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  • THE AVALANCHE TIMES

  • CONDO COLLAPSE INJURES FIVE

    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 16 Mar, 2023

    SHOVEL READY PROJECYT

    Monday morning, the Mammoth Mall parking garage adjacent to Good Life Cafe collapsed, crushing the vehicles parked underneath.  No people were injured.  Mammoth Lakes Fire Department Division Chief Jeff Sutch[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 16 Mar, 2023

    AQUEDUCT BREACHED

     Friday. Tenth of March. A section of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power’s L.A. Aqueduct collapsed. Two miles out of Olancha.  The cause: intense rain. “Storm water pooled[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 16 Mar, 2023

    SHERIFF SNARK

    Winter snow and rain has cloaked Mono County for weeks. More than cloaked. Splintered. North County and South County indefinitely separated by an avalanche – 395 north of Lee Vining. […]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 9 Mar, 2023

    ENOUGH IS PLENTY

    At the urging of Urmas Franosch, I just finished reading “The Dreamt Land” by Mark Arax.  Another 520 pages about water and California.  Which is really a story of boom[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 9 Mar, 2023

    WHAT’S THE DAMAGE?

    On February 27th, an avalanche north of Lee Vining brought down a section of metal retaining fence and flooded Highway 395 with 30 to 40 feet of snow and debris.[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 9 Mar, 2023

    HUNKERING DOWN

     Jay Jensen, Jim King, and Pat Armstrong knew the Kern River snow survey route well. 40 years for Jensen. Around 35 years for King. 52 years for Armstrong. “One job,[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 3 Mar, 2023

    IN DEEPER SCHAT

    On Wednesday, The Sheet received a press release from the City of Bishop which included a 23 page attachment.  The attachment was a copy of a complaint filed Tuesday in[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 3 Mar, 2023

    IT’S A SNOWY ONE

    On the 2nd day, God decided Human Beings would need a Conversational Fallback.  So He created The Weather.  Ever since, we’ve been talking about it when there’s not much more[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 3 Mar, 2023

    NIH CEO GETS PAID A LOT

    Per the Northern Inyo Healthcare District’s contract with Interim CEO Chad Chadwick: “In consideration for all services to be performed by Chadwick, the District agrees to pay Chadwick base compensation[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 3 Mar, 2023

    TEN YEARS AFTER

     We all have our secret perversions.  And I’m gonna divulge one of mine to you. So you might want to crinkle the edges of the paper inward a bit. Hunch[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 3 Mar, 2023

    TRIP ON THIS

    You’re from L.A. Just – wait. Ok? I didn’t research hotels and flights and food costs for you to stop reading this article. I know you’re a local. Or you’re[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 22 Feb, 2023

    ROCK THE TAZBAH

    Tazbah Rose Chavez, a member of the Bishop Paiute Tribe and a 2005 BUHS (Bishop Union High School) graduate, is now a successful Hollywood writer, director and producer. She shared[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 22 Feb, 2023

    BLUE ROSE AND ESPRESSOS

    Stenzel’s studio. Bishop, CA.  I have to call him. “Hey, Alex. I’m outside a gate, there’s a sculpture or something.”  “Oh, Charlie! You’re here! Yes, come in the driveway. Don’t[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 11 Feb, 2023

    CULTURE WARRIOR-IN-CHIEF

    The best explanation for it, I suppose, is seasonal mood disorder.  How else to explain Inyo County Board of Supervisors Chair Jennifer Roeser being reasonably reasonable and competent the majority[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 11 Feb, 2023

    BOO-HOO? NO, BOOHER

    The sweetest word in a taxeater’s vocabulary: leave. Administrative leave. Leave of absence. Leave you to love me (oh wait, that’s a Selena Gomez song – blame my daughter’s taste[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 11 Feb, 2023

    RINALDI’S LISTENING

    Annie Rinaldi’s on a listening tour. The current Mammoth Unified School District (MUSD) Superintendent has been in the position for six weeks.  Before that: Mammoth Middle School Principal for eight[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 4 Feb, 2023

    TBID TAX TROUBLE

    Around Thanksgiving, John Lambeth of Civitas, a firm that consults lical municipalities on the formation of Business Improvement Districts (BIDs)  wrote a letter to John Urdi – Executive Director of[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 4 Feb, 2023

    HEADING FOR THE LIGHT

    The Limelight Mammoth sales gallery in the Village at Mammoth (next to Hugs Ice Cream) will open next weekend.  The gallery officially opens Saturday, February 11 from 4-6 p.m. Adding[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 27 Jan, 2023

    SMOKIN’ OUT THE FAKES

    Here’s a reason you’ll miss me someday.  The following came from Peggy Noonan’s column in the Wall Street Journal last weekend calling for the removal of George Santos from Congress.[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 27 Jan, 2023

    OUTBOUND INBOUND

    The Sierra Nevada Resort has been the subject of many “visions” and reimaginings over the years. And many intermediate measures implemented while waiting for the grand visions to materialize. Some[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 27 Jan, 2023

    SNOW PIT DRAMA!

    Ben Atwood’s the Director of Operations for Allied General Contractors. Used to be in Bakersfield. Moved up to Mammoth 7 years back. Bakersfield’s his satellite office now, and Mammoth’s his[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 22 Jan, 2023

    AN ODE TO MRS. INCREDIBLE

    It’s kinda strange writing this editorial, with a show tonight and through the weekend (see ad opposite page), and knowing Lesley-Anne Hoxie will not be there (see obituary page eight). […]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 22 Jan, 2023

    NO MORE RESERVATIONS… FOR NOW

    For the past three summers, Yosemite National Park has implemented an entry-time reservation system. Meaning, if you want to enter the park between 6 a.m. and 4 p.m., you have[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 22 Jan, 2023

    SNOW GIRAFFES PAUSE… FOR NOW

    Chris Smallcomb from the National Weather Service presented his winter seasonal precipitation outlook last Tuesday to the Mono County Board of Supervisors. The bottom line for the next two weeks:[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 22 Jan, 2023

    ASPENDELL AVALANCHE

    On Tuesday morning, an avalanche swept through the Aspendell community, damaging three homes.  One home was pushed off its foundation.  The other two homes sustained moderate damage in the form[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 22 Jan, 2023

    THE SNOWY DAYS

    Love ‘em or hate ‘em, the British have some things going for them. Like calling cookies “biscuits.” And fries “chips.” And chips “crisps.” My friend Matt is doing a Masters[…]

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  • MLPD Chief Al Davis. Photo courtesy: Sheet staff.
    • in Featured · News · Online Edition
    • — 22 Jan, 2023

    YOU CAN CALL ME “GONE”

    Mammoth Lakes Police Chief Al Davis, 59, has been placed on administrative leave after being popped for a DUI (Driving Under the Influence) in Mammoth Lakes on Friday, January 6. […]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 22 Jan, 2023

    INVANCIBLE

    The weather is pretty much the news this week.  And people accuse me of hyperbole. “Bomb cyclone.” Can’t get much more dramatic than that. Best I can come up with[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 22 Jan, 2023

    LINES, BOTH LONG AND DOWN

    Sunday, Jan. 1. Around 4 p.m. I didn’t notice, because the living room lightbulb finicks. A few seconds passed. The bulb stayed dead. So, I checked the kitchen lights. No[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 16 Dec, 2022

    HAVE THE RIGHT BEATTITUDE

    You won’t hear her complain.  Nor will she let you get away with it.  That’s the beauty of Bea. You go to her because you want a shoulder to cry[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 16 Dec, 2022

    NO PERMIT, SNOW PROBLEMS

    Above Mammoth Lakes, warm air meets cold air. The droplets freeze, then fall. Snow.  Onto my car. Feet. A couple hours and a few curse words later, my car is[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 9 Dec, 2022

    PLAY IT AGAIN, SAM

    Last month, the Mammoth Lakes Chamber of Commerce chose Mammoth Business Essentials (MBE) as its business of the year.  MBE is the post office alternative and has its own mailboxes[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 9 Dec, 2022

    EMPTY N(IH)ESTERS

    Northern Inyo Hospital District (NIHD) appointed Melissa Best-Baker to fill Topah Spoonhunter’s seat at its December 2 special meeting.  At the same meeting, it also introduced Interim CEO Lionel “Chad”[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 2 Dec, 2022

    INYO SUPES APPROVE MORATORIUM

    Inyo County Supervisors voted Tuesday to suspend taking permit applications for hosted nightly rentals.  The moratorium will be for at least 45 days, but could extend for up to 22[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 2 Dec, 2022

    SCHAT DOWN

    No, Aaron Schat’s plans to transform Sterling Heights into workforce housing are not shot to hell.  But they’ve been dealt a setback.  In October, the Bishop Planning Commission, displaying a[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 23 Nov, 2022

    WHAT’S IN YOUR CARROT

    A random Thanksgiving memory.  I was probably about 10 or 11. My parents had invited friends to visit for the holiday. They had two children. The youngest was 7 or[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 23 Nov, 2022

    TAKING FLIGHT

    Our newest reporter Charlie Pike was asking me the other day about flying home for Christmas. And remarking on how expensive and inconvenient the flight schedules were between Reno and[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 23 Nov, 2022

    NOT IN VAIN

    Gregg Vane’s house has windows. A wall of them, two stories tall, threaded by beams of wood. In the 1990s, when Vane was looking to buy a lot on which[…]

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    • in News
    • — 18 Nov, 2022

    THE REAL UNREAL

    Mammoth Lakes Tourism (MLT) unveiled its latest ad campaign at the Mammoth Lakes Town Council meeting on Wednesday, part of the organization’s push for a ten-year renewal of the TBID[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 18 Nov, 2022

    MCOE GOES THE DISTANCE WITH SAN DIEGO SCHOOL

    San Diego. Home to the Padres, eight African elephants, and the Englishman I met on the chairlift yesterday.  Also, Urban Corps of San Diego County Charter School. From their site:[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 18 Nov, 2022

    WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO “MAN UP”?

