Stanley Allen Matlick, a man who continued his family’s fight for water in the Eastern Sierra, has died. Mr. Matlick passed away Thursday, May 16 at Renown Regional Medical Center in Reno after a brief illness; he lived 81 wonderful years, said his daughter, Margaret. A funeral service is set for Thursday, May 30th, at First […]
– MULE DAYS PRESS RELEASE Letter to all parents of school children 2013 Bishop Mule Days will be here soon! This year there will be some new and exciting special activities for our local children and these activities are free! In fact, there is no entry fee associated with Mule Days, except to see the […]
Jerrod Niemann: Free The Music – ( from publicists and The Mule Days Committee) While writing and recording his new album, Jerrod Niemann immersed himself in the history of country music. A student of music theory and production—he majored in Performance Art Technology at South Plains College in Levelland, Texas—Jerrod pondered a question that is […]
“From city halls to county courthouses, from the State house to the White House – bureaucrats control our lives. Public servants who often try to become our masters. People whose salaries we pay, but what goods and services do we get? On Sierra Wave’s Bureaucrat Beat, we’ll report what they’re up to.” That’s the Bureaucrat […]
From Mule Days website, www.muledays.org – Every Memorial Day weekend since 1969, the town of Bishop, nestled on the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada mountains, comes alive with the annual presentation of Mule Days. The outfitters and packers of the region wanted an event to start off the packing season and the businessmen wanted […]
Get ready for Mule Days 2012. Tickets go on sale Wednesday, February 1st. Headlining the 2012 Bishop Mule Days concert is veteran country music star … Terri Clark. Her latest work Roots and Wings, includes the radio hits, “I Just Wanna Be Mad”, “You’re Easy on the Eyes”, “Poor, Poor Pitiful Me” and “Girls Lie, […]
From mules to frozen-T-shirt contests and the traveling Vietnam Veteran Wall, the Eastern Sierra has the holiday covered. First mules. Bishop’s 42nd Mule Days event features mule shows, concerts, an art show and all kinds of music. The Mule Days Parade happens Saturday morning at 10am. The 20-mule team rides as the grand marshall this […]
UC Davis Veterinary Medicine Department now says that they have obtained more information and have concluded that the EHV-l horse virus outbreak is centered only around horses that were present at a Utah horse event in late April or an event in Bakersfield May 13th. The veterinary school recommends biosecurity measures for horse shows or […]
When Bob Tanner and others started Mule Days 42 years ago, it was 1969, the year of the huge snow, and they needed an to sustain Bishop. Mule Days grew to a major money-maker for the area only to find itself faced with panicky news this year about a deadly horse virus. Tanner called the […]
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