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Eastern Sierra News for February 13, 2026

 

 

 

 

Gas Price Speculation

Average gas prices have hit a high for 2009. According to news reports, prices barely budged over last week in California and the nation but it was enough to hit a yearly high and then to very slightly fall. In the Eastern Sierra prices ranged from $2.95 per gallon of...

Dose of Fall

In the Lone Pine area, Russ Monroe pointed his camera at several beautiful sights. Check out the fall colors in an 1860s orchard, the moon set over the Sierra crest at Lone Pine Peak, a cool, little alien-like bug called vinegaroon and a choya cactus flatteringly...

SF Chronicle Rates Mammoth and Its Mountain

Now that you can get here from there, San Francisco may pay more attention to Mammoth Mountain. The San Francisco Chronicle devoted lots of space to a review of Mammoth. The key news – daily flights from San Jose to Mammoth Airport. Writer Bill Fink said,...

Swine Flu Continues To Sicken The Eastern Sierra

The H1N1 swine flu amounts to a minor illness for some, while others end up hospitalized. The flu remains on the radar here in the Eastern Sierra with H1N1 vaccine in short supply. Inyo Mono Health officer Dr. Rick Johnson reports that We continue to experience high...

Bishop City Administrator Announces Coming Retirement

At the Bishop City Council meeting on Monday night, City Administrator Rick Pucci announced his coming retirement. Pucci explained that he wont say goodbye, quite yet, since he plans to stick around while the City recruits a replacement. The recruitment for a new City...