Lease Opens Doors For Bishop City Park

The LA City Council recently signed off on a long term and less restrictive lease for the Bishop City Park. Now the question for City officials and Bishop area residents is how to take advantage of this new level of control. Ideas that have been discussed in the past...

Big Pine Couple Featured in LA Times

You could call a new Los Angeles Times story in Tuesdays paper “Bird Watching: A Love Story.” Times reporter Louis Sahagun covers the Eastern Sierra and found out about the remarkable Big Pine couple, Tom and Jo Heindel. The Times story revealed that the...

Marathon Winner Draws Controversy

Distance runner Meb Keflezighi, who trains in the thin air near Mammoth Lakes, is the first American to win the New York Marathon since 1982. A great achievement for sure, but sour grapes appear to have surfaced. A story in the New York Times Tuesday reports that some...

Kevin Green: On the Other Side of Alcohol and Court

Kevin Green came to town with big plans to buy up four restaurants and other real estate. The would-be entrepreneur instead ended up in Mono County Jail on a fraud arrest warrant. Green made a splash in Mammoth and then went wrong. More recently, he entered a plea...

More Evidence of H1N1 in Eastern Sierra

Inyo-Mono Public Health Officer Dr. Rick Johnson has issued the information that our area continues to see rising evidence of the presence of the H1N1 influenza virus in our communities. Johnson reported that school absenteeism and visits to doctors office are...

Mammoth Toursim Department Set to Go Private

Progress continues onthe planto revamp the effort to market Mammoth Lakes to the outside world by cutting loose a section of the Towns Tourism and Recreation Department. Rather than set the marketing of the Town completely adrift, the plan is to create a non profit...