by News Staff | Oct 14, 2009 | Past Posts
Tioga Pass is currently closed, but officials with Yosemite National Park expect the road to re-open this season. This wet fall storm has pasted the Eastern Sierra with a fresh mantel of early season snow, but snow levels have been high – above 9000 feet. At...
by News Staff | Oct 13, 2009 | Past Posts
The Mono County Search and Rescue team has been busy over the previous month, with seven call outs including a lost hunter, lost and stranded hikers, and a fatal climbing accident. On September 15, SAR volunteers assisted a 39-year-old woman from LA who was stuck in...
by News Staff | Oct 13, 2009 | Past Posts
H1N1 flu has kicked up a notch. Eastern Sierra Public Health Officer Dr. Rick Johnson sent out a media brief just to say the surge is on. Johnson said report from across the country agree that an unusually early start to the fall-winter flu season is underway with a...
by News Staff | Oct 13, 2009 | Past Posts
Mammoth Mountain Ski Area is now set to open for the season on Friday. Snow levels were high and there was some rain on the snow that fell on the lower elevation of the Ski Area, but the storm left a 16 inch base, according to Joani Lynch, the Communications Director...
by News Staff | Oct 13, 2009 | Past Posts
As the storm moved into the Eastern Sierra, heavy rains began to fall. In Bridgeport, that fact turned into a mini-disaster.A project was underway at the Mono County Jail to replace the roof on the entire complex. The old roof had been stripped away. Undersheriff...
by News Staff | Oct 13, 2009 | Past Posts
As the storm moved into the Eastern Sierra, heavy rains began to fall. In Bridgeport, that fact turned into a mini-disaster.Seems that a project was underway at the Mono County Jail to replace the roof on the entire complex. The old roof had been stripped away,...
