by News Staff | Aug 25, 2016 | Entertainment/Local Events/Activities, General Misc. Stories, Government Agencies/Utilities
Submitted by Kammi Foote, Inyo County Registrar of Voters INDEPENDENCE, CA – Every year hundreds of thousands of people embark on extended hiking expeditions; consequently they are often in the wilderness during election season. Long distance hikers, called...
by News Staff | Jan 27, 2016 | General Misc. Stories, Government Agencies/Utilities
US Forest Service press release The Whitney Portal Road Reconstruction is planned for the 2016 season under a funding request from Inyo County. The road will be re-paved and needs significant repairs for safety. The project begins just west of Lone Pine and ends just...
by News Staff | Jul 23, 2013 | General Misc. Stories, Government Agencies/Utilities, Law Enforcement
– Press release from the Mono County Sheriff’s Office: On the evening of Saturday, July 20, 2013, Mono County Sheriff’s Dispatch received an emergency call from a SPOT satellite device warning of an ill and/or injured hiker on the John Muir Trail. The Mono...
by News Staff | Jul 31, 2012 | Government Agencies/Utilities
On Wednesday, July 25, the Mono County Sheriff Search and Rescue (SAR) Team responded in aid of a boy scout who had severe abdominal pain while hiking on the John Muir Trail, west of Duck Lake in Fresno County, near the Mono County/Fresno County border. The Fresno...
by News Staff | Aug 9, 2011 | Government Agencies/Utilities
The Mono County Sheriff Search and Rescue (SAR) Team responded on August 7, 2011, to a request for aid to hikers unable to cross Convict Creek. A father was hiking out of the back country with his two teenage children when they became stranded at the trail crossing...