    November is National Men’s Health Awareness Month, and Saturday, November, 19 is International Men’s Day. Many of men’s physical health problems stem from mental health issues; this includes diseases from[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 13 Nov, 2022

    DARK WINTER

    I spoke to two-term Mammoth Councilman John Wentworth on Wednesday to ask him if he was at all surprised by election results, which placed him in danger of potential defeat.[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 13 Nov, 2022

    FIRE FEES UP IN SMOKE

    The Mammoth Lakes Housing Board has struck up a back-alley deal with Mammoth Fire Protection District Fire Chief Ales Tomaier.  Except the back-alley was Suite Z, last Monday, during a[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 13 Nov, 2022

    ELECTION RESULTS AS OF THURSDAY

    The votes are in. Kind of. As of Thursday, Nov. 10, 2,864 votes have been cast in Mono County, and approximately 1,150 remain to be counted.  Mono County’s expected voter[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 4 Nov, 2022

    200,000 BEERS

    … For what it’s worth, at the final Mammoth Council meeting on Wednesday before next Tuesday’s election, candidates Truax and Bubser showed up, and incumbent John Wentworth was on the[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 4 Nov, 2022

    MORE THAN ENOUGH SNOW

    As of Wednesday, Mammoth saw 11 inches of fresh snow at Main Lodge- the first big dump of the season. The new snow pushed Mammoth Mountain’s opening day up to[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 4 Nov, 2022

    TREE-SON AFOOT

    This past Wednesday, the Eastern Sierra Climate & Communities Resilience Project (ESCCRP) held a virtual public scoping meeting that included a Q&A with project team members.  Per their page on[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 28 Oct, 2022

    CALPERS LOSSES WILL IMPACT TOWN

    Back in July, The Sheet reported on the implications of the California Public Employees’ Retirement System, or “CalPERS”, realizing a 6.1% loss for the 2021-2022 fiscal year.  The consensus was[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 28 Oct, 2022

    EVERY SPARE CENT?

    Let me sum up my feelings on the Mammoth Council race as we enter the homestretch.  I don’t have a clue.  Guthrie is too angry.  Hoff, in her previous term,[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 28 Oct, 2022

    WHAT IS CRT

    Critical Race Theory. CRT. One of the buzz terms surrounding school board elections across the nation.  Bishop Unified School District candidate Jim Liles, during a candidate forum, referred to CRT[…]

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  • IF AN ADDICT DIES, IS IT SUICIDE?
    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 21 Oct, 2022

    IF AN ADDICT DIES, IS IT SUICIDE?

    During the Mono County Board of Supervisors meeting on Tuesday, Mono County Director of Behavioral Health Robin Roberts presented on “The Deaths of Despair: Suicide, Unintentional Overdose Deaths, and Prevention[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 21 Oct, 2022

    CSONKERS!

    On October 7, 37-year old Mammoth resident Andras Csonka held a random family at gunpoint in the Mammoth Village and ordered them to get into his vehicle. Police were called,[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 21 Oct, 2022

    GODBE COMPLEX

    To update you on the attempted California Indian Legal Services (CILS)/Bishop Paiute land grab in my Watterson Road neighborhood …  Nine homes burned in the Fairview Fire in my Bishop[…]

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    ORRILL EXAM
    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 14 Oct, 2022

    ORRILL EXAM

    A headline from the October 1-2 weekend edition of The Wall Street Journal: “Cities Dangle Bonuses to Fill Police Ranks.”  The ensuing story talked about how the city of Redding,[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 14 Oct, 2022

    WAIT, WHAT RESERVATION?

    During the Mono County Board of Supervisors meeting on Tuesday, the board discussed agenda item 7A- a discussion of Tioga Pass and Yosemite Reservation System Restrictions. The item centered around[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 14 Oct, 2022

    TRANSFORUMATIONAL!!

    Picture this.  White room. White walls, white floor, whole nine. It’s a white room.  White rolling chairs. Leather, sure, or plastic leather, or – I don’t care. Chairs. On one[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 10 Oct, 2022

    PERSONAL FOUL?

    After their football game against Mammoth High School on September 24th, Coleville High School administration has decided that it will not schedule athletic contests with Mammoth during the upcoming basketball[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 10 Oct, 2022

    COUNCIL HOPEFULS SQUARE OFF

    The Mammoth Chamber of Commerce held a Mammoth Town Council candidate forum on Tuesday, where the 6 candidates for Mammoth Town Council’s 3 open positions answered questions posed by the[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 30 Sep, 2022

    ALMOST ALL

    We had a lot of feedback this week – mostly stemming from the various errors I made. In the Mirage Factory review, I mistakenly had the aqueduct completed in 1915[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 30 Sep, 2022

    WENTWORTH SEEKS THIRD TERM

    John Wentworth is a seasoned public servant for the town of Mammoth Lakes. He is one of 6 candidates running for one of Mammoth Town Council’s 3 open positions in[…]

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    • in Featured · Opinion/Editorial
    • — 30 Sep, 2022

    HUSKIES FOOTBALL CONTINUES UPWARD TRAJECTORY

    Martin Ezidro. But the players call him Coach Mar. It’s his third year coaching Mammoth High School’s football team. 2019 – the year before COVID – his Huskies went 0-7. […]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition · Opinion/Editorial
    • — 28 Sep, 2022

    IT’S NOT ADDERALL-ING UP

    I remember the first time I took Adderall vividly. I was nineteen. I took it before my Introduction to Neuroscience class, taught by the beloved Director of the Psychological and Brain[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition · Opinion/Editorial
    • — 28 Sep, 2022

    ROUGH ASSESSMENT

    As former Inyo County Assessor Thomas Lanshaw said in a recent phone interview, being the Assessor is a thankless exercise. “No one ever called me up and said good job.” […]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 28 Sep, 2022

    RUNNIN’ ON FUMES

    The Shell by Mammoth Liquor: $6.25/gallon. The Shell off Old Mammoth: $6.35/gallon. The Chevron: $6.45/gallon.  The 76: $6.45/gallon.  Moral of the story: fuel up on the south side of Main[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 28 Sep, 2022

    TRACY RELEASED UNTIL TRIAL

    Longtime Mammoth local Elohim “Elo” Kai Tracy – who was arrested after turning himself in for shooting a bear outside of a Mammoth apartment building September 8th –  was released[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 16 Sep, 2022

    HARDLY (Mc)COY

    Bishop City Councilmembers weren’t terribly enthusiastic when asked their opinion about renaming Bishop Airport the Bishop-Dave McCoy Airport.  There was no support for the proposal, which was agendized for Council’s[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 16 Sep, 2022

    A RETURN TO CLE-LAND?

    “I am not a politician. I am a community member who has forged great relationships with people in this town. I want to make life better for everyone, and I’ve[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 16 Sep, 2022

    BEAR SHOT, KILLED

    On September 8, at approximately 10:30 a.m., the Mammoth Lakes Police Department (MLPD) responded to a call about a bear laying in the bushes behind the Mammoth Hospital Orthopedic Institute,[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 9 Sep, 2022

    URDI’S THICK BILLFOLD

    During the Mammoth Lakes Tourism (MLT) Board meeting on Wednesday, Executive Director John Urdi’s wallet got even fatter.  During Urdi’s Annual Performance Review for the 2021-2022 fiscal year, the board[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 9 Sep, 2022

    DEVIL IN OHIO

    Psychoanalyst Carl Jung once said, “until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”  But in order to truly be the master[…]

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    • in News
    • — 9 Sep, 2022

    ALCOHOL, OLD GUYS AND A GUN

    A disagreement between two campers resulted in the shooting of a 65-year old Fillmore man on Tuesday morning in an encampment off of Owens River Rd. in Mono County, five miles[…]

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    • in Online Edition · Opinion/Editorial
    • — 2 Sep, 2022

    ON FUMES (BUT NOT VAPING)

    As a follow-up to last week, I was immediately badgered by a lawyer from The Friends of Northern Mono Basin to retract/clarify the John Rea assertion that the fire commissioner’s[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 2 Sep, 2022

    BUSINESS RETURNS TO USUAL

    Mammoth’s summer economy: out of the 2021 frying pan and into… something a bit more normal. “This summer was manageable,” said Brandon Brocia, owner and operator of Bleu Market &[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 2 Sep, 2022

    WHERE ARE THE FISH?

