by News Staff | Jan 23, 2017 | General Misc. Stories, Government Agencies/Utilities, Letters to the Editor
By Daniel Pritchett Last July I wrote an op-ed arguing for LAxit: inspired by Brexit (the British referendum on membership in the European Union), LAxit would be a referendum on Los Angeles exiting the valley while phasing out its dependence on Eastern Sierra water,...
by News Staff | Jan 20, 2017 | General Misc. Stories, Government Agencies/Utilities
By Deb Murphy Inyo County’s five unhappy Supervisors voted to approve the new Bishop landfill lease that ups the cost, in the third year of a three-year lease, from $4,900 to more than $22,000 annually and positions the landowner, the Los Angeles Department of Water...
by News Staff | Dec 22, 2016 | Entertainment/Local Events/Activities, General Misc. Stories, Government Agencies/Utilities
By Deb Murphy If it’s December, it must be time for the annual report on the Lower Owens River Project. Representatives from the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, the Inyo County Water Department and interested parties gathered at the department’s office...
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...