by News Staff | Jun 18, 2018 | Entertainment/Local Events/Activities, General Misc. Stories
Press release The 4th Annual Mammoth Lakes Film Festival (MLFF) announced this year’s juried and audience award winners at the Closing Night Award Ceremony at the Sierra Event Center in Mammoth Lakes on Sunday, May 27, 2018. The festival, held from May 23-27, screened...
by News Staff | Jun 18, 2018 | Entertainment/Local Events/Activities, General Misc. Stories
Press release The Mammoth Community Water District (MCWD) offered a tour of their facilities to Mammoth Middle School 6thgrade students and the public last month. MCWD provided the tour as a way for customers to get a better understanding of what the District does to...
by News Staff | Jun 18, 2018 | Entertainment/Local Events/Activities, General Misc. Stories, Government Agencies/Utilities
Press release Members of the Bishop Amateur Radio Club will be participating in the national Amateur Radio Field Day exercise,June 23 – 24 at Diaz Lake, just south of Lone Pine. Since 1933, ham radio operators across North America have established temporary ham radio...
by News Staff | Jun 18, 2018 | Entertainment/Local Events/Activities, General Misc. Stories
Mammoth Lakes Chamber of Commerce press release We’re just over two weeks away from the Chamber’s annual 4th of July Parade on Old Mammoth Road and Main Street. Float applications are due Friday. Save your spot to show off your business, organization or...
by News Staff | Jun 18, 2018 | Government Agencies/Utilities
Press release 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 $500,000 to conduct mechanical and hand thinning,...
by News Staff | Jun 18, 2018 | Government Agencies/Utilities
Letter submitted by: Daniel Pritchett Bishop Mike Prather’s June 11, 2018, letter to Sierra Wave regarding DWP’s latest outrage invites comment. Here are two. Mike Prather posed the question, “Why would Los Angeles do this?” i.e. dry up 6000 irrigated acres in Mono...
by News Staff | Jun 18, 2018 | General Misc. Stories, Government Agencies/Utilities
By Deb Murphy Inyo County Water Department and the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power have reached an agreement on the pumping test of Well 385 in the Five Bridges area. Tuesday, the Board of Supervisors will approve, or not, that agreement. The agreement...
by News Staff | Jun 18, 2018 | General Misc. Stories, Government Agencies/Utilities
Mono County press release Key points • Hantavirus is an uncommon but deadly disease in the Eastern Sierra. • The Sierra region of California is a hantavirus hotspot. • Carried by deer mice, people can catch it from exposure to mouse waste. • Most people who get...
by News Staff | Jun 15, 2018 | General Misc. Stories, Law Enforcement
Mono County Sheriff’ Office news release On Friday, June 15, 2018, at 9:08 am, Mono County Dispatch received a 9-1-1 call reporting a shooting at the second gun range east of the geothermal plant. A 53-year old man and his 15-year old son, both from Orange...
by News Staff | Jun 15, 2018 | Government Agencies/Utilities
Attorney General Becerra Awards Mammoth Lakes Police Department, Mammoth Lakes $451,581 to Combat Illegal Tobacco Use Among Minors (Press release) Mammoth Lakes, CA – Mammoth Lakes Police Department, Mammoth Lakes, CA was awarded $451,581 in state grant funding from...
by News Staff | Jun 15, 2018 | Entertainment/Local Events/Activities, General Misc. Stories
Press release The State of the Inyo Mono Lake Ranger District Roads open: Monitor Pass (Hwy 89), Sonora Pass (Hwy 108), Tioga Pass (Hwy 120 w), Saddlebag Lake Rd., Hwy 120 E (Benton), Bodie (Hwy 270) Lundy Canyon June Lake Loop, Parker Lake Rd. Campgrounds open: Lundy...
by News Staff | Jun 15, 2018 | General Misc. Stories, Government Agencies/Utilities
By Deb Murphy With an improved lease and Grocery Outlet footing some of the infrastructure costs at the Wye Road and Route 6 site, Inyo’s north county consolidated office building got a five thumbs up from the Board of Supervisors Tuesday. Those thumbs don’t...
