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    • in Featured · News · Online Edition · Opinion/Editorial
    • — 12 Feb, 2021

    EQUITY TRAINING

    The following email was sent to senior staff at the Town of Mammoth Lakes last Friday.  Hello All,   My name is Michael Jones and I work for Mono County[…]

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    • in Featured · News · Online Edition
    • — 12 Feb, 2021

    PUTTING ON A CLINIC

    Mono County officials announced earlier this week that they had administered over 5,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccine to county residents since receiving its first allotment.  According to the LA Times,[…]

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    • in Featured · News · Online Edition · Opinion/Editorial
    • — 8 Feb, 2021

    OUT OF THE PARKER

    Mammoth Hospital CEO Tom Parker was gracious enough to spend some time with me this week talking about the state of affairs at the health district and what opportunities and[…]

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    • in Featured · News · Online Edition
    • — 8 Feb, 2021

    SEEKING THE LIMELIGHT

    Another contender to the throne presented itself to Mammoth Town Council at its regular meeting via Zoom on Wednesday.  The contender is the Little Nell Hotel Group, owned by Aspen[…]

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    • in Featured · News · Online Edition · Opinion/Editorial
    • — 22 Jan, 2021

    REDISTRICULOUS

    Mono County Supervisors were faced with the age-old dilemma at their regular meeting Tuesday.  Pawn off difficult, politically sensitive work on others, or buck up and do the job one[…]

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    • in Featured · Obituaries · Online Edition
    • — 22 Jan, 2021

    AN ODE TO MR INYO

    Chuck Kilpatrick, 1935-2020 You would think that a person would revel in a nickname like “Mr. Bishop,” but even though it was a moniker that rolled off the tongue, Chuck[…]

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    • in Featured · Mountain Town News · News · Online Edition · Opinion/Editorial
    • — 15 Jan, 2021

    WHO LEFT WHOM?

    When the late Ronald Reagan so famously switched political parties back in the early 1960s, he said in explanation, “I didn’t leave the Democratic party. The Democratic party left me.”[…]

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    • in Featured · Mountain Town News · News · Online Edition
    • — 15 Jan, 2021

    SHOTS ALL AROUND

    As the Covid-19 pandemic continues to spread around the country, it has become increasingly clear that the United States’ way out of this pandemic is tied to vaccination. After nearly[…]

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    • in Featured · News · Obituaries · Online Edition
    • — 15 Jan, 2021

    1-2-3, LET’S LOPE!

    She was the most wonderful kind of contradiction.  She loved people. And she loved her solitude.  Perhaps she needed the bouts of solitude simply because her love for all other[…]

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    • in Business · Featured · Mountain Town News · News · Online Edition · Opinion/Editorial
    • — 8 Jan, 2021

    GOING (SEMI) ROGUE

    Well, this is unexpected.  Had a minor communication error within the office (funny, since there are only two of us here. It’s not like there’s a rabbit warren of offices[…]

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    • in Featured · News · Online Edition
    • — 8 Jan, 2021

    LOOK OUT, CASEY JONES!

    You know the part in the silent movies where the damsel in distress is tied to the tracks and the train is bearing down.  Well, given current stay-at-home orders and[…]

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    • in Featured · Obituaries · Online Edition
    • — 19 Dec, 2020

    THE FINAL SPIN

    Rodney Wiley, 1968-2020 The life of the party has moved on to the afterlife.  Rodney Wiley, aka DJ Rodney O, died last weekend after a bout with pancreatic cancer. He[…]

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    • in Featured · News · Online Edition
    • — 19 Dec, 2020

    ZERO POINT ZERO

    California entered its second week of more strict stay-at-home orders on Monday, and the Covid-19 situation around the state has only grown worse. Greater Sacramento and the Bay Area fell[…]

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    • in Featured · News · Online Edition · Opinion/Editorial
    • — 19 Dec, 2020

    WELL DONE, CITIZEN

    As my favorite bartender in the whole wide world, Roberta Fisher (of Challis, Idaho) would often say, “You do what you have to do to survive.”  And we’re all caught[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition · Opinion/Editorial
    • — 4 Dec, 2020

    RE(X)CUSE ME

    There’s been a lot of national hand-wringing of late over the fate of the republic if Trump refuses to concede the election, the resillience of our institutions, et. al.  Maybe[…]

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    • in Featured · News · Online Edition
    • — 4 Dec, 2020

    THE COLOR PURPLE

    After Mono County recorded 37 new Covid-19 cases over the course of a week, California state officials moved the county into the most restrictive of their four tiers: Purple/Widespread Disease.[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition · Opinion/Editorial
    • — 26 Nov, 2020

    SPENDING TO SAVE

    Of the many things about my wife I struggle to understand, a principal topic I find confounding is her ability to justify an expense by telling me it’s actually saving[…]

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    • in Featured · News · Online Edition
    • — 26 Nov, 2020

    GET BACK ON THE BUS!

