by News Staff | Jul 16, 2008 | Past Posts
Despite being officially declared dead, missing aviator/adventurer Steve Fossett is once again the subject of a renewed search in our area. A group led by geologist Simon Donato is currently in the field near Bridgeport searching for signs or wreckage of Fossett's...
by News Staff | Jul 16, 2008 | Past Posts
As if fires, smoke and floods were not enough, plague has now surfaced. It is just about an annual occurrence. The Inyo Mosquito Control manager, Jerry Oser, reported that as part of its annual plague surveillance and control program, his department has recently...
by News Staff | Jul 16, 2008 | Past Posts
With no solid leads at the end day seven in the search for missing mountaineer Ric DeVan, Inyo County Sheriff Bill Lutze called off the search effort, but then a family member or friend found DeVan’s backpack. That discovery led to the grim finding of...
by News Staff | Jul 16, 2008 | Past Posts
In Independence Tuesday night, community members packed the legion hall to talk about what to do after the major floods knocked out homes in Oak Creek. Representatives from county agencies, the federal government, the Red Cross and the state Office of Emergency...
by News Staff | Jul 16, 2008 | Bureaucrat Beat
Imagine our surprise when we saw a TV ad that featured big, and we do mean very big, oilman, T. Boon Pickens. He said he wanted to talk about oil. We instantly jumped to the conclusion that Pickens would cheerlead for offshore oil drilling and other such tactics. But,...
