by News Staff | Jan 8, 2018 | General Misc. Stories, Government Agencies/Utilities
Inyo County news release The Inyo County Board of Supervisors is scheduled on Tuesday, January 9 to consider beginning the process to formally adopt three ordinances regulating commercial cannabis activity in Inyo County. Deliberations begin with a public hearing at...
by News Staff | Jan 8, 2018 | General Misc. Stories
By Deb Murphy Eleven years ago, then Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa turned the knob at a diversion dam below Lake Tinnemaha sending water down the 62-mile stretch of the Owens River to the dry lake. In an interview with the LA Times Louis Sahagun, Villaraigosa...
by News Staff | Jan 5, 2018 | Obituaries
Eleanor C. Harris, 86, of Bishop, California passed away on December 30th 2017. Eleanor was born to Sherman and Zula Cale on June 10, 1931 in Greenbriar County, West Virginia. On February 22, 1949 Eleanor married Fred Amick Harris in Cattlesburge Kentucky....
by News Staff | Jan 5, 2018 | General Misc. Stories, Law Enforcement
News release from Mono County Sheriff Ingrid Braun At 12:15 pm on Monday, January 1, 2018, the Mono County Sheriff’s Office Search and Rescue (SAR) Team was called out for rescue of an injured ice climber. A 64-year old Mono County man fell about 40 feet while...
by News Staff | Jan 5, 2018 | Entertainment/Local Events/Activities, General Misc. Stories
Press release Bishop, CA – December 29, 2017 – In celebration of Sierra Lifeflight retiring its fleet of Piper Cheyenne aircraft, they will host an open house and farewell flyaway at their hangar located at 770 Airport Road in Bishop, on Saturday, January 13, from 1...
by News Staff | Jan 5, 2018 | General Misc. Stories, Government Agencies/Utilities
Statement from Jeff Hollowell After 30 years with the Inyo County Sheriff’s Office, I am happy to announce that I intend to seek the office of Sheriff. I started for the Sheriff’s Office in 1987 and have moved through the ranks to my current position of Undersheriff....
by News Staff | Jan 3, 2018 | General Misc. Stories, Law Enforcement
Bishop Police Department News Release Last March, BPD was contacted by a local resident who accused a former Bishop resident, Leandra Wright, of embezzlement. The investigation revealed unauthorized use of funds on a number of different accounts, which Wright managed,...
by News Staff | Jan 3, 2018 | General Misc. Stories, Government Agencies/Utilities
By Deb Murphy Inyo’s Board of Supervisors incorporated one Planning Commission recommendation into the County’s cannabis ordinance—keeping with the timeline to get the regs on the books by early February. That change would allow non-volatile manufacturing in...
by News Staff | Jan 3, 2018 | Fire, General Misc. Stories, Government Agencies/Utilities
Press release In a joint statement issued by City Administrator Jim Tatum and Rural Fire Commission Chairman Mike Holland, they said “we are pleased to announce that Pat O’Neil has accepted the appointment as Acting Fire Chief to lead our great fire department pending...
by News Staff | Jan 3, 2018 | General Misc. Stories, Government Agencies/Utilities, Law Enforcement
Inyo County DA News Release On December 22, 2017, Bishop resident Karl Chang was sentenced to serve 364 days in the Inyo County Jail as a term and condition of four years of formal felony probation following his admission of two counts of sexual battery by fraud....
by News Staff | Jan 3, 2018 | General Misc. Stories
DWP Press release OWENS VALLEY, CA— Los Angeles Department of Water and Power water managers have elected to call off testing of well W385R due to the alarming lack of snowpack and possibility that the eastern Sierra may be slipping back into drought conditions. ...
by News Staff | Jan 3, 2018 | Government Agencies/Utilities, Obituaries
Lance Herrera-Dempsey passed away unexpectedly on December 23, 2017. He was born and raised in Bishop, CA. Graduated high school class of 1984 at Bishop Union High. After high school, Lance attended college in San Diego. He enlisted in the Army in 1986, serving his...
