by News Staff | Aug 11, 2009 | Bureaucrat Beat
We’ll start today with the Good Ideas Gone Bad Department. We in the Bureaucrat Beat newsroom do support the policy: No shoes, no shirt, no service. We prefer the civilized, don’t you know. But, as you may have noticed, we do feel rules can go too far.Case...
by News Staff | Aug 11, 2009 | Past Posts
Just after 1:00 pm Monday, Bishop Fire Volunteers were called into action after a brush fire flared up off Warm Springs Road. CalFire and Forest Service fire crews also responded to the fire burning in grass, brush and cottonwood trees right along banks of the Owens...
by News Staff | Aug 11, 2009 | Past Posts
Over the past few years, the seizure of large outdoor marijuana farms on public lands has become a regular event each summer. Monday in the Glass Mountains between Benton and Crowley Lake, a wide variety of law enforcement officers eradicated over 16,000 plants from...
by News Staff | Aug 10, 2009 | Past Posts
Owner of Mammoth Brewing Company Sean Turner reported that the Mammoth Festival of Beers and Bluesapalooza had, to his knowledge, sold out for the first time, ever. The event sold 5,000 tickets by July 30, two days before the event, and brought many people to town....
by News Staff | Aug 10, 2009 | Past Posts
The community of Mammoth Lakes continues with its wish to live and let live when it comes to bears. The particular flash point for that philosophy this season is Blondie the Bear, a year-old female who freely enters homes for food. Sacramento officials have now...
