by News Staff | Jan 22, 2008 | Past Posts
Seats up for election this year locally. Some news to report on that. At the Inyo County Courthouse, elections officials report that all three incumbent supervisors have taken out petitions in lieu of filing fees – Supervisors Susan Cash, Jim Bilyeu and Richard...
by News Staff | Jan 22, 2008 | Past Posts
51 year old Ronald Watson of Onyx, California, the man accused of lighting a string of fires in Mammoth in June of 2007, continues slowly through the Mono County Court system. After allegedly making threats (that included telling people to prepare to die) at the...
by News Staff | Jan 22, 2008 | Past Posts
Despite taking some heat for the reverse 9-1-1 calls before the large storms at the beginning of the month, officials still encourage people to sign up their phones to receive the calls. The reverse 9-1-1 system in Mono County, had been used to send out information to...
by News Staff | Jan 22, 2008 | Bureaucrat Beat
Here’s a provocative puzzlement. Between wind and fire, which causes disaster? This is no trick question, and for the sensible it would seem obvious that both can lead to disaster, as they did in the Southern California fires in October. FEMA, of FEMA trailer...
by News Staff | Jan 22, 2008 | Past Posts
Investigators have called the burning of a Big Pine school bus “suspicious” in nature. Inyo Sheriff’s Detective Paul Beddel said that investigators could find no specific accelerant that would have started the fire. “It’s unknown if this...