    Dave Carranza’s bay boat zips across Crowley Lake. It’s early morning. We’re headed north, toward the bite. Cows graze on shore grasses that flow into water. Sunlight blankets the lake’s[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition · Opinion/Editorial
    • — 28 Aug, 2022

    HIP (CHECK) MAP

    In Mammoth, when people get upset about new development and neighbors encroaching upon their property, the fight is over height and setbacks. And every foot is precious. Three feet less[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 28 Aug, 2022

    YOUR FOUNDATION IS A STEAMING PILE

    Historically, wastewater surveillance has been used to track things such as opioid use and STD transmission in a particular geographic area. During the 789th meeting of the Mammoth Community Water[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 28 Aug, 2022

    MAKE WAY FOR THE OUTHOUSE!

    Hidden from the general public in Lundy Canyon, old-growth trees are being threatened by plans for a new bathroom near the trailhead of the Lundy Canyon Trail. The previous bathroom[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition · Opinion/Editorial
    • — 28 Aug, 2022

    A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES

    On August 1, several homeowners in the Watterson Road neighborhood of Bishop received a love letter from California Indian Legal Services.  If Watterson is a familiar address of late, that’s[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 28 Aug, 2022

    TOWN COUNCIL GETS A RAISE

    On Wednesday, Mammoth Lakes Town Council voted to raise Town Council salaries from $735 per month to $1,029 per month. This means that, if council members have a little bit[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 28 Aug, 2022

    GREENBERG: NEW INYO CAO

    During its closed session on Tuesday, the Inyo County Board of Supervisors unanimously voted to appoint Nathan (Nate) Greenberg to the position of Inyo County Administrative Officer (CAO).  Greenberg has[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition · Opinion/Editorial
    • — 13 Aug, 2022

    WHITE RABBIT

    I’m late, I’m late … not much time to write editorial this week, since I need to get down to Bishop. I was asked this morning to remove newspaper boxes[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 13 Aug, 2022

    WE BEAR BEARS

    Only in Mammoth do “Bear Whisperers” remain on the sidelines while the Town crows about record tax receipts.  Mammoth Lakes Police Department (MLPD) released its most current “Bear Beat” to[…]

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    • in News
    • — 13 Aug, 2022

    33 AND ME

    The Sheet received an email from a reader a few weeks back asking what was going on at the Mountain. The reader thought Mammoth was supposed to replace Chairs 1[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition · Opinion/Editorial
    • — 13 Aug, 2022

    SCHATS CREEK

    As a counterpoint to the love note Charles James penned in regard to last week’s Bishop Planning Commission approval of Aaron Schat’s Sterling Heights project …  You know a developer[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 13 Aug, 2022

    RESCUE ME!

    The rain that came down on Sunday, July 31st caused multiple search and rescue missions of campers and hikers throughout Inyo County.  This included the Inyo Sheriff’s Office (ICSO) responding[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 13 Aug, 2022

    THEM BELLY FULL…

    During the Mammoth Lakes Tourism (MLT) Board meeting on Wednesday, Boardmembers discussed how they just didn’t understand why local front line workers were expressing resentment towards the entity’s TBID (Tourism[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition · Opinion/Editorial
    • — 13 Aug, 2022

    FASCISM: A WARNING

    So I wonder how all the Trumpers are gonna spin this one.  The Wall Street Journal’s editorial page flogged our former Mussolini-In-Chief in its weekend (July 23-24) issue. The title:[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 13 Aug, 2022

    OH WHAT HEIGHTS WE’LL HIT!

    The adage of “Never look a gift horse in the mouth” came to mind while watching Tuesday’s City of Bishop Planning Commission meeting.  The commission met to discuss the application[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 13 Aug, 2022

    SAILING INTO THE SUNSET

    It’s probably safe to say that longtime local attorney and businessman Paul Rudder is an acquired taste.  Even his wife Kathleen will acknowledge that he was a bit rough around[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition · Opinion/Editorial
    • — 24 Jul, 2022

    WILDMAN RESIGNS

    Mammoth Unified School Superintendent Jennifer Wildman has resigned her position, effective July 31.  Dr. Wildman served the district for approximately three years.  She was the recent subject of a no-confidence[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 24 Jul, 2022

    CHIEF TOMAIER

    As of July 22, Ales (pronounced Al-esh) Tomaier takes the reins as the new Mammoth Lakes Fire Chief. Tomaier is a 19-year veteran of the department who started as a[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 24 Jul, 2022

    DOES ANYBODY CARE ABOUT COVID ANYMORE?

    Despite the recent surge in Covid-19 cases in Mono County, Mammoth residents have largely appeared unconcerned about Covid – the same people who, a year ago, were socially distancing and[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition · Opinion/Editorial
    • — 24 Jul, 2022

    BLOWIN’ IN THE WIND

    Now a veteran of two local fires which have destroyed my property, I can tell you the first question I have every time someone tells me the neighborhood’s on fire. […]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 24 Jul, 2022

    FIRE TORCHES NINE HOMES

    Nine homes in West Bishop burned last Friday afternoon, stemming from a fire which broke out at approximately 2:45 p.m. in a home at the end of Fairview Circle.  Fairview[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 24 Jul, 2022

    MUSICAL REBELS

    Chamber music, a form of classical music composed of a small group of instruments without a conductor, each of which produces its own unique sound, has given birth to some[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition · Opinion/Editorial
    • — 11 Jul, 2022

    UNAPPEALING

    If you’re wondering what they’re doing up there on Canyon Blvd. just down from the Westin Monache, they  (hotel developers based out of Aspen, Colo.) are planning to build a[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 11 Jul, 2022

    MLT DROPS PLANS FOR TBID RATE INCREASE

    At its regular meeting Wednesday, the Mammoth Lakes Tourism Board formally approved its plan to petition to extend the TBID (Tourism Business Improvement District) for a ten-year term beginning next[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 11 Jul, 2022

    We tend to not dwell too much on national issues here at The Sheet, just because there are plenty of other news outlets dedicated to those topics, but on rare[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 11 Jul, 2022

    ROE PROMPTS A ROW

    No matter where you stand on the abortion issue, when you talk about it, all conversations seem to end in recrimination. The fine line of when to deem personhood and[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 11 Jul, 2022

    CHRISTINA GOES TO CAMP

    Mid-April, I was living and working on a ranch in Arizona. Ranching season was ending, and I was confronted with a paradox of choice. I had whatever I wanted ahead[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 25 Jun, 2022

    EINSTEIN REDUX

    At some point, I have to get more of the Sheet archives online.  Because back in the day, I did have my moments.  Fifteen years ago, you know what the[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 25 Jun, 2022

    NOBODY BEATS THE BLIZZ

    The Pacific Crest Trail is a 2,650 footpath that runs from Mexico to Canada and passes through Mammoth Lakes. You’ve likely seen hikers walking around town with big backpacks and[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 25 Jun, 2022

    FAKE IT TILL YOU MAKE IT

    The world is supposedly a stage, but being an actor for the first time can be an unnatural, weird experience. It pushes you out of your comfort zone and makes[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 18 Jun, 2022

    CROCETTI ON THE ATTACK?!

    The Sheet received information from members of the community that June Lake’s aging infrastructure poses a potential threat to the livelihood of the town’s water system. Our newspaper tried to[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 18 Jun, 2022

    SCHOOL-SHOOTER PROTOCOL

    Mammoth Lakes Police Department’s (MLPD) Sergeant Joe Vetter and School Resource Officer Daniel Hansen presented an update on school-shooter protocol at Mammoth’s Town Council meeting on Wednesday.  Hansen explained that,[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 18 Jun, 2022

    NEM 3.0

    On May 9th, 2022, California Public Utilities Commission reopened the record on NEM (Net Energy Metering) 3.0, a new iteration on the way solar power may be taxed and billed[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 18 Jun, 2022

    WILDMAN SURVIVES

    The Mammoth Unified School Board met on Tuesday evening to decide the fate of MUSD School Superintendent Jennifer Wildman.  The stated purpose of the meeting was a personnel evaluation.  Wildman[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition · Opinion/Editorial
    • — 10 Jun, 2022

    I appreciate Inyo County Board of Supervisors Clerk Darcy Ellis.  She notices errors, moves to fix them, and then is often scapegoated for trying to fix the problem she is[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 10 Jun, 2022

    YOGA FEST ON TAP

    As visiting yoga instructor Eric Paskel says of the upcoming Mammoth Yoga Festival, what makes it unique is that it’s produced by two folks, Kevin Green and Sarah Anisman, who[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 10 Jun, 2022

    BUT WILL IT BE SUBLIME?

