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On the right track Dear Editor: Supervisor “Hap” Hazard stated in a recent reply (Feb. 11) to an Elizabeth Boyd letter (Feb. 4) “I receive only a salary with no employee benefits in my role as a Supervisor.” Supervisor Hazard appears to intentionally cloud the focus of Ms. Boyd’s letter by going on to cite [...]

Mammoth on right track with Gateway Project Dear Editor: Winter 2012 has dealt Mammoth a triple hit: lingering bad economy, MLLA airport lawsuit, and a season with minimal snowfall resulting in a substantial drop in visitors and the recent layoff of 75 full-time employees at the Mountain. Hard times indeed, but in my 20 years [...]

Special thanks to friendly people Dear Editor: I would like to publicly express my appreciation to Tim Bue and Lesley Yen, both employees of the Inyo National Forest Service and administrators for special use permits on INFS land. In these times when state, local and federal government budget cuts are effecting small businessman in the [...]

Dear Editor: I want to send out some congratulations to our local cross country ski racers. Amanda Kirkeby of Mammoth High School is the new California-Nevada State Champion for the Open Class! The Mammoth High School JV girls also took home the team trophy with great races from Amanda, Jody Meads, Kylie LaFromboise, and Katherine [...]

MUSD averts potential disaster Dear Editor: The Mammoth Lakes Fire Protection District would like to thank the Mammoth Unified School District, the Board of Education and Superintendant Rich Boccia for the recent removal of the two 30,000 gallon propane tanks that were located on school property. The tanks sat less than 100 feet from the [...]

Feels like déjà vu Dear Editor: Our community cannot afford our current Town Council’s inability to understand its legal commitment to pay its debt to Mammoth Lakes Land Acquisiton. This is ultimately going to cost property owners, business owners, local families, second homeowners, and the hard working people who live in our community $7,000 a [...]

Thoughts on Bourne  Dear Editor: We just returned from the memorial service, or as some prefer to call it a “celebration of life,” for Andrew Bourne. If one did not know the backstory here, when all was said and done one might have thought he was Mother Theresa with sixpack abs. I saw more photos [...]

Response to Don Sage Dear Editor: Don Sage you are incorrect sir (letter from Feb. 3, “Sage law?”). The law did not kill Andrew Bourne, Andrew Bourne killed himself. Mr. Bourne was having inappropriate communication that was deeded “sexual” in nature by the DA of Santa Barbara. As a psychotherapist that specializes in working with [...]

A Second Response to Ms. Muir Dear Editor: Ms. Muir’s 27 January letter patently disregards facts. She states, “However, as an American citizen and a former child mental health worker, I know that when a man is initially held on one million dollars bail for alleged sex crimes against a minor, there is sufficient legal [...]

Double-dipping? Dear Editor: In an article published on Christmas Day 2011, the Fresno Bee had this to say about public employee double dipping. “Gov. Jerry Brown’s plan for sweeping public pension reform would hit the pocketbooks of employees who hope to collect a pension and paycheck at the same time. It is a common practice [...]