by News Staff | Jun 20, 2008 | Past Posts
Smoke from the Clover fire continues to spill over into the Owens Valley. Burning in the Jeffrey Pine and Pinyon forests north of Kennedy Meadows and southwest of Olancha, at last report this fire was closing in on 3,000 acres in size. The Clover fire was started by...
by News Staff | Jun 20, 2008 | Past Posts
Mammoth Police Sergeant Paul Dostie, whose grave-scent dog Buster jump started the recent search for additional Manson Family victims at the Barker Ranch, has made the news again. No bodies were found at the Barker Ranch, but now Sgt. Dostie and Buster have helped...
by News Staff | Jun 20, 2008 | Bureaucrat Beat
My father would have enjoyed the Bureaucrat Beat newsroom. He liked talking politics. He was the presiding Superior Court Judge in Dayton, Ohio. I learned a lot from him. One of his favorite sayings – Live and Let Live – came to mind the other day. I...
by News Staff | Jun 20, 2008 | Past Posts
Just like that, we plunge headlong into summer with the start of the Mammoth Mountain Bike Park and Adventure Center season. The Bike Park crew expected to have 10 trails open on the lower mountain, serviced by shuttle bus, with options for every ability level. The...
by News Staff | Jun 20, 2008 | Past Posts
In a conversation that echoed last year’s Development Impact Fee increase discussions, fees raised their expensive heads again at this week’s Town Council meeting this time in the form of increases to building permit fees. Assistant Town Manager Karen...