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  • Controversial Cemex land swap back before city council

    12/20/2011 11:03:08 AM PST · by mdittmar · 6 replies
    Victorville Daily Press ^ | December 20, 2011 | Brooke Edwards Staggs
    VICTORVILLE • A controversial proposal to give federal land north of Victorville to Cemex in hopes of ending a 12-year dispute over mining in Santa Clarita is back before the City Council Tuesday night.Rep. Howard "Buck" McKeon, R-Santa Clarita, first introduced the Soledad Canyon Mine Act in 2008 and then again in 2009. The bills aimed to give 10,600 acres of Bureau of Land Management property north of Victorville to cement producer Cemex USA. In exchange, the company would agree to a band on its rights to mine gravel in Soledad Canyon, where residents have been protesting the impact on...
  • Capt. Tred Barta, TV host, outdoorsman, columnist, paralyzed Monday

    05/20/2009 6:49:25 PM PDT · by Damifino · 12 replies · 1,288+ views
    Sport Fishing magazine ^ | Wednesday, May 20, 2009 | Staff
    On his way to Alaska to tape his TV show, Tred Barta recently suffered a rare occurrence called a spinal stroke. He is currently paralyzed from just below the chest down. Prognosis is way up in the air at the moment. His message to everyone is… "Don't take a single second of your life for granted." Send him best wishes at tred.barta@bartaiso.com.