by News Staff | May 29, 2019 | General Misc. Stories, Government Agencies/Utilities
By Deb Murphy The unintended consequences of some Inyo County short-term rental ordinances came back to bite the Board of Supervisors at yesterday’s meeting. Now that the ordinances have been in place for more than a year, the Board and Planning Department will focus...
by News Staff | May 28, 2019 | General Misc. Stories
By Deb Murphy Mono and Inyo Counties was handed a reprieve by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission last Friday. The Commission’s Division of Hydropower Licensing found Premium Energy’s application for a closed loop system from reservoirs in the Owens Gorge to the...
by News Staff | May 28, 2019 | General Misc. Stories, Obituaries
Bettie Rose Humphrey of Bishop, California passed away on May 17, 2019. Bettie was born on October 18, 1949 on the family farm in Paris, Arkansas to John and Betty (Hampton) Schouweiler. She was third of five children. Bettie was preceded in death by her parents and...
by News Staff | May 24, 2019 | General Misc. Stories
USFS news release The State of the Inyo Roads Open: Bodie Road **(SR270), June Lake Loop **N & S (SR158), Hwy 120 E **(Mono Mills Road), Lundy Canyon Road (to the resort). Roads Closed: Sonora Pass (SR108), Monitor Pass (SR89), Ebbetts Pass (SR4 ), Lundy Canyon...
by News Staff | May 23, 2019 | General Misc. Stories
By Deb Murphy You’ve got to give Premium Energy, LLC credit for trying. In the Walnut company’s second amendment to its application for a permit to study the feasibility of a closed-loop hydro power project in the Eastern Sierra, Premium now has abandoned three...
