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Marc Margulies in Cambodia filming “Act of Valor”

Some fallen “sailors”

By Dave Leonard Have you ever wanted to try telemark skiing but didn’t know where to start? Well, help is at hand for the tele-curious in the form of a new instructional DVD entitled “Modern Telemark: Art and Technique” by local freeheel legend Urmas Franosch. Urmas has an impressive resume: he is a former member [...]

Ninth nixes 8 … California Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom, who championed same-sex marriage while Mayor of San Francisco, was one of those who celebrated a decision last week by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, which ruled unconstitutional Proposition 8, the 2008 California ballot measure that banned same sex marriage. “Proposition 8 [...]

Mammoth Lakes Town Council voted Wednesday to give Elizabeth Tenney’s Gateway Project $250,000 out of the Public Arts Fund, effectively overruling its own Public Arts Commission. In a letter to Council submitted prior to Wednesday’s regular meetng, Arts Commission Chairman Nick Holst said he did not support Tenney’s request. “My response is still, ‘this is [...]

Supervisors Bell Diversion Pipeline vote not legit At Tuesday’s Mono County Board of Supervisors’ meeting, Supervisors, by a 3-2 vote, thought they had committed to taking $60,000 from the County’s contingency fund to help pay for a pipeline to keep fish from freezing at Conway Ranch. By Wednesday, they learned they hadn’t committed anything at [...]

Jill Kinmont Boothe with long-time friend and mentor Dave McCoy.

Hovering at altitude

The MHS Girls Soccer Team ended the season with a hokey-pokey of a loss.

By Allen Best Love it or loathe it! SALIDA, Colo. – The landscape artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude made quite a pair. Appearing on the stage of the high school in Telluride a few years ago to talk about their latest project in Colorado, they bantered back and forth a bit like Sonny and Cher. Although [...]