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What you might have missed this week

TUESDAY

• Supervisors to hear reports on filming, agriculture

• OVUSD board answers bond questions

• Lady Broncos softball finishes season against Frazier Mountain

THURSDAY

• Ag production goes up, still below pre-drought levels

This day in history (May 6)

January 1 - Croatian nobles elect Ferdinand I of Austria as King of Croatia in the Parliament on Cetin.
January 5 – Felix Manz, co-founder of the Swiss Anabaptists, is drowned in the Limmat in Zürich, by the Zürich Reformed state church.

What you might have missed this week

TUESDAY (May 1)

• Crowley Lake fish survey results released

• Children's Memorial Day observed during local ceremony

• Manzanar Pilgrimage keeps the stories alive

THURSDAY (May 3)

• Sheriff candidates Hollowell, Nicholson square off

Pilgrimage drums

The UCLA Kyodo Taiko drum corps performs at the 49th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage on Saturday. For more photos from the event, see today's edition of The Inyo Register (Thursday, May 3).
Photo by Jon Klusmire

This day in history (April 29)

Events
1091 – Battle of Levounion: The Pechenegs are defeated by Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos.
1386 – Battle of the Vikhra River: The Principality of Smolensk is defeated by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and becomes its vassal.

This day in history (April 15)

769 – The Lateran Council condemned the Council of Hieria and anathematized its iconoclastic rulings.
1071 – Bari, the last Byzantine possession in southern Italy, is surrendered to Robert Guiscard.

This day in history (April 22)

238 – Year of the Six Emperors: The Roman Senate outlaws emperor Maximinus Thrax for his bloodthirsty proscriptions in Rome and nominates two of its members, Pupienus and Balbinus, to the throne.
1500 – Portuguese navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral lands in Brazil.

Spillway Fire burning north of Lone Pine

A vegetation fire was reported Thursday morning east of Manzanar. At 1:09 p.m. Cal Fire reported 50 acres burned, seven miles north of Lone Pine, with 50 percent containment.

What you might have missed this week

TUESDAY (APRIL 10)
• Sheriff's office offers active shooter training

• Drying up ranch leases familiar story in Inyo and Mono

• Tribes go o\their own way on cannabis

THURSDAY (APRIL 12)
• Earth Day events planned for weekend of April 20

Employers, job seekers find connection at fair

The Bishop Area Chamber of Commerce recently teamed up with several local businesses to host a job fair designed to connect private and public sector employers with the best local candidates.