by News Staff | May 21, 2009 | Past Posts
Less money and threats of a State raid on property tax dollars impact the new fiscal year budget for the Town of Mammoth Lakes. The Town Council heard about it from their staff Wednesday night.Deputy Town Manager Karen Johnston explained that next year’s budget...
by News Staff | May 21, 2009 | Past Posts
Mammoth’s Bag Lady RecognizedMary Canada, the self-proclaimed “Old Mammoth Road Bag Lady,” because of her efforts to clean up trash in town will leave Mammoth to enter the Peace Corps and will not return until 2011. The Town of Mammoth Lakes honored...
by News Staff | May 21, 2009 | Past Posts
Will the hard economic times take a toll on Mule Days? Maybe, but not for lack of promotion. Early estimates predict a less-attended Mule Days this year, but newspapers and magazines have found Mule Days news worthy. Bishop Chamber Director Tawni Thomson pointed to...
by News Staff | May 21, 2009 | Past Posts
A housing development in the viewshed of Mt. Whitney? As of Tuesday, Jim Walter’s Whitney Portal project can go forward. In March, the Inyo Planning Commission approved the environmental document and the subdivision. Then the Save Round Valley Alliance appealed...
by News Staff | May 21, 2009 | Past Posts
Employee complaints and uncertainty at Eastern Sierra Transit Authority led to a board-ordered close look at the organization. Officials say that the mission of the group has changed.Director of ESTA, John Helm said that at a meeting of the ESTA board earlier this...
by News Staff | May 21, 2009 | Past Posts
California voters were in no mood to accommodate Sacramento on Tuesday. Voters around the state and right here in the Eastern Sierra turned down every proposition the legislature wanted. A clear message to Sacramento. The only measure that gained universal support was...