      While some local schools have gradually returned to in-person learning, Mammoth Unified School District (MUSD) has, for the most part remained online with the exception of some small, highly[…]

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    • in Featured · News · Online Edition
    • — 26 Nov, 2020

    WALKER DIGS IN/DIGS OUT POST-FIRE

    This marketing content will be shown in place of your protected content to anyone who is not allowed to read the post…

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    • in Featured · News · Online Edition · Opinion/Editorial
    • — 20 Nov, 2020

    ABCDEF-ME

    There was some buzz in Mammoth this week that some restaurants might go “rogue” and defy the state order to limit indoor-seating to 25% occupancy (as dictated by the state’s[…]

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    • in Featured · News · Online Edition
    • — 20 Nov, 2020

    WALKER BURNS-96 STRUCTURES LOST

    High wind conditions on Tuesday helped to rapidly grow a fire sparked in Walker, leading to nearly 100 structures burning down over the course of 24 hours, and one recorded[…]

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    • in Featured · News · Online Edition
    • — 20 Nov, 2020

    COVEXING

    Earlier this week, Mono County was assigned to Tier 2 (Red) within the California Blueprint for a safer economy. The reassignment (a Covid danger designation) was one of many among[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition · Opinion/Editorial
    • — 13 Nov, 2020

    ONE THING WE CAN ALL AGREE ON

    … is that everyone likes an extra six inches.  We learned that at a four hour Parcel workshop on Tuesday. A workshop via Zoom that was briefly halted by a[…]

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    • in Featured · News · Online Edition
    • — 13 Nov, 2020

    COVID-19TH NERVOUS BREAKDOWN

    A Covid outbreak at the Marine Warfare Training Center (MWTC) north of Bridgeport could toss Mono County into a sea of purple.  Even without the MWTC, Mono may be seeing red.[…]

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    • in Featured · News · Online Edition
    • — 13 Nov, 2020

    IT’S NOT ALL ABOUT THE PARCEL

    At The Parcel workshop held Tuesday evening, project developer Andrea Clark of the Pacific Companies guessed The Parcel wouldn’t accommodate its first residents until 2023-2024.  Which means, the local housing[…]

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    • in Featured · News · Online Edition · Opinion/Editorial
    • — 6 Nov, 2020

    NAP TIME

    From the post-election issue 2016:  “Ever since Wednesday morning, every time I show up at the office there’s [Sarah] Rea, eyes red, spontaneously bawling over Clinton’s electoral defeat.  On Thursday[…]

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    • in Featured · Mountain Town News · News · Online Edition
    • — 6 Nov, 2020

    MOUNTAIN WARFARE…VERSUS COVID

    It’s said that all good things must come to an end. While that end isn’t entirely decided at this point for Mono and Inyo counties’ Covid-19 guidelines, the outlook is[…]

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    • in Featured · News · Online Edition
    • — 6 Nov, 2020

    INYO GOES… PURPLE?

    Election day has come and gone, and while the dust is settling in the presidential election, the results thus far for Inyo and Mono counties tell some very interesting stories.[…]

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    • in Featured · Mountain Town News · News · Online Edition
    • — 30 Oct, 2020

    MaLaRkey!

    After Mammoth Lakes Recreation (MLR) opted to let Executive Director Matt McClain go in September due to budget concerns, the non-profit has been looking at a leaner future moving forward.[…]

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    • in Featured · News · Online Edition
    • — 30 Oct, 2020

    INYO AT RISK OF FALLING OFF WAGON

    A recent spike in Covid cases may return Inyo County to ‘red’ status.  The state rates each County’s Covid-risk level on a four-tiered system.  Red is the second-highest level, where Covid[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition · Opinion/Editorial
    • — 30 Oct, 2020

    PAUL NOSTERDAMUS

    Just so we can all appreciate what happens when we sit on our hands and don’t pull the trigger on an investment …  I was peeking through archives this week[…]

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    • in Featured · News · Online Edition
    • — 16 Oct, 2020

    TIOGA A GO GO?

