by News Staff | Mar 5, 2019 | General Misc. Stories, Obituaries
Elvira T. Heit 1925-2019 Elvira “Ellie” Heit was born in 1925 in Cheefoo, China. Her father Theo Rosenthal was a brewer of Estonian descent and her mother Alma was a housewife of German descent. Her father died while she was quite young and at age eleven, she moved...
by News Staff | Mar 5, 2019 | Entertainment/Local Events/Activities, General Misc. Stories
Press releases Mammoth Lakes, CA – Artistic Director Shira Dubrovner announced that MLRT and Mountain Culture Month are hosting Todd Offenbacher on Wednesday March 6th at Edison Theatre. An adventurer, TV host, and mountain guide hailing fromTahoe, Todd...
by News Staff | Mar 5, 2019 | Entertainment/Local Events/Activities, General Misc. Stories
Press release TODAY! Tuesday, March 5 at 7pm PST KPIX 5 CBS San Francisco news has scheduled a broadcast from Wounded Warrior Operation Mountain Freedom, February 2019. If you are in the San Francisco area tune in on your television. You may also go to the KPIX 5 CBS...
by News Staff | Feb 28, 2019 | General Misc. Stories
By Deb Murphy One thing nobody every taught us in Civics classes was how long and how entangled with red tape government projects actually are. Take for example, the City of Bishop’s Seibu to School Bike Path, included in Inyo County’s Collaborative Bikeways Plan in...
by News Staff | Feb 28, 2019 | General Misc. Stories
Mary Elizabeth Allard peacefully entered her heavenly home during her afternoon nap on February 20, 2019. Eleven days before, she celebrated her 95th birthday with all her children, grandchildren and great grandchildren, the loves of her life. Mary was born at home on...
by News Staff | Feb 28, 2019 | General Misc. Stories
911: What Is Your Emergency? Inyo County news release You hear these words, state the problem, and wait for help to arrive. When calling to report a crime, you know that the person responding will typically be wearing the uniform of a Deputy Sheriff or a Police...
by News Staff | Feb 28, 2019 | Entertainment/Local Events/Activities, General Misc. Stories, Government Agencies/Utilities
By Deb Murphy A group of Owens Valley residents may be heading to Washington, D.C. within the next 10 days to witness the, at one time, unbelievable: the Presidential signature on legislation that includes the official designation of Alabama Hills as a National Scenic...
by News Staff | Feb 28, 2019 | General Misc. Stories
By Deb Murphy Tree huggers are alive and well in Independence, as evidenced by Tuesday’s Inyo County Board of Supervisors’ meeting. Residents came to the defense of a cedar tree within the County’s right-of-way on Market Street. The owner of the adjacent home had...
by News Staff | Feb 28, 2019 | General Misc. Stories, Law Enforcement
From Inyo County Sheriff Inyo County Business Owners – be on the look-out for counterfeit bills! Counterfeit $20 bills and $10 bills have been reported in the Lone Pine area by two separate businesses. In the picture in the upper left-hand corner the word...
by News Staff | Feb 26, 2019 | General Misc. Stories
By Deb Murphy Mono County hasn’t won the war, but it did win the first battle in its lawsuit against the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power’s decision to withdraw water allotments to its Long Valley area grazing leases. Last Friday, the Alameda County civil...
by News Staff | Feb 26, 2019 | General Misc. Stories
NIHD news release Northern Inyo Hospital is among 31 health facilities selected from across the state to participate in the California Bridge Program, an accelerated training program for healthcare providers facilitated by the Public Health Institute’s Bridge program...
by News Staff | Feb 26, 2019 | General Misc. Stories, Government Agencies/Utilities
By Deb Murphy Inyo County took back management of the water systems for Independence, Laws and Lone Pine in January. The first official billing generated some serious backlash. Calls started coming in asking why some of those invoices were so high, far above the...
