by News Staff | Jul 8, 2008 | Past Posts
Up 9 more cents in July gas prices have kind of slowed down a little but remain $1.43 higher over last year at this time for Californians. Locally, a gallon of regular bounces up against the $5 mark in Mammoth Lakes. $4.98 and $4.99 per gallon of regular unleaded. In...
by News Staff | Jul 8, 2008 | Bureaucrat Beat
A measure of a society, you might say, depends on how we treat people confined to wheel chairs. Do we think of them first when it comes to government budget cuts? Do we consider their lives in our neighborhoods? Or do we think first of the fit and the rich? Last...
by News Staff | Jul 7, 2008 | Past Posts
Bishop Volunteer Firefighters responded to two separate fires over the weekend. Bishop Fire Chief Ray Seguine reports that there were a lot of illegal fireworks going off in the night sky over the Bishop area this past week. The first fire, just before midnight on...
by News Staff | Jul 7, 2008 | Past Posts
It comes as no surprise that Forest and BLM officials have signed fire restriction orders. A press release from the two agencies says that “in response to the increasing fire danger and fires already raging in California Inyo National Forest Supervisor Jim...
by News Staff | Jul 7, 2008 | Past Posts
In the Sierra above Bishop, the search continues for a hiker reported missing on July Fourth. On this fourth day of search operations, rescuers planned to return to the back country near Bishop Pass to look for the missing man. According to Inyo Sheriff Deputies, 44...
