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Government shutdown disrupts trips, recreation // The Sheet Newspaper
On the east side, the great outdoors is not only the reason many choose to live here, it’s also the economic driver (i.e. bread and butter) for the area. So it comes as no surprise that, locally, the partial closure of our national parks is the biggest fallout of the government shutdown, thus far. Following a summer tourist season affected by smoke and road closures from nearby fires, the closures are another stab at an already open wound. While gates in some parks may not be officially closed, amenities and services have been cut off in...
read moreBack to the Barker Ranch // The Sheet Newspaper
The haunting face of Charles Manson is a tough thing to shake from your memory, even if you’ve only seen it over a television screen. The thought that there may be murders he orchestrated back in his heyday that are unaccounted for is something even harder to digest. In 2008, the Inyo County Sheriff’s Department and the National Park Service authorized a dig at the Barker Ranch, the hangout where the Manson Family reportedly went following the Tate-LaBianca murder spree of 1969. The dig was authorized following the request of scientists and...
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