    The trials and tribulations associated with the Tioga Inn hotel and restaurant project, now in its 27th year of planning hell, have been well documented: project proponent Dennis Domaille survived[…]

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    • in Featured · Mountain Town News · News · Online Edition · Opinion/Editorial
    • — 16 Oct, 2020

    INCONCEIVABLE!

    With apologies to Wallace Shawn …  Eighteen years covering the Eastern Sierra and I’ve never seen anything like it.  At its September 28 regular meeting, a majority of Bishop City[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition · Opinion/Editorial
    • — 2 Oct, 2020

    THOUGHTS ON TUEZZDAY

    I figure I’ve written too much of the paper already, so I asked reporters Hite and Page to give their takes on the first Presidential debate between Mssrs. Trump and[…]

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    • in Featured · Obituaries · Online Edition
    • — 2 Oct, 2020

    TALL IN THE SADDLE

    Horseman, philanthropist and steadfast friend Roxanne Tallman died September 25 after a long bouth with cancer. She was 73.  Tallman was the owner of Hidden Creeks Ranch in Bishop, the[…]

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    • in Featured · fire departments · Mountain Town News · News · Online Edition
    • — 2 Oct, 2020

    CLEAR SKIES AHEAD?

    While the Creek Fire continues to burn in the wilderness to the southeast of Mammoth Lakes, mitigation efforts and seasonal changes are turning the tide against it. Conditions related to[…]

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    • in Featured · News · Off the Slopes · Online Edition
    • — 25 Sep, 2020

    Back To School

    One of the prevailing questions of the Covid-19 pandemic was how schools would look come fall. As local school districts came back in session after summer break, all did so[…]

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    • in Featured · Mountain Town News · News · Online Edition
    • — 25 Sep, 2020

    CREEKY TIMBERS

    After a week of warnings about incoming strong winds, Mono County awoke on Friday, Sept. 18 to a light but steady rain. For the first time in days or even[…]

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    • in Featured · News · Online Edition
    • — 11 Sep, 2020

    WOUNDED AGAIN

    In a press release issued last Friday. the Mammoth Lakes Foundation Board of Directors said it will not proceed with a land lease or other agreement for the proposed National[…]

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    • in Featured · Mountain Town News · News · Online Edition
    • — 11 Sep, 2020

    UP A CREEK

    Fires are raging up and down the west coast, raining down ash, forcing evacuations, literally obliterating whole towns and leading to the unprecedented action of the United State Forest Service[…]

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    • in Online Edition · Opinion/Editorial
    • — 11 Sep, 2020

    LOSERS AND SUCKERS

    I think the above phrase represents the most difficuilt aspect for me regarding the current zeitgeist.  Because there is no doubt in my mind that that’s the language President Trump[…]

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    • in Featured · Letters to the Editor · Online Edition · Opinion/Editorial
    • — 28 Aug, 2020

    Inside and Outside The Bubble

    I had the following email exchange with Allen Brown this week.  Brown: News Flash! BLM (Black Lives Matter) takes their community improvement team to Kenosha, Wisconsin. What a great organization![…]

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    • in Featured · News · Online Edition
    • — 28 Aug, 2020

    Reefer Madness…In Bishop!

    In spite of Proposition 64, which legalized recreational marijuana cultivation and sale in California, the plant remains controversial in some circles.  Like amongst Bishop City Council.  The question of permitting[…]

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    • in Featured · News · Online Edition
    • — 28 Aug, 2020

    A Sense of Urgency

    Inyo County Supervisors passed an urgency ordinance on Tuesday to “discourage and penalize violations of orders pertaining to the Covid-19 pandemic.” But while the Supervisors agreed to the potential enactment[…]

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    • in Featured · Mountain Town News · Online Edition
    • — 28 Aug, 2020

    Man ( Cleaning Up After Man) Defense

    After yet another story about trash, Friends of the Inyo asked The Sheet to tag along with an employee to see what the non-profit was doing to mitigate the trash[…]

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    MMSA
    • in Featured · News · On the Slopes
    • — 21 Aug, 2020

    A Mammoth Undertaking

    One of the biggest looming question marks on the Eastside is Mammoth Mountain: will it open for skiing this winter and if so, what would that look like? What would[…]

