Archive - Sep 2012
September 25th
Eastern Sierra residents and film fans from all over the world will be gathering in Southern Inyo next month as the real West meets the âreel Westâ for the 23rd annual Lone Pine Film Festival.
More than 2,000 visitors will be checking into local hotels and camp sites for the annual Columbus Day weekend event, Oct. 5-7.
For three days attendees will be meeting filmmakers, actors, stunt men and other fans, touring film locations, enjoying music and maybe even dressing up as some of their favorite stars or characters.
September 24th
A grim discovery Sunday in West Bishop has shocked and saddened a local community and launched an investigation by the Inyo County Sheriffâs Department.
According to Sheriffâs Public Information Officer Carma Roper, investigators are working to determine the cause of death for two young residents whose bodies were found by a neighbor about 12:30 p.m. Sunday in a home on Pa Ha Lane.
âThere were no obvious signs of trauma or foul play,â Roper said. âAn autopsy will take place to determine the cause of death.â
By
Marilyn Blake Philip/Register Correspondent
An East Coast transplant has replaced the long-time executive director for a local organization that provides services to residents from Coleville to Olancha and beyond.
Effective Sept. 5, Inyo Mono Advocates for Community Action, Inc. welcomed its new executive director Lynn Ann Bethel, said Administration Services Manager Jill Paydon for IMACA Human Resources.
By
Mike Gervais/Register Staff
California residents are beginning to receive state bills demanding each property owner pay $150 per habitable dwelling in fire fees.
Locally, fire safe councils, residents and local leaders are working with the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association to protest the fee, which they are calling an illegal double taxation.
The State Responsibility Area Fire Fee is intended to fund fire prevention education throughout the state, but, according to Bob Winzenread chairman of the Bishop Fire Safe Council, residents are already providing fire prevention funds through property tax payments.
By
Deb Murphy/Sports Editor
The efforts of the Big Pine Fire Safe Council are starting to pay visible dividends. Brush has been cleared close to residential areas and the Council has set Saturday, Oct. 13 as a Big Pine community clean-up day.
September 20th
Lill-sie M. Knower
1936-2012
Whether the contents of suspicious packages detonated by authorities late last week were intended as a practical joke, were the work of a mentally troubled individual or represent something far more sinister is now the work of investigators with the Inyo County Sheriffâs Department.
By
Mike Gervais/Register Staff
Break out the tie-dye and the sun hats because the Millpond Music Festival is coming to Bishop this weekend.
By
Mike Gervais/Register Staff
After almost a decade of litigation and then Recession-related setbacks, a controversial housing development in Southern Inyo may finally be moving forward.
Lone Pineâs 27-lot housing development known as the Portal Preserve on Whitney Portal Road will officially open at 4 p.m. Sunday.
The project started in 2003 but was delayed by a prolonged, seven-year lawsuit until 2010, when the U.S. was at the height of one of the worst recessions on record.
By
Marilyn Blake Philip/Register Correspondent
The Fort Independence Paiute Tribe invites everyone to enjoy feasting and fun, contests and celebration and, of course, drumming and dancing in its long-awaited, resurrected pow wow.
The Bishop Lady Broncos softball team fell, 3-13, to the Shadow Hills Knights Thursday afternoon in...
The sixth annual Bomb-Fest Slow Pitch Softball Tournament played out last weekend at Millpond with...
That the Bishop Broncos baseball team beat the Desert Scorpions Friday afternoon at Edwards Air...
