by News Staff | May 17, 2013 | Entertainment/Local Events/Activities, General Misc. Stories
Bodie was just hitting its stride in 1880 as a wild and lawless mining camp that was trying to become a little more of a civilized town. That tumultuous year and the famed gold mining town is the setting for “No Trees for Shade: Bodie, California, 1880.” The tale of...
by News Staff | Feb 27, 2013 | Government Agencies/Utilities
UPDATE: (News release from Cal Fire. ) The River Fire in the Owens Valley had burned 407 acres and was 85 percent contained as of midday Wednesday. Cal Fire Public Information officer Bill Peters said it has been determined the fire was human caused, and the...
by News Staff | Feb 24, 2013 | Government Agencies/Utilities
Sunday morning, fire broke out somewhere near the Lone Pine dump and spread north and south, whipped by extremely high winds. Lone Pine Fire Chief Leroy Kritz said that eight agencies responded. At 6pm Sunday, the fire had calmed way down and crews were being...
by News Staff | Nov 26, 2012 | Government Agencies/Utilities
At 3:30 Monday morning, fire broke out in a home on Mt. Whitney Drive in Lone Pine. Within minutes across town, a resident of that home working the graveyard shift collapsed and died at Southern Inyo Hospital. This tragic story started with the house fire and...
by News Staff | Nov 9, 2012 | Government Agencies/Utilities
This afternoon (Friday) at about 1pm, three vehicles collided south of Lone Pine in an area called Lone Willow Dip by the Owens Dry Lake. The California Highway Patrol had some information. Officer Dennis Cleland said that a limousine and two pick-up trucks were...
