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October 25th, 2011
By
Mike Bodine/Register Staff
City officials have spent the past few months gathering public comments on Bishop’s Mobility Element, planned to be the transportation chapter of the city’s General Plan by February 2012. These elements help guide the city and its leaders in prioritizing, and eventually completing, projects that are in the best interest of the citizenry.
The city is, again, opening the door for comments on another draft of the element in November and January. This will be the new and final draft of the transportation chapter.
October 21st
Shots rang out in Chalfant Valley early Thursday morning and law enforcement raced to the scene, but those shots weren’t being fired from a gun as originally feared.
Kenneth Wayne Riggins, 37, was taken into custody after Mono County sheriff’s deputies – responding to a report of possible shots fired – allegedly found him placing live ammunition into a fire in a burn barrel.
According to a Sheriff’s Department press release, the call came in at approximately 6:50 a.m. on Thursday, reporting possible gun shots fired on Valley Road in Chalfant.
By
Mike Gervais/Register Staff
Representatives from the Alabama Hills Stewardship Committee and Senator Dianne Feinstein’s office met Monday to discuss the future of Lone Pine’s beloved hills.
Feinstein Field Representative Chris Carrillo, who is taking over responsibilities on the Alabama Hills National Scenic Area designation, spent about three hours discussing the project with Stewardship Group representatives Chris Langley, Doug Thompson and Kevin Mazzu to get up to speed on the project.
By
Mike Gervais/Register Staff
The summer recreation season not only allowed residents and visitors the opportunity to get out and enjoy the outdoors, but also to become newly acquainted with a number of road closures on U.S. Forest Service land.
Crews with the Forest Service have been active the past few months working to implement the Travel Management Plan, which incorporates or excludes about 2,000 miles of non-system roads into or from the route system.
October 20th
By
Mike Gervais/Register Staff
CalFire has a new leader overseeing operations in the Owens Valley.
Division Chief Bart Chambers, who took his post in May, is now overseeing more than 200 inmate firefighters in the Owens Valley and Fenner Conservation camps and dozens of state firefighters, ensuring they are well trained and prepared to respond to local, state and national disasters.
As division chief, Chambers works with two battalion chiefs for the area, which stretches from the Eastern Sierra to San Bernardino.
By
Mike Gervais/Register Staff
Inyo County and the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power are having a hard time agreeing on protocol when it comes to the LADWP’s annual operations report.
During Monday’s Inyo County-Los Angeles Standing Committee meeting, the two entities discussed whether section IV.8 of the Long-Term Water Agreement and Section I.C of the Green Book apply when the county contests the LADWP operations plan, as it did this year.
Inyo County Water Director Bob Harrington says no, those sections do not apply, while the LADWP claims they do.
By
Mike Gervais/Register Staff
Local educators are offering parents the incentive of free technology to get involved in their child’s academic career.
According to Superintendent Terry McAteer, his office is introducing a new program that provides incentives for Latino families designed to get parents more active with academics and reward those who do with computers or other items that can be used as a family resource.
In the process of improving parental involvement, McAteer also hopes to bridge a growing technology gap and open lines of communication with an at-risk segment of the community.
October 18th
By
Mike Gervais/Register Staff
In an effort to promote tourism and community events, the Inyo County Board of Supervisors approved the distribution of $115,000 in grants last week to local organizations.
The county’s Grants-in-Support Program aims to promote social, cultural, recreational and performing arts organizations as well as area service agencies that contribute to the local quality of life.
Historically, the GIS program has provided financial support to the California Indian Legal Services, Child Care Connection, the Inyo Council for the Arts, Wild Iris, Laws Railroad Museum and Ombudsman.
By
Mike Gervais/Register Staff
Community members are eager to hear what the U.S. Senate has to say on a local effort to obtain a federal designation for the popular Alabama Hills.
Representatives from the Alabama Hills Stewardship Group met with a new staff member of Senator Dianne Feinstein’s office yesterday to acquaint themselves with the new pointman and keep the lines of communication of open.
October 17th
By
Mike Bodine/Register Staff
From food banks to housing assistance to weatherizing homes for energy-efficiency to help with paying the bills for low-income residents, the Inyo Mono Advocates for Community Action, Inc. helps whomever they can, however they can.
IMACA also provides residents in need with holiday food baskets and runs the popular Wish Tree program at Christmas that provides local low income kids with gifts to open on Dec. 25.
