by News Staff | Aug 12, 2009 | Past Posts
As the Mammoth Unified School District Board of Directors began to lay out their priorities and goals for the 2009/10 school year, figuring out how to fill the principal position at Mammoth Elementary School came to the forefront.With large budget deficits looming...
by News Staff | Aug 12, 2009 | Past Posts
While State Lands Commission officials threw verbal darts at LADWP yesterday, Air Pollution Control District Director Ted Schade tried to remind irritable officials that the point of the work at the Owens Dry Lake is clean air.As we reported yesterday, a meeting of...
by News Staff | Aug 12, 2009 | Past Posts
After a grueling process, California now has a state budget signed by the Governor, but questions on how the budget will affect local state parks remain. Earlier this year, the Governor threatened to close 161 of the 220 State Parks in California in order to save...
by News Staff | Aug 12, 2009 | Past Posts
The sky above the Owens Valley has been hazy lately. While there are small fires that continue to smolder in the Sierra, Sierra Waves weather forecaster Dennis Mattinson says that the haze is smoke from a fire burning north of Santa Barbara and 26 miles east of Santa...
by News Staff | Aug 11, 2009 | Past Posts
A camping trip to Death Valley turned tragic after a 6-year-old boy died in the heat. After a search, rescuers found a missing mother and her stuck vehicle in the southern portion of Death Valley National Park, but her son had perished from the heat after the two...
by News Staff | Aug 11, 2009 | Past Posts
Will $6 keep some from more college education? It just might, considering the rising cost of just about everything.Cerro Coso Community College officials passed the word that community college fees for state residents will increase from $20 to $26 per unit for the...
