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The new plates were designed by actor Pierce Brosnan, featuring the family dog “Shiloh” (who was a pound dog), and their cat “Angel Baby.” Proceeds from the sale of the plates will go toward providing funding for free and low-cost spay and neuter programs. It is a sad fact that over 1 million dogs and cats end up in California ...

Now is your chance to get your creative writing to the public! If you have a short story, poem or some other creative work, send it to us through our submission page.

Dear Editor, Kudos to our Madera Country Supervisor and neighbor Tom Wheeler. He so tirelessly spent his time grading and crowning Keller Road in North Fork. Immediately after finishing the grading, we were deluged with rain for several days which created significant damage to the road. After the rain had stopped, Tom re-graded the road and returned it to a ...

District 5 Supervisor Tom Wheeler will be holding a Town Hall Meeting on Thursday, April 19th from 6-8pm at the North Fork Rancheria Community Center. This will be the only Town Hall meeting in North Fork in 2012, so take this opportunity to meet with Tom and talk about issues that matter to you in your community.

Wilderness Volunteers and the Sierra National Forest are hosting a volunteer vacation trail maintenance service project from August 5-11, 2012, in the John Muir Wilderness, working on the French Canyon Trail. Wilderness Volunteers is a nonprofit organization that organizes volunteer service in partnership with our National Forests. This service project will focus on reconstructing eroded trails in the French Canyon ...

Quite a few of us have our own personal blogs these days. If you are passionate about something and are writing about it already, we invite you to consider reaching out to a broader audience by becoming part of our website. SierraNewsOnline.com was designed to provide a platform for our local writers and bloggers. If you would like to have ...

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If we were Walmart or Merrill Lynch, we would have a team of dozens of designers, engineers and web builders who would put together our website, and present it, clean and perfect, for public consumption. But we are a small group of local folks, some at our kitchen tables, some perhaps in our jammies, working diligently to build a platform ...