    Soon, residents and visitors of Mammoth Lakes will be able to step into the Limelight, a new luxury hotel planned for the land on Canyon next to the Westin. If[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 10 Jun, 2022

    BEAUTIFICATION AND THE BEAST (DROUGHT)

    Elizabeth Tenney sure tried.  The former Mammoth Planning Commissioner was a big proponent of making the Town look better.  She was the inspiration behind the welcome signs at the entrance[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 10 Jun, 2022

    THE KIDS AREN’T ALRIGHT

    “Two years of the pandemic have made these kids feral,” said a Mammoth educator regarding a recent violent event that landed a local man in the hospital.  The incident involved[…]

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  • INSANE IN THE MEMBRANE
    • in Featured · Online Edition · Opinion/Editorial
    • — 29 May, 2022

    INSANE IN THE MEMBRANE

    How is your mental health doing? Okay? Oh, that’s good. Me? I’m hanging on by a thread.  I know many people feel the same way. I read their Twitter threads. […]

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    GUTHRIE SHARES HIS MAMMOTH VOICE
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    • — 29 May, 2022

    GUTHRIE SHARES HIS MAMMOTH VOICE

    “Mammoth Voices” was started in 2016 with the intention of having “civic discourse”. Their golden rule is that they “always talk about issues, but never talk about people”.  On Thursday,[…]

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  • SAME SHI*T, DIFFERENT DAY
    • in Featured · Online Edition · Opinion/Editorial
    • — 29 May, 2022

    SAME SHI*T, DIFFERENT DAY

    Lot of odds and ends here. Let’s see …  This one cracked me up. From the front page of the Wall Street Journal’s Business and Finance section from May 11.[…]

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    CASEY AT THE BAT
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    • — 29 May, 2022

    CASEY AT THE BAT

    The animus and distrust has been building for some time.  This week, contention over the hiring process for the next Mammoth High School Principal pushed the low-throated grumbling into something[…]

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  • ALTERRA TAPS NEW CEO
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    • — 29 May, 2022

    ALTERRA TAPS NEW CEO

    Denver, Colo. — May 25, 2022 — Today, Alterra Mountain Company announced that Jared Smith, the company’s President, will be promoted to Chief Executive Officer, effective August 1, 2022.  At[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 21 May, 2022

    TO INFINITY AND BEYOND

    The Sheet sat down this week with Tina and Tom Sjögren, the CEO and CTO of Pythom, a U.S. rocket engineering company located out of Bishop.  The Swedish couple have[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition · Opinion/Editorial
    • — 21 May, 2022

    INYO HAS PRIDE

    Who knew that Jennifer Roeser’s principal contribution to the Inyo County Board of Supervisors when she joined the board in January, 2021 would be her ability to galvanize public interest[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition · Opinion/Editorial
    • — 13 May, 2022

    OVERLOADED

    An article in the April 13th edition of the Wall Street Journal revealed that The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force now recommends that all children as young as the age[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition · Opinion/Editorial
    • — 13 May, 2022

    GOATS EVERYWHERE

    I was out of town for a few days last week on Margaux’s 4th grade field trip to the Missions in San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara. There were just[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 13 May, 2022

    RICH V. RICHER

    Mammoth’s Planning and Economic Development Commission (PEDC) approved  a tentative tract map, design review and a use permit for Phase One of the Limelight Hotel project to be located at[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 13 May, 2022

    MO’ PUMPING, MO’ PROBLEMS

    While water supply continues to hover around a “critical point” for the city of Los Angeles, the amount of water available to Inyo County has also reached an all-time low[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition · Opinion/Editorial
    • — 6 May, 2022

    I WON’T BACK DOWN (FROM SPENDING MONEY)

    If only the TBID story on the front page represented the extent of my time spent on Mammoth Lakes Tourism this week.  Tuesday afternoon was just the first three hours. […]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 6 May, 2022

    MLT FLOATS TBID HIKE

    Mammoth’s Tourism Business Improvement District (TBID) is up for renewal in 2023, and TBID revenue comprises more than two-thirds of the Mammoth Lakes Tourism (MLT) marketing budget, so one can[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 6 May, 2022

    FIRE FORECAST: DEPRESSING

    Mono County Supervisors received a fire season forecast at their regular meeting Tuesday from officials representing multiple federal agencies.  The upshot: Inyo National Forest Supervisor Lesley Yen warned that a[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition · Opinion/Editorial
    • — 29 Apr, 2022

    TOXIC ACTUALITY

    I didn’t intend to have the great Chuck Klosterman fill in editorially this week. I don’t know him and hope he doesn’t mind. I tend to pick up his books[…]

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    MERRY BLEEPIN’ DEAD FISHMAS
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    • — 29 Apr, 2022

    MERRY BLEEPIN’ DEAD FISHMAS

    Three years ago, Mono County saw a disease breakout in fish hatcheries, and for that entire year the Eastern Sierra saw hardly any stocked fish – and the fish they[…]

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    • in Featured · Obituaries · Online Edition
    • — 29 Apr, 2022

    BE LIKE PAUL

    The people who make you want to get closer to God aren’t the people who beat you over the head with God.  In fact, profession of faith may never even[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition · Opinion/Editorial
    • — 25 Apr, 2022

    6.4 MAGNITUDE

    There was a joint meeting between Mammoth’s Council and Mammoth Lakes Tourism on Wednesday to review “strategy” and “deliverables” for MLT in 2022-2023 Which amounted to MLT trying to say[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 25 Apr, 2022

    FIDDLER ON THE MOUNTAINS

    Claude Fiddler is an intense man. A patient man. A willful man. A perfectionist.  And when you’re asking him about his photography, you almost get the sense that there’s a[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 25 Apr, 2022

    TREESON!

    On April 8, a large Jeffrey Pine Tree was cut down from its location in Mammoth near the Starwood development site on the edge of its lot line, which borders[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 19 Apr, 2022

    THIS KELVIN HEATS UP SHERIFF’S RACE

    Kelvin Johnston has seen a lot of Inyo County, from living in a double-wide trailer in Shoshone as the residential sheriff’s deputy, to being short-hauled from helicopters into canyons to[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition · Opinion/Editorial
    • — 15 Apr, 2022

    MY GENERATION

    Per usual, I’m sitting here with 55 minutes to write an editorial. What the hell is wrong with me? I could tell you I’m in distress, but I’ve been in[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 15 Apr, 2022

    TURNER SELLS STAKE IN BLUESAPALOOZA

    Mammoth Brewing Company Owner Sean Turner announced this week that he has sold an ownership stake in Mammoth’s Festival of Beers and Bluesapalooza to Rich Sherman, President and CEO of[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 15 Apr, 2022

    VETTING VETTER

    After nearly 24 years in law enforcement, Joe Vetter is running for sheriff of Inyo County. The 48-year-old sergeant wants to bring back community policing, put more cops into schools,[…]

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    • in News
    • — 8 Apr, 2022

    COMINGS & GOINGS

    May as well clean this up now. Steve Searles was not rehired by the Town of Mammoth Lakes, as written in The Sheet last week. That was an April Fool’s[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 8 Apr, 2022

    BEER CADDY

    To all partygoers, beer drinkers, and event hosts: a new business is hitting the Eastern Sierra called Tap Truck 395.  Wife and husband co-owners Kristen and Tim Noonan are ecstatic[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition · Opinion/Editorial
    • — 2 Apr, 2022

    WHO WILL SAVE OUR SOUL?

    I’m almost afraid to make any jokes this week given the Will Smith/Chris Rock furor. What’s the hinged/unhinged ratio these days? Should I be concerned about the feng shui of[…]

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    PRITCHARD SEEKS PERMANENCE
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    • — 2 Apr, 2022

    PRITCHARD SEEKS PERMANENCE

    Among Inyo County’s options for sheriff on the ballot coming this June, Eric Pritchard has the most experience. That’s because he’s actually been the sheriff for more than two months,[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 2 Apr, 2022

    BRIGHT LIGHT, BIG HEART

    At the farewell party for 50-year Mammoth resident Lonnie Newbry held at Giovanni’s Restaurant on March 23, attendees not only put names on their name tags, but also described their[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition · Opinion/Editorial
    • — 25 Mar, 2022

    MORE FAN MAIL

    I get this one the other day … Mr. Lunch, Are you kidding me? With all the stuff going on in the world, or (how about our board of Supervisors)[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 25 Mar, 2022

    CONNECT FOUR

    Inyo County’s four choices for sheriff sat down together at the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) hall in Bishop  Tuesday and answered questions from veterans and the public. It was[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 25 Mar, 2022

    TEAM PLAYER

    In celebration of National Women’s Month, let’s shine a spotlight on Bishop’s Naomi Jensen, who owns TEAM Environmental, a local natural resources management firm.  Two weeks ago, she sent out[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition · Opinion/Editorial
    • — 23 Mar, 2022

    OF MICE AND RATS

    “The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom” -Proverbs 9:10 “Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth” -Pema Chodron  “Fear is paper thin” -Anon. Brain[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition · Opinion/Editorial
    • — 19 Mar, 2022

    SAVED BY JULIE BROWN

    My daughter had wanted a ski day birthday party, so I’d called June Mountain to arrange it. A few weeks in advance no less – a stunning achievement for a[…]

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  • IT’S LIKE CHEMO FOR THE FOREST
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    • — 19 Mar, 2022

    IT’S LIKE CHEMO FOR THE FOREST

    On March 10, the Eastern Sierra Climate and Communities Resilience Project (ESCCRP) held its 10th meeting since November 2020 regarding how the region plans to protect its forests from wildfire[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 19 Mar, 2022

    IMACH-FOUR?

