Earlier this summer, Sergio Madrigal of Mammoth Lakes reportedly left a three-year-old boy alone in a running car while he went to the bank. The child managed to move the car and Madrigal faced charges. Recently, Madrigal appeared in court to enter guilty pleas to the charges of driving without a license and failure to […]
Sources close to Town government once more have reported that department heads and others remain on the chopping block for potential budget cuts. Other sources have indicated that the Town Council may actually eliminate several department heads positions. One thing is for sure, Town Manager Rob Clark said that he will issue a memo Wednesday […]
A 13-year-old Boy Scout hiked for help while his seriously injured father waited with their wrecked vehicle. Mono Sheriff Officials report that at about 7:35 Sunday evening, deputies responded to a report of an overturned vehicle on a remote dirt road in the Bridgeport area. 48-year-old Chadwick Gilzean of Shingle Springs had lost control of […]
Highway Patrol officials have released the name of the woman who died in an un-witnessed car accident near Bishop. 66-year-old Bishop resident Doris Smither was the victim of the single vehicle rollover on Fish Slough Road. Details on what happened remain sketchy. The vehicle, a silver Honda Accord, had been travelling southbound on Fish Slough […]
More evidence that it pays to call DWP’s hand on bad behavior. The LA Times reported that LADWP officials launched an aggressive campaign and a bill to halt state environmental rules that would require use of much less sea water in cooling their coastal power plants. The state wants to limit damage that power plants […]
Photos by Russ Monroe Once again, a startlingly beautiful day in Russ Monroe’s neighborhood. He sent along pictures Tuesday morning of a doe and her two twins viewed from Granite Drive in the Alabama Hills above Lone Pine.
During last Thursday’s mudslide, Jeff Bradshaw from Laguna Nigel called the Sierra Wave. He graciously emailed us video of the sliding mud and the big rig. That tape was the first image we had of the disaster. Bradshaw and his friends were trying to figure out how to get to Lone Pine. They had applied […]
As the Mammoth Town Council gets ready to vote on the new town government budget, Town Manager Rob Clark and Finance Director Brad Koehn issued an analysis of the situation and news that the deficit has dropped from more than $1.5 million down to roughly $717,000. Although the Agenda Bill says the managers recommend Option […]
The Inyo-LA Standing Committee, minus any decision-makers from LA, met in Independence Friday. They opened the meeting at the boardroom and then promptly took off for a field trip near Black Rock. Later in the day, tribal members strongly protested the plan to turn on a well that had been off for twelve years due […]
Budget issues for the Town of Mammoth Lakes continue to be the subject of much concern. At the council meeting set for Wednesday night, the council plans to hear from Deb Pierrel and the Citizen Group that is working to reformat the budget and help create a budget that is more understandable for the general […]
After last Thursday’s horrendous flood and mudslide across Highway 395 south of Olancha, Caltrans and others have worked constantly to clear the highway and now to free a big rig that was pushed down into a culvert by the flood. Susan Lent, PIO of Caltrans, said that the roads are open, but there is a […]
A local woman has died after a vehicle accident on a dirt road north of Bishop. At about 2:00 pm, Monday, emergency crews in the Bishop area were called out to the Fish Slough area for a report of a possible fatal single vehicle rollover. The accident occurred about 5.5 miles from the junction of […]
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