First, COVID-19. The County saw an increase of 25 cases this past week, bringing the total case number to 1486. While Health and Human Services’ Anna Scott described the uptake in cases as “concerning,” the case rate increase of four to five new cases a week is reflective of increases state-wide. A new Public Health […]
Housing Assistance Available through IMACA and Mammoth Lakes Housing While California and the country is slowly emerging from the past year’s battle with COVID-19, the impacts are still being felt by those least able to deal with them. But, there is still help with housing costs available through Inyo Mono Advocates for Community […]
Friends and relatives of George Barlow addressed the Inyo Board of Supervisors at Tuesday’s meeting, asking for an investigation into the altercation between Barlow and Inyo County Sheriff’s deputies last weekend, an incident that has been widely viewed on the Internet. “What would you do if George Barlow was your son?” asked Roger Barlow during […]
Inyo County has joined a growing effort among rural entities on the East Side to get Suddenlink to improve broadband services. Mono, Placer and Nevada counties as well as Mammoth Lakes and Truckee began Suddenlink bashing earlier this month with a long list of grievances leveled at the company. Those grievances were shared with the […]
Inyo County saw “slight increases” in cases of COVID-19 in late June, but as of Monday, June 18, is just encouraging people to wear face coverings in indoor public places, not mandating as has Mono County and Los Angeles. “We are concerned that as case rates increase in other areas,” Anna Scott, deputy director of […]
One old train of thought tells young people to “sow their wild oats,” “get it out of their system before they have to grow up”. The problem with that concept is how do you get back on track once those oats have been sown and you’re stuck with no diploma, no job and no prospects. […]
Richard Standridge was officially sworn in as Bishop’s Police Chief by Bishop Mayor Stephen Muchovej at a brief ceremony Monday morning in the Council Chambers. There was a repeat performance later Monday evening at the City Council meeting, same place, different time. Standridge comes to Bishop following 20 years on the Porterville PD, […]
Reporter Deb Murphy filed this report on What Sierra Wave Weather Forecaster Dennis Mattinson has to say on the Triple Digit Heat: Okay, temperatures in the low 100s in the Owens Valley aren’t really newsworthy when the heat streak covers a couple of days in late summer. But a check of the National Weather Service’s […]
In what is hopefully the last chapter in the Inyo Board of Supervisors’ 26-percent salary increase, County Counsel Marshall Rudolph presented a resolution mapping out the protocol for Supervisors to waive their salaries altogether. That waiver was requested by Supervisor Jennifer Roeser at the Board’s June 15 meeting after a 4-1 vote to increase their […]
RECALL ELECTION SIMPLIFIED…Just kidding, explained as simply as humanly as possible The “simplified” part of the recall election of Gov. Gavin Newsom, slated for September 14, comes from Inyo and Mono counties’ Registrars of Voters, Danielle Sexton and Scheereen Dedman, currently the acting Clerk Recorder/Registrar. Both Dedman and Sexton explained their respective recall election process […]
One of the questions put to each of the four applicants for Inyo County Clerk-Recorder-Registrar of Voters was unique to these strange times. “What would you do if asked to alter the results of an election?” The candidate chosen for the position at Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors’ meeting, Danielle Sexton, was the most tactful. “People […]
The Inyo County Board of Supervisors’ pay raise raised the question: how much the Mono County Supervisors do the Mammoth Town Council and Bishop City Council members take home each month? So, we (Sierra Wave) asked. All four entities’ elected officials also hold representative membership on other boards, the Local Transportation Agency, Local Agency Formation […]
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