by News Staff | Jul 14, 2017 | Entertainment/Local Events/Activities, General Misc. Stories
ICA press release INYO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA – The California Arts Council (CAC) has awarded Inyo Council for the Arts (ICA) a Local Impact grant to support ICA’s Community Art Days, taking place this summer across Inyo County. CAC’s Local Impact Program seeks to provide...
by News Staff | Jul 14, 2017 | General Misc. Stories, Government Agencies/Utilities
Lane Closure Report for the week of 7/17/17 – 7/21/17 Inyo, Mono & Eastern Kern Counties – The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) would like to alert the traveling public to be careful of workers on the Highway, to Slow for the Cone Zone and Move...
by News Staff | Jul 12, 2017 | General Misc. Stories, Government Agencies/Utilities
By Deb Murphy It all started with an Airstream parked on Whitney Portal Road in Lone Pine selling outdoor gear. It may have ended at Tuesday’s Inyo County Board of Supervisors’ meeting with a parking ordinance addressing specific issues in both Lone Pine and...
by News Staff | Jul 11, 2017 | General Misc. Stories, Law Enforcement
Bishop Police Department press release At approximately 7:45 PM Monday night, Dispatch received a call of shots fired coming from an apartment located on the 300 block of E. Line St. Local law enforcement officers responded and set a block-wide perimeter. Credible...
by News Staff | Jul 11, 2017 | General Misc. Stories, Government Agencies/Utilities
By Deb Murphy No surprise. Bishop’s City Council voted 3-2 to ban commercial cannabis operations within its city limits. Councilmembers Joe Pecsi, Laura Smith and Pat Gardner have been steady in their opposition having heard from their constituents that cannabis is...
by News Staff | Jul 11, 2017 | Entertainment/Local Events/Activities, General Misc. Stories
Press release Mammoth Lakes, Calif. – Mammoth Lakes Foundation’s premier fundraiser, Mammoth Food & Wine Experience, sponsored by Honda, returns for its seventh year with some exciting new features, July 12-15. New this year, Saturday’s Grand Tasting on July 15...
by News Staff | Jul 11, 2017 | Entertainment/Local Events/Activities, General Misc. Stories
Press release from Kathy Copeland WHAT’S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE??!! Absolutely nothing!! But she only has one leg!? YUP! And she can and does…do it all. This shot is of Jill Hodges, one of our SUPER volunteer ski instructors and me…from last...
by News Staff | Jul 11, 2017 | Entertainment/Local Events/Activities, General Misc. Stories, Government Agencies/Utilities
Samantha Riesen, a 2015 Bishop High School graduate, will continue her softball career at West Texas A&M University. Riesen spent the last two years at the College of Southern Idaho in Twin Falls, earning an associate of arts degree and pitching for the Golden...
by News Staff | Jul 11, 2017 | General Misc. Stories, Government Agencies/Utilities
By Deb Murphy Two years after Inyo County’s Water Department was awarded grant funding for the study of a recycled water project in Big Pine, area residents will get a chance to help figure out what to use the water for at a town forum at 5:30 p.m. this Wednesday at...
by News Staff | Jul 11, 2017 | General Misc. Stories, Government Agencies/Utilities
AFSCME press release Response to Inyo County’s Press Release about Inyo County Employees Association Negotiations Inyo County Employee’s Association, Local 315 of the American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees, has been bargaining for a contract with...
by News Staff | Jul 9, 2017 | Entertainment/Local Events/Activities, General Misc. Stories
Press release Several hundred people gathered on the grounds of the Eastern California Museum Monday, July 3, for the dedication of the Larry Peckham Memorial Engine House, the new permanent home of the fully restored Union Pacific Engine 18, The Slim Princess. The...
by News Staff | Jul 9, 2017 | Government Agencies/Utilities, Law Enforcement
Inyo County Sheriff’s Office press release On Thursday July 6th, 2017 the Inyo County Sheriff’s Office was notified by a group of Pacific Crest Trail hikers that a body was discovered approximately 300 feet off the Bishop Pass trail in a talus slope. The morning...
