AHWAHNEE – A group of like-minded individuals gathered at Ahwahnee Hills Regional Park on Monday, July 29, to break ground on the newest phase of renovation for the Oak Acorn Center, an interpretive community facility. Plans call for an existing building to be torn down, with portions of the old wood re-purposed and built into a new structure designed to ...

AHWAHNEE – Get ready to tee it up on Saturday, June 7, as Sierra Meadows Country Club hosts the annual Oakhurst Sierra Rotary Dr. Gary Pence Invitational, with homemade breakfast burritos, eye opener and registration at 8 a.m.. followed by a shotgun start at 9 a.m. The tournament honors Dr. Gary Pence, a well known and loved community leader and ...

AHWAHNEE – Wasuma Elementary School, home of the Wildcats, will host their Kindergarten Round-up on Thursday, May 8, starting at 8:30 a.m., according to Principal Jason Mercier.

AHWAHNEE – The PTA and kids of Coarsegold Elementary School invite duffers and others in the community to participate in the 5th Annual Cougar Classic Benefit Golf Tournament and dinner, on Saturday, Mar. 29, at Sierra Meadows Country Club. The tournament begins with a bang: “shotgun” start at 10 a.m. The entry fee is $75 per player with dinner included.

AHWAHNEE – Wasuma’s 8th grade class is hard at work raising money for their end-of-the-year trip to San Francisco. Friday, Feb. 7, they will be hosting a Spaghetti Dinner and Raffle from 5 to 7:30 p.m. in the Wasuma School cafeteria. Tickets are just $5 each, and need to be purchased by Monday, Jan. 27.

The official measurement at my weather station is 6.5 inches of snow and light snow is still lightly falling as I write this.

AHWAHNEE – Sleigh bells are starting to ring while Wasuma School prepares to host its 10th Annual Christmas Tree Lot on campus for just three days, so you better watch out! Pre-orders are being taken through Dec. 3 for trees and wreaths, and the lot will be open Thursday, Dec. 5 through Saturday, Dec. 7, with varying hours. According to ...

AHWAHNEE — Wasuma Elementary School math and science teacher Amy Smith reports via digital photos that her middle schoolers have been busy experimenting in the science lab. “Students are working on measuring volume with water displacement,” Smith explained. Pictured in the foreground, left to right, are Dalton Smith and Diego Combs, examining results.

AHWAHNEE – Back in the Gold Rush Days, a good prank or a practical joke brought much needed relief to the realities of what was a very hard life. The “Clampers” still love a good bit of fun, but they are also dedicated to the promotion and preservation of western history. E Clampus Vitus, Grub Gulch Chapter 41- 49, gathered ...

AHWAHNEE — The Oakhurst chapter of the nonprofit organization Helping One Woman (HOW) will honor Ahwahnee resident Lynn Oliver on Wednesday, Oct. 16, at the Hitching Post Sports Bar and Grill. The uplifting evening begins at 6 p.m. Lynn is a Manager at the Hitching Post, and currently recovering from a total ankle replacement surgery. She’s also a single mom ...