by Community Reports/Events | Jan 1, 2021 | General Misc. Stories
One of a Kind: Remembering Benett Kessler after six years Sierra Wave Media announced six years ago that long-time Eastern Sierra journalist, founder and owner of Sierra Broadcasters, LLC in Independence, Benett Kessler, had died. The end came on Jan. 2, 2015, at the...
by News Staff | May 25, 2015 | Entertainment/Local Events/Activities, General Misc. Stories
Bishop, Ca – May 14, 2015: Sierra Wave Media has a new management team, after the death of veteran Eastern Sierra journalist and station founder Benett Kessler, and the team pledges that goal one will be to continue her vision: to be a voice of fair and accurate news...
by News Staff | Feb 3, 2015 | General Misc. Stories, Obituaries
By Andrea Tetrick Today, February 3rd, is Benett Kessler’s birthday. She would have turned 66 years old. I had the privilege of working for Benett for a time, beginning in 2004 when Sierra Wave was known as K-DAY. She was extremely generous with her knowledge and...
by News Staff | Jan 2, 2015 | General Misc. Stories, Obituaries
Benett Kessler, one of the most recognized and trusted journalists in the Eastern Sierra for a generation, has died. She was 65. Kessler died Jan. 2 in Northern Inyo Hospital after battling cancer for more than three years, her close friend Scott Clark, a physician at...
by News Staff | Oct 30, 2013 | Government Agencies/Utilities
Back in 1976 when John Heston and Benett Kessler started Eastern Sierra News Service, a drought hit the Eastern Sierra and so did major political controversy over the Department of Water and Power’s aggressive groundwater pumping. It was the fall of that year...