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Yosemite Unified School District Is Now Hiring

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YOSEMITE — Yosemite Unified School District is a great place to work and there are multiple job openings available. You may work in classrooms as a teaching assistant (also known as a paraeducator or paraprofessional) helping students learn. See video below. The district also needs teachers to help students reach their full potential and achieve their dreams. YUSD needs great ...

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Final Weekend! MOTG Presents Good Medicine and Roger Perry

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MARIPOSA — For the final weekend of Mariposa County Arts Council’s Music on the Green for the 2022 season, Good Medicine return on Friday, August 26, and Roger Perry will play Saturday, August 27. Good Medicine (see video below) are led by husband and wife duo Frank and Debbie Sipes. Deb plays guitar and Frank plays bass. They’re both singer/songwriters ...

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Ponderosa Receives USDA Funding for Fiber Optic Upgrades

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O’NEALS — Ponderosa Communications, Inc. is pleased to announce it has been awarded funding to improve its rural infrastructure. This award will assist in Ponderosa’s mission of delivering quality communications solutions by moving its customers from a copper-based network to a fiber-optic connection. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has awarded a $6.4 million loan and a $6.4 million grant ...

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RCRC Announces Winner of Sixth Annual Photo Contest

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SACRAMENTO – The Rural County Representatives of California (RCRC) is pleased to announce the winner of the 2022 Rural County Photo Contest, with this year’s first place prize going to Jay Coberly for his spectacular photo of a mountain range and surrounding valley in Inyo County. Photographers, amateur and professional alike, from all over California submitted photographs in this year’s ...

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Celebration Of Life For Virgil Lepley

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Virgil Leroy Lepley – January 15, 1942 – July 30, 2022 Virgil peacefully left this earth at his Coarsegold home on July 30th, 2022 to join his Mother Mary Belle, Father Virgil J. Lepley, and brothers Bobbie Lepley and Danny Lepley. Virgil was born in Indianola, Iowa, and was raised on a potato farm.  After his father’s untimely death when ...

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Teen Fatality At Thousand Island Lake

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MADERA COUNTY–At approximately 8pm on August 10, 2022, the Madera County Sheriff’s Communications Center received a call regarding a teenage subject who had gone missing from his hiking party near Thousand Island Lake. Thousand Island Lake, part of the Ansel Adams Wilderness in eastern Madera County, is at an elevation of 9,833 with 10,000-foot peaks surrounding it. https://goo.gl/maps/   The ...

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Traffic Advisory – State Route 140 in Mariposa County

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Caltrans Conducting Slope Repair Project Along State Route 140 in Mariposa County To Begin August 22 and Conclude in November of 2022 MARIPOSA COUNTY – The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) will conduct a slope repair project on State Route 140 near the community of Briceburg in Mariposa County. The project is needed to restore the integrity of the slope ...

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Yosemite High School Back To School Night

OAKHURST–Community schools are returning to the classroom this week and Yosemite High School (YHS) would like to invite parents, caregivers and students to an Open House Back to School Night. Back to School Night Open House at Yosemite High School festivities will commence with a brief message from Principal Stephanie Osowski, in the YHS Cafeteria on Monday, August 22 at ...

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Hazardous Fuels Reduction Work To Begin In Nelder Grove

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Sierra National Forest to Reduce the Wildfire Risk to Giant Sequoias in Nelder Grove Historic Area MADERA COUNTY – The Sierra National Forest announces the implementation of emergency USDA Forest Service Giant Sequoia Emergency Response in the Nelder Grove Historic Area. The objective of this emergency response is to reduce the hazardous fuels and the wildlife risk that currently threatens ...

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PG&E Surveying Power Lines by Helicopter

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PG&E Surveying Power Lines by Helicopter in Fresno and Mariposa Counties  FRESNO — Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) is surveying distribution power lines in the Auberry area starting this week, using helicopters equipped with Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) technology. Later this week through next week, patrols will fly over circuits in and around Auberry. Similar flights will begin ...

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