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    • in Featured · News
    • — 21 Aug, 2020

    Inyo Death Toll Reaches Nine

    Inyo County reported its ninth Covid-19 death on Wednesday, the 8th death in the county since the beginning of August. Between the period of August 4-17, testing revealed 83 new[…]

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    • in Business · Featured
    • — 21 Aug, 2020

    Slow Summer in Bridgeport

    COVID-19 affected the Eastern Sierra economy in a variety of ways. Bridgeport, for example, was hit in an entirely different way than other Eastern Sierra town. The economy in Bridgeport[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition · Opinion/Editorial
    • — 14 Aug, 2020

    Free Fireworks

    I hope all of you got out this week for the Perseid meteor shower, Mother Nature’s way of making up for the lack of a Crowley Lake fireworks show on[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 14 Aug, 2020

    Trumped

    Due to a “lack of low-income students” and the belief that federal funding dollars would serve more people in more densely populated areas, Inyo Mono Advocates for Community Action (IMACA)[…]

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    • in Business · Featured · Online Edition
    • — 14 Aug, 2020

    Oh Brothers

    Superior Court Judge Stephen Place granted Inyo County a temporary restraining order on Wednesday. The order will prohibit Two Brothers from Italy restaurant from operating until it complies with public[…]

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    • in Featured · News · Online Edition
    • — 14 Aug, 2020

    Deaths Rattle Inyo

    Four months of safety behind closed doors, with no visitors permitted, allowed the Bishop Care Center to remain Covid-19 free while care facilities and retirement homes around the country lost[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition · Opinion/Editorial
    • — 7 Aug, 2020

    Need Help?

    My curiosity got the best of me this week, so I decided to park a desk and a chair at the path leading from the parking lot to the Mammoth[…]

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    • in News
    • — 7 Aug, 2020

    Is 14K More Than Fool’s Gold?

    This week, a new Trails Host program was officially unveiled as part of the solution for the congestion in the Lakes Basin. The program will place two “Trail Hosts” up[…]

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    • in Featured · News · Online Edition
    • — 7 Aug, 2020

    Careless Center

    As Mono County goes, so too does Inyo it seems.  Inyo County saw a spike of 28 new Covid cases over a three day period between August 1 and August[…]

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    • in Featured · Mountain Town News · News · Online Edition
    • — 17 Jul, 2020

    DELIVERABLE ME THIS, BATMAN

    Mammoth Lakes Town Council approved a contract update, worth an estimated $6 million, with Mammoth Lakes Tourism (MLT) on Wednesday, July 15. Last year, MLT and the Town of Mammoth[…]

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    • in Featured · Mountain Town News · News · Online Edition · Opinion/Editorial
    • — 17 Jul, 2020

    BEARLY AWARE

    Coming off a fairly dry winter, the local bear population was active earlier than usual this spring.  And Mammoth Lakes has been jammed with tourists ever since travel restrictions were[…]

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    • in Featured · News · Online Edition
    • — 17 Jul, 2020

    STUCK IN A MINEFIELD

    As of Thursday, the United States stands far and away at the top of the Covid-19 charts. Not exactly a chart one wants to hit. Certainly not Kasey Kasem’s Top[…]

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    • in Featured
    • — 10 Jul, 2020

    More Faces, More Cases

    Jurisdictions around California have seen spikes in Covid cases in recent weeks, raising concerns that the state as a whole is beginning to lose ground in the fight against Covid-19. […]

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    • in Featured
    • — 10 Jul, 2020

    The Real is Real

    What a difference a few weeks make.  Prior to reopening, Stacey Bardfield, Owner/Broker of Mammoth Sierra properties, described the local real estate market as being “dead as a doornail.”  And[…]

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    • in Featured
    • — 10 Jul, 2020

    Handling the Covicissitudes of Life

    “Like all hospitals around the country, Mammoth Hospital has not been immune to the financial impact of COVID-19,” said Melanie Van Winkle, CFO for Mammoth Hospital, in an email to[…]

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    • in Featured · News · Online Edition · Opinion/Editorial
    • — 3 Jul, 2020

    TOP NOTCH ATLEEWORK

    While many summer events and activities have been canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic, there’s one throwback summer activity that’s eminently portable and perfect for social distancing.  Reading.  And Bishop’s[…]

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    • in Business · Dining · Featured · Online Edition
    • — 3 Jul, 2020

    King of the June-gle

    The Tiger Bar in June Lake was temporarily closed on June 27 due to a lack of compliance regarding COVID-19 protocols. The order came from Mono County Health Officer Thomas[…]

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    • in Featured · News · Online Edition
    • — 26 Jun, 2020

    But At What Cost?

