Mono SAR helps hiker

Search and Rescue Team Operation: Aid to an injured hiker on the Rush Creek Trail On the afternoon of Monday, May 12, 2014, at approximately 2:45 pm, Mono County Sheriff’s Dispatch received a call regarding a hiker with an ankle injury on the Rush Creek Trail. A...

Update on fetus investigation

  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Update on Investigation into Fetus Discovery There has been a huge community effort to assist the Sheriff’s Office in information regarding the fetus that was discovered in the Rovana housing track sewer ponds.  The Sheriff’s Office was...

Car smashes through Radio Shack

Monday afternoon just after 4pm, a car plowed through the front of the Sound Shoppe Radio Shack in the shopping center off North Sierra Highway in Bishop. According to law enforcement, an elderly woman mistook the gas pedal for the brake and lurched forward into the...

Birding by ear

Birding by Ear Field Workshops (press release) Sponsored by: Friends of Mono Lake Reserve & Mono Lake Tufa State Natural Reserve How many times have you heard a bird sing and wondered what kind it was? Wouldn’t it be fun and satisfying to be able to identify birds...

Firewood season update

  Firewood Season  (press release) BISHOP, Calif., May 9, 2014 – The Inyo National Forest announces the opening of personal use fuelwood season starting Thursday, May 1, 2014. Fuelwood permits go on sale at Ranger Stations and Visitor Centers beginning Monday,...

Luman case in closed session

According to an order issued by Mono Superior Court Judge Stan Eller, Mono County has to put Dick Luman back to work on May 19th, thirty days from the decision. When the Supervisors meet Tuesday, their lawyers will meet in closed session with them on the Luman case....