by News Staff | Jan 7, 2009 | Past Posts
She tells parents of Autistic children to stay focused and have hope. Lori Ciccarelli of Mammoth Lakes knows about Autism. Her son Jeremy was diagnosed with it at age 7. She recently produced a video called JJ's Journey to help spread the word about how to live...
by News Staff | Jan 6, 2009 | Bureaucrat Beat
Here’s a story that pretty much says it all about bureaucracy gone bad. A jail in northern Texas had somehow allowed prisoners to lock their cells from the inside, sit in recliners and turn off surveillance cameras. Okay. What is this? Fort Worth Marriott?!?...
by News Staff | Jan 6, 2009 | Past Posts
Six months ago, a torrent of rain washed a huge flood down the Oak Creek canyons north and west of Independence. The deluge brought down a major mudslide through Mt. Whitney Hatchery, the Oak Creek residential area and onto Highway 395. The recovery has inched along....
by News Staff | Jan 6, 2009 | Past Posts
Big corporations that own and operate shopping centers in small resort towns sometimes fail to care about local economics and cooperation. Many believe that failure led to trouble in Bishop and Mammoth Lakes. In Bishop, the once bustling cottonwood Plaza has died...
by News Staff | Jan 6, 2009 | Past Posts
The re-incarnation of the Mammoth Town Ice Rink proved to be a popular attraction last winter. This year was well on its way to a second successful year for skating and hockey, but last week a mechanical problem lead to sloppy conditions at first, then the ice rink...
