by News Staff | Dec 14, 2016 | General Misc. Stories
By Deb Murphy Inyo County comes up with solution to LADWP lease issue …. and hopefully the message will reach the right eyes. The Inyo Board of Supervisors took a decidedly proactive step at Tuesday’s meeting, approving, with some additions, a letter to the Los...
by News Staff | Dec 7, 2016 | Obituaries
Richard Leroy Williams 1945-2016 Richard was born in Lee Vining, CA on August 22, 1945 and raised by his grandmother Vina Williams. In 1959, Alice and Art Dumas became his foster parents and moved him to Big Pine, CA where they finished raising him. He attended Big...
by News Staff | Dec 3, 2016 | General Misc. Stories
By Deb Murphy A week after the November 22 meeting between Los Angeles Department of Water and Power and Owens Valley business lease holders, feedback ranges from hopeful skepticism to skeptical hopefulness—an improvement over the frustration expressed at previous...
by News Staff | Nov 16, 2016 | General Misc. Stories, Government Agencies/Utilities
By Deb Murphy Inyo County’s Board of Supervisors landed some heavy punches during Los Angeles Department of Water and Power’s presentation on its revamped commercial lease policies. Tuesday was Aqueduct Manager Jim Yannotta’s second round. Monday’s presentation to...
by News Staff | Nov 15, 2016 | General Misc. Stories, Government Agencies/Utilities
By Deb Murphy For the last 100 or so years, an oversight on the part of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power has allowed commercial lessees to sell their businesses with the assurance the lease would be part of that sale. The department’s Aqueduct Manager Jim...