Archive
April 27th, 2012
By
Wendilyn Grasseschi - Mammoth Times Staff Writer
The Owens River is that big river out east of Mammoth that cuts a fine, green line through the sage and rabbit brush foothills of the Eastern Sierra, rolling along the feet of the mountains like a blue and silver snake.
By
Wendilyn Grasseschi - Mammoth Times Staff Writer
Mammoth High School 2009 graduate Jess Vint was not perhaps the first student in his class who might have been expected to be successful at anything.
He was, by his own admission, a middling student, a middling athlete, and a middling person.
By
George Shirk - Times News Editor
Fido’s funny about fishing.
He says he likes it, but he doesn’t know why.
After 14 years of pushing and pulling, Mammoth Mountain Ski Area finally landed its Big Congressional Land Battle.
By
George Shirk - Times News Editor
The Mammoth Lakes Planning Commission next month will address a bang-bang issue on how firearms may be sold in Mammoth.
April 24th
By
George Shirk - Times News Editor
It was not the best way to start the workweek.
Shortly after 7 a.m. on Monday, the Eastern Sierra’s phones blinked out. It left Mammoth and other Eastern Sierra customers with varying degrees of phone and Internet service or none at all.
The Mono County Sheriff’s Department said phone service might be restored by Tuesday at 5 p.m., but phone service was back online much earlier than that. By Tuesday morning, limited phone and Internet access was back
April 22nd
By
George Shirk/Times News Editor
It’s time to put up or shut up for Mammoth in its judgment battle with Mammoth Lakes Land Acquisition, but the town isn’t exactly quite ready to shut up and surrender.
April 21st
It was pretty much quiet around Our Little Burg in the week ending April 20.
Calls for Service/Officer Observations
By
Neil Mulholland - President and CEO, National Park Foundation
This week, every American has something to celebrate. In fact, we have 397 things to celebrateour national parks. It is National Park Week -- a time when each of us can appreciate what we all have inherited as Americans and what many consider to be our best idea.
A little-known fee that will cost most homeowners in Mono County outside of Mammoth Lakes about $150 for every “habitable dwelling” they own will be sent out this June, if a last minute appeal to the law doesn’t work.
Hike details
Length: 1-8 miles one way
Above average temperatures and a below average snowpack are allowing road plowing efforts to begin earlier than normal this spring.
The Town of Mammoth Lakes will begin plowing roads in the Mammoth Lakes Basin on Monday, April 23. Opening of the Lakes Basin to vehicles will be dependent upon snow, ice and road conditions.
Isolation
April 27, 2012
Last Monday’s telephone outage should have been a disaster, but it wasn’t.
Not up here, not in Mammoth.