YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK — In honor of Veterans Day, Yosemite National Park will offer free admission to the public on Monday, Nov. 11. The fee-free day is offered to all park visitors in honor of current members, retired members and reserve members of the United States Armed Forces and their families. The National Park Service has honored Veterans Day as ...

Come to Trunk-Or-Treat tomorrow! Time: 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Where: Post Office parking lot in North Fork When: Thursday, Oct. 31 Decorate your vehicle early! Fun for Kids! Parking lot roped off for safety! North Fork fire truck will be there! This is the traditional North Fork Trunk-or-Treat. At this location for many years! Lots of room for parked cars & ...

By Sarah Jackson Special to Sierra News Online COARSEGOLD — The 22nd Annual Tarantula Festival, held this past weekend at the Historic Village, featured a day of fun, food and fuzzy spiders. Hosting the wholesome, educational community event seems to be a labor of love for Coarsegold Historic Village owner Diane Boland. “The kids here today are the children of ...

BASS LAKE — A couple from Yosemite Lakes Park were killed Sunday night in a single-vehicle traffic accident after their 2003 Jeep was reportedly struck by a falling tree on Beasore Road and then crashed down a steep embankment. The couple, identified as Edward and Marie I. Poulson, reportedly went out for a drive Sunday evening. Their son, who lives ...

MOUNTAIN AREA — Daybreak delivered some guardedly optimistic news for the thousands of residents of eastern Madera County without power since mid-afternoon Sunday — high winds overnight had calmed and PG&E was inspecting power lines and preparing to turn power back on later in the day. Just after 7 a.m. this morning, the Madera County Sheriff’s Office sent out the ...

By Sarah Jackson Special to Sierra News Online MOUNTAIN AREA — Shortly before 2 p.m. Sunday, PG&E began powering off eastern Madera County. PG&E customers from North Fork to Oakhurst to Yosemite Lakes Park began reporting their power was out between 1:30 and 1:45 p.m. According to PG&E’s website, as many as 16,675 PG&E customers around eastern Madera County could ...

35th annual Yosemite Renaissance Show If you’re an artist with work inspired by nature, national or state parks, Yosemite, or the Sierra, this is a great opportunity to share it. The 35th Annual Yosemite Renaissance exhibit is open to all original works including but not limited to oil and acrylic painting, watercolor, pastel, mixed media, printmaking, photography, digital art, drawing, ...

BASS LAKE — The Pines Resort is calling all the goblins, vampires, princesses, pirates and super heroes to stop by the Pines Village for the 4th Annual Bass Lake Halloween and Fall Carnival. Just like in the past years, the event will be held tomorrow, Saturday, October 26, from 12:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. If you’re looking for a safe, ...

John Masterson passed away peacefully at his home on Tuesday, October 22, 2019. John was 88 years old. John, or “Bat” as many called him, was born August 28, 1931, in Maud, Oklahoma, and moved to Ahwahnee in the early 1940’s. He met his wife Katherine Arnold in his twenties and they spent the next 60 or so years together. ...

Barbara (Foster) Boomer, loving wife, mother of two children, and grandmother passed away on Sunday, October 20, 2019, at the age of 76, from pancreatic cancer at her home in Bass Lake, CA. She was born on September 15, 1943, in Blyth, CA – the daughter of James and Rosa Foster. She was united in marriage to Doug Boomer on ...