Blythe

Department of Agriculture that helps farmers, landowners and agricultural producers conserve soil, water and other natural resources — is facing closures in Oxnard, Woodland, Salinas and Blythe, the database shows.

After his star-making performance in 2023’s “Hunger Games” prequel, Tom Blythe takes a welcome step back to the indies in “Plainclothes,” though one that’s just as filled with visual spectacle.

Johnny Rodriguez, vice mayor of Blythe, a community of about 18,000 on the eastern end of the monument, fears it will smother economic development in the area.

He said natural gas lines and heavy utility lines that serve the area are inside the boundaries of the new monument, which could limit future expansions of those lines and make it more difficult and expensive for the developers of any big projects built in Blythe to access them.

Blythe’s City Council put out a statement opposing the designation over the summer.