by News Staff | Sep 15, 2009 | Past Posts
The stars of the Eastern Sierra right now – the Tule Elk south of Big Pine. Crowds of motorists continue to line the side of the highway as they snap photos like paparazzi.The attraction this time of year – the elk mating rituals. As traffic whizzes by the...
by News Staff | Sep 15, 2009 | Past Posts
Prisoners at the Inyo County Jail can claim a new kind of productivity – vegetables.Sheriff Bill Lutze said that the inmates have cultivated the large garden on the south side of the Inyo Sheriff’s Department and jail in Independence. Sheriff Lutze said...
by News Staff | Sep 15, 2009 | Past Posts
In early October, officials plan to set a date for a murder trial for 18 year old Louis Leplat, accused in the stabbing death of 22 year old James Rambeau of Bishop.Off the record sources allege that the night of the incident, June 20th, Leplat may have been...
by News Staff | Sep 15, 2009 | Past Posts
While the Bishop City Council went through the hoops on the demolition permit process for Cottonwood Plaza, a local realtor confirmed the center is for sale and an offer has come in.With the tangle of legal issues over the center, a one-time plaza lessee filed for a...
by News Staff | Sep 14, 2009 | Past Posts
The Forest Service has received $3 million in federal stimulus money which, with complications, should allow the troubled Lake Mary Road bike path project to be completed. Due to what Town Manager Rob Clark describes as a strange bureaucratic quirk, the money for the...
by News Staff | Sep 14, 2009 | Past Posts
Lightning caused a small fire in the Mammoth area on Saturday. Bill Anderson with Mammoth Fire says that a single tree was struck by lightning at about 2:30 Saturday. The top third of the tree was on fire up the hill from highway 203, west of the scenic loop turnoff....
