by News Staff | Dec 28, 2009 | Past Posts
As home foreclosures go on and the hope of home ownership slips away, the Eastern Sierra received over a million dollars between Mammoth and Bishop to help first-time homebuyers.Mammoth Housing, Inc. announced that Mono Couny won a 2009 HOME grant of $800,000. Mammoth...
by News Staff | Dec 28, 2009 | Past Posts
In the new year, Inyo-Mono officials will apparently face up to the threat of the aquatic pest known as quagga mussel. Fear of that pest caused DWP to severely limit use of Klondike Lake and in recent weeks, officials from many agencies sat down to talk about the...
by News Staff | Dec 28, 2009 | Past Posts
On the law enforcement scene over the holiday, quiet in Bishop and the Owens Valley but Mammoth Lakes was another story. Police report bar fights, large crowds, vandalism and assaults – mostly late at night at the Village at Mammoth.Officers said that they made...
by News Staff | Dec 23, 2009 | Past Posts
On Monday, California Senator Diane Feinstein introduced a new piece of legislation designed to protect large areas of the Southern California Desert. The main thrust of the proposed legislation is to create two new national monuments in the Mojave Desert, but there...
by News Staff | Dec 23, 2009 | Past Posts
A spokesman for Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has confirmed that his office plans to appoint a replacement to fill the void left by the passing of Mono Supervisor Bill Reid in October. When a supervisor dies, or leaves the job, the Governors office has the ability to...
by News Staff | Dec 23, 2009 | Past Posts
To rumors that he wants to monopolize the marijuana dispensary business, Steve Klassen of Mammoth Lakes said that he does not want a monopoly and, in fact, had suggested three permits for Mammoth. Klassen said, “We definitely need multiple dispensaries.”Of...