Bridgeport News

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These are the area's fatal crashes of medically related flights in the past 25 years, in addition to Saturday's: June 21, 1987: A Rockwell Turbo Commander 690 airplane plunged into Bridgeport Reservoir near Bridgeport, Calif., killing pilot Delmar Baer Jr., 42, of Carson City and nurse Linda Montgomery, 38, of Reno.

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More than half of California's 279 state parks will see reduced hours, closed campgrounds, canceled school field trips and padlocked bathrooms several days a week under a wave of service reductions announced Tuesday by the state parks department.

An early winter storm washed away Mono County's hopes of a speedy reroofing project at the jail in Bridgeport, forcing law enforcement officials to find a new home for more than 20 inmates.

It may be two weeks before the Mono County Jail in Bridgeport is fit for prisoners after flooding rendered it uninhabitable last week.

Each week, photographer Dave Henry rates the fall leaf display in the Sierra. Here are his picks for this weekend, Sept.

Every roofing contractor's worst nightmare came true in Bridgeport on Tuesday when a heavy wet storm hit in the middle of replacing the roof of the Mono County Jail and Administration Facility.

It's the largest unrestored ghost town in the west, left in a state of what they call "arrested decay." These days, Bodie is a state historic park, located off Highway 395 near Bridgeport and open for visitors.

Volunteers typically find tons of soda cans, cigarette butts, aluminum foil and paper along with tires, mattresses and discarded furniture during SYRCL's yearly Great Yuba Cleanup and Restoration Day.

Editor, After years of trying to stop our government from locking us out of our national forests, they have now succeeded in doing it incrementally, through 'Executive Order' of our President closing hundreds of miles of roads and changing the use of other roads to ATV or motorcycle only.

Part 2 in a series. Dr. Norbert J. Schuerman served the Omaha Public Schools in the capacity of superintendent for more than 13 years from 1984 to 1997, serving the prior 11 years in the capacity of associate and assistant superintendent.

Thursday's outing at Round Table Pizza was the last for the Circle of Friends, a group of about 30 people with various disabilities who have gathered once a week for years to celebrate good times and independence.

Due to frequent bear sightings, a food storage order became effective on Aug. 22, on many campgrounds on the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest's Bridgeport Ranger District, located in the Eastern Sierra.

The U.S. Forest Serviceis inviting the public to attend a series of drop-in meetings next week to discuss motor vehicle management on the Bridgeport Ranger District, which manages about 1.2 million acres of lands in Mono County, California, and Douglas, Lyon and Mineral Counties in Nevada.

The U.S. Forest Service has prepared a draft environmental impact statement regarding travel management in the Bridgeport Ranger District and welcomes public comments.

The U.S. Forest Service has prepared a draft environmental impact statement regarding travel management in the Bridgeport Ranger District and welcomes public comments.

The small town of Bridgeport, California is located at the eastern edge of the Sierra Nevada mountains.

Jeremy Mangum Jul 11, 2009 At a California military training facility, U.S. Marines are learning how to use donkeys and mules as partners in upcoming combat missions in Afghanistan.

A mother bald eagle and her first born chick shortly after it hatched on April 4. Photos by Walter Carnahan ENLARGE The fully grown chick is about to take its first great leap into the world on June 14.