Supervisors approve another year of lower fees MADERA – The Madera County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday, Sept. 11, to extend the two-thirds reduction in permit fees for another year. “If you’re planning to build a garage or add on to your house, this is the time to do it,” says District 5 Supervisor Tom Wheeler.

Two fires in as many days have kept local fire crews hopping. Luckily, both were restricted to burning only in vegetated areas. No structures were threatened by the blazes. The “Longo Fire” was called in at 1:59 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 16. It consumed 1.6 acres on Road 415 at Longo Road near Coarsegold. Resources were dispatched from Raymond, Ahwahnee, ...

WAWONA – The Wawona School is asking for your help to keep the doors open and the children in their classrooms. The ninth annual Celebrity Scramble Golf Tournament will help the school do just that on Saturday, Sept. 22, at the Wawona Hotel Golf Course. Former Congressman George Radanovich, State Senator Tom Berryhill, Warren Armstrong from ABC30 News and Faith ...

OAKHURST – All Weather Roofing & Building Supply Co. has a new owner, and he is having fun in his new venture! Barry Shrewsbury invites everyone to stop in on Saturday, Sept. 15, to take the tour. Since Shrewsbury took over the business on July 20, lots of things are new. The most interesting to many is the fact that ...

SierraNewsOnline is all about celebrating people who are up to something. In their jobs, in their communities and in their lives. Amanda DeMasters is one of those people, and we want to celebrate her! Amanda took the very huge and very scary step of writing about her disease, Interstitial Cystitis (IC), and putting it out there for everyone to see. ...

When the lookout at Shuteye Peak called in a smoke at Darrah Road & Highway 49 just after noon yesterday, Sept. 12, it seemed just another small fire beside the road. But then, the call came in that there was a second smoke on Darrah Road, and then a third and a fourth. The troops were mobilized from Mariposa County ...

Celebrate Oakhurst’s 100th birthday at Mountain Heritage Days on Sept. 14 and 15 at Fresno Flats Historic Village and Park. The two-day celebration begins on Friday at 4 p.m. with children’s art activities, vendors and crafts, and sandwiches and drinks available. Then the Golden Chain Theatre will present the melodrama, “A Fastidious Finagling Fiasco Fixing Fresno Flats,” a farce on ...

NORTH FORK – What do we have to do to bring more jobs to the North Fork area, what drives the economy here, and what do local residents need to get started? Those are some of the questions being asked by North Fork Chamber of Commerce President Scott Marsh. In an effort to get some answers, the Chamber is organizing ...

AHWAHNEE – Sierra Meadows Country Club will be the site of an 18-Hole Four-Person Scramble on Saturday, Sept. 15, to raise money for the Mollie Suh Yaley Memorial Scholarship Fund.

Just as crews were finishing up with a fire at the intersection of Roads 415 & 416 southwest of Coarsegold, another fire broke out in the area, this one just off Highway 41 near Victoria Lane. The call came in at 5:31 p.m. Tuesday Sept. 11, that a vegetation fire was burning just south of Oakhurst. Smoke from the fire ...