by News Staff | Aug 2, 2018 | General Misc. Stories, Government Agencies/Utilities
By Deb Murphy Candidate for the 26th Assembly District Jose Sigala acknowledged Inyo County voters helped put him on the November ballot. He spent this past weekend meeting with local residents from Lone Pine to Bishop. Currently a member of the Tulare City Council,...
by News Staff | May 1, 2018 | Entertainment/Local Events/Activities, General Misc. Stories
Press release In 1928, times were changing quickly in the Owens Valley. Many farmers and ranchers had sold their land and water to the city of Los Angeles. Several businesses had closed, and people were leaving the Owens Valley in droves. A concerned group of pioneer...
by News Staff | Apr 5, 2018 | Entertainment/Local Events/Activities, General Misc. Stories, Government Agencies/Utilities
Press release Joan DeDecker Busby and Carol DeDecker Wiens will sign copies of their recently released book, “Sage & Sierra, A Memoir: Growing Up In Owens Valley,” at the Eastern California Museum, 155 N. Grant Street, in Independence from 1-3 p.m. on Saturday,...
by News Staff | Jan 3, 2018 | General Misc. Stories
DWP Press release OWENS VALLEY, CA— Los Angeles Department of Water and Power water managers have elected to call off testing of well W385R due to the alarming lack of snowpack and possibility that the eastern Sierra may be slipping back into drought conditions. ...
by News Staff | Oct 25, 2017 | Obituaries
Diane Dempsey Weston passed away unexpectedly in Big Pine on October 3, 2017. She was born on November 2, 1957 to Jack McMillan and Barbara Dempsey McMillan who was the daughter of heavy weight world champion boxer Jack Dempsey. Diane was raised with her brother John...