YOSEMITE – Renowned photographer Colby Brown will lead a free Photo Walk in Yosemite National Park in celebration of the Park’s 150th Land Grant Anniversary. Brown, who has led photo walks and workshops around the world in destinations including Australia, Iceland and Hawaii, will welcome photographers of all experience levels to participate as he advises and inspires them to capture ...

OAKHURST – Residents will have a chance to meet their congressman tonight at a Town Hall meeting at Oak Creek Elementary School at 6 p.m. Tom McClintock, congressman from California’s 4th District, will be addressing issues of concern to mountain area residents and answering questions from the audience on Wednesday, Apr. 23. Oak Creek school is located at 49495 Road ...

COARSEGOLD – Supervisor Tom Wheeler will host the next in his series of Town Hall meetings in Coarsegold on Thursday, Apr. 24, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Coarsegold Community Center, 35540 Highway 41. Residents are invited to take this opportunity to get information and ask questions about issues affecting their community and Madera County. The agenda for ...

NORTH FORK – The Greater North Fork Art Gallery is hosting a gala on Sunday, May 4, from 4 to 7 p.m. in their venue at the CDC building on the Old Mill Site. The Gallery bills itself as home to vivid imagination, creativity, supurb talent, kind and gracious hearts and a hearty welcome.

CALIFORNIA – In honor of National Public Safety Telecommunications Week, Cal Fire Director Ken Pimlott is taking this opportunity to thank all of the personnel at Cal Fire’s 21 Emergency Command Centers (ECC), Northern and Southern Operation Centers and the Sacramento Command Center for their continued efforts to preserve the public’s safety.

NORTH FORK – The 7th grade class at the North Fork School has something special planned this year to raise money for their trip to Catalina. On Friday and Saturday, May 2 and 3, they will present “Silvalinda,” an original, rollicking, song and dance fairy tale melodrama written by Terry Butler, and featuring a cast of characters ranging in age ...

NORTH FORK – Firefighters on the Sierra National Forest got an early start to their season on Tuesday when a hazard reduction burn pile escaped up at Arnold Meadow just west of Minarets Work Center on the Bass Lake Ranger District. The fire burned 2.6 acres before being brought under control by Battalion 52, North Fork Engine 51, Batterson E13, ...

MARIPOSA – The man killed when a small plane crashed near the Mariposa -Yosemite airport last Thursday has been identified as Donald Corn, 80, of Mariposa, according to the Mariposa County Sheriff’s Office. At approximately 10:10 a.m. on Thursday, Apr. 11, sheriff’s deputies responded to a report of a plane possibly down in the 6000 block of Highway 49 North, ...

MADERA COUNTY – For the third time in four years, Madera County Sheriff’s Office dispatcher Mike Young has been named Dispatcher of the Year. Young signed on with the Madera County Sheriff’s Office in March of 2006, and was previously honored in 2013 as Dispatcher of the Year and co-Dispatcher of the Year in 2011.

NORTH FORK – The public will have a chance to share their experiences as customers of small rural telephone and internet services with the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) on Thursday, Apr. 17 at 4 p.m. at the North Fork Rancheria Community Center. The CPUC will be hosting a series of meetings to receive public comment on the California High ...