by News Staff | Mar 25, 2019 | Entertainment/Local Events/Activities, General Misc. Stories
Press release The 51st annual Blake Jones Trout Derby is “in the books” and by all accounts, it was a great day. Nearly 700 anglers of all ages fished Pleasant Valley Reservoir and the Owens River near Bishop on March 16th vying for their share of more than $10,000 in...
by News Staff | Mar 22, 2019 | General Misc. Stories
By Deb Murphy Roger Bloom, the state Department of Fish and Wildlife’s environmental program manager, explained the fishing season’s start dates were set for holiday weekends so folks would remember them. A gruff voice from the large crowd at Wednesday’s workshop at...
by News Staff | Mar 21, 2019 | General Misc. Stories
Press release Mammoth Lakes, CA – Mammoth Lakes Repertory Theatre’s Artistic Director Shira Dubrovner announced a unique partnership with Lia Webb of Adventure Hub to co-produce a series of extraordinary presentations titled Mountain Culture Month throughout the...
by News Staff | Mar 21, 2019 | General Misc. Stories
LADWP press release LOS ANGELES – The months of January and February brought enough snow and rain to boost the Eastern Sierra snowpack and rainfall in Los Angeles to well above average numbers. In Downtown Los Angeles alone, 18.5 inches of rain have fallen since the...
by News Staff | Mar 20, 2019 | General Misc. Stories
Mono County Sheriff’s Department news release On March 19, 2019, at approximately 3:50 p.m., Mono County Sheriff’s Office received a 9-1-1 call reporting that a person was seen falling from the cliffs above Twin Lakes, across from Tamarack Lodge and north of...
by News Staff | Mar 20, 2019 | General Misc. Stories
By Deb Murphy Back in the day, if someone had told me I’d be watching four guys in suits discuss the addition of cannabis oil to brownie dough, I’d have said they were nuts. But that was part of the Supervisors’ discussion on the progress of Inyo County’s cannabis...
by News Staff | Mar 20, 2019 | Entertainment/Local Events/Activities, General Misc. Stories
Press release Mammoth Lakes, CA – It’s all recreation, all the time with the Mammoth Lakes Parks and Recreation Department. Mark your calendars for the annual Summer Recreation Expo on Tuesday, March 26 from 5:00-7:00pm at the Mammoth High School Gym. Discover a...
by News Staff | Mar 20, 2019 | General Misc. Stories
NIHD news release (First in a three-part series) Signs of spring are seemingly everywhere – budding daffodils, young animals at the school farm, longer days. Yet, with the arrival of spring comes a frequent nemesis most people have written off with cold and dark...
by News Staff | Mar 20, 2019 | Entertainment/Local Events/Activities, General Misc. Stories
Inyo National Forest press release Interview conducted by Deb Schweizer, who wrote, “Recently, I was asked by our Civil Rights Officer if I was aware of someone local who would make a good profile for Women’s History Month and I thought of Connie Millar. For...
by News Staff | Mar 20, 2019 | Entertainment/Local Events/Activities, General Misc. Stories
Press release Inyo County’s History Day Contest was held on March 14th, 2019. Ten posters, four websites, one research paper and eleven exhibits covering a variety of topics captured this year’s contest theme of Triumph and Tragedy. Students were judged on the...
by News Staff | Mar 20, 2019 | General Misc. Stories
By Deb Murphy After skipping its February meeting to figure out staffing, the Owens Valley Groundwater Authority had a chance to mull over its draft budget for this fiscal year. This budget takes into consideration some unknowns when the initial budget was developed...
by News Staff | Mar 19, 2019 | Fire, General Misc. Stories, Government Agencies/Utilities
News releases The Mammoth Lakes Fire Safe Council (MLFSC) has received approval from the Sierra Nevada Conservancy (SNC) on a grant application for the Lakes Basin Hazardous Fuels Reduction Project in the amount of $1,000,000 to conduct mechanical and hand thinning,...
