by News Staff | Jul 15, 2009 | Past Posts
A cabin-owner in the Whitney Portal area said fire started Tuesday night in Camp spot #39 and spread from there. The Inyo Sheriff’s Department logged the report of the fire at about 9:35. The Lone Pine Fire Department almost single handedly put out the...
by News Staff | Jul 15, 2009 | General Misc. Stories
Thoughts from an unwise white male: What are members of the Senate Judiciary Committee having for dinner tonight? Grilled Sonia Sotomayor! President Obama’s nominee for the Supreme Court wasn’t just answering questions, she was “getting...
by News Staff | Jul 15, 2009 | Past Posts
Mammoth Unified School Districts Board continues to toil over future budgets. July is usually a dark month for the Board, meaning they dont meet, but this July they decided it was imperative to get together in a workshop to look at ways to cut costs in the future....
by News Staff | Jul 15, 2009 | Past Posts
Inyo-Mono Public Health Officer Dr. Rick Johnson verified that Inyo County now has three laboratory-confirmed cases of H1N1 flu. This on top of Mono County’s four cases. As Dr. Johnson points out, for every laboratory-confirmed case, many people remain untested...
by News Staff | Jul 15, 2009 | Past Posts
As employees and citizens continue to criticize Mammoth Hospital officials for alleged mismanagement, the officials themselves defend current moves to lay off 20 workers and stabilize the hospital finances.To those who find fault with the hospital hiring a new...