by News Staff | Aug 13, 2009 | Past Posts
A Bishop man is in the hearts and prayers of many eastside residents today after an accident on the canal left the man trapped in his car underwater. According to the report from CHP Officers, 32-year-old Bishop resident Mark Strout lost control of his 1996 Ford...
by News Staff | Aug 13, 2009 | Past Posts
Highway work continues throughout the Eastern Sierra. The project on Sherwin Grade is still on schedule for completion by early October.Crews expected to do paving this week if the asphalt product tested okay in the Caltrans lab. This paving would include shoulder...
by News Staff | Aug 13, 2009 | Past Posts
On Monday, a wide variety of law enforcement officers teamed up to eradicate a large outdoor marijuana farm growing in the Glass Mountains. While the helicopter was still in the air, flying loads of marijuana out of the remote site for disposal, Mono Sheriff Rick...
by News Staff | Aug 13, 2009 | Past Posts
He goes by the name of Green Cowboy or Eco-Pioneer. David Freeman has headed four major U.S. utilities in his 83 years. One of them, the LADWP. Now, Freeman wields his energy ideas as a kind of Vice Mayor in charge of environmental issues in the City of Los Angeles....
by News Staff | Aug 13, 2009 | Past Posts
Science has found that as much as 89% of adult smokers began as teens, so the push against selling tobacco to minors has a health-based motivation. This summer, Mono County deputies and Mammoth Lakes Police conducted a tobacco sting operation and found that employees...
by News Staff | Aug 12, 2009 | Past Posts
Should we connect the dots? From big oil companies’ gripes that their profits slipped to only around $4 billion and higher prices at the pump? Fuel and economic pundits aren’t saying. Some have speculated that the average of more than $3 per gallon edged...
