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...
by News Staff | May 22, 2019 | General Misc. Stories
Mono County Sheriff’s office news release On the evening of Saturday, May 18, at 7:25 pm, the Mono County Sheriff’s Office received a 911 call for assistance needed for an injured skier in the Sierra near Bridgeport. A 29-year-old man from San Francisco had...
by News Staff | May 22, 2019 | Entertainment/Local Events/Activities, General Misc. Stories
By Deb Murphy Bishop Union High’s Broncos romped past the Foothill Trojans from Bakersfield Tuesday afternoon at home in the CIF Division 6 Central Section championship game with a 25-2 win, the team’s first championship since 1969. The game was scheduled for Saturday...
by News Staff | May 21, 2019 | Obituaries
Ron I. Barr: 1953-2019 Born February 19, 1953 to the late Ron Barr and Anita I. Barr and Grandmother Rose Williams of Fort Bidwell. Ron passed away on May 12, 2019 in Reno, NV at the Renown Hospital at the age of 66. He lived his entire life in Bishop as a son of the...
