by News Staff | Jul 10, 2014 | Government Agencies/Utilities
– MCWD press release Mammoth Lakes, CA – Mammoth Community Water District (MCWD) today released a letter from United States Senator Dianne Feinstein detailing the Senator’s inquiry about the proposed Casa Diablo IV Geothermal Project (Casa Diablo IV). The...
by News Staff | Jul 9, 2014 | Entertainment/Local Events/Activities, General Misc. Stories
Last week, a baby bald eagle was found in Mono County. Sierra Wave Media received information and photographs from Mike Aguirre: On Thursday, July 3rd, Mike Aguirre with the help of Kevin Calder and BZ Miller, created a makeshift platform in a suitable tree about 100...
by News Staff | Jul 9, 2014 | Government Agencies/Utilities
Inyo and Los Angeles officials will sit down to talk common issues Thursday at 1pm in the Supervisors Board Room. The first agenda item says it is an action item which means approval of documentation of actions from the April 29th meeting. Second item is an update of...
by News Staff | Jul 9, 2014 | Government Agencies/Utilities
RE: BISHOP CREEK BACTERIOLOGICAL MONITORING STUDY The Inyo County Board of Supervisors convened a workshop on Tuesday, July 1, 2014, to address the results of a fecal coliform bacteriological monitoring study of Bishop Creek conducted by the Lahontan Regional...
by News Staff | Jul 9, 2014 | Government Agencies/Utilities
Kammi Foote, Inyo County Clerk, Reminds voters that there are several Board Member positions up for election on November 4, 2014 in the following districts: BIG PINE UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT BISHOP UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT DEATH VALLEY UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT...
by News Staff | Jul 9, 2014 | Government Agencies/Utilities
Metabolic Studio Presents Twilight Zone episode filmed in Olancha in 1961 as Radio Play On July 13, the Metabolic Studio IOU Theatre invites the public to experience, “A HUNDRED YARDS OVER THE RIM,” a LIVE radio play that originally aired as a Twilight Zone TV...
by News Staff | Jul 9, 2014 | Government Agencies/Utilities
Farmers Market in Independence Friday! The next Southern Inyo Certified Farmers Market will take place on Friday July 8 at the Owens Valley Growers Cooperative in Independence between 4 and 7 pm, on the corner of Edwards St. (Route 395) and Kearsarge. This...
by News Staff | Jul 8, 2014 | Government Agencies/Utilities
A year ago, a man driving through Mono County on a vacation was stopped by Sheriff’s Deputies. The Court found there was no probable cause to stop Youssef Boulaalam in the first place. A weapons case against him was dismissed. At the first of the year, attorneys...
by News Staff | Jul 8, 2014 | General Misc. Stories, Government Agencies/Utilities, Law Enforcement
– Inyo County Sheriff’s Office press release Monday afternoon, July 7th, the Inyo County Sheriff’s Office responded to the 300-block of South Pa Ha Lane in Bishop to contact Raymond Denver, a 42-year old man, who was wanted for kidnapping, vandalism...
by News Staff | Jul 8, 2014 | General Misc. Stories, Government Agencies/Utilities, Law Enforcement
– CHP press release On Sunday, July, 6, 2014, at approximately 8:03 P.M., a California Highway Patrol (CHP) officer assigned to the CHP Mammoth Lakes Resident Post paired with a CHP sergeant, observed a red sport motorcycle traveling southbound on US-395 at...
by News Staff | Jul 6, 2014 | Government Agencies/Utilities
While there has been no help for water in the Bishop Creek drainage, questions also remain about leases for Department of Water and Power ranchers. In late March, Inyo Water Director Bob Harrington wrote a letter to Department of Water and Power Manager Jim Yannotta...
by News Staff | Jul 6, 2014 | Government Agencies/Utilities
Several weeks ago a reported “bus accident” caused a multi-agency emergency response to the Agnew Meadow area above Mammoth Lakes. Arriving emergency service responders quickly determined it was not an “emergency,” just a bus that had run off onto the roadway...