by News Staff | Apr 22, 2011 | Past Posts
In bad economic times, few want to face a strike at Vons grocery stores, but the employees union now has authorization to go out on strike as the company and workers negotiate. Vons Manager Rick Graham in Mammoth Lakes confirmed earlier today that the Local 8 did take...
by News Staff | Apr 22, 2011 | Past Posts
For Mammoth officials, a bad reality has hit home for real. For many years, the Town of Mammoth Lakes will have to pay on a $30 million court Councilman Rick Wood: “I had an extraordinary sense of sadness.” judgment and things will likely not stay the...
by News Staff | Apr 22, 2011 | Past Posts
The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power wants to pump more water from the Owens Valley this year, and DWP did not come up with pumping plans for Big Pine and Aberdeen based on groundwater levels as Inyo County had asked. The good news this year – lots of...
by News Staff | Apr 22, 2011 | Past Posts
In a town where housing costs sometimes exceed whole paychecks, Mammoth Lakes Housing, Inc. has gone a long way to make sure people have a place to live. Even so, affordable housing in Mammoth Lakes stirs controversy. A mini-tiff over housing surfaced at the Town...
by News Staff | Apr 21, 2011 | Past Posts
Never enough ways to hook up with the internet in the Eastern Sierra. The major fiber optic line project called Digital 395 holds promise of cyberspace to come, but right now another project will gather information for future internet providers to go into business in...
by News Staff | Apr 21, 2011 | Past Posts
The third episode of the new Bear Whisperer on Animal Planet will air Thursday night at 10 pm. Mammoth Lakes Wildlife Specialist Steve Searles is the star, surrounded by Mammoth’s bear celebrities. The Thursday night show will center on one of Mammoth’s...
