Archive - 2013
May 15th
“I like this one,” Fido said “Let’s pee on the tires!”
“You have that all mixed up, Fido. You don’t do that when you’re looking at cars. You can kick the tires, sure, but that’s more a human thing. Dogs don’t kick really well.”
“OK, then, let’s look under the hood!”
May 14th
The Mono County Sheriff's department on Tuesday, May 14, identified a man who was found dead in a Jacuzzi Sunday night, May 12.
Police closed U.S. 395 in Bridgeport early on Tuesday morning, May 14, after a tractor-trailer burst into flames at the bridge over the East Walker River at the south entrance to Bridgeport, following an accident that killed the driver.
Caltrans re-opened the highway at 3:45 p.m.
May 13th
The next Green Church lecture is Tuesday, May 14, at 7 p.m. at the corner of Benton Crossing Road and U.S. 395. The subject is "40 Years of Endangered Species: Conflict and Conservation in California" by Dr. Peter Alagona, Department of History & Environmental Studies Program, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Here is a link to Alagona's forthcoming book: http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520275065
Lectures are at 7 p.m. Tuesday evenings (except June 6) at the Green Church (Hwy. 395 and Benton Crossing Rd.).
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By Mike Gervais, Inyo Register Staff
A former Independence resident is making good on his dream to make movies and is planning to share his latest production in Inyo and Mono counties.
Forrest Pound, a 2003 graduate of Owens Valley School in Independence, will be presenting the film “Watershed: Exploring a New Water Ethic for the New West” at the Eastern California Museum and the Mammoth Lakes Edison Theatre next week.
The free screenings will be held at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, May 16 at the Edison Theater in Mammoth and at 7 p.m. Friday, May 17 at the American Legion Hall in Independence.
A 29-year-old Colorado man was found unresponsive at a hot tub at a Mammoth condominium complex at about 9 p.m. Sunday night, May 12, and was declared dead after medics failed to revive him, according to the Mono County Sheriff’s Department.
The location of the condominium complex was across the street/northwest of Mammoth High School, according to a Mammoth Times staff member who witnessed some of the incident, but the exact address of the complex was not available from the sheriff's department at press time.
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George Shirk, Times Managing Editor
Motherless youngster gets into Mammoth house
A young, motherless bear cub with a taste for apple pie has been getting into trouble around Old Mammoth in the past several weeks, according to Wildlife Specialist Steve Searles.
What’s more, the 15-month-old cub has learned to pull at heartstrings to get what he or she wants.
Mono County will soon have a new County Administrative Officer, according to Mono County Supervisor Byng Hunt.
Hunt said the county has identified “three to four very viable candidates” as of this week. He said he expects the board to make a decision either at the end of this week, or next week.
None of the candidates are local, he said.
The first transient rental request for the June Lake area got the Mono County Board of Supervisors approval Tuesday, May 7.
The request, which came on the heels of an ordinance passed last year, was made by Ralph Lockhart, co-owner of the Double Eagle Resort and Spa for four parcels with homes on them in the Down Canyon area of June Lake.
There were no objections to the request made at the meeting.
An ambitious project to link Lee Vining to Yosemite National Park via a trail system went before Lee Vining community members Wednesday, May 8.
The pre-planning effort, supported by the county in cooperation with the National Park Service and under the direction of a moderator with skills in such issues, was partially funded by a grant, according to county officials.
A 55-unit housing subdivision project overlooking Lower Rock Creek canyon that was put on hold during the recession went before the Mono County supervisors Tuesday, May 7.
Developer Matthew Lehman asked the supervisors to approve minor changes made to the subdivision’s “specific plan;” changes that had to do with affordable housing mitigation requirements.
The supervisors agreed to allow Lehman to waive affordable housing mitigation actions that would have been triggered by the county’s 2006 Housing Mitigation Ordinance.
The Inyo National Forest announced a special opportunity for personal use fuelwood collection in the Reds Meadow Valley on the weekend of May 17-19, prior to the area opening for the general public.
Amazing Mammoth
May 15, 2013
Today’s (May 6) snow deserves an entry into my diary.
Being May, it’s warm, for Christ’s sake! Friday, some young lovelies were in sport bras—stirring my sports briefs. The snow surface was warm, soft groom. Ideal spring conditions!
During the last few days, thunderstorms settled over Mammoth. Some rain, some warm snow, some hail.