by Deb Murphy | Jun 24, 2020 | General Misc. Stories
California’s COVID-19 travel ban is still in place; the COVID curve has not flattened but appears to be on an uptake; traffic has noticeably picked up on U.S. Highway 395; Mammoth Lakes and much of the Eastern Sierra is dependent on tourist dollars. Put all those...
by Deb Murphy | Jun 16, 2020 | General Misc. Stories, Inyo County, Law Enforcement
By Deb Murphy Three weeks after George Floyd died of cardiopulmonary arrest from a Minneapolis police officer’s knee on his neck, the uproar seemed to turn toward reform of both bias and deadly force by police departments. Then, last Friday in Atlanta, Rayshard Brooks...
by Deb Murphy | Jun 4, 2020 | Business, Corona Virus, General Misc. Stories, Government Agencies/Utilities, Public Health, Town of Mammoth Lakes
Mammoth Lakes Town Manager Dan Holler did a pretty good job of describing “between a rock and a hard place” at Wednesday’s Town Council meeting. To paraphrase, do you defy California’s COVID-19 guidelines for opening businesses or do you wait and wait for approval of...
by Deb Murphy | May 22, 2020 | California Dept Fish & Wildlife, Corona Virus, Government Agencies/Utilities, News Releases, Public Health, Town of Mammoth Lakes
UPDATE 12:45pm : FISHING WILL OPEN IN MONO COUNTY ON SATURDAY 5-23. Deb Murphy filed this report: Mono County Supervisors voted, 3-2, to request its fishing season start today, May 22. The motion took two tries and four plus hours of discussion. Mono is not alone. In...
by Deb Murphy | May 20, 2020 | Business, Corona Virus, Government Agencies/Utilities, News Releases, Public Health, Town of Mammoth Lakes
California offered alternatives to enter fully into Stage 2 of the COVID-19 re-opening process on Monday with the posting of new criteria. With those changes, Mono County’s documentation “fits, with no review,” according to members of the Emergency Operations...