    While both the Town of Mammoth Lakes and Mono County approved a $100,000 (each) emergency funding request made by local non-profit IMACA (Inyo Mono Advocates for Community Action) a few[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition · Opinion/Editorial
    • — 12 Mar, 2022

    DEEP IN THE HEART OF TEXAS

    Stick around long enough, and anything’s liable to end up in your mailbox: Mr. Lunch, I just read your article “Red Flags Flying” written in 2018 [Nov. 24 issue]and the[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 12 Mar, 2022

    FINDING HIS NITSCHKE

    What do you get when you hand a force of nature a camera?  You get Nolan Nitschke.  The esteemed local photographer, whose work has appeared in the Smithsonian on three[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 12 Mar, 2022

    THE TAO OF DAVIS

    It’s reassuring to believe that everything in the universe is connected and therefore everything happens for a reason. But when destiny deals you an uphill battle, it’s not easy to[…]

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    SHUT UP AND WAIT
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    • — 6 Mar, 2022

    SHUT UP AND WAIT

    I came across this quote the other day from Tom McGuane: “Remember, when you back your horse into the box, there’s about 500 million people who don’t care whether you[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 6 Mar, 2022

    NICE ABS!

    On Monday, Alterra Resorts announced that it would spend $344 million (company-wide) on capital improvements for fiscal year 2022-2023.  All well and good, but what does this mean for Mammoth? […]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 6 Mar, 2022

    BURIED

    Almost 40 years to the date, a massive avalanche devastated California’s Alpine Meadows Ski Area in North Lake Tahoe, killing three people trapped inside of a ski lodge and sparing[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition · Opinion/Editorial
    • — 25 Feb, 2022

    CLIMATE PAIN

    I’ve known Jim Ouimet as long as I’ve been in Mammoth.  In fact, he may have been the first local I ever met.  Ouimet is the owner of Mammoth Dog[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 25 Feb, 2022

    HOMELESS OR HOME FREE?

    Inyo County has historically been an area to attract eclectic characters from all over the country, drawn to the sweeping landscapes of cowboy country juxtaposed by colossal mountain ranges.  But[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition · Opinion/Editorial
    • — 19 Feb, 2022

    IMACA IN DEEP CACA

    IMACA (Inyo Mono Advocates for Community Action, a local nonprofit which provides social services ranging from child care to energy assistance to food banks, announced this week that it would[…]

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    • in Featured · News · Online Edition
    • — 19 Feb, 2022

    DON’T ICE YOURSELF

    The story was national news.  Two weeks ago, a group of eight ice skaters visited Stampede Reservoir about six miles east of Truckee. It was a beautiful day, temperatures rising[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition · Opinion/Editorial
    • — 11 Feb, 2022

    VOX CLAMANTIS EN DESERTO

    I  feel like I was the only one who saw it. And maybe I was.  Weirdly enough, the Olympic Winter Games viewership in America was down 43% during these Opening[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition · Opinion/Editorial
    • — 11 Feb, 2022

    III’D TIME = NO CHARM

    It sure looked like a slam dunk at the outset.  The third phase of the Obsidian development adjacent to Sierra Star Golf Course came before Mammoth’s Planning and Economic Development[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 11 Feb, 2022

    LION QUEENS

    The Eastern Sierra Interpretive Association hosted another talk on Thursday, February 3, as part of its Winter Adventure Series hosted at the Mammoth Welcome Center.  The talk, called “Mountain Lions[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition · Opinion/Editorial
    • — 11 Feb, 2022

    JOAQ-ING WOUNDED

    Town Manager Dan Holler’s performance review concluded Wednesday night’s Mammoth Town Council meeting. No bonuses for Dan: he’s tapped out on pay, having reached the Town’s ceiling for Managers. When[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 11 Feb, 2022

    DON’T BITE THE HAND!

    Other resort communities in California imposing caps on short-term rentals has Mammoth locals believing Town officials may follow suit.  At a recent Mammoth Town Council Meeting, Councilmember Sarah Rea suggested[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 11 Feb, 2022

    THE LONG RUN

    Ryan Navales’ first arrest happened when he was 13 years old. He recalls running through Bishop City Park in his Chuck Taylors after convincing a homeless man to buy he[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition · Opinion/Editorial
    • — 28 Jan, 2022

    104 IS NOT THAT HOT

    I spoke to a few folks this week about the late Linda Arcularius (see obituary on page eight).  District Five Supervisor Matt Kingsley had the best anecdote. He said he[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 28 Jan, 2022

    DAZED AND CONFUSED

    A dirt road stretching to the horizon. Snow-capped peaks in the periphery. A bright, shiny truck or SUV kicking up dust as it tears down the road and into the future. […]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 28 Jan, 2022

    RENNIE OR NOT…

    Stephanie Rennie, the current Chief Investigator for the Inyo County District Attorney’s Office, is running for the position of Inyo County Sheriff this June. Rennie is determined to make a[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition · Opinion/Editorial
    • — 21 Jan, 2022

    CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTIONS

    I am out of town so I apologize for not being around for the most important story of the week, that being the passing of former Inyo County Supervisor Linda[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 21 Jan, 2022

    PARTYING ON A BUDGET

    In October, Mono County’s attempts to host large-scale vaccine clinic events, with the specific intent of outreach to the local Latinx community, fell flat when the Board of Supervisors shot down[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 21 Jan, 2022

    GNARLY CARLY

    “Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a[…]

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    • in Featured · News · Online Edition · Opinion/Editorial
    • — 14 Jan, 2022

    MA VIE EN ROESER

    At the Inyo County Board of Supervisors meeting Tuesday, District Four Supervisor Jennifer Roeser announced she would back out of a scheduled speaking commitment at an upcoming January 15 event[…]

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    • in Arts and Life · Featured · News · Online Edition
    • — 14 Jan, 2022

    GOLD DUST(Y)

    Local Mammoth snowboarder Dusty Henricksen is only 18 years old and has just secured his spot on the most coveted roster in sports: the Olympics. But while his journey to[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition · Opinion/Editorial
    • — 7 Jan, 2022

    SURGING ON ALL FRONTS

    The general consensus of Mammoth business owners these days: Business is terrific and my numbers are up, but boy am I overworked and stressed out!  Part of the reason they’re[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 7 Jan, 2022

    BROCK STEADY

    This weekend’s Grand Prix at Mammoth Mountain is a homecoming of sorts for 22 year-old Brock Crouch, who grew up riding Mammoth from a young age. He’s one of a[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition · Opinion/Editorial
    • — 19 Dec, 2021

    MACC MAY HAVE NO DADDY

    That damn Mammoth Town Council.  I was all set to write about one thing, but then, I attended the Council meeting on Wednesday and can’t help but pivot.  I think[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 19 Dec, 2021

    DOWN ON MAIN STREET

    After nearly a year and a half, a comprehensive plan to improve and revitalize Downtown Bishop is nearing the approval stage. The Downtown Bishop Specific Plan and Mixed-Use Overlay is[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 19 Dec, 2021

    SEND IN THE PLOWS

    “It’s great to see snow, it’s been a while,” said the Town of Mammoth Lakes Public Works Director Hayslip Hayes during his department update at the Town Council meeting on[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition · Opinion/Editorial
    • — 10 Dec, 2021

    NO COUNTRY FOR NOT-SO-OLD MEN

    A warning before I start – Lions Club Christmas Dinner at The Mogul starts in about 45 minutes, so you’ll be getting what you pay for in this week’s editorial. […]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 10 Dec, 2021

    DON’T LET OMI BE YOUR HOMIE

    News of the Covid-19 Omicron variant has given rise to a new wave of virus-related concern; financial markets have been volatile and travel planning has become murkier. California was home[…]

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    • in Featured · News · Online Edition
    • — 10 Dec, 2021

    NATURAL DISUNITY

    A group of protesters met outside Mammoth High School again on Wednesday morning in opposition to the Mammoth Unified School District’s impending vaccine mandate, which is set to begin December 17.[…]

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  • NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
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    • — 3 Dec, 2021

    NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN

    I think the toughest part about Wednesday’s meeting of the Mammoth Town Council was the callousness of it. The lack of empathy.  Dieter Fiebiger was there pleading with Council to[…]

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    • in Featured · News · Online Edition
    • — 3 Dec, 2021

    GET YOUR GRADES UP

    According to Charity Navigator, a charity assessment group that evaluates hundreds of thousands of charitable organizations throughout the United States, the Mammoth Lakes Foundation (MLF) has a current overall score[…]

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    • in Featured · News · Online Edition
    • — 3 Dec, 2021

    COWBOY UP

    Tim Fritz, known to many as Cowboy, has been an Eastern Sierra fixture and fixer for more than three decades. Need help with a paint job? Flooring? Repairs? Finding antiques?[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 24 Nov, 2021

    LISTEN TO DRAKE!

    Bob Drake is proof that it’s never too late to switch things up: after a career in geophysics, Drake decided to take up milling.  Nearly 30 years later, he doesn’t[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 24 Nov, 2021

    AFFERNED!

    In September 2020, Disabled Sports Eastern Sierra’s (DSES) efforts to build the National Wounded Warrior Center (NWCC) were dealt a deathblow at the hands of the Mammoth Lakes Foundation Board[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 24 Nov, 2021

    STORMING THE MUSD

    A group of impassioned protesters entered the Mammoth Unified School District offices and banged on windows, causing frightened employees to lock the doors and call police on Friday, November 19. This[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition · Opinion/Editorial
    • — 19 Nov, 2021

    HATCHING A PLAN

    The Mount Whitney Fish Hatchery may be in line for a change in ownership.  The Hatchery, which was founded in 1917, produced trout for nearly a century before hatchery operations[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 19 Nov, 2021

    WHO NEEDS A RIDE?

