by News Staff | May 13, 2014 | Government Agencies/Utilities
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...
by News Staff | May 13, 2014 | Government Agencies/Utilities
PRESS RELEASE SOUTHERN MONO HISTORICAL SOCIETY HAYDEN CABIN/MAMMOTH MUSEUM From: Barbara Richter, Southern Mono Historical Society Secretary/Membership/Newsletter/Web & Facebook mistress [email protected](760) 934-4340 (h) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WHAT:...
by News Staff | May 13, 2014 | Government Agencies/Utilities
BIG PINE CIVIC CLUB helps “RAISE THE ROOF — a Cause for Paws” The Big Pine Civic Club recently helped raise $1,000 for the new Animal Shelter and Pet Adoption Center to be constructed in Big Pine. The club pledged $500 and asked the community to match that amount by...
by News Staff | May 13, 2014 | Government Agencies/Utilities
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...
by News Staff | May 13, 2014 | Government Agencies/Utilities
Inyo County Board of Supervisors PO BoxN Independence, CA 93526 Dear Supervisors: We have read the proposed settlement agreement for the Blackrock 94 Dispute Resolution case and are relieved that several of the worst portions in the draft released at the Board...
by News Staff | May 12, 2014 | Government Agencies/Utilities
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...
by News Staff | May 12, 2014 | Government Agencies/Utilities
In news of current court cases, a decision came in Monday on an effort to suppress evidence in the case of Dawndee Rossy, accused along with her husband Ken, of embezzlement of $1.5 million of Inyo County welfare funds. Rossy’s attorney Michael Berger had...
by News Staff | May 12, 2014 | Government Agencies/Utilities
One of the first phases of improvements to Mammoth’s Main Street is the proposed use of parking and snow management. As a follow-up to approval of the Main Street Plan, officials launched a study on snow management and parking. A report is now done in draft form...
by News Staff | May 12, 2014 | Government Agencies/Utilities
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...
by News Staff | May 12, 2014 | Government Agencies/Utilities
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,...
by News Staff | May 12, 2014 | Government Agencies/Utilities
Fetus Discovery (press release) On Friday May 9th, the Inyo County Sheriff’s Office was notified that a fetus was discovered in the Rovana housing track sewer ponds. According to the medical examiner, the fetus is a male and is believed to be between 12-18...
by News Staff | May 11, 2014 | Government Agencies/Utilities
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....