by News Staff | May 7, 2009 | Past Posts
Investigations into the fire that destroyed the Barker Ranch continue. In the meantime, people who have heard the news expressed sadness and disappointment that a piece of local history has gone up in smoke. Under the supervision of the National Park Service...
by News Staff | May 7, 2009 | Past Posts
Every spring the question starts to circulate- when will Tioga Pass open? National Park Service crews plowing from the west side of the Sierra through Yosemite started plowing in April. Caltrans crews had plowed all the way to the pass and opened the road to skiers...
by News Staff | May 7, 2009 | Past Posts
Mammoth's Town Council continues to scrutinize numbers as they head into the beginning of their 2009/10 budget. At the Council meeting this week, Finance Director Brad Koehn presented each Council member with two large notebooks containing staff's proposals...
by News Staff | May 7, 2009 | Past Posts
At midnight Wednesday, the Inyo Board of Supervisors finally voted to uphold the Planning Commission decision to grant permission to Coso Geothermal to pump and export water out of Rose Valley. The hearing started at 9am and ended 15 hours later. The bleary-eyed crowd...
by News Staff | May 7, 2009 | Past Posts
The Inyo Sheriff's Department received a call at 4:30 am Thursday from a woman in Bishop who said she was the victim of a sexual assault. Six hours later, officers arrested 28 year old Alex Lujano of Bishop as the suspect in the crime. After the call from the...
by News Staff | May 6, 2009 | Past Posts
At the most recent Bishop City Council study session, Police Chief Kathleen Sheehan told the council that the Department is working toward a crime free city. One new aspect of the plan to crack down on crime in Bishop is to create a new system to roll small time...
