Janine Porges (white Helmet) and Ingrid Braun (black helmet), race side by side on the final day...
U. S. Ski Team’s Steve Nyman flies off of “Hair Jump” during the WR FIS...
Having been absent from competition for over a decade, the Mammoth High School Cheer...
Wheels of Justice
January 13, 2012
Planning Commish plans a scaleback
January 13, 2012
Mammoth, Eastern Sierra to get 11 new buses
January 13, 2012
What's Up, Up Here? All the news and gossip for Jan 13-19
January 13, 2012
Tenney 'Goes for Broke' on funding for Gateway Project
January 13, 2012
Call it want you want: Shooting the Moon, Going for Broke, whatever.
For Elizabeth Tenney, it’s all of that, with an extra measure of audacity thrown in.
Tenney, whose volunteer projects in Mammoth have made her a key behind-the-scenes player, on Tuesday floored the town’s Recreation Commission with a request for $250,000 in Measure R (taxpayer) funding for her Mammoth Gateway Community Project, up from a previous request of $25,000.
“I’m highly skeptical that we could get that much,” she said to the commissioners, who answered her with their own skepticism.
January 10th
UPDATE: Jarvis death determined to be drug overdose
January 10, 2012
January 9th
Fesko, Hazard, Peters, Bauer, will run for county supervisor seats in 2012
January 9, 2012
Business owner and Walker area resident Tim Fesko, Bridgeport business owner Bob Peters, business owner and county supervisor Vikki Bauer and retired Mono County Sheriff deputy and current county supervisor Duane "Hap" Hazard have announced they will run for office this June for the four-year term of county supervisor.
Three Mono County Supervisor seats are up this year; District 4, District 2 and District 3.
January 6th
Cops arrest Dr. Andrew Bourne and Joe Walker in child sex case
January 6, 2012
Two Mammoth men, one of them a member of the Mammoth Unified School District school board, were arrested Wednesday in connection with their sexual involvement with a 14-year-old Santa Barbara girl.
Dr. Andrew C. Bourne, 46, a recent chief of staff at Mammoth Hospital and head of vascular surgery, and Joseph T. Walker, 48, are being held on $1 million bail each.
Warm weather allows Airport Road to get facelift
January 6, 2012
It might just be the first time in history that it’s been possible to patch asphalt cracks in the middle of January.
Normally a job for the short summer months, roadwork in Mono County comes to a screeching halt every winter.
Except this one
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Not only is there no snow, it’s been in the 50s and 60s during the day—warm enough to set finicky tar asphalt patches.
The funky and cracked road to the Mammoth Yosemite Airport will be getting a facelift in the next week or so, despite a bit of tug-o-war between the county supervisors Tuesday.
Mammoth Lakes Lakers head to U.S. Pond Hockey Championship
January 6, 2012
The Mammoth Lakes Lakers, our local pond hockey team, are headed to Minneapolis to compete for the Golden Shovel in the sixth annual U.S. Pond Hockey Championship.
You might not have heard about the Mammoth Lakes Lakers, but they’ve been around as long as … well … as long as Mammoth locals have been skating and playing hockey.
This year, the Mammoth Lakes Lakers are Jeff Posey, Peter Chapman, Mike Rousseau, Ryan Widen, Jim Lynch and Joe Hannigan.
Crab killer on the loose
January 6, 2012
The crabs are gone. All of Mammoth mourns.
Occupancy dives again
January 6, 2012
Merchants, hoteliers, restaurants and the Mammoth Mountain Ski Area all scrambled this week in the face of a steep dive in visitor occupancy.
In its weekly occupancy projection, Mammoth Tourism said the town is expected to fill to just 38 percent this weekend and 21 percent for the midweek.
Last year at this time, with an overabundance of snow and Mammoth the talk of the ski world, the town filled to 65 percent on the weekend and 35 percent in the midweek.
Many hotels and condo complexes are offering deep discounts, particularly at midweek.
Ice Rink reaping the rewards
January 6, 2012
As it turns out, the political wrangling and the financing debates have worked themselves out, adding to a record season at the newly reopened ice rink.
December attendance at the rink doubled over December 2009—the last season the rink was open.
Going into the New Year, the rink already is 85 percent of the total attendance than it had in 2009-10.
“What a time to reopen the Ice Rink,” said Stuart Brown, the Town’s recreation director.
“Attendance has been through the roof and the quality of the experience on the ice for our guests has surpassed our expectations,” he said.
Inaccuracies in previous letter
January 6, 2012
The letter titled “For the Nordic Record,” submitted by Brian Knox and published in the Dec. 23, 2011, edition, contains factual inaccuracies that we would like to address here.
The Town of Mammoth Lakes—not MLTPA—has submitted a Measure R application for a multi-year funding commitment supporting a cooperative effort between the Town and the Inyo National Forest to establish and maintain the Mammoth Lakes Trail System (MLTS).