    A week ago, Ingrid Braun, the Sheriff- Coroner for Mono County gave a presentation to the Mono County Board of Supervisors  regarding possible police reform through the lens of a[…]

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    • in Featured · News · Online Edition
    • — 26 Jun, 2020

    Inyo Face!

    In a public ruling late last month, Inyo County was dealt a setback in its attempts to take over three landfills from the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power.[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition · Opinion/Editorial
    • — 26 Jun, 2020

    NIH Pressured By Covid

    The Northern Inyo Hospital District board met Wednesday evening to discuss the FY 2020-2021 budget. The board continues to work through financial difficulties borne of Covid impacts and the Flanigan[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition · Opinion/Editorial
    • — 19 Jun, 2020

    Jan and Rich McAteer: Survivors

    Life in Mammoth has a lot in common with the reality television series, “Survivor.”  Maybe it’s the island living theme.  Or maybe it’s the scramble for limited jobs and resources.[…]

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    • in Featured · Mountain Town News · News · Online Edition
    • — 19 Jun, 2020

    On The MLRocks

    Mammoth Lakes Recreation’s three-year contract with the Town of Mammoth Lakes expires at the end of June. On Wednesday, MLR Executive Director Matt McClain pleaded for MLR’s very life before[…]

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    • in Featured · Off the Slopes
    • — 12 Jun, 2020

    Tyson Ain’t No Chicken

    Operating a summer camp can be tough. Factor in the current Covid-19 pandemic and it becomes an exponentially bigger headache.  Clay Tyson is 56 years-old and first came to Mammoth[…]

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    • in Featured · News
    • — 12 Jun, 2020

    Don’t Hold the Ketchup

    After running out of time during its previous meeting due to prolonged budget deliberation, the Mammoth Lakes Tourism board reconvened on Monday afternoon to finalize the ‘20-’21 budget and vote[…]

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    • in News
    • — 5 Jun, 2020

    Mono = No Mo’ $$

    Early on in Mono County Finance Director Janet Dutcher’s FY2020-2021 budget presentation during Tuesday’s Mono County Board of Supervisors meeting, she put an ominous slide on the screen. In large[…]

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    • in Featured · News
    • — 5 Jun, 2020

    Mammoth Lakes (plus one) Tourism?

    With Scott McGuire departing his position as an at-large member on the Mammoth Lakes Tourism Board, that same board took up the question of who will be McGuire’s replacement at[…]

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    • in Featured · Opinion/Editorial
    • — 5 Jun, 2020

    And oh what Hites We’ll Hit …

    Strange as it sounds, there can be a benefit to lousy reporting.  First, Mammoth Mountain Vice-President Eric Clark’s excerpted remarks at Wednesday’s Mammoth Lakes Tourism board meeting: “I wanted to[…]

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    • in Arts and Life
    • — 5 Jun, 2020

    A Wing and a Prayer

    Published in 1987, ‘The Art of the Deal’ by Donald J. Trump will likely be a relic studied for years: how did that guy become president? . The book’s authors[…]

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    • in Featured · News · Online Edition
    • — 29 May, 2020

    We’re Crawling and We Can’t Get Up

    The uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic has made any sort of planning and forward thinking difficult. While the state has been walking back restrictions on its reopening plans, the changes[…]

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    • in Business · Online Edition
    • — 29 May, 2020

    There’s No Bidness like TBIDness

    Mammoth Lakes Tourism Business Improvement District (TBID) was established in 2013. At the time, MMSA (now Alterra) CEO Rusty Gregory had a grandiose plan to generate more air travel to[…]

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    • in Arts and Life · News · Off the Slopes · Online Edition
    • — 29 May, 2020

    Seismic Activity At Foundation

    The Mammoth Lakes Foundation Board recently determined it needed to slash its permanent staff from four members to two in the wake of the Covid crisis.  “In order to preserve[…]

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    • in News · Opinion/Editorial
    • — 27 Mar, 2020

