Archive - Jun 8, 2012 - News Article
In order to improve public safety and address concerns related to previous accidents and near misses on the Devils Postpile access road, Devils Postpile National Monument will be enforcing a limit of 37 feet for all vehicles or vehicle combinations (truck and trailer) on the access road.
The Devils Postpile access road is a very short, narrow, and curvy section of road that provides access to the Devils Postpile Trailhead, ranger station and campground off of the main Devils Postpile/Reds Meadow Road.
Devils Postpile National Monument and the Inyo National Forest are pleased to host National Weather Service meteorologist Rhett Milne for a presentation on June 11 at 7 p.m. at the Mammoth Welcome Center Auditorium.
The presentation will cover November 30, 2011 forest blowdown event that affected large sections of the San Joaquin River Watershed from Tuolumne Meadows to Mt. Whitney and knocked down thousands of trees in the area.
Mono County voted in two new supervisors Tuesday night, with a third race that will also eventually bring a new supervisor to the table stuck in runoff mode.
Long Valley Fire Chief 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 and former owner of a successful aquaculture business, will replace two-term District 3 incumbent Vikki Bauer.
Talk is cheap.
It even cheaper when it comes to talking to teenagers about the consequences of drunk driving.
Their eyes glaze over. They fidget. They play with their cell phones.
Last week, all that was bypassed when the entire county banded together at Mammoth High School to do a brutal reenactment of a fatal drunk driving collision.
Mammoth High School will lose several long-standing teachers after this semester. Jim Barnes, the independent study teacher, Deidre Buchholz, a longtime math teacher, Ross McGlothlin, an economics teacher, and Kevin Worden, a drama teacher, will not be coming back to the high school in the fall. Another longtime teacher, special resources teacher Jennifer Wilson, left the school earlier this year and will also not return.
“It is always a challenge when you lose great teachers,” said the district’s superintendent Rich Boccia.
There has been another high-level resignation in Mono County as of last week.
This time it was County Assessor Jody Henning, who announced her resignation in a letter to the county Board of Supervisors, effective at the end of June. Henning’s office is an elected position.
Henning’s assistant assessor, Chris Lyons, also announced his resignation at the same time. Lyons’ position is not an elected position.
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
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.
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.
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
Mammoth developer and businessman Paul Rudder, along with real estate investor Drew Hild, pulled a rabbit out of their hats this week.
