The Inyo National Forest is conducting two controlled burns today, both pile burns, Thursday, Dec. 2: One is seven miles east of June Lake, and the other is five miles east of Crestview.
Some Alltel customers from the Tri-Valley area activated their conversions to AT&T in Bishop, only to discover, while on the road, that their cell service was dead. “They had to drive home to call customer service who told them, ‘We didn’t take over the towers, just the service and billing,’ said Supervisor "Hap" Hazard at the Long Valley Regional Planning and Advisory Committee meeting Wednesday evening.