COARSEGOLD – Transitional Kindergarten (TK) and Kindergarten enrollment starts Monday, March 1st, 2021. Enrollment can be completed on line or you can pick up a packet at the Rivergold  School office from 7:30 am to 4:00 pm, Monday through Friday. Parents are asked to fill out and return the enrollment forms and all the medical requirements listed below. Upon completion you ...

MADERA – The Madera County Superintendent of Schools is hosting a Free Virtual Job Fair February 22, 2021. Many school districts within Madera County and Mariposa County have current and future job opportunities! During two zoom sessions, representatives from school districts, charter schools and county offices will provide an overview of their agency and the positions they intend to fill. ...

‘Check it out’! MCAC regrants ‘mcac cares’ to Yosemite Sierra Artists. This grant was part of a re-granting program through California Arts Council and Madera County Arts Council designed to get dollars to the local level of Madera County.                       Sign ups happening now! ‘Art School at the MCAC’ This ...

MARIPOSA — Mariposa County high students grades 9th – 12th are invited to compete in the Mariposa County Arts Council’s virtual Poetry Out Loud (POL) competition — a national poetry recitation contest that encourages youth voice and agency through the memorization and performance of great historical and contemporary poetry. This contest requires students to select and memorize 2 poems and ...

OAKHURST – Camarena Health is once again offering the Camarena Health Scholarship.  The scholarship is available for high school seniors as well as students in college studying for a position in the Health Care field. Since 1995, Camarena Health has awarded Scholarships to Madera County students with a career focus in the medical field. The funds are raised with the ...

Submitted by Emma Bloodworth, student journalist for Minarets Press This semester has been full of many achievements for Minarets FFA including numerous successes in competitions, as well as a great turnout in FFA meetings and banquets. At our virtual Fall Banquet on Nov. 12 and 13, the department recognized last year’s top freshman, top sophomore, top juniors and top seniors ...

FRESNO — As Kimberly Rocca approached 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. in Washington, D.C., her eyes lit up with excitement, as she saw a long-time dream of hers come to fruition. Rocca, a local event planner, was at the White House and she was about to help decorate the historic home for the holidays. Rocca applied for the opportunity to decorate the ...

OAKHURST – The Yosemite High School (YHS) arts department would like to invite the public to view their fall virtual art show. These works are a compilation of some of the “greatest hits” from the Fall 2020 semester. Click here for a visual journey. YHS arts has been conducting zoom critiques of student work through this distance learning project and ...

FRESNO — A collaboration between Fresno State and Community Medical Centers will provide a much-needed, low-temperature freezer to the hospital system that is capable of holding up to 95,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine front-line medical providers and others. Freezers that can cool down to at least minus-70 degrees Celsius are in high demand and short supply right now, since ...

SAN FRANCISCO—Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) announced today that scholarship applications are now being accepted for college-bound high schoolers as well as current college and continuing education students with a primary residence that’s a PG&E customer in Northern and Central California. More than 120 awards totaling nearly $300,000 are being made available through PG&E’s employee resource group (ERG) and ...