, Run

January 20, 2012

We see them everywhere, scampering about here and there, in the rain and snow, in hot temperatures and cold.
 
We see them as we drive to work in the morning, just after sun-up. They are running when we go home in the evening, just before sundown.
 
Mammoth’s distance runners achieved something remarkable at the U.S. 
 

Wheels of Justice

January 13, 2012

The Murmur Mill in Mammoth is in full throat.

Resiliency

January 6, 2012

You could have knocked us over with a feather.

The rumor machine was all about possible layoffs on Mammoth Mountain. People whispered about possible closures of Canyon and Eagle lodges.

Runs were going to close. This winter was a dud. A megaflop – bomb, a dead loss.

Then arrived a memorandum from Rusty Gregory, the CEO of Mammoth Mountain. It was addressed to his skittish employees.

Comparing this thin season (so far) to other dry/drought seasons, Gregory wrote:

Save the Bodie Hills

July 30, 2011

Next Tuesday, the Mono County Board of Supervisors will be asked to support a pending House bill that strips some 60 million acres of federal lands from possible wilderness designation, including more than four million acres in California.

The Supervisors should not.

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