by Community Reports/Events | Jul 12, 2021 | National Park Service, National Weather Service, News Releases, Public Safety
Death Valley is the hottest, driest, and lowest place in the country, but last Friday, July 9, it was really hot as it hit 130 degrees Fahrenheit for only the fifth time in its recorded history. On the following Saturday, July 10, it was 129.4 degrees, according to...
by Community Reports/Events | Jul 12, 2021 | General Misc. Stories, Sports
BISHOP LITTLE LEAGUE 7 – 8 ALL STARS Played Quartz Hill in Tehachapi on July 10th in their first game of the District 51 All – Star Tournament suffering a loss of 15 to 0. They played American Indian Little League All-Stars the following day losing 12 to...
by Community Reports/Events | Jul 12, 2021 | General Misc. Stories
Sierra Wave Presents is brought to you by The Inyo Council for the Arts Dick Tracy was an American detective radio drama series based on the popularity of the newspaper comic strip of the same name created by Chester Gould. The show first aired in 1934 for the NBC...
by Community Reports/Events | Jul 12, 2021 | Corona Virus, Federal government, General Misc. Stories, Public Safety
Phone scams are as popular as ever and successful despite efforts to control them. The Covid-19 pandemic was a goldmine for scammers with many people isolated in their homes as a precaution against its spread. Unfortunately, many were left feeling fearful and...
by Community Reports/Events | Jul 10, 2021 | General Misc. Stories
According to the US Forest Service says that thanks to a quick response of firefighters from the Inyo National Forest and our cooperators, the Pine Fire is now 100% contained. This fire was reported at 3:16 p.m. on July 7, 2021 in Pine Creek Canyon west of Bishop. The...
by News Staff | Jul 9, 2021 | General Misc. Stories, Obituaries
Harry Cline Williams was a stalwart defender of his tribe’s heritage and a staunch defender of water rights in the Owens Valley Harry Cline Williams was born on November 13, 1956, in Bishop, CA to John Williams and Velma Cyrus Williams. Harry was the second...
by Community Reports/Events | Jul 8, 2021 | General Misc. Stories, Public Safety
We came across this very informative article on Knowing How Heat and Humidity Affect Your Body Can Help You Stay Safe During Heat Waves. It does a good job of explaining the unusually high deaths from heat illness recently in Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia,...
by Community Reports/Events | Jul 8, 2021 | California Highway Patrol, General Misc. Stories
On Monday, July 5th, a driver died in a single vehicle traffic accident along California State Route 190 in Death Valley National Park. According to the Report of Collision – News Release from the California Highway Patrol (posted at bottom of page), for an unknown...
by Community Reports/Events | Jul 8, 2021 | General Misc. Stories
Thursday afternoon at 3:49 pm a magnitude 6.0 earthquake was reported about 70 miles northwest of Mammoth Mountain and 40 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe, closing the Hwy 395 temporarily as rockslides sent large boulders onto the roadway along Walker Canyon that had to...
by Deb Murphy | Jul 7, 2021 | General Misc. Stories, Weather
Reporter Deb Murphy filed this report on What Sierra Wave Weather Forecaster Dennis Mattinson has to say on the Triple Digit Heat: Okay, temperatures in the low 100s in the Owens Valley aren’t really newsworthy when the heat streak covers a couple of days in late...
by Deb Murphy | Jul 7, 2021 | General Misc. Stories, Inyo County
In what is hopefully the last chapter in the Inyo Board of Supervisors’ 26-percent salary increase, County Counsel Marshall Rudolph presented a resolution mapping out the protocol for Supervisors to waive their salaries altogether. That waiver was requested by...
by Community Reports/Events | Jul 7, 2021 | Inyo County
Recall Suddenlink Communications? Many clients are unhappy with its service and cost Inyo County Fourth District Supervisor Jen Roeser is seeking feedback about service issues with Suddenlink Communications in preparation of Inyo County considering sending a letter to...
