by News Staff | Jun 10, 2008 | Past Posts
Ever the controversial subject in the Eastern Sierra, a recently proposed Wilderness bill has stirred the pot yet again. Republican Congressman Buck McKeon and Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer have joined forces to push a Wilderness bill through Washington DC that...
by News Staff | Jun 10, 2008 | Past Posts
In what appears to have been a close call for someone, on Tuesday law enforcement officers and Inyo Mono Towing pulled a Toyota pick up truck out of the river. On Tuesday, the DWP helicopter on a routine patrol of the Owens River spotted a vehicle in the water near...
by News Staff | Jun 10, 2008 | Past Posts
For California drivers, gas prices only seem to go one way – up. The latest survey by the Auto Club concludes that California boasts the highest gas prices in the country with the statewide average at $4.47. Locally, a gallon of regular unleaded goes for $4.79...
by News Staff | Jun 10, 2008 | Past Posts
Park Service Rangers have geared up to search for a missing hiker in Yosemite. Park spokesperson Adrienne Freeman reports that staff started searching Monday morning for 22 year old Ssmyn Garmendia Barrios, a native of Honduras. Barrios is described as 58 tall, and...
by News Staff | Jun 10, 2008 | Bureaucrat Beat
Four people contacted us to say, yes, Virginia, there is a cobbler in the Eastern Sierra. We had lamented the absence of Mas Blackwell, former shoe cobbler of Bishop. Just the chance to have our favorite old shoes fixed makes life happier, in a certain way. The folks...
