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Eastern Sierra News for December 23, 2025

 

 

 

 

Two Long-Time Lone Pine Residents Have Died

A beautiful woman who enjoyed a singing career in earlier years and who hosted a jazz show on a former Independence radio station, Pat Roberts of Lone Pine has died at the age of 82. Pat lived in Lone Pine for many years and made many friends with her strong...

Locals Weigh in on the Wilderness Bill

The Boxer-McKeon Wilderness Bill has now passed both houses of Congress and could be signed into law by the President Monday. This often contentious new law will create 430,000 acres of federally legislated Wilderness in the Sierra, the Owens River Headwaters, and the...

Comments Due on Forest Road Plan

March 31 marks the end of the public comment period for the Inyo National Forest Motorized Transportation system. With less then one week left to put your two cents in, Forest Supervisor Jim Upchurch, who will decide on which plan the Forest Service will go with,...

One Superintendent – Two Districts

Bishop high and elementary school district officials have decided to hire one, shared superintendent. Following the announcement of High School Superintendent Maggie Kingsbury that she would retire in December, high school and elementary school boards met Monday in a...