by News Staff | Dec 31, 2008 | Past Posts
Long-time Mammoth resident, planning commissioner, real estate agent and Olympic gold medalist, Roy Saari, has died. His family said he had spent a perfect day with them and died suddenly the evening of December 30th. Saari was 63. It was in 1964 that Saari won gold...
by News Staff | Dec 30, 2008 | Past Posts
State workers in the Eastern Sierra wait with trepidation to hear if they will have jobs and enough pay to live on. Tom Hallenbeck, Director of Caltrans in our area, said that the office in the Eastern Sierra has not received details on how to implement furloughs of 2...
by News Staff | Dec 30, 2008 | Past Posts
Changes at DWP? Persistent off the record reports in the Eastern Sierra indicated that DWP Manager Gene Coufal might transfer to Los Angeles after many years in the Owens Valley, with Clarence Martin to replace him. Public Relations spokesmen for DWP said there has...
by News Staff | Dec 30, 2008 | Past Posts
With the state budget in shambles, money slated for some infrastructure projects in California has been put on hold. In the Eastern Sierra there are a few projects that could be impacted by the budget mess. If the money for a road project was slated to come from the...
by News Staff | Dec 30, 2008 | Past Posts
Inyo County Sheriff's investigators continue to look into a death that occurred off the Death Valley Road out of Big Pine. Details are not being released at this time, but detective Jeff Hollowell did confirm that a body was found Monday morning at about 10:40....