    A Run on the Bank

    Like everyone else, I suppose, I am watching the corona drama unfold with a mixture of horror and fascination. All the while looking at my own books and trying to[…]

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    • in Featured · Opinion/Editorial
    • — 20 Mar, 2020

    Byrne Baby Byrne

    We all respond to pandemic hysteria a little bit differently. My response has been low-grade pyromania. I live next to LADWP property in Bishop. And there are tumbleweeds everywhere –[…]

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    • in Featured · Obituaries
    • — 20 Mar, 2020

    Gentleman Jack

    He was the type of guy who still wrote thank you letters.  A guy who made it a point to remember people’s names. And if he were in line at[…]

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    • in Featured · News · Online Edition
    • — 20 Mar, 2020

    Taking COV(ID)ER

    With COVID-19 aka coronavirus causing major shutdowns in cities across the globe, it was only a matter of time before the Eastern Sierra saw large-scale shutdowns of its own. Life[…]

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    Coronavirus Finds Timmy Lupus
    • in Featured · Online Edition · Opinion/Editorial
    • — 13 Mar, 2020

    Coronavirus Finds Timmy Lupus

    The Bad News Bears (1976) was one of the seminal movies from my childhood, and I think of it this week during the worldwide coronavirus meltdown because it really does[…]

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  • All Is Not (Hollo)well
    • in News
    • — 13 Mar, 2020

    All Is Not (Hollo)well

    Finger-pointing, accusations from former employees, threats to The Sheet over supposed personnel documents which Lunch has never seen, and at the center of it all, veterans who’d prefer more service[…]

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    March Madness
    • in Business · Featured · Online Edition
    • — 13 Mar, 2020

    March Madness

    Over the course of the past week, concern about COVID-19 (coronavirus) has reached fever pitch around the globe. On March 11, a number of major points in the evolution of[…]

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    • in Featured · News
    • — 6 Mar, 2020

    Results are in!

    Voters in Inyo and Mono Counties turned out on Tuesday, March 3, to cast their ballots in a number of races both local and national.  The Inyo County results were[…]

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    • in Mountain Town News
    • — 6 Mar, 2020

    Rabbi of the Mountains

    For the first time, maybe ever, Mammoth Lakes will have a Rabbi living here supporting the Jewish community and spreading kindness to anyone who needs it.  Rabbi Yisroel Gordon recently[…]

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  • Evicted!
    • in Business · Featured · News
    • — 28 Feb, 2020

    Evicted!

    Mono County announced on Monday that they’d extended their lease on space within the Sierra Center Mall, pushing back the presumed move out date of March 30 to May 31.[…]

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    Scare-port Blues
    • in Business · Featured
    • — 28 Feb, 2020

    Scare-port Blues

    Mammoth-Yosemite Airport’s commercial service is scheduled to be shifted to the Bishop Airport by late October.     This would mean a daily, year-round flight from Los Angeles and two[…]

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    • in Featured · News · Off the Slopes
    • — 28 Feb, 2020

    Burbine= Fine Wine

    There’s a reason why the name stuck.  In 1998, newsman Tom Brokaw published a book called “The Greatest Generation” to describe Americans who came of age during the Great Depression[…]

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    • in Featured · News
    • — 21 Feb, 2020

    Walk it Back

    Just when you’d think you’re fully out of the weeds, you can get pulled right back in. The conversation around the proposed Colitas Farms project in Walker came before the[…]

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    • in Featured · News · Opinion/Editorial
    • — 21 Feb, 2020

    I URD-GE YOU TO RECONSIDER

    So a few things that have crystallized (and not) for me this week.  On Measure F … I see an argument on both sides.  On the Fire District’s side, how[…]

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    • in News
    • — 21 Feb, 2020

    Stratego

    On Wednesday, February 19, Mammoth Lakes Town Council met early for a workshop regarding “Scenario Planning and Community/ Destination Strategy Design.” An abstract name for a workshop attempting to solve[…]

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  • Courting a New Court
    • in Business · Featured · News
    • — 14 Feb, 2020

    Courting a New Court

    Bishop City Council held a special meeting on Monday, February 10 to hear a presentation on plans for a new court building in downtown Bishop.  Court Executive Officer Pam Foster[…]

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    • in Featured · News · Obituaries
    • — 14 Feb, 2020

    The Real McCoy

    “Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.”                -William Butler Yeats  Dave McCoy, founder[…]

