by News Staff | Feb 15, 2017 | General Misc. Stories, Government Agencies/Utilities
By Deb Murphy One thing was clear after the public comment period at the Planning Department’s presentation on upcoming community outreach meetings on marijuana operations during Tuesday’s Inyo County Board of Supervisors’ meeting: the industry has come a long way...
by News Staff | Jan 13, 2016 | Government Agencies/Utilities
By Deb Murphy Bishop’s City Council delivered one surprise out of three potentially explosive topics Monday night. The two non-surprises: Interim Chief Ted Stec was appointed permanent chief of the Bishop Police Department and the Council accepted the Revised Initial...
by News Staff | Dec 15, 2015 | General Misc. Stories, Government Agencies/Utilities
By Deb Murphy Bishop’s City Council accepted the tone of the Planning Commission’s medical marijuana cultivation ordinance, added a few tweaks of its own and appears to have a consensus, minus one, on allowing the cultivation of medical marijuana within city limits....
by News Staff | Dec 9, 2015 | General Misc. Stories, Government Agencies/Utilities
By Deb Murphy Inyo Supervisors notes The Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan showed up at Tuesday’s Inyo County Board of Supervisors’ meeting in a big box. Scaled down from the 8,000-page draft, the final Environmental Impact Statement, 2,000-plus pages,...
by News Staff | Dec 2, 2015 | General Misc. Stories, Government Agencies/Utilities
By Deb Murphy Bishop’s Planning Commission was far more chill than City Council when it came to ordinances regulating medical marijuana cultivation and vape lounges within city limits. Both ordinances passed but with recommendations to loosen up the restrictions and...