by News Staff | May 9, 2019 | Entertainment/Local Events/Activities, General Misc. Stories
USFS news release Please be aware that deep snow snow and hazard trees are making it very difficult to open campgrounds on their typical season openings. The Onion Valley Road is open and the South Lake Road is open. The State of the Inyo, current as of 5/8/19...
by News Staff | May 8, 2019 | General Misc. Stories, Government Agencies/Utilities
By Deb Murphy Here are the positive take-aways from Monday’s Standing Committee meeting: Los Angeles’s Green New Deal outlines a pathway for the City to source 70-percent of its water locally by 2035; both members of the Committee, Los Angeles and Inyo County, are...
by News Staff | May 7, 2019 | General Misc. Stories, Government Agencies/Utilities
By Deb Murphy Mono County Board of Supervisors will get briefed today on the details and process of the Owens Valley Pumped Storage Project. Currently Premium Energy Holdings is in stage one toward a preliminary permit to explore the possibility of reservoirs on...
by News Staff | May 3, 2019 | General Misc. Stories
News release Mammoth Lakes, California – The Environmental Laboratory Accreditation Program (ELAP) oversees the accreditation of environmental testing laboratories, including drinking water and wastewater laboratories in the state of California. ELAP will be changing...
by News Staff | May 3, 2019 | Entertainment/Local Events/Activities, General Misc. Stories
Press release Author Jack Fisher at Mono Basin Historical Society Meeting On Monday, May 6, author Jack Fisher, will present “Stopping the Road: Encounters with Primary Sources,” at the Mono Basin Historical Society meeting. A potluck dinner and business...
by News Staff | May 1, 2019 | General Misc. Stories, Law Enforcement
Bishop Police Department news release BISHOP, CA. – Inyo County Sheriff’s Office Deputies were dispatched shortly after midnight Monday, April 29 to South Valley View, Bishop, CA, for a report of a gunshot victim with the suspect still on scene. Sheriff’s Deputies...
by News Staff | May 1, 2019 | Entertainment/Local Events/Activities, General Misc. Stories
Press release Mammoth Lakes, California – The Mammoth Lakes Film Festival (MLFF) is pleased to announce their feature film line-up, as well as the Opening Night film, for the fifth iteration of the festival, taking place May 22 through 26 at venues across Mammoth...
by News Staff | May 1, 2019 | General Misc. Stories, Government Agencies/Utilities
By Deb Murphy The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power released its operation plan, focusing on pumping volumes, April 20, kicking off a series of events that historically has ended with a volume at or near the proposed maximum. The water extractions will be used...
by News Staff | May 1, 2019 | Entertainment/Local Events/Activities, General Misc. Stories
Press release What would a presentation about the Bishop Theater be without a movie? And popcorn? In a word, “incomplete.” Both will be on hand when members of the Holland family come to the Eastern California Museum on Saturday, May 4 from 1 to 3p.m. to sign copies...
by News Staff | May 1, 2019 | Entertainment/Local Events/Activities, General Misc. Stories
Press release Look outside! Birds and butterflies are on the wing, early blooms are splashing the valley with vibrant colors and community members across the region are preparing their soon-to-be-flourishing gardens. Spring has finally arrived and the Eastern Sierra...
by News Staff | Apr 30, 2019 | General Misc. Stories, Obituaries
Patricia (Pattie) Carole Miller, loving wife, mother, stepmother, sister, and grandmother, passed away unexpectedly March 12, 2019, she was 65. Pattie was born on May 12, 1953 in Detroit, Michigan to John and Dorothy Ellis. Soon after she was born, John moved his...
by News Staff | Apr 30, 2019 | General Misc. Stories
By Deb Murphy Picture this: a pipeline from either the Owens River or the Lower Rock Creek gorge up to reservoirs on Wheeler Ridge with an adjoining slue from the ridge back down to reservoirs in the gorges. Is this a water slide gone mad or a hydroelectric project...
