Written by Dave Smith – NORTH FORK – It has been another summer of fun, adventure, and honing their skills for the Scouts of North Fork Troop 357. The Scouts traveled to Morro Bay in late April where they set up camp at Morro Bay State Park, then spent Saturday afternoon at Montana de Oro State Park exploring the tide ...

Submitted by Don Grove – NORTH FORK – Grace Community Church would like to invite all our friends to a celebration of the successful conclusion to the ministry of Reverend David Brown. Rev. Brown has been the pastor here for the past seven years and is retiring at age 71. He will be sorely missed. The church is inviting the ...

NORTH FORK – The manager of the Mammoth Pool Mobile Home Park did his best to save his home when it caught fire this morning, but despite the assistance of neighbors, it was a total loss. At about 10:20 a.m., firefighters were called out to reports of a structure fire on Road 225 at Italian Bar Road. Cal Fire, Madera ...

NORTH FORK – The cause of the Fork Fire, which burned seven acres along Road 274 near North Fork on Monday, has been released. According to Cal Fire, a truck was pulling a dual-axle trailer when one of the tires on the trailer went flat causing sparks from the rim to ignite two fires just north of the Transfer Station. ...

“I’ve been a sort of a loner all my life. I could easily be alone and do things on my own. I’ve probably seen at least a hundred movies and ninety-five were by myself. “I was roughly thirty-years-old when I decided to go live in the wilderness in Northern California. I’d been living in Hawaii growing marijuana, and I was really, ...

NORTH FORK — The super fun, free family event formerly known as Hot August Night is now the North Fork Car Show & Street Party, hosted by the North Fork Chamber of Commerce and Visitors Center. It’s happening on Saturday, Aug. 18 with the same great vibes in downtown North Fork, and everyone is invited — from 3 to 8 ...

NORTH FORK — Firefighters were called out to two fires burning along Road 274 north of Putney Place this afternoon. Just after 1:30 p.m., crews responded to what was reported as a series of small fires along the west side of the road. The first unit at scene reported two fires burning in grass and brush at a moderate rate ...

NORTH FORK – The Friends of the North Fork Library invite you and your friends to attend the 3rd annual Frugal Friends Fashion Show. This year there will be many new models strutting their self-created thrift store fashions down the runway, including more of the male gender. The show will take place from noon to 3 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. ...

NORTH FORK — A local woman has started a company that she says is unique to the region. A 30-year resident of North Fork, Cynthia Elm is a statistics professor at Clovis Community College, teaching students how to apply programming and statistics to solve business problems. When she went looking for a data analytics company in the area and couldn’t ...

NORTH FORK – A single-vehicle crash on Road 200 this morning sent the driver to the hospital and CHP at the scene suspect the driver may have been under the influence of drugs or alcohol. At 8:16 a.m., a call came in to 911 that a car had crashed into the embankment just above the Cal Fire Rancheria Fire station ...