    For anyone planning on taking public transit to and from Mammoth Mountain this Holiday season, there may be significantly longer wait times.  At last week’s Planning and Economic Development meeting,[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 19 Nov, 2021

    ALL BETS ARE OFF

    After one of the driest years on record in the Sierra Nevada, the region desperately needs a consistent snow year to alleviate parched lakes, rivers, and landscapes. A number of[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition · Opinion/Editorial
    • — 15 Nov, 2021

    PERPETUITY IS SKIN DEEP

    On Tuesday, Inyo Supervisors voted unanimously to name the new Inyo County Consolidated Office Building on Highway 6 next to the Grocery Outlet in honor of the late County Adminstrative[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 15 Nov, 2021

    THE MAMMOTH QUESTION

    The Mono County Board of Supervisors held the 3rd and final review for alternative redistricting proposals on Monday, November 8.  This final meeting was a review of all proposals submitted[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 15 Nov, 2021

    SHORT NAME, LONG MEMORY

    “The war is over, but Vietnam is forever.” There is not a moment during Randy Short’s time serving as a combat fighter in Vietnam that he does not remember.  Short,[…]

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    • in Featured · News · Online Edition · Opinion/Editorial
    • — 5 Nov, 2021

    FAHOO FORAYS, DAHOO DORAYS

    The saga of the MACC (Mammoth Arts and Cultural Center) kinda mirrors the plot of Dr. Seuss’s “The Grinch Who Stole Christmas.”  Steal all the presents, wait long enough until[…]

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    • in Featured · News · Online Edition
    • — 5 Nov, 2021

    WASTE NOT, WANT MORE

    Lights off, chairs up, doors locked, and a sign on the door.  It’s becoming a more common site at local businesses as the shoulder season slowly bleeds into winter.  Some,[…]

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    • in Featured · News · Online Edition
    • — 5 Nov, 2021

    ON THE MARK

    “When the kids get out of school, most of them want to leave and get out of here. They want to be gone. They want to see what the big[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition · Opinion/Editorial
    • — 29 Oct, 2021

    PITTER PATTER PAT

    Bruce Sacerdote is an Economist who has taught for the past quarter century at Dartmouth College. He was recently featured on a Freakonomics podcast titled, fittingly, “Why is U.S. Media[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 29 Oct, 2021

    EXAM GRADE: INCOMPLETE

    Northern Inyo Healthcare District (NIHD) will no longer be performing sexual assault evidentiary examinations, as it has temporarily paused these examinations until further notice. A recent press release from NIHD[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 29 Oct, 2021

    JUMPING OUT OF THE JIM

    On Wednesday, October 27, the Mammoth Lakes Planning and Economic Commission voted to 4-0 to approve an amendment to the Clearwater Specific Plan, moving a proposed new development tack at[…]

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    • in Featured · On the Slopes · Online Edition
    • — 29 Oct, 2021

    OPEN TOP-TO-BOTTOM

    Having received nearly three feet of snow this October at Main Lodge, including 15” from last weekend’s storm, Mammoth Mountain will open for business this Friday.  This is the first[…]

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    • in Featured · Mountain Town News · News · Online Edition
    • — 26 Oct, 2021

    CLEARWATER REDUX

    Tiny homes: potentially coming to a throughfare near you. The Town of Mammoth Lakes Planning and Economic Development Commission is holding a public hearing on Wednesday, October 27, for a[…]

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    • in Featured · News · Online Edition · Opinion/Editorial
    • — 26 Oct, 2021

    LOCAL HISTORY

    Was out of town this week, so let’s ruminate about something from a few issues ago.  In the aftermath of the Inyo Supervisors bungling of a simple Indigenous Peoples Day[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition · Opinion/Editorial
    • — 15 Oct, 2021

    BUREAUCRATIC BEATDOWN

    If you wish to complain about local news coverage, you could use this column as exhibit A.  Because I’m about to talk about something that’s been going on for several[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 15 Oct, 2021

    MURDER IN THE MOUNTAINS

    Vons, the Southern California and Southern Nevada supermarket chain, has approximately 325 locations – including one in the small mountain town of Mammoth Lakes, California. Beneath the seams of what[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 15 Oct, 2021

    THIS IS HOW THEY DO IT

    It’s ironic that a town like Mammoth Lakes, whose workforce is continuously pressed to find quality affordable housing, seems to have no shortage of lodging for visitors. Many options available[…]

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

    HOLY BACKPEDAL!

    Just because no one’s there, doesn’t mean no one’s listening.  On Tuesday, the Inyo County Board of Supervisors quibbled over a proclamation drafted to honor Indigenous Peoples Day.  The drafted[…]

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    • in Business · Featured · Online Edition
    • — 8 Oct, 2021

    TOUTING THE EXIT PLAN

    With the Covid-19 pandemic ongoing and no determined end in sight, it’s made sense to many to consider the possibility of moving on from business ownership. The stresses of operating[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition · Opinion/Editorial
    • — 24 Sep, 2021

    GIRLS GONE WILDMAN

    The emails and calls started coming in last Friday over the two-week Mammoth schools shutdown.  It’s fair to say no one was terribly happy.  And there were plenty of mixed[…]

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    • in Featured · News · Online Edition
    • — 24 Sep, 2021

    CUCKOO OVER COCO

    After Mammoth Middle and High Schools were closed starting Monday, September 20 due to an outbreak of Covid-19 among students, administrators, and teachers, the questions from parents started coming in.[…]

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    • in Arts and Life · Featured · Online Edition
    • — 24 Sep, 2021

    DRIVING INTO THE SUNSET

    At age 75 and after 15 years on the job, Ed Bailey is retiring from driving the Mammoth Trolley.  Charismatic, kind, and a cowboy in every sense of the word,[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition · Opinion/Editorial
    • — 17 Sep, 2021

    PASS THE AIR FRESHENER

    As a general rule I don’t bitch about the hand I’ve been dealt.  Too much. I mean, bitching can be quite fun. In moderation.  On Thursday, there was an interview[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 17 Sep, 2021

    WHO GETS WHAT

    It’s the most wonderful time of the decade. The Mono County Redistricting process is upon the Board of Supervisors once again, following the conclusion and findings of the 2020 census. […]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 17 Sep, 2021

    FALLEN DOMINOS

    If you’re a Bishop or Mammoth resident with the late-night munchies, your culinary options just narrowed considerably.  The Mammoth and Bishop Domino’s Pizza franchises closed their doors this week, likely[…]

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    • in Featured · News · Online Edition · Opinion/Editorial
    • — 10 Sep, 2021

    SOMETHING ABOUT MERRY

    There won’t be any Merry Christmas in Bishop after this weekend.  Because Merry’s gone.  Merry Katherine Christmas, who moved to Bishop in 1983, is moving to an assisted living facility[…]

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    • in Featured · News · Online Edition
    • — 10 Sep, 2021

    LOOKING GOOD, WINTHORPE!

    After a hectic summer, things have started to cool off in the Eastern Sierra, propelled more so than normal by National Forest closures. Although the forests closed last year at[…]

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    • in Featured · News · Online Edition
    • — 10 Sep, 2021

    7 AND 7

    In Mono County, affordable housing is rare and the space to build it rarer. As a result, developing housing projects requires some creative thinking.  Mono County tasked consultant (and former[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition · Opinion/Editorial
    • — 3 Sep, 2021

    A LIFE IN THE SIERRA

    I’m in damn good shape for an old, fat slob who can’t hear.”  So said Duane Rossi as he was peeling potatoes at his summer job as camp cook at[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 3 Sep, 2021

    BEAR NECESSITIES

    “On every continent in the world, since the beginning of time, humans have paid homage to bears. Through petroglyphs, the written word, in stories, in songs- we’ve carved them, put[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition · Opinion/Editorial
    • — 27 Aug, 2021

    HOLISTIC HELL

    The text from Lara Kaylor’s press release regarding Mammoth Lakes Tourism’s “Virtual Community Coffee” held Thursday morning, August 26:  “This month the topic is housing. We will provide a holistic[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 27 Aug, 2021

    IN BLOOM

    Anybody planning on visiting Crowley Lake in the near future should proceed with extreme caution.  Harmful algal blooms (HAB’s) have been reported along the Lake, which pose a serious threat[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 27 Aug, 2021

    HOME FROM SCHOOL

    The local schools have already seen the chaos of Covid-19 unleashed as they move into their second week of the 2021-2022 school year.  “We’ve had in general about a case[…]

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    • in Online Edition · Opinion/Editorial
    • — 20 Aug, 2021

    A IS FOR AMBIGUOUS

    On Tuesday, I covered an Inyo County meeting regarding an issue which predates my local residency.  As Nancy Masters described in a letter submitted to the Board, Measure A, passed[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 20 Aug, 2021

    MASKS ON, EVEN IF GLOVES OFF

    Mono County Director of Public Health Bryan Wheeler gave a Covid-19 update at the latest Board of Supervisors meeting on August 17. The county continues to trend upwards in cases,[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 20 Aug, 2021

