OAKHURST – The local Tea Party group welcomes Barbara Bigelow and Eric Eisenhammer as speakers at their next Action Meeting. Two items up for discussion will be a “two billion dollar energy tax increase coming your way,” and information about how they say SB 241 would raise gas prices and kill jobs. The meeting will be Tuesday Mar. 19th, 6:30 ...

OAKHURST – The Relay for Life will hold a meeting for team captains and anyone interested in joining the effort on Monday, Mar. 11 at the Oakhurst Medical Group on Junction Drive. The meeting will start at 5:30 p.m. and last about an hour. Anyone interested in starting a team or getting more information about Relay is encouraged to attend.

· The first American to advocate for daylight saving was Benjamin Franklin. He realized in 1784 that many people burned candles at night yet slept past dawn in the summer, wasting early-morning sunlight.

MADERA COUNTY – Oak Creek Intermediate (OCI) School’s 7th grade and Wasuma Elementary School’s 8th grade teams won the Madera County Academic Pentathlon Math Tournament on Friday, Mar. 8. Students on the winning 7th Grade team from OCI were Katherine Bayt, Olivia Mattos, Ty Peterson, Burke Stewart, Zachary Thach, and Lauren Wharton. The winning 8th Grade team from Wasuma was ...

OAKHURST – The Children’s Museum of the Sierra will be helping families welcome the traditional spring time holiday with an Easter Egg Hunt and BBQ on Saturday, Mar. 30 at the Oakhurst Community Park. “We heard that there wasn’t going to be a hunt this year and heard from some parents that they were disappointed,” said Steve Montalto, director of ...

AHWAHNEE – A tragic accident on Highway 49 has taken the life of a 76-year-old Coarsegold woman. Mary Beth Raab was pronounced deceased at the scene after a head-on collision just north of the entrance to Ahwahnee Hills Regional Park.

Ahwahnee – Two vehicles were involved in a fatal accident today just north of the Ahwahnee Hills Regional Park on Highway 49. The name of the victim is not being released at this time pending notification of next of kin. A truck from Total Waste Systems of Mariposa and a small SUV collided head-on in a dangerous 25 mph corner, ...

OAKHURST – Pizza – It’s what’s for dinner! On Wednesday, Mar. 13, Round Table in Oakhurst will host Oak Creek Raiders Night from 4 to 9 p.m. Round Table will generously donate 20 percent of the sales for the evening, both eat-in or carry-out, for the Oak Creek Intermediate (OCI) 2013 Catalina trip fund.

MADERA COUNTY – Madera County’s middle school students will be putting their minds to the test at this year’s 2013 Math Tournament. Students will take three tests: Individual Endurance, Circuit Training and Relay Race on Friday, Mar. 8, at the Madera Center. During the Circuit Training teams will be given 20 questions and 2 ½ minutes per question moving through ...

OAKHURST – Friday is the big grand opening at the Met Cinemas, and everyone is invited to come out to walk the red carpet and have their picture taken. The theater reopened with much fanfare and excitement last Friday, and this is the celebration of everything that went into the reinvention and revitalization of an important part of the mountain ...