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    • in Featured · On the Slopes
    • — 7 Feb, 2020

    Dusty in the Wind

    The Mammoth Grand Prix wrapped up last week and a local Mammoth Snowboarder named Dusty Henricksen managed to capture a first-place finish in the Slopestyle event in February. The 17-year[…]

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    • in Featured · News
    • — 7 Feb, 2020

    Walker on the Wildside

    In 2016, California voters passed Proposition 64, known as the Adult Use of Marijuana act, to allow for the growth, sale and usage of recreational cannabis in California. The question[…]

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    • in News
    • — 7 Feb, 2020

    Hungry for Justice

    “A party without cake is just a meeting,” said the famous American culinary icon, Julia Child.  It is also said that “Where there is cake, there is hope.” So, notwithstanding[…]

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    • in Business · Featured · Off the Slopes
    • — 2 Feb, 2020

    Scopes Trial

    Inyo County hosted two public scoping meetings, in Bishop and Mammoth, as part of the environmental review and initial study which need to occur this year before Bishop Airport can[…]

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    • in Featured · Off the Slopes
    • — 2 Feb, 2020

    Embrace The “Suck”

    The Sierra Nevada can be an intimidating place to settle. The combination of altitude, isolation, and extreme weather remove any possibility that that it might be easy, creating an environment[…]

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    • in Opinion/Editorial
    • — 2 Feb, 2020

    Round Two

    If you talk to folks about the Ikon Pass and its blackout dates, you’ll certainly attract a wide range of opinion.   The second series of this season’s pass blackout[…]

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    • in Featured · On the Slopes · Sports and Outdoors
    • — 24 Jan, 2020

    LAPLANTE TAKES ON THE GRAND PRIX

    The Mammoth Grand Prix begins Wednesday January 29 and finishes up on Saturday February 1. Skiers and snowboarders from all over will be competing in the event, looking to get[…]

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    • in News
    • — 24 Jan, 2020

    LEFT OUT TO DRY

    Southern California Edison representatives were in town earlier this week for a presentation on a subject that refreshingly had nothing to do with Public Safety Power Shutoffs, although it may[…]

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    • in Featured · Obituaries
    • — 24 Jan, 2020

    HE DID IT HIS WAY

    Bob Todd was a drinker, a toker, a gambler, a slob, a Deadhead, an avid sports fan. He was loud, outspoken, caustic and funny. He didn’t broker dummies and fools.[…]

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    • in Opinion/Editorial
    • — 17 Jan, 2020

    HOW BOUT SOME GATORADE

    I want to relate a story told by Major Gen. Ted Banta at the Operation Mountain Freedom (Wounded Warrior) luncheon Thursday. He was talking about a Marine Gunnery Sergeant named[…]

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    • in News · Off the Slopes
    • — 17 Jan, 2020

    NEARING CLIFF

    The new year is only three weeks old and Mono County’s financial headaches are already getting started.  At Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting, Public Health Director Sandra Pearce, Public Health[…]

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    • in News
    • — 17 Jan, 2020

    BUYER BEWARE

    On January 5, 2019, the Wall Street Journal published an article titled, “High Cost of Wildfire Insurance Hurts California Home Sales.” The article discussed rising insurance premiums associated with houses[…]

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  • TBID
    • in Featured · News
    • — 10 Jan, 2020

    NOT QUITE TAKING FLIGHT

    While businesses in town may have seen an uptick in customers and sales during the holiday season, dismal passenger enplanement numbers served as a reminder to Mammoth Lakes Tourism, the[…]

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    • in Featured · Opinion/Editorial
    • — 10 Jan, 2020

    A COCKTAIL TO AVOID

    In no particular order …  I’ve been catching up with some reading this week. One headline from the Dec. 18 Wall Street Journal that caught my attention: “Pittsburgh Airport Ramps[…]

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    • in Featured · News
    • — 10 Jan, 2020

    PITCH THE TENT!

