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June 8th, 2012
Lee Vining High School has launched itself into the top tiers of high schools in the country based on Advanced Placement (AP) test scores for the first time. The test results put the little school on the Washington Post’s High School Challenge Index for the first time, according to the school’s principal, Roger Yost. The small rural school was ranked 707th in the nation, out of approximately 22,000 high schools, placing it in the top 3 percent of all high schools. It also placed 90th of the more than 1,800 high schools in California.
Already feeling the slings and arrows of its restive citizens, the Mammoth Town Council on Wednesday received an unsparing, stinging report on the town’s economic future.
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.
Re-jiggering
June 8, 2012
And just like that (snap fingers), the political landscape of Mammoth and Mono County changed.