Archive - Dec 2010
December 7th
In celebration of 50 years of operation, June Mountain will offer lift tickets for only $5 on opening day of the 2010-2011 winter season.
Scheduled to open on December 16, 2010, June Mountain has already received more than 6 feet of natural snowfall in October and November.
December 6th
What happens in Vegas, stays in ⊠Mammoth.
The Mammoth Track Club came up the big winner on Sunday in Las Vegas, where Mammothite Josh Cox won the Rockânâ Roll Las Vegas Marathon, while Mammoth TC runners also captured the menâs half marathon and the womenâs half marathon.
There were 28,000 runners. Ours came up first and best.
By
George Shirk - Mammoth Times Senior Writer
Jack Copeland knows about warm-up runs. So does John Armstrong.
For 10 years Copeland was the director of the Mammoth Mountain Ski School before moving to the fourth floor as an executive. Armstrong was director of the Mammoth Mountain Ski Team, and holds a certificate from the Ăcole Du Ski Francais â about as high ranking as any ski school in the world.
âWarm-up runs are very important for getting the blood going and for the connective tissues in your body,â Copeland said.
âYou have to learn about the day,â Armstrong said.
Mammoth police on Sunday busted a 22-year-old Mammoth man for Saturday night burglaries at both Roberto's and Grumpy's restaurants.
Eduardo Barrios Navarro, 22, was booked for commercial burglary at Mono County Jail with a bail of $50,000.
On Sunday, at approximately 8 a.m. MLPD officers responded to Robertoâs for a burglary investigation.
An employee discovered the crime when she reported to work at 7:20 a.m. and observed cash registers open and other evidence of a burglary. The investigation revealed that the suspect broke a window to enter the restaurant.
December 5th
On Friday Dec. 3, 2010, the Third District Court of Appeal in Sacramento, advised the Town of Mammoth Lakes that it will be given the opportunity to re-argue the “Hot Creek” appeal because of the retirement of one of the justices who was present for the original oral argument.
A new argument date has been set in Sacramento on Monday, Dec. 20, 2010.
December 3rd
By
Wendilyn Grasseschi and Leslie Willoughby â Mammoth Times Staff Writers
No itâs not your imagination.
The bears, at least some bears, are indeed still out.
Although most bears in Mammoth and the surrounding area have bedded down for the winter, not all of them have, said Mammothâs Wildlife Management Specialist Steve Searles.
âItâs as if every bear has a different barometric pressure point,â he said. âThey each need to reach a certain weight so they can survive the winter, and each responds to different temperatures and other factors differently.â
The bears are like some football players, he said.
In the Say It Ainât So department, there will be no girls basketball this season for Mammoth High School. Blame it on a lack of interest. Reminds us of the 2009 football season that wasnât. ...
Gosh it was great to see Skip Harvey back in the Mayorâs chair this past week (see P. 1). Heâs been battling bad illness and had to leave us for a while. âAlways good to get out of L.A.,â said he. And out of the hospitals, too. ...
By
Wendilyn Grasseschi â Mammoth Times Staff Writer
Theyâre here.
Bug-eyed and pincher-toothed, no bigger than a grain of rice, the mountain pine bark beetle has come to visit, killing thousands of acres of lodgepole and whitebark pine in our own backyard, turning green mountainsides tomato-soup red.
Though nowhere near the problem they are in the Rocky Mountains, where the beetle has turned huge swathes of green forests to dead, red trees, and where tourism-and ski-resort based economies are reeling from the cost of cleanup and prevention of the red tide, Eastside beetle populations are growing and growing fast.
"Stage Door" is being performed by Mammoth High School.
Stage Door was nominated best picture of 1937 and starred Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers and Lucille Ball.
It is a very entertaining play starring Lauren Bukenberger, Madison Hodges and others, directed by Kevin Worden.
Friday and Saturday nights, Dec. 3 and 4 at 7pm, Multi Purpose Room.
Tickets are only $5.00!
Come out and support the MHS kids and the Drama Department.
December 2nd
The Inyo National Forest is conducting two controlled burns today, both pile burns, Thursday, Dec. 2: One is seven miles east of June Lake, and the other is five miles east of Crestview.
December 1st
Some Alltel customers from the Tri-Valley area activated their conversions to AT&T in Bishop, only to discover, while on the road, that their cell service was dead. âThey had to drive home to call customer service who told them, âWe didnât take over the towers, just the service and billing,â said Supervisor "Hap" Hazard at the Long Valley Regional Planning and Advisory Committee meeting Wednesday evening.
