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May 13th, 2013
The Inyo National Forest announced a special opportunity for personal use fuelwood collection in the Reds Meadow Valley on the weekend of May 17-19, prior to the area opening for the general public.
Mono County Supervisors discuss at length whether to fix historic clock in Bridgeport courthouse
It took the county supervisors almost as long to decide whether to fix—well, sort of decide—an antique clock in the supervisor’s chambers as it did to agree to an historic cooperative agreement between the county and the Town of Mammoth Lakes Tuesday (see story on P. 13)
May 10th
High-speed broadband project will be operational by July 31 deadline, developer says
It’s really going to happen.
The huge infrastructure project called Digital 395 that will connect the Eastern Sierra to the rest of the world—with enough of the fastest broadband speeds available to last the region a decade—will be finished on time, according to its developer, Praxis Associate CEO Michael Ort.
Agreement to share IT survives county criticism, complaints
Agreeing to share IT services between the Town of Mammoth Lakes and Mono County might not seem like a big deal.
Counties and communities do it all the time.
But those counties and communities aren’t Mono County and Mammoth, with their checkered history of fighting over just about everything, from airports to garbage.
California judge dismisses case regarding dust control on Owens Dry Lake
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California dismissed the City of Los Angeles Department of Water and Power’s high-profile lawsuit against the Great Basin Unified Air Pollution Control District and other environmental agencies last week on May 2.
The city’s federal court lawsuit, filed in Fresno last year, attempted to prevent Great Basin from issuing more dust control measures on Owens Lake.
County agrees to help fund the project
The power lines along a section of Main Street will get buried beginning in 2015 after Mono County agreed Tuesday, May 7, to help the Town of Mammoth Lakes take on the unsightly—and dangerous—overhead power lines.
The power lines—old and deteriorating—are vulnerable to the next storm or blizzard, according to town public works officials.
May 9th
State’s counties call fees unfair to the average family, individual
A bill that could cost anyone who refinances their property hundreds of dollars more in recording fees goes before the state legislature next week, but it is meeting strong resistance from counties across the state, including both Mono and Inyo counties.
Top officials at both counties state that the bill will unfairly target the average family or individual trying to refinance a home.
By
George Shirk, Times Managing Editor
Sharp reaction to budget shortfall projection
Two members of the Mammoth Town Council last week were sharply critical of Town Manager Marianna Marysheva-Martinez following the revelation that the town would face a budget shortfall of $562,527 in the next fiscal year.
“You can count me in the category of being both frustrated and confused, as some other people have expressed,” said council member John Eastman at the Town Council meeting on May 1.
By
George Shirk, Times Managing Editor
First-ever partnership would begin July 1
The Mammoth Lakes Chamber of Commerce would be absorbed by Mammoth Lakes Tourism under a plan that both entities approved this past week.
The merger, unprecedented in Mammoth, would result in the creation of a $75,000-a-year chamber executive who would report directly to MLT’s director, John Urdi.
Funds for the new position, Urdi said, would come from business license tax money.
By
George Shirk, Times Managing Editor
Collections could begin Aug. 1
The push to establish a so-called “Tourism Business Investment District” (TBID) hit the road in earnest this week, according to John Urdi, the leader of Mammoth Lakes Tourism.
Beginning with an Open House scheduled for Thursday, May 9, at Rafters on Old Mammoth Road, the TBID’s six-step march forward could result in $4.7 million in annual collections beginning as early as Aug. 1.
May 8th
Maverick Signs donates an identity
The Mammoth Lakes Police Department, occupying a former retail store on Old Mammoth Road since 1986, has a new name.
The sign on the building at 568 Old Mammoth Road had a sign identifying it as the “Police Department,” but never which police department.
The oversight has stuck in the craw of Chief Dan Watson.
Haul away your old, working refrigerator or freezer for free with SCE’s trade-in program and get cash back.
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nCut your energy use in half with a new, energy-efficient model—a savings of up to $105 per year
nSave up to $180 per year by disposing of a spare
Mammoth’s Festival of Beers and Bluesapalooza promises an incomparable lineup of musical talent and a grand tasting of craft brews from around the country beginning Aug.1 through Aug. 4 outdoors among the pines at Sam’s Wood Site in Mammoth Lakes.
Reds Meadow plowing started Wednesday, May 1, and is still on track to be open by Memorial Day, weather permitting, according to the U.S. Forest Service.
