by News Staff | Mar 30, 2009 | Past Posts
Tim Alpers of the Eastern Sierra looked forward to meeting and talking to President Barak Obama Monday. Alpers, long involved in public issues of our area, received an invitation to attend the signing of the Wilderness Bill in Washington, D.C. Alpers said he received...
by News Staff | Mar 27, 2009 | Past Posts
The Boxer-McKeon Wilderness Bill has now passed both houses of Congress and could be signed into law by the President Monday. This often contentious new law will create 430,000 acres of federally legislated Wilderness in the Sierra, the Owens River Headwaters, and the...
by News Staff | Mar 27, 2009 | Past Posts
March 31 marks the end of the public comment period for the Inyo National Forest Motorized Transportation system. With less then one week left to put your two cents in, Forest Supervisor Jim Upchurch, who will decide on which plan the Forest Service will go with,...
by News Staff | Mar 27, 2009 | Past Posts
Bishop high and elementary school district officials have decided to hire one, shared superintendent. Following the announcement of High School Superintendent Maggie Kingsbury that she would retire in December, high school and elementary school boards met Monday in a...
by News Staff | Mar 27, 2009 | Past Posts
Parents of students in Bishop schools say they dont like the fact that Football Coach Bill Egan received one of 7 pink slips. They also do not support Egan taking a teaching job in Independence at the Keith Bright continuation school. Petitions have started to turn up...
by News Staff | Mar 26, 2009 | Past Posts
The last round of storms brought a shot of fresh snow to the ski areas at Mammoth and June. The wet weather also added about two inches of much needed water content to the snowpack as the snow season winds down. The latest numbers from the LA Department of Water and...
