Free Thanksgiving and Community Meals Looking to enjoy a Thanksgiving meal? The following organizations are providing free meals to the community: REMEMBER TO PRACTICE COVID-19 PRECAUTIONS. Big Pine: Methodist Church, 313 Crocker, 2pm – 6pm. Take out or deliver within Big Pine area or pick up only. For more information or to request a delivery, please […]
Well, now that you have decided to “crawl out from under that rock” you’ve been “self-isolating” under for the past 10 months, the beneficent state of California has issued “official” guidance on how you should celebrate Thanksgiving this year during the pandemic. The only problem many of us have with it is that every time […]
41 Purple Tier counties, 94% of Californians, placed under curfew to slow the surging spread of COVID-19, hospitalizations, and deaths. Does not currently include Inyo and Mono counties. Gov. Gavin Newsom has ordered a curfew for all California counties in the purple tier (Widespread) of the state’s Blueprint for a Safer Economy. Positive COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations […]
Dr. Kori Novak has resigned her position as chief executive officer after about two years at the helm of Toiyabe Indian Health Project. Her resignation was accepted by the Toiyabe Board of Directors on Friday, November 6. Novak said that she is proud of all she has accomplished during her time at Toiyabe but preferred […]
Mono County Sheriff’s Office has identified the woman who died in the Mountain View Fire in Walker, Calif. as 69-year-old Sallie Joseph. She was found in the debris of her burned home on Lone Company Road. The Mountain View Fires was fanned by erratic winds that drove the fire into the residential area of Walker, […]
Help is available to victims of the Mountain View Fire Sadly, Walker lost over one hundred buildings to the Mountain View Fire yesterday, a lot of them are houses. Some are barns, which kept all the owner’s equipment for ranching, building, and so on. For many, their entire livelihood has been lost. If you and […]
The Mountain View Fire (Mono County) This has been a rapidly changing story. Information will be continued to be posted and revised as it becomes available. News is coming in from various news sources in So. Lake Tahoe, Reno, Mammoth Lakes, and, of course, Facebook groups and official Facebook pages of government agencies. It’s a […]
We have known a return to the more restrictive Tier-2, “Substantial” (Red) category was coming considering the high rates of positive COVID-19 reports coming out of Mono County for the past several weeks. The reclassification to the more restrictive tier was largely the result of the outbreak of COVID-19 cases out of the U.S. Marine […]
Help Save the Still Live Cafe! The well-known and loved French restaurant needs our help! We received a request to pass on information about the recently established GoFundMe campaign for the Still Life Cafe in the town of Independence. They are trying to raise $30,000 to “stay alive” through the pandemic. If you have ever […]
In its original press release on the double-homicide of a married couple near Bridgeport on Nov. 9, the Mono County Sheriff’s Office stated that “it can be confirmed that neither (of the murdered victims) are local to Mono County or surrounding areas. The crime appears to be specific and targeted, and there is no threat […]
Veterans Day is set aside in our country to honor all the men and women that have served this country with honor and dedication in our armed forces, both the dead and those alive, regardless of whether they served in peacetime or during times of war. Not all veterans are heroes and even those that are […]
This cute little guy is missing in Bishop, according to a Facebook post from Kerry Siddhartha, who is helping the missing dog’s owner. She says that the owner is staying here in town and is out looking for him most of the time. Please keep a lookout for the dog in these photos (to get […]
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