by News Staff | Jan 26, 2015 | Entertainment/Local Events/Activities, General Misc. Stories
By Deb Murphy The skeleton of a new Big Pine Volunteer Fire Department building is rising from the site of the old county library on Main Street and will house the department’s fire engines by March, if not earlier. The old garage’s 8-foot doors could no longer...
by News Staff | Jan 23, 2015 | Entertainment/Local Events/Activities, General Misc. Stories, Government Agencies/Utilities
By Deb Murphy After nearly eight years, multiple trips to Sacramento, public information meetings and nearly 10 hours of the final public hearing, the Adventure Trails passed the Inyo County Board of Supervisors Thursday evening. What passed is a pilot program...
by News Staff | Jan 22, 2015 | Entertainment/Local Events/Activities, General Misc. Stories
By Charles James The Australian film and television actor Rod Taylor passed away on January 8, three days shy of his 85th birthday. He is best remembered by many of us (of a certain age) from his movies, The Time Machine and Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds, among...
by News Staff | Jan 22, 2015 | Entertainment/Local Events/Activities, General Misc. Stories
– Press release Superintendent of Schools Terry McAteer and Assistant Superintendent Pamela Jones are pleased to announce that Lyndsey Rowan from Bishop Elementary School won first place in the Inyo County Spelling Bee, sponsored by Altrusa. Twenty-two students...
by News Staff | Jan 18, 2015 | Entertainment/Local Events/Activities, General Misc. Stories
– Press release The Fort Independence’s Travel Plaza is delighted to announce the addition of a new Chef at their Tunapi Grill. Chef Michelle (Mike) Hanson has taken on the duties of overseeing all aspects of the Fort’s food operation. The Travel Plaza is...
by News Staff | Jan 18, 2015 | Entertainment/Local Events/Activities, General Misc. Stories, Government Agencies/Utilities
By Charles James With three of the five current members of the Bishop City Council being women, it seems only fitting that they honored Linda Arcularius at their first Council meeting of 2015. Arcularius retired from public service at the end of December. She had been...
