by Deb Murphy | Jan 27, 2021 | Corona Virus, Dr. James Richardson, Inyo County, Public Health, Vaccination
Ironically, Tuesday’s meeting of the Inyo County Board of Supervisors started with Water Department head Aaron Steinwand delivering the grim news that, at best, rainfall could hit just 60-percent of normal. By Wednesday morning, the Owens Valley sat under a...
by Deb Murphy | Jan 14, 2021 | General Misc. Stories
A letter is on its way to residents with Short-Term Rentals asking for compliance with the State’s Stay-at-Home health orders by not renting to those from out of the area. The logic is seamless: if vacation travel violates health orders, we shouldn’t give those...
by Deb Murphy | Jan 11, 2021 | Corona Virus, General Misc. Stories, Public Health
Mono County’s Public Health Department has set up a system to help residents, figuratively, get in line for the COVID-19 vaccinations. Bryan Wheeler, the County’s Public Health Director, outlined the schedule at this week’s Board of Supervisors’ meeting. Like Inyo,...
by Deb Murphy | Jan 7, 2021 | Testing, Corona Virus, Dr. James Richardson, Testing, Vaccination
While the Pfizer, and soon to come Moderna, COVID-19 vaccines are the solution to the world-wide pandemic, actually rolling out the vaccines, even in a small county, comes with its own set of issues. As the number of positive cases in Inyo keep rising, those issues...
by Deb Murphy | Dec 29, 2020 | General Misc. Stories
Town councils and county boards of supervisors in the Eastern Sierra have all been visited, via Zoom, by an avid-anti-masker who insists all those entities are flying in the face of the Constitution by enacting laws, guidelines or public health orders requiring masks...