by News Staff | Jun 13, 2008 | Past Posts
A car stolen from Mammoth has turned up in New Mexico. On Memorial Day, Mammoth resident Jim Lewey went for a jog in a popular spot near the junction of 395 and 203. When he returned from his exercise, he found that someone had taken his car. Three weeks later, after...
by News Staff | Jun 13, 2008 | Past Posts
With a trial set for Thursday of last week, 51 year old Ronald Watson of Onyx, California, the man accused of lighting a string of fires in Mammoth, reached a plea agreement with the Mono County District Attorneys Office. In June of 2007, Watson is alleged to have...
by News Staff | Jun 13, 2008 | Past Posts
The cruel part of high gas prices revealed itself in Friday's meeting of the Eastern Sierra Transit Board – gas prices will drive up expenses for bus service and revenues have dropped. ESTA Board members fell short of painful cuts in service to those who can...
by News Staff | Jun 13, 2008 | Bureaucrat Beat
We just have to mention Friday the 13th since we are the denizens of the dark Bureaucrat Beat newsroom where suspicions and superstitions lurk about in the corners and under our manual typewriters. So, on Friday the 13th, we celebrate the dark side which provides...
by News Staff | Jun 12, 2008 | Past Posts
Starting next week, the California High School Rodeo Finals will kick off the fourth year that the event has been held in Bishop. As in years past, expect to see a large number of young men and women in cowboy hats on the streets of Bishop between performances along...