by News Staff | Dec 10, 2017 | Fire, General Misc. Stories, Government Agencies/Utilities, Law Enforcement
PRESS RELEASES SEASONAL PASS UPDATE BISHOP — California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) is assessing the status of each of the Inyo/Mono seasonal passes for closing, winter closing, open or reopening. The passes have snow, rocks and debris removal work and...
by News Staff | Dec 8, 2017 | General Misc. Stories, Government Agencies/Utilities
Press release from Kammi Foote I would like to announce that I, Kammi Foote, will be running for re-election to the office of Inyo County Clerk/Recorder and Registrar of Voters during the June 5, 2018 primary election. The past seven years I have had the privilege of...
by News Staff | Dec 7, 2017 | General Misc. Stories, Law Enforcement
Press release From Mono County Sheriff Ingrid Braun Undersheriff Michael Moriarty announced that he will be retiring from the Mono County Sheriff’s Office effective December 22, 2017. Undersheriff Moriarty will conclude a law enforcement career that has spanned over...
by News Staff | Dec 7, 2017 | General Misc. Stories
By Deb Murphy The Inyo County Board of Supervisors has filed a temporary restraining order, stopping the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power from flipping the on-switch to Well 385R’s pump test. In addition, the Board has initiated litigation against the...
by News Staff | Dec 7, 2017 | Entertainment/Local Events/Activities, General Misc. Stories
December 9 ~ ICARE Shopping Day @ Spellbinder Books, 124 S. Main, Bishop Spellbinder Books and ICARE invite you to the 18th Annual ICARE Shopping Day on Saturday, December 9th. Just purchase a $5 ICARE Donation Ticket at the store from 10 am to 5 pm and receive 20%...
by News Staff | Dec 6, 2017 | General Misc. Stories, Government Agencies/Utilities
By Deb Murphy After four hours of discussion, three things stood out as the Inyo Board of Supervisors thrashed through the latest iteration of the county’s commercial cannabis ordinance. According to the consultant from Hinderliter de Llamas and Associates, the...
by News Staff | Dec 6, 2017 | Entertainment/Local Events/Activities, General Misc. Stories
Mammoth Lakes: California’s Winter Olympics Launching Pad Snowboard and Freeski Olympic Teams to be Named at Mammoth Mountain (PRESS RELEASE) Mammoth Lakes, Calif. Spend any amount of time in Mammoth Lakes and the chances are you’ll bump into an Olympian. From the...
by News Staff | Dec 5, 2017 | Entertainment/Local Events/Activities, General Misc. Stories, Government Agencies/Utilities
By Deb Murphy These are interesting times. Sunday afternoon, Marge Doyle, a candidate for the District 8 seat in Congress, drew a standing room only crowd in the Bishop City Council’s chambers. Doyle is from Joshua Tree, an RN who came up through the ranks to take an...
by News Staff | Dec 4, 2017 | General Misc. Stories, Government Agencies/Utilities
News release City of Bishop Department of Public Works staff is installing new parking control signs in downtown Bishop. The new signs are being installed to implement the update of parking in downtown that was finalized last summer. The update also includes parking...
by News Staff | Dec 1, 2017 | Obituaries
Elsie Jean Clair was born December 22, 1935 and passed away November 25, 2017. She was 82 years old. Better known as Jean or Jeanne Clair and was the eldest of four children. She was preceded in death by her loving husband of 57 years, Miles Clair, and by her parents...
by News Staff | Dec 1, 2017 | Government Agencies/Utilities
Inyo County news release The Inyo County Board of Supervisors will be holding a workshop at its December 5 meeting to review updated versions of draft proposed ordinances regulating commercial cannabis activity. The workshop is scheduled to begin at 11 a.m. in the...
by News Staff | Dec 1, 2017 | General Misc. Stories
By Deb Murphy Monday’s Bishop City Council workshop was to focus on a proposed property value protection ordinance, but the civilians who addressed the council came up with other ways to solve the issue of far too many vacant store fronts in the downtown core. City...