    The Multi-use-facility (or MUF) appears to be gaining traction.  This week, on Tuesday January 7, both Mammoth Lakes Recreation and the Recreation Commission received an update on the progress made[…]

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    GET PITTED
    • in Featured · Mountain Town News · News
    • — 3 Jan, 2020

    GET PITTED

    Every developer that has ever built in Mammoth Lakes has to face the question: “What about snow storage?”  Mammoth Lakes is fresh off of a winter that dropped 492 inches[…]

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    • in Featured · News · Off the Slopes
    • — 3 Jan, 2020

    CALMING THE WATERS

    BUSD Supt. Katie Kolker talks goals, building trust  Katie Kolker took over as Bishop Unified School District (BUSD) interim Superintendent on November 4, 2019, following the conclusion of former Superintendent[…]

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    • in Featured · Obituaries
    • — 3 Jan, 2020

    THE BALLAD OF A SELF-MADE MAN

    Tony Colarsardo: 1950-2019 To call Tony Colasardo a pillar of the Mammoth community would be an understatement. He was more of a steel column.  And now he is gone.  Colasardo.[…]

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    • in Off the Slopes
    • — 20 Dec, 2019

    ONE MAN, MANY CAROLS

    Gus Kreiger is just a single person but starting this coming weekend, he’ll transform into a full ensemble of more than twenty distinct characters over the course of his performance[…]

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    • in Featured · Off the Slopes
    • — 20 Dec, 2019

    WE NEED STU!

    You can really make a game of it. Think of all the businesses that have come and gone in the Village at Mammoth since it opened in May, 2003. Hennessey’s,[…]

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    • in Featured · Sports
    • — 20 Dec, 2019

    ALL THE WAY BACK

    This season the Bishop Broncos football team cruised to an 8-2 regular season record and entered the playoffs as the #1 overall seed in the division 6 central playoffs. After[…]

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    • in Featured
    • — 13 Dec, 2019

    Still Depressed- the Sequel

    The initial findings of a nine-month Workforce Health and Well-Being Project for Mono County employees revealed exhaustion, frustration, and anxiety within the ranks, painting a picture of a workforce struggling[…]

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    • in Featured · Opinion/Editorial
    • — 13 Dec, 2019

    Send in the Browns

    In response to last week’s editorial, I heard through the grapevine something along these lines, “There he goes again – suggesting that Mammoth Lakes Tourism (MLT) should operate with less[…]

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    • in Mountain Town News
    • — 13 Dec, 2019

    Park Place vs. Boardwalk

    Mammoth’s Town Council and Planning and Economic Development Commission (PEDC) held a special joint meeting on Wednesday to discuss the preferred draft plan for The Parcel workforce housing development. Public[…]

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    • in News · Science
    • — 22 Nov, 2019

    Helping to Understand the Universe

    A crowd gathered at Cerro Coso Community College in Bishop on the night of Thursday, November 14, to hear a talk by Dr. Katie Bouman, an assistant professor of computing[…]

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    • in Featured · News
    • — 22 Nov, 2019

    Poison Pill For Mill City Tract Owners

    “We were hoping as we got more detailed studies maybe this wouldn’t be as bad as we thought. But I’m not going to sugarcoat this. This isn’t good news.”  Inyo[…]

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    • in Featured · Opinion/Editorial
    • — 22 Nov, 2019

    The Boy of Summer

    Marty Burgenbauch: 1948-2019 It’s fairly ironic that the last band (of many bands over the years) Marty Burgenbauch was a part of was called “The Jaded Haters,” as Marty was[…]

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    • in Featured · Opinion/Editorial
    • — 8 Nov, 2019

    I’m With Keynes

    There was a great essay in November 2 issue of The Economist on credulity and politics, pretty much asking “Why isn’t lying more damaging [to politicians]?”  I could quote the[…]

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    • in Featured · News · Science
    • — 8 Nov, 2019

    Is The Plan To Ban?

    Mammoth Town Council met Wednesday night, November 6, in front of a completely packed Suite Z. Some people left after the town announced its new hires and handed out awards[…]

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    Whacking the Tobaccy
    • in Featured · News
    • — 18 Oct, 2019

    Whacking the Tobaccy

    On November 1, a new tobacco ban goes into effect county-wide, removing flavored tobacco products such as menthol cigarettes from the shelves of local retailers. The institution of this ban,[…]

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    • in Featured · News · Online Edition
    • — 12 Feb, 2021

    CONWAY ON ITS WAY

    For the first time since 2017, grazing will be allowed at Conway Ranch, a continuation of a ranching history in the area that stretches back more than a century.  On[…]

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    • in Featured · Opinion/Editorial
    • — 31 Jan, 2021

    Don’t Celebrate Too Early

    It was one of those weeks. I really don’t remember what I did. I think that when a bunch of letters come in (content!), one has a tendency to take[…]

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