Do you have a bunch of un-needed or outdated prescriptions in your medicine cabinet? If so, the Mariposa County Sheriff’s Department would like to take them off your hands. On Saturday, Sept. 29, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., MCSD personnel are offering you another opportunity to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding your home of potentially dangerous expired, ...

OAKHURST, CA – The management and staff at Sierra Telephone in Oakhurst invite you, your family and friends to help save lives by participating in a blood drive on Thursday, Sept.13.

Real Goods Solar offers gifts Friday for your gift of blood CLOVIS – It takes between 5,000 to 6,000 pints of blood a month to meet the needs of residents in the Central Valley. Can you help meet that goal? You have the chance to help save lives, and do something for the environment too, during the Central California Blood ...

The Great Sierra River Cleanup is coming to the foothills for the fourth year and there are plenty of opportunities for everyone to join in on the fun while cleaning up our rivers. Food, drinks, prizes, tools, and equipment will be provided depending on the location. Join in and put a team together. The Great Sierra River Cleanup is sponsored ...

MADERA – A Madera Superior Court jury on Aug. 30, convicted Samie Jamil Mahmood, 49, of Fresno, of felony grand theft in a case that has taken three years to come to a conclusion.

August 30, 2012 MADERA — A Madera County Superior Court jury found David Gary Jaquez guilty Wednesday, Aug. 29, of four felony counts of child molestation, according to Madera County District Attorney Michael R. Keitz.

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today concurred with the Department of the Interior’s decisions to allow 305 acres in Madera County to be placed in trust for the North Fork Rancheria Band of Mono Indians for the purpose of establishing a class III gaming facility and signed a tribal-state gaming compact between the State of California and the ...

Boys & Girls Club of Oakhurst prepared for school year Oakhurst, CA -Thousands of area children have headed back to school and the Boys & Girls Club of Oakhurst is ready with proven programs and fun activities that will help the area’s youth grow and will give them a positive place to be after school. In addition to free play ...

OAKHURST – Sheriff John Anderson announced the capture of an Oakhurst man believed to be tied to last week’s Bass Lake Courthouse Bomb Threat. Mountain Deputies captured William Shannon Reed, 42, shortly before 1:30 p.m. this afternoon. Reed, who sports a tattoo reading “WHITE PRIDE,” was apprehended near Dale Lane and Road 426 in Oakhurst. He was standing beside a ...

The 2012 Jazz Festival Mini-Series rolls on with the return of L.A. area saxophone player Mark Monreal, Aug. 23 at 7 p.m., at the River Creek Clubhouse in Ahwahnee. If you didn’t catch Monreal’s performace at the Queen’s Inn on Aug. 9, be sure to put this one on your calendar. This is the third in a series of six ...