    AIR APPARENT

    The Mammoth Lakes Town Council held a meeting on August 18 which included passing a motion which will effectively put planes in the air at Mammoth-Yosemite Airport (MMH) this coming[…]

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    • in Online Edition · Opinion/Editorial
    • — 13 Aug, 2021

    DECISION FATIGUE

    I’m going to let the late, great novelist Walker Percy open the editorial this week, in large part because I’m tired, but in larger part, because I generally defer to[…]

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    • in Arts and Life · Featured · Online Edition
    • — 13 Aug, 2021

    RADIO MT. LEBANON

    Driving through the Owens Valley, a traveler might happen upon a seemingly out of place radio station while scanning the FM dial for music.  Arabic music and lyrics, with French[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition · Sports
    • — 13 Aug, 2021

    WRESTLING WITH CONVENTION

    The announcement that the Midget Wrestling Warriors (MWW) would be in action at the Tri-County Fair this year has been met with a degree of local criticism, waged almost entirely[…]

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    • in Featured · News · Online Edition · Opinion/Editorial
    • — 6 Aug, 2021

    THE JOAQ-ING DEAD

    Get ready for some peripatetic rambling here.  In regard to the Mammoth Lakes Tourism Bleephole campaign walk-back … I’m not too worked up over a creative misfire. That stuff happens. […]

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    • in Featured · Mountain Town News · News · Online Edition
    • — 6 Aug, 2021

    SWING AND A MISS

    Here’s the thing about swinging big: although the contact is more likely to knock the ball out the park, the strikeouts can be all the more spectacular. Such is the[…]

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    • in Featured · News · Online Edition
    • — 6 Aug, 2021

    AMERICA LOST

    “I never like to talk about myself. But I’d like to share about my community, which is the working community, the Latino community, the poor community- the core of Mammoth,”[…]

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    • in Featured · News · Online Edition · Opinion/Editorial
    • — 30 Jul, 2021

    MEET TEAM DUMBASS

    From last week’s editorial:  “Overall, Kaylor said MLT has spent more than $1 million on sustainability and stewardship initiatives over the past year. Which leads me to “The Perils of[…]

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    • in Featured · News · Online Edition
    • — 30 Jul, 2021

    FEE FEAR ZONE

    Look out taxpayers! Because Mammoth Lakes Town Council (specifically Sauser, Wentworth and Stapp) couldn’t make a politically difficult decision last week (allocating some marketing dollars towards housing), they may have[…]

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    • in Featured · News · Online Edition
    • — 30 Jul, 2021

    BAR SET LOW

    A police contact gone sour last Saturday night/Sunday morning in Bishop led to a local man being hospitalized, his dog shot and killed, and two deputies injured during an altercation which[…]

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    • in News · Online Edition
    • — 23 Jul, 2021

    STALE CHIPS

    Mammoth Lakes Town Council talked a lot about housing at its regular meeting on Wednesday evening.  But ultimately decided not to move further resources into the housing column.  By a[…]

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    • in News · Online Edition · Science
    • — 23 Jul, 2021

    DELTA FORCE

    The Mono County Board of Supervisors met on Tuesday to discuss possible new Covid restrictions for the coming months.  The rapid spread of the Covid Delta variant, especially in California,[…]

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    • in News · Online Edition · Opinion/Editorial
    • — 23 Jul, 2021

    HUG WHAT YOU LOVE

    In the aftermath of Mammoth Council’s abortive attempt to manage its own money, I thought about Celine’s line from Journey to the End of the Night  *Am I allowed to[…]

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    • in Featured · News · Online Edition
    • — 16 Jul, 2021

    With the Benton Crossing Landfill set to close on January 1, 2023, Mammoth Disposal has been putting together plans to fill the waste-related needs that will remain.   On Wednesday, July[…]

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    • in Featured · News · Online Edition
    • — 16 Jul, 2021

    TURN THIS IDEA AROUND

    After a week out of the headlines, the bus turnaround on Woodmen [aka Woodman] Street in Mammoth Lakes proved to still be contentious.  The matter was discussed at Mammoth’s Planning[…]

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    • in Featured · Obituaries · Online Edition
    • — 16 Jul, 2021

    A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS: LARRY MYROLD 1958-2021

    There are some guys who make spectacular plays, diving to their left or right to stop a ball, and they are heralded for their flair and athleticism.  And there are[…]

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    • in Featured · News · Online Edition · Opinion/Editorial
    • — 10 Jul, 2021

    AGAINST THE WIND

    I’m cranky today. Blame the heat.  Or blame Mammoth’s Town Council. Tough to listen to that paean to denial at Wednesday evening’s regular meeting and not get cranky.  I’ve written[…]

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    • in Featured · News · Online Edition
    • — 10 Jul, 2021

    TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE

    An email sent to then-Mammoth Lakes Tourism (MLT) Board chair John Morris and MLT executive director John Urdi has led to something of a rift between the non-profit and Mammoth[…]

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    • in Featured · News · Online Edition
    • — 10 Jul, 2021

    ROUND-HOUSED

    A recent employer survey revealed that approximately 25% of Mono County employees live in their cars. However, with a new public works ordinance put in place, these folks  will no[…]

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    • in Featured · News · Online Edition · Opinion/Editorial
    • — 5 Jul, 2021

    HARD TO KILL

    The one joke I’ve been recycling since last week regarding my traffic accident: “I’m like Steven Seagal. Mediocre, yet Hard to Kill.” Hardy-har.  Former Sheet writer Colin Wolf had this[…]

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    • in Featured · News · Online Edition
    • — 5 Jul, 2021

    STRAY DOG STRUT

    A community meeting was held on Wednesday, June 30 in response to Mammoth residents protesting the proposed public transit stop/shelter/turnaround on Woodman. The turnaround would allow for a 40’ bus to[…]

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    • in Featured · News · Online Edition
    • — 5 Jul, 2021

    WHAT’S YOUR DELTA

    The survey question this week was a simple yes/no: Is the pandemic over? While mask mandates and capacity restrictions have been gone since the middle of June, it’s certainly felt[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition · Opinion/Editorial
    • — 25 Jun, 2021

    CHEWED UP, SPIT OUT

    I have this still photograph in my mind.  Like one of those iPhone photos where it shows you a snippet of action before the photo settles.  And I see this[…]

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    • in Featured · News · Online Edition
    • — 25 Jun, 2021

    TALES OF THE TRAILS

    Coming out of summer 2020, it was clear that something had to change and change quickly for the local outdoors. Unattended campfires, overcrowding, and a landfill’s worth of trash and[…]

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    • in Business · Featured · Online Edition
    • — 25 Jun, 2021

    GOING INTO LABOR

    Mammoth has seen a significant shortage in labor recently.  Although this is a multi-faceted issue, it relates heavily to the decrease in affordable housing in town.  The Sheet spoke with[…]

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    • in Featured · News · Online Edition · Opinion/Editorial
    • — 18 Jun, 2021

    SUPER-SIZED RAISES

    Well, everybody’s doing it.  Businesses have been buoyed by government grants and loans. Individuals have received augmented unemployment benefits and emergency checks from Donald and Joe.  So now, it appears[…]

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    • in Featured · News · Online Edition
    • — 18 Jun, 2021

    LIFE’S A BEACH

    Skiers and snowboarders headed up Minaret Road for the past 70-odd years have grown used to coming around a final curve in the road to see Main Lodge on their[…]

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    • in Featured · News · Obituaries · Online Edition
    • — 11 Jun, 2021

    “I (CONTINUE TO) BET A DIME”

    AmeriGas was dealt another defeat in the Third Appellate Court of California this week regarding its attempt to erase the 1987 Dempsey agreement regarding propane pricing at Snowcreek.  As described[…]

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    • in Featured · News · Online Edition
    • — 11 Jun, 2021

    MASK NO MORE

    With June 15 rapidly approaching, questions still remain: what exactly is going to happen? Will things go “back to normal”? June 15 is the day that the California government has[…]

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    • in Featured · News · Online Edition
    • — 11 Jun, 2021

    SURVEY SAYS…PAY US MORE

    Mono County’s Board of Supervisors met on June 8, 2021 to discuss, among other things, the recommended budget changes for the county, which will go into effect on July 1,[…]

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    • in Featured · News · Obituaries · Online Edition
    • — 4 Jun, 2021

    WHEN IS ENOUGH, ENOUGH?

    I had no idea what the editorial should be for this week, until I reviewed a letter I wrote this past Saturday to Robert Schaubmayer Sr. and realized … I[…]

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    A COMFORTABLE FIT
    • in Featured · News · Online Edition
    • — 4 Jun, 2021

    A COMFORTABLE FIT

    Wednesday marked Rhonda Duggan’s final Mammoth Lakes Tourism board meeting, with her colleagues sending her off with well wishes and thanking her for her time of service to the non-profit. […]

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    • in Featured · News · Online Edition
    • — 4 Jun, 2021

    SPEED TO ABATE ON 158?

