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Southern Inyo Fire Board Weighs Cell Tower Deal, Reggae Fest, and the True Cost of “Free” Land
The Southern Inyo Fire Protection District’s February 19 board meeting gave a few headlines among the slow work of keeping a rural district stitched together: a proposed cell tower above Shoshone, a first-time reggae festival on private land, a possible future tax assessment, and the true cost of a parcel for Charleston View’s forthcoming substation.…
Heard Around Town: Chasing Dreams
Wind and rain have tormented the region since Monday, shaking up travel plans just as Death Valley edges toward peak season. Southern California Edison has, in recent months, scheduled—and then canceled—equipment-upgrade outages more than once, and so far these storms haven’t knocked anything down. It did, however, offer a rare reward: the “snowpahs”—a fleeting, snow-bright…