by News Staff | Jun 3, 2019 | Entertainment/Local Events/Activities, General Misc. Stories
By Charles James Last month, the Inyo County Board of Education and the new Inyo County Superintendent of Schools, Barry Simpson, held its 2019 Community Star Awards in the McAteer Community Room at Cerro Coso College. The annual event, held this year on May 9th,...
by News Staff | May 31, 2019 | General Misc. Stories
News release nyo County Agricultural Commissioner Nate Reade announced that the county will again be accepting applications to operate cannabis businesses within the unincorporated portions of Inyo County beginning on June 10, 2019. The license application window will...
by News Staff | May 31, 2019 | General Misc. Stories
Press release The Outdoor Writers Association of California (OWAC) presented Bishop resident, Gigi de Jong, their most prestigious award, Writer of the Year, at their annual conference held in northern California last week (Monday, May 20th). Gigi also won three first...
by News Staff | May 31, 2019 | General Misc. Stories, Obituaries
Jason Alan Bullington October 8, 1969-May 25, 2019 On Saturday, May 25th 2019 Jason Alan Bullington, loving husband, passed away at home at the age of 49 after a long battle with cancer. His wife Lena and his friends were by his side. Jason was born in Los Angeles on...
by News Staff | May 31, 2019 | General Misc. Stories, Government Agencies/Utilities
By Deb Murphy The one thing members of Bishop City Council agreed on at Tuesday’s meeting was kids shouldn’t have access to flavored tobacco. How to do that was another issue. April Eagan, prevention manager for Inyo County’s Women Infant Children Program, had made a...
by News Staff | May 31, 2019 | Government Agencies/Utilities
News release MONO COUNTY— The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) will reopen the road from the winter closure gate on State Route 120 W (Tioga Pass) to the east entrance of Yosemite National Park today at noon. Caltrans crews have completed ice, snow,...
by News Staff | May 29, 2019 | General Misc. Stories, Government Agencies/Utilities
By Deb Murphy The unintended consequences of some Inyo County short-term rental ordinances came back to bite the Board of Supervisors at yesterday’s meeting. Now that the ordinances have been in place for more than a year, the Board and Planning Department will focus...
by News Staff | May 28, 2019 | General Misc. Stories
By Deb Murphy Mono and Inyo Counties was handed a reprieve by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission last Friday. The Commission’s Division of Hydropower Licensing found Premium Energy’s application for a closed loop system from reservoirs in the Owens Gorge to the...
by News Staff | May 28, 2019 | General Misc. Stories, Obituaries
Bettie Rose Humphrey of Bishop, California passed away on May 17, 2019. Bettie was born on October 18, 1949 on the family farm in Paris, Arkansas to John and Betty (Hampton) Schouweiler. She was third of five children. Bettie was preceded in death by her parents and...
by News Staff | May 24, 2019 | General Misc. Stories
USFS news release The State of the Inyo Roads Open: Bodie Road **(SR270), June Lake Loop **N & S (SR158), Hwy 120 E **(Mono Mills Road), Lundy Canyon Road (to the resort). Roads Closed: Sonora Pass (SR108), Monitor Pass (SR89), Ebbetts Pass (SR4 ), Lundy Canyon...
by News Staff | May 23, 2019 | General Misc. Stories
By Deb Murphy You’ve got to give Premium Energy, LLC credit for trying. In the Walnut company’s second amendment to its application for a permit to study the feasibility of a closed-loop hydro power project in the Eastern Sierra, Premium now has abandoned three...
by News Staff | May 22, 2019 | General Misc. Stories, Obituaries
Rodger Guffey, born 5/18/1943, passed away unexpectedly on 5/17/2019. He was born in Kansas City, Kansas and played football and studied architecture at Kansas University. Thanks to the Beach Boys, he moved west to Manhattan Beach where he worked as a toy designer for...