    Calls for action on State Route 158 in June Lake regarding pedestrian safety and traffic became a focal point at the June Lake Citizen’s Advisory Committee (CAC) meeting on June[…]

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    • in Featured · News · Online Edition
    • — 28 May, 2021

    WED DAWN

    Get ready to hear a lot of “I do’s” this summer.  Maybe you won’t hear them from people you’re trying to hire, but you will hear them from couples tying[…]

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    • in Featured · News · Online Edition
    • — 28 May, 2021

    ROAM IF YOU WANT TO?

    A fter a summer that saw a horde of visitors descend on the Eastern Sierra, the calls for action rang loud and clear. A substantial number of the visitors were first-time[…]

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    • in Featured · News · Online Edition
    • — 21 May, 2021

    THE HEIGHTS LAID LOW

    The wind-down is in full swing at Sterling Heights in Bishop.  The Assisted Living retirement home located on Pine Street and backing up to Bishop City Park will close for[…]

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    • in News · Online Edition
    • — 21 May, 2021

    GONE FISHING

    The duties of the Mono County Fish and Game Commission (MCFGC) seem relatively simple from an outside perspective: advise the Mono County Board of Supervisors on fish rearing and stocking. […]

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    • in Featured · News · Online Edition · Opinion/Editorial
    • — 13 May, 2021

    LUNCH TAKES LEAVE

    I am out of town this week. Surprised Mom for Mother’s Day.  Which is why we’re running a 16-pager.   Note: that has since changed. And Owen’s in charge.  Scott[…]

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    • in Featured · News · Online Edition
    • — 13 May, 2021

    PROJECT PROJECTIONS

    The effects of climate change in California are undeniable. Just look at how reduced snowpack has lead to a very early beginning to the fire season.  How is that change[…]

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    • in Featured · News · Online Edition
    • — 13 May, 2021

    HELLO TO YELLOW

    Mono County returned to the yellow tier on Tuesday, a comeback many months in the making. The yellow tier is California’s least restrictive in the Blueprint for A Safer Economy. […]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition · Opinion/Editorial
    • — 7 May, 2021

    I’M EIGHTEEN

    I’ve got a Baby’s brain and an old man’s heart Took eighteen years to get this far Don’t always know what I’m talkin’ about Feels like I’m livin’ in the[…]

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    • in Business · Featured · News · Online Edition
    • — 7 May, 2021

    GETTING DIRKED AROUND

    When Mammoth Lakes Tourism facilitated Dirk Winter’s purchase of Sam’s Wood Site on Minaret Road, the goal was pretty simple: to preserve a longtime events venue in Mammoth Lakes. It[…]

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    • in Featured · News · Online Edition
    • — 1 May, 2021

    HOT STUFF

    The 2020 wildfire season was the most extreme in California history, with nearly 9,500 fires burning approximately four million acres across the state.  Four million acres is about 4% of[…]

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    • in Featured · Mountain Town News · News · Online Edition · Opinion/Editorial
    • — 24 Apr, 2021

    COUGH COUGH

    The Sheet tracked down Bret Meier this week for an interview. We referenced Meier last week upon learning that the Mammoth Lakes Police Department had reached a monetary settlement with[…]

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    • in Featured · News · Online Edition
    • — 24 Apr, 2021

    THE COLOR OF LACK OF MONEY

    The color of having no money?  That would be white. The Town of Mammoth Lakes may be holding a groundbreaking ceremony this coming week for the new MUF/CRC ice tent[…]

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    • in Featured · News · Online Edition
    • — 24 Apr, 2021

    HE TOLD ‘EM SO

    National news was made this week in San Luis Obispo when charges were filed in a 25-year old cold case involving a former Cal Poly San Luis Obispo student, Kristin[…]

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    • in Featured · News · Online Edition · Opinion/Editorial
    • — 24 Apr, 2021

    IT’S A CONTACT SPORT

    Mammoth Lakes Town Council held a strategic workshop last Friday.  They made some revealing statements.  Probably because no one was on the call. They thought they were safe. Thank God[…]

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    • in Business · Featured · News · Online Edition
    • — 24 Apr, 2021

    DUGGAN THE GRAVE FOR DENNIS

    After a year of deliberation, back and forth arguments for and against, and continuous postponements of a final decision, The Tioga Inn housing plan went out with a whimper at[…]

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    • in Featured · News · On the Slopes · Online Edition
    • — 9 Apr, 2021

    SEXY BEACH

    “So,” we asked in a Tuesday meeting with senior resort management held in the clocktower in Mammoth Mountain’s Main Lodge, “Is this project in the Ms or the Bs?”  Newly[…]

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    • in Featured · News · Online Edition · Opinion/Editorial
    • — 9 Apr, 2021

    Alternate reALity

    The following letter was a late inclusion into Wednesday night’s Mammoth Lakes Town Council agenda packet: Hello TOML Town Council:  There is an editorial in the April 3 issue of[…]

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    • in Featured · Online Edition
    • — 9 Apr, 2021

    NO MORE TIERS

    The finish line finally appears to be in sight. Announcements from the California government indicate that the state sees brighter days ahead in the battle against Covid-19. To date, over[…]

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    • in Featured · News · Online Edition · Science
    • — 2 Apr, 2021

    CONGLOMERATE IN PROTEST

    In a small courtyard beside the Lone Pine Chamber of Commerce, a small chihuahua makes a nervous initial pass on those walking in, warily keeping an eye on and backing[…]

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    • in Featured · News · Online Edition
    • — 2 Apr, 2021

    KEYSTONE LIGHT

    What follows is not just a story of police bungling – which is akin to regular bungling. We all bungle things. I do so on a weekly basis. You have[…]

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    • in Featured · News · Obituaries · Online Edition
    • — 26 Mar, 2021

    NOT FOR TED

    Well, a ‘tweener week so I unfortunately had to pass on an April Fools’ story this year.  In terms of ideas, spoofing Mammoth Lakes Town Council’s upcoming series of “strategic[…]

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    • in Featured · News · Online Edition
    • — 26 Mar, 2021

    HOMES REMEDY

    The Inyo County Planning Department held a public workshop for the 2021 General Plan Housing Element update on Wednesday to inform the public about the process of updating the Housing[…]

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    • in Featured · News · Online Edition
    • — 26 Mar, 2021

    RARIFIED AIR

    Global pollution levels were down across the board in 2020, reflecting the reality of a pandemic that’s kept people inside and at home instead of commuting to work or heading[…]

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    • in Featured · News
    • — 12 Mar, 2021

    IN ANY EVENT

    It was about this time last year that doors began to shutter around the Eastside and events were cancelled. In a matter of hours, Elevation Mammoth went from full steam[…]

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    • in Business · Featured · News · Online Edition
    • — 12 Mar, 2021

    PURPLE PAIN

    While the local effort to combat Covid-19 continues to produce encouraging results, Mono County did not enter the red tier this past week as previously anticipated. The culprit: an adjusted[…]

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    • in Featured · News · Online Edition · Opinion/Editorial
    • — 5 Mar, 2021

    LUNCH HAS NO FRIENDS

    Now I get it.  On Monday, someone forwarded confirmation of their upcoming vaccine appointment to me via email.  What’s funny is that the confirmation email specifically states, “Don’t forward this[…]

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    • in Business · Featured · News · Online Edition
    • — 5 Mar, 2021

    MLT BOARD RAISES GLASS TO MENDEL

    The Mammoth Lakes Tourism Board appointed John Mendel to fill the retail board seat vacated by Matt Hammer at its regular meeting Wednesday. Mendel will be seated (or Zoomed) at[…]

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    • in Featured · News · Online Edition
    • — 5 Mar, 2021

    MAMMOTH GETS BACK TO 100%

    The winter of discontent (at least for Mammoth Lakes lodging operators) may be coming to an end. Mammoth town officials  issued updated guidance on Saturday, February 27, that removed a[…]

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

    AN INDEPENDENCE WOMAN

    You’ve heard all the bromides. Live each day like it’s your last. Today’s the first day of the rest of your life. Life is short/Life is a gift And we[…]

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    • in Featured · Mountain Town News · News · Online Edition
    • — 26 Feb, 2021

    ESTA…BIEN?

    At the Inyo County Supervisors meeting on Tuesday, February 23, Eastern Sierra Transit Authority (ESTA) director Phil Moores spoke to the supervisors about how the agency performed in Fiscal Year[…]

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

    ATTENTION CITIZENSs

    The Sheet received the following urgent message on Thursday afternoon.  I write to you to warn you of what is coming down the pike, more like up the pike to[…]

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  • MARLAVOUS
    • in Featured · News · Obituaries · Online Edition
    • — 19 Feb, 2021

    MARLAVOUS

    Marla Wiegand, a longtime Mammoth local and a Breakfast Club staple, died unexpectedly last week from a brain aneurysm. She was 69.  Marla lived off-and-on (mostly on) in Mammoth Lakes[…]

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    • in Arts and Life · Featured · News · Online Edition
    • — 19 Feb, 2021

    OH SAY CAN YOU CRC

    As former Mammoth Mountain (now Alterra Resorts) CEO Rusty Gregory is often fond of saying, “Don’t let perfect get in the way of good.”  On Wednesday, Mammoth Lakes Town Council[…]

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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

    By Lunch and Page Mono County Supervisors held an emergency meeting on Tuesday to hear an update on the Mountain View Fire that burned rapidly through the eastside of Walker[…]

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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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