by News Staff | May 13, 2021 | Obituaries
It is with great sorrow and sadness to announce that our son Galen Joseph Moore died unexpectedly on January 1, 2021, in Oceanside, CA. Galen was born on September 9, 1982, in Salem, OR residing throughout the valley his entire life. He had an energetic zest for life...
by News Staff | May 13, 2021 | General Misc. Stories, Obituaries
Robert “Skip” Whelan, passed away on April 23, 2021, in Troy, Michigan from complication of Covid at the age of 74. Skip was born November 29, 1946, in Downey, California. He grew up in Bellflower, California but lived most of his adult life in Orange County,...
by News Staff | May 13, 2021 | Corona Virus, Federal government, News Releases, Public Health, Vaccination
Message From the CDC Director, Rochelle Walensky: Today, I adopted CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices’ (ACIP) recommendation that endorsed the safety and effectiveness of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine and its use in 12- through 15-year-old...
by Community Reports/Events | May 13, 2021 | Corona Virus, General Misc. Stories, Inyo County, Public Health
Seeing “Yellow,” Inyo County hopes to move out of Orange Tier by Mule Days Opener At Tuesday’s Inyo County Board of Supervisors Meeting, Marilyn Mann, director of the Inyo County Department of Health and Human Services, said that while the county has seen a few...
by News Staff | May 12, 2021 | General Misc. Stories, News Releases, Past Posts, Press Release
Update: More Information on Still Missing Person in Saline Valley/Warm Springs; Tulare County SAR Joins Search [Seventy-six-year-old Robert “Bob” Alan Wildoner of Apple Valley, Calif. has been reported missing since May 7th.–SWM News] UPDATE: 5/12/21 from...
by News Staff | May 12, 2021 | Business, Corona Virus, News Releases, Press Release, State of California
Mono County Finally Gets a Taste of the Covid-19 Yellow Tier! And how does it taste? Pretty Mellowly Yellowy!! Effective Wednesday, May 12 the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) has reassigned Mono County to the least restrictive Tier 4, Minimal (Yellow),...
by Community Reports/Events | May 11, 2021 | General Misc. Stories
Sierra Wave Presents: BLINDSIGHTS Storyline: A blind gunslinger, fleeing his violent past, finds solace in the small town of Santa Lucia… but when a gang of outlaws appears in town, he must defend the place and the people he’s come to call home the only...
by Community Reports/Events | May 11, 2021 | Business, Corona Virus, Entertainment, General Misc. Stories, Public Health, Vaccination
“The Walking Vaccinated? A band concert held in June Lake may hold key to opening of many venues. It was recently reported by the Mammoth Times in an article by reporter Wendilyn Grasseschi that the T-Bar Social Club in June Lake held a concert on Friday night,...
by Community Reports/Events | May 11, 2021 | Business, State of California
It’s a question that many have been asking recently: Are Federal Unemployment Supplemental Benefits of $300-a-week Keeping employees away from returning to work? Like most things, it’s not that simple. With the increasing opening of the economy from...
by Deb Murphy | May 10, 2021 | CalTrans, Inyo County
The Inyo Board of Supervisors got an update from CalTrans staff on future road projects at its Tuesday meeting starting with the four-lane expansion of U.S. Hwy. 395 at Olancha later this year and extending through 2026. But, any conversation centered on the highway...
by News Staff | May 7, 2021 | Fire, Mammoth Lakes Fire Department, News Releases, United States Forest Service
On Tuesday, May 4, there was a fire reported by the Mammoth Lakes Fire Department near the Sawmill Cutoff Road and the campsite directly adjacent to it. Fortunately, crews from MLFD and the U.S. Forest Service were able to knock this one down before it threatened the...
by Community Reports/Events | May 6, 2021 | General Misc. Stories, Law Enforcement, Mammoth Lakes Police, Press Release
Sierra Wave occasionally posts the public activity logs for our local police and sheriff agencies. Today we posted the activity log for the Mammoth Lakes Police Department. The reason is simple: Sometimes the logs are quite entertaining and informative, and it gives a...
