by News Staff | Aug 13, 2009 | Past Posts
Science has found that as much as 89% of adult smokers began as teens, so the push against selling tobacco to minors has a health-based motivation. This summer, Mono County deputies and Mammoth Lakes Police conducted a tobacco sting operation and found that employees...
by News Staff | Aug 12, 2009 | Past Posts
Should we connect the dots? From big oil companies’ gripes that their profits slipped to only around $4 billion and higher prices at the pump? Fuel and economic pundits aren’t saying. Some have speculated that the average of more than $3 per gallon edged...
by News Staff | Aug 12, 2009 | Past Posts
As the Mammoth Unified School District Board of Directors began to lay out their priorities and goals for the 2009/10 school year, figuring out how to fill the principal position at Mammoth Elementary School came to the forefront.With large budget deficits looming...
by News Staff | Aug 12, 2009 | Past Posts
While State Lands Commission officials threw verbal darts at LADWP yesterday, Air Pollution Control District Director Ted Schade tried to remind irritable officials that the point of the work at the Owens Dry Lake is clean air.As we reported yesterday, a meeting of...
by News Staff | Aug 12, 2009 | Past Posts
After a grueling process, California now has a state budget signed by the Governor, but questions on how the budget will affect local state parks remain. Earlier this year, the Governor threatened to close 161 of the 220 State Parks in California in order to save...
