by News Staff | Sep 4, 2020 | General Misc. Stories, Inyo County
By: Kammi Foote [email protected] 760-878-0224 Nothing will stop democracy in America, not even a global COVID-19 pandemic! Every eligible Inyo County, United States citizen will have the opportunity to vote in the November 3, 2020 Presidential Election. There are...
by Deb Murphy | Sep 2, 2020 | Business, Corona Virus, Entertainment, Entertainment/Local Events/Activities, General Misc. Stories, Public Health, Sports
The first hint at “normal” came at Wednesday evening’s Mammoth Town Council meeting. Even in the Owens Valley, signs of “normal” are the caravan of Friday evening traffic starting in early winter and checking the volume of rain in the valley against snow accumulation...
by Community Reports/Events | Sep 2, 2020 | Corona Virus, News Releases, Public Health
September 2, 2020 – This Labor Day Weekend, we need your help to ensure we can Stay Safe to Stay Open throughout Mono County and in the Town of Mammoth Lakes by adhering to State and County Health Orders and safety guidelines. This includes avoiding gatherings,...
by News Staff | Sep 2, 2020 | News Releases, Press Release
This great news should surprise no one familiar with the Mono County government website and its Information Technology staff. Mono County has been named a 2020 Digital Counties Survey award winner by the Center for Digital Government (CDG), in partnership with the...
by News Staff | Sep 2, 2020 | California Highway Patrol, Law Enforcement, News Releases
Tuesday, September 1, Fatal Roll-over Accident South of Coso Junction Rest Area Reported from CHP Bishop Office On September 1, 2020, at approximately 1742 hours (5:42 p.m.), a 29 yr. old driver from Ridgecrest, CA was driving a 2005 black Chevrolet Suburban...
by News Staff | Sep 2, 2020 | Government Agencies/Utilities, News Releases, Weather
It seems that all summer long Sierra Wave has been warning our listeners of dangerous, even excessive heat warnings. There have been days and days of temperatures over 100ºF. And with the wildfire season now in full swing, air quality has often been poor. Sierra Wave...
by Community Reports/Events | Aug 31, 2020 | Business, CalTrans, General Misc. Stories, Government Agencies/Utilities, Inyo County, Town of Mammoth Lakes
After finding out why so many local residents, visitors, local businesses, government offices, and others lost their mobile phone and Internet outage on, first, Tuesday, August 25th (See UPDATE Aug. 27, 2020: Explanation August 25the Outage…), only for it to...
by News Staff | Aug 30, 2020 | Federal government, Fire, Government Agencies/Utilities, News Releases, United States Forest Service
The USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Region, and the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) have coordinated with the Department of Defense for the deployment of approximately 200 active-duty soldiers, to include command staff, to help with wildfire suppression...
by Deb Murphy | Aug 30, 2020 | Corona Virus, Government Agencies/Utilities, Inyo County, News Releases, Press Release, Public Health, State of California
With 74 confirmed COVID-19 cases as of last Friday, Inyo County is now classified as “widespread” on California’s new criteria for opening or closing businesses. To put it bluntly, the widespread status is the worst place to be on the coronavirus scale. The new...
by News Staff | Aug 30, 2020 | General Misc. Stories
Sierra Wave has been following this story since Saturday afternoon on hearing that a body had been found in the south county, but withheld the story until “official” notification could be given the family of the victim, Robert Alan Gerber, a man reported...
by News Staff | Aug 29, 2020 | Inyo County, News Releases, Press Release
Inyo County’s Fiscal Year 2020-2021 Recommended Budget Available on Online (8/28/2020 Press Release) A searchable version of the entire Fiscal Year 2020-2021 CAO Recommended Budget document is now available online at the County’s webpage, offering the public an...
by News Staff | Aug 29, 2020 | Corona Virus, Government Agencies/Utilities, Letters to the Editor, News Releases, Press Release, Public Health
(Joint Press Release, August 28, 2020) On Sunday, August 23, Mono County was officially removed from the California Department of Public Health’s (CDPH) COVID-19 (Coronavirus) County Data Monitoring List following three consecutive days of local data meeting State...
