Archive - News Article
August 12th, 2011
An estimated 520 cars entered the Crowley Lake Fish Camp to watch the Fourth of July Fireworks. The Town received $2,600 (20 percent of the $25 entrance fee), which ain’t bad. But that won’t erase The Judgment…
Heads up! On Sept. 10, the Whitmore Pool closes for the season and this has been a darned short summer season…
Mammoth Mountain recorded 1,293,341 skier visits for the 2010/11 season, just so’s you know. Darned long winter season…
August 6th
By
George Shirk - Times Senior Writer
The contractors won the pennant! The contractors won the pennant!
All right, so it wasn’t exactly that dramatic at Wednesday’s Town Council meeting, but to Mammoth builders it must have seemed like Bobby Thomson had just stepped to the plate and swatted a drive into the lower deck of the left field stands.
When they walked out of the Council Chambers, they had a victory, although not a total, hands-down victory.
First of all, there was no actual action.
By
Wendilyn Grasseschi - Times Staff Writer
“No.”
That was the Mono County Supervisors’ almost united response to Tuesday’s request by a Bridgeport community group to take the Bodie Hills Wilderness Study Area out of its semi-protected status.
In fact, the board was so irritated by the resolution and the way it ended up on the agenda, they refused to vote on it, leaving it to die an undignified death.
“Fireball,” the iconoclastic checker at Vons, showed up the other day with a hairnet over his shaved pate. Didn’t slow him down a whit…
Our own Shaylyn Riley and boyfriend Scott Smith came in second in the first heat of the co-ed canoe race last Saturday at the Firemen’s BBQ Yeah!…
August 2nd
Two controversial issues, redistricting and the Bodie Hills, go before the Mono County Supervisors today and both can be viewed and participated in in Mammoth via videoconference as well as in Bridgeport, at the county courthouse, second floor, Supervisor's Chambers.
The Mammoth meeting room is in the Shogun mall, on the third floor, at the far south end of the building, on the left. It will be obvious when you get there, if you just follow the hallway almost all the way south to the end, and turn left.
July 29th
By
Wendilyn Grasseschi - Times Staff Writer
Say it isn’t so.
After more than a decade of divisive debate over the fate of Mono County’s federal Wilderness Study Areaswith no clean solution, the argument comes back again next week.
A Bridgeport community group has put a resolution on the county supervisor’s agenda Tuesday that will ask the supervisors to support releasing some of the county — and the nation’s — wilderness study areas from the federal protection they now have.
By
George Shirk - Times Senior Writer
The Mammoth Lakes government tribes gathered Wednesday evening in a Woodstock moment.
If they had held hands and sung “Kumbaya,” no one would have been much surprised.
The sit-down was to approve a “Resort Investment Element” – basically an amendment to the town’s 2007 General Plan.
Its importance could not be overstated:
“Let’s build a Big Top,” said community development director Mark Wardlaw to the assembled commissioners.
From the True Love files: Kathy Johnson, the superb (and athletic) cosmetologist at the Profiles Salon, was busy snipping on Tuesday when Bruce Bartlett walked in with a dozen red roses and plopped them on the front desk. Just for the heck of it. …
More True Love: Have there ever been newlyweds as radiant as Teresa Aragon and new hubby Jimmy? The former Miss Brooks and Jimmy hitched on the shores of Convict Lake last weekend. Yay!…
July 22nd
By
George Shirk - Times Senior Writer
When Matthew Lehman gets a hot idea, he sure doesn’t waste much time between “floating” it and kicking it into action.
Mammoth’s councilman and Mayor Pro Tem suggested two weeks ago that Mammoth should perhaps devise some sort of “economic stimulus plan."
By Wednesday night’s regular Town Council meeting, he had legislation on the table in the form of a plan prepared by the town staff. He also had a list of immediate action items, delivered by letter. Lehman had to be out of town for Wednesday’s meeting and so was not present.
By
Wendilyn Grasseschi - Times Staff Writer
Three visitors are presumed dead after plunging over Vernal Fall in Yosemite National Park Tuesday afternoon at approximately 1:30 p.m, bringing the total of water-related deaths to six this year.
Hormiz David, a 22-year-old-male from Manteca, Ninos Yacoub, a 27-year-old-male from Turlock and Ramina Badal, a 21-year-old-female from Modesto, came to the park for a day trip with a group of family and friends.
The bears are romping in the Lakes Basin, reports the Bear Whisperer, but enjoy the cubs while you can. Mortality rate is an astonishing 51 percent, says he. …
Six new wildlife warning signs are up around town, but not on S.R. 203. Caltrans has rules, you know. …
The Fire Department and Chief Brent Harper are marking trees up near The Bluffs in their continuing effort at fire reduction. Homeowners there will get a 75 percent rebate for forest cleanup, he says, and no complaints so far. …
July 20th
Bill Altaffer, "the world's most traveled man, will present a pair of slide shows at the Mammoth Lakes Library on Thursday night.
The first deals with The Soviet Union's celebration of its defeat of the Axis powers.
The second is about the Pamir Highway and the Aral Seas.
It begins at 7 o'clock. For further information, call 760-934-4777.
July 19th
Three visitors are presumed dead after plunging over Vernal Fall in Yosemite National Park yesterday afternoon at approximately 1:30 p.m.
Hormiz David, a 22-year-old-male from Modesto, Ninos Yacoub, a 27-year-old-male from Turlock, and Ramina Badal, a 21-year-old-female from Modesto, came to the park for a day trip with a group of family and friends.
July 18th
The Mono County Board of Supervisors will conduct a special meeting on Tuesday, July 19 at the Crowley Lake Community Center to consider an appeal filed by Incline Partners, LLC, project applicant, on the Mono County Planning Commission’s denial of a use permit for the development, operation and maintenance of a wireless telecommunications facility in the community of Crowley Lake:
Southern California Edison will soon be performing maintenance on the electrical
system in the areas identified below. In order to perform this work safely, SCE must
temporarily interrupt electric service and turn off power. This outage will allow SCE
to upgrade aging infrastructure, make needed improvements, and complete other
repairs.
This temporary service interruption may cause some inconvenience, and
SCE appreciate your understanding as we work to increase system reliability for the
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