Big Pine News

Reporting from Big Pine, Calif. - On a recent weekday morning, Tom and Jo Heindel strode to the top of a hill at the edge of town and held hands, savoring the panoramic views below of elk grazing in alfalfa fields, strips of willows along streams and elm trees glistening with the remnants of rain.

Anyone who has been in a car accident or suffered through a house fire knows that it's Inyo County's first responders who sacrifice their time, sweat and blood to protect us all from harm.

Dear LGBTi Activists, My name is David Nollmeyer. I am the individual whom is being held under Chemical Assault - Scorched Earth.

County officials will be meeting later this month to discuss who uses local community centers and for what purposes.

My name is David Nollmeyer. I wish to file a complaint against President Barack Obama for violating my Constitutional Rights.

Inyo County has eliminated the budget for the position of county marshal, thereby deleting the elected position altogether.

Last Friday, Sept. 4, marked the one-year anniversary of the fire that destroyed the Schulman Grove Visitor Center in the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest.

By Mike Bodine Register Staff School started yesterday for students in Big Pine, and it has just received a last-minute budget cut by the state.

Residents in the Owens Valley are experiencing smoky skies thanks to two fires currently burning in the Sierra.

Smoke is beginning to clear and residents in Bishop Creek are returning to their homes as the Forks Fire is 85 percent contained and State Route 168 is re-opened to traffic.

Inyo County is apparently such a great place to live that juvenile offenders would rather stay in the valley, incarcerated, than live free in a group home, out of the area.

Way back in the dawn of time when I was an undergraduate at Caltech, I worked in the radio astronomy department on a project called VLBI, very long baseline interferometery.

Inyo County is hoping to get federal stimulus money to help pay for a fiber optic cable that will give residents faster, more reliable Internet capabilities.

With approval from the Inyo County Board of Supervisors, Deputy County Administrator Chuck Hamilton is now seeking proposals for a concessionaire to manage operations at Diaz Lake in Lone Pine.

Youngsters from all walks of life seek guidance from the adults around them, but, unfortunately, many who come from single-parent homes, or who have a parent deployed for long periods of time in the military, don't know who to turn to.

By this afternoon, one of Inyo's not-quite historic structures may be on its way to the dump, pending approval from the Board of Supervisors.

Inyo County voters Tuesday went along with the rest of California in rejecting five ballot measures designed to close the state's budget gap.

Despite all the sour, financial news about schools lately, one Inyo County district has reason to celebrate.

Klondike Lake in Owens Valley is not much to look at. The shoreline is gooey, and the murky water has an unappealing greenish hue.

I am writing you as events concerning Chemical Assault have escalated. Not only is there a severe twenty plus year event here in the United States, the Taliban have allegedly poisoned schoolgirls in three schools in Pakistan.