by Community Reports/Events | Nov 29, 2020 | General Misc. Stories
Astoundingly, despite the U.S. (allegedly) being the richest, most technologically and medically advanced country in the world, we have the highest numbers of COVID-19 infections, and many times over the numbers of deaths due to complications of the coronavirus than...
by News Staff | Nov 28, 2020 | Public Health, Corona Virus, Inyo County, News Releases
INYO COUNTY MOVES TO RED TIER INYO COUNTY, CA, November 28, 2020 – The California Department of Public Health announced today that Inyo County has been moved to the Red Tier of the state’s Blueprint for a Safer Economy, indicating that the risk level in this...
by News Staff | Nov 27, 2020 | Fire, General Misc. Stories, News Releases
The Bishop Volunteer Fire Department is launching a gift card drive to help make the holidays a little brighter for the hundreds of Mono County residents displaced by the Mountain View Fire, which devastated the Walker and Coleville communities on Nov. 17. “There are...
by News Staff | Nov 24, 2020 | General Misc. Stories, Schools
ACT NOW! Come on, Eastern Sierra! You can NEVER have enough chocolate, especially, Dark Chocolate! You can indulge yourself and use the excuse “Well, I’m doing this for the kids!” Of course, you are! See’s Candy — Order NOW! Enjoy that...
by News Staff | Nov 24, 2020 | General Misc. Stories
BLM Bishop Field Office offers Christmas tree cutting permits online Now available online for a no-contact purchase this holiday season BISHOP, Calif. — The Bureau of Land Management Bishop Field Office is now offering personal-use Christmas tree cutting permits for...
by News Staff | Nov 24, 2020 | General Misc. Stories, Inyo County, News Releases
A group of enthusiastic and hard-working volunteers recently completed a thorough fall clean-up of the grounds at the Eastern California Museum in Independence. About 20 volunteers showed up armed with rakes, hand tools, shrub trimmers and clippers, and other tools to...
by News Staff | Nov 24, 2020 | Public Health, Corona Virus
Mono County submitted an adjudication request to the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) on November 9, 2020, stating that the COVID-19 cases confined to the U.S. Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center (MCMW) in Pickel Meadows should not count toward...
by Community Reports/Events | Nov 24, 2020 | General Misc. Stories
Free Thanksgiving and Community Meals Looking to enjoy a Thanksgiving meal? The following organizations are providing free meals to the community: REMEMBER TO PRACTICE COVID-19 PRECAUTIONS. Big Pine: Methodist Church, 313 Crocker, 2pm – 6pm. Take out or deliver...
by News Staff | Nov 24, 2020 | CalTrans
November 23, 2020 – LEE VINING — Following Yosemite National Park’s closure of Tioga Road, Caltrans has closed its Lee Vining gate on State Route 120 West for the winter season. The gate was originally closed in early November in preparation for a series of...
by Deb Murphy | Nov 24, 2020 | Bishop Police Department, California Highway Patrol, General Misc. Stories, Inyo County Sheriff's Office, Law Enforcement, Mammoth Lakes Police, Mono County Sheriff's Office
SHOP WITH A COP ADAPTED FOR 2020 Shop with a Cop is alive and well in 2020, with some tweaks. The program brings law enforcement branches from Mono and Inyo Counties together with a special selection of East Side grade school children to all go shopping for gifts for...
by Community Reports/Events | Nov 23, 2020 | Corona Virus, General Misc. Stories, News Releases, Press Release, Public Health
Well, now that you have decided to “crawl out from under that rock” you’ve been “self-isolating” under for the past 10 months, the beneficent state of California has issued “official” guidance on how you should celebrate...
by News Staff | Nov 23, 2020 | General Misc. Stories
Drive-thru Holiday Meals at Walker Senior Center Parking Lot on Monday, November 23, at 1:30 p.m. Inyo Mono Advocates for Community Action (IMACA) wants the people of Coleville and Walker, victims of the Mountain View Fire, to know “During these difficult times...
